Comment One major gothcha! (Score 1) 48
Earwax! Seems like that will change the pattern.
Comment Three birds with one stone (Score 2) 296
Since Sen. Richard Burr is clearly an expert on this (NOT). Apple should just hire him to do the work for the FBI.
1) Apple can now claim they have put an expert on the job.
2) Judge/FBI can't complain
3) The phone won't get cracked.
Win/Win/Win :-)
Comment Archival grade CD/DVD (Score 2) 251
If you search you'll find there are "Archival Grade" CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. Read the specs, but some are rated at 100-300 year retention life.
Comment Cheap and Simple: X10 (Score 1) 189
If you want cheap and simple, you could look at X10 and some program to control it like Homeseer.
Homeseer can provide the web access and sequencing.
X10 isn't the most reliable when spread all over the house and across both phases, but all contained in a limited number of feeds from the same phase of the fusebox, it's not bad. Also, it's not all that fast, but if you need nothing to react faster than around 5 seconds, it's fine.
Submission + - Yelling At Telemarketers Is A "Terroristic Thr (stltoday.com)
BotScout writes: "An Ohio man, fed up with deceptive junk mail, made the mistake of losing his temper while on the phone with a St. Louis company pitching an extended auto-service contract. Now he finds himself behind bars, where he is charged with making a terrorist threat and is being held on $45,000 bond. According to court documents, Charles W. Papenfus, 43, allegedly told a sales representative during a May 18 telephone call that he would burn down the building and kill the employees and their families. He was indicted for making a terrorist threat, a Class D felony; and he could be sentenced to up to four years in prison if convicted. I get a lot of this kind of junk mail too, but I usually just call their 800 number and waste as much of their time as possible."
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