For 24fps, you only shoot 1/48 with a 180* shutter. If you choose a 360 (or something close like 350 to allow for frame change) shutter, you can do so with 1/24 shutter speed. Thus 48fps could technically be shot with 1/48 shutter speed too, specially now that digital is picking up over film in many major films. You can get the same motion blur with 48fps!

No.. that would be allowed. Largely that law has been used whenever someone attacks tenets of a religion, and it lies in the zone between freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

Some more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India

Unfortunately it is also written in the Indian constitution that a specific override of freedom of speech and expression is that you may not hurt religious sentiments with this freedom (Article 19). This article is enforcable. A fundamental duty is not.

The law was written over 60 years ago when religious bickering and tensions were high, post-independance. They will hopefully be overridden with common law judements overtime (with what the definition of "hurting religious sentiments" is), but as it stands now a case of "hurting sentiments" is legally valid. I'm not sure what happened offline in the particular case, and will be looking into it's proceedings with interest.

Double blind tests remove biases from humans testers/testees who may otherwise respond to non-test signals. Algorithms cannot be biased (unless certain bias is itself part of algorithm/UI).

All that I can see that's required here is a blind test where a sample known sample of voices is passed to the algorithm, and the software results tallied against actual known facts. If the error rate s low enough, the confidence in the matching can be high enough.

Ah right.. thanks for the correction.

If this is the 9-dot pattern they are talking about, even a hash would be easy to brute force,. the worst case being 9!, but the average case being 4-6! as these are the sizes commonly chosen for phones.

However, the limitation could be the delay/lock after some unsuccessful tries. If they need to see that phone's memory, they need to maybe use a 0-day exploit that google knows of, but has not yet been fixed for that phone?

Conventional wisdom dictates this is true [citation needed].

Also, make sure there's no Los Pollos Hermanos close by.

Wow.. Master blaster is a nickname of one of India's (and this generation's) leading cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar. This list also goes into personal sport tastes?

This piqued my interest, and I googled Urk/World war/nazi vs urk and came up empty. Can you point me to someplace that talks about the people of Urk, and their role in the world war?

Interesting. Did you blog about this by any chance? Pics of it on the dog. I would've thought dogs wouldn't learn a whole new sense.. but they seem to corellate sensor input and the world well enough, according to what you say. I'd be interested in learning more about this..

So I have an idea that could possibly work? What if we could give an incentive to the ad networks to honor it?

The gist is Adblock/etc, band up and agree that they will by default only block networks that do not adhere to DNT (this would be the default option on first install, users who want more can change this option to say "everything"). By doing this, adnetworks who do follow DNT will rach a tiny (but growing) surge of users they would not otherwise. Not to mention some good karma.

You make an interesting point. I'm guessing the fineprint when you signed up said you handover "non-exclusive, worldwide royalty free" permission to /. to use as they please (or suchlike).

So essentially this is the only copy of you work, and you already have one licensee to it. But you cannot get rid of this work, and you cannot unlicense it.

Ha.. by that metric.

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Back to the troll machine, boy..
Just sayin'