Because this is China.

Executable offensives include: political dissent, terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, being of the wrong religous groups, the usual laundry list.

Where it gets exciting is when they send doctors to determine your blood type to decide if you've committed an executable offense.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.

The real issue is that once upon a time people in Somali could make a living fishing off their shores. Boats passing through the Suez canal dump their waste in international waters, which is roughly defined as "not the red sea or the mediterranean", which the end result of most of the ships dumping their pollutants into the Somali waters. The country has complained to the UN, who won't do anything about the issue unless oil rights are transferred from the Chinese to America as protection money. This has little chance of happening, and so when the people in the middle eventually take up arms against the international ships dumping in their waters they are labeled pirates and shot out of the water to satisfy the moralistic urges of people who like simple good versus bad qualifiers.

Well, the red beats this thing handily and it can be had for under twenty grand.

The thing is that when you do video you don't get the full sensor. These cameras->video tricks do a sort of reverse interleaving. The chips themselves don't run more than 10fps. So the camera uses line 1 for frame 1, line 2 for frame 2, line 3 for frame 3, line 1 for frame 4, and so on. The practical upshot is that the 5k sensor gets knocked down to a thousand lines of resolution rather quickly. But then, because you're literally moving boundaries each frame, these weird aliasing artifacts appear. The quickest way to see them on the 5D is to take the camera and pan it right/left quickly, you'll see the image going all wavy. Some of the effect is the rolling shutter but it exposes the how the software is actually making the image.

So, you can't move the camera unless you're very very careful. You might as well shoot slates and sync audio in post as deal with the onboard stuff. The camera can't record longer than five minute takes because of a provision under Japanese export law that would make it officially a video camera. None of these problems are insurmountable but they're certainly there.

That being said, I have a friend who's planning on shooting a feature this fall on one of these things. I think he's crazy, but it's the crazy people who change the world. :P

Along this line, does anybody know of a better way to get iPhone-compatible h264 streams than the Apple Quicktime plugin? I'd like to up the bit rate/quality of my movies but I have yet to find a solution that works.

And, to continue the same argument, there's plenty of movies you can download legally via torrents. For example, my own. So to say that this ipso facto abetting piracy is a mistake. My prediction: this decision gets quietly reversed. Now, if only we could get an Azureus version of this app...

It's probably true, though. I get a lot more European hits than American ones on my miro feed. But the area that surprised me is Africa, I've been getting maybe a tenth of of my hits off the continent. Maybe it's a sign of quality. More likely they like the price. ;-)

And for the billions of years since, we haven't managed to do it again. Maybe the simplest version of Hubble is that things don't work as well as they once did...

They don't want to allow a precedent. Compare:

A) You go to the store, you buy a cd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you listen to it on your iPod. Legal.
B) You go to the store, you buy a dvd, you come home, you put it into your computer, click import in iTunes, you watch it on your Apple TV. Illegal.

Should Real win this case the next day there will be a hundred companies looking to license the technology. That scares a number of people.

If you want to be popular, make yourself notable AND easy to get.

I concur. Now, onwards to shameless self promotion! Or rather, I don't know if I'm notable, but "easy to get" seems accurate. :P

You can download my first feature off of LegalTorrents: Seven Dead Men.

Hope you enjoy.

If these experiments work, they will provide a technical solution to the CO2 problem. The end result would be that the tax stream from carbon sequestration would short-circuit the governmental entities currently vying for control of climate. Since, however, said entities cannot nominally be opposed to a solution to the problem, they instead will look a reason to reject the entire approach out of hand. And that is what is being pushed here.

JC here, just caught my first one of spring a few days ago. He was in the laundry pile, found him when I put a shirt on and something was crawling on my back. I agree, not as dangerous as everybody wants to make them out to be. Like the way many people are afraid of snakes.