With offshore made solar panels. They can now pay me for power.

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Wait, you had to assemble something? There was a goal?

Atari E.T. inspired violence. And now they are trying to dig it back up.

I agree. Anything in public view is fair game for recording. However, LA PD will need to allow public inspections of its records if they use this defense. I would hate to see this get sealed and be a another non-discoverable database... But then again. those databases don't exist.

You can just wrap all the PHP types in classes and do: function DoSomething(String $str) { } Then you can use the String class to wrap all php string consuming functions and do $str->substring(0,5). And that my friends is PHP.NET XD

You will need a spatial database (I prefer PostgreSQL + PostGIS), but you might want to try SQL Azure with their supreme Geography types. Then I would create a WFS (web feature server) on top of that from scratch using a compiled c++ CGI backend running on NGINX. Then I would create some JSON web services to handle the back and forth in PHP5 on a separate server running Apache2, because you need that multi-tiered scaleability eventually, so start now. Then I would hobble together a javascript mapping API to interact with the WFS and JSON web services. After I reach a performance impact from the CGI doing on-demand rendering, I would create a server process in Python to generate and cache tiles to a web tile server, then rework the JSON and WFS server to serve those up in addition to the overlay of the more dynamic layers. Then I would flush that all down the toilet and do what the other guy said.

No wait... it's a billion dollars now... wait, now it's $100,000.... whoops, now a quarter million. Oh good it finally stabilized at "It's all gone and I have no recourse".

So users expect an upgrade path from a 10 year old OS to the current version? I have a server running Gentoo that is 3 years without updates and I have no upgrade path. How many other operating systems will allow a direct upgrade to the latest branch without intermediates? Oh yeah... fuck Windows 8. And while I'm at it... Unity too. I'm going to need more lube.

Scan and sort using http://www.neat.com/products/n... I've seen it on TV, it must be good right?

The "Enterprise" company I work for spends more money on the support end of things than the licensing. We pay once for the license and then as a budgetary lock in, we budget or yearly guarantees for the latest versions and Enterprise support. If Microsoft gave away the software, they would still make good money in the support arena. Red Hat and many other no cost software providers learned this long ago. No Enterprise will get software that does not come with support, no matter how talented their internal tech staff is (pats self on back).

I was never a fan of re-labeling anything. It makes it obvious it's being tracked and is another layer of complexity in tracking the item. Most serial numbers are embedded in electronic device bios / firmware so this makes it easy to query using remote management (e.g. WMI, SNMP) as well as tracking software. The serial number is usually printed on the device and bar coded for your convenience. Most small claims courts (if it goes that far) won't argue with you if you have a record of the serial number in your possession.

the answer is usually no. So umm no.

and get a UPS. Why blow more money on a slightly more reliable SSD when a UPS is so much cheaper?

I currently pay $30 a month for a DVR device. This includes the TV listings service that enables the DVR to automatically record my schedule programs. Sp, I purchased a basic TiVO HD model at around $150. I then need to subscribe to TiVO service at $15 a month for a 1 year contract. But then I need the Cable M-Card (tuner decoder) to enable the TiVO to see the cable signal at $3.50 a month fee. Another option is to get a 6 tuner DLNA ethernet device for around $300 which also requires the $3.50 monthly M-Card. I can then deploy Android set top devices to tune to the DLNA streams, with the bonus of Angry Birds, Chrome browser and Netflix. TV listing services are available for around $25 a year from Schedule Direct. This is where I am heading eventually (still searching couch for the cash). In short, there is a LONG recovery time from the purchase price of the equipment to realize an actual cost savings on DVR rental fees.