Slashdot Mirror

Lighting a grill with liquid oxygen would probably count.

Read Michael's account of the censorware.org domain

Netscape Navigator used to be $49.95 unless you just ran the shareware version all the time and basically ripped off the comapny. I used to routinely buy the web browser until IE stopped sucking (v3.0+). And it wasn't until the Mozilla/AOL days until netscape didn't charge for the web browser.

Here's a link to their old store http://web.archive.org/web/19961115064246/merchant .netscape.com/netstore/NAVIGATORS/PE/PE_ITEMS/leaf /product1.html

Yeah, this isn't even a technically impressive robotic guitar, it's just a novelty item of the sort you might see at an exhibition of modern art. The pieces it plays are not anything like what a human can do. I would be much more impressed if someone made a live version of this robotic performance. (download the mpeg2 version, the others suck)

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/iraq
Disallow: /economy/iraq
Disallow: /firstlady/newborn/iraq
Disallow: /government/images/iraq
Disallow: /president/statevisit/window/iraq
Disallow: /president/ridge/iraq
Disallow: /911/911day/iraq
etc...

Full content of website is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.phrack.org /

This 1927 gem of a video is a "must see" for anyone who has never used a rotary dial phone and for everyone who has!
http://www.archive.org/stream/HowtoUse1927/HowtoUs e1927_256kb.mp4

I'm sorry to hear of what happened to you. Have you heard of this lab-grown skin technology? Here is another article. I believe it is now being used by a company called Stratatech. The patents have the title "Immortalized human keratinocyte cell line". The article says most lab-grown cells last only 15 weeks, while these accidentally discovered cells have lasted for years, since 1996 if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure, but I think one of it's intended uses is to eliminate the need for donor sites for skin grafts for wounds and burn victims. I haven't read anything else about it other than what is in those articles, so I don't know if it has passed human trials for its intended uses yet, or how well it works, if at all.

I think Safeweb's Triangle Boy proxy client used this method, but for the purpose of getting through national firewalls (China, Saudi Arabia) rather than local ones.

For a time, anyone could download this client, but now, all I can find about it are old links and this Internet Archive copy of the Triangle Boy whitepaper.

If anyone is maintaining the source, please let me know.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

"Copyright has not always existed, and it may now h have outlived its value to humanity as a whole."

Outlived it's value to humanity as a whole? Can you truthfully assert that once someone creates something it belongs to the world as a whole?

I never cease to be amazed at those who think that simply because something exists, it's their right to make their own copy of the thing.

And furthermore, are the operators really altruistic in their actions? Please, give me examples....

Peer to peer is legal when you share material in the public domain. Go to archive.org and reap the benefits of material that has entered the public domain.

John Walker doesn't have one (to the best of my knowledge). Maybe he got conned by Jack Sarfatti? It certainly is an interesting coincidence that the date of Walker's essay on UFO's mentioning Sarfatti is a few months after Walker had started considering support of a rocket engine developed by Roger Gregory and I.

http://web.archive.org/

just don't slashdot that too!

The Internet Archive (which would be its counterpart in the US) was recently granted a similar exemption from the DMCA for the archival of vintage software.

The Internet Archive (which would be its counterpart in the US) was recently granted a similar exemption from the DMCA for the archival of vintage software.

Since you seem to not want to look any further than your brow, here is more information on Bush going AWOL.

Or, look here.

Or, here.

There is no such thing as "public record" on the internet. :(

Sure there is

Archive.org offers thousands upon thousands of hours of live music, all completely legal to download. I can get a 3 cd show in about 2 hours. Amazing stuff.

Here is one of the original overclocking articles with information about power consumption after overclocking.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011031021144/http://p eople.ee.ethz.ch/~blutz/TI89Spec/TIAccelerate.html /a>

I'll answer one of my own questions... from http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php But I still wonder if someone could throw a fit because they didn't opt in...

How can I remove my site's pages from the Wayback Machine?

The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple robots.txt file on your Web server, you can exclude your site from being crawled as well as exclude any historical pages from the Wayback Machine.

Internet Archive uses the exclusion policy intended for use by both academic and non-academic digital repositories and archivists. See our exclusion policy.

You can find exclusion directions at exclude.php. If you cannot place the robots.txt file, opt not to, or have further questions, email us.

Good idea... but I'm just wondering about the legality of doing that. What about copyrighted pages? Speaking of... what about the legality of mirroring or archiving old copyrighted web pages? I wonder if that has/will become a problem in the future if say the original creator of the content wants a page taken down. What about http://www.archive.org/

Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.

I noticed one of these trials. I sat at a desktop--I forget exactly when--and that time Google looked something like this. When I saw what would be Google's new look on another PC, I was wondering what happened (and a bit jealous--it was my big brother's).

I like the new Google.

Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.

I noticed one of these trials. I sat at a desktop--I forget exactly when--and that time Google looked something like this. When I saw what would be Google's new look on another PC, I was wondering what happened (and a bit jealous--it was my big brother's).

I like the new Google.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030618204944/http://c ensorware.org/

Uhmmm, Warped has *always* had, at the very least, a logo on that page. Don't believe it? Try The Wayback Machine, going as far back as it can, back to September 23rd, 2001.

Granted, the banner is bigger now, but that may be traffic driven (over x MB/month(day?) = larger banner) since it's a page that isn't used often. Then again, Warped.com may just be saying "We're not teh sux0rz".

Uhmmm, Warped has *always* had, at the very least, a logo on that page. Don't believe it? Try The Wayback Machine, going as far back as it can, back to September 23rd, 2001.

Granted, the banner is bigger now, but that may be traffic driven (over x MB/month(day?) = larger banner) since it's a page that isn't used often. Then again, Warped.com may just be saying "We're not teh sux0rz".

somewhere around 2000 iterated folded and became a storage management company... you can still see some of their pages on their stuff here (look at 1999 and earlier).

they had some interesting software. i liked the fractal compression program but didn't use it for anything more than something it wasn't really intended for: enlarging low resolution pictures. i would convert them into fif files and then zoom them in a bit. the fractal engine did a pretty decent job of enlarging 72dpi pictures a few steps w/o them being too terribly blurry. they also had an activex control for people who wanted to use fif images on their websites...

It's been there since at least Oct 1999.

According to the Wayback Machine's mirror, the timeline itself has been around since at LEAST December 12, 2001.

According to the Wayback Machine's mirror, the timeline itself has been around since at LEAST December 12, 2001.

if you mean "just released" in the Slashdot way, e.g. over three years ago.

Not nearly as artistic as these, though.

New York Times reporter James Brooke was recently shocked, shocked to discover that the Japanese people's famous fascination with robots and automation stems from their"xenophobia." [Japan Seeks Robotic Help in Caring for the Aged Mar. 5, 2004 NYT ]

The labor-saving device that gave Brookes the willies was Sanyo's new clamshell-shaped automated bathing machine. It allows frail people confined to wheelchairs to roll in dirty and roll out clean and dry.

Shivered Brooke: "Futuristic images of elderly Japanese going through rinse and dry cycles in rows of washing machines may evoke chills."

Yet the machine doesn't seem to give the shivers to its users. Toshiko Shibahara, an 89-year-old resident of a Japanese nursing home told Brooke, "You don't get a chill. You feel always warm." Likewise, Kuni Kikuchi, an 88-year-old in a wheelchair, noted, "It automatically washes my body, so I am quite happy about it. These bubbles are good for the massage effect."

...

My question: doesn't the uniqueness of Japanese culture add to the diversity of the world?

And aren't we supposed to celebrate diversity?

Oh, excuse me, that's the wrong kind of diversity. We are supposed to celebrate the right kind of diversity--the kind where each country becomes so diverse in population, its culture so diluted by immigration, that all countries are eventually the same.

How silly of me to forget that the ultimate goal of "diversity" is global uniformity--and monotony.

FED has already been used for flat panel screens. Specifically: field emission displays. Worth noting is that these, while very neat, turned out to be fiscally problematic (hence the need for the Wayback Machine). Not a good omen for this incarnation...

FED has already been used for flat panel screens. Specifically: field emission displays. Worth noting is that these, while very neat, turned out to be fiscally problematic (hence the need for the Wayback Machine). Not a good omen for this incarnation...

I used to hack webplayers, and there was this one guy who got the PCI and Mini-PCI pinouts, and got soldering, with little jumper wires between Mini-PCI slot and PCI card. Although it *looked* like a dog's breakfast, it rather amazingly did seem to (almost!!) work. There were details of it on the net once... aha, bless you archive.org, here it is

But surely *someone* sells the proper mini-pci-to-PCI-via-a-ribbon-cable type adaptor?

It's probably easier to just go buy a cheap-o desktop PC and an inverter to suit.

So, basically your argument here is that Slashdot is a worthless wannabe news aggregator and there's no conceivably good reason to come here since I could get better context and more accurate information from Google News? Good argument: don't complain about it's worthlessness, because it's worthless.

Achtung, moron-boy: if they want me to go out to various sites and read things for my informational pleasures so that I keep coming back to give them ad revenue then they better damn well tell me what I'm clicking through to BEFORE I CLICK THROUGH TO IT. As if that weren't bad enough, in case you haven't noticed lately, the editors have shown an amazing inability as of late to tell the difference between legit stories, and troll and astroturfing "stories". I suppose, however, you don't have a problem with blind-clicking through links.

Blind click-through on this one, please.

kthx

Don't copy that floppy is right. I remeber when I first saw this. Even then it was a huge joke.

http://www.archive.org/download/dontcopythatfloppy /dontcopythatfloppy.wmv

I remember religously watching Computer Chronicles

And, in case you/some-other-reader didn't know (Maybe there was a slashdot article about it on the weekend and you skipped it?), archive.org has mpegs of all the episodes.

I lost track of the show when they moved to L.A.

I haven't watched much G4 since the switch but the only show I liked and miss is Unscrewed with Martin Sargent (and co-host Laura Swisher [hi Laura! allow me to introduce myself...I'm #22537, and the only reason I'm on posting on slashdot at ten pm on a saturday night is cause I just got home after two days up in LA. no, really!]).

Much of the older stuff is at http://www.archive.org/.

i nominate this guy as person of the year. he was writing about his misadventures back in 1997. See The Continuing Adventures of No-Girlfriend Boy

Tim -

"Even before I completed high school, I learned computer programming and networking at the helm of a Commodore 64 and Apple IIE. Long before the Internet existed, I was one of the pioneers of "networking" via computer (BBS) bulletin boards and the Arpanet, precursor to the World Wide Web. In the days "where wizards stayed up late," I was chatting via computer connection with other Internet pioneers and helping to further develop what we now know as the Internet."
http://web.archive.org/web/20011202160019/http://t imr.tv/

Peter -

"Before Peter completed junior high school in the early 1980's, he learned computer programming and networking at the helm of a Commodore 64 and Apple IIE. He was one of the pioneers of "networking" via computer (BBS) bulletin boards and the Arpanet, precursor to the World Wide Web. In the days "where wizards stayed up late," he was chatting via computer connection with other Internet pioneers and helping to further develop what we now know as the Internet."
http://www.wanforce.com/worldwide_team.asp/

As you can see if you take out all the Microsoft owned sites and the eBay entried duplicated for each country there isn't a lot left...

Hey, that's my site! Here's a faster version of that article from my new server.

Note that I've updated the article (over two years old) to point to the Internet Archive version of the Apple salute to Jimmy Carter.

It could very well be. Looking at Toniarts.com in archive.org shows that that the two have been partnered since early 2001, with a splash screen advertising both organizations with equal prominince.

Gerald Holmes made a nice cartoon about the Steve Jobs & Bill Gates rivalry in the early history of the PC.

Ahem.... archive.org begs to differ.

May 23, 2002

Aug 02, 2002

Ahem.... archive.org begs to differ.

May 23, 2002

Aug 02, 2002

No, just looks like a complete nutcase, according to [the archive of]his website

PS -- the quoted text ("The NEA that we will choose..."); what's the URL? I can't find that on the site.

Archive.org has an animgif version. ;-)

Well, according to an old CA rumor, anyway:

November 10, 1997... "This film may be based in part on a novella called 'Virtual Realities', originally published in the sourcebook of the same name for the 'Shadowrun' role-playing game. Briefly, it's the story of an entity named Renny which lives in the global computer network called the Matrix. Other people, human beings, are able to enter the Matrix and manipulate data, but Renny is much better at it because he's spent his entire life in the Matrix. Eventually, one of the human beings hired to help 'train' Renny discovers that Renny isn't an artificial intelligence at all, but a real human child that has been cut off from all 'real-world' stimuli so that he focuses solely on the Matrix world -- the only world he knows. The story, by Christopher Kubasik, is excellent and well-told.

"Having spoken with the line developer of the 'Shadowrun' RPG, I know that a film based on this novella is in the works. However, all references to the RPG are being removed in the interest of streamlining the story (and possibly avoiding licensing fees). That would explain some of the plot differences, as well as the fact that the film is set in 2197 rather than 2059 (the date of the game world). It's hard to say what similarities the film will have to the original story, but I'm still looking forward to it."

Also, there was a fantastic "MMORPG" (we called 'em MUDs) located at shadowrun.com:4321, back in the bad old days. Great source material.