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  1. Re:Isn't there a law? on Apple Devices At California Repair Center Keep Calling 911 · · Score: 1

    Both imply intent and deliberate action, neither of which is going to be the case.

  2. FTFA: He first sent the original PDF to Gates to convert it to a .doc in the first place.

  3. Re:How is the movie on Soderbergh's Thriller Shot on iPhone Premieres in Berlin (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    (Mount it like you would a normal camera and other than lower resolution it should work about the same)

    Sure, it'll work about the same. As long as you want it to look like it was shot on a phone.

    There's a certain language of cinematography we've come to understand from the cinema-going experience. Shutter speeds, frame rates, depth of field, colouring, the shapes of lenses, all of those things contribute to it.

    From the trailer it actually looks like he's tried to make it look like a film-student level production. Maybe that's what he wanted, and maybe it is a good film, but I think it would distract me.

    If the movie is truly good, you don't even need the dialog.

    That depends entirely on what the aim of the movie is. What do you need? The movie is everything together. The Artist was great, without spoken dialogue, because that's what it was made to me. Many truly great movies wouldn't work without dialogue.

  4. Re:"Shot on an iPhone" on Soderbergh's Thriller Shot on iPhone Premieres in Berlin (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched it. It looks shit. It looks like he's deliberately gone for a first-year film student vibe. Some really lazy shot choices in there, and technically it looks horrible. No depth of field and the shutter speed and frame rate look off.

  5. It looks shit, unsurprisingly on Soderbergh's Thriller Shot on iPhone Premieres in Berlin (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    If he's trying to make it look like a no-budget amateur movie, he's succeeded. Not only is the actual technical quality cheap and nasty (depth of field, lens distortion, shutter speed), it's also been coloured in an ugly way and he's chosen what seem to be stereotypically amateur angles and shots.

  6. Re:Live, the Universe, and Everything on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like life, then.

  7. And yet it transmits.

  8. Re:That's not scrapping, then on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you fartscrabbled that to make sure someone isn't using it already?

  9. Re:Anti-shake on New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    In the case of camera shake, if the camera would record its movements while the photo was being taken and included that info in the photo, you could apply a perfect deconvolution filter that would almost completely eliminate the blur

    It's easier and probably more robust to compensate by moving the sensor.

  10. Re:Meh on New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    "Meh. Something superficially similar was done before therefore this is not noteworthy."?

    Great logic.

  11. One image and no further links? Is that it? on New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    The extremely shorted linked article has a single, low-res, unzoomable image, and no link to any further information. There must be a better source than this.

  12. Re:Content Aware on New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm, okay? This is just a bit of a step-up from Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill.

    I presume, to you, that the fax machine was nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.

  13. That's not scrapping, then on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search

    Scrap it and rename it? Seems a bit wasteful - unless what was meant was "don't scrap it at all."

  14. Re:PLEASE don't redefine the word "crypto" on Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be such a cryptofascist!

  15. Why do you go out and spend money on frivolous things like meals out and movies, risking the lives of other people (there's probably a 6% of you accidentally killing one once in a million years) when you could give every extra penny you have to charity instead?

  16. I wonder if it'll be useful as a practice target to identify for collision warning systems.

  17. Farthest FROM Earth, not OF Earth on New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    The New Horizons probe has captured the farthermost images of Earth. The probe took images of Earth

    No it didn't. The images are not of Earth.

  18. Re:Anti competitive on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And it defines which are annoying.

  19. Re:24-bit audio support on Reddit Audiophiles Test HomePod, Say It Sounds Better Than $1,000 Speaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are your 24-bit ears?

  20. Re:DOOM? on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2
  21. Re:Uhhh... on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the person writing this not know that ROMs can be reprogrammed such as an EEPROM?

    Did the person writing this not know that not all ROMs are EEPROMs? And that even if they are, if they are not exposed as such to the operating system then the operating system will not be able to reprogram them?

  22. an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service

    Authorized by whom? Or do you mean unauthorized? We have to ask these questions, given Slashdot's lack of competent editing.

  23. Re:Dow is Down 1300 on Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We sure didn't have problems with low unemployment and strong GDP growth when Obama was president.

    Unemployment fell consistently - after a precipitate rise at the tail end of Bush's last term - throughout Obama's term. These numbers don't just lurch the moment someone's elected or starts enacting policies.

    That fall now seems to be tailing off (although it would have to eventually, but it might have happened later - or earlier - with a different incumbent).

  24. Re:Why would he be extradited in the first place? on Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If some gringo in Mexico fires a gun across the border and kills someone in the US, how rabidly do you think they'd pursue extradition?