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Top 5 reasons why Arch Linux sucks:

1) Lead arch developer got his computer hacked 3 times. see: https://web.archive.org/web/20... 2) Unstable. Go check out arch's forum instead of listening to the fanboy to see the enormous amounts of issues. 3) Unprofessional. Arch isn't used in any professional environment for a good reason. Made by amateurs. 4) Community. Pretentious, trendy, ricer, hippie morons. 5) Forum. Full of noob questions (can't help it as majority is ex-ubuntu users)

Top 5 reasons why Arch Linux sucks

1) That was 2005. Cut the guy some slack, Arch wasn't even really a "thing" yet. Show us a recent breach?
2) Unstable? Citation please? Other than "go read the forum"...
3) Unprofessional? See above. It seems you missed the whole point of a rolling-release distro geared for developers. Nobody in their right mind would replace RHEL with Arch and it was never meant to! That is not to say professionals do not use arch. You tried to hard to make this a black-and-white debate.
4) Now you've totally lost it. Calling Arch users "trendy" is just stupid. We are like 1% of the Linux user base and most of us are into esoteric stuff.
5) Show me a distro who's forum not full of noob questions. That's pretty much what they exist for.

I started on a Vic20 and found the Programmers Reference Guide most (in)valuable.
https://archive.org/details/VI...

I found a Win32 API book useful a dozen (or more?) years ago.

Now I'm on Debian variants, and Google is most helpful.
I wouldn't worry about Win10 reference manuals unless you were offline.

I'm very much a small-time musician and an open-source enthusiast.

For my home recording, my current setup typically involves using an M-AUDIO Delta 1010LT sound card, a nice microphone, and Audacity and Hydrogen, in addition to other hardware effects boxes. I did once try using Ardour back in like 2005 or so, but I found that it overcomplicated my life and I never completed a single song with it.

My most recent album came out pretty good in my opinion: Lander: The Original Soundtrack.

But more to the point, I would love for there to be better open source software available for mixing. I've tried to learn the commercial software, but didn't have the time to explore the trial versions before the timer ran out of them, and thus have not replaced Audacity. Not sure if that answers your question or not, but that's where I'm at. (And have been for over a decade now.)

The fact is that open source is much more secure, simply for the fact that hiding things makes it easier to incorporate known bugs as well as more difficult to find them because there are less people reading the code.

Now that goes against encryption, as the point of encryption is simply to hide things... however we are talking about a method to allow privacy and security and the road which the message takes (the protocol and endpoints) must be open to be secure.

This talk explains it all quite well - https://archive.org/download/3...

Really, listen to it you'll probably learn something novel if you can think the whole way through it.

Only U.S. companies were impacted like that, not companies in other countries, including multi-nationals with different companies in different countries.

From an anti-embargo article in Forbes: "Moreover, since Europeans, Japanese, and Canadians can travel and conduct business in Cuba unimpeded, the sanctions are rather toothless. The State Department has argued that the cost of conducting business in Cuba is only negligibly higher because of the embargo. For American multinational corporations wishing to undertake commerce in Cuba, foreign branches find it easy to conduct exchanges."

From a Clinton Administration State department report: "Rationing has been a staple of Cuban life since the early 1960's. During the early 1990's, Cuba's food consumption deteriorated sharply, when massive amounts of Soviet aid were withdrawn. On its own, without Soviet largesse and abundant food imports, Cuban agriculture was paralyzed by a scarcity of inputs and poor production incentives resulting from collectivism and the lack of appropriate price signals. In pre-Castro Cuba, by contrast, food supplies were abundant." one of many quotes showing that pre-revolution Cuba was much more prosperous and that it's collectivism that's killed Cuba. The only thing that propped Cuba up for a while was the much larger Soviet Union paying them off to be a thorn in the side of the U.S.

The actual link to the archive is: https://archive.org/details/so...

Just pick your application to run here:

https://archive.org/details/so...

They have books and all the old system-specific magazines too!

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_computer

https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

They have books and all the old system-specific magazines too!

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_computer

https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

This is the face of a troll:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Browser market share stats prove you are totally wrong.

In August 2013 Firefox held over 16% of the browser market.

Australis was included in Firefox 29, which was released on April 29, 2014.

By August 2014 Firefox only held about 11% of the browser market.

By August 2015 Firefox was down to about 8% of the browser market.

As of January 2016 Firefox is down to around 7% of the browser market.

Australis has helped drive away over half of Firefox's users.

Browser market share stats prove you are totally wrong.

In August 2013 Firefox held over 16% of the browser market.

Australis was included in Firefox 29, which was released on April 29, 2014.

By August 2014 Firefox only held about 11% of the browser market.

By August 2015 Firefox was down to about 8% of the browser market.

As of January 2016 Firefox is down to around 7% of the browser market.

Australis has helped drive away over half of Firefox's users.

Browser market share stats prove you are totally wrong.

In August 2013 Firefox held over 16% of the browser market.

Australis was included in Firefox 29, which was released on April 29, 2014.

By August 2014 Firefox only held about 11% of the browser market.

By August 2015 Firefox was down to about 8% of the browser market.

As of January 2016 Firefox is down to around 7% of the browser market.

Australis has helped drive away over half of Firefox's users.

I know that the borders from deep threading have changed. The outer border of the page is now grey and it sometimes makes it hard to tell at a glance how many levels deep a comment is. The bottom border of a thread collapses to no gaps. It's visually nicer looking, but harder to follow.

See an example of the old comment system here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...?

The comment headers are definitely better now.

1. 1. The "Read the xx comments" (and its predecessor, the "Read More..| XX comments") link was removed to a "speech bubble" on the far right, giving the number. Aesthetically, that is fine, but the problem is that I have 15 years of muscle memory that want to click a link at the bottom of the article abstract to view the comments; now I have to click the article title or the bubble. Worse yet, a bunch of red-herring social media buttons are exactly where that used to be. My proposed fix is easy: leave the social media buttons (if you really like them), leave the comment count speech bubble on the far right, but add back in a regular hyperlink saying "Read the XX comments" just to the right of the social media buttons. There certainly isn't a lack of whitespace to place it there. This solution will keep anyone who wants to use the social media buttons happy, and yet restore the link that I am still, a year and a half later, instinctively trying to find every day. As a reference, this is what it looked like before the social media buttons.
2. 2. Tighten up the unused vertical whitespace. I used to be able to easily read 4 full articles "above the fold". While the ~2010 redesign definitely cleaned up clutter (removed the left sidebar, etc.) it somehow wasted more space than it saved. Here it is back in the late 2000's form vs. where we are today. I'm fine with the improved article width and the removed left column; good riddance to the unnecessary background splash colours, but can we just pull the articles a bit closer together, so that 4 full articles can nominally fit at a time?

Also, I just wanted to throw in that I was really happy to see your responsiveness in the original announcement article, and this Ask Slashdot so soon is a great sign.

1. 1. The "Read the xx comments" (and its predecessor, the "Read More..| XX comments") link was removed to a "speech bubble" on the far right, giving the number. Aesthetically, that is fine, but the problem is that I have 15 years of muscle memory that want to click a link at the bottom of the article abstract to view the comments; now I have to click the article title or the bubble. Worse yet, a bunch of red-herring social media buttons are exactly where that used to be. My proposed fix is easy: leave the social media buttons (if you really like them), leave the comment count speech bubble on the far right, but add back in a regular hyperlink saying "Read the XX comments" just to the right of the social media buttons. There certainly isn't a lack of whitespace to place it there. This solution will keep anyone who wants to use the social media buttons happy, and yet restore the link that I am still, a year and a half later, instinctively trying to find every day. As a reference, this is what it looked like before the social media buttons.
2. 2. Tighten up the unused vertical whitespace. I used to be able to easily read 4 full articles "above the fold". While the ~2010 redesign definitely cleaned up clutter (removed the left sidebar, etc.) it somehow wasted more space than it saved. Here it is back in the late 2000's form vs. where we are today. I'm fine with the improved article width and the removed left column; good riddance to the unnecessary background splash colours, but can we just pull the articles a bit closer together, so that 4 full articles can nominally fit at a time?

Also, I just wanted to throw in that I was really happy to see your responsiveness in the original announcement article, and this Ask Slashdot so soon is a great sign.

sorry, dropped the link.

Although, sadly, they apparently never came to an agreement with The New Zork Times.

Hemingway said it best : "Motor racing, mountain climbing, and bull fighting are sports, all the rest are games".

Just as an aside, Hemingway probably didn't "say" that.

I just can't believe a company who used to be part of Anonymous (Ghost Security Group) would EVER troll anyone ever! Now their backtracking on it, and GSG blames it on the media "Clearly, other organizations were interested in breaking news about another app that may have been developed by IS to reduce the group's reliance in popular apps like Telegram, whose creators may be able to disrupt IS's exploitations of their tech". I love how they said this via a PDF who's link is embedded in a tweet. Not on their front page, or even on any pages that I can see. Talk about obfuscation. Did their new paymasters inspire this fubar? Or is this just another "we have no real leader, each member does whatever" style project operating in the same way Anonymous acts?

Well, BIOS was inaccessible remotely (wake-on-lan is off by default)(baring ilo access). That's more secure, whether you think it's bullshit or not.

And UEFI is *designed* to be remotely accessible. That's less secure, whether you think it's bullshit or not.

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

Being anti GMO is every bit as nonsensical as being an anti-vaxer.

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Goodie! Fresh meat! You wanted evidence? You can't handle the evidence, And my little chachalaca, I will definitely expect more thasn a one sentence off the cuff dismissal

Heeeeere we GO! Wif cytaytions

In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a fraudulent paper in thte Medical Journal "The Lancet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The paper had 13 co-authers who ended up repudiating the possibility that MMR vaccines could cause autism.

So what happened Oh yes, we'll go into this, yes we will.. As it turns out, this staretd a little time before, when teh good Richard Barr, a lawyer, met up with the Good Andrew Wakefield. This was a marriage made in heaven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

As well, teh Good Andrew Wakefield recieved 55,000 pounds from other lawyers who were looking for evidence to use in lawsuits agains MMR manufacturers. But don't worry, it must have been on teh up and up because Wakefield kept this a secret from his co-authors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Turns out that the Good Andrew Wakefield and his lawyer buddy had big plans to make a lot of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Eventually, after investigations of manipulation of data, a General medical council investigation and eventual full retraction of the paper by the Lancet,

And in 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Just in case you aren't reading the citations, and I don't believe you will: 28 January 2010, the GMC ruled against Wakefield on all issues, stating that he had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant",[13] acted against the interests of his patients,[13] and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his controversial research.[14] On 24 May 2010 he was struck off the United Kingdom medical register. It was the harshest sanction that the GMC could impose, and effectively ended his career as a doctor. In announcing the ruling, the GMC said that Wakefield had "brought the medical profession into disrepute," and no sanction short of erasing his name from the register was appropriate for the "serious and wide-ranging findings" of misconduct

Here's a pdf of their findings https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Now I betchya you are just about sick and tired of Wikipedia citations aintchya? http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBl...

Maybe it's a conspiracy. But they removed the deadly autism causing agent from vaccines, that the good Andrew Wakefield said was a cause, and, and, and, didn't change a thing. It might have appeard that it went up, but considering that autism speaks seems to be moving toward a world where everyone is autistic, that data is fuzzy at best, IMO http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

There's all of about zero credible scientific data against it.

You want credible evidence GMO is bad? Go to home depot and buy a bottle of roundup. Read the warning label.

Until someone can explain with a straight face how Roundup r

The Wayback Machine

http://archive.org/web/

Sure, here is the website.

The baby boom started increasing the supply of entry level labor about 1970.

Women's liberation started increasing the supply of entry level labor about 1970.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 started increasing the supply of labor (not just entry level) about 1970.

The Donor Party liked this because it lowered labor costs. Oh, did I say "Donor"? I meant "Republican".

The Elect A New People Party liked this because 2 of the 3 sources of new labor would vote to Elect A New People. Oh, did I say "Elect A New People"? I meant "Democratic".

So you have a huge influx of labor and this is interpreted as a "labor shortage" by both parties.

Combined with the fact that FDR's "New Deal", in effect, nationalized many of the functions previously performed by the labor unions -- turning the national border into a de facto picket line that, for example, that neoNazi Eisenhower enforced with "Operation Wetback" (deporting most of the illegal immigrants) -- and the labor movement effectively collapsed.

Elizabeth Warren, before she got conned into becoming a politician, was the only mainstream academic to come close to documenting even part of this. See her Jefferson Lecture titled "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class.

Since 1992, I've been advocating replacing taxes on economic activity with what amounts to an insurance premium for the protection of property rights, and distributing the revenue in a citizen's dividend. In that white paper I predicted a lot of what has now come to pass as a result of centralization of wealth and burgeoning welfare state rent seeking.

Here is a link to a recent synopsis of that proposal.

I am reminded of the Unseen in this regard. Some of the initial battlemech models were copied right out of anime that FASA was watching and thought looked cool. When the initial IP holders got upset about this usage, FASA tried to straighten out usage rights. For some, this was just a matter of debating and seeing if they could come to an agreement. For others, no one actually knew who had ownership of the appearance and this resulted in over a decade of legal confusion before Catalyst was finally able to get a deal in place that would permit new usage of that imagery.

Check if by any chance your books are already digitized on OpenLibrary.org

The Internet Archive Book Drive - https://openlibrary.org/bookdr...

Scanning Services - http://archive.org/scanning

Bored, huh?
I've been reading this guy off and on over the last few months. It's from around AD 120, who knows for sure.
https://archive.org/stream/mor...
Elizabeth Carter did the translation in 1758; they had a fondness for long sentences with many commas back then.
The Rufus he often refers to was Epictetus's teacher.

In this one, I like #25 - it gave me a different (more tolerable) view of butt-kissers, and this is from Hadrian's time.
http://classics.mit.edu/Epicte...

The FAA is saying "model aircraft" are also "aircraft" at the same time, thus must be registered if it is a "aircraft" greater than 250g and a "model aircraft" less than 55lbs.
Law says 55lbs, the FAA pulled 250g out of there ass.
The FAA came up with 250g by doing a point mass free-fall force equation. Didn't you know a solid metal ball and balsa model aircraft fall at the same rate with equal force?
Also see how the FAA suddenly redefined "model aircraft" and changed to say you need to register it. See Sep 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20... and the verbiage now , Dec 2015 https://www.faa.gov/uas/faq/#q... .

See: https://archive.org/details/Th...

And: http://www.newciv.org/whole/sc...

More links on how schooling is not about education, and how schooling is a form of (prison-like) adoption:
http://p2pfoundation.net/John_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Check out John Holt, too. That's all a big reason we homeschool/unschool.

More links: http://p2pfoundation.net/backu...

Enjoyed your informative post from the trenches, thanks! Especially your point about teacher incentives. You get what you measure -- so, as you imply, if you incentivize teachers to dumb down kids faster and better, that's what you'll get more of.

Long term, I feel a basic income may be part of the answer:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towa...

As for what you can do in the short-term, it's tough. If you walk away, your (virtually adopted) kids will suffer. And you'll lose your income in a tough economy.. And one less voice for change in the system will be lost. But it's a painful situation if you care about what you do (although you run a high risk of burnout). Don't know what to advise, but at least you are not alone! :-)

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But, any amount you feel you are able to donate in support of our ongoing work will be most surely appreciated and put to very good use. Your contributions keep Linux Advocates growing.

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

Book's available for free now...on the phone it goes!

https://archive.org/details/Ru...

They also claimed that Iraq had strong Al Queda ties. According to the US House of Representatives, they lied repeatedly about it.

              http://web.archive.org/web/200...

The idea that Sadam Hussein was tied to 9/11 was a popular and understandable one in the shock after 9/11 given the broad policy of lies. Unfortunately, it had no validity. Sadam and his regime knew much, much better than to allow a fundamentalist, radical Muslim group access to any weapons or significant political power in Iraq, or to compete with them for funding. They relied far too much on channeling fanatical fear of others into their own political powers to allow any competitors for such faith or such desperate action.

I'm reminded of "Installing a network PostScript printer on a Sun workstation running SunOS -- As illustrated through interpretive dance."

http://web.archive.org/web/199...

In August of 2013, Firefox had a market share of over 16%.

Today, Firefox has a market share of about 7%.

That tells us everything we need to know.

Two things have happened:

1. They've driven away a lot of their existing users with shitty UI changes, and a lack of progress when it comes to fixing Firefox's slow performance.

2. They haven't attracted any new users.

Together, they have resulted in Firefox's market share being cut down to less than half of what it is, in just over two years!

In other companies, this would be considered a huge disaster.

The Android Compatibility Definition (CDD) as of about a year ago stated: "Devices MUST NOT change their reported screen size at any time." Dianne Hackborn of Google explained how Cornerstone broke the CDD.

There is more to it than simply being popular. Consider a case where you want to output data that the user posted in a form. The obvious way to do it in PHP is this:

Hi <?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>.

In fact up until a few years back, the php tutorial had code like this.

This is vulnerable code, the values posted may contain javascript, and the browser would execute it happily. If you are displaying content that other people posted, then a malicious user can easily exploit this code to hijack other users sessions. This is known as XSS (Cross site scripting), and it is one of the most common vulnerabilities in PHP code.

The secure way is this:

Hi <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?>.

A good language should be designed in such a way that the simple way is the safe way, and make you be more explicit if you want something else. For example the php expression blocks should do html escaping, and when you don't want escaping you would use a more verbose command that would make it clear that you are outputting a trusted value. In the name of convenience PHP is plagued by questionable design decisions like this. register_globals was on by default up until php 4.2, it is incredibly easy to write sql injection vulnerabilities in php if you are not paying attention, etc.

"Defamation"

Excellent Documentary. Thanks for sharing!

http://wayback.archive.org/web...

Previous slashdot story: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Cox's response: http://ia801407.us.archive.org...

Their response is actually kinda fun to read.

It's even more fun if you mentally replace the redacted sections with uninterrupted cussing! Some of the sections are quite long, so get creative! ;-)

The assertion (by BMG/RHM) is that Cox has not fulfilled the requirements for safe harbor, which include terminating the accounts of repeat offenders.

Alledged repeat offenders.

How many times a year do we read about big media companies using automated systems that fire off buttloads of false DMCA takedowns?
BMG are not (and should never be) judge,jury and executioner.

FWIW, the previous story made it clear that Cox has called them out on exactly that grounds, as well as a bunch of other claims/country-claims.
One of their main claims is that BMG had spammed them with way too many notices that had lacked proper evidence and such. Cox had notified BMG of that a bunch of times and tried to work with them, and they would not stop sending the automated and often unjustified notices, so Cox stopped listening to any of their reports.

IMO, that's the real story, and makes both sides make more sense. This has almost nothing to do with the end user. Neither Cox nor BMG want to take the time to do the proper paperwork and research to determine if these red flags are detecting actual cases of infringement. BMG is automatically spamming all possible claims; Cox is automatically sending them all to /dev/null; Neither of those are very helpful.

This will likely be settled out of court with some agreement that either BMG will do a little more work, or they'll pay Cox to do it, and then Cox will accept the vast majority of the claims. I'd almost be willing to wager money on that one, if I cared enough to follow this further.

Previous slashdot story: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Cox's response: http://ia801407.us.archive.org...

Their response is actually kinda fun to read.

As the person credited for the first law commercializing space launch services (credited by the law's sponsor, Ron Packard during his introduction of my Congressional testimony on space commercialization) there truly _is_ a problem with privatized space and it is a capital market failure.

This capital market failure systemically suppresses technology investment and it derives from something that should be obvious to anyone in venture finance:

Economic activity is taxed rather than liquidation value of net assets.

A venture financier, or angle, or anyone else who takes dollars out of a bank account and puts it into a high risk venture, is rendering their capital illiquid. If you cease taxing economic activity (income, capital gains, sales, value added, inheritance, gifts, etc.) and instead tax only the liquidation value of net assets, for all practical purposes high risk investments cease being taxed.

This is why, the year after I testified before Congress on the initial legislative direction for companies like SpaceX, I wrote a white paper titled "A Net Asset Tax Based On The Net Present Value Calculation and Market Democracy" wherein I proposed a shift away from centralized government provision of technology development and, at the same time, a shift away from politically biased government delivery of social goods (ie: the welfare state), by taxing net assets at the rate of interest on the national debt and distributing tax revenues as an unconditional citizen's dividend. Later I clarified the assessment mechanism to be liquidation value as well as some of the further aspects of government to be privatized.

Its obvious why so-called "liberals" don't want this since by-passing the welfare state without regard to any politically defined criteria other than citizenship, it would gut their political base.

Conservatives, in particular neo-libertarians of the Austrian School, on the other hand, have much to answer for here. A net asset tax, so assessed, is a big step toward the anarchocapitalism of the American school of libertarian thought exemplified by Lysander Spooner in his definition of "legitimate government" as "a mutual insurance company". Protecting property rights is according to the American school of libertarian philosophy (as contrasted with the Austrian school), the primary role of government and it is entirely legitimate to charge for that service just as it is legitimate for a property insurance company to charge a premium that is approximately proportional to the value of the property being underwritten. Moreover, it is entirely legitimate for any company to pay dividends and a mutual company would pay dividends to its members -- members who, quite reasonably, could be called on for service in times of emergency such as war and could, therefore, quite reasonably be assigned one share and exactly one share each.

Indeed, I view it as a moral responsibility for men like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg -- particularly as beneficiaries of network externalities aka network effects that could not exist in the absence of government protection of those monopolistic property rights -- to at the very least lend their vocal, if not material, support to such a capital reform.

It would be smart for risk investors like Elon Musk to do so.

PHP.net says "1994 - Started writing CGI scripts in C and Perl".
http://talks.php.net/show/comm...

By the time PHP was gaining popularity, Text::Template and HTML::Embperl were available for Perl.

Rasmus's comments in this interview are revealing:
  "I donâ(TM)t know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [â¦] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the
way."
MP3 recording of these comments:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Ya no ty. I pay my taxes, if I buy a product it is supposed to be mine.

The concept of personal property is being phased out.

Everything, from what you can say and what views you can express in public/online without being fired, being threatened with death, sued, even jailed, what you may do with things you've 'bought', right down to the money in your pocket and even you, yourself, are property of and/or controlled by the policies and agendas of the collective as dictated by a government/corporate/banking oligarchy and their sycophants and useful idiots in positions of influence in society.

I highly recommend reading "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin to begin to understand the power structure in the US. The most powerful players are rarely mentioned in the MSM.

https://archive.org/details/Cr...

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>Yes, but you said they stopped making them. Clearly not the case
I said they pretty much stopped making them, not that they all stopped making them. The searches I did with your examples support this. 16x10 monitor choices are slim unless you want to pay out the ass or stick with a 24in minitor.

>I'm gonna call bullshit on that one, unless you can point to an example?
Maybe I was a bit overzealous will sub $200. How about sub $300... I had in mind a hanns g monitor a friend of mine had purchased. This is actually a 28in 16x10 monitor. The lowest price I was able to find on newegg through the way back machine was $299, but i know i've seen it for less. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

One thing was clear searching the way back machine... there were a hell of a lot more 16:10 monitors in 2009. It seemed like in 2010 everyone started moving to 16:9.

These devices are nothing more than cash registers. I remember there being a site in The Netherlands or Belgium, that showed pictures and made fun when people decided to attack these devices; sometimes with gasoline-filled car tires, taking them down like trees with angle grinders, using heavy fireworks, etc. Because of the locations these devices were most profitable weren't of course really busy, chances of getting caught were slim (and potential witnesses might even cheer the perpetrators on). Went on wayback machine and voila an example.

The simple, obvious solution is to convince deadheads that these tapes contain live recordings of the Grateful Dead on them. They will find a way not only to extract and digitize this information (if necessary) they will also track its lineage, archive it and spread it so that many backups exist.

There is a sizable community which legitimately records concerts, with consent from the band (encouragement even), and shares them with the world. example: http://bt.etree.org/ is all bittorrent. https://archive.org/details/et... allows direct download of MP3's, but if you want a 1gb set of flac files, they encourage use of bittorrent.

I'm sure these asshats would send a cease and desist order to that website accusing them of pirating their own music.

You can play it for free in your browser.

A remake was attempted in 2012 but the Kickstarter campaign didn't reach its goal.

Not from memory, it was far too long ago. However, the IA wayback machine gives suitable examples. I won't be drawn into a "no true Scotsman" fallacy over this, nothing is or was ever perfect. However, in the past the signal to noise ratio was much greater. Comments were generally helpful or useful, and offered genuine discussion from people who were actively involved in the topics under discussion and could offer an informed opinion. Yes, I was reading Slashdot back then (and earlier).

I'm guilty of snarking some comments myself, so I'm no innocent. I genuinely only read out of gross fascination at how lowbrow the site has become, and I don't mean that in an elitist way, I don't think anyone should sell themselves as short as the modern Slashdot.

So... flamebait? Maybe, I'm not adverse to posting trash on this rubbish heap. It's certainly not out of place here.