I don't know. I guess it depends on the size of the plane and the mind set of the pilots (I'm assuming that they would have hardened cockpit doors and thus would be able to tell you to sit on it and spin).
I do like Bruce Schneier's general response to this, which is to focus on police work and investigation (and thus prevention), rather than ever more invasive protection against each scenario that someone happens to think up.
A truly, perfectly, safe society would be terrible to live in, so to some extent, the answer is to accept that shitty things are going to happen and get on with life.
Probably never. Most people don't care and a lot of people that do care don't take it any further than asking rhetorical questions.
(I'm not even suggesting some wacky revolution like a few fringies here do, I'm suggesting some higher level of civic engagement among people who want to live in a sane society, rather than the yell loudly about possibly scary things society that we have today)
At worst, you might have killed a few passengers and made flying even more inconvenient for everybody else. If you chose your flight poorly, a marshal probably would have subdued you and you would be awaiting trial (I don't really have any sense of how quick they are to shoot...maybe you would be dead).
I don't want to be famous. Though if I were famous, I'd want to be the kind of famous that gets paid millions of dollars for being famous. But I'd prefer the millions without the fame.
I don't know enough about the transmission setups to do much more than speculate, but for stuff like local news, local ads or SD subchannels (that are sourced from HD channels), it is pretty clear that they are doing some encoding. I wouldn't be surprised if a transmitter did not cope gracefully with the input bit stream jumping all over the place (or, if they are encoding everything, with the video resolution changing mid stream), so I'm not surprised that they are letter-boxing everything.
I want a different solution than you, I want them to always give me the choice of scaling the video or not (but the content looks fine on the TV I have). That my decoder box remembers the scaling on a per channel basis probably contributes to this.
Well, I'm presuming that the source would be a country with a rather limited supply of nuclear weapons compared to the U.S. (perhaps just 1 or 2), so the 'limited' response of using conventional weapons to destroy the country would actually be a practical option (whereas it would not have been against the Soviets, and would not be against Russia today, or China).
I guess I am assuming that over the long term, attacking the source government would be much healthier than attacking the people of that country (but I guess it would probably still piss those people off plenty).
I would sort of hope that, if the U.S. traced a nuclear attack to a particular country, the response would be to drop millions of pounds of conventional weapons on them. Don't target civilians, but don't worry about them if they get close to military targets, and so on. Obliterate the infrastructure (controlling infrastructure provides the current government with a measure of power). And so on.
People don't seem to realize that the attacks on Iraq were mostly demonstrations of power, not the full exercise of power.
If so, it'll be the military fighting the military, citizens and their toy guns won't be a major factor (I own a gun and think that's fine, so no one fly off the handle please).
I've always been pretty skeptical of ogg (Vorbis...) actually catching on, and I'm pretty sure I have said so (my two big data points were the mp3s I had and Apple's complete failure to notice it).
I got the common representation of 32 bit signed ints wrong though. Fortunately, statuses 2147483647 (the largest 32 bit signed int) and 2147483648 (which should trigger the overflow) do not exist, so I linked the correct tweet, if only by accident.
If you look at all of nk's tweets ( http://twitter.com/nk ), it becomes apparent that he works at Twitter, and if you work down from...649, it becomes apparent that they fudged it in. That they did it on purpose takes away some of the magic. He also got the representation wrong: http://twitter.com/nk/status/2137112302 so I guess I shouldn't feel bad about it (I mean, I'm the one who doesn't even work as a programmer, let alone on a massively visible public service).
Mine got better. I had good analog signals for NBC and CBS and FOX but poor reception for ABC (basically, between the transmitters that serve my market). The NBC station now broadcasts ABC on a subchannel.
Entertainingly, if those people went out and bought a new flat screen they would see bars on the sides of their new televisions when they tuned to the channels I am talking about.
If I got my way, a button that is on most remotes would be the thing in control of it.
(Looking at your link, it doesn't really support what you are saying, the guy is disappointed that it doesn't fill the screen, not paranoid, and the rest of the comments explain what is going on in a reasonable tone...)
Most digital tuners can crop the 16:9 down to 4:3, and the most common case of what I am talking about is SD programming being broadcast on a second subchannel, a channel that is often going to be received by a set that is 16:9. So the stations could give people with 16:9 sets the full video and everyone else could crop it down (I have a 4:3 set but tend to prefer the bars when the video was shot in 16:9...).
I guess there might be problems finding enough bits, but one station here is broadcasting two 16:9 channels, so I doubt it.
One local station was completely dark for about 8 hours, another delayed the switch until after game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and was off the air for about 2.5 minutes. The third had already switched in February after their analog transmitter blew up (or broke down in some more mundane fashion).
Still some teething problems here, for instance, guides not matching programming, the SAP being fed alongside the main audio programming, and occasional blank screens. Some stations are convinced that they have to broadcast SD in 4:3 (or they think it will help old people, or something, I wish they would use 16:9).
At the moment, vaccinating people in the U.S., Canada and Mexico makes the most sense, the prevalence is highest here (3/4 of all infections that the WHO is tracking...).
Countries like India and China can make their own (and have the resources to work in their regions if they want to).
Or a population of primates that happened to have fingerprints became dominant for some other reason.
It is often the case that an environmental shift makes an existing trait advantageous (that trait may have been meaningless in the previous environment), rather than an advantageous trait arising in a static environment.
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't be surprised if that guy was just a prick.
Possession of a license from one state is generally enough to not take a test in other states.
It is also generally enough to get an international driving permit, something that probably works in your country.
I don't know. I guess it depends on the size of the plane and the mind set of the pilots (I'm assuming that they would have hardened cockpit doors and thus would be able to tell you to sit on it and spin).
I do like Bruce Schneier's general response to this, which is to focus on police work and investigation (and thus prevention), rather than ever more invasive protection against each scenario that someone happens to think up.
A truly, perfectly, safe society would be terrible to live in, so to some extent, the answer is to accept that shitty things are going to happen and get on with life.
Probably never. Most people don't care and a lot of people that do care don't take it any further than asking rhetorical questions.
(I'm not even suggesting some wacky revolution like a few fringies here do, I'm suggesting some higher level of civic engagement among people who want to live in a sane society, rather than the yell loudly about possibly scary things society that we have today)
At worst, you might have killed a few passengers and made flying even more inconvenient for everybody else. If you chose your flight poorly, a marshal probably would have subdued you and you would be awaiting trial (I don't really have any sense of how quick they are to shoot...maybe you would be dead).
I don't want to be famous. Though if I were famous, I'd want to be the kind of famous that gets paid millions of dollars for being famous. But I'd prefer the millions without the fame.
No child should ever be forced to sing a Christmas song. Ever.
VHF generally carries better than UHF. It also requires a larger antenna for fringe reception (almost any antenna should work inside of 30 miles).
So by research, you mean more Jenny McCarthy and less CDC?
I don't know enough about the transmission setups to do much more than speculate, but for stuff like local news, local ads or SD subchannels (that are sourced from HD channels), it is pretty clear that they are doing some encoding. I wouldn't be surprised if a transmitter did not cope gracefully with the input bit stream jumping all over the place (or, if they are encoding everything, with the video resolution changing mid stream), so I'm not surprised that they are letter-boxing everything.
I want a different solution than you, I want them to always give me the choice of scaling the video or not (but the content looks fine on the TV I have). That my decoder box remembers the scaling on a per channel basis probably contributes to this.
Well, I'm presuming that the source would be a country with a rather limited supply of nuclear weapons compared to the U.S. (perhaps just 1 or 2), so the 'limited' response of using conventional weapons to destroy the country would actually be a practical option (whereas it would not have been against the Soviets, and would not be against Russia today, or China).
I guess I am assuming that over the long term, attacking the source government would be much healthier than attacking the people of that country (but I guess it would probably still piss those people off plenty).
I would sort of hope that, if the U.S. traced a nuclear attack to a particular country, the response would be to drop millions of pounds of conventional weapons on them. Don't target civilians, but don't worry about them if they get close to military targets, and so on. Obliterate the infrastructure (controlling infrastructure provides the current government with a measure of power). And so on.
People don't seem to realize that the attacks on Iraq were mostly demonstrations of power, not the full exercise of power.
If so, it'll be the military fighting the military, citizens and their toy guns won't be a major factor (I own a gun and think that's fine, so no one fly off the handle please).
I've always been pretty skeptical of ogg (Vorbis...) actually catching on, and I'm pretty sure I have said so (my two big data points were the mp3s I had and Apple's complete failure to notice it).
I got the common representation of 32 bit signed ints wrong though. Fortunately, statuses 2147483647 (the largest 32 bit signed int) and 2147483648 (which should trigger the overflow) do not exist, so I linked the correct tweet, if only by accident.
If you look at all of nk's tweets ( http://twitter.com/nk ), it becomes apparent that he works at Twitter, and if you work down from ...649, it becomes apparent that they fudged it in. That they did it on purpose takes away some of the magic. He also got the representation wrong: http://twitter.com/nk/status/2137112302 so I guess I shouldn't feel bad about it (I mean, I'm the one who doesn't even work as a programmer, let alone on a massively visible public service).
(The easy way to work down is to use a bookmarklet: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/misc.html#decrement )
Mine got better. I had good analog signals for NBC and CBS and FOX but poor reception for ABC (basically, between the transmitters that serve my market). The NBC station now broadcasts ABC on a subchannel.
Entertainingly, if those people went out and bought a new flat screen they would see bars on the sides of their new televisions when they tuned to the channels I am talking about.
If I got my way, a button that is on most remotes would be the thing in control of it.
(Looking at your link, it doesn't really support what you are saying, the guy is disappointed that it doesn't fill the screen, not paranoid, and the rest of the comments explain what is going on in a reasonable tone...)
Like Smallpox and Polio? And other flu vaccines?
Or are you scare-mongering based on the fact that it was developed differently?
Or maybe shooting for humor?
Most digital tuners can crop the 16:9 down to 4:3, and the most common case of what I am talking about is SD programming being broadcast on a second subchannel, a channel that is often going to be received by a set that is 16:9. So the stations could give people with 16:9 sets the full video and everyone else could crop it down (I have a 4:3 set but tend to prefer the bars when the video was shot in 16:9...).
I guess there might be problems finding enough bits, but one station here is broadcasting two 16:9 channels, so I doubt it.
One local station was completely dark for about 8 hours, another delayed the switch until after game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and was off the air for about 2.5 minutes. The third had already switched in February after their analog transmitter blew up (or broke down in some more mundane fashion).
Still some teething problems here, for instance, guides not matching programming, the SAP being fed alongside the main audio programming, and occasional blank screens. Some stations are convinced that they have to broadcast SD in 4:3 (or they think it will help old people, or something, I wish they would use 16:9).
How do you know what my bias is?
If only you were 15 again, you could visit him in his mother's basement.
Malaria is decreasingly treatable. There are simple steps that can lower the chances of infection though.
At the moment, vaccinating people in the U.S., Canada and Mexico makes the most sense, the prevalence is highest here (3/4 of all infections that the WHO is tracking...).
Countries like India and China can make their own (and have the resources to work in their regions if they want to).
Or a population of primates that happened to have fingerprints became dominant for some other reason.
It is often the case that an environmental shift makes an existing trait advantageous (that trait may have been meaningless in the previous environment), rather than an advantageous trait arising in a static environment.