So if the lens is great, you don't care if you use it with an old ~1 megapixel camera with a noisy sensor that requires long exposure times in reasonable light settings?
If you want to be able to have sharp focus, maybe you do.
Countering the idea that megapixels don't matter isn't the same as saying they are the only thing that matters.
If you can't make an image with sharp edges, who cares what the pixel count is?
So, you realize that releasing information could give away the techniques used to gather said data. And, in doing so, allow those targeted to take steps to prevent such collection.
Perhaps. Perhaps not.
As things stand, the majority of Americans who care about this are willing to accept that the North Koreans did this. The Venn Diagram showing People Accepting This + People Who Have Technical Knowledge of This Area seems to be a null set. (Please keep in mind that saying publicly "X is the Gospel truth" and believing it are two different things.)
The people in charge of communicating this information seem fine with that. They probably have spent enough time and energy to insure that this story doesn't play major havoc with any coming election that they have a reasonable amount of confidence in that outcome. Some substantial percentage of the people running this show really only care about that, about the "average" public perception in the voting population. The second set of individuals from the above cited diagram are just not satisfied. Chances are this group will not be satisfied until the powers that be decide it is worth their while to provide genuine evidence in lieu of the narrative, innuendo or circumstantial evidence proffered so far.
So, maybe doing that would be disastrous. Or, maybe, it would simply lead to a different approach by bad actors that would then have to be dealt with by the "Good Guys" (ie, hackers on our payrolls) which means it wouldn't be easy, and there would be financial cost associated with it. Or, presumably, not. I mean, I would hope we actually have people on staff who are paying attention to this area, anyway. If they have to do a little more work to deal with a modified tactic, doesn't that seem like it might make us more safe, rather than less? Why is it better that they should maintain a status quo that apparently did not keep us all safe from this in the first place?
Which may make it sound like I have a rather cavalier attitude about security. I do not. But, I do have confidence in a well motivated counter-force's ability to maintain a secure environment, given a decent management structure. So far, I am not seeing that in this so much as I am seeing the marketing department trying to tamp it down.
Actually, given the lag time, isn't it almost guaranteed that they *will* have the last laugh? Not in a good way, but technically, yeah, long after others have seen it and laughed.
When I saw it (Egyptian Theater, Hollywood CA, 12/25 5 PM) it was not sold out. The theater looked to be 25% to 35% of capacity.
Spoiler Alert: It was a stupid movie, filled with lots of sophomoric humor. If you saw the trailer, you probably were expecting this movie as the one you would get.
If you saw the trailer, you knew it was going to be a sophomoric bromance pic. The jingoistic fervor that has embraced the marketing campaign is even stupider than the picture, but it had an enormous number of laughs in it, if you went in not expecting a lot of nuance and deep meaningful insight.
If you thought you were striking a blow for truth, justice and the American Way, well, bless your pointed little head.
Having went to Catholic school and having to do something during religion class, I keep a vague list of points to ponder from the Bible.
Oral sex is good - Song of Solomon is all for that
10 virgin wives? Sure it's a parable, parables are based on things people understand so again.. 10 virgin wives? - Gospel of Matthew
Killing lots of people is expected if people in another city believe in another god - Deuteronomy
Wear a hat or go to hell - Leviticus
Zombies - Gospel Matthew, more than Jesus rose from the dead
Women are subservient to men, shouldn't teach or have any authority over men - 1 Timothy
Anything without fins and scales from the waters is unclean to eat. Sorry tasty lobster, shrimp, calimari, catfish, etc - Leviticus
So many bad animals to eat. escargot, pig - life without bacon?
Slavery is OK as long as they're foreigners. - Leviticus (Bring this up during discussion of border security for fun shock factor)
Tats bar you from heaven - Leviticus (Just pick a random passage from that book and you can find something everyone is doing wrong)
OK, you had me considering a major lifestyle shift until #3, then it all started to go to hell. At 8 and 9, you sunk it. I'm going back to my Agnostic/Norse Gods hybrid belief system. (BTW, I'd recommend "Having gone" over "Having went" but I'm not really an official grammar nazi, so I can't give you the rules for that)
Not making a repayment to the mob is committing suicide.
As is refusing to be their money laundry. but I totally get that these are all legitimate suicides. Probably says so on the certificate, and everything.
till one day the kid who keeps getting beet up and having there lunch money stolen takes a weapon to school and uses it on the bully
And, once you've begun, it is apparently difficult to stop, so you move on to "innocent" victims, but you've been to this elementary school every day since preschool, and you know there are no innocents here, just the unindicted! They'll all meet (insert favorite figure from your understanding of your chosen religion here) when you send them there! p.s. beet is a root vegetable. beat is what you do to a rug.
Amazing thread. By amazing, I mean the number of you who went off on the race tangent when faced with a nuclear waste issue. Amazing. It's like/. is only read/posted to by ________ , any more.
Superior? You mean "dominant"? Or, did you mean pigmentation that is dark will tend to show through a lighter shade? Or, was the whole reason for your post to show how political correctness is evil?
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Steve Jobs is just a marketing cunt in a turtleneck. .
Citations needed.
So if the lens is great, you don't care if you use it with an old ~1 megapixel camera with a noisy sensor that requires long exposure times in reasonable light settings?
If you want to be able to have sharp focus, maybe you do.
Countering the idea that megapixels don't matter isn't the same as saying they are the only thing that matters.
If you can't make an image with sharp edges, who cares what the pixel count is?
So, you realize that releasing information could give away the techniques used to gather said data. And, in doing so, allow those targeted to take steps to prevent such collection.
Perhaps. Perhaps not.
As things stand, the majority of Americans who care about this are willing to accept that the North Koreans did this. The Venn Diagram showing People Accepting This + People Who Have Technical Knowledge of This Area seems to be a null set. (Please keep in mind that saying publicly "X is the Gospel truth" and believing it are two different things.)
The people in charge of communicating this information seem fine with that. They probably have spent enough time and energy to insure that this story doesn't play major havoc with any coming election that they have a reasonable amount of confidence in that outcome. Some substantial percentage of the people running this show really only care about that, about the "average" public perception in the voting population. The second set of individuals from the above cited diagram are just not satisfied. Chances are this group will not be satisfied until the powers that be decide it is worth their while to provide genuine evidence in lieu of the narrative, innuendo or circumstantial evidence proffered so far.
So, maybe doing that would be disastrous. Or, maybe, it would simply lead to a different approach by bad actors that would then have to be dealt with by the "Good Guys" (ie, hackers on our payrolls) which means it wouldn't be easy, and there would be financial cost associated with it. Or, presumably, not. I mean, I would hope we actually have people on staff who are paying attention to this area, anyway. If they have to do a little more work to deal with a modified tactic, doesn't that seem like it might make us more safe, rather than less? Why is it better that they should maintain a status quo that apparently did not keep us all safe from this in the first place?
Which may make it sound like I have a rather cavalier attitude about security. I do not. But, I do have confidence in a well motivated counter-force's ability to maintain a secure environment, given a decent management structure. So far, I am not seeing that in this so much as I am seeing the marketing department trying to tamp it down.
Je Suis Charlie. Pass it on.
Technically, let's just call it the Korean Network (KN) to distinguish it from the nation of North Korea (NK) and move on.
Actually, given the lag time, isn't it almost guaranteed that they *will* have the last laugh? Not in a good way, but technically, yeah, long after others have seen it and laughed.
When I saw it (Egyptian Theater, Hollywood CA, 12/25 5 PM) it was not sold out. The theater looked to be 25% to 35% of capacity.
Spoiler Alert: It was a stupid movie, filled with lots of sophomoric humor. If you saw the trailer, you probably were expecting this movie as the one you would get.
If you saw the trailer, you knew it was going to be a sophomoric bromance pic. The jingoistic fervor that has embraced the marketing campaign is even stupider than the picture, but it had an enormous number of laughs in it, if you went in not expecting a lot of nuance and deep meaningful insight.
If you thought you were striking a blow for truth, justice and the American Way, well, bless your pointed little head.
and think that the market forces lecture was something new and exciting?
"Holy Crap, wait til they hear about this at the office! Maybe we can patent this, call it Invisible Hand (tm) or something."
Wait. Troll? or, jackass? Please try to have some consistency with your ad hominem attacks. Thanks!
Fortunately, half of them are busy looking for the Any key at any given point in time. And they are going to find it, if it kills them.
Why isn't she in Guantanamo Bay? The administration didn't want to interfere with her book tour?
to be posted here? Perhaps it is an example of online mob rule. Chances are, any response here will be along the same lines.
Having went to Catholic school and having to do something during religion class, I keep a vague list of points to ponder from the Bible.
OK, you had me considering a major lifestyle shift until #3, then it all started to go to hell. At 8 and 9, you sunk it. I'm going back to my Agnostic/Norse Gods hybrid belief system. (BTW, I'd recommend "Having gone" over "Having went" but I'm not really an official grammar nazi, so I can't give you the rules for that)
Suicide? Meh...
Not making a repayment to the mob is committing suicide.
As is refusing to be their money laundry. but I totally get that these are all legitimate suicides. Probably says so on the certificate, and everything.
they seem to be ahead of Apple which is still using HFS.
Wouldn't it be nice to set the bar a bit higher? Leapfrog is a kids game, not a business plan.
till one day the kid who keeps getting beet up and having there lunch money stolen takes a weapon to school and uses it on the bully
And, once you've begun, it is apparently difficult to stop, so you move on to "innocent" victims, but you've been to this elementary school every day since preschool, and you know there are no innocents here, just the unindicted! They'll all meet (insert favorite figure from your understanding of your chosen religion here) when you send them there! p.s. beet is a root vegetable. beat is what you do to a rug.
Yes, you understand the physics well. It's the psychology that is killing people.
The Prime Directive clearly states I must not interfere with primitive cultures, like the one I have found here on /.
So, you know that one story, but not the other ones. I promise you, their imaginary friends are as real as yours are.
What are we, animals? 56k is enough bandwidth for anyone. Be nice, or they'll cut you back to 14.4.
Amazing thread. By amazing, I mean the number of you who went off on the race tangent when faced with a nuclear waste issue. Amazing. It's like /. is only read/posted to by ________ , any more.
Superior? You mean "dominant"? Or, did you mean pigmentation that is dark will tend to show through a lighter shade? Or, was the whole reason for your post to show how political correctness is evil?
You offering financing for that bridge? A rebate?
Russian Military Forces Have, For Months Now, Repeatedly and Constantly Invaded Ukraine