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RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown 140

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:09PM from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

New submitter souperfly writes "The Inquirer has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shut down by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targeted sites. BT confirmed it will block the site, but didn't say when. Before, it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop."

Anathem 356

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 24, 2008 @03:25PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Max Tardiveau writes "I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Anathem. I was awaiting it with some anticipation because I absolutely loved Stephenson's best-known novels: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon. One of Stephenson's non-fiction pieces, called In the beginning was the command line, simply wowed me when I read it. The man can write. A few years ago, I got really excited when I heard that he was writing a whole cycle of novels (the Baroque cycle). But I read the first book of the cycle — Quicksilver — and I was somewhat disappointed, so I skipped the rest of the cycle. I realize that many people enjoyed these novels, but I was hoping that Stephenson would get back his old style and inspiration. So, when Anathem was announced, I was full of anticipation — was this going to be the one? Would he find his mark again?" Keep reading for Max's impressions of Anathem

Comment Re:I was honestly surprised. (Score 2, Informative) 311

by arm on Friday January 16, 2004 @01:12PM (#7999322) Attached to: How Spirit Takes Pictures

Got this as an email the other day on my University of Minnesota account...it talks about the compression used. Haven't read up on it, though.

"The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) is currently landing a pair of rovers on Mars (one landed last week and the other will be landing soon).
Well over half of the bits transmitted from the rovers will consist of compressed image data gathered from the unprecedented nine cameras
on-board each rover. This compression is based on the ICER and the LOCO [1] image compression technologies. LOCO was developed by Dr. Marcelo Weinberger and Dr. Gadiel Seroussi from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Prof. Sapiro from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (while he was at the HP Labs before joining the University).

The JPL/NASA hardware implementation of LOCO on-board the rovers is used when maximum geometric and radiometric fidelity is required. The LOCO technology, patented by Sapiro, Seroussi, and Weinberger at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, is also the core of the international standard JPEG-LS for
the lossless and near-lossless compression of still images."

[1] M. J. Weinberger, G, Seroussi, and G. Sapiro, ``The LOCO-I lossless image compression algorithm: Principles and standardization into JPEG-LS,'' IEEE Trans. Image Processing 9, pp. 1309-1324, 2000.)

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