Shaving 20% off seems pretty optimistic to me. Unless they've suddenly discovered some whole new realm of compression mathematics I'd be surprised if thats anything more than a peak compression in some rare edge cases.
Sounds more like as a part of re-compression, they are going to drop the bitrate (and video quality?) for videos that don't "need" it:
certain types of video benefit little from the one-size-fits-all compression approach that Netflix has been using until now: "You shouldn't allocate the same amount of bits for My Little Pony as for The Avengers."
Suppose they've done the good old detective work, infiltrated and done what the national security services were expected to do and gotten this result:
"The target for assassination is 89HWE79G and we will do it by planting explosives in *()H(& DJKSDF and beneath ((*BBSEUFU^. We will also target the following: SDF^KJDSDF&Gm, ##()*#&$)L#K, and *^)(()*WERWER, ( and if we have time %QAWERA)."
What if they decrypt the message and all they get is "Code Word "Alpha". Target: "Pink Rabbit". Date: "See Spot Run". You don't need high tech for effective encryption.
We live in a world where our own cars, our own online history, our credit data, all snitch on us
Unless we live in a cave inside a dense jungle somewhere, we no longer have the luxury to live *OUR OWN* lives
Technically the car didn't "snitch" on her -- it sensed she was in an accident and called for help. She gave an inconsistent story to the 911 operator and made her suspicious, but the car didn't report any details about the accident.
I'm really surprised Facebook is so tapped out on growth for social networking that they have to make wild stabs at various other totally unrelated areas of technology.
They have 1.5B active monthly users -- pretty much all of the people that want to use Facebook *are* using Facebook, so they have to look elsewhere to expand.
No, the statement is fair. It is a reference to how long the how-to is, not how long it takes someone who has practiced it. For someone doing it for the first time it might take linger than 90 seconds.
Good thing a prospective thief can buy a few practice locks at the hardware store before he tries it for real.
But everybody needs to realize that locks and keys only keep honest people honest anyway. There is not much you can do to stop somebody from breaking in if they really want to. About all you can hope for is to make it take long enough to break in that they get caught when they try.
Which is the point they are trying to make in the video -- if it only takes 5 seconds for a thief to pop it open, that's not much of a barrier. For bonus points, he can lock it back up when he's done so you'll never know how he got in.
No, the cheaper and more effective solution would be to simply say "well no shit the lock eventually broke if you hit it enough times with a hammer. Even safes can never be completely 100% impenetrable."
but the lock didn't break -- it unlocked, so he can steal your stuff, put the lock back on, and when the security guard checks on it an hour later, he'll confirm that it's still securely locked and you won't know for days or weeks that your stuff was stolen.
Yes, in much the same sense that I don't know whether the Sun came up on the morning of 19th February, 1862.
Still, if you know of a terrorist plot that was foiled by a TSA body scanner...
Theres been some concern that the backscatter X-Ray scanners (which were rushed into service with little testing or oversight, and which are no longer used) caused more radioactive damage to the skin than expected, and possibly exposed workers to higher than expected X-ray doses. But the additional cancer risk was so slight that it could take years to show up. But it's *possible* that some of the machines did lead to premature deaths.
The body scanners worked just fine. They made money for the people who made campaign contributions to the politicians who won and authorized their purchase.
Hey no fair, you took that quote from the article:
McCormick told him the ADE 651 "does exactly what it's designed to. It makes money."
At least they only got ripped off a few tens of millions of dollars with those fake scanners -- the USA got ripped off of $160M for body scanners that don't work
The teacher took it off of him and put it in her desk drawer and carried on with the lesson. If she had thought it was a real bomb, they would have evacuated the school and called the bomb-squad. At no point in this charade did anyone ever think it was an actual bomb.
Correct. And at that point his "my school thinks all Muslims are bomb-carrying terrorists" story collapses.
The school detained him and disciplined him because the kid was misbehaving and was disruptive. Neither bombs nor religion nor ethnicity had anything to do with it.
Being disciplined for an academic transgression requires being arrested and booked by the police?
Um, the majority of nerds I knew growing up had the same exact issue. The only difference is none sued.
They same exact issue? They were questioned for 90 minutes, accused of making a hoax bomb, then taken away in handcuffed to be processed at the police station? Are you *sure* it was the same?
The question is "was it a lawful arrest" We know now that more of the story has come out, he had this suspect looking thing. Some people recognized it for what it was and told him to put it away.
He didn't follow their advice and continue to wonder around the school with it, not obeying other instructions, which could be seen as suspicious. Assuming there was not communication among the staff that knew it was just a stupid clock to those other people, I can see who it would meet a standard of 'reasonable suspicion' to justify an arrest. Would it have happened to someone who isn't brown skinned I don't know, but I am not sure that matters. If it does matter maybe the problem is authorities are not cautious enough about what white people are doing near high impact (I won't say value) targets like schools.
A 9th grader didn't put away a fun toy that he built for himself, and that's "suspicious"? That sounds like pretty normal behavior for a 9th grader, and it'd probably be more suspicious if he immediately hid it away in his locker.
I say give him and his father the $15M in the form of Hellfire missiles from a Predator drone. Or 3.
Money well-spent IMO.
See how fast some other "bright boy" tries that sort of stunt again after *that* sort of "payoff"!
Strat
I don't see how that would help, he'd surely get into trouble again if he tried to bring a Hellfire missile to school, even if he has all of the paperwork for it.
Clock Boy: I was arrested for making something that was designed to look like a bomb. Even though this was made illegal so that the cops wouldn't have to spend all of their time chasing down false alarms, I still want $15 million.
Judge Me: This is pretty much the most frivolous lawsuit that has ever come across my desk. I'm fining you $15 million for filing such a frivolous lawsuit. If you fail to come up with the $15 million in the next 5 minutes, you will be spending all day, every day making little rocks out of big rocks until you do come up with the $15 million. Case dismissed. Have a nice day.
It wasn't designed to "look like a bomb", it was designed to look like a clock a kid modified. It just happened to look like a cartoon or movie bomb, which is nothing at all like what real IED's look like.
This whole story since the day after the incident reads like a script from exactly what the tinfoil hat crowd said would happen. His father is laughing all the way to the bank and laughing at the foolishness of gullible Americans. They not only duped the SJW crowd, but even duped Obama, and they have already cashed in on their successful plan and sounds like they will continue to do so via a lawsuit. Even though there weren't any actual damages, it will be cheaper for the school district to settle, and then raise taxes so that they can afford to keep the school functioning for the other students in the district.
And maybe while they are at it, they'll put policies in place to prevent such an overreaction the next time -- as will school districts across the country.
Without the threat of a lawsuit and large payout there'd be no incentive to this school (or others) to change, they'd continue to overreact to minor things and escalate to the police without reasonable cause.
Maybe the kid doesn't serve such a large payout, but the school deserves to pay it.
It seems a bit... Insane though. 90,000 at a measly $100 a pop (labour, booking etc) = $9m minimum. If they keep that up, they'll eventually eat into the profit so bad they fail. Last I checked, they're not technically profitable as it is without subsidies.
You mean for only $9 million dollars, they can get 90,000 people to voluntarily come into a dealership where they are exposed to marketing collateral and a chance to talk with a sales person. Sounds like a pretty inexpensive marketing campaign.
Science has made many things better for us. Food included.
Yeah, that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil worked out well for us, hasn't it? Don't eat Saturated fat! Instead eat this much healthier trans-fat! Oh wait, we were wrong, turns out that the trans-fat is much worse than the saturated fat. Our bad. But trust us on the rest of the stuff, we probably weren't wrong about that. Like the GMO food, we don't really understand what the body needs, but we're certain that GMO food is exactly what the body needs.
Care to enlighten me as to how one sets jpeg compression to 0%?
Why did such a stupid question get modded up?
It's simple: you open your digital camera's settings menu, find the option to control the JPEG compression level, and set it to 0%.
Jesus, even my shitty old Android phone has a camera app that allows you to do that!
My camera has low-mid-high compression levels. Which one is 0%? Are any of them zero? I don't even see that compression level in my image editor, the closest I have is "quality level: 100",which is not nearly the same as 0% compression.
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Shaving 20% off seems pretty optimistic to me. Unless they've suddenly discovered some whole new realm of compression mathematics I'd be surprised if thats anything more than a peak compression in some rare edge cases.
Sounds more like as a part of re-compression, they are going to drop the bitrate (and video quality?) for videos that don't "need" it:
certain types of video benefit little from the one-size-fits-all compression approach that Netflix has been using until now: "You shouldn't allocate the same amount of bits for My Little Pony as for The Avengers."
Suppose they've done the good old detective work, infiltrated and done what the national security services were expected to do and gotten this result:
"The target for assassination is 89HWE79G and we will do it by planting explosives in *()H(& DJKSDF and beneath ((*BBSEUFU^. We will also target the following: SDF^KJDSDF&Gm, ##()*#&$)L#K, and *^)(()*WERWER, ( and if we have time %QAWERA)."
What if they decrypt the message and all they get is "Code Word "Alpha". Target: "Pink Rabbit". Date: "See Spot Run". You don't need high tech for effective encryption.
We live in a world where our own cars, our own online history, our credit data, all snitch on us
Unless we live in a cave inside a dense jungle somewhere, we no longer have the luxury to live *OUR OWN* lives
Technically the car didn't "snitch" on her -- it sensed she was in an accident and called for help. She gave an inconsistent story to the 911 operator and made her suspicious, but the car didn't report any details about the accident.
I'm really surprised Facebook is so tapped out on growth for social networking that they have to make wild stabs at various other totally unrelated areas of technology.
They have 1.5B active monthly users -- pretty much all of the people that want to use Facebook *are* using Facebook, so they have to look elsewhere to expand.
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
What do you think holding something for ransom is?
Well no, at its core, it's just inadequate security practices by the bank.
No, the statement is fair. It is a reference to how long the how-to is, not how long it takes someone who has practiced it.
For someone doing it for the first time it might take linger than 90 seconds.
Good thing a prospective thief can buy a few practice locks at the hardware store before he tries it for real.
But everybody needs to realize that locks and keys only keep honest people honest anyway. There is not much you can do to stop somebody from breaking in if they really want to. About all you can hope for is to make it take long enough to break in that they get caught when they try.
Which is the point they are trying to make in the video -- if it only takes 5 seconds for a thief to pop it open, that's not much of a barrier. For bonus points, he can lock it back up when he's done so you'll never know how he got in.
Doesn't totally twatting the fuck out of the lock leave the bolt(s) still engaged?
Oh hang on, it's a padlock. Where not only the body of the lock, but the actual bit that links to the door is completely exposed.
Try this one neat trick with an angle grinder!
An angle grinder makes a lot more noise, is harder to keep in a pocket, and prevents you from locking it back up again to hide your tracks.
No, the cheaper and more effective solution would be to simply say "well no shit the lock eventually broke if you hit it enough times with a hammer. Even safes can never be completely 100% impenetrable."
but the lock didn't break -- it unlocked, so he can steal your stuff, put the lock back on, and when the security guard checks on it an hour later, he'll confirm that it's still securely locked and you won't know for days or weeks that your stuff was stolen.
Yes, in much the same sense that I don't know whether the Sun came up on the morning of 19th February, 1862.
Still, if you know of a terrorist plot that was foiled by a TSA body scanner...
Theres been some concern that the backscatter X-Ray scanners (which were rushed into service with little testing or oversight, and which are no longer used) caused more radioactive damage to the skin than expected, and possibly exposed workers to higher than expected X-ray doses. But the additional cancer risk was so slight that it could take years to show up. But it's *possible* that some of the machines did lead to premature deaths.
"She" was a bot, kid.
If modern robots look like that, then I, for one, welcome our hot robotic overlords.
The body scanners worked just fine. They made money for the people who made campaign contributions to the politicians who won and authorized their purchase.
Hey no fair, you took that quote from the article:
McCormick told him the ADE 651 "does exactly what it's designed to. It makes money."
At least they only got ripped off a few tens of millions of dollars with those fake scanners -- the USA got ripped off of $160M for body scanners that don't work
Correct. And at that point his "my school thinks all Muslims are bomb-carrying terrorists" story collapses.
The school detained him and disciplined him because the kid was misbehaving and was disruptive. Neither bombs nor religion nor ethnicity had anything to do with it.
Being disciplined for an academic transgression requires being arrested and booked by the police?
Um, the majority of nerds I knew growing up had the same exact issue. The only difference is none sued.
They same exact issue? They were questioned for 90 minutes, accused of making a hoax bomb, then taken away in handcuffed to be processed at the police station? Are you *sure* it was the same?
The question is "was it a lawful arrest" We know now that more of the story has come out, he had this suspect looking thing. Some people recognized it for what it was and told him to put it away.
He didn't follow their advice and continue to wonder around the school with it, not obeying other instructions, which could be seen as suspicious. Assuming there was not communication among the staff that knew it was just a stupid clock to those other people, I can see who it would meet a standard of 'reasonable suspicion' to justify an arrest. Would it have happened to someone who isn't brown skinned I don't know, but I am not sure that matters. If it does matter maybe the problem is authorities are not cautious enough about what white people are doing near high impact (I won't say value) targets like schools.
A 9th grader didn't put away a fun toy that he built for himself, and that's "suspicious"? That sounds like pretty normal behavior for a 9th grader, and it'd probably be more suspicious if he immediately hid it away in his locker.
I say give him and his father the $15M in the form of Hellfire missiles from a Predator drone. Or 3.
Money well-spent IMO.
See how fast some other "bright boy" tries that sort of stunt again after *that* sort of "payoff"!
Strat
I don't see how that would help, he'd surely get into trouble again if he tried to bring a Hellfire missile to school, even if he has all of the paperwork for it.
Clock Boy: I was arrested for making something that was designed to look like a bomb. Even though this was made illegal so that the cops wouldn't have to spend all of their time chasing down false alarms, I still want $15 million.
Judge Me: This is pretty much the most frivolous lawsuit that has ever come across my desk. I'm fining you $15 million for filing such a frivolous lawsuit. If you fail to come up with the $15 million in the next 5 minutes, you will be spending all day, every day making little rocks out of big rocks until you do come up with the $15 million. Case dismissed. Have a nice day.
It wasn't designed to "look like a bomb", it was designed to look like a clock a kid modified. It just happened to look like a cartoon or movie bomb, which is nothing at all like what real IED's look like.
This whole story since the day after the incident reads like a script from exactly what the tinfoil hat crowd said would happen. His father is laughing all the way to the bank and laughing at the foolishness of gullible Americans. They not only duped the SJW crowd, but even duped Obama, and they have already cashed in on their successful plan and sounds like they will continue to do so via a lawsuit. Even though there weren't any actual damages, it will be cheaper for the school district to settle, and then raise taxes so that they can afford to keep the school functioning for the other students in the district.
And maybe while they are at it, they'll put policies in place to prevent such an overreaction the next time -- as will school districts across the country.
Without the threat of a lawsuit and large payout there'd be no incentive to this school (or others) to change, they'd continue to overreact to minor things and escalate to the police without reasonable cause.
Maybe the kid doesn't serve such a large payout, but the school deserves to pay it.
And for all you amateur and professional Data Scientists, what data would you want to SELECT if you were a Pulitzer-seeking reporter?
SELECT convert_style(story, MY_WRITING_STYLE) FROM all_the_stories WHERE interest_score >= PULITZER_LEVEL;
Though I'd probably put a LIMIT on there so I don't publish too many Pulitzer winning stories at once.
And what are those 90K already-owner-of-a-Tesla people supposed to be buying? An oil change?
Their next car, of course. Maybe their wife needs a Model X, maybe their child needs a Model 3.
It seems a bit... Insane though. 90,000 at a measly $100 a pop (labour, booking etc) = $9m minimum. If they keep that up, they'll eventually eat into the profit so bad they fail. Last I checked, they're not technically profitable as it is without subsidies.
You mean for only $9 million dollars, they can get 90,000 people to voluntarily come into a dealership where they are exposed to marketing collateral and a chance to talk with a sales person. Sounds like a pretty inexpensive marketing campaign.
Is there any information a stingray can collect that the cellular carriers don't also collect?
The stingray just seems like an end-run around getting a court order to subpoena the information from the carriers.
So you aren't a big fan of science, then?
Science has made many things better for us. Food included.
Yeah, that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil worked out well for us, hasn't it? Don't eat Saturated fat! Instead eat this much healthier trans-fat! Oh wait, we were wrong, turns out that the trans-fat is much worse than the saturated fat. Our bad. But trust us on the rest of the stuff, we probably weren't wrong about that. Like the GMO food, we don't really understand what the body needs, but we're certain that GMO food is exactly what the body needs.
Care to enlighten me as to how one sets jpeg compression to 0%?
Why did such a stupid question get modded up?
It's simple: you open your digital camera's settings menu, find the option to control the JPEG compression level, and set it to 0%.
Jesus, even my shitty old Android phone has a camera app that allows you to do that!
My camera has low-mid-high compression levels. Which one is 0%? Are any of them zero? I don't even see that compression level in my image editor, the closest I have is "quality level: 100" ,which is not nearly the same as 0% compression.