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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Mark Levin Drops the Hammer on Tucker Carlson and the Right’s Cowardly Silence" Levin is very close to the last person I'd trust for anything.
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    There are added features in the PRO, like more LEDs, dual mics, and 12v output to power a camera. Not an exhaustive list, and not of any value to some users. I for instance use external IR and don't care about the white lights, so the extra LEDs are of no value to me.
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    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    Partially off topic, I've tried 4 or 5 of the round 4-watt IR illuminators. After a few years every single one, including Tendelux, let water inside. I suspect it's because the plastic seal between the body halves shrinks. If ithe problem gets caught early enough, the illuminator can be...
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    Camera side RJ-45 wire sequence

    Educated guessing: The green and orange pairs are pretty self explanatory, other than you don't know if the original wiring was 568A or 568B. In a thread just this last week with the same question, the camera connector was wired with 568B. The brown and blue would be for power when the source...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Good question. I'm using Brave and I of course should have tried IE on my own. All the other things I've tried seem to work good with Brave.
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    The Nostalgia Thread

    When in college one of my profs said there would be a computer on every desk, terabyte memory, and glass cockpits in the planes. I thought he was crazy, and obviously know now I was the not-so-bright one. This was when a big IBM mainframe had 32k words of memory.
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    I can't zig-zag, straight lines only. But you can have a bunch more than 4 of them, as on older cameras.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Is this gaslighting, incompetence, fraud, or what? Yahoo "news" headline says Sounds pretty clear to me. But the headline for the story it links to says something different And the text of the story says Exactly OPPOSITE of the yahoo headline. Can we believe anything we read or hear?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I'd like it to be seen as a requirement to post a link to any article or social media post that's repeated in IPCT.
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Andy, are you going to carry any of the IL-series cameras? About how much less would they cost, compared to the PRO?
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    IR light comparison of 5442 S2 and 54PRO, both 3.6mm, shutter range 0-3 ms., cameras about a foot apart. These 3 images are from the 54PRO. Top image, the 5442's IR light running at 100%. The center hotspot does help light up the distant fence. Middle image, 54PRO IR light running at 100%...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Question: Can the PRO's DC power output support an external 4 watt IR illuminator? The first-cut answer is "maybe". My fixed-focus PRO did power the illuminator OK in a short test. The data is: No load output voltage: 11.5 Illuminator off via its photocell: voltage 11.3, current 6ma...
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    Fixing Ethernet Cable On Camera -- 6 wire ?

    If I understand what you wrote correctly, the tester is not meant to do what you're wanting it to. It is to test a patch cable, with the tester plugged on one end, and its remote plugged on the other end. It cannot test the cable hardwired to the camera. This pinout looks totally logical...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Inside Melissa’s eyewall, the C-130J was thrown hundreds of feet up and down in seconds, nearly 700 feet of vertical motion within a single minute. " With one of the C130's specs being: Rate of climb: 1,830 ft/min (9.3 m/s) I don't get why 700 feet in a minute is even worth mentioning.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I think the dems made a big strategic mistake here. The BBB took away a bunch of their pet handout programs. Since it was passed under reconciliation, it passed even though all of them opposed it. They saw blaming the shutdown on the repubs as a way to get their handouts back, but it...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I've run into this before while proofreading things I've written than contain "rn". I fix it, and it still looks like "m". An unforseen gotcha in the font design.
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    EmpireTech 2025 Autumn Sales

    Let's hope for a 1,000% tariff decrease so Andy can send cameras for free and still make a good profit!
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    Money & Economics

    While listing the debt of the different countries is interesting, I don't think it has any meaning beyond that. There must be a stat that means something, like debt per citizen, debt compared to GDP, or compared to the size of the economy, or whatever. Would the US look so bad (relatively)...
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    Dahua: all in one answer for home security?

    A nitpick, I think we entered this many years ago, and it's just accelerating faster. It makes me mad to no end, and the little bit I do to fight against it probably doesn't to much except make me feel good for a while. I'm one of the very few that pays for an email address with a smaller ISP...
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    Money & Economics

    The other dirty detail is that the COLA pushes all the recipients closer to that taxation on 85% of the SS benefit. On a long enough timeline all recipients will be pushed into the 85% level that has never been indexed for inflation.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Democrat cats. More good pics here: The funniest wildlife photography competition in the world announces finalists
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    Money & Economics

    Here's a discussion thread that touches on some of the questions. With different banks and brokerages having different policies, I think the best overview comment is: "Read the account agreement because every bank may have different rules." The trouble is, I don't think you're able to do this...
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    Money & Economics

    With a few years to plan ahead, I'd personally convert the expected withdrawal to cash or common stocks. I know there are a lot of other options, I just prefer to keep it simple. Another little detail is you can't do a roth conversion until the RMD is satisfied.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    The importance of not relying on Amazon. Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners "...people reported being awoken in discomfort by beds that locked in an upright incline, became unbearably warm, blinked flashing lights or even sounded a wake-up alarm."
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    The official "WTF" thread

    The importance of camera placement. Surveillance Camera Pointed the Wrong Way Allowed Louvre Heist AND, time to make angle grinders illegal. "Security guards rushed to the site, but they were unarmed in accordance with regulations, museum officials said. Instead of trying to stop the thieves...
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    IPC-HDW3849H-AS-PV-PRO review

    It's a tradeoff between daylight and low light capability. In daylight, I consider the 8MP to be better because it gives you clearer details and more digital zoom usefulness. In low light conditions the 4MP camera excels because its larger individual pixels capture more of the incoming light...
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    Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states

    Here's a related story. It might be hard to believe but Eugene, OR is even harder left than Portland. Eugene won't release Flock camera locations. The ACLU is suing deflock.me shows about 40 cameras there. Here's the articled intro: The ACLU of Oregon is suing the City of Eugene for not...
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    Money & Economics

    Back from dancers to taxes.... I spotted the RMD problem a bunch of years ago and realized the commonly spouted wisdom about how it's good to put money into a traditional IRA and take it out later in life when you're in a lower marginal bracket is often not very wise. My general thinking now...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Proving Squeaker Johnson a liar takes less than three minutes." There's a faster way, look if his lips are moving.
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    Money & Economics

    There are many interactions in the tax code that can lead you to bad decisions. Deduction phaseouts are another example in addition to the pretty well hidden social security taxation rate. Oregon income tax is horrible with these: Credit for contribution to a 529 plan begins to phase out at...
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