I don't recognize that name, but I retired a few years ago and haven't really kept up with changes in the industry. Question out of random curiosity, do they have a tool for managing very large numbers of cameras? How long do they support their cameras? When I left only Axis and Pelco did. I updated firmware on ~15,000 Axis cameras in my spare time over about three months, some of them almost 10 years old, and a former coworker did the same on 1,400 Pelco cameras across an Endura system in a weekend.

Don't install a Ring camera in your meth lab. Duh.

Ring is owned by Amazon, and they never sell customer data, ever. Nest on the other hand is an Alphabet company, and that's their entire business model.

Decent quality security cameras like Axis, Pelco, Bosch, GE, and the like, will always follow standards because they're designed to be installed in a wide variety of professional installations. Yeah, they cost more than $20.

Speaking with 16 years of experience in the physical security industry I've only seen two manufacturers who really understand that security cameras should actually be secure, Axis and Pelco. Yes, they cost an arm and a leg, but this is one case where you really do get what you pay for. Neither one has much of a selection of wireless cameras, but for security you really should wire them in anyway and both have a large selection of POE cameras.

One thing that is generally left out of amateur installs is to set up an alarm if contact with the camera is interrupted (assuming your software supports it). Wireless cameras are easy to jam, and exterior cameras that aren't in a housing are easy to just plain steal. Another thing is to set an alarm on low battery (again, if supported).

For processing data, that's fine. Run the analysis of your test results twice, if they match you're probably fine. On the other hand IIRC the systems that actually maintain attitude and other critical functions are military-type hardened systems (they weren't that much more expensive at the time, unless it was the Pentagram purchasing them).

Oops, you're right. Anyway, big die size = minimal bit flips.

Until they were finally grounded the Space Shuttles used 486 CPUs, mostly because the large die size minimized the issue of flipped bits.

I wouldn't expect the PR flacks who write press releases know the difference.

That works, until bean counting MBAs are allowed to control what should be an engineering process. In the case of the 737-MAX it was because the MBAs that run Boeing see programmers as a fungible input like aluminum, so any old programming team will do if the price is right. In that case the programming team which won the low bid normally worked in the financial industry.

Those guys were too expensive for Boeing's management, they've all been laid off years ago.

One issue with germanium, and even more so with gallium, is the very limited number of sources for them. China controls over 70% of world germanium production, and well over 90% of gallium. Get dependent on one or the other for computing and you are thus dependent on China for computing.

I've worked in construction, restaurants, farms, retail and factories, all places heavily populated by the people falling in the lower half of the IQ scale. The majority of dumb people have no more imagination than a sheep, which is why they're also the core Trump voters.

If you're referring to the Carlin quote, he recognized the difference but had to deliver the line to an audience made up of a goodly portion of people who were already drunk and/or stoned.

If you're referring to what I wrote, the IQ test (which I recognize is not actually accurate because of cultural bias, but it's a phrase that everyone understands) then an IQ of 100 is designed to be the midpoint, with half the population above and half under. Unless it's changed in the last quarter century, it was intended to measure the mean.

Oh, carp. Posting to fix bad mod.

And what about the half of the population which has an IQ lower than 100? Dumb people need to eat too, and if they can't they pick up pitchforks and torches (metaphorically). When robots run by AIs are washing dishes and picking strawberries the people who previously did those jobs are not going to be doing things requiring "human creativity and judgement".

Indeed, so the more the insurance cartel can charge the more profit they can suck in. That's not a hard equation. Perhaps if there were actually some minimal amount of competition allowed in the business prices might be lower, but that's just crazy talk . . .