I'm assuming that the developers have no plan for that. Either because they view it as somebody else's problem, or because they just don't care.
The "U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases" isn't exactly the Peace Corps. They probably wouldn't object if the UN or some NGO wanted to buy a bunch of doses for people where hemorrhagic fevers are endemic; this sure isn't being announced like it is some sort of national secret; but I assume that their interest in doing the research is in addressing the contingency of having a 1st world, especially American, population center with the stuff by malice or accident and high speed air travel.
Even there, unless we are planning to stock a lot of doses, it would almost certainly be used to preserve military readiness and civilians deemed to be important. I doubt the PR people would really like to talk about it; but it isn't exactly a gigantic secret that some people would be closer to the top of the list than others in an emergency.
I'd be less concerned about strict cost cutting measures(the board is already height constraints, so I'm sure that headers and DIPs are out; but test lands never killed anybody with steady hands and I'm not at all sure that PROMs are much ahead of NAND Flash for bulk storage/$, also, particularly for short runs, being able to stock one driver board, programmable on demand, albeit quite possibly through a ghastly little custom connector/bed of nails arrangement is very handy).
My concern would more be that, recognizing the fact that sponsors will be Less Than Happy if their messages are being cut out and sold on ebay for reflashing, rather than viewed, the company would take some fairly simple; but quite difficult to break without die-level hacking, cryptographic measures.
For instance, if I were their engineer, I'd probably design the driver board as follows: Custom(or customized) ASIC with LCD driver, USB, hardware video decoder, flash interface, and something to support a few buttons. Package or blob, depending on bulk. Flash would be your basic NAND, as seen in USB drives everywhere, from whoever is cheapest. 4 flat test points, breaking out the USB interface, would allow the device to be programmed and charged.
However, to program the device, you would connect it to a computer, where it would present as a simple USB MSC device. You would load the videos you want, and a simple text file defining button functions and playlist order. Each video, and the definitions file, would be cryptographically signed. The ASIC would simply ignore any unsigned files.
Unless I fucked it up, you'd have to decap the ASIC and modify the silicon, which would be wildly uneconomic, to get it to play your own stuff, yet it would all be totally standard, off-the-shelf, type hardware. Boom.
Also, TFA says that, since this is more of a subscription magazine than a newsstand thing, they could target the ad based on the size of the subscriber's farm. Going to the trouble of doing that suggests that these things are not inexpensive; but that Bayer will probably be getting a pretty decent chunk of whatever it is that advertising efficacy is measured in...
The technology in use is Americhip's "Video in print". They are a touch light on technical detail; but it appears to be a full color LCD screen, most likely made possible by the economies of scale of the cellphone world, along with a driver board of some kind(unlike say, the fixed-segment, e-ink display that Esquire ran 100,000 of, which was pretty easy to control; but nearly worthless because it was fixed-segment and not even usefully so like the old LCD/LED alphanumeric displays).
I'd assume that, for the relatively short runs they are doing, the included videos aren't stored in mask ROMS or PROMs, and that the driver is some comparatively sane fixed-function-video-decoder-plus-LCD-driver-and-enough-GPIO-for-a-few-buttons thing. Whether the whole thing kindly has labeled holes for the insertion of a JTAG header, or even a logic-level "rs-232" interface easily available, or whether it is some cryptographic lockdown horror is another question, though...
All theoretical ethical stuff aside, it will be interesting to see if a case like this will go forward in a US court.
US telcomms, whose NSA collaboration almost certainly exposed at least a few people to extralegal detention and torture, were specifically granted immunity for any collaboration that might have occurred.
While I don't doubt that we'd like another chance to stick it to Iran, and emphasize their repressive-theocratic-hellhole characteristics, I can't imagine the US being too enthusiastic about a precedent that makes corporate collaboration with a surveillance state legally problematic....
Trust an expert. Spores can easily survive descent through a planetary atmosphere. Particularly if they bear the puny meat objects on that planet no ill will, and would never infest their tasty brains, whose moral rights they have the utmost respect for.
Given that most corporate stances toward(or against) OSS tend to be about the old adage "commodify your complements", I would assume that MS is largely similar. Linux is a more or less unmitigated evil; because it provides a relatively easy migration path onto cheap x86 or A64 boxes for legacy unix guys, and the cheapest commodity web-serving platform, as well as doing pretty well cutting into WinCE's marketshare. On the other hand, if people want to run Drupal or something on IIS and Windows server, why would they complain?(unless its to upsell them to sharepoint).
In point of fact, MS makes available a tool for automatically installing all of the following 3rd party webapps, largely OSS stuff, on Windows server/IIS. Commodify your complements...
The survival capabilities of various earthly extremophiles are, indeed, extremely impressive. Particularly the ones resistant to extreme dessication, the evolutionary changes for which often happen to confer substantial radiation resistance.
The trouble, though, is that for this to be useful to us, they need to do more than survive(if survival were an issue, we could just put them inside the spaceship, not outside), we need them to be capable of metabolism and reproduction in extreme environments. You can transport in a climate controlled spaceship, and grow in a biodome; but if your tardigrades or bacteria just shrivel up and go into stasis when you put them outside they aren't going to get much done.
There are a fair number of organisms that basically shrivel up into an invincible spore, resistant to just about everything, when life starts to suck. If you put them outside on mars, they'd probably be just fine a century later if taken in and re-hydrated. It's just that they would have done basically nothing during that time...
My understanding is that ambulance services, being "medical" rather than police or fire, fall into the weird realm where no real market exists, in a useful sense; but there is strong unwillingness to face that fact.
There are, in fact, numerous different ambulance services, some public, some private; but the people calling them are rarely in a position to chose one in any useful sense. And, being an emergency service, they don't get to pick and choose customers(at least not by legal methods. I would be shocked, shocked, to discover that ambulances are based in a demographically predictable pattern, and that the guys driving them for not that much an hour respond faster to neighborhoods where the odds of being shot are low...).
Because of this, there isn't really a useful "price" for ambulance service. If you use it, you get a gigantic bill ($2k on the low end); but many of those simply go unpaid, rattle around collections for pennies on the dollar, get negotiated under some sort of hardship plan, or get paid by insurance at some shadowy-but-not-literally-secret rate agreed upon between the insurer and the provider.
People can get pretty dirty during tragic automobile accidents... Never mind the sort of dust and crud you tend to pick up falling down a couple of flights of stairs...
I'm a bit out of my depth here, so I'm asking...
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While I can definitely see the value of non-fragmentation for Java, which is why something like Microsoft's "mostly java + some MS stuff" pissed them off back in the day; it is my understanding that Sun themselves had several variants of java for different environments, with Java Card on the low end, for SIM-level embedded environments, up to Java EE. I am told that these are not entirely identical, nor is something like the Java ME on different phone models entirely similar between devices.
To what degree is Android basically a "Java, Smartphone Edition", produced by Google because Sun never got around to producing something other than Java ME for phones vs. being a "Java + proprietary bits" in the MS java mold?
I wasn't actually making a comparative artistic judgement at all, just noting that "The Canon of Serious Culture" has been evolving for approximately as long as it existed.
At the time Shakespeare was writing, he was basically a commercial hacking ripping off such classical plots as seemed bloody enough to fill the house(and thus his theatre company's stomachs), adding some sex jokes, and running the play until he came up with something else. The only college students "studying" Shakespeare would have been the rowdy ones hanging out on the wrong side of the river with the theatres, the bear-pits, and the whores.
Because, as it happens, Shakespeare was so much better than his peers among the commercial hacks it is hardly even fair(Elizabethan revenge tragedies, for instance, are typically utter dreck) he has earned a place among Real Serious Literature.
My point was just that the canon of stuff considered worth studying changes all the time(even if you don't hang out with the too-cool-for-dead-white-guys culture critic types) and that the idea of adding a video game to the curriculum is really no more radical than adding a popular play, which has happened repeatedly(even the hardcore classicists who were sneering at Shakespeare were probably reading Aristophanes, who had higher cultural value pretty much because his fart jokes were in classical greek...)
"In addition to ye Greeke and Latin Classics and learned tomes of divinity and medicine, freshmen shall this year encounter Hamlet the work of a vulgar modern playwrite..."
I'm assuming that, just as people with really worthless eyesight(and a doctor's note to that effect) aren't generally expected to read without accommodation, the gaming-challenged, er "gaming-differently-abled" will be able to use god-mode, or write essays based on videos of runs through, or something of that sort.
It would be perfectly acceptable if the trend were just confined to the if-this-thing-goes-more-than-an-inch-thick-steve-will-kill-my-children Apple laptop segment....
Trouble is, though, that Apple's habit of shipping seriously tepid graphics hardware extends even to their iMacs(which may be thin; but are pretty big. The thermal engineers can suck it up.) and Mac Pros(workstation class towers bristling with fans in a blow-through configuration, this should be cake).
Unlike the Wintel guys, Apple does have the advantage of(at present) refusing to ship any intel integrated something "GPU"s; but they top out alarmingly low, for machines of their price. And, since EFI and traditional BIOS still have lingering togetherness issues, even the $3k+ Mac Pro crowd can't just go out and drop a screaming gamer's(or workstation) card in there until either Apple or Nvidia/ATI get around to blessing one, which generally takes about a generation. Everyone below them can't really make any changes at all.
By comparison, the state of "casual" Wintel graphics is truly dire, consisting of whatever Intel is willing to puke out or(if you are lucky) a bottom of the barrel ATI chipset from a generation or two ago shoved into an AMD chipset; but it is downright trivial to buy your way into serious graphics performance, if you care.
I'm not sure that banning Windows by name would be of too much use. A quick trip down the router aisle at any computer store will show you more degenerate abuses of embedded linux and VXworks than you care to think about, and I'm told that things don't get better nearly as fast as you would hope as prices rise in other industry segments.
Anyone, though, using Windows in an environment where it could trivially be infected(ie. internet connected or contractors doing flash drive upgrades) really needs to be shown the door, yesterday. I'm also not sure why there would be "a" computer responsible for raising the alarm. Commodity x86 gear is pretty reliable for what you pay; but it isn't that reliable. If the safety of one or more 100 million+ aircraft, and everybody on board, is at stake, why are there not multiple systems, all independently capable of raising the alarm?
I know that with really lousy HDMI cables(especially over long runs) you can end up with a sort of "sparkly snow" which is pretty dramatic; but you really have to be slumming it for that to happen.
Do you know, does S/PDIF have anything like the error mitigation used in CDs, where uncorrectable errors are papered over by interpolating nearby data? It isn't real error correction; but it is designed to(and often actually does) make what would otherwise be a scratch-induced glitch that would blow the listener out of their seat into a simple loss of detail in that area.
Umm... Which is why SATA implements CRC32 and has a variety of mechanisms for the host and the device to detect errors, complain about them, and request retries? And why even old-school ATA devices were doing partial CRC checks and would generally knock themselves down to lower speed modes if there were issues with the transmission medium?
Obviously, there is no room for error that actually corrupts data(and isn't extremely rare); but that isn't achieved by having the buck-fifty worth of lowest bidder parts connecting the HDD to the controller be perfect. It is achieved by having them be capable of covering up a variety of common errors, at the cost of a little bit of link speed.
The one(probably irrelevant in this case) caveat is that every digital transmission scheme has a bitrate, and possibly one or more error correction mechanisms. Signal degradation so severe that it overwhelms the error correction mechanisms is always a severe issue, requiring either less crap channels or better error correction mechanisms.
In the case of things like audio and video, even situations that don't overwhelm the error correction can be a problem because they reduce the capacity of the channel below that required to transmit the signal in what the human listener/watcher percieves as "real time".
If you are dealing with, say, a torrent of a video, any channel that isn't so awful that you run into the (statistically enormously improbable) issue of having SHA-1 hash collisions introduce invalid chunks before the download is finished will get the file to you in perfect condition. Sooner or later. If you are watching that video, the channel between your computer and your monitor has to get the entire frame, intact, to the monitor however many times a second. If the cable is such crap that it can't do that, you'll notice.
"8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.
When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
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Interesting. I'll have to see if I can find one. I would have expected stronger measures.
I'm assuming that the developers have no plan for that. Either because they view it as somebody else's problem, or because they just don't care.
The "U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases" isn't exactly the Peace Corps. They probably wouldn't object if the UN or some NGO wanted to buy a bunch of doses for people where hemorrhagic fevers are endemic; this sure isn't being announced like it is some sort of national secret; but I assume that their interest in doing the research is in addressing the contingency of having a 1st world, especially American, population center with the stuff by malice or accident and high speed air travel.
Even there, unless we are planning to stock a lot of doses, it would almost certainly be used to preserve military readiness and civilians deemed to be important. I doubt the PR people would really like to talk about it; but it isn't exactly a gigantic secret that some people would be closer to the top of the list than others in an emergency.
I'd be less concerned about strict cost cutting measures(the board is already height constraints, so I'm sure that headers and DIPs are out; but test lands never killed anybody with steady hands and I'm not at all sure that PROMs are much ahead of NAND Flash for bulk storage/$, also, particularly for short runs, being able to stock one driver board, programmable on demand, albeit quite possibly through a ghastly little custom connector/bed of nails arrangement is very handy).
My concern would more be that, recognizing the fact that sponsors will be Less Than Happy if their messages are being cut out and sold on ebay for reflashing, rather than viewed, the company would take some fairly simple; but quite difficult to break without die-level hacking, cryptographic measures.
For instance, if I were their engineer, I'd probably design the driver board as follows: Custom(or customized) ASIC with LCD driver, USB, hardware video decoder, flash interface, and something to support a few buttons. Package or blob, depending on bulk. Flash would be your basic NAND, as seen in USB drives everywhere, from whoever is cheapest. 4 flat test points, breaking out the USB interface, would allow the device to be programmed and charged.
However, to program the device, you would connect it to a computer, where it would present as a simple USB MSC device. You would load the videos you want, and a simple text file defining button functions and playlist order. Each video, and the definitions file, would be cryptographically signed. The ASIC would simply ignore any unsigned files.
Unless I fucked it up, you'd have to decap the ASIC and modify the silicon, which would be wildly uneconomic, to get it to play your own stuff, yet it would all be totally standard, off-the-shelf, type hardware. Boom.
Also, TFA says that, since this is more of a subscription magazine than a newsstand thing, they could target the ad based on the size of the subscriber's farm. Going to the trouble of doing that suggests that these things are not inexpensive; but that Bayer will probably be getting a pretty decent chunk of whatever it is that advertising efficacy is measured in...
The technology in use is Americhip's "Video in print". They are a touch light on technical detail; but it appears to be a full color LCD screen, most likely made possible by the economies of scale of the cellphone world, along with a driver board of some kind(unlike say, the fixed-segment, e-ink display that Esquire ran 100,000 of, which was pretty easy to control; but nearly worthless because it was fixed-segment and not even usefully so like the old LCD/LED alphanumeric displays).
I'd assume that, for the relatively short runs they are doing, the included videos aren't stored in mask ROMS or PROMs, and that the driver is some comparatively sane fixed-function-video-decoder-plus-LCD-driver-and-enough-GPIO-for-a-few-buttons thing. Whether the whole thing kindly has labeled holes for the insertion of a JTAG header, or even a logic-level "rs-232" interface easily available, or whether it is some cryptographic lockdown horror is another question, though...
All theoretical ethical stuff aside, it will be interesting to see if a case like this will go forward in a US court.
US telcomms, whose NSA collaboration almost certainly exposed at least a few people to extralegal detention and torture, were specifically granted immunity for any collaboration that might have occurred.
While I don't doubt that we'd like another chance to stick it to Iran, and emphasize their repressive-theocratic-hellhole characteristics, I can't imagine the US being too enthusiastic about a precedent that makes corporate collaboration with a surveillance state legally problematic....
Trust an expert. Spores can easily survive descent through a planetary atmosphere. Particularly if they bear the puny meat objects on that planet no ill will, and would never infest their tasty brains, whose moral rights they have the utmost respect for.
Given that most corporate stances toward(or against) OSS tend to be about the old adage "commodify your complements", I would assume that MS is largely similar. Linux is a more or less unmitigated evil; because it provides a relatively easy migration path onto cheap x86 or A64 boxes for legacy unix guys, and the cheapest commodity web-serving platform, as well as doing pretty well cutting into WinCE's marketshare. On the other hand, if people want to run Drupal or something on IIS and Windows server, why would they complain?(unless its to upsell them to sharepoint).
In point of fact, MS makes available a tool for automatically installing all of the following 3rd party webapps, largely OSS stuff, on Windows server/IIS. Commodify your complements...
Depends on how large you are, how dense, and how aerodynamic.
For something large, fairly dense, and aerodynamic, re-entry is seriously hazardous. Going out in a blaze of glory is a distinct possibility.
For some weedy little spore, terminal velocity is probably slower than a light breeze, and things like brownian motion start to be serious factors.
The survival capabilities of various earthly extremophiles are, indeed, extremely impressive. Particularly the ones resistant to extreme dessication, the evolutionary changes for which often happen to confer substantial radiation resistance.
The trouble, though, is that for this to be useful to us, they need to do more than survive(if survival were an issue, we could just put them inside the spaceship, not outside), we need them to be capable of metabolism and reproduction in extreme environments. You can transport in a climate controlled spaceship, and grow in a biodome; but if your tardigrades or bacteria just shrivel up and go into stasis when you put them outside they aren't going to get much done.
There are a fair number of organisms that basically shrivel up into an invincible spore, resistant to just about everything, when life starts to suck. If you put them outside on mars, they'd probably be just fine a century later if taken in and re-hydrated. It's just that they would have done basically nothing during that time...
My understanding is that ambulance services, being "medical" rather than police or fire, fall into the weird realm where no real market exists, in a useful sense; but there is strong unwillingness to face that fact.
There are, in fact, numerous different ambulance services, some public, some private; but the people calling them are rarely in a position to chose one in any useful sense. And, being an emergency service, they don't get to pick and choose customers(at least not by legal methods. I would be shocked, shocked, to discover that ambulances are based in a demographically predictable pattern, and that the guys driving them for not that much an hour respond faster to neighborhoods where the odds of being shot are low...).
Because of this, there isn't really a useful "price" for ambulance service. If you use it, you get a gigantic bill ($2k on the low end); but many of those simply go unpaid, rattle around collections for pennies on the dollar, get negotiated under some sort of hardship plan, or get paid by insurance at some shadowy-but-not-literally-secret rate agreed upon between the insurer and the provider.
It looks like somebody may have violated the time-honored "never embarrass overconfident idiots, however tempting it is" rule...
People can get pretty dirty during tragic automobile accidents... Never mind the sort of dust and crud you tend to pick up falling down a couple of flights of stairs...
While I can definitely see the value of non-fragmentation for Java, which is why something like Microsoft's "mostly java + some MS stuff" pissed them off back in the day; it is my understanding that Sun themselves had several variants of java for different environments, with Java Card on the low end, for SIM-level embedded environments, up to Java EE. I am told that these are not entirely identical, nor is something like the Java ME on different phone models entirely similar between devices.
To what degree is Android basically a "Java, Smartphone Edition", produced by Google because Sun never got around to producing something other than Java ME for phones vs. being a "Java + proprietary bits" in the MS java mold?
I wasn't actually making a comparative artistic judgement at all, just noting that "The Canon of Serious Culture" has been evolving for approximately as long as it existed.
At the time Shakespeare was writing, he was basically a commercial hacking ripping off such classical plots as seemed bloody enough to fill the house(and thus his theatre company's stomachs), adding some sex jokes, and running the play until he came up with something else. The only college students "studying" Shakespeare would have been the rowdy ones hanging out on the wrong side of the river with the theatres, the bear-pits, and the whores.
Because, as it happens, Shakespeare was so much better than his peers among the commercial hacks it is hardly even fair(Elizabethan revenge tragedies, for instance, are typically utter dreck) he has earned a place among Real Serious Literature.
My point was just that the canon of stuff considered worth studying changes all the time(even if you don't hang out with the too-cool-for-dead-white-guys culture critic types) and that the idea of adding a video game to the curriculum is really no more radical than adding a popular play, which has happened repeatedly(even the hardcore classicists who were sneering at Shakespeare were probably reading Aristophanes, who had higher cultural value pretty much because his fart jokes were in classical greek...)
If your work was written in the vernacular and had sex jokes, it was vulgar in at least two ways...
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"In addition to ye Greeke and Latin Classics and learned tomes of divinity and medicine, freshmen shall this year encounter Hamlet the work of a vulgar modern playwrite..."
I'm assuming that, just as people with really worthless eyesight(and a doctor's note to that effect) aren't generally expected to read without accommodation, the gaming-challenged, er "gaming-differently-abled" will be able to use god-mode, or write essays based on videos of runs through, or something of that sort.
It would be perfectly acceptable if the trend were just confined to the if-this-thing-goes-more-than-an-inch-thick-steve-will-kill-my-children Apple laptop segment....
Trouble is, though, that Apple's habit of shipping seriously tepid graphics hardware extends even to their iMacs(which may be thin; but are pretty big. The thermal engineers can suck it up.) and Mac Pros(workstation class towers bristling with fans in a blow-through configuration, this should be cake).
Unlike the Wintel guys, Apple does have the advantage of(at present) refusing to ship any intel integrated something "GPU"s; but they top out alarmingly low, for machines of their price. And, since EFI and traditional BIOS still have lingering togetherness issues, even the $3k+ Mac Pro crowd can't just go out and drop a screaming gamer's(or workstation) card in there until either Apple or Nvidia/ATI get around to blessing one, which generally takes about a generation. Everyone below them can't really make any changes at all.
By comparison, the state of "casual" Wintel graphics is truly dire, consisting of whatever Intel is willing to puke out or(if you are lucky) a bottom of the barrel ATI chipset from a generation or two ago shoved into an AMD chipset; but it is downright trivial to buy your way into serious graphics performance, if you care.
I'm not sure that banning Windows by name would be of too much use. A quick trip down the router aisle at any computer store will show you more degenerate abuses of embedded linux and VXworks than you care to think about, and I'm told that things don't get better nearly as fast as you would hope as prices rise in other industry segments.
Anyone, though, using Windows in an environment where it could trivially be infected(ie. internet connected or contractors doing flash drive upgrades) really needs to be shown the door, yesterday. I'm also not sure why there would be "a" computer responsible for raising the alarm. Commodity x86 gear is pretty reliable for what you pay; but it isn't that reliable. If the safety of one or more 100 million+ aircraft, and everybody on board, is at stake, why are there not multiple systems, all independently capable of raising the alarm?
Holy Safety-critical system running Windows and apparently not adequately air-gapped, batman!
I know that with really lousy HDMI cables(especially over long runs) you can end up with a sort of "sparkly snow" which is pretty dramatic; but you really have to be slumming it for that to happen.
Do you know, does S/PDIF have anything like the error mitigation used in CDs, where uncorrectable errors are papered over by interpolating nearby data? It isn't real error correction; but it is designed to(and often actually does) make what would otherwise be a scratch-induced glitch that would blow the listener out of their seat into a simple loss of detail in that area.
Umm... Which is why SATA implements CRC32 and has a variety of mechanisms for the host and the device to detect errors, complain about them, and request retries? And why even old-school ATA devices were doing partial CRC checks and would generally knock themselves down to lower speed modes if there were issues with the transmission medium?
Obviously, there is no room for error that actually corrupts data(and isn't extremely rare); but that isn't achieved by having the buck-fifty worth of lowest bidder parts connecting the HDD to the controller be perfect. It is achieved by having them be capable of covering up a variety of common errors, at the cost of a little bit of link speed.
The one(probably irrelevant in this case) caveat is that every digital transmission scheme has a bitrate, and possibly one or more error correction mechanisms. Signal degradation so severe that it overwhelms the error correction mechanisms is always a severe issue, requiring either less crap channels or better error correction mechanisms.
In the case of things like audio and video, even situations that don't overwhelm the error correction can be a problem because they reduce the capacity of the channel below that required to transmit the signal in what the human listener/watcher percieves as "real time".
If you are dealing with, say, a torrent of a video, any channel that isn't so awful that you run into the (statistically enormously improbable) issue of having SHA-1 hash collisions introduce invalid chunks before the download is finished will get the file to you in perfect condition. Sooner or later. If you are watching that video, the channel between your computer and your monitor has to get the entire frame, intact, to the monitor however many times a second. If the cable is such crap that it can't do that, you'll notice.
"8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.
When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."