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Comment Re:I hear Wildcard Studios just licensed their wor (Score 1) 212

by Omniscient Lurker (#32315094) Attached to: Federal Court Issues Permanent Injunction For Isohunt
I always thought the Streisand Effect was where attempts to censor/hide something brought more attention to it, in this case RIAA lawsuit increasing public awareness and use of bittorrent. This is more in lines with John Gilmore's quote, "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." It is impossible to stop something on the Internet.
The Military

Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes 311

Posted by Soulskill from the these-guys-saved-my-butt-in-C&C dept.
Lanxon writes "Wired followed US Army Staff Sergeant Kevin Rosner into Afghanistan to see first-hand the tools, tactics, and pressures involved in coordinating military airstrikes. This lengthy piece explores the people and technology involved in high-risk airborne warfare, from their perspective. From the article: 'Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player called a "Rover," built by L3 Communications, a New York-based defense contractor. The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of dollars, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. With his Rover, Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective. On his back he carries a radio programmed with secure frequencies that tie him directly to the pilots overhead and to his unit's headquarters, several miles away. At the headquarters, another JTAC monitors a bigger, more sophisticated video terminal that displays the same video Rosner sees, plus other data.'"
Displays

AU Optronics Asks For US Ban On LG LCD Sales 155

Posted by Soulskill from the alphabet-soup dept.
eldavojohn writes "After a lengthy patent case, complete with countersuits, AU Optronics has asked for an injunction against all LCD products made by LG. While this may not sound serious, LG is the number one manufacturer of LCDs used in LCD TVs, laptop PCs and desktop monitors. A quarter of global LCDs shipped in March were LG brand. The bizarre part of the story is that LG Display struck first against AU Optronics way back in 2006 with a patent suit to the tune of $690 million, and in 2009, when the case finally went to court, AUO filed counter-claims of patent infringement that are now coming to fruition. So before you call AUO a patent troll, keep in mind that LGD shot first."
Programming

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 359

Posted by Soulskill from the gaining-understanding-bit-by-bit dept.
-brazil- writes "Every programmer forum gets a steady stream of novice questions about numbers not 'adding up.' Apart from repetitive explanations, SOP is to link to a paper by David Goldberg which, while very thorough, is not very accessible for novices. To alleviate this, I wrote The Floating-Point Guide, as a floating-point equivalent to Joel Spolsky's excellent introduction to Unicode. In doing so, I learned quite a few things about the intricacies of the IEEE 754 standard, and just how difficult it is to compare floating-point numbers using an epsilon. If you find any errors or omissions, you can suggest corrections."

Comment Few things. (Score 2, Interesting) 383

by Omniscient Lurker (#29114873) Attached to: The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen
As a upcoming freshmen let me make a few points.
3. The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
Shrek came out in 2001. I remember part of the first 11 years of my life. Including the Jolly Green Giant (not much but enough to never call Shrek the green giant).
4. They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
My first Elementary School had one, so did the public library back then.
8. Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible.
That's pretty regional, it is only in the last few years they have caught on where I live
19. They have never understood the meaning of R.S.V.P.
Send a Reply/Confirmation?
21. Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled.
???
27. Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
Not in my school(s).
44. There have always been flat screen televisions.
Maybe, but how many people had them earlier in the 90's (my childhood).
51. Britney Spears has always been heard on classic rock stations.
She didn't really become popular till the late 90s. How'd she get on classics for my entire life when she didn't start until halfway through it?
53. Someone has always been asking: "Was Iraq worth a war?"
They're gonna be asking that a long time.
54. Most communities have always had a mega-church.
I let this slide because they used "most".

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