There's a difference between feeling safe and being safe. They focus on the later, as that is more directly in their power to do, and it's more important anyways.
It doesn't much matter how safe you felt 5 minutes before the rapist came along, does it?
The part of your brain that can recognize that what you are seeing is not really there is at a higher level than those that deal with the effects we are seeing. It's essentially overridden.
Your reptilian brain (you know, the part that deals with violence) doesn't care about such things. It's at a lower level. "Realistic" and "Sorta Realistic" are abstractions beyond it's scope.
So, if I point the gun at an object and shoot it, that object being my target or not is a matter of semantics.
There's a large difference between shooting it in some known direction vs shooting it wildly. Yes, both are not the best of ideas, but you're comparing 'driving recklessly' to 'driving 200mph down the shoulder in rush hour traffic'
I really doubt "hey man, they are on the roof" is going to be very helpful, unless...
Actually, it is.
You then know they are on the roof, so now you know you -must- watch the stairs, where before you were uncertain. That can make all the difference, and get people killed. Another example: Hear a noise upstairs? Well, before you might be alarmed by it, depending on what you think you heard. Well, now they are really paying attention...
You've heard the expression 'loose lips sink ships?' Well, leaking tactical information -during- the operation gets people killed. People doing their job, which is (supposedly) to protect and serve the public.
I agree that making it an outright crime is not a nice thing, but what else can you do!? Clearly you can't expect people to use their brains.
Maybe you missed the part where the guy I'm talking about has allegedly broken into CIA servers. That's specific wording. They are not seeking extradition for a denial of service.
Well with a plane, the speeds involved tend to make parachutes a no-go.
Helicopters, it's the rotation (and the requirement of 'ejecting' the blades).
It's less a matter of direction in both cases - with the first, even if you are going straight down, you're going way too fast. In the second, chute lines would be quickly cut or twisted, doing Bad Things to the chute.
If you read the article, you'll note they had to build the thing out of carbon fiber -and- invent a new type of swivel bearing. 5 foot turbine lengths even with these advancements can only lift about 70kg (interesting combination of units, but that's what the article states)
Have you ever tried to move a server out of it's rack, out of the building, into a vehicle, and then wherever it needs to go...... without the disk curb-stomping it's heads all over the platters?
In a completely wrong power phase, resulting in things shutting down, crashing, or exploding when you try to splice it into a live circuit without a transfer switch...
Lets not forget this would also cause all sorts of hell in the PMM or UPS systems, probably shutting half the damn facility down in the process.
It's not so easy if you need to keep the power in phase, or not backfeed something. It's kind of hard to just magick a transfer switch into a live circuit...
Not to mention that even getting the thing moved 10 feet without disks shitting their pants is a whole other difficulty...
At which you talk to your judicial (appeal) - and if that can't/won't work, the legislature. Congress can pretty much do what they want, if you can convince them to do it! Unfortunately these days that's less about presenting a problem vs presenting a check.
The equipment needs to be kept until guilt or innocence is determined. At that point, any equipment belonging to an innocent needs to be fucking returned.
It's larceny otherwise. Can't understand how they get away with this...
It's not even like I'm saying compensation should be issued! Just an "our bad, here's your stuff!"
Not really. To work (the analogy) they would have to lift and tow away whole sections of traffic at a time, only to return the vehicles (maybe, if you're lucky) weeks or months later.
Why would anyone care about some "certification" from some random website? It's not like it's some real organization who does something that matters (contrast to xhtml/css validation "certifications").
You know what a CNAME is right? An alias basically?
So you set everything up to not require the www, then you put the CNAME in. Provided you're not an idiot and have told the webserver to expect it (if it cares about DNS names for requests), then it doesn't matter at all whether or not the www is present - the only exception being SSL which may or may not care (depending on if you set your subjectAltName correctly etc)
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Not really.
There's a difference between feeling safe and being safe. They focus on the later, as that is more directly in their power to do, and it's more important anyways.
It doesn't much matter how safe you felt 5 minutes before the rapist came along, does it?
It's actually pretty damn simple.
The part of your brain that can recognize that what you are seeing is not really there is at a higher level than those that deal with the effects we are seeing. It's essentially overridden.
Your reptilian brain (you know, the part that deals with violence) doesn't care about such things. It's at a lower level. "Realistic" and "Sorta Realistic" are abstractions beyond it's scope.
Read this paper (or at least skim it) - these are called plenoptic cameras.
It doesn't do any particular voodoo. I suppose you could distill it down to the point where the camera is (in function) a compound eye.
... demonstated to be a working principle.
The paper includes graphics and formulas... a fuck load more detail than the story link given to us...
Well, it's a lot easier to commercialize something we already have...
So, if I point the gun at an object and shoot it, that object being my target or not is a matter of semantics.
There's a large difference between shooting it in some known direction vs shooting it wildly. Yes, both are not the best of ideas, but you're comparing 'driving recklessly' to 'driving 200mph down the shoulder in rush hour traffic'
I really doubt "hey man, they are on the roof" is going to be very helpful, unless...
Actually, it is.
You then know they are on the roof, so now you know you -must- watch the stairs, where before you were uncertain. That can make all the difference, and get people killed. Another example: Hear a noise upstairs? Well, before you might be alarmed by it, depending on what you think you heard. Well, now they are really paying attention...
You've heard the expression 'loose lips sink ships?' Well, leaking tactical information -during- the operation gets people killed. People doing their job, which is (supposedly) to protect and serve the public.
I agree that making it an outright crime is not a nice thing, but what else can you do!? Clearly you can't expect people to use their brains.
You might note the 'co.uk' part on those sites.
Last I checked, Utah was not in the UK.
Shots do not need to be fired at someone to warn them. You can quite clearly hear the report from any direction.
Maybe you missed the part where the guy I'm talking about has allegedly broken into CIA servers. That's specific wording. They are not seeking extradition for a denial of service.
Well with a plane, the speeds involved tend to make parachutes a no-go.
Helicopters, it's the rotation (and the requirement of 'ejecting' the blades).
It's less a matter of direction in both cases - with the first, even if you are going straight down, you're going way too fast. In the second, chute lines would be quickly cut or twisted, doing Bad Things to the chute.
If you read the article, you'll note they had to build the thing out of carbon fiber -and- invent a new type of swivel bearing. 5 foot turbine lengths even with these advancements can only lift about 70kg (interesting combination of units, but that's what the article states)
Yea, because running an IRC server gets you into CIA servers...
Have you ever tried to move a server out of it's rack, out of the building, into a vehicle, and then wherever it needs to go... ... without the disk curb-stomping it's heads all over the platters?
Power is only part of the problem.
In a completely wrong power phase, resulting in things shutting down, crashing, or exploding when you try to splice it into a live circuit without a transfer switch...
Lets not forget this would also cause all sorts of hell in the PMM or UPS systems, probably shutting half the damn facility down in the process.
It's not so easy if you need to keep the power in phase, or not backfeed something. It's kind of hard to just magick a transfer switch into a live circuit...
Not to mention that even getting the thing moved 10 feet without disks shitting their pants is a whole other difficulty...
At which you talk to your judicial (appeal) - and if that can't/won't work, the legislature. Congress can pretty much do what they want, if you can convince them to do it! Unfortunately these days that's less about presenting a problem vs presenting a check.
Which is bullshit.
The equipment needs to be kept until guilt or innocence is determined. At that point, any equipment belonging to an innocent needs to be fucking returned.
It's larceny otherwise. Can't understand how they get away with this...
It's not even like I'm saying compensation should be issued! Just an "our bad, here's your stuff!"
I suppose you could compare this to the FBI "seizing" a whole office park in one grab. It is kind of extreme.
It's bad enough driving downtown to punch a server in the face... I'd rather not have a 10+ hour flight as well.
Not really. To work (the analogy) they would have to lift and tow away whole sections of traffic at a time, only to return the vehicles (maybe, if you're lucky) weeks or months later.
Why would anyone care about some "certification" from some random website? It's not like it's some real organization who does something that matters (contrast to xhtml/css validation "certifications").
You know what a CNAME is right? An alias basically?
So you set everything up to not require the www, then you put the CNAME in. Provided you're not an idiot and have told the webserver to expect it (if it cares about DNS names for requests), then it doesn't matter at all whether or not the www is present - the only exception being SSL which may or may not care (depending on if you set your subjectAltName correctly etc)