London to "avtodoroga Kolyma, Magadanskaya oblast', Russia" (which is the furthest East I could get google to give me driving directions to from London) is just shy of 8000 miles.

Fairbanks AK, (furthest West google would recognize) to NYC is just over 4000 miles.

I was able to estimate the distance between Fairbanks and that Russian location at 2000 miles.

So, 8000+4000+2000 = 14,000 miles.

I'm on Debian 7 Wheezy, running Google Chrome 40.something

Is that supposed to not work?

Uhm.. Only if they specifically identify themselves as such.

And since they would be dual-citizenship, if some terrorist demands their passport, they could provide their other passport and be Belgian or Swedish, etc.

That's my thinking exactly. Who gives a shit what the color of the dress actually is; it's obvious from the image displayed that you're not really going to "see" the correct colors anyways.

would completely cut off an entire region as large as that, shows that whoever is in charge of engineering this stuff simply doesn't understand how the Internet is supposed to work, and has no motivation to ensure it keeps working.

Any pipe carrying traffic for that large an area, should have had multiple alternate/redundant paths - miles away, in different pipes, connecting via different peering points. The Internet is not meant to be a hierarchy or a pyramid - its supposed to be a spiderweb.

Don't forget the fun that is "winter gasoline". The change in formula to bring about easier winter starting and combustion scrapes some number of MPG off the chart (10%? I'll admit I don't know, but that seems right.)

.. unless it comes fully rom-unlocked and you can trivially replace the factor MS crap with a AOSP load or something.

I wonder how much MS had to offer to PAY samsung to do this. (I'm sure they've agreed to strict confidentiality on that)

"There's no apparent reliable activity confirmation set up in the protocols from what I can tell, so the software never knows if a device is on or off."

So what you're saying is that the devices should probably be renamed UDP Connected.

I've thought for a while that this would be a very neat, extendable thermostat controller for the house based on a cell phone. Instead of paying hundreds to get a device that does it for you, you can pick up a pre-paid phone and wire it up. The only thing I don't know about is the controlling functionality - perhaps if you're not so savvy, base it off of wireless and control something arduino based off of the furnace - or find some way to directly have the phone interact with the existing wires coming up from the furnace... would be an interesting hack.

There's a fairly extensible app called llama for android that could be integrated into this. You can set up triggers - at least for things on the phone - so that if your cell phone sees certain cell towers/wifi, it knows where you are - you could get more advanced and also program in time of day for triggers (i.e. if I hit the cell towers 5 minutes from home and it's > 3:00pm, turn up the heat/AC so it's ready when I get home.)

I don't know about the back end integration with a thermostat, but I'm making an assumption that this could be done based on it's triggering mechanism for apps etc.

One year vaper, previously 20 year smoker. I've had the medical labs done to show how much damage was undone in just one year.

At 41, I can run farther and faster, keep up with young folk better than most of my non-smoker friends of the same age. 3 years ago this was not the case.

I'd get a raspberry pi, and write some code to use one of its GPIO pins as an input. (which would then send your chat/text/email message, etc)

  Then you can connect whatever kind of button or switch to it that you find most appropriate for your toddler to puch.

It sounds like the OP here *already* has video monitoring set up, he's just looking for some way to getting an alert that he should look at it.

Perhaps your wife could wear some sort of device (bracelet, etc) that itself would be capable of detecting that she was having a seizure, that could be setup to trigger whatever notifications were desired. Here are a few things I found alone these lines:

http://www.epdetect.com/
http://www.healthline.com/heal...
http://www.gizmag.com/embrace-...

https://atariage.com/howto/con...