Recent content by slamb

There I'm right with you. He was a repeat violent criminal. Allowing him to be out on bail (for $1,000, or for any amount at all) while awaiting trial for trying to run someone over was an unnecessary danger to the community I won't excuse. If it were my DA and my judge that allowed that, I'd be...

A few points: California's crime rates aren't that far off from national trends, according to this analysis. A little better than average on homicide; a little worse than average on property crime. I prefer California's stats to the national ones because getting murdered would be a bigger...

That's so vague that I don't even know if I think it's reasonable or not. It doesn't quote a specific DA, it doesn't say what a "stiff" penalty is, and it doesn't say what crimes.

Yes, you're right: I know the maximum sentence is not the minimum sentence, and I know plea bargains happen. I still think the maximum should be proportionate, and I don't blame making it so for high property crime rates. Here's my challenge: show me something that supports your points. If a...

Oh, I see in your bio that you're in South Dakota now. This page says "The theft of property or services worth $401 to $1,000 constitutes petty theft in the first degree, a class 1 misdemeanor. A guilty party faces up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine." Before, California was a lot stricter...

I know this thread is really for mocking people like me rather than a serious debate spot, but I disagree. There's an important distinction between setting a proportionate punishment and eliminating punishment. The voters didn't decriminalize anything; as far as I can tell, the police did that...

I'm sort of serious. That's what would happen if they caught you every time, didn't do anything about it for a year, and then gave you the maximum punishment for each time. Seems pretty absurd but still makes more sense to me than claiming Californian voters decriminalized shoplifting.

Hi! I'm an actual California liberal. I voted for Proposition 47. I am the person being blamed in that video. Sorry to interrupt this festival of schadenfreude, but... The thing is, Proposition 47 didn't decriminalize anything. It recategorized some crimes. Shoplifting/petty theft under $950 is...

Reporting back in: Uniview: turns out they're also actively supporting the Uyghur genocide, so I skipped them. Hanwha: I concur with "priced higher"; so far I haven't found a recent model that I wanted to pay for. Reolink: based on experiments with a borrowed camera, I can certainly see why you...

Yes. You don't need to make Blue Iris go through the Dahua NVR; both NVRs can talk directly to the cameras if you have set up your network topology to allow this. In terms of the camera's network bandwidth, cameras typically have 100 Mbps Ethernet and main+sub streams together will typically be...

It's been a long time but I finally figured out what the SVC option does on my old Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I and newer Dahua 5442 cameras. At first I thought it did nothing. But: With SVC off ("level 1" on the Dahuas), each H.264 P frame depends on the frame immediately before. If you have the...

I might just buy one of their budget models as an experiment then. Thanks.

I'm not trying to avoid Chinese manufacturing chains altogether (basically impossible), but I am going to avoid companies that I believe are writing software for genocide. We all have our own lines; that kind of direct involvement is the one I've drawn. Thanks for the recommendation of Uniview...

I'm also looking for alternatives to Dahua and Hikvision. I'm happy with the technical quality of the cameras I already own from these brands, but IPVM says both these companies are writing custom software for genocide (Dahua, Hikvision). I can firewall away poor security practices and work...

Thanks! My first (of three) Amazon Black Friday IPC-T5442T-ZEs already arrived. Haven't mounted it yet but so far so good. With what firmware? I'm currently on 20201019.