Did you know some people can cry at will? Actors find it a useful skill.

Rendering would be pretty much instant, as they're simply mapping shot footage onto generated 3d models as texture, in a sense.

It's generating the models that can be pretty intensive, and if they're actually getting reliable results of the quality seen here with only a few cameras, their software is pretty good. The automated solutions I've seen for scene capture have been a bit off from the mark still, having trouble with reflective surfaces especially and generally being a bit unpredictable. This looks quite impressive.
Probably they take advantage of having a fixed location, so they can pre-calibrate the camera fixes in advance, improving the quality of the spatial interpretation and probably speeding things up as well.

What he's doing now is probably the most effective way of getting the word out. Going to trial, even if that happened and he didn't simply disappear or die or get locked up in some concentration camp, would be unlikely to do much. The trial would simply be held behind closed doors and all documents sealed on national security grounds.

"Nice body bro. What can you do with it?" about sums it up for me. Performance and aesthetics aren't mutually exclusive, but focusing on the latter will hamper the former. To each their own, of course, but I like exercise because it enables me to do more.

The whistle was blown on this over a year ago - how is everyone surprised now?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

I guess Snowden was right to draw attention to himself by going to Hong Kong. It seems to have gotten results this time.

Is that a sign of having had too much beer, or not enough?

And when the vacuum fails? When something goes wrong at 6500 kph, it really goes wrong big-time. This isn't a new idea, and from what I've read, hasn't been realized because in reality, the risks are too great.

Would you consider taking Bitcoin? I'd be happy to pitch in, but I prefer to avoid using VISA, Mastercard, Paypal and co, who haven't exactly been standing up for free speech lately.

Dry. Finnish, born and raised. They say the people inhabiting Finland originally came from somewhere around modern day Mongolia, which may lend support to your Asian theory. OTOH, that would have been some time around the last ice age, or shortly thereafter, with significant mixing with other, European, elements up to this day.

Energy drink viral?

Not that I think it's a big deal how potent marijuana is, but it seems strange to counter the claim the THC concentration has increased enormously with numbers showing average concentrations have gone up 60 %...

The vegan and paleo crowds haven't clashed yet, but boy, is it going to be intense when they do. Proponents of both diets claim similar benefits, but with drastically different approaches...

Maybe one that physically manifests the hopes and fears of the humans close to it...

I agree with a lot of the views fnord expressed here, and thought - great subject for a video, I should show this to some people to start conversation.

Then I watched the video... So much conspiratorial broad-brushing and fearmongering! A shame. I'm tempted to try to put together a more even-headed narrative around the problems with fnord authoritarian education.

It occurs to me Nimoy would make an awesome Gandalf nowadays.