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The BBC should be much more careful with their operational security, especially in volatile situations like this. Why weren't they establishing a secure communication channel with the person they were meeting with beforehand, livestreaming their trip back to BBC HQ (documentation), and having an agent buy their tickets/hotels so it looked like a local was going instead of the BBC?

The real value in commuter rail is pulling drivers off the road so traffic doesn't degrade further. A 30 mile alignment though isn't very extensive, and ridership is unsuprising considering the 3+ mile station spacing, hour long headways, and other issues.

On a 3 lane freeway, the daily ridership of this train is as though you pulled the drivers filling one lane off the road. With shorter headways and collector routes feeding each station, its likely the ridership could see a significant increase.

Its a common strategy, hence why women of childbearing age, people who are 40+ and anyone with any kind of visible handicap or difference are so commonly discriminated against. They'd rather a handcuffed worker than one who has free will to leave, or get pregnant, etc.

Really sickening to see though.

Classy manager, did he give a specific reason? After 6 weeks nonstop I'd probably do the same as you, no need to kill myself for a company.

Yeah, not too surprising Capital One has a poor internal culture, they do a ton of creative accounting, to the point that they were able to outmanuver American Express on the Costco relationship.

That being said, I really hate my Costco Cap One card, anything over $300 gets flagged & SMS approval doesn't ever work (despite getting a confirmation back saying it will go thru).

I've heard some pretty bad stories from the people over at EMC, they share a joint office here in Seattle with Capital One.

So why do I have to call you to get pricing info for the lists you offer? Also, the pricing you do provide is unintuitive, like what does Up to "5,000: $180.00/M" mean? Why are you charging to digitally deliver the lists either by the way?

Edit: I do see value in quality, screened lists, but what I cited above is what has kept me from spending a few hundred on a trial run of a direct mail campaign.

This is prompting me to request access to the Google Drive file. Perhaps host it on something besides Google Drive/Docs?

And those kids who couldn't care less probably have never used Linux or a single board computer.

> Sort of retail.

Eh, that is really vague, if you could be more specific I could help ya more.

> I'm looking at having a printer controlled cash draw.

No reason not to use the printer to control the cash drawer, every receipt printer you look at will support 1 if not 2 cash drawers.

> I don't need a bar code scanner.

Do you only have a few items which you intend to have on a touchscreen?

>A Raspberry Pi touch display.

How big/how high resolution?

> And some sort of pinpad

Look at the Pax Px7 or Dejavoo, we wrote PHP bindings for Pax's API. Would recommend you avoid Datacap, most semi-integrated credit/debit offerings are a pretty penny besides the two I mentioned.

https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/PHPax

Yeah, its just a voltage/clockspeed setting that was easily remedied in software.

Kogepathic posted this further down, its just two pads you'd put a 0 ohm resistor on or cross connect:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_Zero#Passive_PoE

Yeah, I'd just buy it from Xunlong off Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1553371

The OrangePi PC Plus is pretty good with the onboard eMMC and Wifi, its worth the extra $7.

O_o Well, I really don't know what to say to you, if your ever in Seattle gimme a holler and I'll introduce you to a room full of kids who are not fans of low quality, closed software.

Uhh, when you actually talk to Allwinner, they are generally pretty helpful unless its not their IP to give. I've emailed Tyle at Allwinner in the past to clear up some chunks of code in the kernel 3.4 BSP, and I found most of the time the code was intended to be under GPLv2, which he clarified.

How is libmmal for the Raspberry Pi's camera libre by the way? The license looks to be proprietary, definitely the opposite of open.

Eh, it seems like the Raspberry Pi Foundation has strayed from an org that started out building SBCs so kids could have a computer to tinker on, and are now entirely focused on being Broadcom's PR and Sales engine. The system on a module was definitely not created with kids in mind, nor was the open GPU driver.

What? You definitely don't need to remove any resistors onboard.

Edit: Guess I'm just unfamiliar wrt POE, since I usually use 5v frankenPOE on these boards.

I don't see Broadcom supporting their chips very well with the Raspberry Pi, you basically can't use most of the boards functionality on Debian without adding a bunch of blobs.

Wrt community, linux-sunxi and Armbian are both in better states than the Raspberry Pi community on their forums or on Reddit, if I google for dhclient issues with the Raspberry Pi I'm gonna get nowhere fast on fixing said issues.

Clarified, sorry about that! I generally just put a blob of solder on the pads to bridge them, then I get frankenPOE at 5v.

> The NAS hat costs $7 extra plus shipping ($4 to EU for me). [0] And to my knowledge there is no case for the Ornage Pi Zero which can accommodate the NAS hat.

Sure, but your gonna be able to max out the ethernet port on an OrangePi Zero, whereas none of the Raspberry Pis can even fill half of a 100Mbps ethernet port. Printing a case isn't all that hard, or you could always build it from thin plywood, cardbord or something else if you want a case.

> It doesn't support POE out of the box

No, but you can wire it for any type of POE you want, whether that be 5v, 12v to 24v, or proper 48v POE. The traces are already there on the PCB, and at that price point I doubt anyone could fit in a buck converter to make it do 48v POE without increasing the cost by a few bucks.

> WiFi on the Orange Pi Zero is a piece of shit.

That and every other SBC, I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 on the shelf that I wrote off due to poor wifi performance. SBCs with small integrated antennas just aren't gonna have amazing wifi. Most of what was in the BSP is now mainlined in kernel 4.10 by the way.

Armbian is decent, I've been quemu-debootstrapping my own images though since I'm not a fan of all the modifications they make to Debian.

Yeah, data corruption is a big issue with the Pis, and definitely not something you want on a Point of Sale.

What industry are you looking to use this POS in? Do you want something reliable? What options have you looked at? The bare minimum your gonna need is an Epson TM-T88V, a wired Metrologic, NCR or Datalogic Scanner (spend more than $50 for something decent), and a cash drawer.

Other things you will probably want are a programmable keyboard, NCR 78 or Datalogic 9800i, coin dispenser & an integrated pinpad for processing credit/debit.

So, how is the competitive with Xunlong and FriendlyARM making the OrangePi Zero and the Nanopi Neo? It seems to have less I/O and still not have a libre stack, unlike the Allwinner H3.

Is the Raspberry Pi Foundation just coasting on branding at this point to sell products?

Edit: On another note, will the Raspberry Pi Foundation stick with this very limited SOC ad infinium? It seems like a poor choice for a single board computer, you really want I/O and low power usage, but it doesn't deliver on either.

Why would I buy the Raspberry Pi Zero instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, and both OrangePis are able to run a fully libre stack with kernel 4.10 and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz).

The built in ethernet port, full size USB port and ability to easily add POE support are just gravy on top to make it easily usable, rather than have a dozen dongles and a USB hub hanging off it needlessly.

Edit: Added kernel version, clarified POE support.

IIRC the E-Rate program is a high double digit by percentage subsidy, such that Wireless ISPs will lose business by not having an E-Rate certification because the school will just stick with polky, 6mbps DSL for their 200+ kids at a rural school.

Uhh, what do you do for sites that don't offer HTTP? Many sites force a 301 redirect when hit on HTTP, and won't downgrade.

Much faster than a Raspberry Pi 3, I can tell the difference between the two running the same software attached to a large touchscreen. I've got a few dozen OrangePi PC boards going on over a year of being deployed, no issues with any of them yet.

If you get an OrangePi 2e ($35) or an OrangePi PC2 ($20) both have gigabit that performs well, you could easily push 4k reliably from either. They also have libre VPU support so you can playback 4k content if you plug in an HDMI cable.

Not really, you can run unmodified Debian on either of those boards, same for Arch & most other distros. The chip in the Zero will never be able to do that since its ARMv6, plus your paying a premium for it.

My last experience with a Raspi 3 and all the broken packages in Raspbian just killed the idea of buying anything requiring I use closed, broken stuff, as its a nightmare to work with.

So why would I buy this instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, plus both are fully libre hardware and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz).

Yeah, the problem with all these web apps is the lack of functionality when offline. Most just don't work, and some have a half working offline mode, but non-perfect connectivity or no connectivity really limits productivity today.