One of the things that's always funny about speeding cameras is how legislators deal with them. Legislators:

1. View them as a way of increasing revenue
2. Say it's all about safety
3. Realize that tickets from automated systems can't be "fixed"
4. Kill the system while talking about preserving the right to privacy

Not where I live, it doesn't. In CA, I pay the listed price ($499.99) + local sales tax of 9.25%. It's one of my dislikes about the US that nothing is ever what you actually pay...

Simon

It's about unwanted sexual advances.

Haven't been through "sensitivity training" recently, have you?

It's not just unwanted sexual advances. Any unwanted behavior of a sexual nature can be grounds for a successful suit.

How am I going to get rid of the obnoxious ads written in HTML5?

Simple really. Either those ads will be recognizable on the block level...

<someblock id=annoyingad>...</someblock>

...and they can be filtered out that way or the next generation of ad blockers will work like the current crop of spam blockers by comparing block signatures in pages to known ads. If the block matches the ad is blocked or hidden or delayed or greyed or silenced or... whatever the user wants.

This race has been run and the ad blockers have won. As long as computers remain freely programmable there will be ways to make them filter out crud.

As long as they remain freely programmable... so make sure you don't lose that freedom!

We have active USB repeaters. These cameras draw very little power. Some of the power is used to run the repeater.

Here's a list of some cheap ones you can use to 16 more feet: http://www.cyberguys.com/product-search/?keyword=usb+extender&gps=60

And here's your 1000-foot USB extender: http://www.networktechinc.com/extenders-usb.html

Again, my goal is thinking how cheap can we keep it so that if things go horribly wrong we just shrug and try again. I have conventional NTSC Lorex and Q-see systems plus some NTSC camera cards but they're a pain in the neck. If you already know computers the UVC USB webcams give so much more picture resolution for so much less money and annoying CMOS camera headaches.

Also, you can install an infrared spotlight. These cameras will pick that light up in the darkness, too (most any camera will).

Have fun!!

It only takes one hand to vote. He was probably still able to do his job.

If you need the source for .NET now, your best bet is .NET Reflector Free Edition (http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/)

And their only reason for making it is so THEY can specify the required DRM compliance for high-bandwidth devices. It was the foremost issue during development. It's the only reason they've re-branded and protocol-ized existing technology. HDCP 3.0 anyone?

5,000 barrels a day is the lowest estimate of the rate of oil leaking. Around 30,000 bbl/day seems more reasonable. (My boos is actually on the crisis team so he should know, but he's tight lipped.)

Of course, anyone talking about world-wide catastrophes is still going over the top.

Speaking of Fark, I think this "News story" is somewhat beneath the standards of Fark.

A politician otes to invade our personal privacy? Zzzzz. A politician sides with corporate interests against the public at large? Zzzz. A politician makes a stupid incorrect statement about sciences, history, geography, or technology? Sometimes interesting. A politician is caught with his pants down in some way? ZOMG NEWS!

Leave that line of thinking with cable news and tabloids.

Actually, for most of these other shows you mention, they now hire consultants to make the display as accurate as possible (within the limits of dramaturgy requirements, nobody wants to see a cop fill out reports or show docs hook up the 100th dialysis patient).

Just, oddly, for "computer movies" you never get to see an expert on the team. Why? Because, let's face it, our work is just plain BORING to watch. From programming to administration, hell, even hacking is boring to watch. Mostly because to find it entertaining, you already have to know a fair lot of the stuff to even understand what's going on. Everyone can understand why cops chase a robber and how a shootout works. Everyone can understand why the operation room gets hectic when you hear the flatline beep. But computers? Even if it gets hectic for us, it's hard to convey just why. It's never life or death, no matter what we do. Nobody's going to die if the server isn't up in a minute. And there's preciously little we could do to speed it up or some clever trick we could pull when we wait for a server to come online.

It's just not interesting to watch real computer stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_dam

State Senator. Unless you're one of the tea party secessionists you'd probably not call a state your entire country.

The CPU industry has been developing quad cores and releasing 8 cores. But a lot of my software can't take advantage of this.
We just bought the latest version of software from one company and found that it ran a lot slower than the earlier version. I happened to stick it on a VM with only one core and it worked a lot faster.
We talked about MATLAB yesterday not being able to do 64 bit integers, big deal. I was told that their Neural Network package doesn't have parallel processing capabilities. I was like you have got to be freaking kidding me. A $1000 NN package that doesn't support parallel processing.

Two times where Quantum Fireballs live up to their name. The flyback on one of my monitors blew making a popping sound, then smoke started coming out of the top. I have watched a power line inside the computer glow red hot and ignite it's outer casing. Also smoke suddenly coming from a power supply that had lit on fire internally.

I was going to say I've never seen a computer spark, but there was this one time that the positioning of variable DC voltage power transformer and a monitor was creating a strong magnetic field. I accidentally dropped the monitor cable onto the outside aluminum case of the transformer and it blew the thin layer of metal off part of the monitor cable creating quite the white light. The VGA plug had a thin layer of metal for some strange reason.