- No need to editorialize the title of the linked page. (Title of HN post should be corrected.)
- Not sure how the conclusion of “stealing” has been reached here.
- Non-Floridian readers should be made aware that lots of HOAs have imposed special assessments because of new statutory requirements after the Champlain Towers disaster in Surfside a few years ago. Those assessments effectively strive to catch up after years of neglecting building maintenance. Often they are hefty amounts, and many owners can’t keep up. Hence the liens and suits thereon. (There are many other causes of action, of course.)
General intent is intent to commit the act/omission (here, to build and deploy a system) and not an intent to achieve the ultimate end (the unlawful access of someone else’s network/computer). Specific intent is intent to achieve the particular result.
Some crimes require only general intent; some require specific intent.
This has all the accuracy of Gruber’s recent pronouncement (based on a Reddit post!) that the Eleventh Circuit uses/requires Times New Roman as its official typeface.
One of the most magical parts of the hologram for me is that if you cut it (the film media) in half, you have two copies of the hologram. The reduction in size is a loss of resolution - but the scene stays the same.
Though that also is part of the reason that a they're not more common. Each hologram is the film rather than a "print".
If someone wants to make 100 holograms to be able to sell them as more than a one off art piece you're making 100 units of the film.
> if you cut it (the film media) in half, you have two copies of the hologram.
A hologram is much like a window, you can look through a big window or a small window, and see what's at the other side both times, but the big window still gives you a lot more viewing angles than the small one. Cutting a hologram in half gives you half a hologram, not two copies of the hologram, it's just that you can change your viewing angle to still see what's on the other side, but that will be a different image than with the full hologram.
I remember as a kid having one of the Usborne books (80s) very badly illustrating this, and it gave completely the wrong idea about what you got; one chopped up hologram from a magazine later and I was sadder and wiser.
You get pretty much what you would naively expect from chopping up a hologram before reading that kind of misleading "two copies" text: exactly the same view of the object as you had from that part of the hologram before you cut it up.
It shows a hologram that has been cut into 3 pieces and the aspect of the viewpoint changing as you look through it, though each one has the full subject that was imaged.
My point is that while you can see the full subject you get it from the exact same point of view as that part of the hologram before it was chopped up.
If you couldn't see part of the subject from part of the intact plate you won't be able to after either.
The phrasing you used, "two copies of the hologram" is very misleading in the same way that my Usborne book was.
Chopping a hologram in half gives you two copies of the hologram in exactly the same sense that chopping a photo in half gives you two copies of the photo.
In both cases what you can see from that part of the plate/print is the same before and after you chop it up.
> Though that also is part of the reason that a they're not more common. Each hologram is the film rather than a "print".
This might be true for current processes but it seems like it should be possible to duplicate a hologram - use a hologram as a stand-in for the original scene when creating a new hologram. The result might have some blur (that progressively gets worse the more 'generations' you are from the original) but that seems like a solvable problem if someone worked at it.
I think the real reason we don't see them is more practical - it's amazing tech but a bit too much of a novelty in its current state, it's just not something that most people would want to put on their wall.
You could also cut them into pieces to duplicate the holograms. They would obviously be smaller. A cut hologram includes the whole hologram, just from the perspective of that part of the cut piece.
Glass plates likely wouldn't be the best choice for this.
Film sheets might be doable.
https://www.geola.com/product/pfg-01-film/ for a Lithuanian distributor. 35cm (about 1 foot) isn't that large. Might be able to cut it into 4ths (classic 4"x5") ... 2"x3" is a small size (12 per sheet).
The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, a/k/a Brandolini’s Law: “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it".
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