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That raises an interesting point: what's the USB distance limit?
I'll have to search the Interwebs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't have the sort of camera/recorder that detects motion by comparing one video frame with the last. That sort is totally useless for outdoor use. One that I know of triggers on every raindrop that goes past at night, when the built-in IR floodlight gets refracted straight back into the camera, every bird that flies past in the day and every leaf that waves about in the wind, day or night.
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: the alcoholic on the 2nd floor yelling at his wife
I thought you said you lived on the ground floor? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm not the hungarian-by-choice.
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Nagy's not an alcoholic. He's too busy drinking to go to the meetings. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Better off doing that using motion in linux on the Pi. The camera support on the Pi in Win10 was not the greatest when I looked at it.
Roger
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Pepper spray? No: use Raid Wasp Killer. It'll shoot 30 feet and stop 'em. Works well on raging dogs too.
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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For the easiest way to set up a Raspberry Pi as a motion camera, I would highly recommend MotionEye OS:
Home · ccrisan/motioneyeos Wiki · GitHub[^]
He has customized the OS so the RPi acts as an appliance; all you have to do is flash the SD card and it's ready to go. To make configuation changes, you type in the internal IP address using another computer and you get the web-based login screen, and after logging in you can tell it how long to save recordings, whether to take still shots long with video, etc. You pretty much do all your interaction with it using the web interface, not the command line.
It's based on Linux and not Windows IoT, but you won't notice the difference anyway because it just sits there and does its thing and the only time you interact with it is to look at recordings or change its configuration.
For mine, I use this camera:
http://www.waveshare.com/rpi-camera-f.htm[^]
Unfortunately I put my camera inside a waterproof housing and the night vision infrared would reflect off the housing glass, so I had to remove the infrared bulbs, but during my initial tests the night vision worked great.
If you wanted this as a project to learn and tinker on, then Windows IoT might be fun to try, but if you just want to set it up quick with minimal headache, MotionEyeOS is the way to go. I'm saying this as someone who started out doing it as a fun project, and I had grand plans of writing my own custom scripts to move the saved recordings around, but after a couple of fruitless days working on it, I got to a point where I just wanted it working, and MotionEyeOS was the winner.
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forego the pepper spray and get a taser.
itza one shot deal, but effective.
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Tasers aren't 100% effective, but they might be lethal. The effectiveness of pepperspray depends on the pepper. Internet has some cool video's that show people eating those things and regretting it seconds later.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Wasp and Hornet spray for getting rid of wasps and hornets, is said to be as or more effective than pepper spray due to the range of 25 feet with the Wasp/Hornet spray as opposed to pepper spray. I've had no experience with it but would be worth a little research. I would think it cheaper also.
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"Tom Tomorrow" is the nom de plume of Dan Perkins, an editorial cartoonist: [^]. Link to .png graphic imho safe-for-family, and not inherently poltical.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Three things happened when I wrote this[^] article.
1) During the process of writing it, I discovered a momentarily significant news event (I think it was an earthquake, but not sure anymore) that I didn't know about because I hadn't read the news that day yet. I found that interesting, as a means of obtaining very realtime "information."
2) Reading a random sampling of the posts (you can mouse over the keywords and get samples of the posts) I realized how inane people are. I mean, we all know twitter is inane, but really, just how absolutely, incredibly, sadly, horrifically inane the people who use twitter are, and by inference, the "baskets" of people who also do not use twitter.
3) My immense disappointment that given #1, where #1 could be really amazing actually as a technology to inform and disseminate not just information but creative and interesting thoughts as well with the potential to lead to real social/political transformation, #2 kills it because, well, that is not what people do.
I think technology like twitter and facebook are metaphorically the canary in the human "mine" / mind, and the canary is definitely being asphyxiated. They illustrate why, (and this is not confined to the US), Trump has close to 50% of the vote and Clinton talks about "baskets of deplorables."
(As you said, not inherently political, I was just using politics to illustrate the suffocation of cute little yellow birds.)
Marc
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As Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen put it in The Science Of Discworld, we are not Homo Sapiens (the thinking man), but Pan Narrans (the storytelling ape). That is why a good fantasy trumps the boring facts.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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...I said let's remove the screen, and he considered it for a second.
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I know it is a joke and everything but people like that are rather pathetic. "Apple makes millions by selling the same product with a new name because everyone else (that would be us) is a bunch of brainwashed morons". Yeah, right. Oh well, at least they're not as bad as the iHoles who act like they personally invented the iPhone just because they went out and bought one.
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California 90025 wrote: that would be us
Count me out!
Never owned an Apple product, never wanted to.
Overpriced, overhyped, under performing. And nothing on the original iPhone was new - not even to phones...it was just marketed very, very well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: under performing
Not 100% positive about this one. Their stuff works great. (Never owned one, though).
OriginalGriff wrote: nothing on the original iPhone was new
I think the touchscreen was a revolution back then, wasn't it ?
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Rage wrote: I think the touchscreen was a revolution back then, wasn't it ?
Nope, the original iPhone was launched in 2007, and HP had this phone out a year earlier: HP iPAQ hw6915 - Full phone specifications[^].
Touch screen, handwriting recognition, apps store, games, internet, Windows Mobile OS, and even a "Proper" keyboard as well - which made SMS a load easier! It let you use and edit Excel and Word files as well. (I had one, and the battery life was amazing - around a month!)
I don't think this was the first of the family that HP released, but I couldn't swear to it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The first touchscreen phone was out at 1992!!! By IBM - Simon...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Years before the iPhone released, a guy that sat next to me at work had a PocketPC phone -- I had a PocketPC device running PocketPC 2002. Both devices had touch screens. Of course, we did use styluses (styli?) but you could use your finger too as I remember.
Anyways, Microsoft failed at this really early. Then gave up long enough that Apple grabbed the space.
if you google, "pocketPC 2002 phone" you'll see some images for those phones. Years before Apple ever released.
Marketing is key, yes? 
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AIRI, the pocket PC had rounded corners. Has apple sued them?
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