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My idea to a Knight News Challenge on Libraries : https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"Create a browser addon so when people post to the web they can send a copy for storage and hosting by a network of local libraries."

Sad that the Knight News Foundation has changed their software and so all the old contributions are no longer available. Hard to respect a group like that which takes so much hard work by so many people and just dumps it. It's an example of the very thing that contribution was about -- the need for distributed backups. Glad that info is still findable in archive.org -- until perhaps the Knight News Foundation puts up a broad robots.txt and makes it all inaccessible.

---- More details on the idea

Describe your project.

There are two many single points of failure on the internet for collections of important knowledge. For example, years of posts to Facebook, Reddit, Slashdot, MetaFilter, or SoylentNews would all be lost if those websites were to be shut down. We have an answer to that challenge.

While the Internet Archive is backing up some of the internet, it is another single point of failure. We propose developing data standards, software applications, coordination protocols. and hardware specifications so every local library in the world can participate in backing up part of the internet. While that brings up many copyright concerns, we have an approach to deal with that.

We propose making web browser addon applications major web browsers. This browser addon would make it easy for people posting content to any website on the internet to send a copy for safe keeping to their local library (or other access gateway). From there, the content would be distributed across the distributed library network. Any previously published content they have written could also be added to this system using that browser app. The content would be sent a standardized form for indexing and linking with other content using semantic information. Users would specify a Creative Commons license or similar free license for their content when they contributed the content. Each data item would be assigned a unique hash for its content to help ensure its integrity and retrievability (similar to how the Git source control system stores information).

Each local library might only store terabytes of information (likely using Apache Hadoop and perhaps Apache Accumulo or similar software). But, together as a network, thousands of local libraries could store the world's knowledge in a reliable distributed way. Even one library would have the absolutely most important data for that locality, and any few libraries would have most of the popular data across the network.

How does this project advance the library field?

Libraries have historically kept paper copies of the world's information. There were multiple copies of every published book archived across the library network even if each library typically only had one copy of only some of the total. This project will help libraries do the same for the world's digital information -- with each library having part of a distributed whole. In a somewhat holographic way, each library would maintain a copy of the most important information for its local patrons, while also serving as a backup for some of the rest of the data from outside its locality.

Who is the audience and what are their information needs?

The global web community, The Internet Archive. The need is to have reliable backups of freely published digital information.

You can catch it on archive.org.

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I was checking it on wayback and Google cache and it is a funny site. https://web.archive.org/web/20... or http://webcache.googleusercont...

And Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/*/...

The linked article is talking about something that the author thinks is valuable, and if you read it, you might agree (the story about Roger Moore).

People's history have value, most of us see that and the Internet Archive creators and maintainers certainly see that way too. It's pretty arrogant to say that people's posts are less valuable than some storage space. And contrary to the direction the world is moving too.

If people where like you the Internet Archive would probably not exist, only Wikipedia. Remember Geocities? It wasn't the pinnacle of insightful speech either, but it was history.

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, and home to a giant archive of the public web since 1996. Our web archive is viewable for free via the Wayback Machine.
GeoCities was an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years, but was discontinued on October 26, 2009.

Of course I understand that budget constrictions would make it impossible to keep the whole Facebook on the IA, but that's not a subject of importance or value, but of real possibilities. If we could keep the pages that someone thinks is important enough to save to the archive and make public (like the one in the article), that would be a great improvement over the current situation.

Microsoft admits to disabling third-party antivirus code if Win 10 doesn't like it

"Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility â" not competitive â" issues.

Redmond is currently being sued by security house Kaspersky Lab in the EU, Germany and Russia over alleged anti-competitive behavior because it bundles the Windows Defender security suite into its latest operating system. Kaspersky (and others) claim Microsoft is up to its Internet Explorer shenanigans again, but thatâ(TM)s not so, said the operating system giant."

More: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
Optional: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

complete VideoCore docs were released February 2014.

2nded
The Power of Nightmares and The Trap should be compulsory.

2nded
The Power of Nightmares and The Trap should be compulsory.

I highly recommend the book & documentary "The Corporation"—watch it online and buy a copy. I highly recommend the 2-disc DVD set because the interviews and extras on the second DVD are compelling. It continues to be valuable to debunk the corporate-friendly media that passes for informative entertainment today. I watch this documentary at least once a year and I always manage to find something I'd almost forgotten in it. It's deeply informative, compelling, and the underlying thesis is intriguing. Rewatching with the audio commentary (particularly the Joel Bakan commentary which continues the examination and places a few figures in a more interesting context, such as one of the CEOs that got high praise for his interview but can be seen in an entirely different light when one thinks about his role as a CEO) is also highly recommended.

I see on their homepage (linked above) that they're working on a sequel as well.

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

A quick google of "The UNIX Programming Environment PDF" shows several available sources. Archive.org has a few other titles.

The AWK Programming Language

The C Programming Language - First Edition (useful for old systems, HP-UX bundled K&R compiler), Second Edition.

Practice of Web Programming (audio), also CBC Spark

DMR final web page mirror

The UNIX Time-Sharing System (C Programming Language alternate text)

There's nothing remotely surprising about anti-leftwing communists. Maybe you should read some Lenin: https://archive.org/details/Le...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"So strategy and tactics in the context of political debate is the same as it is in any forum where issues are debated. It is to win over the fact finder, whether that is the jury, public opinion or the actual voters. Everything you do, everything you write, every position you take, every tactic you use, is "on stage" and affects the person in the middle who is watching. He is who you are communicating with. Your communication with the other side is for the purpose of making a point with the audience, not with the person with whom you are arguing."

>How did Milo dehumanize anyone?

Seriously ? You can't see it ? How did he NOT ?

>Can you link me to the essay?
  Here's the whole book it's from: http://archive.org/details/Ope...
But it looks like that link is not working anymore - could be that somebody has made a recent copyright claim against it.

This discussion represents it pretty well and relates it to the same events we are discussing: https://medium.com/@parkermoll... the quotes are accurate, the caveats included. It's sufficient for the purpose.

Correcting that advantage would mean giving the smart man a lobotomy, forcing the dull man to the smart mans position or excessively taxing the smart man to be equal to the dull man.

No need for a lobotomy, just force the intelligent man to wear a mental handicap radio...

Agreed on the need to open source much more government code -- although one can discuss limited exceptions for security reasons which is a slippery slope.

Even for security-related intelligence tools, open sourcing much more makes a lot of sense for both national and international reasons as I explained here in 2010 in an OpenPCAST proposal:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

OpenPCAST was an Obama administration initiative, and it seems to be currently inaccessible under the Trump administration, so here is the full text from there with updated links.

====
The need for FOSS intelligence tools for sensemaking etc.

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.

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.

OpenPCAST itself could benefit through using such tools.

Such technologies have already been pioneered by SRI and others in SEAS, Angler, and the broader Genoa II project.

Related by (the, sadly, late) Tom Armour on Genoa II:
http://web.archive.org/web/200...

And a public memorial that mentions Tom Armour's loss to brain cancer (cancer being one of the biggest real killers of US Americans historically, along with strokes, heart disease, and diabetes):
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

If only those intelligence systems had also been able to help prevent or treat brain cancer (as well as other disasters, from the plague of obesity through the still ongoing BP Gulf oil leak disaster).

For example, we are beginning to understand how curing vitamin D deficiency and eating more fruits, vegetables, and legumes can help with prevention of many cancers and a host of other diseases, such as through the work of Dr. John Cannell and Dr. Joel Fuhrman and others in connecting the dots about vitamin D and nutrition and health. But why should such dedicated people trying to help all Americans (and other people) not have access to the best sensemaking tools tax dollars are creating to help with their work?

So, beyond national security implications, better FOSS intelligence tools

Agreed on the need to open source much more government code -- although one can discuss limited exceptions for security reasons which is a slippery slope.

Even for security-related intelligence tools, open sourcing much more makes a lot of sense for both national and international reasons as I explained here in 2010 in an OpenPCAST proposal:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

OpenPCAST was an Obama administration initiative, and it seems to be currently inaccessible under the Trump administration, so here is the full text from there with updated links.

====
The need for FOSS intelligence tools for sensemaking etc.

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.

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.

OpenPCAST itself could benefit through using such tools.

Such technologies have already been pioneered by SRI and others in SEAS, Angler, and the broader Genoa II project.

Related by (the, sadly, late) Tom Armour on Genoa II:
http://web.archive.org/web/200...

And a public memorial that mentions Tom Armour's loss to brain cancer (cancer being one of the biggest real killers of US Americans historically, along with strokes, heart disease, and diabetes):
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

If only those intelligence systems had also been able to help prevent or treat brain cancer (as well as other disasters, from the plague of obesity through the still ongoing BP Gulf oil leak disaster).

For example, we are beginning to understand how curing vitamin D deficiency and eating more fruits, vegetables, and legumes can help with prevention of many cancers and a host of other diseases, such as through the work of Dr. John Cannell and Dr. Joel Fuhrman and others in connecting the dots about vitamin D and nutrition and health. But why should such dedicated people trying to help all Americans (and other people) not have access to the best sensemaking tools tax dollars are creating to help with their work?

So, beyond national security implications, better FOSS intelligence tools

Agreed on the need to open source much more government code -- although one can discuss limited exceptions for security reasons which is a slippery slope.

Even for security-related intelligence tools, open sourcing much more makes a lot of sense for both national and international reasons as I explained here in 2010 in an OpenPCAST proposal:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

OpenPCAST was an Obama administration initiative, and it seems to be currently inaccessible under the Trump administration, so here is the full text from there with updated links.

====
The need for FOSS intelligence tools for sensemaking etc.

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.

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.

OpenPCAST itself could benefit through using such tools.

Such technologies have already been pioneered by SRI and others in SEAS, Angler, and the broader Genoa II project.

Related by (the, sadly, late) Tom Armour on Genoa II:
http://web.archive.org/web/200...

And a public memorial that mentions Tom Armour's loss to brain cancer (cancer being one of the biggest real killers of US Americans historically, along with strokes, heart disease, and diabetes):
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

If only those intelligence systems had also been able to help prevent or treat brain cancer (as well as other disasters, from the plague of obesity through the still ongoing BP Gulf oil leak disaster).

For example, we are beginning to understand how curing vitamin D deficiency and eating more fruits, vegetables, and legumes can help with prevention of many cancers and a host of other diseases, such as through the work of Dr. John Cannell and Dr. Joel Fuhrman and others in connecting the dots about vitamin D and nutrition and health. But why should such dedicated people trying to help all Americans (and other people) not have access to the best sensemaking tools tax dollars are creating to help with their work?

So, beyond national security implications, better FOSS intelligence tools

an imaginary threat

So SBC's CEO was an imaginary CEO?

The rate is set to reflect the difference between the market price and:

The regulated rates paid to Ontario Power Generation's nuclear and hydroelectric baseload generating stations;
Payments made to suppliers that have been awarded contracts through the Ontario Power Authority such as new gas-fired facilities, renewable facilities (like wind farms) and demand response programs; and
Contracted rates administered by the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation paid to existing generators.

I added the bolding.

From en-powered.com (the second reference from the wikipedia article):

Why this fee is on my bill

The Global Adjustment fee is used to cover the costs of two major programs in the Ontario energy sector:

Firstly, this fee is used to cover the cost of all the energy conservation programs in Ontario, such as rebates for LED lighting and HVAC retrofits. This funding is also used for various recycling programs and other initiatives.

Secondly, in order to ensure a steady supply of electricity, the government promised electricity generators a certain level of income for the electricity that they produced. In almost every case, the electricity price guaranteed to generators is higher than the current wholesale cost of electricity. The difference between these two rates – the rate promised to electricity generators and the actual wholesale cost of electricity – is the Global Adjustment.

To cover the costs of these two programs, the Global Adjustment was added to the electricity bills of every consumer in Ontario.

Again, I added the bolding. In the second case it doesn't make clear whether or not renewable energy sources are included; but considering that the previous reference does include them I feel safe in assuming that renewables are included.

Overconsumption

Due to the Global Adjustment, there is now a disincentive for the province to consume less electricity. This was made painfully clear in the spring of 2016 when, after the entire province consumed less electricity due to an abnormally warm winter, electricity rates were still increased.

This happened because energy generators have been guaranteed a stable income stream. So, if they produce electricity that is not consumed, they are still being paid for this energy production. This is a great way to attract investment to our province, allowing generators to earn a return on their long-term investments, but it is terrible for consumers.

So government interference has screwed things up once again? Noted.
The article then shows some graphs and points out that the global adjustment is accounting for the vast majority of the increase in electricity rates for people in Ontario... and as the first reference mentioned, the global adjustment rate is helping to pay renewable sources to produce electricity.

The MSP report from 2011 is dated by now, but appears to show that government interference in the price of electricity increased the price.

The wikipedia reference that claimed that renewables accounted for only 3% of the price increase leads to 404 page. So, again, I would like some sources for this.

If you really care about getting energy costs down, you should demand nuclear plants have their guaranteed payment agreements cancelled (likely impossible) and support expansion of renewable energy as quickly as possible.

So you appear to be correct that demanding the cancellation of guaranteed

Since nobody is naming the affected cameras, and the researcher inexplicably folded and removed his list on March 16, 2017, here's is a list courtesy of the internet archive.

It was trivial to find out that the manufacturer threatening with legal action was Foscam.

From their About us page:
Mission
To make life more secure for people all around the world by providing security products with higher quality and more competitive price.

Captcha: impeach

Since nobody is naming the affected cameras, and the researcher inexplicably folded and removed his list on March 16, 2017, here's is a list courtesy of the internet archive. The list is also included here so that robots.txt cannot be used to eliminate it from view.

3G+IPCam Other,3SVISION Other,3com CASA,3com Other,3xLogic Other,3xLogic Radio,4UCAM Other,4XEM Other,555 Other,7Links 3677,7Links 3677-675,7Links 3720-675,7Links 3720-919,7Links IP-Cam-in,7Links IP-Wi-Fi,7Links IPC-760HD,7Links IPC-770HD,7Links Incam,7Links Other,7Links PX-3615-675,7Links PX-3671-675,7Links PX-3720-675,7Links PX3309,7Links PX3615,7Links ipc-720,7Links px-3675,7Links px-3719-675,7Links px-3720-675,A4Tech Other,ABS Other,ADT RC8021W,AGUILERA AQUILERA,AJT AJT-019129-BBCEF,ALinking ALC,ALinking Other,ALinking dax,AMC Other,ANRAN ip180,APKLINK Other,AQUILA AV-IPE03,AQUILA AV-IPE04,AVACOM 5060,AVACOM 5980,AVACOM H5060W,AVACOM NEW,AVACOM Other,AVACOM h5060w,AVACOM h5080w,Acromedia IN-010,Acromedia Other,Advance Other,Advanced+home lc-1140,Aeoss J6358,Aetos 400w,Agasio A500W,Agasio A502W,Agasio A512,Agasio A533W,Agasio A602W,Agasio A603W,Agasio Other,AirLink Other,Airmobi HSC321,Airsight Other,Airsight X10,Airsight X34A,Airsight X36A,Airsight XC39A,Airsight XX34A,Airsight XX36A,Airsight XX40A,Airsight XX60A,Airsight x10,Airsight x10Airsight,Airsight xc36a,Airsight xc49a,Airsight xx39A,Airsight xx40a,Airsight xx49a,Airsight xx51A,Airsight xx51a,Airsight xx52a,Airsight xx59a,Airsight xx60a,Akai AK7400,Akai SP-T03WP,Alecto 150,Alecto Atheros,Alecto DVC-125IP,Alecto DVC-150-IP,Alecto DVC-1601,Alecto DVC-215IP,Alecto DVC-255-IP,Alecto dv150,Alecto dvc-150ip,Alfa 0002HD,Alfa Other,Allnet 2213,Allnet ALL2212,Allnet ALL2213,Amovision Other,Android+IP+cam IPwebcam,Anjiel ip-sd-sh13d,Apexis AH9063CW,Apexis APM-H803-WS,Apexis APM-H804-WS,Apexis APM-J011,Apexis APM-J011-Richard,Apexis APM-J011-WS,Apexis APM-J012,Apexis APM-J012-WS,Apexis APM-J0233,Apexis APM-J8015-WS,Apexis GENERIC,Apexis H,Apexis HD,Apexis J,Apexis Other,Apexis PIPCAM8,Apexis Pyle,Apexis XF-IP49,Apexis apexis,Apexis apm-,Apexis dealextreme,Aquila+Vizion Other,Area51 Other,ArmorView Other,Asagio A622W,Asagio Other,Asgari 720U,Asgari Other,Asgari PTG2,Asgari UIR-G2,Atheros ar9285,AvantGarde SUMPPLE,Axis 1054,Axis 241S,B-Qtech Other,B-Series B-1,BRAUN HD-560,BRAUN HD505,Beaulieu Other,Bionics Other,Bionics ROBOCAM,Bionics Robocam,Bionics T6892WP,Bionics t6892wp,Black+Label B2601,Bravolink Other,Breno Other,CDR+king APM-J011-WS,CDR+king Other,CDR+king SEC-015-C,CDR+king SEC-016-NE,CDR+king SEC-028-NE,CDR+king SEC-029-NE,CDR+king SEC-039-NE,CDR+king sec-016-ne,CDXX Other,CDXXcamera Any,CP+PLUS CP-EPK-HC10L1,CPTCAM Other,Camscam JWEV-372869-BCBAB,Casa Other,Cengiz Other,Chinavasion Gunnie,Chinavasion H30,Chinavasion IP611W,Chinavasion Other,Chinavasion ip609aw,Chinavasion ip611w,Cloud MV1,Cloud Other,CnM IP103,CnM Other,CnM sec-ip-cam,Compro NC150/420/500,Comtac CS2,Comtac CS9267,Conceptronic CIPCAM720PTIWL,Conceptronic cipcamptiwl,Cybernova Other,Cybernova WIP604,Cybernova WIP604MW,D-Link DCS-910,D-Link DCS-930L,D-Link L-series,D-Link Other,DB+Power 003arfu,DB+Power DBPOWER,DB+Power ERIK,DB+Power HC-WV06,DB+Power HD011P,DB+Power HD012P,DB+Power HD015P,DB+Power L-615W,DB+Power LA040,DB+Power Other,DB+Power Other2,DB+Power VA-033K,DB+Power VA0038K,DB+Power VA003K+,DB+Power VA0044_M,DB+Power VA033K,DB+Power VA033K+,DB+Power VA035K,DB+Power VA036K,DB+Power VA038,DB+Power VA038k,DB+Power VA039K,DB+Power VA039K-Test,DB+Power VA040,DB+Power VA390k,DB+Power b,DB+Power b-series,DB+Power extcams,DB+Power eye,DB+Power kiskFirstCam,DB+Power va033k,DB+Power va039k,DB+Power wifi,DBB IP607W,DEVICECLIENTQ CNB,DKSEG Other,DNT CamDoo,DVR DVR,DVS-IP-CAM Other,DVS-IP-CAM Outdoor/IR,Dagro DAGRO-003368-JLWYX,Dagro Other,Dericam H216W,Dericam H502W,Dericam M01W,Dericam M2/6/8,Dericam M502W,Dericam M601W,Dericam M801W,Dericam Other,Digix Other,Digoo BB-M2,Digoo MM==BB-M2,Digoo bb-m2,Dinon

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

In this day and age you need at least four more codecs to be supported to watch movies downloaded from torrents: AAC, AC3, DTS and AVC/H.264. And pirates have already started adopting HEVC/H.265.

Interestingly enough, apparently the last AC3 patents have recently expired. See https://web.archive.org/web/20170401170436/https://ac3freedomday.org/.

Safari for Windows

I thought Apple stopped maintaining that years ago. This article from nearly two years ago calls it "abandoned" and not updated since May 9, 2012. Or do there exist polyfills for everything introduced since then?

You can get by with Chrome for most of your Safari testing (and it has a great mobile device screen simulator built-in) since there's so little difference.

Until one of those "little difference[s]" introduced since the fork between Blink and Apple WebKit hits your application hard, particularly a web API that Apple entirely refuses to support as a means of encouraging developers to develop a native app instead.

The covers might be fake (why the hell do people do this?), but there was a story entitled Another Ice Age in Time Magazine dated June 24, 1974.

It might have been nice if they had mentioned this.

FTA: "Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earths surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years."

Have you read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut?

Yeah, something sad happened in it, but I cannot remember what it was.

I read that back in 1969. My mom was a sci-fi fan and kept the family well supplied.
I think of it whenever someone goes on with the "only benefits the rich" complaint, or there is some really looney interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities act.

Have you read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut?

progressive

Careful with that word. Fifty years ago it meant someone who supported the civil rights movement, and wanted people to be treated equally, regardless of race or sex. Today, it means someone who thinks that white men shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Great story of coming full-circle.

My first store-bought computer was also a KIM-1. I had wanted a computer for years, always looking at advertisements in magazines, and subscribing eventually to BYTE. I remember going together with my father to a computer store (on Long Island) to look around. I think it was a second-floor showroom which was not very big -- maybe over other stores or in a house? I remember seeing some kind of computer there on a table with a terminal and a disk drive comping PASCAL or something like that. The KIM-1 was probably the cheapest thing there -- sitting in a display case by the cash register.

My father and I soldered a power supply together for it. I seem to remember saving longer programs to cassette tape.

Before the KIM, I had built circuits from logic ICs from RadioShack, and before those I had built circuits from discarded lights and switches my father had brought home from work. I had also haunted RadioShacks to play with the TRS-80s there -- and learned a lot by doing the exercises using pencil in a TRS-80 tutorial guide "Users Manual for Level 1".
https://archive.org/details/Le...

I was lucky that a high school teacher also had a computer company selling educational computers. He would loan me PETS for a time I would write some software for or fix up or do other things with. One time he loaned me an Apple II for a couple days -- but that is all I ever did with one of those. Our high school (in the late 1970s) also was part of a Long Island BOCES timesharing group so we could dial-in from school (or later home on a PET) to a PDP-10 and run stuff there (not that I understood that much of what was going on the PDP-10 back then).

I sold the KIM-1 (sigh) to get money to buy my own PET from that teacher, and then got a printer and a dual floppy disk drive (forgoing all my future allowance to pay for it). Overlapping the PET I got a VIC (which I wrote a video game for which helped pay for college) and then a C64. I really liked Forth cartridges I got for the VIC and C64. I made an interface box so a PET, VIC, or C64 could control relays and extra multiplexed I/O lines (binary, A/D, and D/A). I interfaced that to a Battle Iron Claw robot from RadioShack I used in my undergraduate AI research

Eventually, I got a couple of embedded 6811-based Forth computers for fun -- I used them to radio control a Petster robot cat. Later I got a (Panasonic?) portable with a micro-tape drive I ended up returning at my manager's suggestion when the lab I was working at got a portable 8086 computer he let me take home (still wish I had kept the other laptop which was surprisingly good), then a Z88 portable, and finally my first 80386 IBM PC from Gateway I needed for a a computer contracting job.

After that was bunch of other PCs and Macs, Newtons , a Palm Pilot, a couple handheld Linux devices, a couple of OLPCs, and so on -- into the current days of Chromebooks, Arduinos, Raspberry Pi, OpenWRT-powered routers, and of course PC & Mac laptops.

Might have missed something or other in there.

Frankly, I no longer know exactly how many computers I own. :-)

The KIM-1 It was a big mystery to me at first. I had gotten an assembly language programming book but did not really understand it. It took quite a while to "click" and I'm not sure it ever really did until I later did assembly using a PET -- both to Peek and Poke and to run a macro assembler on the PET. But the KIM-1 set me up well to understand the PET quickly -- as well as a "Cardiac" cardboard computer we used in high school.

So, I can credit starting with a KIM-1 as teaching me a lot about the fundamentals of computing which has helped me throughout my career -- especially having confidence I can understand systems all the way to the metal (in theory). Thanks, Dad!!!

Sadly, my own kid has little interest in the low-level details of computers. Nowadays, pre-made applications can do so m

Base design came from "Kilobuad" mag, over 3 issues they showed a talked through a S-100 bus computer systems. Still have that collection of mags.
Added video and keyboard by using a broken HP keyboard - drilled out the bad key with 1/2" bit.and build video display by following design in "Checp Video Cookbook".

What I liked most was the toogle switches for the front panel, I mount on separate board with connectors. Build first an added board that displayed lightss in hex using 74147 TTL chip. Then added hex entry board, with a 555 timer controlling the WAIT line on the Z-80A. This was a toggle switch on first board. So instead of single stepping though the program, I could slide the rate up and down (once per 10sec to 1000 per second, so I could watch the lights for errors.

Oh, the days when Radio Shack was "good".

A sample of Kilobuad Mag

That's not just shit, that's pure, unadulterated bullshit.

GIMP criticism is different to some of the other projects. GIMP is trying to make an artists tool and the problem is unless they completely rip off Photoshop's interface they will always face criticism for not being photoshop. Art tools are like religions.

The funny thing with GIMP is not only did they target it as a Photoshop replacement, they targeted it only as a professional tool, and get annoyed when "casual" users are using it. Look on their forum where they get annoyed at users for getting annoyed at their fucked up save menu. Of course much like their application where they fuck things up for no apparent reason, their forum is now fucked up, so I had to resort to archive.org.

It's too bad Paint.NET isn't available as a cross platform free tool. Much more usable than GIMP.

[Core user group activities include] high-end photo manipulation; note the word ‘high-end,’ this is in results that can be achieved with GIMP and workflow it supports; high-end is not mid-or low-end: touching up some holiday photos a couple times a year is not what GIMP is made for;

Such is the nature of proprietary software. Users are at the mercy of whatever proprietors grant.

Other problems with this:

• You can't determine if Microsoft's list is complete and correct. They report whatever they want.
• Even if the list is complete and correct for now, you can't do much to change anything. Remember that a previous version released information even when "privacy settings" were set not to do that? That could still happen. Didn't the EFF warn Windows users about privacy problems with Windows 10? And aren't the default settings (which, in my experience, most users use) set to reveal a great deal? The user's software freedom is not respected.
• Even if the list is complete and correct for now, the software can change. Microsoft can issue an update that alters how the software behaves without updating the list.
• There could be other code that releases information Microsoft left out of the so-called "privacy settings".

Regardless of the PR, regardless of the labels on the settings, regardless of whether you're using the GUI to make changes or setting registry values, regardless of whether you're using one variant of proprietary software ("Basic" edition, "Home" edition, etc.) or another (perhaps an enterprise or "professional" edition) the relationship to power does not change how proprietary software works: With proprietary software users' privacy is never really under their control. Users who don't understand how computers work or why software freedom matters may read articles like theverge.com's article and come away thinking they're better off now. They won't realize proprietary software user are still facing the same problems as before with nothing of substance altered.

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

I remember reading that log a few years ago. It covers quite a few Tizen issues and is surprisingly relevant today.

Tizen isn't Meego 2.0 (completely different codebase and devs). It isn't better than Android (look/act like Android is all important). Despite the Linux Foundation trappings, it is 100% controlled by Samsung. It screws over devs with its SDK license.

I don't develop for Tizen. With the way things are, I don't see that changing any time soon.

As I wrote here: http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"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 [tabulators] 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."

Every now and then I go to archive.org and bring up the Slashdot front page from a decade ago.

Here's the front page for 29 March 2007.

Although I'm totally expecting it to be better, I'm still always stunned by just how much better the content was then than now.

The submissions are interesting and relevant! They've actually got something to do with technology, rather than being irrelevant pro-leftist political submissions. A submission like this shitty one is nowhere to be found.

This isn't a case of remembering the past through rose-colored glasses. No, we're actually looking at the front page itself from a decade ago, and we're comparing it against today's Slashdot front page. This is a direct, realtime comparison taking place!

To top it all off, 2007 was well after Slashdot's peak. We can look at even earlier front pages, like this one from 5 March 2000, and see how it was even better then than it was in 2007.

It's almost impossible to compare a 2000 Slashdot front page with a 2017 Slashdot front page, given how truly awful the submissions today are.

We all know that Slashdot is a shadow of what it once was. But submissions like this one, along with looking at archived copies of the front page from years ago, really goes to show how bad things are today.

Every now and then I go to archive.org and bring up the Slashdot front page from a decade ago.

Here's the front page for 29 March 2007.

Although I'm totally expecting it to be better, I'm still always stunned by just how much better the content was then than now.

The submissions are interesting and relevant! They've actually got something to do with technology, rather than being irrelevant pro-leftist political submissions. A submission like this shitty one is nowhere to be found.

This isn't a case of remembering the past through rose-colored glasses. No, we're actually looking at the front page itself from a decade ago, and we're comparing it against today's Slashdot front page. This is a direct, realtime comparison taking place!

To top it all off, 2007 was well after Slashdot's peak. We can look at even earlier front pages, like this one from 5 March 2000, and see how it was even better then than it was in 2007.

It's almost impossible to compare a 2000 Slashdot front page with a 2017 Slashdot front page, given how truly awful the submissions today are.

We all know that Slashdot is a shadow of what it once was. But submissions like this one, along with looking at archived copies of the front page from years ago, really goes to show how bad things are today.

They are out to defeat Sorhed, the evil ruler of Fordor

Dries Buytaert "ask[ed] Larry [Garfield] not to participate in the Drupal project" and Buytaert said his choice Buytaert said was based in part on "confidential information that I've received" about "omissions in Larry's blog post" concerning Garfield's sex life leading Buytaert to "[suffer] from varying degrees of shock and concern". Yet open source long prided itself on being a developmental methodology which eschews certain outside considerations, most notably software freedom. Software freedom is not relevant for consideration on its own merit, and a user's software freedom is an issue that needlessly drives away open source's principal audience—businesses. Therefore it was understandable, even if one disagreed, when an open source advocate would chastise the free software movement along the lines of including such foreign concerns like ethics into what makes software free and how one ought to treat others with regard to computers and software. Apparently other outside concerns are more acceptable and open source (a developmental methodology) values more than just development released under an OSI-approved license to make software which "drive[s] innovation" resulting in a promised "higher quality, greater reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in".

In an update to his blog post, Buytaert also says that Garfield will be deplatformed (as the neologism goes), "the Drupal Association made a decision not to invite Larry to speak at DrupalCon Baltimore or serve as a track chair for it" presumably for the same secret reasons that so shocked and concerned Buytaert—Buytaert "can't get past the fundamental misalignment of values" wherein "Larry has entwined his private and professional online identities". So there's no room for someone who believes in "The Gorean philosophy promoted by Larry [which] is based on the principle that women are evolutionarily predisposed to serve men and that the natural order is for men to dominate and lead.". And this decision comes from the man who is described as "the [Drupal] project's dictator for life, the CTO of a company with powerful influence on the open source project, the president of the Board of Directors".

Dries Buytaert "ask[ed] Larry [Garfield] not to participate in the Drupal project" and Buytaert said his choice Buytaert said was based in part on "confidential information that I've received" about "omissions in Larry's blog post" concerning Garfield's sex life leading Buytaert to "[suffer] from varying degrees of shock and concern". Yet open source long prided itself on being a developmental methodology which eschews certain outside considerations, most notably software freedom. Software freedom is not relevant for consideration on its own merit, and a user's software freedom is an issue that needlessly drives away open source's principal audience—businesses. Therefore it was understandable, even if one disagreed, when an open source advocate would chastise the free software movement along the lines of including such foreign concerns like ethics into what makes software free and how one ought to treat others with regard to computers and software. Apparently other outside concerns are more acceptable and open source (a developmental methodology) values more than just development released under an OSI-approved license to make software which "drive[s] innovation" resulting in a promised "higher quality, greater reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in".

In an update to his blog post, Buytaert also says that Garfield will be deplatformed (as the neologism goes), "the Drupal Association made a decision not to invite Larry to speak at DrupalCon Baltimore or serve as a track chair for it" presumably for the same secret reasons that so shocked and concerned Buytaert—Buytaert "can't get past the fundamental misalignment of values" wherein "Larry has entwined his private and professional online identities". So there's no room for someone who believes in "The Gorean philosophy promoted by Larry [which] is based on the principle that women are evolutionarily predisposed to serve men and that the natural order is for men to dominate and lead.". And this decision comes from the man who is described as "the [Drupal] project's dictator for life, the CTO of a company with powerful influence on the open source project, the president of the Board of Directors".

If you need your OS/2 apps badly, you can already freely download IBM OS2 Warp 4.0 and run it in a VM or some old metal. As for DOS, FreeDOS reliably runs even on modern hardware though you can also use ReactOS which implements it faithfully. Finally, Win 3.x apps are old hat for WINE. You can SkiFree all day if you want! ;)

1.) Scientists predicted in 2000 that kids would grow up without snow.
2.) It’s been 10 years since scientists predicted the “end of skiing” in Scotland.
3.) The Arctic would be “ice-free” by now
4.) Environmentalists predicted the end of spring snowfall

SOURCE ? link to scientific journal please ?

He can't do that, because the above points are copy-pasta of half-truths:

• 1) In an Independent article the author says that snow is a thing of the past, and that he quotes some scientists who say that if global warming continues snow will become a rare occurrence. No dates attached to the scientist's predictions.
• 2) In a Guardian UK article in 2004, unnamed "experts" predicted that the Scottish ski industry had about 20 years left before it died. For the math challenged, that prediction won't be testable for another 7 years. The article points to some short-term trends that showed fewer ski days and fewer ski tickets. The article that the claims were copied from claims since there was a lot of snow this year, the Scottish Ski industry is saved forever.
• 3) This is one based off of something that Al Gore said, which was "Some of the models suggest to Dr Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire North polar ice cap, during summer, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice free within the next 5-7 years." There's a lot of qualifiers in there that get skipped when skeptics read that, they tend to ignore "Some of the models" and "75% chance" and claim that Al Gore said all the Artic would be ice free in 5 years. I'm pretty sure Dr. Maslowski further hedged his bet by prefacing it with "if the current trend continues", but what was actually said is less important than claiming it's wrong.
• 4) This one is references a Union of Concerned Scientists press release, which notes that we have been getting less snow in spring over the last decade and then talks about the kinds of environmental impacts those changes have. The article the claims were copied from notes that there was a record breaking snowstorm this year as a refutation of the entire press release.

I.e. significantly longer than the US

I couldn't help but following your link after you said that, since it's one of those, "I knew Norway had a lot of coast, but THAT much?!" moments for me. I did want to point out that the numbers even at the link you shared are a bit incongruous, since they seem to vary quite a bit from source to source based on how they define a coast or shore (e.g. do they include freshwater or inland bodies of water? if they're measuring the actual coast (as opposed to the boundary of jurisdictional waters), are they measuring to a particular depth of tidal water, or are they measuring the shore as it's represented on a map? are overseas territories included in the country's total? ). For instance, here are some official numbers, most of which were pulled from the Wikipedia article you linked (I also grabbed numbers from other sources I've linked):

Norway's coast:
25,148 km (World Factbook) or 53,199 km (World Resources Institute) or 125,225 km (Statistics Norway)

USA's coast:
19,924 km (World Factbook) or 133,312 km (World Resources Institute) or 153,646 km (NOAA)

All of which is to say, while I can't say with any certainty which has the longer coastline (not that it matters), it's indisputable that the overall point you were driving at--that Norway has a LOT of coast (particularly given its size) and that it impacts things in all sorts of ways that most of us may be unaware of--is both correct and inherently fascinating. Thanks for sharing the info!

ADDENDA:
In case you're curious about the massive differences in the numbers...

The World Resource Institute's dataset was designed to be used for comparisons between countries. They talk at that link about the difficulty in producing useful numbers and in comparing numbers from different sources. To get around most of the issues they identified, they used a vectorization of the coastlines at a constant resolution (to ensure that no country benefitted from having a more detailed mapping than other countries) and didn't include overseas territories. As such, theirs are useful approximations for the purpose of comparisons and are relatively accurate as far as these sorts of measurements go, but for coastlines with lots of nooks and crannies (e.g. Norway's), their approximations may have a greater degree of error than they would for locations with simpler coastlines.

NOAA and Statistics Norway are, I believe, both official organizations, but I wasn't able to find much about the methodology that either used. NOAA mentions that it includes outlying territories, so that immediately inflates their numbers a bit. They also include the shorelines of the Great Lakes, which makes some sense given that they are boundary waters between the US and Canada, but some people may question their inclusion. Either way, it's probably safe to say that both NOAA and Statistics Norway are working with highly detailed maps when making their measurements, so they're likely to be closer to the true numbers than the World Resource Institute's, though it's difficult to compare them without adjusting for differences in methodology.

As for the CIA World Factbook, they don't list their methodology in a place I could find, but it's pretty clear from their numbers for landlocked countries that they're not including inland bodies of water. Given how much lower their numbers are than everyone else's, I'd wager they were calculated at a low resolution, or else they may simply measure at a set distance from the shore, effectively decreasing the resolution of their measurements significantly.

At the end of the day, it looks like the US' coastline may be slightly longer, but the country also benefits from being significantly larger. Ba