The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers, who have never tasted chocolate before or even know what it is, are given some for the first time.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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In case you guys are wondering where they're really imprisoning Magneto, this news crew got threatened with arrest by corrections officers of a prison that is supposedly closed and abandoned for filming at the house where Ulysses S. Grant died, across the street.



New York Cops. Ain't nothin' like em. 'Cept maybe Texas ATF officers, maybe.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Oh, I completely agree that "Turn down for what" is creatively bankrupt hooligan gobbledygook. It just didn't actually click with me until this viewing how rapey the video was, what with the "Here's a lady, this guy breaks into her apartment and destroys her shit with his dick. She struggles to stop him, but can't stop his runaway dicksmashing until eventually she comes to love it and starts responding enthusiastically and positively."
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I don't think it's that she starts to "love" it so much as "becomes infected" by it. She doesn't welcome his arrival, she succumbs to it.

--Patrick
 
sixpackshaker

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Two dogs breeding from genetically fragile breeds, does not mean that their pups will be genetically healthier. The pup could end up with hip dysplasia and cancer.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

GasBandit said:
In case you guys are wondering where they're really imprisoning Magneto, this news crew got threatened with arrest by corrections officers of a prison that is supposedly closed and abandoned for filming at the house where Ulysses S. Grant died, across the street.
New York Cops. Ain't nothin' like em. 'Cept maybe Texas ATF officers, maybe.
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Abandoned properties still owned by the state are secured by the department/division/whatever that was in charge of them. That's the case with my old place of work, even though the SOWI is trying to sell it off (anyone got a few million bucks lying around?).

The other thing? Old prisons can garner big cash for the state to be used as a film stage - and can also be a sensitive spot for those states that were accused of being too hasty in closing said facilities, or in their maintenance of them since closure (as in, "left to rot").
 
Dave

Dave

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Yeah, that guy has some crazy videos. imagine how many times he had to practice that to get it right.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom


Now that's thought-provoking.
I want to know if this will lead to higher-performing audio microphones, actually. A switch from induction-based capture to light-based capture.

--Patrick
 
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I was surprised that kHz range sounds could be recovered from 30-60Hz video until I saw they were using ~6kHz high speed cameras. I like what they did with the rolling shutter, though there's some serious aliasing. Could be good for forensics where quality doesn't matter. Now all we need is for Law and Order or CSI to get ahold of this and make something really unrealistic happen.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
Now that's fascinating. You will never be able to hold a private conversation again, since any flexible material near you becomes a microphone. Dark? Use infrared to illuminate the object and record it. The fact that they were able to use a rolling shutter to recover the sound suggests that they could develop an image sensor designed specifically for this that would be cheap. Imagine having this on your binoculars - you can hear what the people you are looking at are saying. Surveillance cameras would be able to record conversations of those they are watching - multiple simultaneous conversations.
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"Spy beams"
It'd be like ShotSpotter, but more comprehensive.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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stienman said:
Now that's fascinating. You will never be able to hold a private conversation again, since any flexible material near you becomes a microphone. Dark? Use infrared to illuminate the object and record it. The fact that they were able to use a rolling shutter to recover the sound suggests that they could develop an image sensor designed specifically for this that would be cheap. Imagine having this on your binoculars - you can hear what the people you are looking at are saying. Surveillance cameras would be able to record conversations of those they are watching - multiple simultaneous conversations.
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I wonder if it would work on closed blinds. I mean, they are really just thin plastic membranes that no doubt vibrate to sound.
 
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Monitoring conversations via window vibration is old hat. Some government buildings have wire meshes over the windows to prevent microwave monitoring. Those meshes wouldn't work with pure optical monitoring though.
 
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