After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh

Source: After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh / Boing Boing

Cost overruns are bad, but aren’t they equally bad for highway and rail projects?

Source: High-Speed Rail Cost Overrun Reporting Raises Questions of Media Bias – Streetsblog California

The Academy Award-winning VFX supervisor pushed the boundaries of motion capture to create the astonishing reveal. And earn another Oscar nomination.

Source: Discover How John Nelson & His VFX Team Brought Rachael Back to Life in ‘Blade Runner 2049’

The Bay Area has one of the largest and least sheltered homeless populations in the country. Over the past year, the SPUR Board of Directors convened a study group to learn more about homelessness — both its causes and its possible solutions.

Source: Homelessness in the Bay Area | SPUR

The M/o/Vfuscator (short ‘o’, sounds like “mobfuscator”) compiles programs into “mov” instructions, and only “mov” instructions.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Source: A Conversation about Teaching Software Engineering – Embedded in Academia

“Green blood. Green women. And Nazis.”

Source: Tarantino-Style ‘Star Trek’ Trailer Shows Us The Wonderful Potential | HuffPost

Sometimes, laws seem to be written in the most confusing, ineffective way possible. Take the state law on car break-ins, for example. Currently, smashing the window of a car and taking valuables inside it can be charged as a felony burglary only if it can be proved in court that the car doors were locked. Otherwise, it’s a misdemeanor theft. Strangely, that smashed window doesn’t count as evidence the car was forcibly entered. That means the victim of the break-in has to take time off work to come to court to testify under oath that, yes, the car was locked when somebody had to smash a window to get inside.

Source: California Sen. Wiener tries to shut odd loophole in car break-in law – San Francisco Chronicle

New York will also join a handful of cities around the world to deploy trains with open pathways between cars that can squeeze in more riders at a time when the subway struggles under the burden of accommodating nearly six million rides every day.The first cars, which will be manufactured under a contract between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Japanese company, Kawasaki, are scheduled to be delivered in July 2020.

Source: New York Set to Acquire the Next Generation of Subway Cars – The New York Times

This is the thing that some genius in the 1960s decided BART wouldn’t do contrary to every other rail system in the world.

Previously: BART Makes Some Progress on Noise