FTA: Israel has argued that a wave of violence with the Palestinians over the past year has been fueled by incitement, much of it spread on social media sites.
Yeah, those 40-foot-high walls that Israel is plopping down through the middle of Palestinian cities has absolutely nothing to do with the anger of Palestinians at Israel's illegal seizure of their land, or the destruction of the (200+ yr-old) olive orchards at-will. Or further their making even a modicum of a 'normal life' impossible for the refugees of former Palestinian territory – stolen by expansionist Israeli governing parties from Palestinians.
Any and all "agreed-upon" borders have been violated by Israel. Palestinian children throw stones to voice their anger – and Israeli helicopter gunships fire missiles into Palestinian homeland territories.
This "story" of placing blame for censorship on private companies like FaceBook is a complete diversion from the actual reality of what is going on in that territory.
FTA: "The acquisition of Samsung's printer business allows us to deliver print innovation and create entirely new business opportunities with far better efficiency, security, and economics for customers," said HP president and CEO Dion Weisler in a statement.
Huh? Can a Professor of English please parse that gobbeldey-gook sentence for me? Is it even a sentence?
Yelp! regularly takes down long, well thought-out reviews of companies – yet they leave three-liner one-star ratings of the same company up despite protests of unfairness.
Yelp! has been caught accepting payola before.
How this pay-to-play environment is supported by such a weak "star-rating" argument is beyond my comprehension.
Yelp! shakes down companies that want to suppress negative reviews. And on the flip side – someone with an axe to grind can get Yelp! to take down the only coherently written reviews, by people with many reviews under their belt, while leaving-up one-star ratings by fob accounts with ZERO reviews prior to that single one.
FTA: “The enthusiasm and lack of fear is important,” Dyson says. “Not taking notice of experts and plowing on because you believe in something is important. It’s much easier to do when you’re young.”
I work, effectively, in this very area of materials science. I publish in journals like Nature. I have written many patents, and own several myself.
Oh, but gosh, I am not 25 years old. I am, in Dyson's "We love to fail" world, useless. Expertise, knowledge, actual experience, quick hands in the lab, and so on are of no value to them. I doubt that they'd even look at my CV. At least, in its current form... Hmmn.
Why don't I apply? I'll omit dates from my degrees, and only include the last 5 years' experience, patents, and publications. At the interview, they'll see that I'm not 25 (I look 35, but am older). They'll ask for transcripts or photocopies of degrees at some point – HR's method of engaging in age discrimination without asking "what year were you born in?". At the in-person interview, they will learn my real age. They will drop me immediately.
Then, I will sue them for age discrimination. The owner and CEO has already publicly admitted it. I don't want a job at their shitty Edison-esque "try everything" R&D facility, but rather the salary and options that I could have made had they not engaged in their already admitted age discrimination.
A private company is divining which of its users are in some way expressing opinions that it thinks might be divergent with that of the government of the country in which t operates?
This is far beyond an act of fascism. Twitter did this of its own accord, not at the request of government. Twitter per-emptively bowed in obeisance due to its fear of a government demand,
If you do not find this disturbing, then you have not read enough history.
Laser communication between distant satellites is fraught with difficulties.
Lasers have a divergence greater than zero. Over huge distances, this results in a very weak signal at the receiving end.
Lasers exit through an aperture. Diffraction occurs. That spreads the beam, too.
Lasers have speckle, even if the ends of the chamber (gas or solid state) are polished to be atomically smooth. The lasing cavity, you see, is not one-dimensional, resulting in path-length variation for the lasing photons. So, aside from the minor wavelength spread that this induces, it also produces speckle. No one has devised a solution for speckle, nor will they for the next 20 years or so.
I wonder if they have been able to also implement a way to detect if someone listens to the signal using entanglement. It would be quite the deal if it was possible to detect that on a wireless signal.
Yes. That is entirely the point of using entanglement.
"No US hacker would be retarded enough to attempt to hack the NSA."
The NSA is not God. Its just a collection of people. People who make mistakes.
With 360,000,000 people as the population, you would be surprised at what kind of stupidity you can find.
Oh, BTW, I have all of the NSA's secret sploits, both past and current. They are for sale. Drop a few hundred bucks and they're yours – all contained on a single 3.5" floppy disk. I ran the leak through the ZIP encoder 30 times – that is why the file is so small.
This isn't some mamby-pamby bitcoin auction, but a listing on ebay. (I believe in equal access for everyone.) Come bid on the auction. There is no "Buy it Now" price (ebay sets those limits low). There is only an open auction with a reserve price of $0.99. So, if it's countries bidding against countries, whatev's, I couldn't care less.
Oh, and BTW, I am hiding behind five proxies, so there is no way to find me...
FTS:... "current and future challenges" involving critical infrastructure cybersecurity...
You secretly colluded with the NSA on back-dooring elliptical-curve cryptography (in effect, by not disclosing weaknesses).
Now you want us to offer you FREE suggestions on the current frontiers of mathematical cryptography?!?
Eat my shit. If I (or anyone else with a brain) had a body of work designed to out-smart quantum (annealing) computers, we would keep it very, very secret. We would not even disclose to USPTO or via a PCT disclosure.* Nuh-uh! It would be for sale to the highest bidder – a private transaction. NIST's recorded willingness to bend over and take it in the ass for the NSA has squandered the entire institution's integrity.
* It really does happen. An invention disclosure can be ruled by the USPTO to be so significant to National Security that they basically 'take it black,' usually at DOD behest. "Thanks for all of your hard work on that thing..."
The credulous piece by Popular Mechanics just relays the Chinese government's propaganda.
Nobody can get SCRAM-jot to work for than a few minutes. RAM-jets are hard enough. You need to be up to at least Mach 3 for a RAM-jet to even ignite.
TFA describes a multi-type jet + RAM-jet + SCRAM-jet engine that adjusts the intake cowling to "transition" from jet-powered supersonic flight to RAM-jet powered supersonic flight, and so on.
The biggest point that the article missed is that a SCRAM-jet relies on oxygen in the atmosphere to supply to the oxidant. So how in the hell is that thing going to use a SCRAM-jet to get into LEO, where there is basically no air?
The article is almost as bad as that Iranian press release showing 15+ missiles all launching at the same time, that people on the internet immediately noticed was a bad Photoshop of a single launch, just cloned several times in the image.
There's also something to be said for a proper typing posture
Hmmn. I wish there was such a thing.
Coding in bed with a laptop... They did not teach me that in the high-school typing class (which I didn't take, BTW; I took 'computers' instead, and learned to program. 35 years later, I have yet to ever suffer anything like carpal tunnel syndrome).
Proper typing posture is for secretaries, sitting at desks, and using a mechanical typewriter. That requires hovering your wrists. Modern laptops have wrist-rests, so that – when you are not actively typing – you can relax your entire fore-arms. And as a bonus, if you have the sk1llz, you can mouse and type without ever needing to engage a muscle in your fore-arm, much less beyond your elbow.
Yes, I know. However this is useless if the names are randomized, which is probably what will happen. There are ways around it but not with simple filter lists like the ones you can use in ABP. Maybe Greasemonkey scripts.
You can use wildcards in Element Hiding Helper. It is a continual cat-and-mouse game, but we always find a workaround.
Web gurus can just examine the source, and home-brew a blacklist that redirects to null.
speaking without any knowledge here, wouldn't it be easier to have multiple chips capture the image at different exposures at the same time and use software to blend. is there a rule that one camera can only have one chip?
Sure.
Your Canon EOS has a half-silvered mirror at 45, allowing the little viewfinder to see what the optical column (lenses and film) see.
We do this with laser interferometry measurements all the time. Why not use a set of four to send the identical image to four different detectors, each with a different sensitivity (via attenuators, timing, optical-sensing device-type)?
So it seems they have per-pixel exposure control, rather than a full-frame exposure control.
Not sure how that works, perhaps instead of letting the charge build up on a cell and then read all the cells after time T, they time how long each cell takes to charge, and after a cutoff time T, measure the charge of the remaining cells?
The idea being you use the time-to-saturation as a measure of brightness for over-exposed areas, while the traditional charge level for the well-exposed areas.
First thing that popped into my mind, but then I don't really know the area so yeah... may be a very stupid idea:)
Good thinking. You sound closer to being correct than my other proposals in this thread.
Common HDR is "Video based on a per-frame variable read rate". That is, instead of 30 fps or whatever, the sensor progressively reads in a logarithmic progression of 'frame rates', on a per frame basis. For example: 0.1 ms read, 1 ms read, 10 ms read, and then a 100 ms read. HDR software processes these four sub-frames into a single HDR frame, but it is really a capture of four different time-spans.
Pixel-based exposure settings, regardless of 'frame rate', could work. But... You would have to read them to know when they saturate. It would probably also lead to blooming around the high-exposure pixels.
That being said, if one just records at 10,000 fps and 24-bit, or whatever, and then uses software to "time-stack" the frames, adding up "dark pixels" across frames until a threshold is reached, would provide pixels of the low-lighting objects (which are not moving much, BTW). Single pixels read at near-saturation would be used individually, or perhaps averaged over several reads. Result, HDR without the time-smear!
It's amazing that it took so long for someone to implement this (AFAICT). OK, truth be told, we in scientific imaging do this all the time.
Very impressive footage, although I would have loved to see the initial ignition and the fadeing at the end.
What I'd also like to know is if igniting rockets such as these horizontally, with this amount of thrust, would have any measurable impact on the earths rotation at all. If not, what amount of thrust would be needed to do this?
Oh, also, "equal but opposite force" does indeed apply here. But the motion induced would likely be mostly air currents – wind. That would dissipate any theoretical "changing earth's rotation" effects.
Doing it on the Moon, however... Well, someone else can do the math and provide a % change in the moment of the atmosphere-less sphere. Infinitesimal, but perhaps measurable. For simplicity, exclude from your calculation the 'lock' between the Moon's rotation and orbit, with that of the Earth.
Very impressive footage, although I would have loved to see the initial ignition and the fadeing at the end.
What I'd also like to know is if igniting rockets such as these horizontally, with this amount of thrust, would have any measurable impact on the earths rotation at all. If not, what amount of thrust would be needed to do this?
I doubt it.
Things that do, in fact, have a measurable effect on the Earth's rotational speed are massive civil engineering projects. Stuff like: Digging lots of big, deep holes (mining). Building lots of really tall buildings. Mountaintop removal (a horrible coal-mining technique). Also in there would be a far more significant effect from melting glaciers and ice-caps, and its associated sea-level rise. (Note to trolls: Many glaciers and ice-caps are on land, not floating in the sea, so don't make any 'ice cube' arguments.)
We did some calculations as undergrads in engineering, but I forget the numbers. They were measurable if one used an atomic clock with precision of that era. It's just math.
Read the sentence before the one you quoted. "Typically, HDR images are developed using multiple cameras or multiple exposure sequencing. The game changing approach implemented here is to create high-speed HDR video imagery utilizing a single camera without time sequencing."
Agreed. This was not emphasized in the article, but it's the manner in which their new HDR camera records data that is new. It does not do three sequential reads at different exposure levels, like your iPhone does. A rocket plume is fast-changing and fast-moving, so sequential reads would have time-drift error between 'equivalent' frames.
What it probably does is have either several read lines for each pixel, with different circuitry for each of the orders of exposure-level. Or, possibly, it is a super-sensitive detector array that quick-reads every pixel multiple times per frame, meaning that it records the same near-instantaneous frame in several order-of-magnitude bins. Software, as with any HDR system, then combines them. Those are my guesses.
Somewhere else said that it records in the IR range, too. Probably just SWIR, but still a useful addition.
Another guess: Two or more detector arrays placed one-over-the-other, in a stack. IR up front. Then, perhaps an attenuation layer between one array and the next. All read at the same exact moment (or after identical exposure-time), and the attenuators allow, again, for typical HDR software to stitch the images together. Actually, had I seen the CFP, this is what I would have proposed. Such a system would record result in all sub-frames for HDR conversion to cover exact same moment. Far less error – only speed-of-light error, but over micrometer length scales, making it insignificant.
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FTA: Israel has argued that a wave of violence with the Palestinians over the past year has been fueled by incitement, much of it spread on social media sites.
Yeah, those 40-foot-high walls that Israel is plopping down through the middle of Palestinian cities has absolutely nothing to do with the anger of Palestinians at Israel's illegal seizure of their land, or the destruction of the (200+ yr-old) olive orchards at-will. Or further their making even a modicum of a 'normal life' impossible for the refugees of former Palestinian territory – stolen by expansionist Israeli governing parties from Palestinians.
Any and all "agreed-upon" borders have been violated by Israel. Palestinian children throw stones to voice their anger – and Israeli helicopter gunships fire missiles into Palestinian homeland territories.
This "story" of placing blame for censorship on private companies like FaceBook is a complete diversion from the actual reality of what is going on in that territory.
FTA: "The acquisition of Samsung's printer business allows us to deliver print innovation and create entirely new business opportunities with far better efficiency, security, and economics for customers," said HP president and CEO Dion Weisler in a statement.
Huh? Can a Professor of English please parse that gobbeldey-gook sentence for me? Is it even a sentence?
Yelp! regularly takes down long, well thought-out reviews of companies – yet they leave three-liner one-star ratings of the same company up despite protests of unfairness.
Yelp! has been caught accepting payola before.
How this pay-to-play environment is supported by such a weak "star-rating" argument is beyond my comprehension.
Yelp! shakes down companies that want to suppress negative reviews. And on the flip side – someone with an axe to grind can get Yelp! to take down the only coherently written reviews, by people with many reviews under their belt, while leaving-up one-star ratings by fob accounts with ZERO reviews prior to that single one.
Yelp! is a racket. As in racketeering.
FTA: “The enthusiasm and lack of fear is important,” Dyson says. “Not taking notice of experts and plowing on because you believe in something is important. It’s much easier to do when you’re young.”
I work, effectively, in this very area of materials science. I publish in journals like Nature. I have written many patents, and own several myself.
Oh, but gosh, I am not 25 years old. I am, in Dyson's "We love to fail" world, useless. Expertise, knowledge, actual experience, quick hands in the lab, and so on are of no value to them. I doubt that they'd even look at my CV. At least, in its current form... Hmmn.
Why don't I apply? I'll omit dates from my degrees, and only include the last 5 years' experience, patents, and publications. At the interview, they'll see that I'm not 25 (I look 35, but am older). They'll ask for transcripts or photocopies of degrees at some point – HR's method of engaging in age discrimination without asking "what year were you born in?". At the in-person interview, they will learn my real age. They will drop me immediately.
Then, I will sue them for age discrimination. The owner and CEO has already publicly admitted it. I don't want a job at their shitty Edison-esque "try everything" R&D facility, but rather the salary and options that I could have made had they not engaged in their already admitted age discrimination.
Sound like a good plan?
Well, that news is a bit of satisfaction to me.
For I still run Windows XP.
This is deeply disturbing.
A private company is divining which of its users are in some way expressing opinions that it thinks might be divergent with that of the government of the country in which t operates?
This is far beyond an act of fascism. Twitter did this of its own accord, not at the request of government. Twitter per-emptively bowed in obeisance due to its fear of a government demand,
If you do not find this disturbing, then you have not read enough history.
I thought that Sears bought the Eddie Bauer Brand about 7 years ago, and were going to integrate those products into their regular stores.
News for Nerds: Eddie Bauer still has over 350 brick-and-mortar stores in North America.
Who knew? Where should we go for our khakis now?
I hope this doesn't happen with my Grindr account.
I mean, hey, I love metal-working and welding just as much as the next guy, but I don't need to have the world know what tools are in my shed.
Laser communication between distant satellites is fraught with difficulties.
Lasers have a divergence greater than zero. Over huge distances, this results in a very weak signal at the receiving end.
Lasers exit through an aperture. Diffraction occurs. That spreads the beam, too.
Lasers have speckle, even if the ends of the chamber (gas or solid state) are polished to be atomically smooth. The lasing cavity, you see, is not one-dimensional, resulting in path-length variation for the lasing photons. So, aside from the minor wavelength spread that this induces, it also produces speckle. No one has devised a solution for speckle, nor will they for the next 20 years or so.
I wonder if they have been able to also implement a way to detect if someone listens to the signal using entanglement. It would be quite the deal if it was possible to detect that on a wireless signal.
Yes. That is entirely the point of using entanglement.
"No US hacker would be retarded enough to attempt to hack the NSA."
The NSA is not God. Its just a collection of people. People who make mistakes.
With 360,000,000 people as the population, you would be surprised at what kind of stupidity you can find.
Oh, BTW, I have all of the NSA's secret sploits, both past and current. They are for sale. Drop a few hundred bucks and they're yours – all contained on a single 3.5" floppy disk. I ran the leak through the ZIP encoder 30 times – that is why the file is so small.
This isn't some mamby-pamby bitcoin auction, but a listing on ebay. (I believe in equal access for everyone.) Come bid on the auction. There is no "Buy it Now" price (ebay sets those limits low). There is only an open auction with a reserve price of $0.99. So, if it's countries bidding against countries, whatev's, I couldn't care less.
Oh, and BTW, I am hiding behind five proxies, so there is no way to find me...
Yeah, the people who owned/created this screwed up. The point is, everyone screws up, given enough time and enough people involved.
Yes. And the correlation of a leak/screw-up increases exponentially with number of people who know the secret... Or alternatively, as time goes by.
The NIST has been tainted by the NSA. So any comment must first ask, "How can we know that this taint is gone?"
This taint tastes a little bit like shit...
You secretly colluded with the NSA on back-dooring elliptical-curve cryptography (in effect, by not disclosing weaknesses).
Now you want us to offer you FREE suggestions on the current frontiers of mathematical cryptography?!?
Eat my shit. If I (or anyone else with a brain) had a body of work designed to out-smart quantum (annealing) computers, we would keep it very, very secret. We would not even disclose to USPTO or via a PCT disclosure.* Nuh-uh! It would be for sale to the highest bidder – a private transaction. NIST's recorded willingness to bend over and take it in the ass for the NSA has squandered the entire institution's integrity.
* It really does happen. An invention disclosure can be ruled by the USPTO to be so significant to National Security that they basically 'take it black,' usually at DOD behest. "Thanks for all of your hard work on that thing..."
The credulous piece by Popular Mechanics just relays the Chinese government's propaganda.
Nobody can get SCRAM-jot to work for than a few minutes. RAM-jets are hard enough. You need to be up to at least Mach 3 for a RAM-jet to even ignite.
TFA describes a multi-type jet + RAM-jet + SCRAM-jet engine that adjusts the intake cowling to "transition" from jet-powered supersonic flight to RAM-jet powered supersonic flight, and so on.
The biggest point that the article missed is that a SCRAM-jet relies on oxygen in the atmosphere to supply to the oxidant. So how in the hell is that thing going to use a SCRAM-jet to get into LEO, where there is basically no air?
The article is almost as bad as that Iranian press release showing 15+ missiles all launching at the same time, that people on the internet immediately noticed was a bad Photoshop of a single launch, just cloned several times in the image.
Dear /. editors: Please stop being so credulous.
There's also something to be said for a proper typing posture
Hmmn. I wish there was such a thing.
Coding in bed with a laptop... They did not teach me that in the high-school typing class (which I didn't take, BTW; I took 'computers' instead, and learned to program. 35 years later, I have yet to ever suffer anything like carpal tunnel syndrome).
Proper typing posture is for secretaries, sitting at desks, and using a mechanical typewriter. That requires hovering your wrists. Modern laptops have wrist-rests, so that – when you are not actively typing – you can relax your entire fore-arms. And as a bonus, if you have the sk1llz, you can mouse and type without ever needing to engage a muscle in your fore-arm, much less beyond your elbow.
Good keyboarding is finger dexterity alone.
So, here we go again.
Just like with the establishment of telephone service lines.
Just like with privately held public transit systems.
Just like with privately owned bridges goin into and out of major cities, where monopolies were created.
Just like with the railroads.
Look at history. This will not be a short fight. But, internet service is a UTILITY.
i vote for getting rid of the sharp edge that's grating the skin off my wrists.
I bought a nail file, one with two different grits.
I filed down the case-edges where it hits the wrists. Also the two sharp edges of the "case-opener" indent. Problem solved.
Yes, I know. However this is useless if the names are randomized, which is probably what will happen.
There are ways around it but not with simple filter lists like the ones you can use in ABP. Maybe Greasemonkey scripts.
You can use wildcards in Element Hiding Helper. It is a continual cat-and-mouse game, but we always find a workaround.
Web gurus can just examine the source, and home-brew a blacklist that redirects to null.
speaking without any knowledge here,
wouldn't it be easier to have multiple chips capture the image at different exposures at the same time and use software to blend. is there a rule that one camera can only have one chip?
Sure.
Your Canon EOS has a half-silvered mirror at 45, allowing the little viewfinder to see what the optical column (lenses and film) see.
We do this with laser interferometry measurements all the time. Why not use a set of four to send the identical image to four different detectors, each with a different sensitivity (via attenuators, timing, optical-sensing device-type)?
So it seems they have per-pixel exposure control, rather than a full-frame exposure control.
Not sure how that works, perhaps instead of letting the charge build up on a cell and then read all the cells after time T, they time how long each cell takes to charge, and after a cutoff time T, measure the charge of the remaining cells?
The idea being you use the time-to-saturation as a measure of brightness for over-exposed areas, while the traditional charge level for the well-exposed areas.
First thing that popped into my mind, but then I don't really know the area so yeah... may be a very stupid idea :)
Good thinking. You sound closer to being correct than my other proposals in this thread.
Common HDR is "Video based on a per-frame variable read rate". That is, instead of 30 fps or whatever, the sensor progressively reads in a logarithmic progression of 'frame rates', on a per frame basis. For example: 0.1 ms read, 1 ms read, 10 ms read, and then a 100 ms read. HDR software processes these four sub-frames into a single HDR frame, but it is really a capture of four different time-spans.
Pixel-based exposure settings, regardless of 'frame rate', could work. But... You would have to read them to know when they saturate. It would probably also lead to blooming around the high-exposure pixels.
That being said, if one just records at 10,000 fps and 24-bit, or whatever, and then uses software to "time-stack" the frames, adding up "dark pixels" across frames until a threshold is reached, would provide pixels of the low-lighting objects (which are not moving much, BTW). Single pixels read at near-saturation would be used individually, or perhaps averaged over several reads. Result, HDR without the time-smear!
It's amazing that it took so long for someone to implement this (AFAICT). OK, truth be told, we in scientific imaging do this all the time.
Very impressive footage, although I would have loved to see the initial ignition and the fadeing at the end.
What I'd also like to know is if igniting rockets such as these horizontally, with this amount of thrust, would have any measurable impact on the earths rotation at all. If not, what amount of thrust would be needed to do this?
Oh, also, "equal but opposite force" does indeed apply here. But the motion induced would likely be mostly air currents – wind. That would dissipate any theoretical "changing earth's rotation" effects.
Doing it on the Moon, however... Well, someone else can do the math and provide a % change in the moment of the atmosphere-less sphere. Infinitesimal, but perhaps measurable. For simplicity, exclude from your calculation the 'lock' between the Moon's rotation and orbit, with that of the Earth.
Very impressive footage, although I would have loved to see the initial ignition and the fadeing at the end.
What I'd also like to know is if igniting rockets such as these horizontally, with this amount of thrust, would have any measurable impact on the earths rotation at all. If not, what amount of thrust would be needed to do this?
I doubt it.
Things that do, in fact, have a measurable effect on the Earth's rotational speed are massive civil engineering projects. Stuff like: Digging lots of big, deep holes (mining). Building lots of really tall buildings. Mountaintop removal (a horrible coal-mining technique). Also in there would be a far more significant effect from melting glaciers and ice-caps, and its associated sea-level rise. (Note to trolls: Many glaciers and ice-caps are on land, not floating in the sea, so don't make any 'ice cube' arguments.)
We did some calculations as undergrads in engineering, but I forget the numbers. They were measurable if one used an atomic clock with precision of that era. It's just math.
Read the sentence before the one you quoted. "Typically, HDR images are developed using multiple cameras or multiple exposure sequencing. The game changing approach implemented here is to create high-speed HDR video imagery utilizing a single camera without time sequencing."
Agreed. This was not emphasized in the article, but it's the manner in which their new HDR camera records data that is new. It does not do three sequential reads at different exposure levels, like your iPhone does. A rocket plume is fast-changing and fast-moving, so sequential reads would have time-drift error between 'equivalent' frames.
What it probably does is have either several read lines for each pixel, with different circuitry for each of the orders of exposure-level. Or, possibly, it is a super-sensitive detector array that quick-reads every pixel multiple times per frame, meaning that it records the same near-instantaneous frame in several order-of-magnitude bins. Software, as with any HDR system, then combines them. Those are my guesses.
Somewhere else said that it records in the IR range, too. Probably just SWIR, but still a useful addition.
Another guess: Two or more detector arrays placed one-over-the-other, in a stack. IR up front. Then, perhaps an attenuation layer between one array and the next. All read at the same exact moment (or after identical exposure-time), and the attenuators allow, again, for typical HDR software to stitch the images together. Actually, had I seen the CFP, this is what I would have proposed. Such a system would record result in all sub-frames for HDR conversion to cover exact same moment. Far less error – only speed-of-light error, but over micrometer length scales, making it insignificant.
NASA surely could have come up with a better acronym than SLS (OK, the SLA could have).
The way over-cost and doomed Space Shuttle Program bore the acronym STS.
Branding-wise, that is a little bit too close.