I was searching online the whole weekend for the open source software for analysis of pre-recorded video in order to retrieve events and data from recorded video but had no luck.

WTF is wrong with the editors, this is an obvious troll post with bullshit question. In about 3-seconds it takes to type open source video recording you get all the answers out of Google. Douchebag poster and double-douchebag for the editor who approved this non-story.

Slashdot is now a corporate non-story advertising medium full of shills and trolls posting fake questions to associate with text source based ad-revenue spam ads.

Zoneminder + Zones + Timeline

College can be an interesting experience if you went there right out of high-school with everyone else in the same age group and got to study new and interesting topics and enjoy your time socializing, otherwise it is likely a waste of time.

I.T. is the frontier of the business world so most of the time it is the experience that matters when it comes to interviews for senior level positions that actually pay good money. In my career I have been interviewed and have interviewed and the question of where did you go to college was only asked twice of me and that was in-passing by a curious interviewer at the end of the interviews, the answer that I dropped-out of high-school didn't matter to them at that point.

I have worked for Fortune 500 (2012) companies #16, #68, #80, #384 and others in various order and none of the interviewers that mattered for getting the job cared if I went to college or not due to the experience that I had and my performance in the interviews.

I sometimes have thoughts of of what my life would be like if I finished high-school and went to college but I always think that it is unknown if I would be better off with a college degree versus the 5-extra years of hands-on hardcore experience that I had gained instead and was able to lands jobs paying middle 6-figures at any of these companies through my interviews in the ultra-competitive and I.T. saturated NYC.

I am also sometimes interested in making-up some of the hard science education that I have missed in my high-school and would-be college years such as physics, calculus, advanced algebra, etc. but I always end up thinking that I would rather continue self-educating myself in what I find fun at the moment such as PowerShell and .NET Framework instead of going back to learning things that I think I might like but have nothing to do with my current and future jobs.

It's possible that if I went through the standard route of high-school then college that I might be doing something much more technical than Server Administration but I could also be stuck doing something much worse at some crappy company with college dept left to pay since I didn't have any means of attending college.

Two employees in our hallway got sick with serious respiratory infections and spread them to the rest of us. Since PTO is my vacation time I came in every day while I was sick because I didn't want to lose any vacation time with my family. The infections lasted 2-months and spread to other people in the department.

We work at a very large healthcare company, we have mandatory flu shots, we have a work from home policy 1-day a week, and a 2-hours in the office and rest of the day from home sick time policy. None of these did any good since we had to show up at the office or lose PTO and vacation time.

PTO is P.O.S. for the employees but great for the company who can limit complete time off from work.

Last company and industry I worked for that isn't healthcare had unlimited sick days and they were not abused because the salaried people at those levels were mature enough not to abuse them and the ones that did were dealt with swiftly in that cut-throat industry.

American policies towards employees have been degrading steadily and pushing the quality of life, work, and enjoyment down steadily.

In my years as a Windows admin I found it interesting to find out which other admins could or could not write scripts and then classify them by the level of their abilities:

- The GUI clicker Guy
- The Command Line ipconfig.exe Guy
- The Google for a Script Guy
- The Cut-and-Paste Each Line Separately Guy
- The Excel Drag-and-Fill Guy
- The Search and Replace In a Script Guy
- The Batch Script with No "@echo off" Guy
+ The For loop Guy
+ The Reg.exe Guy
+ The PsExec Guy
+ The 2>&1 Redirect Guy
+ The Pushd/Popd Guy
+ The Setlocal Guy
+ The Rundll32.exe Guy
+ The Findstr.exe RegEx Guy
* The GnuWin32 Sed/Grep/Tee Guy
* The Cygwin Guy
* The Perl Guy
* The VBScript Retarted Syntax Language Guy
* The JScript Cool Web Language Guy
* The Script Signing Certificate Guy
@ The PowerShell Guy
@ The PowerShell & Quest PowerGUI Guy
@ The PowerShell & PowerGUI & 3rd Party Cmdlets Guy
@ The PowerShell & [.NET Framework] Accessing Guy
@ The PowerShell & .NET FrameWork, Activator, Marshall, Reflection, COM+, Jobs, Runspaces Guy
$ The Visual Studio C, C++, .NET, API, SDK, MSDN, Compiler, Remote Debugger, Memory Dump Analyzer Guy
$ Kernel Developer

I personally know of (3) OCZ Agility 1 30GB drives fail, 2 on Linux, 1 on Windows.

OCZ Agility -> Intel SSD Image -> Distro Upgrade to Fix Corruption

The failure mode on one was file system corruption like an HDD but check disk would find problems, fix them but error out and another run would find different errors. I was able to image that one off to an Intel X25-V (Value) G1 40GB SSD then did a whole Ubuntu distro upgrade that basically overwrote pretty much all the important files on the system to downloaded good ones and that took care of the corruption and any problems from the previous hard drive. System is still running Asterisk PBX to this day without any errors surprisingly. I'm still a little amazed at how simple this recovery was and that there were no issues after distro upgrade that seemed to fix any corrupted files. I sent the failed OCZ drive back to my friends after fixing their PBX with with instructions to put a bullet through it instead of sending it for replacement, and I was being serious and literal and it is likely that they did just that.

Another failed with inaccessible and unbootable from Windows XP. The last one just kernel panicked disappeared from the BIOS completely. Both went back to OCZ for replacement and new ones showed up. I told the folks to not open the boxes and sell them on eBay and instead buy Intel X25-M or -V series drives to replace them.

OCZ Bashing

I still have a sealed OCZ Agility 1 30GB in my house and I posted it on eBay twice and nobody wants to buy it. I guess the word is out that OCZ SSD has shit for reliability. Newegg reviews are just full of failure reports. Even though Anandtech keeps reviewing these OCZ Vertex 2, 3, 4 series drives and praising them for performance I stay the hell away from OCZ as a vendor due to the massive amounts of complaints of failures people report on these.

As a side story, I also got burned by a performance grade OCZ 550W power supply with unstable 12V rail that wasn't even heavily loaded that would drop to 11V for no reason and destabilize my system causing weird behavior. Switched to Corsair TX750 after that and weirdness went away.

Intel SSDs - 3 Generations Going Strong

I still run an Intel X25-M G1 80GB in my laptop for a few years now without issues that used to be a desktop drive. I have an Intel X25-M G2 80GB at work and it's still working fine. I also have an Intel 320 (G3) 160GB as my new desktop drive andI applied the firmware upgrade to it that was available to fix that weird lock-up 8MB issue that was reported. I also have that Intel 320 40GB in my Ubuntu XbmcLive HTPC in my living room and another Intel X25-V G1 40GB in a friend's Ubuntu based Asterisk PBX system running just fine.

Love Intel for their SSD, never had an issue and I'm quite happy with them and the engineering that they did on the drives. Looking at the return numbers Intel has very low return rates for SSD, somewhere within the neighborhood of 1% and most of those were related to the two firmware bugs found, the one in the X25-M series early and the other the 320 series.

Intel 520 Series and SandForce SF-2281 Controller Firmware

There's a nice little story on Anandtech when Intel was choosing the new SandForce SF-2281controller for their Intel 520 SSD product line that they ran so many tests and did so much engineering on the drives that they came up with firmware updates that they gave to the vendor due to the issue that they discovered. Too bad that later on Intel found out that the controller can't do AES256 only AES128 encryption and it offering refunds for those that care about it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5508/intel-ssd-520-review-cherryville-brings-reliability-to-sandforce/

All of my Intel SSDs are about 2 to 3 generations behind and still use the old Intel controller that's limited to SATA-2 3Gbps speeds but I'm okay with that because that's what my motherboards support so the SATA controllers and SSDs are all technology level matched for the generation that they were built in.

Overall SSD View on Reliability and My Intel Fanboyism

Still, to me the SSD speeds are all about random read/write/latency times and not about sequential throughput so I don't much care about SATA-3 6Gbps speeds until I get a whole new system upgrade in a few years and replace the whole CPU/MB/RAM combo and possibly SSD if there's a need.

I keep seeing all of these Samsung, Plextor, Micron makes doing pretty good job with their drives and OCZ Vertex 4 kicking ass in all of these benchmarks but I'm a bit worried about how much actual engineering is going into these product lines so when I see the Intel 520 series in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th place behind them by a few percentage points and know from past experience and also articles that Intel values reliability above speed and spends the time on engineering their firmware well I tend to steer people toward Intel 520 line even though it is more expensive than the others.

Perhaps I'm a bit of an Intel fanboy on SSDs but I've had good experience with them and while SSDs were out for a few years I never switched to any of them until the first Intel X25-M G1 80GB drives came out and were well received on performance and overall engineering. Only at that point I felt it safe to give SSDs a try and I've been one of those folks that followed SSD developments heavily with Indilix, SandForce, Intel controller coverage by Anandtech and other online publications.

A few years ago on a whim I bought some generic branded local supermarket Stop & Shop seafood and came up with an upper body skin rash for a month. Later looked at the label and the stuff was made in China. Later found that there was a bunch of seafood enriched with some kind of a protein additive causing such bad allergic reactions to people that show up as an upper body skin rash just like I had. I had and still have no seafood allergies at the time and ate and still eat tons of seafood at restaurants weekly and sushi of all kinds, never have any bad results.

Last few weeks I tried to expand my home diet to include more seafood and looked at my new super market chain called Kroger and found that all of their generic fish was imported from China, including freezers full of tilapia and other fish. I could not find any non-generic seafood in this store that wasn't from China. Decided not to buy any this time around after I learned my lesson the last time. I had to travel to their competitor HEB to find some non-Chinese seafood and luckily found some Alaskan salmon at a hefty price.

I wish America would get it's shit together and wake the fuck up and stop importing food from China because of the horrible abuses of the environment that that country is perpetrating in the name of capitalism and profit and complete disregard for environmental and human safety as long as their shit infested products sell.

China will cut its own dick off in the name of profit and sell it to anyone willing to buy a small fried spring roll.

* Document what you think you saw and distribute to various non-alterable sources.
* Inform family and friends of your situation to give them a peace of mind.
* Inform your employer of an emergency situation and request time off or leave of absence.
* Inform any utilities and creditors about suspension of service or cancellation.
* Create a non electronic list of contacts and keep it on your person.
* Print our copies your passport, identity documents and keep on your person.
* Assemble your resources, money, water, food, cloths, toiletries, medications, prescriptions, firearms, etc. into a Bug Out Bag.
* Store a good amount but not all money and copies of documents on your person.
* Leave your primary residence for a secondary location not forgetting to power off any broadcasting electronics
* Determine the adversary and their resources and speed of reaction.
* Decide on the next course of action, fight or flight.

A 7-inch Android based tablet that will handle all type of content and a reader app that has a up and down gesture on the left edge to control brightness and has night mode inverted color reading mode.

I prefer to read for entertainment on my phone since I always have it with me throughout the day and I have read hundreds of fiction books like this since my first smartphone.

A smaller tablet will be better for technical reading and complex diagrams and also allow you to access references online and do lookups but be small enough to carry. I find that a full size 10 inch tablet to be too large for reading unless you view 2 pages side by side so a smaller tablet would suffice at that point.

I have been using the newest Asus Infinity tablet for almost a month and while it is great for content consumption it seems overly powered for the submitted requirement of reading.

Create a HIPAA like law for Law Enforcement gathered information ensuring privacy of information and enforce penalties against officers violating those rules and peeking around. FBI has a new system for that I hear so use them as a model.

In the healthcare sector peeking around gets you fired quite quickly.

NYC Big Apple already has a microphone system installed for detecting gun shot locations through triangulation. They also have deployed mobile raised platforms for surveillance by cameras and police personnel. They have mobile police command centers with multiple camera poles. What is so startling by the further progression of a surveillance society that the city has become?

We will soon be reading about police drones beings to record suspects and protests and soon after to target suspects and persons of interest with more than surveillance.

When will the first tear gas canister be dropped by a drone?
When will the first person be shot or tasored by a police drone?

The people are not in control of that city.

There is a reason why firearm manufacturers create parts out of single bar stock aluminum or steel metal pieces and machine them out, that is to maintain durability during firing process of the gun so it doesn't explode in your hands and injure you or worse and that it will last over repeated uses.

The most difficult part of creating the gun is the creation of the barrel with a chamber that can withstand pressures of 22,000 to 55,000 pounds-per-inch and not explode into shrapnel hurting you badly. Barrel creation is difficult and taken very seriously with many manufacturers using a magnetic particle inspection process to ensure that there are no metal weak points or fractures inside the walls of the barrels to prevent them from exploding.

Until these low priced home 3D printing machines can print out of aluminum, steel, or other metals to maintain some kind of rigidity on the parts these printed firearm pieces will just be an exercise in computer aided design and prototyping. Many of the pistols now use plastic frames

As far as legality of manufacturing your own firearm by people who are somehow restricted by law from owning one, well it's the possession and ownership that is restricted, not the creation so all possession restrictions still apply.

You can create your own firearms according to the Gun Control Act of 1968 for personal usage just not sale or distribution. If you decide to make these 3D printed firearm receivers you would have to apply for a Federal Firearms License type 7 or 10 and register your business then put serial numbers on these parts.

US BATFE (aka, ATF, BATF)
Q: Is it legal to assemble a firearm from commercially available parts kits that can be purchased via internet or shotgun news?

  For your information, per provisions of the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, an unlicensed individual may make a “firearm” as defined in the GCA for his own personal use, but not for sale or distribution."