Not much difference between this and the "emergency alert system" on radio and TV. Content is interrupted and "important" messages are broadcast in its place. Maybe this needs some coordination and oversight by the FCC, and this could become a good thing. Compared to 20 years ago, very few people would realize any benefit from the TV/radio emergency broadcasts, unless it was on the Internet somehow like this.

Actually if you work for another company (and not your own), this may be difficult.

If you could claim it as a "home office" on your taxes it might offset some of the costs. Not sure if that is allowed.

I am a UNIX admin (17 years now). Many Windows admins I've worked with have very little knowledge of networking concepts, Internet workings, and application development/architecture. An effective admin (UNIX or Windows) should have at least waist-deep knowledge of all of these areas. When one has a view of a "bigger picture," they can be an effective troubleshooter, and help in all many areas. The worst admins only know their piece of the puzzle, and are very good at pointing fingers to other groups when they cannot identify where the problem might lie.

Beside the fact that people have been doing this for years, he built this on a multi-rotor heli platform. Flight times for these are usually under 10 minutes, given the power needed to keep them in the air. If he really wants surveillance with long range, he should try a fixed-wing setup, where flight times can be 30-45 minutes. DIYDRONES.COM is a good place to start.

Oh - G4 - no hackintosh - duh.

Now if I could just find a way to virtualize my mom's Mac OS X 10.3. Her 10+ year-old G4 is going to die some day. I don't think the hackintosh will work on an OS X that old, will it? Needs to keep compatibility with OS 9/Carbon for PageMaker. She doesn't like change.

I've been talking about this for years too. But not for security, just to remember everything. Everything. The important thing about this device would be how the video/audio is stored, tagged/indexed and later retrieved. To make this effective, I'd need an easy speech query mechanism, so I can say "Hey when was the last time I changed the oil in my car" or "What did I do with my wallet yesterday when I got home". Or how about "What was the name of that guy I met 8 years ago at that conference and where did he work"? There are so many tiny events in life that, if remembered, would really help out, so we don't repeat the same mistakes twice. Or just to give "tips" to our future selves, that will always be recalled.

Nice. So could that huge tracking necklace be replaced by your infrared safety glasses?

A quick fix that would get 99.9% of us out of people's pics, if the User-Agent string is something unique to the frames. This would only allow HTTP requests from frames, not from desktop browsers. Yes, we can change our user agent string on the desktop browser to match, but like I say - 99.9% of people wouldn't know how.

Do we really need to do it again?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090610/sc_space/japaneseprobetoslamintomoontoday

Now THAT is friggin creepy. Nice horror-movie choir for the soundtrack, nice all-white surroundings with no windows or doors. Nightmare material.

My consumer reaction to this ad:

"Ummmm...what?"

Definitely needs follow-up ads with more pertinent info.