As a programmer it's hard to recommend any particular path, since you'll "coincidentally" wind up recommending whatever you yourself did. But trying to avoid that as much as possible: learn Python, only because it's far, far easier to get set up. Compiled languages frequently involve detailed, fiddly setup of…

I thought "enterprise" hard drives meant "lower reliability, but lower cost, and provided you're using these as part of a redundant array, the failures won't cost you any data."

I think I played around with Zoneminder in the past; it was just way too hard to configure and use, especially with the simple V4L/UVC cameras I had hooked up. It really expected me to be controlling PZT CCTV cameras or IP cameras, and that's not really what I need. I have an Ubuntu box under the TV, I just want to…

Since I only ever try to do it the night before I head out on a long trip, I'm always surprised by how hard setting up a security system in Linux turns out to be. Motion's HTTP support, for instance, apparently doesn't actually mean "produce a webpage that shows images from your cameras", at least judging by the utter…

(See Idiocracy, the movie)

Oh wow, I've got the same thing, but it doesn't require belief in raving nonsense. Imagine that!

So you pick and choose? Why be Mormon, then? Why not be an atheist who does only the Mormon stuff you like?

Sorry, Curt, if I want boring, no-innovation, Madlibs-style fantasy world building I'll play Dragon Age again.

Nonsense - taxpayer revenues aren't the sole source of the government's funding.

Well, obviously the examples are of the cops who got caught doing it - those would be the only cases we would ever find out about.

What are they doing to do, go out and make up crimes to hand out tickets for?

The Black was a new product I hadn't heard of when I wrote my post, and I was glad to see that they've addressed the GPIO shortfalls of the original product.

Pants hangers, motherfucka! If you don't come out with a double armload of their pants hangers, you

who does that sound like to you? the government or a business?

A Class 3 Assistive Mobility Device can do twice that and still legally be allowed on the sidewalks. And just because you're on a bicycle doesn't mean you have to ride it at a million miles an hour. If it's a matter of speed, apply a speed limit. Problem solved.

If an oldster rolling down the sidewalk on a motorized scooter counts as a "pedestrian", then certainly I do when I'm rolling down the same sidewalk on a vehicle actually powered by my own body. Obviously.

I'm sure it's against the law where you live. But where you live is bullshit.

Obviously a vehicle powered by your legs travels at "pedestrian speeds."

Your claim was that it seemed as if there were no law against his conduct.

Why do motorist laws not apply to cyclists?