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And Obama outright asked the people to turn in names of people they knew who weren't on board with Obamacare. In addition his IRS attacked individual citizens based on their political affiliations

Things that never happened for $200, Alex. Stop with the #fakenews.

Right here are the citations for you — something the anonymous OP should've included in his post, of course:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov

After people got outraged about this solicitation, the above text was eventually removed.

In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes.

Two out of two things you dismissed as "fake news" are in fact true and indisputable. Good score, keep it up!

Stack Exchange makes data dumps of Stack Overflow and its other Q&A sites available through the Internet Archive.

ftp.cdrom.com was one ftp server that should not have been killed.

It has a direct successor in the Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive.

But also game servers, for example old versions of Phantasy Star Online which have gone dark.

Someone should create a series of DNS servers that each captures a moment in time and seamlessly directs queries to modern equivalents or Wayback archives. Just pick the year you want, select the appropriate DNS server, and off you go, surfing or gaming as if it were 1997 again.

Try the Internet time machine with those links, it might work and that's its purpose.

https://archive.org/web/

I worked in a bookstore in 1995, and I remember the book mentioned in the article. It stuck out to me as a bullshit "cash in on this newfangled internet thing by publishing a bunch of link" type of book, which there was a lot of back then. I remember thumbing through the pages and thinking "some asswipe is making a bunch of money selling this to suckers who don't know what a search engine is."

Out of curiosity, I copied a bunch of the links down, went home, and most of the links were already dead or virus and ad-infested piles of dogshit.

Point being, books like that one were pieces of shit by the time they hit the printing presses, and are a horrible example of "internet bitrot." I would hope that the Internet Archive doesn't have any of that crap preserved. If you want a better example, go dig up some old programming books that linked to old projects and companies which are now defunct, those might actually BE preserved, and more to the point, be more worthy OF preserving.

Even my crappy 1st attempt at a website is there... https://web.archive.org/web/19...

Try the Internet time machine with those links, it might work and that's its purpose.

https://archive.org/web/

What, the Daily Stormer? Of course it was. It was named after the German Nazi Party's weekly tabloid, Der Stürmer (1923-1945).

Now anonymous has taken over the domain, but you can check the wayback if you like. It had sections for "The Jewish Problem" and "Race War" full of racist imagery.

Now, to be fair some of the people who read and contributed to the thing were just chaosmongers. But that was true of the original Nazis too. Authoritarianism for the follower is about the thrill of transgressive behavior toward safe targets. Goebbels was an intelligent, educated man whose job was making shit up. And in a certain sense of the word, he believed his own bullshit, as far as he believed anything.

For the Nazis it was all about sentiment; they could be perfectly sincere about stuff they knew was false, because they liked the way it made them feel. That should sound disturbingly familiar.

Here are some links to more information on atomic clocks, their development, and why they're needed:
How and why atomic clocks were invented
How atomic clock accuracy was greatly increased
How atomic clocks work
Animations showing how atomic clocks work
Why atomic clocks are needed for GPS
Video showing how atomic clocks are used for GPS

MacKay's book is old enough to be out of copyright. You can download it for free from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/te...

Hey, I can find dozens more than you that call it agnes.

> Here's a May 1988 computer magazine archive that calls it the Agnes.

So?

I can find dozens more that spell it correctly?

Agreed. There are much better selections of classic games available for free online anyway, thanks to the Internet Archive making many game collections available. Why spend lots of money for inferior games when you can play classics for free?

https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"Consider millions of these devices airdropped into Iraq and Yugoslavia -- instead of more expensive cruise missiles! Anybody got $1 billion to spend on ensuring democracy with a true defense against tyranny in those places? (This is probably what the U.S. military's spends on gas/oil for a month cruising the area...) "

"Employees are protected by federal law when they discuss working conditions with other employees (and this was an internal memo)."

I'd like to see a citation to the specific law you are thinking of.

"His memo could be considered whistleblowing, which is also protected (and it is very clear that he was fired as retribution)."

I was fired under similar circumstances by Oracle Corporation and no lawyer I ever spoke to suggested that such a thing was so.

"And, in California, political opinions are protected in the work place as well."

And yet, if you take 15 to 20 minutes and read https://web.archive.org/web/20... ... you will see that Zionists, running Oracle Corporation, did whatever they wanted.

For instance, based on information and belief, Alan Tottle, Oracle VP, concealed his executive diary from my lawyers, during discovery. Never saw it. No one mentioned it, either - not even my own lawyers.

I think the fix was in.

And so we see there is a vast gap between what we tell ourselves is true, and what is shown, by scientific method, to be false.

Yeah, I think what you're missing is that the whole report was published during the normal public comment period 7 months ago and is still available from https://archive.org/details/CS... . You can't "leak" a document 7 months after it was published publicly with the intent for everyone to read it and credibly claim that there is an evil conspiracy to suppress it ever getting out.

Doesn't this appear to be a lot of confirmation bias on the part of the NY Times reporters when they go on and on about the supposed future Trump Administration conspiracy to never release a document which has been released for 7 months already?

Quick! Everybody download it before Trump deletes it from the internet archive!

I'm from India. I can browse archive.org. The site http://archive.org/ is blocked, but https://archive.org/ is not! It is pretty funny how the urls are blocked.
About 1 year ago the Indian government did block around 6000 URLs. But the block was based on denying DNS requests. So if you were using some other DNS servers (like Google or open DNS), it was allowed to be browsed.

I'm from India. I can browse archive.org. The site http://archive.org/ is blocked, but https://archive.org/ is not! It is pretty funny how the urls are blocked.
About 1 year ago the Indian government did block around 6000 URLs. But the block was based on denying DNS requests. So if you were using some other DNS servers (like Google or open DNS), it was allowed to be browsed.

There was a project named https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... related to that company that didn't pan out, cf
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

http://www.nurenergie.com/tunu...

I'll just drop this right here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

You're welcome.

First off, I read the manifesto. My point is this - hypothetically if this was a paper submitted to a journal this would be rejected in the first round and here would be some of the comments :-
1) Go read XYZ, your central premise has been debunked many times
2) Go travel in these parts of the world where you will see the long held view that women are inferior in XYZ professions is clearly shown to be incorrect.
3) Go read references ABC about cultural impact on womans careers etc.

Again, the fact that these have to be explained simply indicates that people dont even want to read anymore. They have a narrow world view and they would rather die defending it than change.

Linked above:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...:
Whoever the memo’s author is, he has obviously read a fair amount about these topics. Graded fairly, his memo would get at least an A- in any masters’ level psychology course. It is consistent with the scientific state of the art on sex differences.

Actually, for most of his statements, he has Science on his side:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

That makes it rather hard to "rationally disagree". Nicely explains the anti-science, anti-rational and emotional reaction he got: People do not have any good arguments against what he said. (Also, he pretty much did not say most things he is accused of now. Seems almost nobody of his critics read what he wrote.)

like I have been working towards?
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"I feel open source tools for collaborative structured arguments, multiple perspective analysis, agent-based simulation, and so on, used together for making sense of what is going on in the world, are important to our democracy, security, and prosperity. Imagine if, instead of blog posts and comments on topics, we had searchable structured arguments about simulations and their results all with assumptions defined from different perspectives, where one could see at a glance how different subsets of the community felt about the progress or completeness of different arguments or action plans (somewhat like a debate flow diagram), where even a year of two later one could go back to an existing debate and expand on it with new ideas. As good as, say, Slashdot is, such a comprehensive open source sensemaking system would be to Slashdot as Slashdot is to a static webpage. It might help prevent so much rehashing the same old arguments because one could easily find and build on previous ones. ..."

My latest efforts along that line: https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

And I put together ideas here like using IBIS:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

Of course, there seems to be so much age discrimination at Google (including against people who can't easily relocate), not much point in me applying there in my 50s:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Of course, older software developers with families and community roots might help provide a moral conscience to the organization as well as provide examples to others about work/life balance -- which might be bad for Google's short-term bottom line...

Although such older people (of all genders) also might have helped Google think through better ways to do hiring long ago.

Also, I've made some previous comments I made about Google in 2008 that might be problematical in getting me hired there: :-)
http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-ra...
"So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest): http://www.google.com/virgle/o... "we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
Until then, it is up to us other "semi-evil ... quasi-evil ... not evil enough" hobbyists with smaller budgets to save the Asteroids and the Planets (including Earth) http://www.openvirgle.net/
from financially obese people and their unexamined

Basically nobody that criticizes him has actually read what he wrote. You can tell immediately by invalid the claims they are making.
Some actual experts that did read his text come to the conclusion that he is pretty much accurately describing reality:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

You are completely wrong on this. As all his statements are fact-based, he cannot have done that. Or is pointing out facts now "hostile"?
In actual reality, he was fired for questioning the truth of the cult's quasi-religious statements.

For some actual experts chiming in: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

No it wasn't byte, TRS-80 something or vise-vers

Was it TRS-80 Microcomputer News ?

https://archive.org/details/Computer_Programming_in_BASIC_for_Everyone_1973_Houghton_Miflin

Tandy executive: "We don't have time to get a book written on TRS-80 BASIC, so just take this book written for modem teletype time-sharing programmers and slap a TRS-80 on the cover. Done!"

From The custom TRS-80 & other mysteries"

One of the most maligned aspects of the TRS-80 is its cassette loading procedure. Interestingly, it is a lengthy and skillfully designed piece of coding, a victim of a combination of poor hardware (an inexpensive cassette recorder), the inclination personal computer owners have to purchase the least expensive tapes they can find, and the lack of foresight on the part of the engineers designing the routines. But there's no question that with a good tape recorder and reasonable tape, it works well.

...

Overall, these routines give the appearance of being reasonable and reliable, and they should be. What, then, gives rise to the tape problems? Mostly the timing loop in the 0235/0241 subroutine. The values placed in the B register at 0248 and 024F are too short for low-grade audio processing. Simply stated, the audio waveform coming in from tape 'rises' too slowly for the fast bit-check loop at 0251 to catch. A 'one' might come through, but it comes through too laggardly for port FF to have flipped into place.

I found that quickly because I can still recall the entry point 0x1BB3.

https://archive.org/details/di...

like EVERYTHING that can be downloaded from the Library of Congress has a torrent available

https://archive.org/download/d...

https://archive.org/details/di...

like EVERYTHING that can be downloaded from the Library of Congress has a torrent available

https://archive.org/download/d...

Vasagel ( https://www.parsemus.org/proje... [parsemus.org] ) is pretty far along, with human trials expected in 2018. It's shown good efficacy and reversibility in animal studies already.

RISUG, which uses a different polymer, has been in human trials in India for more than a decade, with good results and no serious side effects. It's currently in Phase II trials there, which is the last step before being available by prescription.

Most of the information on RISUG is either very superficial or very dense, but this archived page has good information with sources cited.
http://web.archive.org/web/200... [archive.org]

As has been stated elsewhere, the progress on these options is slow, largely because there's little money to be made in a one-time (or once a decade) shot, as opposed to a daily pill for life. Vasagel is funded entirely by donation.

Neither of these gels provides any protection from STI, but they are currently the most promising non-permanent male birth control.

As it stands right now, there are NO male-controlled birth control options besides condoms and vasectomy. Vasagel would allow men to take control of their fertility, notwithstanding impulsive moments when a condom may not be handy.

Vasagel ( https://www.parsemus.org/proje... ) is pretty far along, with human trials expected in 2018. It's shown good efficacy and reversibility in animal studies already.

RISUG, which uses a different polymer, has been in human trials in India for more than a decade, with good results and no serious side effects. It's currently in Phase II trials there, which is the last step before being available by prescription.

Most of the information on RISUG is either very superficial or very dense, but this archived page has good information with sources cited.
http://web.archive.org/web/200...

As has been stated elsewhere, the progress on these options is slow, largely because there's little money to be made in a one-time (or once a decade) shot, as opposed to a daily pill for life. Vasagel is funded entirely by donation.

Neither of these gels provides any protection from STI, but they are currently the most promising non-permanent male birth control.

As it stands right now, there are NO male-controlled birth control options besides condoms and vasectomy. Vasagel would allow men to take control of their fertility, notwithstanding impulsive moments when a condom may not be handy.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2...
"The earliest instance known to QI of this prototypical claim was printed in the August 1908 issue of a periodical for bicyclists called "Bassett's Scrap Book". A short item contrasted the modern age to ancient times and presented a variation of the epigraph:
    > The "good old times" seemed as bad to the "good-old-timers" as the present times seem to the modern man, as shown by the following translation on an inscription on a tablet in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople, Turkey:--
    >> Naram Sin, 5000 B.C.
    >> We have fallen upon evil times, the world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their elders. Each man wants to make himself conspicuous and write a book."

But see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"â"dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess.
The other city laments are:
The Lament for Ur
The Lament for Nippur
The Lament for Eridu
The Lament for Uruk
In 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, Ur fell to an army from the east.[1] The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate"[2]
The literary works of the Sumerians were widely translated (e.g. by the Hittites, Hurrians and Canaanites), and the world-renowned expert in Sumerian history, Samuel Noah Kramer, wrote that later Greek as well as Hebrew texts "were profoundly influenced by them."[3] Contemporary scholars have drawn parallels between the lament and passages from the bible (e.g. "the Lord departed from his temple and stood on the mountain east of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 10:18-19)."[4]"

Part of what is going on in various ways in cities expecially for millennia "like moths to a flame":
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.paulgraham.com/addi...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Related books maybe of interest (all easier read than done):
* "The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online" by Mary Aiken
* "Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age Paperback" by Richard Freed
* "Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time Paperback" by Victoria L. Dunckley MD

It's been a long time since Apple was (primarily) about technology. Apple is about fashion. Form over function. Appearance. Show. Illusion.

Apple has great technology. But unlike in the 80's and 90's, technology comes second (or lower) at the Apple of today. I remember when Apple was a great company. When BYTE magazine wrote that the history of the microcomputer industry was an effort to keep up with Apple, it was true, back when Apple was a truly great company.

Open plan space for developers to work? No surprise. Quite a difference from the day when Apple would do whatever it took to make developers productive.

This guy sounds like the Ford CEO saying...

It wasn't the Ford CEO. It was Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20170610233345/http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

Ford's Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when many of its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they're doing it.

Farley has since retracted his statements.

Yes, of course he did.

> If you really wanted to end gun violence, you'd address the root causes: gangs, drugs-such as the opioid epidemic, criminal culture, etc.

We already tried that. The government wasn't making enough money.
A serious WTF!

"Name & Shame" also another successful way:

How America Lost the War on Drugs
7. THE HARVARD MAN
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

7. The Harvard Man

For the cops on the front lines of the War on Drugs, the federal government's fixation with marijuana was deeply perplexing. As they saw it, the problem wasn't pot but the drug-related violence that accompanied cocaine and other hard drugs. After the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, police commissioners around the country, like Lee Brown in Houston, began adding more officers and developing computer mapping to target neighborhoods where crime was on the rise. The crime rate dropped. But by the mid-1990s, police in some cities were beginning to realize there was a certain level that they couldn't get crime below. Mass jailings weren't doing the trick: Only fifteen percent of those convicted of federal drug crimes were actual traffickers; the rest were nothing but street-level dealers and mules, who could always be replaced.

Police in Boston, concerned about violence between youth drug gangs, turned for assistance to a group of academics. Among them was a Harvard criminologist named David Kennedy. Working together, the academics and members of the department's anti-gang unit came up with what Kennedy calls a "quirky" strategy and convinced senior police commanders to give it a try. The result, which began in 1995, was the Boston Gun Project, a collaborative effort among ministers and community leaders and the police to try to break the link between the drug trade and violent crime. First, the project tracked a particular drug-dealing gang, mapping out its membership and operations in detail. Then, in an effort called Operation Ceasefire, the dealers were called into a meeting with preachers and parents and social-service providers, and offered a deal: Stop the violence, or the police will crack down with a vengeance. "We know the seventeen guys you run with," the gangbangers were told. "If anyone in your group shoots somebody, we'll arrest every last one of you." The project also extended drug treatment and other assistance to anyone who wanted it.

The effort worked: The rates of homicide and violence among young men in Boston dropped by two-thirds. Drug dealing didn't stop -- "people continued what they were doing," Kennedy concedes, "but they put their guns down." As Kennedy reflected on the success of the Boston project, which ran for five years, he wondered if he had discovered a deeper truth about drug-related violence. If the murders weren't a necessary component of the drug trade -- if it was possible to separate the two -- perhaps cities could find a way to reduce the violence, even if they could do nothing about the drugs.

In 2001, Kennedy got a call from the mayor of San Francisco that gave him a chance to examine his theories in a new setting. The city had experienced a recent spike in its murder rate, much of it caused by an ongoing feud between two drug-dealing gangs -- Big Block and West Mob -- that had resulted in dozens of murders over the years. Could Kennedy, the mayor asked, help police figure out how to stop the killings?

Kennedy flew out to San Francisco and met with police. But as he researched the history of the violence, it seemed to confirm his findings in Boston. Though both Big Block and West Mob were involved in dealing drugs, the shootings were not really drug-related -- the two groups occupied different territories and were not battli

I know your comment was kind of glib, but you are more correct than you know.

I've been reading about AIs since I first read about them in Byte as a teenager.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-04

And here's the link to an archived site of what Vint Cerf actually said/wrote

VP Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. Bob Kahn, with whom I worked to develop the Internet design in 1973, participated in several hearings held by then-Senator Gore and I recall that Bob introduced the term ``information infrastructure'' in one hearing in 1986. It was clear that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it. As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and as Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics. If you look at the last 30-35 years of network development, you'll find many people who have made major contributions without which the Internet would not be the vibrant, growing and exciting thing it is today. The creation of a new information infrastructure requires the willing efforts of thousands if not millions of participants and we've seen leadership from many quarters, all of it needed, to move the Internet towards increased availability and utility around the world. While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful. We're fortunate to have senior level members of Congress and the Administration who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.

In the meantime, it's easy to upload to multiple places (such as archive.org) and host one's videos on one's own server thus avoiding YouTube's censorship altogether.

You are "fake news": Youtube isn't taking the videos down. It's running ads next to them, ads for not being a jihadi. Click a few links further in TFA, and it's explicitly explained that the redirects use existing ad infrastructure. That's the shocking thing about this story: Youtube is aware of jihadi videos and is not taking them down.

Perhaps that's because they believe this approach will do more good because "the fix for whatever one might deem 'bad speech' is more speech": keeping them on a platform with non-jihadis is actually excellent to non-jihadis' view because it breaks the filter bubble.

And this is exactly what free speech was supposed to do all along, one of the big "whys" that we advocate for it. I guess we are supposed to be paying for our ideals continuously and never seeing any benefit, otherwise they aren't ideals? It's starting to seem as if Google : rabble :: men : SJW, and no matter how hard they try they can't do anything right.

The weird, scary thing here is the way the news coverage and some of the PR copy both make it sound like censorship, as if the audience will like that. We have jumped the shark. The Western media has become more pro-censorship than Google.

It's easy to say "Evil speech is harmful" but not so easy to put any meaning to that glib statement. Noam Chomsky reminds us that free speech means being very tolerant for views one does not agree with which gives rise to the idea that the fix for whatever one might deem 'bad speech' is more speech: "Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech." Niemoller ("First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Socialist. ... Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.") reminds us to ask how long until one's ideas are deemed "evil", "terroristic", or whatever other language triggers censorship on a particular hosting service.

In the meantime, it's easy to upload to multiple places (such as archive.org) and host one's videos on one's own server thus avoiding YouTube's censorship altogether. I know this is a difficult tack to take on /.; take one look at any story having to do with proprietary software and see how quickly the posts advocating software freedom for its own sake are downvoted (without comment, of course, due to the structure of /.'s moderation system) while business-friendly (pro-DRM, pro-tinkering at the edges of giving into proprietary control) posts are left alone or upvoted. A far cry from what /. used to be when it began. I imagine different discussion sites have differing ad-hoc effective defintions for what's objectionable. All the more reason to host one's own blog.

My idea from seven years ago:
""The need for FOSS intelligence tools for sensemaking etc."
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"This suggestion is about how civilians could benefit by have access to the sorts of "sensemaking" tools the intelligence community (as well as corporations) aspire to have, in order to design more joyful, secure, and healthy civilian communities (including through creating a more sustainable and resilient open manufacturing infrastructure for such communities). It outlines (including at a linked elaboration) why the intelligence community should consider funding the creation of such free and open source software (FOSS) "dual use" intelligence applications as a way to reduce global tensions through increased local prosperity, health, and with intrinsic mutual security. ...
As with that notion of "mutual security", the US intelligence community needs to look beyond seeing an intelligence tool as just something proprietary that gives a "friendly" analyst some advantage over an "unfriendly" analyst. Instead, the intelligence community could begin to see the potential for a free and open source intelligence tool as a way to promote "friendship" across the planet by dispelling some of the gloom of "want and ignorance" (see the scene in "A Christmas Carol" with Scrooge and a Christmas Spirit) that we still have all too much of around the planet. So, beyond supporting legitimate US intelligence needs (useful with their own closed sources of data), supporting a free and open source intelligence tool (and related open datasets) could become a strategic part of US (or other nation's) "diplomacy" and constructive outreach.
Now, there are many people out there (including computer scientists) who may raise legitimate concerns about privacy or other important issues in regards to any system that can support the intelligence community (as well as civilian needs). As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for some healthy mix of a basic income, a gift economy, democratic resource-based planning, improved local subsistence, etc., all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM computers in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete."

Anyway, still working towards that in my very limited spare time....
http://twirlip.net/

Hope sharing and cooperation to build a better world is not outlawed now... But I guess I should not be surprised when insane people vote for making sanity a crime...

https://en.wikipe

Our parents should hang out together. My parents put a copy of "The Stork Didn't Bring You" in my library... It's a book from the 1940s, probably loaned to them from a priest down the street.

https://archive.org/stream/sto...

Google.com Apr 22, 1999

That is a thing of beauty.

Compare to 2017: view-source:https://www.google.com/

A new study on an old topic. The topic of this jasmine compound to mess around with insect digestive habits - has been known since 2009 at the very least as per the website noted in the summary and has likely been known prior before its commercialization.

"Article" doesn't mention any breakthrough discovery. The team sprayed the compound on tomato plants, caterpillars acted as predicted. Just media hyper sensationalism.

REGURGITATED INFORMATION FOR YOU FOR YOUR EVERY DESIRE. Who cares if it's accurate, old, repeated or rehashed somehow. Get your info here and now!

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Stream ripping has been going on since Shoutcast days with programs like Odd Sock Streamripper https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Nothing new...

These chuckleheads deserve to be flooded by demands to "teach the controversy" of Time Cube, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Discordianism, Gorean philosophy, Ebolism, and even Baneposting. How dare anyone make a value judgement that contradicts anyone else's? Feels, not facts!

That was under MS Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 and higher, where you would start multiple MS-DOS shell

The summary (and grandparent poster) was talking about Windows, not DOS. Weeboo0104 was actually right; you can control Windows 3.x entirely without a mouse with a few obvious exceptions like the paint program. But you could use the keyboard to operate the menus, move windows, click buttons etc. Each version of Windows since then has removed keyboard control until we have patheticness of Windows 10. Actually, that's a bit unfair because I think they improved things slightly between Windows 8.1 to 10.

Original MS-DOS 5.0 to 6.23 didn't have any ALT-TAB without Windows 3.x installed.

MS-DOS 4.00 to 6.22 did have the ability to ALT-TAB between programs using DOSSHELL.EXE. It was more limited that doing it in Windows in that all the programs had to share conventional memory (in the 640KB area). Here is a video showing how this works. Once you launch the programs from DOSSHELL, you can ALT-TAB between them.

I hope this helps you for your choice of the next operating system to use!