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hen I first saw this, I thought it was a hoax! But its mentioned a few times on google already.

A brief check on the authors shows that there isn't much on the web about these guys.

Troy Javaher is listed as being at ICANN 99 here, and the other guy here.

Dotmd is a strange site

Either way... When did the business model "I created a patent just so I could sue you" a socially acceptable business practice? I have no love for register.com, but I don't think that this is an acceptable thing to do to anyone.

This supports charities albeit without the tax deduction.

To which he replied "Try living on $7 bucks an hour"

Well, it's gone up since then at least -- it's $13-15/hour now. See here or here.

That said, $13-15/hour isn't going to be a whole lot of money if you're living in So. Cal. -- it's livable, but you're not going to be buying a lot of toys (except lego obviously) or live in a big house (unless you make it out of the aforementioned lego).

Based on the "Lego Master Builder" FAQ page (here's a Google cache, since the main is toast) there are decent benefits as well, plus some travel (which probably means a good bit of travel, for which you'd be paid extra).

Whether or not you can live on that money is obviously dependant on lifestyle and other income, but, hey -- it still is a dream job (if you like Lego).

There are serious theoretical reasons to believe magnetism AND tidal interactions are a factor. Related articles here, here (postscript) and here (postscript). (Can't read postscript? Get ghostscript, or read the text versions.

There are serious theoretical reasons to believe magnetism AND tidal interactions are a factor. Related articles here, here (postscript) and here (postscript). (Can't read postscript? Get ghostscript, or read the text versions.

Not sure about the wheel, but an older name for tracks on a tank is 'Caterpillar tyres'. Sort of gives away the idea of where they came from. As for rotating blades, well maybe not in a living animal but how about the Maple seed?

Mind you, I'm all in for the glowing red eys and smoke...

Cheers,
Ian

Google rules for caching the documents, and highlighting your search terms. Try searching for something like 'linux man mount hpfs' and get not only the manpage, but the HPFS specific stuff highlighted for you. A few mouse-wheels later you can scroll right to the stuff you're looking for.

You're welcome. :)

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:oPRZttcq9icJ: http://rejo.zenger.nl/abuse/emailcd.php&hl=en&ie=U TF-8

>>1) USA gave weapons to Saddam.

>Thats interesting, especially considering his tanks, missiles, and aircraft were all soviet made, and his chemical weapons were either German or Japanese. If we did give him weapons, it wasn't very many I guess.

Well, see... your link is dated 1984... Here are three that are more current:

Helping iraq kill with chemical weapons
Chemical weapons - the US and iraq
US-iraq weapons sales: the dossier (Google cache)

Choice quote from the 1st link: "on July 3, 1991, the Financial Times reported that a Florida company run by an Iraqi national had produced cyanide -- some of which went to Iraq for use in chemical weapons -- and had shipped it via a CIA contractor"

And these are just the TIP of the iceberg.

The US voted for 5 resolutions in the 80's that condemned Iraq for its chemical weapon use.

Good for the US! Unfortunately, see the two links above. By the way, as long as we're talking about condemnations, the US has been condemned by the UN in the past.

Iraq is a big place. I mean, it took us 6 months to find is air force buried in the sand- how long will it take us to find a few drums of chemicals? They could be anywhere.

You mean to tell me that you consider a pile of completely unuseable, verging-on-scrap planes buried in SAND to be a viable fighting force? I mean PUH-lease... it would take weeks or months to make any of them even close to workable.

Actually, my mistake... it seems that there actually was a viable fighting force buried in the desert. Oh wait... that was satire.

It doesn't make any sense to only lie halfway like that. I think the fact that we haven't found any weapons yet is proof that the Bush administration wasn't lying about the WMD's.

OK, now that paragraph is an excellent display of gullibility.

I think that you are simply afraid to believe that you have been lied to. I think you're afraid of the implications.

When I tried to view the pics the site had already been ./'ed. Here's the google cache for the Lubic Gallery of Case Mods

With magnetic brain imaging using SQUIDs (which can located brain activity in real time) and gamma knife technology, which can destroy specific pieces of brain tissue without opening up a person's head, why wouldn't this be possible? We're still at the blunt intrument stage from both the sensor point of view and the neuron destruction point of view, but we're a lot closer than many people may think.

Google cache

Blogzine

Oh. Except in this case, the article itself is wrong.

Stupid, stupid article. Stupider /. editors.

The network is just a 155Mbps -- that's Megabits per second -- network. That's just an OC3.

Look at the google cache of a powerpoint discussing this network.

So this breaks no speed records -- but it is a nice fat pipe into some places that have very limited bandwidth to the outside world.

- Peter

The next reason has to do with "Michael Surkan". Do a google search on the name and you will find it synonymous with FUD, insult and cluelessnes. The most damning quotes atributed to him are:

• If nothing else, the Linux community has an influence beyond its numbers, and getting on its good side might help sales elsewhere. As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics, Microsoft (and other NOS vendors) have nothing to worry about. This quote made it into people's sigs all over the place.
• If Microsoft is forced to take Internet Explorer out of Windows 95 or Windows NT, then by all rights Sun should have to stop shipping Solaris 2.6 with the HotJava browser

Additionally, he denied official backing from Microsoft in his letter to the gslug list maintainers, "P.S. This report is a skunkworks project of mine, and really doesn't have anything to do with my "day job". As if any Microsoft employee were free say what they think. Such typical Microsoft.

I have yet to look for Frank, but I imagine another blast of BS awaits anyone who does. Oh, hell, I'll look.

Don't waste much time on the survey. The answer is sure to be, "Remember to eat our dog food".

Only the KDE/Qt OpenOffice port link at dot.kde.org was in Google's cache: porting OpenOffice to Qt/KDE

Direct link to kde.openoffice.org

-Mike

Here is the Google Cache

motorcycle speedometers are notoriously inaccurate.

without $COPYRIGHT anyone could distribute the $MEDIA anytime in any format any way they want. All without having to pay a penny to $ANYONE. This in essence would kill the $ENTERTAINMENT industry. $MAKING_AND_DISTRIBUTING_MOVIES_AND_BOOKS isn't cheap.

(emphasis mine)

And therefore, we should have our natural abilities (natural ability to store and reproduce information) restricted and limited to maintain this outdated business model, and the profitability to the established system?

Sorry, but trying to forever retain control of an essentially plentiful resource by excersising artificial scarcity may work for awhile, but doesn't deserve protection, and as a practice has earned my contempt.

Let's try the simple-analogy test, OK? Let me re-state your statement, using another example that is so similar it is almost scary.

without $MONOPOLY anyone could distribute $DIAMONDS anytime [...] they want. All without having to pay a penny to $DEBEERS. This in essence would kill the $DIAMOND_MONOPOLY industry. $HOARDING_DIAMONDS_AND_SUPPORTING_BLOODY_WARS isn't cheap.

(And before you say $HOARDING_DIAMONDS_AND_SUPPORTING_BLOODY_WARS != $MAKING_AND_DISTRIBUTING_MOVIES_AND_BOOKS), they are just both "costs of business" to the respective company.

Why is this interesting?

RIAA sues poor children (hurting their chance for a full, happy life later on) to protect its financial interests.

DeBeers supports bloody coups that disfigure poor children (hurting their chance for a full, happy life later on) to protect its financial interests.

Should all other diamond sources be stopped, to protect DeBeers?
By your logic, yes.

I say, assuredly not!.

In both cases, the $COMPANY of interest is doing increasingly more thug-like activities to enforce the artificial scarcity (and therefore, the artificial value) of their respective $PRODUCTS.

I see little difference in their business methods, also.

... But forget about movie making. [...] What it boils down to is copyright protects the media from illegal distribution which takes a bite out of profit. Profit that would otherwise help fund more artists make there dreams come true. Music books and other art could possibly survive without copyright but film is a whole other story.

Four thoughts on this.
1) You got it: copyright helps established entities PROFIT in today's system. Companies that can then turn around and lobby lawmakers for even more profit^H^H^Htection from customers.

2) Profit is currently the end result of copyright. However, the mechanisms by which copyright leads to profit are inherantly "detrimental" to the general public, at least (theoretically) in the short term. Combine this with ever-expanding "protection" == ever increasing "detrimental-ity" of copyright system to general public, and the ever more brute-ish "enforcement means" that said companies would ask for as "legal enforcement methods" is obscene to the average person.

3) I, for one, would be in favor of complete abolishment or "return to original 7-year-term" rollback of copyright. I would also be in favor of a complete freeze of new penal laws, especially felony-level laws. Just to contradict myself, I also would completely support a law mandating the pillary to anyone (natural person, or officers of artificial person, but not govn't) who knowingly supplies a politician with money, and a double-flogging & tar/feather for any politician that accepts same. Anyone else think that this would be a good direction to go in? After that, it would be harder for we (the people) to grant a priveledge (limited monopoly) to a company, and then have that con

I'm a bit surprised by the D- for NASA. I was a NASA contractor for many years, and about 5 years ago NASA got very serious about implementing the requirments of OMB Circular A-130 Security Management of Federal Automated Information Resources. In particular, NASA developed a set of its own stricter guidelines to respond to Section III of the OMG circular. NASA referred to this as NPG 2810 and instructed all program-related data centers and contractors to implement post-haste.

Money was added to our contract to facilitate the implementation, the NASA CIO oversaw the implementation effort and assigned both security contractors and internal security managers to coordinate the implementation. The schedule was fast paced, and within 3 months we had completed 3 detailed plans: Risk Assessment, IT Security, and Contingency. We then had 6 months to implement. After 6 months we were audited by a independent security team. We were audited every 6 months with proactive scanning, plan checks, security background checks, and other auditing methods.

About 1.5 years after kicking this effort off, we asked to begin penetration testing, and NASA hired an independent contractor to conduct an aggressive penetration test. NASA demanded compliance, we were responsive, and NASA provided the resources (including training). While I don't know how comprehensively NASA applied this same attitude to all of its programs, they were very aggressive with all contractors as well as NASA-run data centers within the same program area. I'm flabbergasted to see a D-grade for them!

They don't give out Nobel prizes for "Most Novel New Method to Kill People".

Actually...

I count 16 Nobel Prize winners highlighted. Sure they didn't EXACTLY win for what their discoveries were used for, but still.

Google cache to the rescue!

America didn't give up on trains -- large auto manufactures diverted funds into building roads, dismantled our railroads, and used propaganda to get the public looking the other way.

Jobs got Woz to write the Atari games.

And Jobs stiffed Woz on the money Atari paid them.

See:
This Google cache of www.woz.org/letters/general/09.html.

See also:
This second google cache of www.woz.org/letters/general/53.html

You'll need to scroll down a little, but the paragraphs to look at have highlighting in them.

Jobs got Woz to write the Atari games.

And Jobs stiffed Woz on the money Atari paid them.

See:
This Google cache of www.woz.org/letters/general/09.html.

See also:
This second google cache of www.woz.org/letters/general/53.html

You'll need to scroll down a little, but the paragraphs to look at have highlighting in them.

Yes, it takes it into account in ranking results. However, by its own description of how it works, it is not supposed to add irrelevan results to the returns based on linking.

It's more than that. I've looked at pages via the cache, and when the words I was searching for weren't in the page, it said the words were in links that pointed to it.

For example, in the cache for a result you're complaining about: Amazon.com: Books: Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes

It says: These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: to be or not to be

Right now, the top 10 returns for "hell" are all accurate. Google only has the problem once you try to search on phrases.

It has nothing to do with that. Google manually fixed it because it became a widely reported story.

Compromised machine info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003 /debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html || Down: gluck (people, packages.d.o); || more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/

While lists.debian.org is down, a little bit of digging would have given you the Google cache. Also, it says right there that packages.debian.org is down. How much clearer can it get? I agree, it'd be better if someone had explained the situation instead of flaming, but the information was right there.

to get modded up:
1. Say that it's actually Google cache of the original article.
2. Make it a link.

These explained a little:

udev presentation (PDF), Google HTML version.

Detailed paper on udev (PDF), Google HTML version.

devfs works fine for me, but since some people (see second link) want thousands of disks I guess I'm not the target market. I mean ... thousands?

These explained a little:

udev presentation (PDF), Google HTML version.

Detailed paper on udev (PDF), Google HTML version.

devfs works fine for me, but since some people (see second link) want thousands of disks I guess I'm not the target market. I mean ... thousands?

linky linky

here

As reported on their cyber attacks page, Spamhaus.org is using the iSecure product from Melior to block the DDoS from mimail and variants. If iSecure fails and spamhaus.org is unreachable, here's the Google cache.

cache here (as of 10 Nov 2003 20:43 EST):

Belkin is aware of some recent postings that claim that Belkin wireless routers are spamming users during the setup process and periodically thereafter. It is not now, nor has it ever been, the policy of Belkin to intentionally spam our customers or anyone else. Belkin offers a free trial of our parental control feature in our routers, and to make our customers aware of the feature itself and to give them the opportunity to take advantage of the free trial, we have tried to direct users to the information regarding the parental control features. However, since this has become a source of concern to our users, and it is Belkin policy to address the concerns of our users quickly, Belkin has decided to remove this function from the routers. Each router's firmware that incorporates parental control as an option will be changed.

I cant believe how craptastic my schools servers performed

DISCOVERY LINK

You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Microsoft's future. Even a child knows that Microsoft is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

Due to the troubles of Santa Claus, scientific investigations and so on, Christmas went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft. Now Rudolph is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

The numbers continue to decline for Santa but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Microsoft is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Microsoft is dying.

I said Saddam & 9/11, not al Qaeda. Al Qaeda =! 9/11. In fact, there is evidence that Saddam *DID* deal with al Qaeda. Duh, everyone knows that.

I'm talking about the link between the September 11th Terrorist attacks and Saddam.

Here, read this.

From the Google Cache

[Thursday 9/18/97 - 5:10pm]

I've got an IRC interview on Undernet's #idsoftware tomorrow night. Be there
or be square ;) It'll be a cool chance to talk about Duke Nukem Forever,
Shadow Warrior, and all things 3D Realms. I'm looking forward to it.
The following is from Blue's page (http://www.bluesnews.com).

>>Broussard on IRC
The next in LoboSoft's series of IRC interviews will be with George Broussard of
Apogee/3D Realms on Undernet #idsoftware on Friday, September 19, at 9:00 PM
Eastern time. You are invited to submit questions for the interview in advance.
Check the website for details. http://id.lobosoft.com

1997!!!! I interviewed George about DNF. I'm still waiting George!

Yeah, they should have exported it to SVG using OpenOffice.org.

Here is the google html cache of it.

The site's hammered. Cache of the first entry. This is the really interesting one, though.

The site's hammered. Cache of the first entry. This is the really interesting one, though.

Quick, SIR HAXALOT, we need your help, post the Google cache!!!! We will mod you up to +5 I promise!

Too late

Quick, SIR HAXALOT, we need your help, post the Google cache!!!! We will mod you up to +5 I promise!

Too late

Here you go.

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:A6Tzll8vcOMJ: hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-240 030A1.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Here is HTML version of PDF provided by Google

Good catch, though "turd" might be better. Here's a poem about a fatal turd, from the Google cache: l'etron fatale de Luis Alfredo

There is no such thing as a "licence to use". Doesn't exist.

Read Eulas much?

US title 17 section 106 defines six exclusive rights a copyright holder may licence, but they really only amount to three different rights. The right to make copies (including derivatives), the right to distrubute them, and the right to public performance (including display and digital audio).

Alas for your perspective, the cases are clear -- the reading from disk and execution of code into RAM constitutes a reproduction within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. s. 106(a). The downloading of code and reproduction onto fixed media is, a fortiori, a reproduction.

Anyone who buys copy is the owner of that copy. He has every right to "use" it.

Except, of ourse, when he is not the owner of that copy. There are always implied licenses of course, but they exist only where they can be so understood. At any rate, I concur that in the context of music, I can certainly play the music in virtually any medium, either under an implied license or fair use, and under the AHRA, can probably change media with impunity. This gives me no right to transmit to you, unless of course, you have a license to receive it.

No one has ever sued a downloader because they can't. I invite you to find a single case of anyone ever sued for receiving a file.

It took about 10 seconds on Westlaw. Quick search for "copyright /s infringement /s download." Examples about, and of course the several -sterr opinions refer to downloading and uploading both as infringing acts, but how about DSC Communications corp. v. DGI Technologies, Inc., 898 F. Supp. 1183 (N.D. Tex. 1995) (granting preliminary injunction, holding, inter alia, that downloading copies of software from sustomer site constitutes copyright infringement)

There is also the Montgomery Ass'n of Realtors, Inc. v. Realty Photo Master Corp., 878 F. Supp. 804 (D. Md. 1995) (which holds, in dicta, that downloading copyrighted subject matter would constitute infringement).

Of course, uploading information to a resource operated by third parties in a swap meet where the information can be downloaded by others constitutes infringement, and cases are found whereby the analysis is on contribution grounds. Of course, there could be no contribution unless the receiving party was a direct infringer.

I haven't studied the many current RIAA cases to see if they are transmssion or reception cases, or both. Clearly, the RIAA Sample Complaint alleges both.

Ok, that's a minute or so of research on my part. Where is your authority for the contrary proposition?

It is impossible for the recipent to create a copy. You can't duplicate something you don't have. Only the uploader is in posession of a copy, only he is capable of creating another copy.

You say the recipient is not in possession of a copy, although on his disk there is a byte-for-byte identical

If the recipient demonstrates a license to use, I am safe to transmit

Incorrect. Without a licence you can't distribute to anyone. The proposal would have to be modified such that the copyright holder gives the uploader a licence to create and distribute a copy.

it doesn't address my proposal.

Even aside from the complexity of person A paying and B receiving the required licencing, it simply isn't worth involving P2P at all. Once you've already spent the money setting up a business and the servers and the internet pipe to run the website and send the licenses, the bandwith cost of sending the actual files is insignifigant.

With modification your proposal could be done, but you are involving P2P to solve a non-existant problem. Music sales aren't being held up by distribution issues. The actual issues are (1) no one wan

not too mention his statements from the article are totally wrong.

No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to.

Uhmm, except that a simple google search on "voluntary school prayer" immediately showed a third result of This case. From the article:

A 22 word prayer, crafted by the New York State Board of Regents, was read aloud daily in public school classrooms. Student participation was voluntary. On June 25, 1962, the Court ruled the Regents' prayer unconstitutional.

In a public school, I cannot lead a group prayer, even voluntarily. Prayer must be seperate from the school. Then, following the page a whole three links down, there is full text of a bill urging congress to pass a "voluntary prayer" ammendment to the constitution. From the house resolution:

32 WHEREAS, voluntary student prayer formed a part of American public schools [33] from their origination in 1642 for over three hundred years afterward, until [34] the U. S. Supreme Court, in a 1962 ruling, which the court said was "without [35] precedent," struck down what it described as "voluntary, nondenominational [36] school prayer";[]=line numbers

Despite what the all-knowing michael says, evidently after 0 minutes of research, there ARE LAWS AGAINST VOLUNTARY PRAYER. Of course, he says "no state," and since it was ruled unconstitutional, it would actual be the federal government prohibiting it. Yeah, thats what you must have meant, right michael? "no state has a rule against it, just the federal government." sure... how about doing some research before embarassing youreself. Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.

not too mention his statements from the article are totally wrong.

No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to.

Uhmm, except that a simple google search on "voluntary school prayer" immediately showed a third result of This case. From the article:

A 22 word prayer, crafted by the New York State Board of Regents, was read aloud daily in public school classrooms. Student participation was voluntary. On June 25, 1962, the Court ruled the Regents' prayer unconstitutional.

In a public school, I cannot lead a group prayer, even voluntarily. Prayer must be seperate from the school. Then, following the page a whole three links down, there is full text of a bill urging congress to pass a "voluntary prayer" ammendment to the constitution. From the house resolution:

32 WHEREAS, voluntary student prayer formed a part of American public schools [33] from their origination in 1642 for over three hundred years afterward, until [34] the U. S. Supreme Court, in a 1962 ruling, which the court said was "without [35] precedent," struck down what it described as "voluntary, nondenominational [36] school prayer";[]=line numbers

Despite what the all-knowing michael says, evidently after 0 minutes of research, there ARE LAWS AGAINST VOLUNTARY PRAYER. Of course, he says "no state," and since it was ruled unconstitutional, it would actual be the federal government prohibiting it. Yeah, thats what you must have meant, right michael? "no state has a rule against it, just the federal government." sure... how about doing some research before embarassing youreself. Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.

I have an old 286 laptop that I use soley to play Pirates and Joust. It has 12-25 MHZ (cant remember) clock frequency,1MB of ram and weighs about 14lbs. Here are some more specs

that's a good point. you can take the joker out of hialeah, but you cant take the hialeah out of the joker .

any heads from miami know exactly what i mean.