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The server is effed, but you can get most of the content of the Gallery page from Google's cache, as well as get a direct link to the red stapler image.

While this explanation doesn't really belong in this document, we are asked it often enough that we have decided to put it here. While the POV-Ray(TM) source code is freely available, it isn't 'open' according to the currently popular definition of the term (meaning that it isn't available to create derivative works other than fully functional versions of POV-Ray). The reasons for this are historical. Primarily, at the time that POV-Ray(TM) was originally developed (starting in about 1990), on Compuserve, it was a different environment than today. Virtually none of the developers had internet access and there wasn't a great awareness of things like the GPL. The team at that time rolled their own license - one that allowed free use of the software but attempted to prevent people taking unfair advantage of it.

As people contributed code to POV-Ray(TM) over the years - and there have been many instances of this - they contributed it to us on the understanding that it would be covered by the POV-Ray(TM) license, as it stood at the time. Now, in 2001, we find that in many cases we don't know who wrote what part of the code, or that the author is uncontactable. We simply don't have the right to arbitrarily change the terms under which their source code is distributed. Even though it was contributed to us, we feel that we must honor the terms under which it was given. Therefore, POV- Ray(TM) will remain on this existing license until we do a full re-write (which is intended for v4), at which time a new license will be instituted that is far more liberal in terms of reuse.

POV-RAY has an obnoxious licensing scheme that's in many ways worse than anything to come out of Microsoft. Not only is the program itself proprietary, but it even goes so far as to stipulate what you can and can't subsequently do with your own artwork. I'm surprised anyone in the geek community, open source enthusiast or otherwise, would want to be associated with POV-RAY. This is the software that gives 'freeware' a bad name.

not only that, you'll find everyhing in the google cache

at: Here

Therefore, since we "know" Jesus spent 40 days in a fiery hell between his resurrection and his ascent to heaven (Lesson 7 of the Baltimore Catechism), it's reasonable to assume that he may have used nuclear fusion to slip away undetected. And used a force field to contain the explosion. And protected the shroud from being incinerated, but exposed it just enough to leave his shadow. After all, God created fusion "thousands" of years before man discovered it. It stands to reason he would be able to control it better than we do.

Another -- more plausible -- theory is that Jesus "miracled" himself up to heaven.

Personally, I believe the guards were drunk and didn't notice him slip out the back and hop a ship to the Bahamas. Hey, I'm entitled to my beliefs.

It seems to be slashdotted, lets try the Google cache

I doubt they'd bother.

Google Cache

the big red eyeballs on the cabinets.
As long as we can keep making such strides in Red Eyeball technology, HAL can't be very far off.

No, really...there is a new lead dog...
The amazing "Q" (built by CompaQ, go figure)

ASCI Q, named to follow LANL's tradition of alphabeticalnames for computers, will have 11,968 processors, 12terabytes of memory and 600 terabytes of disk storage. It willbe about two and one-half times as powerful as today's mostpowerful supercomputer, ASCI White at Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in Livermore, California. It wouldrequire approximately 20,000 of today's state-of-the-art PCs,which are capable of about 1.5 gigaOPS, working veryclosely together to match the peak performance of ASCI Q.

or read more here/a?

Google's cache

This hints at no, but this seems to suggest it's packaged.

Anyone with evidence?

Gmanske.

There's been a long-recognized phenomenon discovered among people who have sight restored after long periods of blindness: Motivation Crisis

http://psych.wisc.edu/vision/courses/recovery.html

http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:ZD8gWmH2aEYC: www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/Art/art111/files/ 12_tosee.pdf+

Notes on this phenomenon go back to at least 1771, with the publishing of the book "L'Aveugle Qui Refiise deVoir." By 1932, there was a book "Space and Sight" that concluded that "every newly sighted adult sooner or later comes to a 'motivation crisis', and that not every patient gets through it." Fortunately for this guy though, this problem seems to be more linked to people who lost their sight early, and then regained it much later, having to radically change their lives down to the tiniest mannerisms. It might have something to do with the time limitation they are putting on him, and the scientists choice of Jans, for his positive attitude.

Definetly an interesting topic on human psychology though. Hopefully with future inventions along this line, no one will be forceably blind long enough for such depression to occur along these lines. It makes one wonder though - will more distant technology create a new sort of "Motivation Crisis" in us if perception enchancements become widely available and used.

Ryan Fenton

This sucks, I'm bummed that SCC would be cheese-dicks about this. (If in fact that's what they're planning on) However, if you deal with gov't clients that want SELinux-based solutions, at least some of them do have the option of making the project classified and screwing over (sort of) the patent holder. I feel bad for you guys with private clients who actually have to obey all laws, although I'd be just as happy to negotiate a royalty agreement with SCC if we *had* to.

This does disappoint me, though. I hope SCC will behave as they originally claimed (in the SELinux FAQ document), but there's no law AFAIK (and no, I am Not A Lawyer) that can stop them from being Bad People.

Bummer.

I'm pretty sure webpages have very little validity when compared to patents, but my favorite part of this debate is the fact that no one from SCC said anything until the use of SELinux in a commercial package was brought up on the mailing list. Even better is this page, which, after being around for about 2 years, 'magically' disappeared from SCC's website after the debate began on the mailing list. Take a look at Questions 5 & 6, which pretty much spell out that they released the work under the "letter and spirit of the GPL."

This is just another example of software patent BS. Doesn't the GPL forbid/advise against patents anyway? If that's the case then why would SCC bother to say they were releasing the work under the GPL? It looks more like they just noticed that there could be money to be made on this, so now it's time to break out the patents and scream about royalties.

Way to go, SCC. I think you've confused the 'spirit of the GPL' with something else far more ugly.

In case that happens, here's the Google cache of the Google cache!

Quick batman to the google mirror...

here
or
here

hurry of these too will be /.'ed

And what about fastforwarding through the previews and commercials on videos and DVDs? Are they going to try and put anti-fast-forwarding technology in them?

Umm... Where have you been? Many DVD's already require this of CSS compliant DVD players.

Hollywood Pictures Home Video held me hostage for ten minutes after inserting The Sixth Sense into my DVD Player. I was unable to fast-forward past the previews and the menu button was disabled.

Microsoft has, indeed admitted in open court that:

1) There are hidden API's

2) They refuse to disclose them as they feel it will negate a competitive advantage such nondisclosures afford them.

As for URL's, for starters, /. had an article on this recently, though salon seems to have broken the referenced link and it has been tough tracking it down. I believe it is cached here.

The fact MS API's are not documented is better documented than that, however. One should probably peruse the findings of fact. There was also an article on ZDnet (surprisingly) on this as well.

I found a Microsoft KB Article on undocumented API's as well as a perl tool pertaining to them with just a cursory google.

For the paranoid, I am sure a little more diligence would indeed turn up the very court documents in which the quotes were made, but really, the fact Microsoft hides code from developers has been discussed ad nauseum in the press ever since DOS, and has not only never been contested by Microsoft, rather the reverse, Microsoft has always said this is a necessary part of its business strategy.

That can't do it now, unless they also block google.com.

A savvy Chinese citizen can simply view google's cached copy. They've got to know in general what they're looking for, but try this example:

A CNN story about Falun Gong here

This is a great article.....

The following link:
Get a cable modem, go to jail
details what can happen when you do something like this.

This is a GeoCities site, and looks like it is already being hammered, so you may not be able to get to it directly, so go here
for the Google cache.

Basically, this poor schmoe got a cable modem, without cable TV. Due to a snafu of military proportions, the cable company didn't block his TV, and the cable TV company brought charges against him.

Here's the google mirror of that geocities site.

Google Cache

If a site is /.ed, don't forget Google Cache.
Here for the main story.
And here for the parenthetical article.

If a site is /.ed, don't forget Google Cache.
Here for the main story.
And here for the parenthetical article.

but...hit the google cache

Google's cache r00lez

Google Cache Here

Looks like an easter egg to me. :)

Google's cache of www.google.com

To wit: http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:zsbOtgGsZtYC: www.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF8

"Should I sell my baseball cards and buy their stock now.." well, the sites down and thus they can't handle a simple little Slashdot flood.

Any company that can't handle the slashdot effect isn't worth buying stock in

BTW. here's Google's cache of their site's main page

Some useful google caches:

Main Page
Technology (hype?)

-Berj

Some useful google caches:

Main Page
Technology (hype?)

-Berj

Here's the Google cache for those too lazy to find it themselves.

It seems as though it is down already so here is the google cache

Here is a company that provides the service to hotels that does what you want. Have no idea what is under the hood though:

http://globaloop.i.pl/pdf/globaloop-ghotel.pdf

Here is the google html of the PDF, as the server is SLOOOOW:

http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:ylDnHL43FNIC: globaloop.i.pl/pdf/globaloop-ghotel.pdf+%22no+reco nfiguration+required%22&hl=en

As posted below, there's also a Google cache of the Open Office mirror list. PlanetMirror is painfully slow, at least for me.

Check this Google cache of the Open Office Mirrors Project website. Not as convenient as the direct download links from the fontpage, but definitely a start.

Perhaps the most troubling application of the DMCA is the recent criminal prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov. Sklyarov's employer, a Russian software company known as Elcomsoft, produced and distributed software that can be used to convert digital books from Adobe's eBook format into Adobe's PDF format. In the course of the format conversion, the use restrictions imposed by the eBook format are stripped away. It is undisputed that the Elcomsoft software can be used to facilitate noninfringing uses of eBooks (e.g., fair use excerpting, or to facilitate automated translation into Braille for blind readers). Sklyarov himself was never accused of infringing a copyright, or assisting in the infringing activities of any third party. Nevertheless, for his part in developing the software, U.S. officials arrested him and held him in custody for 3 weeks.[17] He and Elcomsoft were recently indicted by a grand jury in San Jose, California. Based on the indictment, Sklyarov faces a maximum of 25 years in prison and a fine that could exceed $2 million.

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

The DMCA grants limited permission to circumvent copyright protection in order to make braille copies of eBooks for use by the blind, for example, but the EUCD makes such exceptions optional for member states, so they need not be implemented.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for an authorized entity to reproduce or to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published, nondramatic literary work if such copies or phonorecords are reproduced or distributed in specialized formats exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities.

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

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Prostitution is only legal in a couple counties in Nevada - even then those counties COMBINED all have a population LESS than 250 people

Just what the hell are yout talking about? I don't know about Storey county, but the
census figures for Lyon county show 34501 for this county alone. Although the median family income is only $33k, the economy here is moving ahead pretty well...

Woohoo, I'll reply to my own post with the link to google's cache of the radlight download page.

Link

However, whether the correlation is nearly as sstrong for freeway (or two-lane rural road, for that matter) traffic I personally doubt. I also believe that governments and police forces overemphasise speed's role in causing accidents because it's easier than advocating extensive driver training and better testing (including regular retesting).

I'm certainly not going to stop speeding on the ruler-straight, zero-traffic minor roads in rural Oz :)

The government already enforces the age restrictions on rated "R" movies

It does no such thing.

wow.. right outta 1984, editing history on the fly. It could have just been a typo but why not just own up to it?

Want to see something scarier than newspapers silently revising things? How about the whitehouse? Here is a video clip of George W. claiming we've been alies with japan for a century and a half, and heres the original whitehouse transcript (mirrored) that quietly changes "because for a century and a half now" (which is clearly what he says in the video) to "because for half a century now".

Only after the whitehouse got made a mockery of in the press and on the internet did they finnally do the right thing and update their transcript to say what it should've said in the first place (an accurate transcript of what he actually said, with a '**' noting what he meant to say).

Of course, there was no public acknowledgement that the initial transcript was inaccurate and only changed due to public outcry; but I saw it when the "smoking gun" (inaccurate) transcript was still up at whitehouse.gov, and I can tell you for 100% certain that they actually did this.

The inevitable direct 1984/Eastasia (hey, his speech says eastasia) comparison is here (linking to the google cache because some asshole hacked that site so the original is down).

Theres numerous other examples of the bush whitehouse revising transcripts so they don't make the president look like such a dolt. There was a interesting article I saw about it a few days ago, that mentioned this example and several others (including rumsfeld transcripts being revised too) but even with google I am unable to find it now. If anyone knows the article I'm thinking of, please post a link.

• When lynx calls external programs for protocols (e.g. telnet), the location is passed unchecked
• CERT Advisories: Lynx security issue! (Google cache)
• Vulnerability in Lynx Downloading, Vulnerability in Lynx Temporary Files
• ...

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