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lsllll writes:
There has been a coordinated explosion of pagers in Lebanon, killing at least 9 and injuring 2800, according to CNN. The explosions appear to target members of Hezbollah, the Shia Islamist political party and militant group in Lebanon which aligns itself with Iran. There have been no details as to how the paging devices could have been compromised to allow for such coordinated attack. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon has also been hurt by the explosion of a nearby pager. According to Maha Yahya, the director of Carnegie Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon, how Hezbollah responds to this attack could depend on Israel's next move.
“Is this also a first step in a broader escalation that Israel is planning? Because we’ve also been hearing from the Israeli government that they would like to expand the conflict into Lebanon in a more significant way than what we’ve seen so far,” she said, referring to a string of bellicose statements by Israeli officials contemplating a wider confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon."
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lsllll writes:
Alaskan Airlines has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-9 Max airplanes after a window and part of the fuselage blew out mid-flight. According to the article on CNN:
Alaska Airlines has temporarily grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft after one of its planes made an emergency landing in Oregon on Friday, officials said – an incident that a passenger says involved a section of the plane blowing out in flight.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which was headed from Portland to Ontario, California, returned safely to Portland International Airport around 5 p.m. PT after “the crew reported a pressurization issue,” the Federal Aviation Administration said.
A panel of the fuselage, including the panel’s window, popped off shortly after takeoff, passenger Kyle Rinker told CNN.
A passenger video briefly shows the extent of the damage. In the video the passengers appear calm and the flight safely made an emergency landing in Portland after having climbed to 16000 feet.
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lsllll writes:
I recently discovered that my house was vandalizedI when looking out my window things were dark. Come to find out, someone ripped 8 of the low-power LED landscape lights I had installed near my driveway. They left the ones near my house, otherwise they would have been caught on camera, but I don't have any cameras farther from my house, capturing movement in my wooded driveway, so I set upon finding a battery-powered, wifi-enabled camera that'll dump to my local server. Lo and behold, it seem the state of wireless cameras has declined. It appears that I can't find a single camera that is a) battery powered b) has wireless connectivity and c) will dump motion-detected videos to a local server. There are some nice cameras out there that'll work for nearly 5 months off a rechargeable battery. You can even pair them with a solar panel which would keep them constantly topped off. But none of them offer anything other than local storage (free on SD card) or in the cloud (subscription).
Obviously, being a programmer and a sysadmin, I realize that the effort to dump a video to a cloud service and opening a connection to a local FTP/SMB server require the same bandwidth, battery usage. So this decision to not support local FTP/SMB servers must be intentional and the way everything is going nowadays: juice the customers for as much money as you can after they've purchased your product.
The question is, are the any cameras out there that run on rechargeable batteries, support WiFi, and dump videos to a local server?
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lsllll writes:
I got drawn (without my intention) into three 20 minute sessions, talking to high school students about computer science and programming, and am wondering what are some of the things I should talk to them about. I have previously done the same thing for a forty minute period, and all the students wanted to talk about game programming. My only game programming experience dates back to the late 80's and programming a few games (some which ran on top of Novell's network) in Turbo Pascal. Since then I have done lots of database design, web interface programming, and systems configuration and integration. I am pretty fluent with Windoze and Linux, but my contemporary programming skills are somewhat limited to Coldfusion, PHP, Javascript, SQL and bash scripts. Should I talk to them about different aspects of computer science, what it's like to work full-time in the computer industry, or do I make the sessions just question and answer, since 20 minutes might not allow me to talk and do question and answer?
