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I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but the Internet Archive has the debates, along with plenty of other political stuff. See the Election 2004 video collection. The third debate isn't up yet, but, for instance, the second one is available in MPEG-4 streaming, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2 formats.

Also, they have the older SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater stuff. Pardon me while I binge.

--grendel drago

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but the Internet Archive has the debates, along with plenty of other political stuff. See the Election 2004 video collection. The third debate isn't up yet, but, for instance, the second one is available in MPEG-4 streaming, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2 formats.

Also, they have the older SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater stuff. Pardon me while I binge.

--grendel drago

Just by the way, the Wayback machine yields the Kerry proposal for mandatory service for everybody.

If you're worried about a draft, you should be worried about Kerry and the Democrats -- they're the ones proposing a revival of the draft.

Night of the Living Dead?

...assuming that the police actually acted the way this Max Von H. said.

At best, Mr. Max is lazy and irresponsible for not providing useful links or anything to back up some very serious charges. At worst, he's a popularity seeking liar. Given the fact that Mr. Max has provided no counter-argument, I'm starting to believe the latter.

Softquad's HotMeTaL began life as an editor and downloader/offline browser, similar to Zylox's Offline Commander. It was designed for people with slow modems, and for educational and other users who needed preview- or local-caching abilities. It won a PC Magazine Editor's Choice award in the mid-1990s.

It looks like old SoftQuad web site is now Xmetal.com.

SOME ADDITIONAL FACTORS...

To be perfectly honest, there are other factors in our decision to shut down, and although those factors are a little embarrassing to admit, they are important enough that others need to know about them. Speaking now just for myself as the creator of this site and primary owner, I have had other things to consider in keeping AAS open the last year or so including the fact that I now have a wife to consider and a family of my own to start, and negative opinions about this site (even though we rarely hear any) no longer affect me alone. Also, sadly, the political climate in America has changed so dramatically since the Bush Administration and the Tom Delay Congress came to power that people no longer feel that they can speak out freely on controversial issues - especially if one is daring to disagree with the current political forces. Free Speech in America has been chilled by the Bush Administration in ways I did not think was possible in this country.

Obviously I am not a fan of President Bush - no secret there - but my dislike is not based on anything personal; it is based on the sweeping policy changes related to sex education and reproduction issues in area after area of our government. In order to push their religion-based idea that there should be no sexual activity outside of marriage (between a male and female only) they have issued Executive Orders and quietly issued new policies to department after department in the U.S. Government, and most recently has begun targeting for investigation organizations and websites speaking out against their "abstinence-only" programs and ideology. As much as I hate to admit it, this is very intimidating, especially for a couple of individuals who could be ruined, financially, just attempting to defend themselves against such an investigation, even if no wrong-doing is ever found. Below is a clip from a Salon.com article :

"Only a few weeks after No New Money went live last August, 24 House Republicans, led by Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., jotted off a letter to HHS Secretary Thompson asking that both SIECUS and Advocates for Youth (which was listed on the site along with more than a hundred other 'supporting organizations') be investigated."

And that is just one small example of what the political climate has become... SIECUS is now under further vicious attack by Republicans in Congress and a score of Religious Right groups. Keep in mind that SIECUS has been writing the sex education curricula for public and private schools in America since 1964 and is hardly a "controversial" group. To get a better idea of exactly what is going on, you can read the complete last article posted on the AAS site in December 2003. You can also visit the SIECUS website for the latest news.

On the up-side, All About Sex has never taken grant money to operate and there was nothing illegal on this site. However, neither of these organizations are anywhere close to being as controversial as some of the content on this website and we cannot afford the high-powered attorneys they can in defending themselves.

In past rulings about Free Speech by the United States Supreme Court they have talked about situations like what the Congress and Bush Administration is doing and said that such intimidation and censorship "chills" the air for those speaking out against government policies. This is what our elected officials are doing - and will keep doing until the American public decide's they've had enough. Well, the way I see it, when it comes to talking honestly and openly about teens and sexuality in North America, it has gotten downright freezing, and is likely to remain that way until a new, less conservative Administration is voted in. And American children will be the ones paying the price for years to come.

If you still want to see the site was about, check it out on Archive.org.

It seems we used to know what the word despotism meant, but somehow forgot. I guess its just not profitable to play these old classic on TV anymore.

The first two seasons are available at Archive.org HERE

Most of season 1 and 2 are available at archive.org
HERE

This is also interesting:

Despotism a 1946 film

Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?

Read the actual copyright notice on your CDs; most will explicitly prohibit even loaning the physical disc to anyone else.

Nope. Not only does that make no sense under the applicible laws, but I just spot-checked several, and none of them say that. Most just say, "unauthorized duplication is prohibited," while a few go on to mention that public performance, broadcast and rental or hire are also forbidden. None of them say that loans are forbidden.

(Actually, most of my CDs are legally redistributable concert recordings from bands that allow such things (mainly, in my case, Hot Tuna, the Radiators, Gov't Mule, They Might Be Giants, the Butthole Surfers and the Flaming Lips) as found at places like the Internet Archive, but I checked my more mainstream CDs, and none had the statement you claim.)

When the VCR first came on the market, most uses were infringing. Prerecorded tapes typically cost around $100, and there weren't any rental outlets. When the MPAA failed to get the technology banned, they did the smart thing, and adapted to it, and now it's a huge source of revenue for them, and most uses of the VCR are not infringing (although there's surely plenty of copyright infringement still occurring). What lesson can we learn from this? Well, if you're the RIAA, apparently none!

If this is such a wonderful idea why doesn't he get a bunch of artists, musicians and writers to donate their own work to this project and actually prove the concept works?

Because archive.org have already done this, proving it's possible?

(Shameless plug: my music at arvhive.org)

If this is such a wonderful idea why doesn't he get a bunch of artists, musicians and writers to donate their own work to this project and actually prove the concept works?

Because archive.org have already done this, proving it's possible?

(Shameless plug: my music at arvhive.org)

The Constitution Party will uphold the right of states and localities to restrict access to drugs and to enforce such restrictions in appropriate cases with application of the death penalty.

Badnarik Gets Arrested At 2ND Presidential Debate 100804.mp3

- the 27 minute compilation of live audio from last night's Presidential Candidate's
arrest, courtesy of Mad Studios, is available now at:

http://www.tinyurl.com/4hpsz

Get it quick!
(this link will self destruct in 4 days)

Let Badnarik Debate!!!
the Badnarik files found at:
http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=mo vies&identifier=mad_studios_-_let_badnarik_deb ate

If you only get 10% of this important video, it will have been worth it. Before
the dark ugly hand of censorship tries to make it unavailable, download and do
your patriotic duty and pass it along or upload it somewhere yourself.

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?colle ction=election_2004&collectionid=war03_005_Patriot _Video_5_People_As_Poems_-_Election_Time

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one
becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often
delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed.

There are times when the vibe of the world is good for ethical reasons,
sometimes men trust one another and create good, at other times it is not so.
You don't need to be a weather man to see which way the wind is blowing.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the
indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

At times like these, with America's third largest political party's candidate
riding around in the back of a paddy wagon being taken away to an undisclosed
location, on the night when he should be addressing the American people in our
time honored tradition of a national debate, it can only be called a tragedy.
If the Patriot Act wasn't a feather in Osama's cap, he's got one now.

What kind of message does this send to the terrorists, Mr. Bush?

You say you support Freedom and Democracy yet your rule is one of military
might and police with unlimited powers. Oppose us, people like Betty Hall and
Michael Badnarik, and we'll have our stormtroopers outfitted with riot gear take
you down to the local lock-up until the supreme leader leaves town? Is this what
'Land of the Free' means? Is this 'government by consent of the people' is all
about?

The shock of our brothers and sisters coming home in flag draped coffins has
made us realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance
on a a miserable plank in the open sea. Having forgotten where we came from and
not knowing where we are being swept away to. A future filled with 4 more years
of Bush is a nightmare, and Kerry only a different one, perhaps even worse. What
is a patriotic American who has to wake up to reality everyday supposed to do?

What was once a jewel of democracy, held by the beyond reproach League of Women
Voters has been hijacked by the duopoly that seeks to wreck America and it is up
to us to speak out against it.Only a few years ago, America was a free enough
country to include the likes of Ross Perot, and we had better debates because of
it, and it was nothing like the staged spectacle dual press conference we had
last night. Im ashamed of what the world is seeing of America right now.

George Bushs brutality breeds brutality, making America and the world a more
dangerous, more violent place.

We are hostages of political parties that claim to be separate, yet none
respects the plight of the average working American. As workers we are all held
hostage by a corrupt corporate process which systematically weakened our resolve
to enjoy our work and be proud of our work. Hostages that want to fly have to
clear a no-fly list. Hostages that cannot freely congregate in the streets and
are chased by stormtroopers into barricaded, razor wire lined 'Free Speech
Zones'. Hostages that cannot wear a tee shirt or bumper sticker against the
leading Hostage Taker called our President without fear of serious reprisal.
Tens of thousands of people around the world have been

Ubetecha!

Facts here, doofus.

Cheez, you're as bad as Dick Cheney.

Hmm... the archive.org page only goes to January of 2004.
Better than nothing, though.

Was there ever anything here?

"This also reminds me of that old headline at The Onion: "Dolphins Develop Thumbs: 'Oh Shit,' say Humans""

For those who want to see the article, it's gone into the archives at the onion so you won't be able to view it without a premium account.

However, for those without a premium account, here's a link to the article courtesy of archive.org

Google Cache
Archive

You forgot one:

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism.

Direct by Robert Greenwald, the all of the original, digital footage is available for free under a creative commons license.

lemme see if i've got this straight,

back in the day Valve signs with Sierra and agrees to certain things, namely Sierra as distributor and giving Sierra some intellectual property stake in the game. Couple years later, Valve then plays hardball with Sierra and gets the IP back (so now they can make HL action figures and rake in the bucks like Lucas), but they are still under contract to produce games, however they can now distribute some stuff online. At some point Vivendi buys Sierra, and begins distributing games to cyber cafe without compensating Valve. Valve sues, then gets counter sued by Vivendi/Sierra claiming they lied about Steam and its capabilities.

So, what I can't figure out is whatever happened to powerplay?

Actually, given how much of a nonstarter powerplay was, I'd imagine if I were Valve, I'd downplay my plans with Steam as well. As much as I love the game, the company doesn't really have much of a track record with anything not directly related to HL...

I post my wireless research here. http://mb.citiwireless.com/

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Huhhhh, I said marriage. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=marriage%2 0AND%20mediatype%3Amovies

yea, but the wayback machine has nocat.net back to 4/01. downloads included. whether the 'technology' covered by the patent is there or not is something i didn't check. i wonder if discussion about doing something like that is elsewhere on the site (and if discussion would count as prior art)

At the debate, Bush said that the military would remain all-volunteer. Whereas Kerry's web page used to (until he decided to accuse Bush of it) call for the draft.

Which one scares you more? Someone who signed up to give his life to his country dying in Iraq, or you being told that you have to because you live here?

Archive.org to the rescue!

http://web.archive.org/web/20031203215948/www.psy. ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/download.html/

This will probably get slashdotted really quick because the archive.org servers are already slow. Someone make a mirror of this page quick so everyone can have a piece!

Archive.org has a mirror of their website.

According to googlism (4th definition), this cereal is properly called "shithead." More information here.

WayBack has it.

I've also mirrored the source Just In Case (that's an ADSL link, you'd be better off downloading it directly from WayBack).

It's been slashdotted - Mirror

And, most importantly: Linux Versus Linux. (No you can't actually read it..)

or can you?

not just the dead, but every artist listed here (and there are still more)

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.p hp

Recording live performances is allowed in some cases. Not only with jam bands that have followed the Dead and Phish in their stance on live recording. Other bands and artists are cool with it too. They realize that, by allowing shows to be recorded, they are potentially increasing their fanbase, as well as increasing the number of people at a show. I've been to shows to tape, based solely on a recommendation to go see and tape their show.

Many bands are now allowing their live shows to be posted on the archive http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php and there's always bit torrent as well http://tracker.bargainville.org/ http://bt.easytree.org/

Taping shows for personal, non-commercial use should be ok. Selling is what should be illegal

1. Soundboard recordings (directly recorded from house mix of the show).
2. Audience recordings (recorded using microphones from the audience).
3. A mix of the above two, often known as a "matrix" mix.

If you're interested in breaking free from slavery to the RIAA, please visit http://www.etree.org or http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php where you will find hundreds of artists who not only allow recording of their performances, but who encourage the free distribution thereof.

What happenend is that the poor bastards got swamped with requests for support from lik sang customers...

:: March 21, 2003

So it seems we have been seriously impacted by LikSang. Since March 7th, we have had about 10 support requests to every 1 cable order. Some of these requests have been from users claiming to have bought a cable, but they did not buy one from us. As LikSang is the only retailer selling them, we assume they are LikSang customers. LikSang did not develop their own technology; they simply provide a link to grooveyardfunk's driver on their site. However, they don't credit his project with development. Instead, they claim to have developed new adapter technology. LikSang can not and will not support software they didn't develop, which means that if users have problems, grooveyardfunk or codeUnderground get stuck with the support costs. This is a great situation for LikSang, as they have no support overhead.

We provide outstanding software support, with the average support request being answered within 10 minutes. Having someone always available to answer requests costs money and we may no longer be able to afford it. Furthermore, we can not match the economy of scale LikSang has. Their cables are made in China, presumably in a factory. All of our cables are made by hand, here in America, by members of our team. Always having someone around to make cables is expensive, in terms of both time and money.

We are currently in the process of deciding how best to continue, but for now, the driver and user support will remain free. We will also continue to sell cable adapters, so please, buy a cable. Please be considerate when requesting support. Rude, demanding, or insulting requests will not receive a response. Those of you who have purchased cables will continue to be supported regardless of what we decide. You can also expect to receive discounts on future products or services. We thank you for your support.

--science

Here's the blurb from Slashdot: "URLs can be made robust so that if a Web page moves to another location anywhere on the Web, you can find it even if that page has been edited. Today's address-based URLs are augmented with a five or so word content-based lexical signature to make a Robust Hyperlink. When the URL's address-based portion breaks, the signature is fed into any Web search engine to find the new site of the page. Using our free, Open Source software (including source code), you can rewrite your Web pages and bookmarks files to make them robust, automatically. Although Web browser support is desirable for complete convenience, Robust Hyperlinks work now, as drop-in replacements of URLs in today's HTML, Web browsers, Web servers and search engines."

The technical Robust Hyperlinks paper of 4 years ago is now at archive.org.

It would be interesting to read a more technical description than just a popular news story to see if Peridot does more than just store a different signature/fingerprint. It would be erroneous if Peridot's patents claim to have invented the idea of fingerprinting web pages to help fix links to pages that have moved or changed.

There were two fellows at UC Berkeley (Phelps and Wilensky) who implemented the idea of "fingerprinting" web pages at least as far back as 2000. It was a non-trivial fingerprinting (i.e. not just MD5 hash of a web page).

As far as I know, they haven't done any more recent work on this and the software is only available via archive.org.

A paper

I gather that the IBM effort is different in significant respects, but it certainly employs ideas from Phelps & Wilensky.

Maybe it would be better if that smart program replaced the links with links from:
archive.org
or maybe google cache.
Then ofcourse it has to be smart enough to know it did that and replace the links back with the originals if they come online.
Sometimes "broken links" can recover.

Sharing.

(Legal of course; there is an increasing amount of music distributed in FLAC that the artists allow you to redistribute (etree, furthurnet, Net Labels, Open Source Audio, etc.)

Sharing.

(Legal of course; there is an increasing amount of music distributed in FLAC that the artists allow you to redistribute (etree, furthurnet, Net Labels, Open Source Audio, etc.)

Expect to hear from the RIAA soon. :P

I love how much power people give to these weasles. The RIAA stands for the Recording Industry Association of America. They have no interest in concert recordings unless they have already been recorded and distributed by an record company that is a member of the RIAA.

Also there are 692 bands/artists listed here and available for easy download and another 1200 or so listed here that allow noncommercial recording and trading of their concerts.

Basically because the USA is afraid of the European inspired GSM network.

In NZ (where I live) it was always funny watching the CDMA, DAMPS and APMS provider - Telecom NZ - play catch-up in the technology, features and capabilities to the GSM provider - Vodafone.

It also helps that we can use phones that are literally from Asian countries. (At least, GSM ones.) You can go to Hong Kong and buy a GSM phone, and come here and put a Vodafone NZ SIM card in it and it will work. Keeps the competition up! (I don't have to wait for Vodafone NZ to play catch up if I don't want to.)

I must admit, I was confused what the heck this article was about. Cards like this have been in NZ since... oh, 2000? [looks at archive.org] Yep. There we go. Mentioned on Vodafone New Zealand's website four years ago.

The Nokia Card Phone in the year 1999. Sure this was GSM data old-school (the original - pre-GPRS - specification for data over GSM, at 9600 bps.) But hey. Same basic idea.

Basically because the USA is afraid of the European inspired GSM network.

In NZ (where I live) it was always funny watching the CDMA, DAMPS and APMS provider - Telecom NZ - play catch-up in the technology, features and capabilities to the GSM provider - Vodafone.

It also helps that we can use phones that are literally from Asian countries. (At least, GSM ones.) You can go to Hong Kong and buy a GSM phone, and come here and put a Vodafone NZ SIM card in it and it will work. Keeps the competition up! (I don't have to wait for Vodafone NZ to play catch up if I don't want to.)

I must admit, I was confused what the heck this article was about. Cards like this have been in NZ since... oh, 2000? [looks at archive.org] Yep. There we go. Mentioned on Vodafone New Zealand's website four years ago.

The Nokia Card Phone in the year 1999. Sure this was GSM data old-school (the original - pre-GPRS - specification for data over GSM, at 9600 bps.) But hey. Same basic idea.

After:
http://ask.com/

As for the second point, Linux Australia should really send back a C&D letter and force MPAA to prove that their content is a movie in a court, at risk of being sued for perjury, as everyone else is saying in this story. But the Internet is rather volatile and I just cannot find a way to prove that a file, at a certain date, at a certain location, had a certain content. Even if you point to a kind of cache, someone will have to prove, at some point, that the cache itself is reliable enough (ie, cannot be tampered with) to be used as court evidence.

Another problem is I cannot cite Wikipedia in my reports or papers. I can certainly cite Britannica. And most schools have subscriptions to EB anyway.

You can certainly cite wikipedia.... The key is to include the exact date and time you are viewing the article you are citing, as articles can change constantly. This works, because wikipedia keeps a history of all changes to the artilcle, so someone reading your paper could easily go back and look at the exact page you cited from.

In fact, this makes citing from wikipedia more reliable than citing from most web pages, as most web pages can also change consistantly but don't keep histories of the changes (and the Wayback Machine's coverage is sometimes spotty).

Anyway, when I went to school, citing from any encyclopedia was looked down on, as encyclopedias were meant to be introductions to a topic, and we were to do our research from more primary sources.