The playstation is known as the PSX because that was what it was originally going to be called. Its name was changed to the playstation more than a year after it was originally announced. I would agree that three letter/number abbreviations are fairly standard though. Hell, in Diablo II that's the requirement for guild names. If Blizzard's enforcing it, it's gotta be good. ^^ Hopefully it will just stay as mpg. Honestly though I wasn't aware that this was new; I believe this codec has been available for some time. I could be wrong though.
There have been some suggestions on how to remove the view of the body from these scanners. For several reasons, I doubt this would work.
First of all, there is the size issue. Some people have larger bodily parts, be they bellies, legs, or genitals. The scanner would have to dynamically adjust to these, which would be difficult.
One possible solution would be to cut out anything with a skin "texture," as skin apparently returns different information than metal (as seen by it's white color in the pictures, as opposed to the gun's and knife's black). However, this leads to two problems.
No two people have the same type of skin. You would have to check for a range of textures, and even then a person with a rash, bad acne, or scarring from burns would likely not be included.
Weapons could be concealed under patches of fake (or real) skin. If someone is sincerely trying to bomb a plane, this is not the most extreme thing they would do to avoid being caught. If you stop reading once you hit skin, you might miss these things.
The final problem I see with this model is that small illegitimate items, such as drugs or plastic explosives, could probably be smuggled more easily in certain places on the outer body, such as between the penis and scrotum, or in the vaginal opening. Preventing the ability to use these outer-body cavities obviously wouldn't stop drug importation, what with condoms and balloons full of cocaine regularly ingested for that purpose, but there is no need to make the task any easier either.
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The playstation is known as the PSX because that was what it was originally going to be called. Its name was changed to the playstation more than a year after it was originally announced. I would agree that three letter/number abbreviations are fairly standard though. Hell, in Diablo II that's the requirement for guild names. If Blizzard's enforcing it, it's gotta be good. ^^ Hopefully it will just stay as mpg. Honestly though I wasn't aware that this was new; I believe this codec has been available for some time. I could be wrong though.
There have been some suggestions on how to remove the view of the body from these scanners. For several reasons, I doubt this would work.
First of all, there is the size issue. Some people have larger bodily parts, be they bellies, legs, or genitals. The scanner would have to dynamically adjust to these, which would be difficult.
One possible solution would be to cut out anything with a skin "texture," as skin apparently returns different information than metal (as seen by it's white color in the pictures, as opposed to the gun's and knife's black). However, this leads to two problems.
The final problem I see with this model is that small illegitimate items, such as drugs or plastic explosives, could probably be smuggled more easily in certain places on the outer body, such as between the penis and scrotum, or in the vaginal opening. Preventing the ability to use these outer-body cavities obviously wouldn't stop drug importation, what with condoms and balloons full of cocaine regularly ingested for that purpose, but there is no need to make the task any easier either.