One of the big problems is that the live action was filmed at 24fps but the CGI was created at 30fps. This makes it very hard to merge the two without one or the other stuttering. It didn't look so bad on TV when everyone (in NTSC countries) was used to films being shown with 3:2 pull-down but the Blu-ray version instead badly converts the original CGI to 24fps.

My TV has several different images of paintings and it cycles between them, presumably to reduce this issue. They also seem to be displayed with relatively low brightness, which greatly reduces the potential for burn-in. But, yes, there's no way I want to burn electricity and wear out my expensive TV to display images constantly when people mostly aren't even watching it. I guess LG doesn't mind, and having me buy a new model sooner is a plus for them.

There's plenty of evidence that they're lying or, most charitably, deluded. They say it in the present tense but it seems clear that the US military was only in the country for hours. If they were still there, there would be ongoing fighting, unless you claim some conspiracy and cover-up involving the current Venezuelan government to hide the fact that they're under US control. Are you really surprised that Trump is lying about this?

It's true that the US government is in a good position to know the truth on this but, equally, they're also the ones with the strongest motives to lie about it. Seek independent sources of information.

My 2019 LG OLED pretends to be a painting when it has no input, picture frames and all. You can have it do the same instead of turning off properly but that just seems insane to me. My more recent LG OLED monitor is the same. This isn't some recent catch-up from LG. The marketing feels like they're doing it to highlight the image quality and HDR of their high-end displays.

This is not the legal position in Australia. It's the right of the employer to set policy on how tips are handled. In many venues, staff can keep their cash tips and in others they'll be pooled and shared between the staff, but a business can also require that all tips, cash and electronic, go to the business itself. Of course there's the practical issue that staff can fairly easily pocket cash without anyone finding out, but being caught is a serious matter.

You can find idiots spouting all kinds of nonsense; don't let them influence your thinking.

Businesses are free to refuse customers.

In this case, SpaceX became so successful at launching satellites that it ran out of customers; there just weren't enough satellites that needed launching. So they created StarLink to become their own best customer. Getting orders from StarLink competitors is the icing on the cake.

Also, having competition helps keep antitrust action away. Remember when Microsoft bailed out Apple?

If I recall from the Netflix documentary, Stockton Rush was insistent that the word "passenger" was never used and that OceanGate's paying customers were instead "mission specialists". This was the legal work-around that allowed the company to avoid government regulations. You'd think that his wealthy customers would have been savvy enough to understand what was going on, not least when signing the required waivers. What they might not have known was that the Titan was not registered, not even in the Bahamas, despite OceanGate being registered there.

Personally, I've sailed in a replica of a historical vessel not rated to carry passengers; it lacked multiple water-tight compartments for a start. I was "volunteer crew" and had to obtain the maritime certificate required to work aboard ships, including passing written and practical courses. While it seemed to me that safety was taken very seriously, I was aware when I signed on that there were greater risks than on a passenger vessel. Professional mariners aboard non-passenger vessels know the standards are lower, but there are still standards for registered vessels.

From an IT perspective there was neither authentication nor authorisation. Legally, however, many jurisdictions make it illegal to access data without being authorised to do so and, by "authorised", they mean legally authorised. The fact that there was no security mechanism isn't going help any person found to have accessed these data; they're hackers in the eyes of the law. Obviously companies like it this way; for them, it's not a bug but a feature.

The switches are mechanical with electrical contacts that sense their position; there's no way for software to change their physical position. The speculation is around whether some electrical or software fault may have made the system behave as if the switches had been moved to the cut-off position, e.g., wiring shorting out or disconnecting. This seems unlikely for multiple reasons. One pilot asking the other why they were off suggests that the switches could be seen to be in the cut-off position. Also, the software saw them cut-off 1 second apart, as if someone moved them one at a time, whereas an electrical or software issue would be more likely to affect both switches at the same time.

I'm going to go with, since 1 Jan 2025, i.e., the year so far.

It's the New York Times, not a scientific journal.

In 2023 this scientific article concluded "we are almost as likely as not to experience a negative leap second in the next 12 years." Check out Figure 4 to see the UTC-UT1 line curve back downward in a way that's never happened before since atomic time started in 1972. It's currently back in negative territory at -0.05s and, if makes it far past -0.5s, we'll need a negative leap second. Even the occasional positive leap second has caused software glitches in the past so an unprecedented negative leap second seems sure to cause more chaos.

It's just a restriction on having social media accounts. You can watch as much YouTube as you like without one but you can't make comments or see age-restricted videos.

Typical 65mm and 70mm frames are 53mm wide whereas 35mm frames are 22mm wide. That's only 2.4x wider (though the factor for area is greater, depending on which exact formats you're comparing). So 4K scales up to 10K and 16K is enough oversampling for a mastering scan. Remember that 4K refers to the number of pixels across the screen, not to a total pixel count.

The list of 70 mm films isn't that long.

IMAX is bigger again, though mostly in frame height. Its popularity has taken off as technology makes it more affordable but the list of masterpieces on that format is very short.

VPNs don't "violate copyright protections". It's like thinking that aircraft violate copyright if I use them to travel to another country to buy a book not available in my own. VPNs do allow you to violate contracts with suppliers ... but that's not the same thing.