What technologies & techniques exist to prevent yourself from being captured on camera or video?

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Answer by Brandon Gregg:

There actually is an easy and cheap way you can prevent yourself from being captured on video or CCTV. Most cameras (especially black and white security cameras) will see low levels of infrared light. This helps them video at dusk/dawn and in lower levels of light. The level of light the camera can see is called the LUX level. To test this theory turn on your video camera and point your TV remote control at it. Change a few channels and you will see a pulse of light flash that the naked eye obviously can't see. With that said you can easily make an infrared hat with cheap $1 infrared LEDs stitched into the front of the hat, the more the better… Attach a 9 volt battery to the LEDS and bam you are now a giant LED flash light. People will see nothing out of the ordinary, but CCTV cameras will only see a large flash of infrared light coming from your head, hiding your face.

What technologies & techniques exist to prevent yourself from being captured on camera or video?

How good were Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs at programming?

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Answer by Paul King:

Bill Gates' reputation is that he was an excellent coder in his day, and technically astute and incisive throughout his time leading Microsoft. In college (at Harvard), Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a full BASIC language interpreter in assembly language for a computer they didn't even have access to and which had only 4000 bytes of memory. They wrote it on a PDP-10 at Harvard that was running an Intel 8080 emulator. Bill Gates once said that he remembered every technical detail and variable name of those early programs, although surely that would not be true today.

Steve Jobs was never a programmer. He was a product visionary, astute businessman, and excellent if eccentric salesman. It was Steve Wozniak who built the Apple I while Steve promoted it. That said (from my experience working at his company NeXT), Steve had an amazing knack for understanding technical concepts and how they could be relevant. While he had never programmed, his technical people convinced him of the revolutionary power of object-oriented programming. As a result, he made object-oriented design the central theme of the NeXT machine and he developed a great sales pitch for its ability to reduce code bulk: "The line of code you don't write is the line of code you never have to debug."

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How long after a tenant leaves possessions behind are they considered abandoned?

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I had to kick out a tenant who was subletting a room in my apartment. The woman that was kicked out wrote 2 checks that bounced. She never paid any rent. She left her laptop at the apartment. It has been over a month and she has not come back for it. I have tried contacting her and she has not responded. At what point can I legally sell her laptop? I live in California.

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