Just put a radio transmitter on something that appears of value. And make sure you have the receipt for the item. Jeremy On Monday 20 July 2009 12:01:49 pm Dan Armbrust wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski<andyzib at gmail.com> wrote: > > Not to be an ass, but... > > > > While technology is great and all, it's no replacement for doing the > > simple things like rolling up the windows, locking the doors, and not > > leaving your keys in the ignition. I swear that someday I'm going to > > go over to my parent's house and drive their cars a block down the > > road just to prove a point... > > Heh, depends where you live. Where some of my former co-workers live > in Minneapolis, they finally learned after about 4 broken windows that > it is much easier to just leave the car unlocked, and with no > valuables inside. That way, most of the miscreants won't break the > windows when they come by - they just check the car, and move on to > the next one.... > > What would be really cool is if you could integrate some motion > detector software into the linux system observing the camera, and then > have it take some sort of action - blast something over a loudspeaker, > turn on a water hose, aim and fire a turret mounted paintball gun, > etc. The possibilities are endless :) > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090720/e09f8452/attachment.htm