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Hey I'm all for funky gadgets that fly around in space, and these are really incredibly cool. And getting more exposure is always good, but judging by the comments so far a lot of you were not aware of these funky orbs.
But, I do have to point out that this is really old news, as a matter of fact it goes back at least to 18 October 2001. courtesy of the Waybackmachine

The sad part is, that I haven't seen any news on the project since.

Murphy(c)

Another interesting conference on a smaller scale was held in Viennal last week: Free Bitflows. Participants there were Brewster Kahle from Archive.org (with images of the Amsterdam PetaBox), Ian Clarke from Freenet, Musicians favoring fair and free distribution, and the organizer of Wizards of OS, among others. What are links to comparable events in the US?

IMNAL (obviously), but let's say I have an old example of using DHTML for advertising.

Would it be possible for the original creator to patent this form of advertising to keep others from doing it?

example

Check out, the video from archive.org on the Futurama exhibit. They have 100's of video of all world fairs and the like if you want to waste an afternoon viewing them.

The wayback machine will have archives of tuxia.org if you are interested.

archive.org for tuxia.org

Handy place when you are looking for prior art.

A DMCA takedown notice states, under penalty of perjury that the material in question is copyright infringing material and is owned by whomever is sending the notice.

NO IT DOES NOT.

For example the Dumbasses at Universal Studios (copyright holders of the movie U-571) did a general search for mpg files with 571 in the name and tossed off a pile of bogus DMCA takedowns such as this:
Title: U-571
Infringement Source: FTP
Infringement Timestamp: 2/22/2003 12:15:00 AM
Infringer Username: None
Infringing Filename: 20571a.mpg
Infringing Filesize: 349336000
Infringers IP Address: 209.237.233.141

And what is 20571a.mpg? It is a PUBLIC DOMAIN 1956 safe driving video. You know, those ultra cheezey highschool driver ed videos.

The takedown notice was totally bogus, but Universal Studios was NOT guilty of perjury. The only part of the notice that is under penalty of perjury is claim to be (or represent) a copyright holder of *something*. Universal Studios truthfully claimed to be the copyright holder of the movie U-571.

There is no 'under penalty of perjury' for the claim that the target of the notice has any connection to said copyright at all. And even if the target of the notice is in fact related to said copyright, there is no 'under penalty of perjury' for the allegation that the target is infringing at all.

The 'penalty of perjury' clause is a meaningless joke. I can state that I am the copyright holder of this post (true, under penalty of perjury) and issue a takedown notice on your post, or even on your wedding photos.

The DMCA was literally written by lawyers employed by the publisher's lobby. This deceptive 'penalty of perjury' clause is but one of *many* absurdly lopsided portions of the DMCA.

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Here is one google cache of the page.

I'm not certain just how useful this is, but it's all that I saw, as the Wayback Machine didn't have an archive.

I'm not karma whoreing, just trying to see the site (I've been thinking about an EOS digital rebal for fish pics - I need INSANELY FAST shutter speeds, with the option for getting far enough optical zoom on the subject that I can see individual scales and detail on a 0.25" fry).

Hope this helps out a small bit. Why, perchance, is slashdot providing "raw" and direct links to back-end sites, anyway? Sorry if this has been answered, but I'm being serious. Caches exist. They're free. They have massive horsepower and bandwidth.

It's unfortunate that this article appears in the New York Times because of their role in promoting the invasion of Iraq based on lies (everyone from Judith Miller up the chain of power through Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. at the head of the Times organization should be fired or resign). Thousands and thousands of Iraqis died because of this war based on lies, hundreds of American servicepeople died because of this war based on lies and the Times was a big conveyor of the lies. As a result, all of their articles (even ones which call for reasonable measures like this article does) will be thought of as less than what it could have been.

Listen to the last segment of Democracy Now! today or read this chapter of "The Exception To the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them" and you'll hear an argument for putting a social stamp of reduced value on the New York Times. I would rather people judge all articles in all publications ad-hoc, in a case-by-case basis and then promote those that call for reasonable things (like this article promoting electronic machine source code mostly does) and dismiss those that are lies (like Miller's articles promoting war against Iraq). But I doubt people will somehow become so independant.

It was proper to fire Jayson Blair and his superiors for his lies, but nobody died because of those lies. The Times apology is half-baked and there largely for political sake. At the Times, Sulzberger Jr., Miller, and everyone in between them at the Times still have jobs and the Times is still seen as the imprimateur of high quality journalism. It should be obvious to everyone now that that is shameful and inappropriate.

Just to make this statement a bit more qualified, according to the WayBackMachine, the Lorenz cipher link (where the claim of being equivalent to modern computers is made) was uploaded in 2000.

So the claim that it is as fast as a modern PC needs to be evaluated with respect to the computing hardware available at the time (1GHz-ish systems)

I will admit, however, that the system is very specialized, which has an impact on any comparison to other hardware.

Anyone still claiming that the Colossus is equivalent (as the BBC article implies) is misinformed.

Perhaps you are talking about JOS. It was quite a happening project couple years back , and now seems to have splitted into couple of different projects.

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So you think the ACLU is trying to protect terrorist then?

You also seem to believe in extortion....organized crime practice.

people do things for reasons, often such reasons are self supporting (meaning the action causes a need to support the action.... like a drug addiction...)

terrorize people in teh name of fighting against terrorism...

But why the world trade center, the pentagon and the white house targets?

do a search on the "trillion dollar bet" read teh transcript and don't stop there, do a bit of research ... perhaps even follow the money, as well as where it didn't go.

politically controlled, military backed, wrongful world economic manipulations..

if you are being screwed by a force more powerful than you, even calling you a terrorist.... insisting you are.... maybe you should give them what they want enough that they decide they no longer want it?

the world military budgets are in far excess of what is needed to genuinely address real world problems.... and thus removing any reality based reasons for any terrorist group to form or be able to maintain itself, the support it would need.

But spending such budgets on military activity.... a waring mindset begets a waring mindset... or didn't you get that in an above?

but there is another way to spend such budgets by giving the world...What the World Wants instead of giving the power mongers teh self supported dependancies they want

Archive.org also has episodes of another computer show, Computer Chronicles. It's much older (mainly eighties episodes), but they don't do things by halves: for the online database episode they interview people from Q-Link (later renamed AOL) and Compuserve, and in their music episode they interview John Chowning, who invented FM synthesis.

Archive.org has some archives of the old site. Much of the old data can be found there.

Fortunately, it is preserved on the Internet Archive.

Don't forget, at the time 8 years ago there was a popular application for video conferencing called "SeeYouSeeMe" ...

RealAroma.com

burris

Enjoy a nice unsorted list of some images, courtesy of FreeCache. I wish more people would use this service in the future.

• RDA(Robinson's Differential Analyzer)
• Integrators
• Input Table
• Dual Output Table
• Interconnect Section

And some more links that the author is working on, apparently:

• Torque Amplifier
• Helical Gearbox

"when you look for that webpage and it returns a 404"

Well, that's what Google's cache feature is for.

And the Internet Archive/Wayback machine

Just practice your "Duck and Cover" drill like Bert the Turtle

And here's a
link to the film. Yay for archive.org!

How long, with computerized production bringing music and movie making power to the desktop like never before and laws like this popping up, will it be before we see free or even Open Source movies.

Open Source movies? Here you go.

Nuclear war wouldn't be so bad as long as you weren't near ... a major city.

And since most people are near major cities, they'd mostly die within 48 hours. That's what I call "bad".

I think waiting it out at least 100 miles from any blast would be relatively ok.

If you're downwind of the nuclear bomb, then you will get 500-1000 rem fallout exposure at a 100 mile range- even from a single 1 megaton bomb. (Realistically, there would be more than one bomb hitting the target area). 1000 rem is definately lethal- 500 is probably fatal too, without hospitalization.

See a flash, duck and cover,

You place a little much trust in your government. Despite Bert the Turtle, ducking won't protect you in atomic warfare.

If you can see the flash, then it's too late to duck. The gamma rays have already hit you- either you were far enough away to survive the dose, or you weren't. Taking cover will only help you if there are more bombs coming to the same target (which is a minor possibility)

the powers that be have signed all their treaties ( probably treaties would be signed within days )

You posted several stupid things, but that tops them all. Those leaders authorized to sign treaties will have been the first to die- Washington and Moscow are targets #1 and #2. Or if they did survive in a hidden bunker, all the travel and communication infrastructure that would enable them to contact each other will have been lost.

But post-war, those treaties would be meaningless anyhow, as the figureheads who sign them no longer have effective command over any forces.

As Slashdoters we should be the ones who know about and utilize the tools of the trade freecache being one of them,

thanks to the good work by the Internet Archive there is no reason to link directly to a source (and thus bring it to its knees) ever again.

come on guys get with the friggen program

As Slashdoters we should be the ones who know about and utilize the tools of the trade freecache being one of them,

thanks to the good work by the Internet Archive there is no reason to link directly to a source (and thus bring it to its knees) ever again.

come on guys get with the friggen program

The Internet Archive seems to dig on this kind of thing. They put up the Prelinger archive when Rick Prelinger put it into the public domain, and they do a lot more than the Wayback Machine.

Indeed, you can download 1,432 Grateful Dead concerts from archive.org.

Patents have nothing to do with the real world. They are a legal tool for businesses, so prior art has nothing to do with it.

Anyway, the dead's policy can be found here. And yes, I remember this, its been going on since 1965 (the year the dead started). And yes, the grateful dead are the most successful touring band in the history of rock. Yes, I have hundreds of CDs worth of their shows. For those of you that are into bands that are into playing music vs. making a buck off of a hit or two there are thousands of great sounding shows to be downloaded. Its legal, its fun. (Thanks for not spelling grateful "greatful" :).

Grateful Dead at Live Music Archive

"Microsoft's continuous raiding did not stop after Microsoft took the top Borland strategist and Borland's top tools developer. Before 1996 was out, Ramin Halviatti, a Delphi Development Manager and, Jean Marie Babet, a C++ R&D engineer, had moved to Microsoft. In the past few weeks alone Microsoft has successfully recruited at least three more key Borland employees: Bill Dunlap, Marie Huwe, and Roland Fernandez."

"In April 1997, Microsoft hired two Borland marketing managers. Both Bill Dunlap, the Product Manager for JBuilder and Marie Huwe, the Product Marketing Manager for C++Builder,"

"Microsoft also hired Borland's senior Architect for its C++Builder product. Roland Fernandez, who resigned from Borland on April 25, 1997 played the key role in Borland's development of C++Builder, Borland's Rapid Application Development ("RAD") tool for C++. He left Borland with detailed knowledge of the overall architecture and feature set definition of C++Builder. At Microsoft, he is now doing exactly the same thing: creating a RAD C++ tool that competes directly with C++Builder. Unable to fix its tools products on its own, Microsoft has recruited Borland knowledge to do it. Minds that previously worked on products that support a wide variety of open industry standards are now limited to products that now support Microsoft platforms and proprietary technologies"

" Microsoft willfully, deliberately, according to its plan, and with the intention of harming Borland, hired at least 34 former employees of Borland, and set them out to use their knowledge of tools development, some of which is proprietary to Borland, to create tools for Microsoft. Microsoft continues, and will continue unless restrained, to accomplish this illegal course of conduct by continuing to solicit and recruit Borland employees. ...Borland is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Microsoft=s solicitation and recruitment of Borland employees is intentional and being done for wrongful purposes: to inhibit Borland's competitive position in this technology area and to acquire Borland confidential information -- all with the express intent and purpose of unfairly benefiting Microsoft."

Or perhaps the best example, from cache Borland's web site back before they were payed off^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H settled their case with msft.

• Microsoft's Concerted and Systematic Efforts to Unfairly Compete with Borland
  ...the method Microsoft chose to develop its answer to Delphi, as well as to C++ and the Internet tools, was to hire away the people at Borland who had developed Borland's superior products. By taking Borland employees, Microsoft reduces the number of people working on products that can compete with Microsoft and support open industry standards.
  ...
  Gross had always been vehemently opposed to Microsoft and its way of doing business and had tried to discourage many of Borland's employees from taking jobs there. Representatives of Microsoft set their sights on Gross, however, and one day Silverberg and Bob Muglia of Microsoft arrived outside of Borland's headquarters in a limousine to pick up Gross to recruit him over lunch at an expensive restaurant.
  .... As Gross put it, without even asking him to interview, "Microsoft gave him an offer he could not refuse." Borland is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Microsoft's offer included a $1 million signing bonus, stock options and title to selected real estate in or near Redmond, Washington. Microsoft also informed Gross that it would increase the already substantial offer if he would accept it immediately, even though he had already scheduled a three month sabbatical to plan his wedding.
  ...Borland is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Microsoft viewed Gross as key to its successful recruitment of Anders Hejlsberg ... Hejlsberg was reluctant to leave California, but Microsoft offered him a $1.5 million signing bonus, over a base salary of approximately $150,000 to $200,000 and extremely lucrative options to purchase 75,000 Microsoft shares.

Personally, though, I think it's nice to see that Microsoft recognises individual talent and rewards these people well.

Actually FreeCache was not made for this kind of problem. FreeCache is made to cache large files, such as the videos archive.org hosts. FreeCache won't work for files under 5MB. Even if it did, you would have to construct freecache links for every image on the page.

Actually FreeCache was not made for this kind of problem. FreeCache is made to cache large files, such as the videos archive.org hosts. FreeCache won't work for files under 5MB. Even if it did, you would have to construct freecache links for every image on the page.

well, to those with computers & internet connection...

One of the projects run by the Internet Archive is the Bookmobile, which creates, prints, and gives away (for a nominal production fee) books created from public domain sources. One of their most popular products is an illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland.

who can read English...

Yes, PG's content is primarily English at the moment, but this is only because most of the volunteers up until now have been English. If you are confident in a language other than English, you can help us get more books in this language -- either by scanning them, or by proofing the books which other people have scanned by joining the Distributed Proofreading Project (or the new EU sister-project DP Europe). At the moment the main site has projects available for proofing in German, Latin, French, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Hebrew, Danish, Italian, ancient Greek, and Gaelic. The EU site has, in addition, books available in Serbian, Slovenian, Romanian, Welsh, Hawaiian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Ukranian, modern Greek, and Bulgarian.

if the copyright has expired...

Yes, the vast majority of books in PG are copyright expired. This isn't a big problem, though, as we've only scratched the surface of the number of copyright expired books. Even at the current rate of growth, there's enough to keep us going until the US copyright regime starts letting new books into the public domain in 15 years or so.

archive.org has lots of *free* content in OGG format.

There's a box on the left side that says (who'd have thought?) FAQs. There are only five questions, and one of them explains the 5MB limitation, and the reason for it.

Here you go.

I used to do research on the Internet Archive's web collection. Each web snapshot was distributed across many unix boxes stuffed with disk in ARC files (a text archive format developed by IA for web crawls).

With the architecture at that time (around 1999) you could gre p the internet in I believe half an hour. The way you would do it would be to remotely run grep on each box and then collect the results.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

There are reasons why a game publisher might not want a website to post its screenshots with others, but I wonder if there might just be an error in the linked article.

In independent games, the question of quality-by-association comes up when a company approaches a developer with a request to include its game in a CD compilation. One side of the argument is that the presence of a title on a shovelware compilation can detract from its perceived quality -- your game might appear among a hundred Sokoban clones, or in an extreme case, you might see children's software next to more adult software. So, it is conceivable that publishers might have considered association with this website (archived here) a bad thing.

But I don't buy it. Entire conferences are devoted to publicity, and as they say, no publicity is bad publicity. (To wit, I'd talk up my postman about my software if I thought it'd help. He's a nice guy; we talk about other things.) The only tidbit that screams copyright violation as I understand it is this: Of this collection, several hundred were allegedly found to have been taken from magazines and overseas game sites...

However, I do not understand the end of that sentence: ...without the permission of the game publisher, a violation of Japanese copyright law.

To my knowledge, it is not illegal in the States to take and post a screenshot of a movie or game to the Web; my understanding Japanese intellectual property laws is limited, but given the number of Japanese film/gaming sites that do this, I don't believe that game publishers have any say over what screenshots are presented. I think 1Up may have meant this, instead:

without the permission of the website's publisher, a violation of Japanese copyright law.
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I long for the day when Google stops asking me, "Did you mean: inigo rage"

No one has addressed your record label point: see Soulseek Records, 8bitpeoples, or a host of other net labels. These labels generally don't pay the artists, because the albums are free to download (DRM-less, of course). There's also Magnatune, which lets people "try before you buy" music, which pays all its artists 50% (of album sales, merchandise, everything) and keeps the rights to the music in the hands of the artists, where they belong.

Interestingly enough, someone did. In 1997. If you do a WayBack search for the site in this thread, dieoff.org, you'll find this tidbit:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113194457/dieoff.o rg/page128.htm

Jay Hanson predicted a war in Iraq in 1997, and he thought that it would coincide with a peak in oil prices that could occur around 2005. Search on that page for the word Iraq and you'll find this:

CONSPIRACY THEORY

... After the Cold War was over, low oil prices made it difficult for the Saudis -- and oilman President George Bush's friends -- to make ends meet because OPEC members were cheating on quotas.

The obvious solution to OPEC cheating was to sequester an entire country: Iraq. In order for our scheme to work, Saddam would have to remain in power and the UN would have to embargo his oil. That's exactly what we did.

We only need to keep Saddam in power for a few years -- till the rest of the world's oil production "peaks" ... It seems reasonable to assume that global production will soon be unable to keep up with surging worldwide demand, and that global oil production must peak by the year 2005.

SPECULATION

Once global oil peaks, and we NEED to start pumping Saddam's oil, I expect Americans to invade and OCCUPY Iraq ... Obviously, once oil production peaks in a couple of years, the public will throw their total support behind an invasion of Iraq. There is simply no other way we can guarantee access to the oil patch.

Rather chilling, I think. A conspiracy theory, yes. And I had to don my tinfoil hat while reading it. But the prediction is thought provoking. He was right about the war, but he was wrong in that he predicted the American people would throw their support behind a war for oil. In fact we didn't go to war for oil, we went to war to find weapons of mass destruction. Which we haven't found.

Tin foil had still on ...

But the website has changed layout recently. From April 27, 1999 through to June 21, 2003,, the website has looked very simmilar, untill today (Website down), or the last google cache visit.

But the website has changed layout recently. From April 27, 1999 through to June 21, 2003,, the website has looked very simmilar, untill today (Website down), or the last google cache visit.

After looking at the wayback machine (As the actual website was hacked and is now down) it appears this is a political think tank.

Ok will someone tell me why a political think tank is trying to tell the world open source software is evil?

And
here is the archive mirror of the articals blasting open source.

I don't think there is any doupt this is nothing more than a politcal think tank who exists purely to premote a certen political thought.

Hay everybody.. It's the unoffical Ministry Of Truth.

Thies guys are so anti-Linux it's discusting.

The clames they make about Linus not being the father of Linux have got to be based entirely on the clames made by SCO who in a cort of law was never actually able to provide anything remotely close to proof.

In short it's slanderous hearsay.

Hay if this is valid... how many times has Microsoft been in cort?

I guess now we have our paralel of the psycopath who stalked Bill Gates a number of years back.
(I'm refering to the lady who actually believes Mr Gates is the antiChrist. We all know the real antichrist is Bharny the purple pulsh toy)

After looking at the wayback machine (As the actual website was hacked and is now down) it appears this is a political think tank.

Ok will someone tell me why a political think tank is trying to tell the world open source software is evil?

And
here is the archive mirror of the articals blasting open source.

I don't think there is any doupt this is nothing more than a politcal think tank who exists purely to premote a certen political thought.

Hay everybody.. It's the unoffical Ministry Of Truth.

Thies guys are so anti-Linux it's discusting.

The clames they make about Linus not being the father of Linux have got to be based entirely on the clames made by SCO who in a cort of law was never actually able to provide anything remotely close to proof.

In short it's slanderous hearsay.

Hay if this is valid... how many times has Microsoft been in cort?

I guess now we have our paralel of the psycopath who stalked Bill Gates a number of years back.
(I'm refering to the lady who actually believes Mr Gates is the antiChrist. We all know the real antichrist is Bharny the purple pulsh toy)

Completely untrue! Are you, perhaps, too too young to remember Taco Hell? =)

And ages ago, Slashdot was full of usual blog-type stuff like "Somerandomnickname writes, "Someone actually mentioned Linux somewhere". Wow." Or something along those lines. =)

Does anyone have a mirror of the censored information? Wayback machine, perhaps?

The market seems to have tried and given up on a simple solution for this one: caddies. Even Plextor at one time proclaimed in an old FAQ that storing discs long-term in caddies rather than jewel cases and installing caddy-load drives with nonmotorized, floppylike load/eject mechanisms represented the best approach for protecting both discs and drives from user-inflicted damage. I imagine they've taken this down since they no longer manufacture caddy-load drives.

Instead, the market is considering a new monster: slot-load drives. Maybe the drives have fewer problems, but discs get thrashed even more since they're not handled at the hub, and these drives usually don't support 3.5-inch or business-card discs.

The market seems to have tried and given up on a simple solution for this one: caddies. Even Plextor at one time proclaimed in an old FAQ that storing discs long-term in caddies rather than jewel cases and installing caddy-load drives with nonmotorized, floppylike load/eject mechanisms represented the best approach for protecting both discs and drives from user-inflicted damage. I imagine they've taken this down since they no longer manufacture caddy-load drives.

Instead, the market is considering a new monster: slot-load drives. Maybe the drives have fewer problems, but discs get thrashed even more since they're not handled at the hub, and these drives usually don't support 3.5-inch or business-card discs.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/slashdot.org Check for yourself!

If they use GPL code, they lose a good chunk of what keeps them king of the market. They love the BSD license, because it gives them goodies for free (and they don't have to do anything in return).

GPL Utility
Source Code

The GPL utility source code for Services for UNIX 3.0 contains the base utilities diff, sdiff, bc, dc, cpio, gzip, gunzip, gawk, patch, csplit, nl, strings, rpm, and SDK utilities/libraries ld.so, gcc, gdb, g++, g77, gasp, objcopy, ld, as, ar, nm, size, strip, ci, co, diff3 rcs, rlog, and ident.

The GPL utility source code for Interix 2.2 contains the utilities bc, ci, co, cpio, csplit, dc, diff, diff3, gawk, gzip, gunzip, ident, merge, nl, rcs, rcsdiff, rcsmerge and rlog.

Actually, linking to a 12-day old page wouldn't work, as the Wayback Machine doesn't have archives available of a crawled site until its at least 6 months old, so says their FAQ.

Yep

To save the 'poor bastard', I'd suggest getting this 10MB Quicktime .mov version instead; it loses the unfunny subtitles, and is hosted on archive.org, which can handle the traffic.