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Re:Tired of thieves, Portland woman lets the world watch her... by zandorg on Monday September 22, 2008 @07:48PM (#311786)
A friend of mine did this for his BSc graduation project, on a Mac, and it's not that hard.
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Re:Tired of thieves, Portland woman lets the world watch her... by ivankirigin on Monday September 22, 2008 @08:45PM (#311841)
Actually, it's really hard to make it ultra reliable. 30 frames per second, 82K seconds a day, possibly hundreds of cameras...10^8 frames daily. False alarm rate of 0.01% makes for thousands of interruptions.

That's the difference between a school project and a system you can sell.

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