Slashdot Mirror

http://www.archive.org/web/freecache.php

It isn't P2P web proxy, it's just "big pipe"-based distributed one. Supposedly a great way to prevent slashdoting (just use http://freecache.org/http://mytinysite.com instead of http://mytinysite.com and everything goes from the cache, tiny site receiving only header requests to chceck if the document hasn't changed in the meantime) it's hardly known, way too quiet as for a project that useful. P2P may be faster and cheaper but certainly less reliable...

There has been something called FreeCache for some time already. It helps with big files (over 5MB). But of course, why use it when you can fuck people's servers instead? Sometimes it is more about will than technology.

Here's a pretty cool video about the brand new suspension systems of 1938:
http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=mo vies&identifier=OvertheW1938

you need 10 full standard size racks to hold 1 PB of harddrive space
archive.org has more details here
I guess one could fit such space in the garage or basement, but I seriously doubt that someone with funds to buy that much space would do it, just to share it on some p2p.

Not really. This link explains it quite well:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040208152350/http://w ww.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

It doesn't really have a commonly-used Latin plural. Some believe it to be 4th declension. I haven't studied this stuff in almost a decade, so I am not sure.

Now wait a second. Look at THIS, the Internet Archive's 'PETABOX'.
They found 200 of these?? Who's got their terminology wrong.

mirror

Obviously the Internet Archive has one
here.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From the redwood forest to the New York island.
From the snow-capped mountains to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.

As I go walkin' my ribbon of highway
I see all around me my blue blue skyway
Everywhere around me the wind keeps a-whistlin'
This land is made for you and me.

I'm a-chasin' my shadow out across this roadmap
To my wheat fields waving, to my cornfield dancing
As I go walkin' this wind keeps talkin'
This land is made for you and me.

I can see your mailbox, I can see your doorstep
I can feel my wind rock your tip-top treetop
All around your house there my sunbeam whispers
This land is made for you and me.

"Was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted, said 'Private property.'
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
This land was made for you and me."

• At an NPR story: here and here
• Here for more info.
• Here for info from the Woodiy Guthrie foundation.
• Here for the Lyrics from Arlo Guthrie, Woody's Son.
• 
  
  IMHO whoever claims to "own" this is as sick as the people who claim to "own" the image of Martin Luther King as property. See the commentrary at the internet archive: here.

Yes, the long term plan is to make the page images we use in proofreading available for end users. There are several logistical problems with this (mainly to do with bandwidth and disk space), but all the images are archived for the time when we can make them available.

It's possible that we might interface with something like the Million Book Project, which makes page images, but no text, available.

WayBack or Google's cache either. Reminds me of Scrat and the glacier.

Valid point, but doesn't apply if I'm using an OS that has any sort of protection (i.e., they'd have to be root to install anything) or if I use a laptop that I take with me everywhere (or possibly put in a safe).

I thought rubber hose cryptography was pretty cool, but the link I visited seems to be down (or the project is now defunct: http://www.rubberhose.org/) Anyone know what happened to the project? Whatever--thanks to the wayback machine for this link. Briefly,

Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation. Rubberhose differs from conventional disk encryption systems in that it has an advanced modular architecture, self-test suite, is more secure, portable, utilises information hiding (steganography / deniable cryptography), works with any file system and has source freely available. Currently supported ciphers are DES, 3DES, IDEA, RC5, RC6, Blowfish, Twofish and CAST.

Written by Julian Assange, Ralf P. Weinmann and Suelette Dreyfus, Rubberhose is currently available for Linux 2.2. Userland daemons and tools are highly portable. NetBSD & FreeBSD kernel modules are nearing completion.

I guess I should be more precise, since it seems "rubber hose cryptology" is the process of beating someone with a hose until they give you the key. But the project had the goal of plausible deniability. It was impossible to determine how many encrypted objects were on a disk, so you could have a decoy encrypted message in case someone did beat the crap out of you.

Of course, removable media themselves are a good way to avoid a keylogger program. Go to some public terminal, plug in your USB drive, and you're set. The feds can't possibly install keyloggers on all public terminals, or sift the wheat from the chaff if they did collect that much info.

The Nasa site seems to be screwy so...

The Wayback machine to the rescue!

http://web.archive.org/web/20040203105423/http://v isibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826

Which gives you the direct link:

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev58/ev5826_land _lights_16384.tif

If you read the Yahoo page at http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,11579 3,00.asp then you will see the statistic is "The research reveals 37 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have downloaded a full-length motion picture from the Internet."

Also "24 percent of respondents reported that they had downloaded a movie online".

The 24% includes perfectly free-to-download stuff shorts like http://pocketmovies.net/ and http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

The 37%, being 'full length' is presumably meant to imply Hollywood releases, but can still include public domain stuff like the Prelinger material linked above, which includes full length movies.

It does piss me off that the MPA tries to associate every movie download as being of their copyrighted property; that's not so.

Internet Archive Feature Films

Googles cache Wayback machine Unfortionately neither have pictures...

Wow, does this ever bring back memories. Big props out to you and the other coders. I had no idea that the name Persistence of Vision had been lost over time. I always loved that name.

We used to play a lot with DKBTrace, Vivid, etc. on our rockin' 286s. Along with Fractint for those funky fractals. Actually, I think I started with Fractint and DKB on an XT...

I remember dialing into You Can Call Me RAY too!

I still have POV installed on my machine but haven't actually used it for a while. I used it for a website about 7 years ago where I mapped the company's logo colours onto spheres that I turned into rotating buttons. I then processed the animation frames using Photoshop's brand-new batch commands. They finally stopped using those buttons last year sometime. Found a copy on the wayback machine though: http://web.archive.org/web/19990218075344/www.andr ewsgreene.bc.ca/home.html -- Not much to look at now, but at the time it was pretty cool. ;)

Geez, now I'm going to have to take a break from Doom III and do some ray tracing...

Thanks to archive.org, you can find the list here.

Google cache is good, but web.archive is best as you can see here

Google cache is good, but web.archive is best as you can see here

www.amdpower.com died in front of my eyes.
Maybe some of you could use an alternative link from our beloved internet archiver :D

Alternative links (elitemrp.net got a taste of /.):
dvd_palpatine1.jpg
empire_emperor.jpg
dvd_jabba1.jpg
dvd_esprit2.jpg

Alternative links (elitemrp.net got a taste of /.):
dvd_palpatine1.jpg
empire_emperor.jpg
dvd_jabba1.jpg
dvd_esprit2.jpg

Alternative links (elitemrp.net got a taste of /.):
dvd_palpatine1.jpg
empire_emperor.jpg
dvd_jabba1.jpg
dvd_esprit2.jpg

Alternative links (elitemrp.net got a taste of /.):
dvd_palpatine1.jpg
empire_emperor.jpg
dvd_jabba1.jpg
dvd_esprit2.jpg

Hmmmm - I thought google just pointed to information. Also, there are alot of other people collecting information and pointers to information: Internet Archive Teoma Search etc...

Finally, if you are so worried about google controlling everything - why don't you build your own search engine and start collecting your own pointers?

It doesn't seem like the end of the world to me.

What would be bad would be having only one or a few limited sources of information - much as existed prior to the internet. Today we have much more options for finding information - now we just have to figure out good and fast ways to come to some consensus between various conflicting sources. Again, a challenge to be overcome - not the end of the world.

A vital side note: Heinz von Foerster had published a paper in 1960 on global population: von Foerster, H, Mora, M. P., and Amiot, L. W., "Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D." 2026, Science 132, 1291-1295 (1960). In this paper, Heinz shows that the best formula that describes population growth over known human history is one that predicts the population will go to infinity on a Friday the 13 in November of 2026. As Roger Gregory likes to say, "That's just whacko!" The problem is, after he published the paper, it kept predicting population growth better than the other models. (see section 4.1 "Systems Ecology Notes") One of Heinz's early University of Illinois colleagues was Richard Hamming of "Hamming code" fame. Once while visiting the Naval Postgraduate School, I asked Dr. Hamming what he thought of Heinz von Foerster. Professor Hamming's response was "Heinz von Foerster: Now there's a first class kook!" I suspect Heinz's publication of, what Transhumanists call, "the singularity" had really gotten to Hamming -- not that Heinz wasn't eccentric enough get Hamming's goat in any case. Well, to continue this digression so as to give the damn Transhumanists a much-deserved keyboard lashing: It's one thing to be a guy like Hamming and denounce Heinz as a "kook" for following his formulae where they lead -- it's another to turn Heinz's formulae into a virtual religion, call it "the singularity" and totally forget where the idea came from the first place. I suggest the Transhumanists cite Heinz in the future whenever they refer to "the singularity" and think about his assumptions -- the primary one being that societies success varies directly with population size. It might be good to see if his model fits the data subsequent to the last check of which I am aware -- 1973 -- which just happens to be right at the point high population density societies decided to abandon their forward progress toward the space frontier.

A short synopsis:

1. Guy gets legs run over by truck
2. Guy has no health insurance
3. Medicare pays for surgery and leg braces, but not amputation and prosthesis as he still has limited mobility and it's not life-threatening.
4. Guy decides to get money for new legs and point out inadequacies in the US healthcare system by selling tickets to watch him amputate his own legs with a guillotine

I don't believe he ever went through with it, due to a lack of interest and legal problems. But it could have just been a scam...

I find it highly interesting in this case that a company actually offered "life time" @gmail.com email adresses in -96 ...

Your LIFETIME Email address!

Looks like gmail.com has been through a bunch of iterations. Not sure how on topic this is, but it's interesting to see the different sorts of things that the domain has been used for.

I would rather like to see every public domain human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium to be archived. A Project Gutenberg so to speak, but for not just books but also images, audio and video as well. For example, there are veritable treasure troves of old films just lying around degrading and collecting dust in television archives around the world but even if they were all digitized (as is being done with some extra valuable movies in danger of degrading to unusability) I doubt we would see them offered for free to the general public. The bandwidth costs would just be too big for any company/state television attempting it. A distributed P2P system however would be ideal for this.

In the meantime, there are a few sites attempting it on a smaller scale - the Prelinger Archives over on archive.org are definitely worth a look for anyone interested in old American war, educational and propaganda films for example (like the (in)famous "Duck & Cover" movie)...

Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture

As the NSA and FBI fear, traditional crime organizations have been incorporating high-tech communication into their organizations. Although Janet Reno was quoted stating "This is law enforcement's worst nightmare.", techies around the world are sure to be pleased with one New York Syndicate's new venture.

It all started when Don Dominiqi signed onto his AOL account last Monday morning. His inbox was filled with "Make Money Fast", "Viagra On-Line", and "Teenybopper Web Sex" ads. Lost amidst the drivel was an important note detailing a non-taxed shipment of Marlboros, which were later confiscated by the BATF. Little did he know, as he shouted "Bring me the left hand of this f*cking gutterslime!" what would become of it all.

Later that same day, Billy "Run!" Brutekowski and Larry "My Eyes!" Plucker cornered the pasty-faced offender of the Family in a small cyber cafe in Greenwich Village. "This was by far the creepiest place the Boss has ever sent us." stated Billy, who only spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone in this place looked pale and sickly, like they had already been 'spoken to'. We asked for this punk, and several people quickly pointed him out. Most of the scum we find in gin joints aren't so quick to finger one of their own," Billy continued.

"He must not watch much TV, because this sh*t didn't even flinch when we came to the corner he was hiding in," Larry proceeded to relate. "We dropped this sheet of paper the Boss had given us on his table and he says 'So you guys want to make money fast, eh?' He puts out his and says to give him $20. This scrawny little dirtball tells me to give him $20!" Larry was quite agitated at this part in his story, and his description of how Sammy Spammer's hand fell off was quite garbled.

Billy continued, "Up till now, this was a routine visit. We was just being playful. The weird sh*t began when we tried to leave." "This pimply faced kid blocks the door as we try to leave, and I'm thinking to myself 'Great, a f*cking Karate Kid hero. He just stand there, and then he hands me a $5 bill." Billy pulls out the $5, and holds it like it is his first quarter from his favorite grandmother. "They lined up after that, and we had $175 in 'tips' when we left the joint."

Later that day the Don himself visited the caf, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the caf indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.

Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.

The URL is to be announced next week, and the cyber caf's phones have been jammed with requests for more information.

We may have to make allowances for inflation, but still ....

And maybe a few guys can help out getting segfault back online. It was a priceless resource in it's day - Segfault.org website today, and as seen on the Internet Archive

Wrong. Just plain wrong. Have you even looked at the site? Go to http://web.archive.org/web/20030621061434/http://f allwell.com/ Maybe he had *A* link to Amazon. But it doesn't show up on this version. It's obvious the site existed pre-amazon-link :. its purpose was not to make money. So no, there is no standing. The judge is obviously just a bigot. Not to mention the fact that he didn't use Falwell's name at all, except talking directly about him. Can Microsoft sue people for trademark infringement when they write negative reviews? Of course not. Directly analogous.

So, is there a problem with the law? I kind of feel like there is. In fact, I kind of feel like the First Amendment would make whatever law is involved here unconstitutional. Given that we're told our rights to speech CANNOT be infringed, where do we really get off saying that people can't say bad things about other people? Sure, the site tarnishes and disparages Mr. Falwell ... so what's the big deal? People tarnish and disparage me all the time. And I dare say Mr. Falwell does his own tarnishing and disparaging of some folks. Why is some of this protected speech and some of it illegal?

The problem isn't just the tarnishing & disparaging.

Free speech is mitigated by many, many things. Fraud, for example, is not free speech. Trademarks, in general, limit speech.

If Pete's Coffee & Tea started handing out coffee bags filled with rat turds, all bearing the Starbucks (TM) logo, I imagine it would activate the same provisions of trademark law that have come up in this case. If that's the case:

IMHO, it's a mediocre ruling. I do not believe that anyone would be confused by the old contents of fallwell.com. I'm not even sure why it counts as tarnishing or disparaging: the site outlines why & how they feel Jerry Falwell is wrong about homosexuals. I guess I don't understand the legal definition of tarnishing and disparaging.

Anyway, independent of the ruling, the guy's URL is lame. He is capitalizing on people misspelling the dude's last name. He should instead work on increasing his page's relevance & well regard on the internet until his new URL (http://www.falwellbigot.com or whatever) is ranked higher than Jerry's official site for the search terms "jerry falwell" on popular search engines. The content on his site is completely solid. I don't see why this is such a problem for him.

Anyway.

www.fallwell.com Jun 21, 2003 backup

Wayback Machine cache

Before I start, IANAL, but...

This is not a trademark infringement because they are not in the same industry. There is nothing in IP law as far as I know that says a person cannot make money using a parody. Parody is covered under fair use doctrine. The double-entendre signifies satire: fall is a verb, well is an adverb, they are constantly used in conjunction, and in its loose interpretation, it means that someone is very good at doing something very shitty. I don't know the author personally but I think that this was the desired effect, in which case this is clearly a pun, a satirical parody on the name, and is protected by IP law. This decision is wrong just as it would be wrong for Microsoft to shut down http://www.microsuck.com/ Please see http://www.publaw.com/parody.html

According to the article, "Lamparello's site criticizes Falwell's stance against homosexuality and includes a disclaimer that reads, 'This Web site is not affiliated with Jerry Falwell Ministries.'" This means that the decision that it would be confusing to visitors is a load of tripe. It is very clearly anti-Falwell and says there is no affiliation explicitly. If you would like to see the website, here's a snapshot from a year ago: http://web.archive.org/web/20030621061434/http://f allwell.com/ It was the latest one I could find.

This ruling is absolutely non-sensical and -- as far as I know -- without precedent.

A quick search reveals that copies of this site are available at www.archive.org. Will the judgement apply to third party archives?

Wrong, wrong (just), wrong!. (-:

Most of the useful Linux packages can be found (albeit sometimes a bit crippled) for MS-Windows (or nicely packaged for the Mac). What you don't usually get is smooth integration, full-throttle performance or regular updates. OTOH, very few attackers expect to find, for example, EXIM on MS-Windows, so attempts to priv-escalate to root don't work all that well. (-:

The advantages of Linux which my cutomers see (all of my customer sites are either Linux or planning to be Linux soon) are that I can quickly and cheaply set it up and then more or less forget it for a couple of years until a fan or hard disk fails (and yes, I do have and have had systems with years of continuous uptime on them); it's flexible enough to readily do a lot of stuff which is difficult-to-impossible (and usually clumsy) under MS-Windows; you don't need to worry about licensing; and it's never had a CodeRed or MSBlast equivalent. Different customers have additional different reasons for liking it, but that's all pretty much common ground. Cheap, reliable and flexible.

I don't see how the GP can price MS-Windows and and Linux systems at about the same on the same hardware, since the sites I share with MS-Windows all (bar one, who is ultra-careful about everything he does and visits the 40-seat site maybe every fortnight) have the MS techs constantly visiting to fix stuff up that should never break.

Roxio used to be a subsidiary of Adaptec.

Megatokyo? Do you have one of those blue 'Miho in the snow' blankets you'd like to sell to me? (I'm in .au)

In regards to your sig -- IIRC, the Kimiko blanket was blue, and the Miho blanket was black. (See the old store at the Internet Archive.) I'm afraid I don't have one, although I wish I did. Here's hoping Fred will add them to the new store soon!

""Greed" is a subjective label for some aspects of human nature -- and human nature is basically timeless.
"

Actually that is a falacy. For man wasn't always in such an evolution state as to allow greed.

The key driving force in mans evolution is that of population growth and survival.

Julian Jaynes book " The Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind" covers the identification of consciousness, its turning on point. Where man discovered he can now lie.

We are approaching the next phase of human mental evolution. There are many symptoms in teh form o0f conflict and difficult or impossible to find solutions to problems under the given mindset and the solution will require a mental change.

To use an analogy, like moving from roman numerals to teh decimal system having teh "nothing can have value - difficult concept to grasp" of zero the place holder. Where math was made so much simpler and available to far more than the roman numeral accountants with their vested interest in that field.

So yeah, we have lots of problems boiling up, like patent issues on software... etc... but they all have the status of "symptom" of a bigger and more general mindset problem.

The stock market was intended to provide companies with capitol to build from, but todays stock market game has become so abstract that teh idea of investing in a company you like or approve of the products and services they make over just going thru some IRA investing house playing teh market at high levels of abstraction..... How many IRA investors have any clue as to what they're investment is funding?

Greed is only a problem because we have created a model that supports it called capitolism.... which is not truely "free enterprise"

It should be noted that China was teh only country that didn't feel the impact of the trillon dollar bet..... and the reason was simply that they weren't playing that game. Making them the proof..

The stock market game has become a way to transfer wealth without production.... and thats simply not contributing to the overall rate of improvement we can achieve.

Maybe the question is:

What is greed?

IS it the king who gathers up all teh wealth in his land into his castle... or the king who keeps the wealth within the community of his people?

Which has greater potential of growth? Which is safer from theift, and who would be the thief?

Here's more:

what the world wants and the question is....why is it not being done?

Solve terrorism by not stealing from people but rather genuinely help solves problems.... where nobody will be able to muster up enough support to be a threat..

But the the power monger very small maniority would have to get a real job and actually produce something.

Indeed it has. Get it here:

Night of the Living Dead - (Creative Commons license: Public Domain)

I hope someone hands out flyers or something at these schools, with a link to archive.org's netlabels page, to show that if a kid is thinking of becoming a musician, ey needn't get sucked into the industry.

Come to think of it, school libraries stocking up on All You Need to Know About the Music Industry wouldn't be too bad either, as that shows exactly how the big companies get away with not paying artists what they're supposed to.

Shameless plug: my free music.

Give some thought to it also, or use the internet archive (wayback) - its not quite so up to date, but the pictures are cached too - http://web.archive.org/web/20030621113550/http://w ww.katie.com/

Just to follow up with details, in case anyone's interested. There's a book called "Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins that purports to be an inside view of sorority life. It follows the lives of four sorority women in unnamed sororities at unnamed schools. Although there is a need to protect the subjects, this arrangement also gives Robbins a lot of opportunity for fabrication. There were some things in the book that seemed really dubious. For example, Robbins referred to interviewing "Laney," an Alpha Sig in Nevada. A reviewer on Amazon pointed out that there weren't any Alpha Sig chapters anywhere in Nevada. Amazon apparently removed the review.

Robbins also included a claim by a former Chi Omega that her sisters had drugged her and arranged for her to be raped, since they were apparently tired of hearing her talk about being a virgin and wanted to "convert her to their ways." Problem was ... there were a lot of improbable things in the woman's story, and a grand jury didn't buy it either. (The woman's site http://www.chiomegasecrets.com was taken down, but you can see a copy of it courtesy of The Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Note the numerous "conspiracy" accusations.) When reviews pointed out that her account might not be true, Amazon deleted their comments too.

On a side note, there was an interesting story about online freedom of speech and message boards. A women published a bunch of sensitive information (and wild accusations about women drugging her and causing her to be raped) about her former sorority, and made a point of publicizing it on other message boards. She didn't stop there, though. She unsuccessfully sued the sorority, which may have countersued. The upshot is that the website in question was taken down, and she may have been forced to apologize in court. The woman and her mother have apparently been aggressive about getting stuff removed from websites that disagrees with their story. Although their site is no longer up, you can see it via the Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Just type in "http://www.chiomegasecrets.com"

fuck googling for it, why the heck fsck dang shat didnt they just type the bloody address in?

Archive.org has the site as active from 1998.

Oh, but they did. Had you RTFA then you would have realised then the original title for the book was to be girl.com, changed because the content of girl.com was at the time of the decision pornographic.