Great idea; no notes.

I also wonder how much it would cost to have the flight deck track location based on gps _and_ location based on an inertial reference system; then perhaps warnings could be provided if those locations diverge, and the pilot could opt to use one, the other, or neither as appropriate.

A super high-end inertial reference unit is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I'd wager that something good enough to get you to the other side of a war-zone should be feasible for low five figures; maybe less if it could reuse components from cars or mobile phones.

This article was sourced from these two comments on the Leeham News website. I found the original comments more informative than the Seattle Times version, and while I can't be certain, the author seems credible.

I'm half tempted to apply for a job over at Boeing, just so I can understand if they're learning the right lessons from this (about fixing their culture and processes), or if they're doubling down on the post-McD merger nonsense.

I ordered one.

My planned primary use case is to watch movies while I'm traveling for work. I've been on the road a lot, and hotel TVs aren't fun to use; something with a great screen and sound that's always with me seems ideal. The wife has been talking about getting an RV, and it'd be great for that use case too.

Hopefully there'll also be some good games, and ways to do work, but I don't have a clear vision of how that'll work.

1) Cultures contain multitudes. The fact that there are negative idioms present in American culture doesn't mean that every American is always acting negatively; nor does it mean there are no positive idioms.

2) You are redefining the idioms to be much narrowly used than they are in practice. Additionally, the list of such idioms is nearly endless... people will say "might makes right" to argue that the more powerful entity can do whatever it wants and shouldn't be restrained... they'll say "history is written by the victors" both as a reminder of the flaws in history, but also as a call to ensure that their team is victorious regardless of what it takes.

3) I'm capable of googling. But the fact that a bunch of weird youtube videos claim something is an idiom does not, in fact, make it an idiom. The phrase exists, but I couldn't find it in a print corpus at all, and when I found it on the web it seemed to be used by people ranting about dishonesty, example translation: "people who steal money, steal food, cheat in school, robbing society, cheating whenever they can, don't they have any shame at all??" or "Taiwan is in a moral depression; some people are not ashamed and will not hesitate to cheat if they can".

"might makes right", "history is written by the victors" etc... the examples are endless. you can pretend otherwise, but there are plenty of idioms that Americans use to justify immoral behavior that they happen to like.

Like, Gag me with a spoon, Gen Z slang is grody to the max. It would be bodacious if they would, like, totally talk today's adults did when they were like, teens. It'd b rad to see Gen Z use the totally tubular vernacular of teens of the past!

There are countless American idioms meant to indicate that it's okay to do immoral things to get what you want: "the ends justify the means", "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs", "desperate times call for desperate measures", "it's a dog eat dog world", &c, &c.

As for your claim about the chinese idiom, I've never heard it. Can you please provide the precise chinese language translation, so I can verify if it even exists at all?

Great work by the investigators here! I enjoyed reading through the specific examples they found. There are a few that looked like people making mistakes with matplotlib and not catching it; a bunch that looked like people deliberately filling in missing sequence info with other data; and a few that are just baffling (little possibility it was a mistake; but also no obvious reason to fake that specific data). A bit of a shitshow, and clearly unacceptable. I mostly hope that this nonsense hasn't negatively impacted too much research and progress, and that the professional repercussions are appropriate.

The book "Alex's Adventures in Numberland" by Alex Bellos talks about this. There is a difference in the way we treat numbers 1, 2, 3, possibly 4, compared to numbers 5 and above. The author suggests this is reflected in number systems. Roman numerals start I II III and there are two alternatives for four, IIII and IV. In Chinese too the first three numbers are groups of lines before it changes with four. Our Indio-Arabic glyphs for 1, 2, 3 also originate as one, two, or three lines joined up.

I would suggest that case endings in Slavonic languages might be another indicator. For two, three, or four of something you use the genitive singular (roughly: "three of apple") but then for five or more the genitive plural is used instead. (Things may get muddy when dealing with compound numbers like forty-two where you could use the same case ending as for two.)

What other languages or writing systems have a change between 2,3,4 and larger numbers?

I was assuming it was based essentially on existing digital camera hardware with an extra authentication or signing step at the point the image is written to storage. That's how these products have worked up to now. Of course if the camera manufacturers are investing big bucks in developing a secure system from the ground up, my assumptions are wrong. But I don't see any indication that's what is being offered here.

That's right, I am assuming the connection from the sensor to the rest of the camera electronics is not part of the secure system. I think that's a fair assumption, as CCD or CMOS sensors are relatively simple devices and don't have room or time for cryptographic processing at the moment the image is recorded and read out. Even if not, the point remains that you could leave the electronic parts untouched and just project in the image you want to record.

But you don't have to crack the TPM or the secure enclave. You just have to replace the camera sensor with a custom device that outputs the image you want, and if necessary set the camera's date and time or fake some GPS signals. You could even keep the hardware untouched and use a slide duplicator attachment to make an authenticated copy of any image you want.