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Comment Re:How is this a story? (Score 1) 99

I think most of the time devices are like this anyways. They are build on some kind of linux subsystem host with some proprietary hardware running GPS daughtercards or modules. I am guessing FB wanted some specific security that the major manufacturers didn't want to provide (are there any devices with LDAP integration and without shitty wide-open telnet access? I'm a little out of the loop here). So, they took the important bits, put it on a PCI card, and now they can use any host that can provide whatever functionality they want.

Comment Turn key back on? (Score 1) 350

Why wouldn't the military just turn their encryption keys back on so that they can use it but others get worse data? I do agree that teaching your officers celestial navigation is important, but when shit hits the fan, it will be interesting to see which ones actually retain it and can use it without constant practice.
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Submission + - RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: "Research in Motion (RIM) reported grim Q4 results Thursday and announced sweeping personnel changes. Leading the parade of departing execs is Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO of the company, who has given up his board seat. David Yach, who has been CTO of software for the company for 13 years, is retiring. And Jim Rowan, chief operating officer of global operations, who has been with the company for four years, is leaving to pursue other interests."

Comment Weather Station (Score 1) 85

Something like a Davis VantagePro2 (http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/weather_product.asp?pnum=06162) weather station has a small panel that measures UV and solar radiation in addition to weather measurements. I think you can also get additional sensors to add to the station and you can get a dongle that lets you speak with the wireless panel via usb-serial. Then, you can write an easy script to log your measurements (the protocol is well defined) and get a real idea of what your roof is capable of. The VantagePro2 is probably overkill for your purposes, but it's a good thread to chase down for options.

Comment Scraper (Score 1) 164

What I found most interesting was the link in the article to opengovernment.org, which I followed on to this project: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/openstates They provide the screen scrapers which feed the data to the main project. I"m sure that even with the gov't providing data freely there will still need to be formatting transformation required, and some screen scraping needed to get the full picture into some database somewhere. I'm sure there are other frameworks around that build up scraping/database/analysis applications. Does anyone have any experience with these?

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