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Supposedly they have kiddie pron on the part that's been decrypted. Why don't they just try him on that basis? The excuse for how 5th Amendment protections no longer apply strikes as the worst kind of legal contortionism: http://ia601700.us.archive.org/6/items/gov.uscourts.wied.63043/gov.uscourts.wied.63043.6.0.pdf

Semyon Grigoryev is director at the NEFU Museum of Mammoths, not a molecular biologist. The DNA was recovered by a Japanese colleague. So yeah, it's possible he knows more. I think I know more, but I'm on the record as predicting the premature senescence of Dolly the sheep to NBC News the days of the announcement that it had been cloned.

FWIW: This particular discovery is a repeat of one in 2012, and an earlier one in 2011, so the guy is pretty good at finding mammoth corpses. This repeats every several years:

2012: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Semyon-Grigoryev/1842435513
2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20111207223335/http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html

This isn't to detract from Semyon Grigoryev (although I wish he had his credentials published online somewhere Google could find them), since it's pretty obvious that when he goes out to find mammoths or mammoth parts, he finds them.

Good old machines. My first computer purchase was the TRS-80 Level 1 4K, a pretty limited machine for it's time even.

Who remembers Softside Magazine?

Here.

Also, absence of anything on Greenpeace's pages should be outright disregarded beforehand as a proof of anything. We're talking about organisation which threw it's founding member down the memory hole: Patrick Moore of the original Don't Make A Wave Committee is missing now, though still listed as a crewmember of the ship. I vaguely remember he used to be completely vaporised from the pages but not sure and don't have time for Wayback Machine magic.

XboxOne.com isn't being used for anything, so it's in effect a squat

actually it looks like it was in use until microsoft deployed the legal attack drones.

2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031225193949/http://xboxone.com/

XBOX.1 has just finished reviewing a cool new accessory for the Xbox that allows the Xbox to connect to a VGA monitor complete with full HDTV support. All of you who bought the Xbox because you knew it was a powerful system will now have proof that you've made the right choice. All of you who have Xbox Lan parties now have another option other than lugging around a grainy old tv set. Take a look.

2011:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110207201840/http://xboxone.com/

it looks like someone had a perfectly legit site and used it for over a decade. then Microsoft decided that they wanted the domain name but didn't want to pay for it.

XboxOne.com isn't being used for anything, so it's in effect a squat

actually it looks like it was in use until microsoft deployed the legal attack drones.

2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031225193949/http://xboxone.com/

XBOX.1 has just finished reviewing a cool new accessory for the Xbox that allows the Xbox to connect to a VGA monitor complete with full HDTV support. All of you who bought the Xbox because you knew it was a powerful system will now have proof that you've made the right choice. All of you who have Xbox Lan parties now have another option other than lugging around a grainy old tv set. Take a look.

2011:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110207201840/http://xboxone.com/

it looks like someone had a perfectly legit site and used it for over a decade. then Microsoft decided that they wanted the domain name but didn't want to pay for it.

Looks like it was a legit site for several years:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110207201840/http://xboxone.com/

well, NOW it's parked after Microsoft brought the lawyers out of leashes and sicked them on the domain owner(s)...

looking on archive.org it seems it used to have an active site on it, for example this snapshot:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110207201840/http://xboxone.com/

OR this one, from the YEAR 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20031225193949/http://xboxone.com/

well, NOW it's parked after Microsoft brought the lawyers out of leashes and sicked them on the domain owner(s)...

looking on archive.org it seems it used to have an active site on it, for example this snapshot:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110207201840/http://xboxone.com/

OR this one, from the YEAR 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20031225193949/http://xboxone.com/

It's probably worth noting, XboxOne.com is way older than 2011, it's been around since the original xbox was released http://web.archive.org/web/20021115163519/http://www.xboxone.com/

The original post about the takedown request can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20111130013603/http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder. It says in part,

It's apparently the graphical design that's at issue, not the name. According to Wikipedia, "Gene Roddenberry's contract included a clause allowing any company able to create functioning technology to use the name". Now that GR is dead, I guess CBS believes they own swoopy curves.

Since I don't have legal weasels of my own, or the time to deal with this, that's it for Tricorder.

It's far from clear that CBS has any copyright on LCARS, it's more that any entity like CBS with enough money to throw at the legal system can get away with claiming such, and random people just have to go along with it thanks to the way our legal system works.

Thank you for that.

http://web.archive.org/web/20001219170800/http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/11/1011216.shtml

"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for?"

I remember back in Elementary school watching the Hale telescope mirror movie. One of those old 16mm, rainy day, hell the teacher has to have a cigarette break flicks? Old black and white footage is available here: http://archive.org/details/capsca_00001

Anyway, when they shipped the blank out to Caltech by Train it was put in a steel case. The Blank was then polished at Caltech to make the 200" mirror for the telescope and that was shipped via truck to Palomar Mountain. Anyway, they put it in a special casing for shipment and when they arrived at Palomar, they found bullet holes in the casing. Even back then, the local Luddites just wanted to spoil the fun. Anyway, my point is here that if they could ship a 200 inch mirror in the early part of the 20th century, they should be able to easily transport a 15mm magnet that's hollow in the middle.

Actually I think they just mashed up a few old ASUS barebones cases and rebadged it. I wonder if anybody got paid for this design.

Let's look back at what made Lotus Notes GREAT. Lotus Sucks use to show some of the best examples. Apparently the website is offline now though. Here is a wayback archive though http://web.archive.org/web/20080531232948/http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/lnEx01.html

winning the day. Didn't work our so well for Corel did it? Or Novel? Or Sun?

I assume you meant Novell.

Yeah, you're few good programmers will make better code, but my 100 code monkeys will make more of it.

Novell isn't really a good example. Starting in the late 90's, they began laying off employees in the states and replacing them with cheap labor in Bangalore. That didn't work out so well.

Especially telling was a blog post by then-CTO Jeff Jaffe sometime around 2008, where he talked about the superior quality of Novell's software. Only problem was that quality had been steadily declining for the past ten or so years. The comments section was full of Novell customers telling the CTO that he was full of shit.

Jaffe was fired (er, resigned) a year or so later, so that blog post is long-gone. Fortunately, the wayback machine has a copy.

Puerto Rico, 2 people killed, 25 injured, annually, from New Years Eve celebration gunfire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

http://web.archive.org/web/20070208230620/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=381365

"The relationship between CO2 content in the atmosphere, and how much heat the Earth absorbs from / radiates into space, is basic physics, and has been well understood for a hundred years or so."

No, what has been "well understood" for 100 years is how to measure CO2 in the atmosphere, and that process has been refined dramatically over time. We can measure CO2, see its rise and fall with the seasons, and see some temperature change over a geologically insignificant timespan. CO2 and climate temperature change show correlations, but not cause and effect. It could well be that CO2 levels increase as the result of temperature increases, and that the long term trend for both is oscillation rather than steadfast increases.

Basic physics says that tiny changes in CO2 don't affect climate temperature. To get a significant amount of warming, climate alarmists have come up with a "CO2 Feedback" theory that depends on a positive (heating) water vapor feedback process to amplify CO2 influence of temperature. But that is just an unproven theory, supported only by tenuous and doubtful simulations, not by actual scientific experiment. No measurement show this positive water vapor feedback, but in fact show the opposite, in the form of a cooling Earth albedo.

In the peer-reviewed paper Radiation physics constraints on global warming: CO2 increase has little effect, physicist Denis Rancourt describes the "basic physics" of planetary radiation balance and surface temperature. He demonstrates that clouds have a much greater cooling effect on temperature by greatly increasing the Earth's otherwise low albedo, a property measurable from satellite imagery. The cooling effect completely overwhelms the unproven CO2 amplification feedback theory. He also says:

"What emboldens warmist scientists and modellers, beyond institutional backing and the advantages of groupthink, is the fact that the atmosphere’s uniform CO2 concentration is easy to work with – both in modelling and conceptually – but they should aquire humility before indulging their CO2 fetish and advancing their tenuous doomsday predictions given geoscience’s overwhelming ignorance about climate feedbacks."

In case you have a jones for one of his movies, here is a link to "Twenty million miles to Earth", at the internet archive.

Archive.org to the rescue. Maybe the 9-June-2003 issue of Marsbugs (#23), page 5, "Martian Spiders"?: http://web.archive.org/web/20080725114636/http://www.lyon.edu/projects/marsbugs/volume10old.html

Man, just realized how long ago Spirit and Opportunity were.

Just add encryption. Hide in plain site. A new way for spies and terrorist to communicate! Reminds me of the Conet Project. More at Wikipedia. It's fascinating listening to the weird shortwave.

... Things have changed. "Anthropogenic Global Warming" (AGW) advocates repeatedly and consistently stated that a trend of 10 years or more proved their point... [Jane Q. Public, 2013-05-05]

Presumably you're referring to "scientists." Also, I've repeatedly said:

Since climate is an average over ~20 years ... climate is only meaningful when discussing averages over ~20 years. ... I've repeatedly stressed that we need ~20 years to average out weather noise. ... professional climatologists usually smooth data and model output using ~20 year averages. ... It's also important to remember that a ~20 year timespan is necessary to obtain statistically significant temperature trends...

In fact, I've repeatedly told you that ~20 years are needed:

As I've explained, climate is the global average over ~20 years. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2010-02-16]

This graph shows why scientists prefer trends calculated over at least ~20 years. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2013-01-21]

I've even gone into more detail, showing you a paper that says at least 17 years are required:

... at least 17 years are needed to establish a statistically significant trend of global surface temperatures. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2012-12-05]

Of course, you ignored me just like you previously ignored riverat1:

And 10 years has what to do with climate trends? Not much. A recent paper by Santer et. al. calculated the signal (climate) to noise (weather/natural variation) ratio for climate trends. For 10 years the S/N ratio is less than 1. They found it takes 17 years to be sure the signal is greater than the noise. [riverat1 to Jane Q. Public, 2011-11-19]

For global temperatures, Santer et al. 2011 shows that one needs to average over ~17 years of data to obtain statistically significant climate trends. Here's another explanation by Tamino. Also, the Skeptical Science trend calculator helps visualize statistical significance. [Dumb Scientist, 2012-08-15]

Perhaps your ode to conspiracy theories distracted you, but I also linked to another method of calculating significance which is even more conservative:

Also, Bart

... Things have changed. "Anthropogenic Global Warming" (AGW) advocates repeatedly and consistently stated that a trend of 10 years or more proved their point... [Jane Q. Public, 2013-05-05]

Presumably you're referring to "scientists." Also, I've repeatedly said:

Since climate is an average over ~20 years ... climate is only meaningful when discussing averages over ~20 years. ... I've repeatedly stressed that we need ~20 years to average out weather noise. ... professional climatologists usually smooth data and model output using ~20 year averages. ... It's also important to remember that a ~20 year timespan is necessary to obtain statistically significant temperature trends...

In fact, I've repeatedly told you that ~20 years are needed:

As I've explained, climate is the global average over ~20 years. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2010-02-16]

This graph shows why scientists prefer trends calculated over at least ~20 years. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2013-01-21]

I've even gone into more detail, showing you a paper that says at least 17 years are required:

... at least 17 years are needed to establish a statistically significant trend of global surface temperatures. [Dumb Scientist to Jane Q. Public, 2012-12-05]

Of course, you ignored me just like you previously ignored riverat1:

And 10 years has what to do with climate trends? Not much. A recent paper by Santer et. al. calculated the signal (climate) to noise (weather/natural variation) ratio for climate trends. For 10 years the S/N ratio is less than 1. They found it takes 17 years to be sure the signal is greater than the noise. [riverat1 to Jane Q. Public, 2011-11-19]

For global temperatures, Santer et al. 2011 shows that one needs to average over ~17 years of data to obtain statistically significant climate trends. Here's another explanation by Tamino. Also, the Skeptical Science trend calculator helps visualize statistical significance. [Dumb Scientist, 2012-08-15]

Perhaps your ode to conspiracy theories distracted you, but I also linked to another method of calculating significance which is even more conservative:

Also, Bart

You bring up a good point.

The MLO is located 34KM WNW from and well above the summit of Kilauea. The primary volcanic emissions plume from Kilauea is driven by trade winds which blow mostly from the NE, and because of the topography of the Big Island most of that plume will bypass the observatory. However, there has to be some effect from it; the question is how much?

FWIW, I live on the Kona side of the Big Island and get to enjoy the effects of Kilauea's vog (volcanic smog) more than would like.

Part of the vetting process for this means taking down your blog. Fortunately the Wayback Machine is our friend. I haven't read the whole blog yet, but this article about SOPA seems to indicate Mr. Wheeler might not be entirely clueless.

Hat tip to Slate's Emma Roller, who found it.

When I went to school (I'm 33), "A Wrinkle in Time" was the 23rd most frequently banned book in the United States.

You can still find them if you dig hard enough. "Unfortunately" the music doesn't work in my browser but you can always click the link at the bottom for a sample.

You can still find them if you dig hard enough. "Unfortunately" the music doesn't work in my browser but you can always click the link at the bottom for a sample.

Frankly, he's a bit of a loose cannon, if I was a Google executive, I'd think about ways to muzzle him.

WWF (the wrestlers) had a 1994-era legal agreement concerning international use of the wwf abbreviation which fucked them over.

No, it's true. Check out this post for evidence.
The Wayback Machine still hosts a site that details a lot of APK's illness and insanity. It makes for some good reading:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060627084830/http://www.jaylittle.com/jaylittle/default.aspx?cmd=article&sub=display&id=30

"backed" is a bit strong and he didn't 'sign a pledge', it was in their Manifesto which may be splitting hairs, but let's not forget that was if his party got in sole power.

I'm sure this is how lib dem supporters prefer to remember it, but he (and 500 other candidates from his party, including every elected MP) did indeed sign the pledge:

http://web.archive.org/web/20101215160749/http://www.nus.org.uk/Campaigns/Funding-Our-Future/Lib-Dem-MPs-sign-the-pledge/

The wording was: "I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative", a personal promise which does not assume the lib dems would hold sole (or any) power.

Here's a photo of Nick holding up his signed copy of the pledge for the cameras, and some quotations from confidential documents in which senior party members were planning to betray this promise in the event of a hung parliament (which is, of course, exactly what they did):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tuition-fees-clegg

'Clear yellow water' indeed.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and c

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and c

"[in response to: Basic income guarantee] and you want government to be your mommy."

Recently the right to consume has been linked for most people to earning wages through paid labor. The value of most human labor is declining with the rise in robotics and other automation, relatively cheaper energy, better design, voluntary social networks, and other factors. All material goods are based on resources taken from nature, where the original ownership of those seeking rent from the land is always questionable morally. All intellectual goods are the product of thousands of years of collective thought and information sharing, even if individuals may add their own twist to that. After centuries of hard-work, cultural progress, and the accumulation of physical infrastructure, why should s many people have to work so long and hard just for a basic existence? That is part of the moral reasoning behind a "basic income".

Consider an analogy. You and your daughter live on a productive tropical island together. You tell her you own 99% of the island because you got there first, and she can only live on a barren rock in the middle with no access to water or food. What is she supposed to do? How should she feel about that? See also:
"The Mythology of Wealth"
http://web.archive.org/web/20120617182409/http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402

if you can only see a world of "intellectual property" then the free exchange of ideas may have no meaning to you. People who want to use the code in "intellectual property" may have a problem. The rest of us do not.

(c) 1999-2001 Rob Riggs. All rights reserved.

The footer of your personal website for more than a decade. Hypocrite.

No, it's not all public domain, but a HUGE amount of content on there is public domain - each item on there lists its own licensing conditions... and archive.org's terms of use provide a mechanism for getting things removed if you believe the copyright to be infringed. I do believe archive.org have some kind exemption from the DMCA for archival purposes?

I don't know of any other place to get most of these nowadays. Lots of memories and magazines that I miss

http://archive.org/details/computermagazines

Everything on http://archive.org/ is public domain.

My friend showed me that there's just been a really amazing iPad app released to access all the archive.org content, and hopefully an android version is coming soon!

Thanks to this, I finally found a text-based game that I remember as a kid, but nobody else seemed to recall. It was a "game" called Abuse. You typed in insults to the computer and it insulted you back. I couldn't track it down (the term "abuse" is just too vague), but this Internet Archive link listed it. It even helped me find another site with screenshots.

a couple things are in play

1 IA is a part of the LOC
2 if you really as a copyright holder want to have your stuff dropped out all you have to do is put a robots.txt in place and then they drop you from the archive.

http://faq.web.archive.org/how-can-i-have-my-site-removed-from-the-wayback-machine/

Corel Grafigo: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.corel.com/6763/downloads/grafigo/CorelGrafigo.exe (it's hard to install on some new systems for some reason)
NCPlot 1.1: http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot%20v1.1%20Setup.exe (1.2 should be at http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot_v120.exe but isn't)

Corel Grafigo: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.corel.com/6763/downloads/grafigo/CorelGrafigo.exe (it's hard to install on some new systems for some reason)
NCPlot 1.1: http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot%20v1.1%20Setup.exe (1.2 should be at http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot_v120.exe but isn't)

Corel Grafigo: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.corel.com/6763/downloads/grafigo/CorelGrafigo.exe (it's hard to install on some new systems for some reason)
NCPlot 1.1: http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot%20v1.1%20Setup.exe (1.2 should be at http://web.archive.org/web/20080514043350/http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/NCPlot_v120.exe but isn't)

this alone is crazy:

http://ia601600.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/8/items/Apple_2_TOSEC_2012_04_23/Apple_2_TOSEC_2012_04_23.zip

* http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110514070546/http://elveos.org/ the source of which is available at https://github.com/BloatIt/bloatit

* http://selfstarter.us/

This catincan business seems nice enough until you notice a Facebook like button on the page. The 0-click variant, no less.

Sorry, I didn't realise the Scribd version was paywalled--wasn't expecting that, silly me, seeing as the story is in the public domain...

Here's an unemcumbered version.

Why not work with the good folks at archive.org and their Internet wayback machine?

Is it not a similar idea?

The Internet Wayback Machine folks could use the funding and would be achieving the same purpose, albeit not in a format that the library folks might want....but they could come to agreement.

This is specifically for UK web sites, and the British Library is a British institution funded by the British taxpayer. Archive.org is US-based and a separate entity.

Currently there is no way to exclude only a portion of a site, or to exclude archiving a site for a particular time period only.
When a URL has been excluded at direct owner request from being archived, that exclusion is retroactive and permanent.

http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#14

I don't think google cache should necessarily be used for looking into a websites history especially beyond an ownership change when the site is completely different. That's something for the Internet Archive project. I think people should be able to request any previously cached pages be removed (can they already? the notion of pages being removed on request was vague enough that I don't know if it's ona per-page basis or can be per site) and updated with modern content. It doesn't need to be an immediate process, just a queue that Google goes through.