I don't quite see how the radio would have had any effect on this incident.
The only thing I can think of is potentially getting a crisis negotiator on the ground to attempt to talk down the man in the cockpit. I guess thats something.
I do not care what people look like or even how they act, I do care about being forced to inhale disgusting and cancerous smoke in enclosed spaces because of their habit. I see no reason why we should accommodate that as a society.
> You don't want to tolerate other people's desire to avoid your toxic smoke?
Of course I do. I'm quite willing to do as a property owner or lessor requires. Note that smoking-banners are the intolerant ones, bringing in the force of law to compel behaviour they desire.
> Unreasonable smokers are exactly why laws are needed.
Likewise, unreasonable non-smokers are exactly why laws are needed.
It would be nice if they were forced to unlock your bootloader on request too. I would love to install Cyanogen mod on my Verizon Galaxy S4 but it is impossible to do so as the bootloader is completely locked down with no recourse.
When we talk about whether something is real or a forgery, I don't think we really care what it is composed of, we care about its provenance. The composition is really just a shortcut often used to help us identify obviously fake provenance; if something is not composed of the same stuff as the real thing, well then we can disqualify it from being real. I don't think anyone should suppose that identical composition is sufficient to guarantee real provenance though.
For perfect forgery detection, I think you need a complete and unimpeachable record of where each bill has been at each moment of its existence. The current physical properties of the item are just not enough. Obviously that is infeasible, though I guess crypto-currencies basically do that.
Baseballs are heavily regulated in game due to the long legacy of doctoring the ball to achieve otherwise impossible movement on pitched balls. Each ball in play goes through the home plate umpire before making it to the pitcher/catcher.
Of course in baseball you'll still occasionally see the pitcher with a hidden "foreign substance" used to doctor the ball once they get ahold of it. Back 20ish years ago it was not too rare for a pitcher to be discovered with a nail file or scratching the ball on their belt buckle. Generally this is seen as "part of the game", and well, there are admitted spitballers/nail-filers in the hall of fame and nobody really cares. Nowadays, if a pitcher gets caught with a "foreign substance" (usually pine tar), they are usually suspended for a few games, the media goes into a frenzy, and retired baseball players say they all did it too.
I won't even run the Facebook or LinkedIn apps without locking them down first. Frankly, it's somewhat negligent that this isn't built into the Play Store installation UI.
Will we finally get gapless playback in the Chromecast's native music player? I've tried to use my Chromecast for music, but the gaps between tracks are just complete deal breakers for many albums. I had just assumed audio was not a priority for google.
Chromecast is just a web browser - so I imagine that's due to the client (which each service has their own, I think). Not sure what exactly they're doing for audio casting, but I imagine it's dependent on the service to implement properly
The sdk offers gapless playback but the OS still can't actually do it. Poweramp is one of the few apps that can do gapless, but it uses ffmpg instead of native.
Most people I've seen question the North Korea angle absolutely acknowledge that they have the capability to do things like this. They usually argue that this does not fit the style and MO of a state sponsored attack, that The Interview was never mentioned by the hackers until after the media starting running with the story, and that there simply isn't enough public evidence to justifiably attribute it yet, among other things.
More importantly, who else could the USG blame? China are somewhat too important a "partner". Venezuela, well Chavez "happened to die". Cuba, friends again. Iran, bringing them slowly in from the cold. Russia, well...
It would have been more convenient for the USG to blame ISIS but nobody would believe that.
I still don't buy the N.Korea angle. They would just love the propaganda. They are quite happy to provoke the US with missile tests publicly, you don't think a hack like this they are going to want to keep quiet?
There is no MO regarding an attack from a country like North Korea. That country says bombastic things with regularity, and has seemingly little concern for blowback. How a country like Israel or the United States might do an attack like this has no relevance to what North Korea might do, whether directly or through a hired proxy.
The Interview was never mentioned by the hackers until after the media starting running with the story
Now again, North Korea's words are kind of cheap, but they were talking about as big as you can get before this hack, and then specifically warned Sony to "obey" them. We have absolutely no idea what communications happened between the group and Sony and then law enforcement, so the whole what the media reported angle seems rather spurious. Sony/Law Enforcement, people who know more than us, seem to believe it was related to the movie.
There is no MO regarding an attack from a country like North Korea.
Actually, there is. They tend to huff and puff about American military exercises that occur in cooperation with the Japanese or the South Koreans, or to complain to the UN about various things (e.g.: the CIA torturing people). But their MO, such as it is, is to complain and threaten, almost exclusively. Occasionally they will perform a missile test that causes concern, but those missiles land in the Sea of Japan or some other body of water, not anywhere that causes actual harm.
No, this goes against the DPRK's MO up until now. If they are responsible then it is a shift in their tactics from "loud and threatening, but basically harmless to other nations", to "actively and publicly committing acts of economic espionage." That would be quite a departure for them.
North Korea is suspected in a number of similar attacks. Because really, what is anyone going to do? Attack them? They have nukes. Isolate them? They can't possible be more isolated. Sanction them?
As an aside, the regular threat of using nuclear weapons is an act of extreme violence, and I doubt North Korea's neighbors treat it so flippantly. The threat is unlikely, but extremely real.
The only thing I can think of is potentially getting a crisis negotiator on the ground to attempt to talk down the man in the cockpit. I guess thats something.