You still have to be looking in the direction of the light for it to impact your vision. With a laser there is less chance of you looking in that exact direction than with normal light that comes at wider angles.
This issue doesn't need to be that it reaches the pilot's eye(s), when the beam reaches the window and it "scatters" the beam giving it a bright area through which you can't see.
I don't accept that. Landing strip lights are pretty bright and meant to be usable even if other visability (ie some fog) is poor. Planes also use radar and non visual tools for landing. If glass is clean is usually lets light pass through. That is what it's for. I could imagine conditions where a large spotlight would do what you describe but it seems like it would have to be pretty ideal conditions for the mischief making laser terrorist to succeed.
The current situation is 1) Pilot and copilot see red dot jump momentarily around the cockpit and decide to report the incident, 2) Pilot and copilot agree to overstate the harm done to them in an effort to persuade authorities that this is a "serious problem" 3) The media gets hold of the story and distorts it further, screaming for the death penalty for anyone who owns a laser pointer and lives within 10 miles of an airport. But no one is willing to do the math.
Yeah it's irresponsible to point lasers at airplanes. Call me if ever there's a serious incident that puts an aircraft in danger.
I agree. How does one get "blinded" by a single point light source.
People say you will get blinded looking at the sun or an eclipse. I've done it. If I look for a long time (many seconds) then I get a temporary image of the eclipse stuck on my retina then I can look away and see the image of the eclipse on the ground or something. I don't feel blinded. The effect is very short lived. I'm pretty sure the sun is brighter than most lasers that could be used in this setting. And the sun is a lot larger (not a single point) than lasers would be. When I work on welding I occassionally flash myself at very close range. Of course one avoids this but mistakes happen now and then. It is an impediment. But I can still weld right afterwards if I need to and usually do.
Unless the laser is located on the landing strip then why can't the pilot just not look at it? ! If I am not looking directly in the direction of the laser then how am I blinded!?
It may be stupid and potentially dangerous to point lasers at pilots but I'd wager that the actual threat from this possibility is pretty miniscule. But it does make such a sensational fearmongering story like monsters under the bed WITH LASERS!
I don't understand the legalese but I don't think the heart of libre software is legalese, it is sharing. The legalese is a tool and sometimes it gets out of hand (like copyright did about 200 years ago though it was originally there to protect sharing)
By a very similar logic one could argue that Windoze is more standard than linux therefore is open. i know that argument is very technically flawed but from the perspective of the dumb web user such as myself: the spirit of what you are arguing is the same. And we don't agree. Free beer isn't all of open source but it is part of it. In the real world. Maybe not in a court of IP law.
I agree with you. I think this is more for marketing than science. The old chess contests were closer to actual research projects IMHO. I am not a big Jeopardy follower but I can't see how Jeopardy language gets very complicated since the question/answer format is more automated than human.
are up now. and fast for me in BC. cloud scaling? It may be that they are paying to keep the sites up with extra bandwidth. This actually would impact their bottom line instead of just being a nuisance the way normal DDOS (take down) would be.
They are pirates who steal culture by fencing it off instead of just using it, sharing, evolving. Unlike upright citizens who share. Pirates in the Caribbean were also mostly working for American or European navies but doing so under a different flag for strategic reasons.
Basically this is like saying that we aren't going to enforce so we will hope for more revenue from voluntary payment.
I wish they would build a big parking lot for all the cars to drive/speed enjoy going in circle inside of it. A race track. With a big cement wall around it. All the drivers could live in there and outside the sane people on the busses, trains, walking and biking could enjoy a safer city for once.
What a useless thing to try and do when I have somewhere urgent to get to!
Here's hoping you and all the others making excuses for speeding get to your FINAL destination a little faster. I think it would do us all a lot of good if the evolutionary factor were applied. Of course the problem is cars tend to kill the soft bodies around them first and the cradled bodies in them later. What a wonderful way to travel through life.
All drivers are crappy - the crappiest are those that kill people and say they are safer than "other drivers" - which is basically everyone. Slow drivers are said to be bad. However, the one objective irrefutable law - physics - is very clear that the danger from speeding is exponential.
Actually its more politically expedient to blame individual drivers, drunk drivers, texting drivers etc rather than recognise that the whole endevour is stupid and reckless. if 1/3 of accidents are caused by drunk drivers 2/3 are not. Drinking, texting, being in a hurry, having slow reflexes - normal human qualities - these don't normally kill and trying to get people to stop being normal is futile. The better approach is to remove the loaded gun from peoples' hands.
Cars stored even on private land could easily be classified as toxic waste storage and therefore you get the "shared resource" angle. Cars are a pretty bad example of individual vs. collective rights (or good depending on your perspective). We allow a huge amount more danger to the public from cars than from almost anything else. Cars are seen as an individual liberty, aid to mobility, right to drive etc. There is almost no acknowledgement of the actual public networks that cars run on - gasoline, electrical, roads, sidewalks, public or semi-public insurance, special classification of laws "traffic" to keep the deaths less, total ownership of right of way etc etc.
Not true. A 1 Watt FM transmitter does not have a large range unless you think a couple blocks is large. Maybe if you tune it up, have a really pro antenna, know what you are doing... I used a 1W transmitter for a bike ride and could get a range of a block or 2 depending on line of sight. I'm sure I had it inefficiently setup, the quality was low and unreliable and it was a primative machine. I would never transmit on the same frequency as an existing station because they would always overpower my signal and the range would be even less.
It may be that there is so much more noise and radio pollution nowadays? I've heard that stations in Winnipeg used to be able to broadcast across Canada using 40kW Whereas nowaday many commercial stations are half or full megawatts.
I was also told at the workshop where I built my cheap transmitter that up to 1W is legal, over 10W is illegal, 2-9 (in between) is a grey area. They had been busted for their 2 watt transmitter but only because they were doing from atop an art gallery and were interviewed on TV dressed up as pirates. And even then the repurcussion was basically just telling them to stop.
I don't know why your experience is so different than mine. Maybe you live in a place with less interference going on (Vancouver is a big but not huge city) or are comparing effects to those long ago when radio was new... or you use super good equipment? Or line of sight/bouncing off the atmosphere? I've also used a 100mW kit in my house and it was pretty spotty in range - the cordless phone would go further.
I actually think that the individualistic perspective of our species is ridiculous: We are linguistic animals and without that culture we could neither think nor do many of the other quintessentially human activities. Hence, language evolution is integrally part of our species evolution. IMHO.
actually I did because the snippet was so short and I too caught that.
leet speak could be said to be used for programming good passwords but other than that?
Some people do use actual programming code, I have got the "Leet Key" firefox plugin. But that stuff is pretty obscure not going to make it into the OED except maybe the maybe the term 1337 itself? Actually, come to think of that, how are they going to alphabetise that? Before A or with LE?
I agree. I thought this was going to be an article about something new instead of just throwing in the word lithography into a tired old argument.
I bought an SSD after by HDD overheated and died in my netbook. I bought it on ebay because I was trying to be stingy. Turns out it wasn't a good choice. It runs pretty darn hot and doesn't reduce power consumption that much. It is not appreciably faster. The worst part is it isn't universally well known which is important with linux. I often get Grub Boot error or other system freezes for no apparent reason. Also it can be really slow for some write heavy applications. Overall I wouldn't do it again. The only good aspect is that at only 32GB by collection of downloaded nonsense can't get too big or out of control so I don't have to worry about backups as much because it isn't so big... and I get more work done with less movies on there to watch.
What I really want is a cooling mechanism for a normal HDD that sits inside the case (not a bulky laptop pad). I really don't think it is acceptable that the disk burns up under normal usage on a hot day. Things are just packed too tight and I have yet to find any after market add-on I can use to keep the temperature reasonable. I always have fans in my desktop because I know temperature is inversely proportional with HDD lifespan and I don't enjoy disk failures.
SSD was a real dissappointment for me. I was willing to trade storage capacity for the supposed benefits of cooler, less power, quicker, less likely to fail. But the disk I bought doesn't seem to deliver on any of those fronts in any signifigant way and the reliability is indeed less: with a spinning disk I know the typical problems and solutions and ways to make the most of it. With the SSD I have no idea why the system periodically freezes, or if it is trustworthy given the whole weirdness about having SSD specific filesystem requirements that I can't decide which method would be a wise so I stick with EXT4 and hope things work out.
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Is it just me or is "consuming entertainment" not your idea of living a meaningful single lifespan, too?
You still have to be looking in the direction of the light for it to impact your vision. With a laser there is less chance of you looking in that exact direction than with normal light that comes at wider angles.
The bigger the area, the quadratically lower the brightness, am I right?
But you also have to multiply the irrational paranoia: LASER TERRORISM!
This issue doesn't need to be that it reaches the pilot's eye(s), when the beam reaches the window and it "scatters" the beam giving it a bright area through which you can't see.
I don't accept that. Landing strip lights are pretty bright and meant to be usable even if other visability (ie some fog) is poor. Planes also use radar and non visual tools for landing. If glass is clean is usually lets light pass through. That is what it's for. I could imagine conditions where a large spotlight would do what you describe but it seems like it would have to be pretty ideal conditions for the mischief making laser terrorist to succeed.
The current situation is 1) Pilot and copilot see red dot jump momentarily around the cockpit and decide to report the incident, 2) Pilot and copilot agree to overstate the harm done to them in an effort to persuade authorities that this is a "serious problem" 3) The media gets hold of the story and distorts it further, screaming for the death penalty for anyone who owns a laser pointer and lives within 10 miles of an airport. But no one is willing to do the math.
Yeah it's irresponsible to point lasers at airplanes. Call me if ever there's a serious incident that puts an aircraft in danger.
I agree. How does one get "blinded" by a single point light source.
People say you will get blinded looking at the sun or an eclipse. I've done it. If I look for a long time (many seconds) then I get a temporary image of the eclipse stuck on my retina then I can look away and see the image of the eclipse on the ground or something. I don't feel blinded. The effect is very short lived. I'm pretty sure the sun is brighter than most lasers that could be used in this setting. And the sun is a lot larger (not a single point) than lasers would be. When I work on welding I occassionally flash myself at very close range. Of course one avoids this but mistakes happen now and then. It is an impediment. But I can still weld right afterwards if I need to and usually do.
Unless the laser is located on the landing strip then why can't the pilot just not look at it? ! If I am not looking directly in the direction of the laser then how am I blinded!?
It may be stupid and potentially dangerous to point lasers at pilots but I'd wager that the actual threat from this possibility is pretty miniscule. But it does make such a sensational fearmongering story like monsters under the bed WITH LASERS!
Patent != open
I don't understand the legalese but I don't think the heart of libre software is legalese, it is sharing. The legalese is a tool and sometimes it gets out of hand (like copyright did about 200 years ago though it was originally there to protect sharing)
By a very similar logic one could argue that Windoze is more standard than linux therefore is open. i know that argument is very technically flawed but from the perspective of the dumb web user such as myself: the spirit of what you are arguing is the same. And we don't agree. Free beer isn't all of open source but it is part of it. In the real world. Maybe not in a court of IP law.
I agree with you. I think this is more for marketing than science. The old chess contests were closer to actual research projects IMHO. I am not a big Jeopardy follower but I can't see how Jeopardy language gets very complicated since the question/answer format is more automated than human.
And the streetlight turned off when I walked under it...
I AM THE ANTI-INTERNET!
First!
http://www.aiplex.com/registration.html
http://www.mpaa.org/search/policy
are up now. and fast for me in BC. cloud scaling? It may be that they are paying to keep the sites up with extra bandwidth. This actually would impact their bottom line instead of just being a nuisance the way normal DDOS (take down) would be.
I thought it was intense.
They are pirates who steal culture by fencing it off instead of just using it, sharing, evolving. Unlike upright citizens who share. Pirates in the Caribbean were also mostly working for American or European navies but doing so under a different flag for strategic reasons.
HA! Only the real Dad's get this one.
Basically this is like saying that we aren't going to enforce so we will hope for more revenue from voluntary payment.
I wish they would build a big parking lot for all the cars to drive/speed enjoy going in circle inside of it. A race track. With a big cement wall around it. All the drivers could live in there and outside the sane people on the busses, trains, walking and biking could enjoy a safer city for once.
"Save the children"
What a useless thing to try and do when I have somewhere urgent to get to!
Here's hoping you and all the others making excuses for speeding get to your FINAL destination a little faster. I think it would do us all a lot of good if the evolutionary factor were applied. Of course the problem is cars tend to kill the soft bodies around them first and the cradled bodies in them later. What a wonderful way to travel through life.
All drivers are crappy - the crappiest are those that kill people and say they are safer than "other drivers" - which is basically everyone. Slow drivers are said to be bad. However, the one objective irrefutable law - physics - is very clear that the danger from speeding is exponential.
Actually its more politically expedient to blame individual drivers, drunk drivers, texting drivers etc rather than recognise that the whole endevour is stupid and reckless. if 1/3 of accidents are caused by drunk drivers 2/3 are not. Drinking, texting, being in a hurry, having slow reflexes - normal human qualities - these don't normally kill and trying to get people to stop being normal is futile. The better approach is to remove the loaded gun from peoples' hands.
Cars stored even on private land could easily be classified as toxic waste storage and therefore you get the "shared resource" angle. Cars are a pretty bad example of individual vs. collective rights (or good depending on your perspective). We allow a huge amount more danger to the public from cars than from almost anything else. Cars are seen as an individual liberty, aid to mobility, right to drive etc. There is almost no acknowledgement of the actual public networks that cars run on - gasoline, electrical, roads, sidewalks, public or semi-public insurance, special classification of laws "traffic" to keep the deaths less, total ownership of right of way etc etc.
Not true. A 1 Watt FM transmitter does not have a large range unless you think a couple blocks is large. Maybe if you tune it up, have a really pro antenna, know what you are doing... I used a 1W transmitter for a bike ride and could get a range of a block or 2 depending on line of sight. I'm sure I had it inefficiently setup, the quality was low and unreliable and it was a primative machine. I would never transmit on the same frequency as an existing station because they would always overpower my signal and the range would be even less.
It may be that there is so much more noise and radio pollution nowadays? I've heard that stations in Winnipeg used to be able to broadcast across Canada using 40kW Whereas nowaday many commercial stations are half or full megawatts.
I was also told at the workshop where I built my cheap transmitter that up to 1W is legal, over 10W is illegal, 2-9 (in between) is a grey area. They had been busted for their 2 watt transmitter but only because they were doing from atop an art gallery and were interviewed on TV dressed up as pirates. And even then the repurcussion was basically just telling them to stop.
I don't know why your experience is so different than mine. Maybe you live in a place with less interference going on (Vancouver is a big but not huge city) or are comparing effects to those long ago when radio was new... or you use super good equipment? Or line of sight/bouncing off the atmosphere? I've also used a 100mW kit in my house and it was pretty spotty in range - the cordless phone would go further.
what about new use of characters like ~ @ / which were pretty rare before... or now # is used differently.
Also_the_practice_of_replacing-spaces-with-something.else.instead.of.a.space.
Information Superhighway! Netizens!
I actually think that the individualistic perspective of our species is ridiculous: We are linguistic animals and without that culture we could neither think nor do many of the other quintessentially human activities. Hence, language evolution is integrally part of our species evolution. IMHO.
PS nice Hindenberg sig there.I actually met the owner of the White Dwarf in 2002: http://airshipworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/white-dwarf-pedal-powered-personal.html
actually I did because the snippet was so short and I too caught that.
leet speak could be said to be used for programming good passwords but other than that?
Some people do use actual programming code, I have got the "Leet Key" firefox plugin. But that stuff is pretty obscure not going to make it into the OED except maybe the maybe the term 1337 itself? Actually, come to think of that, how are they going to alphabetise that? Before A or with LE?
I agree. I thought this was going to be an article about something new instead of just throwing in the word lithography into a tired old argument.
I bought an SSD after by HDD overheated and died in my netbook. I bought it on ebay because I was trying to be stingy. Turns out it wasn't a good choice. It runs pretty darn hot and doesn't reduce power consumption that much. It is not appreciably faster. The worst part is it isn't universally well known which is important with linux. I often get Grub Boot error or other system freezes for no apparent reason. Also it can be really slow for some write heavy applications. Overall I wouldn't do it again. The only good aspect is that at only 32GB by collection of downloaded nonsense can't get too big or out of control so I don't have to worry about backups as much because it isn't so big... and I get more work done with less movies on there to watch.
What I really want is a cooling mechanism for a normal HDD that sits inside the case (not a bulky laptop pad). I really don't think it is acceptable that the disk burns up under normal usage on a hot day. Things are just packed too tight and I have yet to find any after market add-on I can use to keep the temperature reasonable. I always have fans in my desktop because I know temperature is inversely proportional with HDD lifespan and I don't enjoy disk failures.
SSD was a real dissappointment for me. I was willing to trade storage capacity for the supposed benefits of cooler, less power, quicker, less likely to fail. But the disk I bought doesn't seem to deliver on any of those fronts in any signifigant way and the reliability is indeed less: with a spinning disk I know the typical problems and solutions and ways to make the most of it. With the SSD I have no idea why the system periodically freezes, or if it is trustworthy given the whole weirdness about having SSD specific filesystem requirements that I can't decide which method would be a wise so I stick with EXT4 and hope things work out.
yes, they are kidding you, the numbers are nonsense.
Ignorance is the theme and rallying cry of the anti-sharing crowd.