True. Enterprises many times want to focus their resources on their business instead of hiring hackers to run the infrastructure. For a one-time upgrade, I could see paying for this instead of hiring smarter, harder-to-find, more expensive people.

Also, if iDrive gets flakey or too expensive, I would switch to Duplicati (running in a Docker container on NAS) and B2. I just picked iDrive solution because the cost was predictable, paid yearly and doesn't vary by network/storage like B2.

All PCs/phones back up to my local NAS, then NAS gets backed up to iDrive. 1. All PCs backup their data to my Synology NAS. It's sort of a one-direction sync that happens as files change, with Synology Drive Client. Nice because files/directories retain their structure and are not encrypted - easily readable and recoverable at home if something gets deleted from a PC or a disk failure. I even have Synology Drive Client on my mom's Mac across town with site-to-site VPN, backing up to the same NAS. Works great. 2. Then for NAS offsite backup, I use iDrive. It has a Synology-native package, which is maintained well. iDrive supports user-provided encryption keys, so not much chance of iDrive or anyone else decrypting my data. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest once it leaves my home. This backup includes all the PC backups above plus data only on NAS.

I'm guessing next year Credit Karma free filing won't be an option. Maybe they'll scoop up freetaxusa.com next.

Probably need '&&' between them. Wouldn't want to continue if the previous weren't allowed to succeed. Could mean legal trouble.

Picture this...instead of the stationary cameras on the wall/ceiling at the drug store, there are employees following people with cameras. I'm betting customers would react the same way as surveillance guy. Funny how the visible attachment of a person to the camera makes all the difference for some reason. Why is that?

Cool, let's tax car sales too, and give it to the horse and buggy companies - they are really struggling!

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.