Better put that IANAL in the beginning when you make claims like that. IANAL, but...
You have a patent infringement case even if substantial part of one of your claims is being infringed on. Whatever is substantial is left up to the courts but certainly if the device does something substantial and something else described in the same clause the fact that it does something else is not going to stop any legal procedings.
Then again judges might have come to their senses by know.. not!
I haven't found anything that can touch wavelab, but it runs on windows, though.
The real killer is the audio montage section where you can arrange clips(non destructively) in unlimited tracks and adjust things like volume and effects on track or clip basis. Crossfading, etc. is a snap. Ton of effects that can be run real-time or not.. the montage section is a lot like broadcast2000..
Can do speed changes with constant pitch and vice versa, connects to your favourite sampler and does mp3 decoding/encoding too..
Also an added plus is an integrated cd burning software. Which means that you can do a montage of clips, set cd-markers(track changes) and burn a cd without gaps between tracks..
I thought that the american black athletic superiority came from pretty much the fact that when slave traders robbed the people from africa they would tend to pick the big and healthy ones.
To survive a month on the boat (and believe me, only the strongest did) in cramped quarters and diseases further improved the selection. There was no real need to further breed the slaves as they are all very strong already. It might have happened, though, I don't know.
So in the end only the best of the best made it to usa and formed the basis of american black people. This pretty much explains why american black(big and muscular) are good with short distance running and current africans(they also have the skinny ones) dominate long distance.
Nope! x86 architecture has exactly one address space. If you're talking about putting that geforce of yours into ppc or alpha then the address spaces might be physically different(not sure).
In x86, however, everything resides in one address space and you can access everything by it's address directly(highly unportable). That Geforce is going to get its 32mb(probably more) slice somewhere in the common space.
Yes.. I've written a driver for a videocard before..
For a linux side of the things look at address translation explanation by linus here. Specifically the part about pci-memory and the exception for x86.
Yeah.. uh.. in normal pc's you only got one address space also.
And whatabout that pc I built for my sister that has an integrated video driver on motherboard and uses system ram (to your specifications) for video memory..
And whatabout nvidia's upcoming athlon chipset?
Uh.. wait.. Isn't xbox already based on it..
For anything more complicated than plain vga(etc) you're going to need specific drivers that interface with the o/s that then provides an api for developers to use. As long as someone can duplicate that api(which is going to be different than win32) everything is going to (more or less) work. It doesn't matter if memory is shared or not(heck, agp specs let you use system memory)..
Uh.. who seriously would have their private e-mail read out loud in a bus?
"As your accountant I need to inform you that..",
"Here is your divorce settlement proposal..",
"This is your doctor. Test results came in. You have..",
etc..
In comparison some x-rated junk mail might actually make some poor fellows day..
That is really just a minor problem. True, the actual framebuffer portion that displays your desktop is not going to have anything but a black/blue/purple/whatevercolor box but still all modern videocards have over 16megs of ram and some of that is going to be used for video overlay buffer.
Before I continue I should say that I programmed most of the v4l-drivers of voodoo 3500 tv so I do know what I'm talking about.
Registers in that videocard are going to point exactly to where that buffer is located and accessing it is no different than just mapping that portion into your address space and copying the data from there. There's going to be a lot of data but technically it is possible. And, this way you'll actually get the clean data instead of something that has already been stretched/filtered/de-interlaced/etc by your graphics card..
To summarize.. If you can see it, it resides somewhere in memory. If you can hear it, it resides somewhere in memory. It might not stay in one place for very long but definetly long enough for someone with intermediate hw-programming skills to capture.
Out of curiosity.. How much does the human body depend on the presence of atmospheric pressure. I mean there is a lot of pressure constantly compressing you and what happens when you take this factor out. Something out of total recall, etc?
That was meant more as a proof that this technology is definetly capable of producing a rather large amount of power but using a human may not be reasonable since when we talk about getting 100s of watts the heat source is a radioactive material instead of a plain old human.. You can't really take a traditional nuclear reactor into space anyways since setting one up in a small satellite is not a good idea..
So there is no way to write a wrapper for a native aqua ui that would have the same interface as the original ui-code?
I'll admit that I have no idea of the design of mozilla and don't really care how it looks on mac but just for the sake of an argument from a software design point of view..
Oh.. I do agree that having a stable base and functionality is a lot more important than silly eye-candy..
It uses it's own widget library, right? And they were already somehow emulating aqua-look?
Why not just replace the emulation with native calls. I mean how about..
#ifdef __MACOSX_WITH_AQUA__
..code..
#else
..code..
#endif
..in the widget library. Of course those smart mozilla developers can probably come up with something more elegant but certainly something like this shouldn't be more than minor obstacle..
And they do have a point about pure Aqua experience which is more than just pretty looks. It would certainly be confusing to have an application that looks like it conforms to the normal aqua guidelines and behaviour but then acts differently.
Also, it would be quite a burden for mozilla developers to emulate everything instead of just letting the system ui-library take care of all the nasty details.
This would just make mozilla even better on macintosh and if for some reason there isn't enough interest in making a native aqua implementation you can always use the boring standard look..
So where's the problem. Apple is just protecting their brand. Just like you can't call any old cola a coca cola..
I haven't really watched cnn in a week or so(more than 10sec or so) but from the earlier news I seem to recall that 2-3 of these persons were being watched by fbi not as identified terrorists but as someone who might be worth watching.
Tickets were paid by credit card and one way tickets are quite common in usa especially with travelling salesmen etc..
And would you really want to compromise an fbi watch list due to an insider in an airline. Maybe if the names were submitted to fbi prior and they would either acknowledge or deny and take their own appropriate measures, but most likely no other way..
What kind of information do you give out when you buy a ticket? I've never given anything but my name and passport number to my travel agent. The bill has never been in my name or anything resembling my name(it is a complicated arrangement) and the ticket always been sent electronically to the airport. As a matter of fact the only thing the airline knows about me is my name, passport number and the name of my travel agency before I go check-in 2 hours before departure.
In the other hand once you check-in they do scan your passport and will get information such as ssn and dob etc.. However, I do think that they really have no use for information other than your dob and passport number(and nationality) and might not even record things like ssn..
You say nothing could have prevented this but you have to remember that the security at u.s. airports for domestic flights was ridiculous. Basically you checked in with some kind of a picture id which might not even had your ssn and after that walked into the plane.
No security checks(aside random ones) or x-rays. It was like taking a bus. Your identity was not even checked at the gate, which really shocked me the first time I flew with a us domestic carrier. Some airports might have different security measures but this was flying from philly.
They had this coming with the ridiculous security measures. Heck, even with metallic knives(box-cutters are metallic, aren't they?) they would have made it all the way to the plane without much trouble.
Only know are they upgrading the security measures on domestic flights to match and exceed those of international flights. Most likely they will go overboard and do some israeli kind of thing but for damn close to all the international flights the security measures have been more than adequate and u.s. domestic flights should just match those. This alone would have greatly reduced the risk and severly complicated the possibility of this recent incident.
Yes, but do you know which file? Criminal file or, say, INS-file?
Everyone applying for a Visa to usa has to provide a couple of photos and these will be kept by the embassies. In addition to this these pictures will not be used for the actual visa but rather a computer copy..
That means that they get put into the ins network of computers. The reason authorities had those good quality pictures out is that they can pull up a picture of anyone with a visa to usa from at least the past 10 years in a couple of minutes..
There is no way that even a quarter of these people were identified as people with a probablity of unacceptable conduct thus having a face recognition system would have not done you any good. Most likely in this case those people would have just been denied a visa to usa.
Nope, these were "regular" people with no prior criminal records. Only after going through the passenger records of the said flights and comparing those names with ins databanks or maybe calling up the governments that provided their passports did they get those pictures matched with the names that were then matched with a criminal activity..
Maybe your not quite preceptive enough to understand that they meant blind belief on whatever you're being told. It is 1984, you're told, so it is 1984. 2+2=5 you're told so it equals 5...
Point is that we're being told without much proof that Osama Bin Laden masterminded the tragedy in east coast but yet I have not seen a single even slightly believable piece of evidence confirming so.. yet we're fairly close to a full scale war..
We're being told that being able to encrypt is bad but yet I have not seen a single piece of concrete evidence that it was due to the lack of decryption capabilites that the tragedy took place..
We're being told that we need a universal id card but yet I have not been told how this would have prevented any of this..
We're being stripped of our individual freedoms and right to privacy but yet how this would actually help us protect against tragedys such as nyc and dc I do not know. Just the sheer volume of data and people are too great and simple identity theft often accomplishes more...
Oh.. Just the traffic accidents in u.s. alone in 1999 killed over 40 000 people.. In comparison with the death toll of roughly 6000 people due to the recedent tragedy it seems that improving traffic safety in the u.s. would result in a positive life count even with an occasional terrorist attack. And the likelyhood of a traffic accident is much greater than being killed in a terrorist attack anyway.. Yet a lot more money is being spent on combatting terrorism for very little possible gain...
This may sound terribly naive but forget about emotions and think about facts. Yes, terrorism is bad and needs to be prevented but other immediate steps would result in less human tragedy.. It's just that terrorism makes headlines and thus combatting it is much more popular than for instance improving traffic safety..
Terrorist attacks happen constantly against people around the world. London is a prime target, so is moscow, tel aviv, different african cities and who knows what happens in asia with extremists capturing quite a few tourists every now and then and holding them for ransom. It took an american nation with a "universal" boss Mr. Bush Jr. to "lead the world" in a war against terrorism.. Yet american casualties are rather small in the overall picture and I severly question Mr. Bush's leading capabilites.. So far he's mostly been riding on the (american) public opinions justification and let us not forget that he spent most (all?) of the time during attacks hiding somewhere in a secure bunker while innocent americans were being killed..
Somehow it seems that Mr. Bush Jr. is mostly out to satisfy the american public's need for culprit to be punished. However, he has taken a rather moderate approach and didn't blindly attack afghanistan but I'd still like to have pretty conclusive proof of Afghani involvement before justifying his actions.
Just for the record.. I live on the east coast and will fly out of u.s. next week. I'm not afraid of a) living here b) flying out of here c) returning back in two weeks c) spending time abroad.. Acting any other way is just stupid..
Information about being able to decrypt gps, military communications or maybe atm/visa-card pin-numbers is a lot more valuable when you do not disclose that capability! Who knows what capabilities exist but have not been disclosed. Who could imagine for instance something like tempest..
As an example... If someone was able to figure out a way to discover a visa cards pin number from the magnetic strip they certainly would not rush online to publish this information. Blackmail comes to my mind first..
However, you do have a point. Devising a way to assume control of these flying drones midair is practically impossible without inside information or capture and extensive reverse engineering..
btw. By having a transmitter at a fixed known location and using this information in conjunction with the gps signal you will be able to figure out your location extremely specifically. And didn't they recently release the more detailed gps signal to public use anyway..
Ah.. But my point with 700mb was that it fits on a cd. Resolution in question is the full dvd-resolution with black borders cut off.. If you're willing to halve the resolution the filesize will probably roughly be halved too(need better quality for those fewer pixels)..
Actually the latest DivX;-) implementation is totally their own and it's quality rocks.
You can encode a 90min action dvd into 700mb with sound(160kb mp3) and afterwards watch it on a computer without almost any loss in perceptable picture quality(interestingly sound suffers almost more).
Downside is that 2-pass variable bitrate encoding for 90min movie takes roughly 13 hours on a 900mhz athlon and setting it up is not exactly trivial..
Sorry to say this, but... Your perception is clearly blurred by the recent events.
How many of the last 50 hijackings have ended in a suicide mission accomplished by the hijacker?
I would have to say roughly 4. Unless the hijackers are clearly prepared to die and have no other intentions than mass destruction of notable targets the chances of resolving the crisis in a manner that results in the least amount of loss of life are great. You follow their demands to a reasonable extent and perhaps land the plane and refuel etc.. Special forces come in and zap the hijackers and end of story..
Suppose you didn't comply and the hijackers killed few passengers. Would you want to live with that if the other (very likely) option would have been a peaceful resolution? And wouldn't that require all of the airline passengers to agree that their life is expendable upon hijacking and that the airline is released of all responsibility? I doubt that that will ever happen..
Out of all the hijackings in my recent memory (aside last 4) there has been a happy ending and most of the people survived. 90% of the time people performing these stunts are complete amatuers put in a desperate situation. A lot of times these people don't even harm anyone. It seems that only the extreme islamic militant groups are the ones that might be inclined to perform activites such as last weeks.
It is more than likely that there will be new security regulations in airline industry and that possibly these will involve pilots willingness to co-operate with hijackers(which has previously been 100% co-operation to prevent any unnecessary loss of life). However, out of recent memory it is certainly assertable that most hijackings have a peacefull ending and that changing the current way of dealing with hijackings will likely result in less secure flying enviroment(from passengers point of view). Changing the current code of conduct should be done with extreme caution and fully informing the passengers.
p.s. I personally take roughly a dozen intercontinental flights a year. Next one in two weeks(unless us airports close again, I'm flying from east coast).
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It propably means the velocity of the the picks around circle. Wouldn't want a sharp object hitting you at 71 mph. Tells you a lot more than just rpms since rpms don't give the slightest idea of impact velocity, just the turning speed of motor which might have a short or a long spinning arm attached to it..
My understanding is that all credit cards have this feature! It is just up to the shopkeeper to have equipment to validate your card with the pin.
I have a european credit card but currently live in the states. If I want to take a cash advance (which i do a lot) from any atm machine I have to punch in my credit cards pin number. In some places in Europe I can use this same pin number to authorize my card at a shop. In USA I cannot. Most places in scandinavia, however, do require my signature since they do not have pin verification equipment. I've always thought of the pin number as a standard feature on any visa card and my primary use for it has been taking a cash advance from an american atm..
The point of this was that if american atms offer cash advances from a credit card the only way to authorize this is the pin number. That means that american credit cards that can do cash advances from atms(all?) could also be verified at a shop with the same pin number. However, since none of the shops offer pin-verification, and it has not been made a federal law to exclusively require this, hopes of getting such a system as in france in use (remember, usa still primarily relies on checks - with signature) are about the same as me winning last nights 280mil powerball..
p.s. out of the three pb-tickets I bought not a single one had a single correct number.. there should be a price for that since the odds are against it..
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It's been tried.. not very easy.. Might be okay if you like lots of straps, though.
Better put that IANAL in the beginning when you make claims like that. IANAL, but...
You have a patent infringement case even if substantial part of one of your claims is being infringed on. Whatever is substantial is left up to the courts but certainly if the device does something substantial and something else described in the same clause the fact that it does something else is not going to stop any legal procedings.
Then again judges might have come to their senses by know.. not!
I haven't found anything that can touch wavelab, but it runs on windows, though.
The real killer is the audio montage section where you can arrange clips(non destructively) in unlimited tracks and adjust things like volume and effects on track or clip basis. Crossfading, etc. is a snap. Ton of effects that can be run real-time or not.. the montage section is a lot like broadcast2000..
Can do speed changes with constant pitch and vice versa, connects to your favourite sampler and does mp3 decoding/encoding too..
Also an added plus is an integrated cd burning software. Which means that you can do a montage of clips, set cd-markers(track changes) and burn a cd without gaps between tracks..
Check it out at steinberg.net
I thought that the american black athletic superiority came from pretty much the fact that when slave traders robbed the people from africa they would tend to pick the big and healthy ones.
To survive a month on the boat (and believe me, only the strongest did) in cramped quarters and diseases further improved the selection. There was no real need to further breed the slaves as they are all very strong already. It might have happened, though, I don't know.
So in the end only the best of the best made it to usa and formed the basis of american black people. This pretty much explains why american black(big and muscular) are good with short distance running and current africans(they also have the skinny ones) dominate long distance.
Nope! x86 architecture has exactly one address space. If you're talking about putting that geforce of yours into ppc or alpha then the address spaces might be physically different(not sure).
In x86, however, everything resides in one address space and you can access everything by it's address directly(highly unportable). That Geforce is going to get its 32mb(probably more) slice somewhere in the common space.
Yes.. I've written a driver for a videocard before..
For a linux side of the things look at address translation explanation by linus here. Specifically the part about pci-memory and the exception for x86.
Yeah.. uh.. in normal pc's you only got one address space also.
And whatabout that pc I built for my sister that has an integrated video driver on motherboard and uses system ram (to your specifications) for video memory..
And whatabout nvidia's upcoming athlon chipset?
Uh.. wait.. Isn't xbox already based on it..
For anything more complicated than plain vga(etc) you're going to need specific drivers that interface with the o/s that then provides an api for developers to use. As long as someone can duplicate that api(which is going to be different than win32) everything is going to (more or less) work. It doesn't matter if memory is shared or not(heck, agp specs let you use system memory)..
Yeh.. but what about watching dvd's with a 500usd drive? Still region coded?
Copying dvd's as such is not really that interesting unless you make them divx and fit 20 movies on a single dvd..
How about region coding?
Are new dvd-burners cursed with this "feature" or could we finally, after paying USD5-600 watch/record whatever we want?
Uh.. who seriously would have their private e-mail read out loud in a bus?
"As your accountant I need to inform you that..",
"Here is your divorce settlement proposal..",
"This is your doctor. Test results came in. You have..",
etc..
In comparison some x-rated junk mail might actually make some poor fellows day..
That is really just a minor problem. True, the actual framebuffer portion that displays your desktop is not going to have anything but a black/blue/purple/whatevercolor box but still all modern videocards have over 16megs of ram and some of that is going to be used for video overlay buffer.
Before I continue I should say that I programmed most of the v4l-drivers of voodoo 3500 tv so I do know what I'm talking about.
Registers in that videocard are going to point exactly to where that buffer is located and accessing it is no different than just mapping that portion into your address space and copying the data from there. There's going to be a lot of data but technically it is possible. And, this way you'll actually get the clean data instead of something that has already been stretched/filtered/de-interlaced/etc by your graphics card..
To summarize.. If you can see it, it resides somewhere in memory. If you can hear it, it resides somewhere in memory. It might not stay in one place for very long but definetly long enough for someone with intermediate hw-programming skills to capture.
Out of curiosity.. How much does the human body depend on the presence of atmospheric pressure. I mean there is a lot of pressure constantly compressing you and what happens when you take this factor out. Something out of total recall, etc?
That was meant more as a proof that this technology is definetly capable of producing a rather large amount of power but using a human may not be reasonable since when we talk about getting 100s of watts the heat source is a radioactive material instead of a plain old human.. You can't really take a traditional nuclear reactor into space anyways since setting one up in a small satellite is not a good idea..
So there is no way to write a wrapper for a native aqua ui that would have the same interface as the original ui-code?
I'll admit that I have no idea of the design of mozilla and don't really care how it looks on mac but just for the sake of an argument from a software design point of view..
Oh.. I do agree that having a stable base and functionality is a lot more important than silly eye-candy..
It uses it's own widget library, right? And they were already somehow emulating aqua-look?
Why not just replace the emulation with native calls. I mean how about..
#ifdef __MACOSX_WITH_AQUA__
..code..
#else
..code..
#endif
..in the widget library. Of course those smart mozilla developers can probably come up with something more elegant but certainly something like this shouldn't be more than minor obstacle..
And they do have a point about pure Aqua experience which is more than just pretty looks. It would certainly be confusing to have an application that looks like it conforms to the normal aqua guidelines and behaviour but then acts differently.
Also, it would be quite a burden for mozilla developers to emulate everything instead of just letting the system ui-library take care of all the nasty details.
This would just make mozilla even better on macintosh and if for some reason there isn't enough interest in making a native aqua implementation you can always use the boring standard look..
So where's the problem. Apple is just protecting their brand. Just like you can't call any old cola a coca cola..
I haven't really watched cnn in a week or so(more than 10sec or so) but from the earlier news I seem to recall that 2-3 of these persons were being watched by fbi not as identified terrorists but as someone who might be worth watching.
Tickets were paid by credit card and one way tickets are quite common in usa especially with travelling salesmen etc..
And would you really want to compromise an fbi watch list due to an insider in an airline. Maybe if the names were submitted to fbi prior and they would either acknowledge or deny and take their own appropriate measures, but most likely no other way..
What kind of information do you give out when you buy a ticket? I've never given anything but my name and passport number to my travel agent. The bill has never been in my name or anything resembling my name(it is a complicated arrangement) and the ticket always been sent electronically to the airport. As a matter of fact the only thing the airline knows about me is my name, passport number and the name of my travel agency before I go check-in 2 hours before departure.
In the other hand once you check-in they do scan your passport and will get information such as ssn and dob etc.. However, I do think that they really have no use for information other than your dob and passport number(and nationality) and might not even record things like ssn..
You say nothing could have prevented this but you have to remember that the security at u.s. airports for domestic flights was ridiculous. Basically you checked in with some kind of a picture id which might not even had your ssn and after that walked into the plane.
No security checks(aside random ones) or x-rays. It was like taking a bus. Your identity was not even checked at the gate, which really shocked me the first time I flew with a us domestic carrier. Some airports might have different security measures but this was flying from philly.
They had this coming with the ridiculous security measures. Heck, even with metallic knives(box-cutters are metallic, aren't they?) they would have made it all the way to the plane without much trouble.
Only know are they upgrading the security measures on domestic flights to match and exceed those of international flights. Most likely they will go overboard and do some israeli kind of thing but for damn close to all the international flights the security measures have been more than adequate and u.s. domestic flights should just match those. This alone would have greatly reduced the risk and severly complicated the possibility of this recent incident.
Yes, but do you know which file? Criminal file or, say, INS-file?
Everyone applying for a Visa to usa has to provide a couple of photos and these will be kept by the embassies. In addition to this these pictures will not be used for the actual visa but rather a computer copy..
That means that they get put into the ins network of computers. The reason authorities had those good quality pictures out is that they can pull up a picture of anyone with a visa to usa from at least the past 10 years in a couple of minutes..
There is no way that even a quarter of these people were identified as people with a probablity of unacceptable conduct thus having a face recognition system would have not done you any good. Most likely in this case those people would have just been denied a visa to usa.
Nope, these were "regular" people with no prior criminal records. Only after going through the passenger records of the said flights and comparing those names with ins databanks or maybe calling up the governments that provided their passports did they get those pictures matched with the names that were then matched with a criminal activity..
Maybe your not quite preceptive enough to understand that they meant blind belief on whatever you're being told. It is 1984, you're told, so it is 1984. 2+2=5 you're told so it equals 5...
Point is that we're being told without much proof that Osama Bin Laden masterminded the tragedy in east coast but yet I have not seen a single even slightly believable piece of evidence confirming so.. yet we're fairly close to a full scale war..
We're being told that being able to encrypt is bad but yet I have not seen a single piece of concrete evidence that it was due to the lack of decryption capabilites that the tragedy took place..
We're being told that we need a universal id card but yet I have not been told how this would have prevented any of this..
We're being stripped of our individual freedoms and right to privacy but yet how this would actually help us protect against tragedys such as nyc and dc I do not know. Just the sheer volume of data and people are too great and simple identity theft often accomplishes more...
Oh.. Just the traffic accidents in u.s. alone in 1999 killed over 40 000 people.. In comparison with the death toll of roughly 6000 people due to the recedent tragedy it seems that improving traffic safety in the u.s. would result in a positive life count even with an occasional terrorist attack. And the likelyhood of a traffic accident is much greater than being killed in a terrorist attack anyway.. Yet a lot more money is being spent on combatting terrorism for very little possible gain...
This may sound terribly naive but forget about emotions and think about facts. Yes, terrorism is bad and needs to be prevented but other immediate steps would result in less human tragedy.. It's just that terrorism makes headlines and thus combatting it is much more popular than for instance improving traffic safety..
Terrorist attacks happen constantly against people around the world. London is a prime target, so is moscow, tel aviv, different african cities and who knows what happens in asia with extremists capturing quite a few tourists every now and then and holding them for ransom. It took an american nation with a "universal" boss Mr. Bush Jr. to "lead the world" in a war against terrorism.. Yet american casualties are rather small in the overall picture and I severly question Mr. Bush's leading capabilites.. So far he's mostly been riding on the (american) public opinions justification and let us not forget that he spent most (all?) of the time during attacks hiding somewhere in a secure bunker while innocent americans were being killed..
Somehow it seems that Mr. Bush Jr. is mostly out to satisfy the american public's need for culprit to be punished. However, he has taken a rather moderate approach and didn't blindly attack afghanistan but I'd still like to have pretty conclusive proof of Afghani involvement before justifying his actions.
Just for the record.. I live on the east coast and will fly out of u.s. next week. I'm not afraid of a) living here b) flying out of here c) returning back in two weeks c) spending time abroad.. Acting any other way is just stupid..
Information about being able to decrypt gps, military communications or maybe atm/visa-card pin-numbers is a lot more valuable when you do not disclose that capability! Who knows what capabilities exist but have not been disclosed. Who could imagine for instance something like tempest..
As an example... If someone was able to figure out a way to discover a visa cards pin number from the magnetic strip they certainly would not rush online to publish this information. Blackmail comes to my mind first..
However, you do have a point. Devising a way to assume control of these flying drones midair is practically impossible without inside information or capture and extensive reverse engineering..
btw. By having a transmitter at a fixed known location and using this information in conjunction with the gps signal you will be able to figure out your location extremely specifically. And didn't they recently release the more detailed gps signal to public use anyway..
Ah.. But my point with 700mb was that it fits on a cd. Resolution in question is the full dvd-resolution with black borders cut off.. If you're willing to halve the resolution the filesize will probably roughly be halved too(need better quality for those fewer pixels)..
You can encode a 90min action dvd into 700mb with sound(160kb mp3) and afterwards watch it on a computer without almost any loss in perceptable picture quality(interestingly sound suffers almost more).
Downside is that 2-pass variable bitrate encoding for 90min movie takes roughly 13 hours on a 900mhz athlon and setting it up is not exactly trivial..
Check out www.divx.com for more info.
How many of the last 50 hijackings have ended in a suicide mission accomplished by the hijacker?
I would have to say roughly 4. Unless the hijackers are clearly prepared to die and have no other intentions than mass destruction of notable targets the chances of resolving the crisis in a manner that results in the least amount of loss of life are great. You follow their demands to a reasonable extent and perhaps land the plane and refuel etc.. Special forces come in and zap the hijackers and end of story..
Suppose you didn't comply and the hijackers killed few passengers. Would you want to live with that if the other (very likely) option would have been a peaceful resolution? And wouldn't that require all of the airline passengers to agree that their life is expendable upon hijacking and that the airline is released of all responsibility? I doubt that that will ever happen..
Out of all the hijackings in my recent memory (aside last 4) there has been a happy ending and most of the people survived. 90% of the time people performing these stunts are complete amatuers put in a desperate situation. A lot of times these people don't even harm anyone. It seems that only the extreme islamic militant groups are the ones that might be inclined to perform activites such as last weeks.
It is more than likely that there will be new security regulations in airline industry and that possibly these will involve pilots willingness to co-operate with hijackers(which has previously been 100% co-operation to prevent any unnecessary loss of life). However, out of recent memory it is certainly assertable that most hijackings have a peacefull ending and that changing the current way of dealing with hijackings will likely result in less secure flying enviroment(from passengers point of view). Changing the current code of conduct should be done with extreme caution and fully informing the passengers.
p.s. I personally take roughly a dozen intercontinental flights a year. Next one in two weeks(unless us airports close again, I'm flying from east coast).
Actually they do have beacons in black boxes.
It propably means the velocity of the the picks around circle. Wouldn't want a sharp object hitting you at 71 mph. Tells you a lot more than just rpms since rpms don't give the slightest idea of impact velocity, just the turning speed of motor which might have a short or a long spinning arm attached to it..
I have a european credit card but currently live in the states. If I want to take a cash advance (which i do a lot) from any atm machine I have to punch in my credit cards pin number. In some places in Europe I can use this same pin number to authorize my card at a shop. In USA I cannot. Most places in scandinavia, however, do require my signature since they do not have pin verification equipment. I've always thought of the pin number as a standard feature on any visa card and my primary use for it has been taking a cash advance from an american atm..
The point of this was that if american atms offer cash advances from a credit card the only way to authorize this is the pin number. That means that american credit cards that can do cash advances from atms(all?) could also be verified at a shop with the same pin number. However, since none of the shops offer pin-verification, and it has not been made a federal law to exclusively require this, hopes of getting such a system as in france in use (remember, usa still primarily relies on checks - with signature) are about the same as me winning last nights 280mil powerball..
p.s. out of the three pb-tickets I bought not a single one had a single correct number.. there should be a price for that since the odds are against it..