This write-up got me thinking about how jellyfish should probably be genocided for their incidental anti-environmentalism. ... well, to be honest, that's just a cover... I actually hate them because my dad peed on my leg. ...... I don't like to talk about it.
Ed, this is possible by going to news.google and clicking the "Personalize" button at the top-right. Add Forbes in the "Adjust Sources" section and move their slider all the way to the left. I have a large handful of walled gardens and clickbaiters in there.
Instead of price and "averages," what we really need is precise packet loss and service information based on individual residencies. I'm so tired of moving somewhere to find out the line's not up to meeting demand or's otherwise faulty, or in my last house, Frontier claimed to service the area after I called to confirm, and then it turns out they DON'T actually service the house (I wouldn't have bid on the house if they told me that originally).
At current residence, when I moved in a year ago, I found I ran into debilitating packet loss if I tried to actually use the full bandwidth of my line, so I had service bumped to 50/5 to 15/1, which is close enough to broadband to do what I need it to, and I didn't experience packet loss... until around three months ago, when I started running into the same problem during peak time, and now it's a constant PitA.
I'll probably have to go sit alone in the office this weekend because the deskphone keeps cutting out at home. I've gone through three different modems, but TWC won't give me anything better than to tell me to power-cycle the modem, or send a tech out who says he's fixed the line... but the issue persists. -So I've given up. A friend's moving in a block away and I'm going to shut off my service and run a P2P from her apt. If that doesn't work, I'm moving... again... just to find an Internet connection which can support basic VOIP. I'm in Cincinnati for God's sake - how has my ISP service never managed to match what I got from Comcast in 2001 in rural nowheresville?
The content-blocking Forbes and others are engaging in really only makes sense if they stop regurgitating "news" with some third-party consultant's opinion thrown in to boost word count (wasting readers' time) and make it appear less lazy.
It's just as easy to block content-blockers from Google News as it is to whitelist the site in my ad blocker - and why would I do something I'm asked from a company telling me "no" when there's no drawback to defiance? Thousands of other outlets are regurgitating the same generic crap.
I provide tech support for one of the larger providers of these systems. You typically have 4-6 cameras inside a car all writing to one or two SSDs, usually around 500GB each. Many smaller departments run last-gen equipment (this stuff is very expensive, but the cameras are pretty amazing) - the worst part about older equipment is the extremely small volume of storage on the VPUs processing and recording the video streams, which can be as low as 64GB P2 cards.
Many departments use completely different means of transmitting video from the VPU to the backend server. Many smaller departments literally walk P2 cards or SSDs over to a dock (or physically hand it off to their IT guy) to upload manually, some transmit via WiFi when their cars are next at the PD and in range, and some use city-wide WiFi (this latter option is quite rare). You can do some other things... some giant PDs have things like mobile command centers -- big ole vans or what-have-you with backends running on them, so cars can visit the command center (maybe they all go to Chipotle for lunch or whatever), upload VPU contents to it (command center videos are then eventually merged into the primary backend), then go back to patrolling with much less risk of data loss nor the inconvenience of having to park in a PD depot.
Because it's not far-fetched that these 4-6 cameras are each recording 1080p@60fps, and if you imagine, say, 250GB total storage in a VPU, this is a very plausible (but still not acceptable) scenario if an officer is not at the PD for an extended period of time (for example, if he keeps his car at home overnight and goes on patrol in the morning instead of going back to the PD long enough for the video to upload to the backend). When storage fills up, the VPUs of most vendors will typically just start recording over the oldest footage.
?? Why am I reading - I think it's the third - article on this when you could've just written "Stuart Gibson works for a law firm nobody will remember tomorrow as a quasi-legal something, but is both incompetent at work and ignorant of his own religion"?
It's just weird and roundabout to have Gibson himself imply all these things of himself when he's not the journalist. From the sounds of it, he's a self-abuser, so I feel a bit dirty about the whole thing, just as a casual reader, too.
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Anyway, I googled "Jellyfish genocide" on a lark, and sure enough, there're already Jellyfish genocide robot deployed in the ocean: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/jellyfish-terminator-robots-suck-2000-pounds-jellies-hour
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They must've had to call in the experts to crack this one. https://goo.gl/BvY4Nv
Re: The US isn't ready to talk about price on ISPs.
The US isn't ready to talk about price on ISPs.
At current residence, when I moved in a year ago, I found I ran into debilitating packet loss if I tried to actually use the full bandwidth of my line, so I had service bumped to 50/5 to 15/1, which is close enough to broadband to do what I need it to, and I didn't experience packet loss... until around three months ago, when I started running into the same problem during peak time, and now it's a constant PitA.
I'll probably have to go sit alone in the office this weekend because the deskphone keeps cutting out at home. I've gone through three different modems, but TWC won't give me anything better than to tell me to power-cycle the modem, or send a tech out who says he's fixed the line... but the issue persists. -So I've given up. A friend's moving in a block away and I'm going to shut off my service and run a P2P from her apt. If that doesn't work, I'm moving... again... just to find an Internet connection which can support basic VOIP. I'm in Cincinnati for God's sake - how has my ISP service never managed to match what I got from Comcast in 2001 in rural nowheresville?
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It's just as easy to block content-blockers from Google News as it is to whitelist the site in my ad blocker - and why would I do something I'm asked from a company telling me "no" when there's no drawback to defiance? Thousands of other outlets are regurgitating the same generic crap.
Re: Re: How police cameras work
How police cameras work
Many departments use completely different means of transmitting video from the VPU to the backend server. Many smaller departments literally walk P2 cards or SSDs over to a dock (or physically hand it off to their IT guy) to upload manually, some transmit via WiFi when their cars are next at the PD and in range, and some use city-wide WiFi (this latter option is quite rare). You can do some other things... some giant PDs have things like mobile command centers -- big ole vans or what-have-you with backends running on them, so cars can visit the command center (maybe they all go to Chipotle for lunch or whatever), upload VPU contents to it (command center videos are then eventually merged into the primary backend), then go back to patrolling with much less risk of data loss nor the inconvenience of having to park in a PD depot.
Because it's not far-fetched that these 4-6 cameras are each recording 1080p@60fps, and if you imagine, say, 250GB total storage in a VPU, this is a very plausible (but still not acceptable) scenario if an officer is not at the PD for an extended period of time (for example, if he keeps his car at home overnight and goes on patrol in the morning instead of going back to the PD long enough for the video to upload to the backend). When storage fills up, the VPUs of most vendors will typically just start recording over the oldest footage.
Fwiw.
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It's just weird and roundabout to have Gibson himself imply all these things of himself when he's not the journalist. From the sounds of it, he's a self-abuser, so I feel a bit dirty about the whole thing, just as a casual reader, too.
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