Tell that to the police during peaceful protests.
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I have struggled with this same issue, and landed on Reolink.
You can block them at the firewall for telemetry to Reolink, and simply connect to them directly. They store clips on SD cards, offer modern image quality and features, and appear to be committed to a non-cloud option moving forward.
Most of them can be accessed through a browser (check their site for which models) but you can connect directly using their client apps as well.

You can dismiss the study as bullshit, but can you explain away things like Americans "overwhelmingly" support expanding background checks after Sandy Hook, yet the NRA has overridden the public will on the issue?

I'm sure you can craft another thoughtful argument. You've looked at it in detail and everything!

Why do you say "There is no evidence for that" when there absolutely is evidence for that?

A shattering new study by two political science professors has found that ordinary Americans have virtually no impact whatsoever on the making of national policy in our country.

Please, inform yourself before making such confident claims to others.

Absolutely correct. Mod points for this comment!
If you have a laptop and switch between trackpad and mouse, you cannot differentiate scrolling directions between the two devices. In fact, if you check 'natural scrolling' on trackpad prefs this changes the settings under the mouse prefs. I submitted this as a bug and Apple kicked it back as 'performing as expected'. I suspect Apple implemented natural scrolling in a way that allows them to easily have different devices use different scrolling directions.
Very very very annoying.

I have engineered and mixed songs for decades. My training over the years makes me very aware of when I'm listening to something compressed. But who cares? Me, of course, but to you it might not matter.

* Can you really tell the difference between *
- A Picasso and a reproduction?
- Genuine marble and simulated materials?
- HD video and Film projection?
- $500 shoes and $50 knockoffs? ...

I'm happy that technology and storage has allowed me to retain my music (previously on CD) as lossless files for my enjoyment today. For some of my friends, they are completely happy with 256k AAC or MP3 files. That's the way it goes!

Just saying. I've no doubt there are an abundance of false identities and corporate logins, but what about dead people, people who created accounts and abandoned them, etc?

Yeah I love rocking out to the sounds of, what sounds to me like white noise and bursts of random screeching. Just because you COULD run this hack doesn't mean it is in any way plausible.

Did anyone note the monthly price on these gimmicks? It seems to me that this is just another fancy set of toys to extract the last remaining dollars from the elderly.

There is no reason for the DoD spec other than paranoia.

Check out this article from Seagate Recovery Services

It has been suggested that an electron microscope could be used to read and interpret any patterns that were not fully overwritten by the process. Theoretically this can be done - but in practice it is little more than a myth.

If data could be recovered at the rate of 1 bit per second - this process would take 9,259 days (or over 25 years) to recover 100 MB of information. This is assuming that you could read back and interpret each bit correctly, for example on data that has never been overwritten. If you are trying to read "traces" of data that were previously written there, in the most likely scenario you may be able to correctly recover, interpret and identify 30-40 percent of the signals.

THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU WOULD RECOVER 30-40% OF THE DATA - BUT ONLY 30-40% OF THE INDIVIDUAL BITS IN EVERY CHARACTER.

A "10101011" pattern may come back as "?010?01?" and every single character on the drive would be scrambled in a similar manner. The mathematical probability of decrypting such a puzzle into usable data is infinitesimal.

It could be claimed that data can be recovered from any drive in the world with a guaranteed success rate of 50% "at the bit level". This sounds interesting until you consider that if you overwrote the entire surface of the drive with either all "0" or all "1" and since the original drive contained nothing but patterns of binary ones and zeros - half the bits would be correct - but obviously no data could be recovered.

In conclusion, overwritten data cannot be read back or recovered by any current disk drive technology or laboratory technique.

By your logic cell phones, with their built in address books, pose the greatest risk to child abduction ever. Not only is there personal information about the owner, but a complete database of their friends and family, as well as text messages to and from the owner to further profile the victim.

I'm pretty sure this is to make sure you don't go to the bathroom during commercial breaks. If you do, they add a charge to your monthly bill.