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I have just installed three battery-based cameras from Eufy and I'm very happy with the experience and performance:

https://eu.eufy.com/pages/security_forever_power?ref=navi

The cameras I have are charge and use, but should last about six months befire you need to charge again. We'll see. Mine are only active when I'm away and they sense activity so that should help.

They have cameras with solar panel and 4G. If they have an external battery I don't know.



So presumably nslookup -ls had some logic for finding the apex for a particular name, doing an AXFR and then filtering it to the the target name and below?


My interpretation of the below quote from the article is that Google enabled the feature through pushing a configuration change to active clients. So if I'm a sysadmin and have done my due diligence and successfully tested the new build (with my configuration) before deploying it, I would be very unhappy if/when Google decides to turn this on without my consent or knowledge.

Ref. quote from article:

"Chrome engineers operate a system called Finch that lets them push updated Chrome settings to active installs, such as enabling or disabling experimental flags."


Thanks, I didn't grok that was something different than the auto-update that I'm used to seeing.


According to https://www.ssb.no/fengsling/, for 2014 only 25% of inmates were incarcerated due to drug crimes. Of new incarcerations in 2014, drug crimes represented about 18% (because of other shorter sentences, e.g. traffic or financial crimes).


You can use it in guest mode without a Google account or other authentication. I don't remember if you need to explicitly set it up to do that, though.

I'm sure Google has the numbers since the Chromebooks/Chromeboxes auto-update (part of the whole point, really) so given that they likely have unique device IDs (or ethernet MAC addresses), the 'live devices count' would be rather easy to figure out.


I think affordable Chromebooks is key in order to increase adoption, especially if Google is targeting lower-income markets like Africa, South America, etc, And I believe that might be what this is all about. It certainly complements their Loon project (http://www.google.com/loon/ -- 'Internet via balloons') very nicely. I think it's a brilliant move by Google and partners.


When you upgrade you receive the latest version plus updates for one year. I have a personal license and can upgrade for USD 99.00 today. You don't have to upgrade -- the software will still continue to work, but obviously you won't typically get any updates.


>Why is reaching every corner of the phone such a big deal anyway?

It's a big deal because the upper left corner is where Android places notifications and thus you're likely to perform this operation frequently and in a number of contexts. Whenever you get a notification you're very likely to want to evaluate it (and possibly take action) as quickly and reliably as possible. On my Nexus 5 I can easily unlock, swipe down and swipe left or tap with one hand and very quickly as well. On my OnePlus One unlocking is fine, but getting to the top left corner is tricky, slow and unreliable when I'm using one hand, and two hands is not always desirable or practical depending on the context.


On my Galaxy Nexus you can swipe down on the entire top edge of the phone to bring down notifications. On the home screen you can actually swipe down anywhere to bring it down.


In Norway, the most common type of card is a debit card that can also be used as a Visa or MasterCard credit card. The card has a smart chip on the front, and on the back you have your national id number/date of birth, photo and signature, etc. The card is frequently used as an id card.

When you pay using the debit card, you have to insert the part of the card with the chip into a reader and enter your pin. Typically you can not do this until the cash register has transferred the amount to pay to the terminal.

You can also use it as a credit card when abroad or even in Norway. However, I'm not sure if the card will actually allow you credit (i.e. borrow money) per se -- I believe the account must have a sufficient positive balance, and I believe the domestic terminals are able to check that in real time (i.e. in a few seconds) and decline the sale if not funded.

As for online purchases, every time I use it as a credit card, I get re-routed to a card verification process. This means I get taken to some third party site (typically Visa or MasterCard) where I have to authenticate using my password and generate a one-time password (pin) on my phone. You can also use a FOB, but I find a phone more practical. After the verification is done, you get taken back to the merchant site. This is the same verification process that is used for online banking.

After living 15 years in the states I found this to be a bit annoying at first, but that had more to do with the speed of the implementation and the fact that it's applet-based (Java and Chrome -- have to switch browsers and hope that you don't lose your session).

If I had to authenticate every time I bought something on Amazon it would get old pretty fast. However, one could simply authenticate once to indicate that this merchant is trusted. A new merchant would trigger the authentication before the transaction can be accepted.


That is exactly what happens in India too, except that most banks issue debit and credit cards which are typically separate and not combined into a single card. It also does not serve as a national id. Is this not the case in US?


Basically the same here. I have both debit and credit cards are from the same bank. National id is a bit more contentious here but generally the two cards are about the same. With the caveat of much lower daily withdrawal limits on the debit (think 300).


The US has debit cards and you can activate that kind of behavior if you want (I know Visa will do it).


If you want a quick overview of what this looks like on various devices: http://ami.responsivedesign.is/?url=http://ehesp.github.io/R...


Funnily enough that site looks terrible on an iPhone...!


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