Erdogan did not run as a dictator. During his initial rise to power he was actually a very moderate politician. He called for EU membership for Turkey, and under his direction the country did enter negotiations with the aim of getting that membership. He pushed major labor reforms too, giving employees substantially greater protections than ever before in the country and introducing non-discrimination law. He changed later on, slowly, over the course of the 2000s at 2010s, depending increasingly upon tighter control of the media and repression of opposition to stay in power and growing steadily more conservative and Islamist in his social policies.
Seems overcomplicated. A NK nuclear deterrent doesn't need to reach the US, just any US ally. South Korea is easiest. Japan would do. Besides, they wanted to get a nuke the US, the easiest way might well be to stick it in a shipping container and bribe/threaten someone to smuggle it onto a shop exporting goods from a South Korean port to somewhere in the US.
China is sensible. They plan long-term. They wouldn't want to sully their reputation by supporting NK in a war that could only end one way. They'd be more concerned with controlling the aftermath: Making sure that most of NK ends up under de facto Chinese control, rather than as a puppet-state of the US or being slowly reabsorbed into the US-allied south. I imagine this would be best achieved by largely sitting out the fighting, then launching a massive humanitarian aid and reconstruction program. China can afford it, is reduces the amount of refugees fleeing into China, and it ingratiates them to the newly-liberated population.
North Korea has an understandable desire for nukes as a deterrent. They fear, and for good reason, that some future US president will decide he wants to 'spread freedom and democracy' and launch an invasion. It's happened before, it may happen again. The problem we have is the apparent unpredictability of North Korea: Their government frequently displays intense hostility towards just about the entire world and minor outbreaks of hostility are commonplace between them and South Korea. Between that and having almost all power centralised in the hands of just a handful of people, it raises the uncomfortable prospect that a nuclear-armed North Korea might just be one bad day away from believing their own propaganda and launching a preemptive strike.
Really really tiny, short-range subs. Drug smuggling subs do exist, but they usually don't even have an air compartment - the 'driver' just wears SCUBA. The only watertight parts are the cargo hold (got to keep the drugs dry) and the battery compartment.
The "wild west" was always moving. Westwards. Frontier never stays as frontier - after a while towns would get bigger, sheriffs would get access to more resources, and it would no longer be possible for an outlaw to shoot a few people in the middle of town then ride out again in safety. The internet, too, is always moving - the havens of copyright infringement get closed down, and occasionally a whole distribution system may get wiped out, but there is always somewhere new they can go. Bulletin boards gave way to usenet binaries, gave way to FTP dumps, gave way to websites, gave way to the first crude p2p file sharing in Napster, gave way to the fully- or partially-distributed services that followed.
There seems to be an expectation in America that people are supposed to get beaten up, raped and occasionally murdered in prison. That's part of the prison experience, and anything less would be like sending criminals on a taxpayer-funded vacation to Disneyland.
I think it might just be political. The commission was established by Democrats, under Obama. Trump, as a Republican, is almost obliged to tear down anything that Democrats were responsible for.
At least the guy who was shot in the face gets to go to a good hospital and doesn't have to worry about crawling back out again before the medical bills rack up.
There are a couple of open-source minecraft clones. They would certainly grow more mature if there was more demand. But minecraft is a community now as much as it is a game.
There are still a good few mucks around. Furrymuck, SPR, Alfandria. I don't know if Latitude is still going - last I heard it was down to the last handful of regulars desperately trying to keep a community running.
The standard freedom argument: If people want to do something incredibly stupid and hazardous to their own health, that's their decision.
It doesn't work very well for cigarettes though, as the rest of society eventually ends up footing the bill for their lung cancer, either through taxes or higher insurance premiums.
I'm guessing they will be using some form of perceptual hashing, along the lines of phash. I've used it myself for identifying images in a large collection, so I am able to answer your questions:
Resolution: No. The first thing most perceptual hashes do is convert all images to a fixed size for comparison anyway. Filters: Depends upon the filter. Compression: No. You'd have to compress it until it looked like a Tetris game before the hash was fooled. Add elements: Depends how much is covered. But, the one you missed: Offsetting the photo within a larger image: Yes, for phash. Other perceptual hash algorithms may be better able to handle this, but phash does not.
If Samsung had offered that, how many users would have bothered to bring their phones in? Samsung envisioned exactly what would happen if they used a voluntary recall:
"We think your phone is unsafe." "No, works fine." "Really, this is important." "Look, it works. I need it." "Please, bring it in! It could explode at any moment!" "It's just a phone, and it has all my contacts on, and things I purchased, and it's the only way work can reach me at all hours." "Please, please let us replace it?" "Maybe later I'll... oh. My phone just burned down my house, and killed my three-year-old daughter. I'm going to tell all the media you are child-killers, then sue you for millions."
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Erdogan did not run as a dictator. During his initial rise to power he was actually a very moderate politician. He called for EU membership for Turkey, and under his direction the country did enter negotiations with the aim of getting that membership. He pushed major labor reforms too, giving employees substantially greater protections than ever before in the country and introducing non-discrimination law. He changed later on, slowly, over the course of the 2000s at 2010s, depending increasingly upon tighter control of the media and repression of opposition to stay in power and growing steadily more conservative and Islamist in his social policies.
Seems overcomplicated. A NK nuclear deterrent doesn't need to reach the US, just any US ally. South Korea is easiest. Japan would do. Besides, they wanted to get a nuke the US, the easiest way might well be to stick it in a shipping container and bribe/threaten someone to smuggle it onto a shop exporting goods from a South Korean port to somewhere in the US.
China is sensible. They plan long-term. They wouldn't want to sully their reputation by supporting NK in a war that could only end one way. They'd be more concerned with controlling the aftermath: Making sure that most of NK ends up under de facto Chinese control, rather than as a puppet-state of the US or being slowly reabsorbed into the US-allied south. I imagine this would be best achieved by largely sitting out the fighting, then launching a massive humanitarian aid and reconstruction program. China can afford it, is reduces the amount of refugees fleeing into China, and it ingratiates them to the newly-liberated population.
It's perfectly good for attack if you know in advance that you'll only be aiming for one target.
North Korea has an understandable desire for nukes as a deterrent. They fear, and for good reason, that some future US president will decide he wants to 'spread freedom and democracy' and launch an invasion. It's happened before, it may happen again. The problem we have is the apparent unpredictability of North Korea: Their government frequently displays intense hostility towards just about the entire world and minor outbreaks of hostility are commonplace between them and South Korea. Between that and having almost all power centralised in the hands of just a handful of people, it raises the uncomfortable prospect that a nuclear-armed North Korea might just be one bad day away from believing their own propaganda and launching a preemptive strike.
Really really tiny, short-range subs. Drug smuggling subs do exist, but they usually don't even have an air compartment - the 'driver' just wears SCUBA. The only watertight parts are the cargo hold (got to keep the drugs dry) and the battery compartment.
In ten more years people will be saying the same about JSON.
The "wild west" was always moving. Westwards. Frontier never stays as frontier - after a while towns would get bigger, sheriffs would get access to more resources, and it would no longer be possible for an outlaw to shoot a few people in the middle of town then ride out again in safety. The internet, too, is always moving - the havens of copyright infringement get closed down, and occasionally a whole distribution system may get wiped out, but there is always somewhere new they can go. Bulletin boards gave way to usenet binaries, gave way to FTP dumps, gave way to websites, gave way to the first crude p2p file sharing in Napster, gave way to the fully- or partially-distributed services that followed.
They are doing some sort of magic with exotic materials that concentrate water vapor in the air prior to the condensation.
It would be a boring world if people could not enjoy some socially-unaccepted hobbies in private without fearing for their employment.
There seems to be an expectation in America that people are supposed to get beaten up, raped and occasionally murdered in prison. That's part of the prison experience, and anything less would be like sending criminals on a taxpayer-funded vacation to Disneyland.
I think it might just be political. The commission was established by Democrats, under Obama. Trump, as a Republican, is almost obliged to tear down anything that Democrats were responsible for.
At least the guy who was shot in the face gets to go to a good hospital and doesn't have to worry about crawling back out again before the medical bills rack up.
Perhaps having a world-leading economy should also mean you don't need to spend as high a proportion on the military?
There are a couple of open-source minecraft clones. They would certainly grow more mature if there was more demand. But minecraft is a community now as much as it is a game.
There are still a good few mucks around. Furrymuck, SPR, Alfandria. I don't know if Latitude is still going - last I heard it was down to the last handful of regulars desperately trying to keep a community running.
The standard freedom argument: If people want to do something incredibly stupid and hazardous to their own health, that's their decision.
It doesn't work very well for cigarettes though, as the rest of society eventually ends up footing the bill for their lung cancer, either through taxes or higher insurance premiums.
I'm guessing they will be using some form of perceptual hashing, along the lines of phash. I've used it myself for identifying images in a large collection, so I am able to answer your questions:
Resolution: No. The first thing most perceptual hashes do is convert all images to a fixed size for comparison anyway.
Filters: Depends upon the filter.
Compression: No. You'd have to compress it until it looked like a Tetris game before the hash was fooled.
Add elements: Depends how much is covered.
But, the one you missed:
Offsetting the photo within a larger image: Yes, for phash. Other perceptual hash algorithms may be better able to handle this, but phash does not.
You won't be disappointed by bioshock. They really are good games. One and Infinite anyway, I've not played Two so can't say on that.
If Samsung had offered that, how many users would have bothered to bring their phones in? Samsung envisioned exactly what would happen if they used a voluntary recall:
"We think your phone is unsafe."
"No, works fine."
"Really, this is important."
"Look, it works. I need it."
"Please, bring it in! It could explode at any moment!"
"It's just a phone, and it has all my contacts on, and things I purchased, and it's the only way work can reach me at all hours."
"Please, please let us replace it?"
"Maybe later I'll... oh. My phone just burned down my house, and killed my three-year-old daughter. I'm going to tell all the media you are child-killers, then sue you for millions."
You want to see bad writing? Look at the displays in a school. The ones written by the teachers.
There are some places on the internet where fluid quantities are denoted by the -age suffix. The basket would be full of foodage.
Some of us were birds before it was cool.
You missed a reason. A rather less noble reason, but still a real one.
[4] To satisfy the people's sense of justice by letting them see suffering inflicted upon those regarded as deserving suffering.