As a part-time stereographer (Transformers III), I have spent a bit of time on this.

I agree that stereo is best used in intimate settings, at the distances that we have evolved to use 3D in real life. 3D is there so that you can hit somebody with a club accurately, so that you can pick up a rock accurately -- it's for things within a few arm's length away at most. Rather than do some giant spectacle in 3D; it would be much better suited to "My Dinner with Andre" or something like that -- it could really put you into the scene.

As you say, much porn is shot exactly this way. The people I've talked to in that industry say that 3D is TMI, though -- that their customers do not find it appealing to be really "in the world" with the performers -- that the 2D abstraction is a useful distancing mechanism.

So -- there hasn't been a big push into 3D porn yet. And, yeah, there isn't much of an installed base of 3D TVs or BluRay players yet either.

HD is another thing that one would have thought would be great for porn, but again, the people in the industry say that it reveals more flaws than it gains in beauty...

The company DDD has built hardware to do this; it "works", after a fashion. It is, indeed, incorporated into a number of recent 3D TVs.

Basically, there are a number of algorithms in the box, and it chooses the one that is most appropriate for a given sequence. If the system sees blue in the top of the frame, it assumes that it is sky, and puts it in the back. If the camera is trucking from one side to the other to generate parallax, it uses that to generate depth. If I recall correctly, there are some 25 different algorithms using motion, color, brightness, etc -- and it indeed does sort of work.

The depth map that is generated is quite coarse (3D conversion can look very good indeed. I was the stereo supervisor for 1/3 of Transformers III, which had both photographed and simulated 3D, and I felt that they were of comparable quality. It was a very non-real-time process, of course!

Delay all the signals by on the order of a few microseconds. Yes, the time would be wrong, but there aren't atomic clocks in those drones. Yet.

You only have to delay the signals a few microseconds. Especially if you slowly ramp up the delays, the drone GPS receiver should track with it.

I'm still guessing that the Iranians are lying here; and that the drone suffered a serious failure and just glided to a landing.

You don't have to crack the encryption. You can just record and playback the signals from the satellites, with appropriate time delays, at an intensity several orders of magnitude higher than the drone would receive the signals from the satellites.

Amazingly, due in large part to efforts of the NHTSA, 2010 had the lowest number of fatalities on the road in 60 years . So, yes, a lot positive has come out of their research and recommendations.

And when you say "they didn't think through very much", you're off by a magnitude that you (clearly) wouldn't believe. While perhaps the results going against so-called "common sense", the amount of distraction caused by hands-free vs hand-held cellphones is similar and very high -- there have been dozens of studies over the years, and they all reach this conclusion.

The unencrypted communications were probably from much simpler, tactical drones, like the Aerovironment Robin. The more sophisticated drones communicate through satellites for both command uplink and video downlink -- these would almost certainly be encrypted from the very first time.

It's not terribly hard to believe that it came down -- it's a brand new system, and as it is a drone and not a manned aircraft probably is at risk of more catastrophic single-point failures.

But if a small, stealthy drone was taken down by the Iranians, I'd be shocked. Even the slow, big, horribly non-stealthy Predator and Reaper drones hardly ever get shot down. This RQ170 is clearly designed to be hard to see on radar; is reasonably fast, and quite small.

As others have said, it's not real until there are pictures.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/04/20/2251203/offshoring-to-a-ship-in-international-waters

This is a very attractive idea, and people have been attracted to it a few times before!

This article isn't exactly a dup, but as Mark Twain said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes"

> People need to keep in mind that Life causes Death 100% of the time, You can take that to the bank!

So far, for humans, it's only about 90% of the time. At least 10% of the humans ever alive are still alive.