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You're Welcome. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-28 00:49 · Score: 0 · on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

You're Welcome. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-28 00:49 · Score: 0 · on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

You're Welcome. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-28 00:49 · Score: 0 · on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

Moar Pics! by CodeheadUK · 2012-10-27 23:41 · Score: 1 · on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

Shame about the lack of images*, archive.org is the only remaining evidence of Cliff Bleszinski's Cat-Scan.com. The site doesn't have the same comedy value without all the scans of squished cats.

*Yes, yes, I know that archiving images would require many extra fucktons of storage, but it would be worth it in some cases.

Indispensable reference for slashdotters by guttentag · 2012-10-27 16:05 · Score: 5, Insightful · on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

For instance, note the archived film "Dating: Do's and Don'ts" (1949) It begins thus:

How do you choose a date? Whose company would you enjoy?

Well, one thing you can consider is looks. Woody thought of Janice and how good looking she was. He'd really have to rate to date her. Yes, he'd enjoy that, except... Well, it's too bad Janice always acts so superior. She'd make a fellow feel awkward and bored.

Well, perhaps someone who doesn't feel so superior. There's Betty. And yet, it just doesn't seem as if she'd be much fun.

What about Anne? She knows how to have a good time, and how to make the fellow with her relax, too. Yes, that's what a boy likes.

Yes, the Internet now provides everything you ever needed to know but were afraid to ask.

Re:Why is that "interesting"? by stephanruby · 2012-10-27 10:57 · Score: 1 · on HTC Losing Ground Faster Than RIM or Nokia

The 'current' home page design could also be largely a result of the fact that Windows Phone 8 is launching right now....

Go ahead, pick a date -- any date: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://htc.com

Look in the WHAT'S NEW section (since the way back machine doesn't seem to capture the Flash part). It doesn't matter which year you pick, they always seem to be launching a Windows phone of some kind, whether it's six months in advance, a year in advance, or whatever. And they do mention their Android phone launches, but just without the "Android" word, they just call them 3G phones and 4G phones, and those headlines seem to be generally much more subdued -- and much more absent from their home page (although, I'm willing to bet they have that many more actual Android phone launches than Windows phone launches).

Re:Just like parity files by ArtuRock · 2012-10-23 08:44 · Score: 1 · on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra

And if I recall correctly parity files get their algorithms from the same ones used in RAID arrays: http://web.archive.org/web/20110724075400/http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

More old books by braindrainbahrain · 2012-10-23 04:31 · Score: 1 · on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable

Very kewl! I love this old stuff. Some more old books to enjoy:

The Harmonia Macrocosmica

The Voynich Manuscript/a. aka, the most mysterious book in the world.

If this keeps up... why any old commoner could read about almost anything!

Re:Just saying... by Rogue+Haggis+Landing · 2012-10-23 00:19 · Score: 4, Interesting · on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable

It's been available for years in other places; my partner wrote her dissertation on 17th century science, and used scans of Hooke from a couple of online sources. The National Library of Medicine has a beautiful flash version of it. There is a decent version at the University of Wisconsin. It's at archive.org in a nice scan. The PG edition is very good, an original spelling transcription with scans of the original plates. IIRC there's also a scanned edition in the (pay access) database Early English Books Online. So this is not news at all.

But it's always a good time to look at Hooke. His illustrations really are astonishingly beautiful, and weren't bested for a century or more, and the text conveys something of the wonder to be the first person to *ever* see these things. It's pretty astonishing to imagine what that might have felt like. Hooke not only first saw cells, he coined the word in its biological sense, because he thought the cells in cork bark looked like the cells that monks live in. Hooke was a polymath, a successful mathematician, an architect and inventor, and by all accounts a very good musician. He was also apparently a bit unpleasant and a little crazed, but genius is allowed these things (at least when it's no longer around to annoy you)

Re:Misleading summary by Nyder · 2012-10-22 07:57 · Score: 1 · on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter

that radio dude

Paul Harvey

Dude rocked. hmm, i wonder if i can download his shows?

Oh yes, I can. Legally. Got to love the Internet Archive.

http://archive.org/details/TheRestOfTheStory

Woot!

Re:State legislature, huh? by Teancum · 2012-10-19 14:40 · Score: 1 · on Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota

More likely they're afraid on-line courses will kill off their meatspace universities, and then they won't have a vanity football team.

(I think some states, including the one where I am now, wouldn't fund higher education at all, except to avoid being the only state in the Union without a football team.)

The purpose of the law is a legitimate one: If you claim to be an institution of higher education, you should be in a position to ensure that graduates have access to transcripts, accreditation standards met (as applicable), and some sort of proof that some actual teaching took place. It is being designed to weed out diploma mills and to also go after those who would set up a school, take the money from the students, then disappear into the night with the money but leaving the students to hang out to dry after they have paid tuition. Schools which are not solvent shouldn't take the tuition of the students for the next term.... which the law covers.

There are also a number of schools like the University of Phoenix (to cite an example) which offer on-line courses with paid tuition and grant degrees that are accredited with national accreditation agencies. Another example is Western Governor's University. Such schools would need to coordinate with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education with regards to citizens of Minnesota... and frankly I think this is a reasonable law in that context. If a school goes bankrupt, the law requires that some sort of trustee is made available for transcripts and other records as well so courses taken by students can be recognized by employers or future educational endeavors.

I could imagine schools like the University of Nigeria would be the kind of school that they would want to shut down. Note though this site is currently off-line and I should mention this isn't the real school of this name which is at http://unn.edu.ng/. Fly by night schools should be shut down like snake oil salesmen. Of course there are plenty of Viagra websites and spamvertisements on the internet where such laws haven't stopped that from being marketed either.

How this law applies to on-line psuedoschools which don't offer credit nor charge tuition would seem quite a bit weaker, and 1st amendment issues would start to much more strongly apply. There is no money to refund if the website goes dark, and the lack of credits or even lack of a promise of credentials by taking the courses seems to make even a preservation of transcripts sort of pointless. Stuff like the Khan Academy badges might be a little bit tricky, but I don't think that really amounts to be a real problem.

Don't get into the conspiracy theories and claim things that simply are not true. This has absolutely nothing to do with somebody coming up with a cheaper solution to education and being competitive with brick and mortar schools at a very small fraction of the price... if any money is being exchanged at all.

Technology development needed [Re: Power source] by Geoffrey.landis · 2012-10-18 02:30 · Score: 1 · on Alpha Centauri Has an Earth-Sized Planet

We send an unmanned ship carrying all of human knowledge, a few robots, a bunch of DNA samples and the equipment needed to grow clones.

Well, that has been proposed-- for that matter, by me http://web.archive.org/web/20100409080615/http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/star_voyage_020319-1.html
(although I'm by no means the first)

We might not be able to do it now, but it's likely that we could in time.

Yes, quite a bit of technology development needed.

Re:Translation by Khashishi · 2012-10-17 04:21 · Score: 4, Informative · on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry

You might be joking, but chemistry is serious business in bread making. Check out this wizened tome; you can't traverse one page without chemistry. http://archive.org/details/cu31924003595802

I came across this while searching for the reference to another bread making tome my friend once showed me. The text was all in Chinese, but it didn't require knowing Chinese to see that every page had some chemical formula or table of chemical compositions or some chem eng processes. Hell, the first chapter was a primer on chemistry. I couldn't find the reference to the book because it had a very common name "Bread Making" and I didn't know the author or year, but the above link has a lot of the same flavor.

Re:Why can't they make a car like that? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-16 00:45 · Score: 0 · on Commercial Amphibious Vehicle Is Part ATV Part Jet Ski

And don't forget the old Amphicar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar

It's really not a new idea, and it never REALLY takes the world by storm, but it's always kind of neat to see another generation trying it.

I still wish the old "LandShark" had gotten beyond dreams and prototyping: http://www.3wheelers.com/lshark.html
(Or using the old Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20060615180435/http://www.landshark.co.uk/)

For a slightly more complete list of amphibious vehicles (including the Aquada): http://www.amphicars.com/acother.htm

why's (poignant) guide to ruby by j_l_larson · 2012-10-15 17:17 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming?

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.html

very weird and fun intro to programming in ruby - heavily illustrated with quirky cartoons

also: http://web.archive.org/web/20090627004409/http://poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-1.html

Solaris Printer Installation by pr0nbot · 2012-10-15 10:24 · Score: 1 · on "Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced

I'm reminded of this classic from a bygone age of the internet:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961222143340/http://www.europa.com/~dogman/install.html

Re: Price by Teancum · 2012-10-10 09:55 · Score: 2 · on ISS Robotic Arm Captures Dragon Capsule

SpaceX was already working on the development of the Falcon 9 before NASA got into the act.... so it is completely false that it wouldn't exist without NASA's involvement. I'll admit that NASA money was involved and that it is a subsidy of the development of the Falcon 9, but it wasn't a "cost-plus" project nor has NASA been involved with the design choices. NASA's involvement in the Falcon 9 has been more for general mission requirements and technology transfer as required by law... and to help promote the development of spaceflight in America, something also required by law and a part of the agency's explicit mission and charter as given to NASA by the United States Congress.

NASA wasn't the first customer either, as SpaceX had a manifest of several other customers before NASA became one of them. A much earlier customer was the U.S. Air Force (admittedly still the U.S. federal government). Orbcomm was however one of the very first customers to sign on at a time when it was critical to the development of the Falcon class of vehicles. As a matter of fact, it was the government of Malaysia who even beat NASA to space as a paying customer on SpaceX vehicles (which flew on the Falcon 1 flight 5).

A nice try to justify what you think happened, but it doesn't represent the facts nor reflect the manifest of future flights for the Falcon rockets. This early manifest from SpaceX paints a very different story:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070210100122/http://spacex.com/launch_manifest.php

There were customers who were supposed to be launching ahead of the NASA flights to the ISS, but either they dropped out (such as the "classified mission" that I don't think ever happened) or were rescheduled to other flight times. General schedule slippage has also happened... but that is typical of the spaceflight industry as well.

Re:Inline with official statements for the past 50 by Hentes · 2012-10-08 05:47 · Score: 1 · on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified

You got it backwards, they claimed saucer sightings to cover up experimental aircraft crashes.

Re:Linux? by recharged95 · 2012-10-04 18:11 · Score: 2 · on 15 Years of Stuff That Matters

Earliest page the web archive is storing...

Still going strong. One thing cool about /. is that pioneers of the open source revolution (from Cerf, RMS, Duff, Linus, Eric, etc..) has posted on this site, under their alter egos or as is.

Re:CmdrTaco's Blog Post by Bryansix · 2012-10-04 07:38 · Score: 1 · on 15 Years of Stuff That Matters

Well its not the first page design but this is the oldest I can find. http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/

Scarry removal of history by linebackn · 2012-10-04 03:44 · Score: 0 · on 15 Years of Stuff That Matters

Don't know if this was mentioned on slashdot before (or there weren't enough dupes to notice) but it seems some domain parkers are using rouge robots.txt files to delete or suppress Archive.org's archives of whatever site what there prior.

I'm mentioning this because if/when Slashdot is replaced by our good friend "backpack girl" or similar, the history could be lost. (not that Archive.org copies everything anyway)

Already ran in to a few sites like that while trying to do some research. Dead links pointing to parked domains, and Archive.org refused to give anything out based on a current robots.txt.

Worse yet, some companies have asked for removal of archived content after buyouts and such. Good luck finding info on the original search engine altavista.digital.com. No *.digital.com archives remain.

Probably for a different reason, but Archive.org is currently blocking access to the original Chips and Dips site (fortunately I pulled out a copy ages ago before they did that): http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.hope.edu/~malda/cnd/

Re:Screenshots? by antdude · 2012-10-03 10:51 · Score: 1 · on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot

How about partially see and use it in action? http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

Re:Screenshots? by lord_rob+the+only+on · 2012-10-03 08:29 · Score: 1 · on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot

See here

Re:Screenshots? by Cid+Highwind · 2012-10-03 07:00 · Score: 2 · on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot

Who needs screenshots when we can use the wayback machine to party like it's 1999

Re:Sophilistic bullshit by dak664 · 2012-10-01 02:21 · Score: 1 · on BitCoin Gets a Futures Market

The technocracy study guide is a good read http://archive.org/details/TechnocracyStudyCourseUnabridged

Mostly written by M. King Hubbert of peak oil fame to further the technocrat movement in the 1930s, itself a response to the monetary policies that led to the great depression.. Putting a price on things is what leads to financial speculation and concentration of wealth. Bartering can be done when both sides have the commodity in hand, or one or both sides can give an IOU for payment when the commodity becomes available. Such IOUs eventually become fiat money, which thus represents a general lien on future productivity. The drive to hoard such money leads to misallocation of resources. The system works smoothly enough when productivity is increasing, but due to finite raw materials and energy supply that can't go on forever

Their solution was to replace money by non-transferable energy certificates divided up among the population from the years total energy harvest, which would however expire every two years. The "price" of each good and service for the next year would be set by its embodied energy. If energy becomes more expensive then the more efficient processes would naturally be selected. This was predicted to reduce working hours while simultaneously maximizing the standard of living.

Interestingly bitcoins are the exact opposite of these energy certificates; producing them consumes energy today as a lien on future embodied energy. Workable when energy is increasing, otherwise not so much.

Re:Somewhat fair by Zimluura · 2012-10-01 01:30 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties

I used to be strictly anti-copyright-infringement, but when I learned how these **AAs buy laws from my politicians. And then look at my relatively small disposable income (not nearly enough to buy politicians), well, that's when I started to feel maybe it's time for some civil disobedience. It's at least time to not give the **AAs any more money.

Free Culture
http://archive.org/details/free-culture-audiobook

Re:"we have guns" . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-30 15:18 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers?

Indeed he did. One of his books got right to the root of the problem.

Re:imprisoned indefinitely without trial by RealUlli · 2012-09-28 06:02 · Score: 1 · on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State"

Interesting. Well, who needs youtube when you have the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/details/1933-ParteitagDerNsdap-SondersendungDerFox-wochenschau
http://archive.org/details/1937-09-30-Fox-Toenende-Wochenschau-XI-40

The second link even shows the name Fox in the header.

Re:imprisoned indefinitely without trial by RealUlli · 2012-09-28 06:02 · Score: 1 · on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State"

Interesting. Well, who needs youtube when you have the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/details/1933-ParteitagDerNsdap-SondersendungDerFox-wochenschau
http://archive.org/details/1937-09-30-Fox-Toenende-Wochenschau-XI-40

The second link even shows the name Fox in the header.

Re:Inventor? by skids · 2012-09-28 05:53 · Score: 1 · on The Whirlydoodle Project Makes Fun, Spinning Things (Video)

Hopefully not, but you never know given the patent laws these days.

I used to build these things when I got bored. There were others before me, and I suspect they have existed ever since the first appliances containing a stepper motor got old enough to be scavenged for components.

That said, I don't know if the claim that the pattern changes with windspeed is just based on the different voltages of different color LEDs. Once I put an independent timer that ran at an entirely different rate than the coils in there -- now that was an interesting display.

Agreed, 110% (here's a way for Windows users) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-26 05:17 · Score: 0 · on Cybersecurity Laws Would Do More Harm Than Good

"People need to take personal responsibility for their systems and decisions." - by one_who_uses_unix (68992) on Wednesday September 26, @12:46PM (#41465519) Homepage

Per my subject-line above: Agreed, & here's the EASIEST WAY for Windows users to do so @ least

(Via CIS Tool -> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9018362/CIS_tool_aims_to_help_federal_agencies_check_Windows_security_settings , a MULTI-PLATFORM security test that is FUN to use & do, almost like a performance benchmark, albeit, for system security instead...)

It is also FREE for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 users, & timeout version trial is available for Windows 7/Server 2008 users ( The 30-day trial is MORE THAN ADEQUATE to run it, & export the .reg file changes it makes to re-use again).

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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 & even VISTA/Windows7/Server 2008, & make it "fun-to-do":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1

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To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't eve

Re:Not so funny anymore by Tastecicles · 2012-09-23 23:27 · Score: 1 · on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung

I would be concerned if Apple ever get the patent for a remote microwave communications relay in geostationary orbit. (Clarke, 1945)

The Clarke estate would have KITTENS.

Addendum: As to what Mr. Hyponnen said? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-20 03:17 · Score: 0 · on Mikko Hypponen's Malware Odyssey

I was onto THAT, years ago (and before that too): It's PROS out there "hacking/cracking" into you, not just "kids having fun" etc./et al:

"Well, nowadays, they're not just after "wrecking your rig" etc. et al, they're after YOU... mainly your cash, or credit, etc. et al (it's now a "money game" man, the serious kind, really)."

FROM -> http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-and-even-vista-make-fun-do-t3511888p5.html

* Fact is, I was "at this game" (computer security) LONG BEFORE there really WAS a "formal industry" in it... & did my 1st collegiate academia presentation on it, as far back as 1984

(Some proof's below in my p.s. on a few levels in fact!)

APK

P.S.=> SO, as I said above: Things I personally have done around the arena of computer security on a PC?

The guide I quoted from above is featured ALL OVER THE PLACE online & it actually works (here's some testimonials from a user that applied it TO THE LETTER for himself, friends, family, & even paid customers):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and sh

Re:Coincidental reddit thread by Sigma+7 · 2012-09-19 03:16 · Score: 2 · on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing

It was erased because it was not a suitable "TIL" submission.

Rule I is "Submissions must be verifiable", which was not the case. The only mention was a random blog that claimed that he tried threatening Wikipedia. Instead, it got remvoed as part of a regular deletion process.

Rule V: "No misleading claims". If lawyers were involved, there would be a record in WP:OFFICE, along with other discussion outside the regular deletion process. An example of a billionare-class entity badgering Wikipedia can be found on the Lava lamp page.

The archive version reads as a simple press release, and is not suitable as a wikipedia article (dead references, referenced don't match article content, etc.)

In other words, pics of those legal threats or they didn't happen.

The EFF and TIA by subreality · 2012-09-18 18:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go?

https://eff.org/ - Doesn't need an explanation really.
https://archive.org/ - The librarians of the internet

Re:Please keep the URLs working by antdude · 2012-09-18 08:36 · Score: 1 · on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal

Someone should archive /. before it is too late!

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org seems to have archives, but I don't know how well.

Same here since 1996 because of this by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-18 07:18 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day

I got "suckered" by DCC transfer on IRC (got a "lemon" from a pal there no less I knew for years 1994-2000), & because of it?

Well - I decided to learn how to DO something about it & other threats online and, to share it with others!

The result? This below ( & yes, it works, IF followed "to the letter"):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008...

The IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy, is in my 'p.s.' below!

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* The ONLY time I got infested was on IRC using DCC transfers (got a "lemon" from a pal no less - I too had to learn what the dangers are online & was my OWN "weakest link" but after that? Nothing since, due to my learning what's in the guide above I authored!)...

What's above? Helps... & even SUGGESTS what this EMET tool is doing for IE (and more - pure "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" and yes, it works).

APK

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Re:Because by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-16 18:46 · Score: 0 · on Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered

Though everything you said might be true, the sources you provided give no indication of that.

I did not provide any "sources" - this isn't a dissertation. I provided links for reading suggestions, which is already more effort than one should spend on a site that often ranks all non-socialist political opinion as "-1 troll" and sweeps it under the carpet...

If you don't like one international university ranking (I picked one at random actually), you can pick any other such report - all of them that I've seen show USA being dominant. Like I said: "etc, etc, etc". There are so many specific examples I could focus on, that I don't know where to begin.

You can look at average wages, you can divide GDP per capita by person employed or hours worked, etc - USA still comes out on top. (And, as I've mentioned, the GDP/capita measure is biased in Europe's favor due to low fertility and higher government spending.)

I have never seen any factual report to the contrary - can you show me one? What I have seen is people with a clear socialist bias trying to redefine success with irrational new standards, like countries that give fuzziest hugs to oak trees, or countries where you don't have to work and can live off stolen loot.

The very fact that we're writing in English (and not, for example, in my native Russian) is of some testament to the cultural and technological accomplishments of the English-speaking nations, which USA leads by population.

I am not a "patriot" of the USA (many would even call me a "traitor" and a "conspiracy theorist" for my factual analysis of all its imperfections), but of Economic Freedom, which I believe to be the basis of all the other positive qualities that follow. Very few countries top USA in that regard, and they tend to be rather small and flawed in their own ways. If other economic freedom champs top USA in things like universities and R&D, it only strengthens my argument.

That source, a Wikipedia article whose own source is no longer accessible at the relevant hyperlink, says that the U.S. spent more than any other country on R+D in 2010. In percentage of GDP though, you're down around fifth or sixth. Ok, so you spend a lot on R+D. But is it effective? efficient? no answer there.

Internet 101 - if you experience "link rot", use a "timegate" like The Wayback Machine. (Just don't rely on it as a safety net - they fail to scrape some things.) The PDF in question is perfectly preserved.

It shows only a handful of USA's close partners (Israel, Japan, Sweden, Finland, SK) having a higher R&D spending as percent of GDP (PPP), and USA having almost twice the share of global R&D spending as Europe (which has a higher population).

Demonstrating the effectiveness of the said R&D is even easier - there are many benchmarks of innovation performance, competitiveness, tech corp revenue, etc. Which argument would you find convincing?

[...] patents [...]

OK, that was a bad link. Fuck patents.

[...] And you still come in behind Finland.

But Apple fans told me 16:9 sucked... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-12 05:51 · Score: 0 · on Apple Announces iPhone 5

I would say I wonder how they're going to resolve that, but I'm sure it'll be the same as the last half-dozen things that were superfluous when the rest of the industry had them, but became must-have features when Apple finally caught up.

Lest we forget... 100ppi optimal resolution

Re:Sorry, but there is a valid point here by Kasar · 2012-09-11 22:21 · Score: 1 · on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement

The trademark office created the joke by giving him the trademark. There've been at least two movies by that name, one http://archive.org/details/CarnivalOfSouls1962 and the other a Wes Craven movie in 1998.
Maybe I should try to register Psycho or something.

Re:He's not even the author by assassinator42 · 2012-09-11 08:09 · Score: 1 · on Amazon Blocks Arch Linux Handbook Author From Releasing Kindle Version

Since the books are licensed under Creative Commons, you can upload them to archive.org (see here) and redirect your users there to download.

Notalgia by fm6 · 2012-09-10 06:26 · Score: 1 · on Want to Change the Slashdot Logo? For 1 Day in October, You Can

Amusing to see those old Slashdot headlines. Since I was working at Sun at the time this one is particularly poignant.

Re:Wow is this guy wrong.... by elucido · 2012-09-09 21:02 · Score: 1 · on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press

The police have better things to do than go after someone who had images/videos of a 16/17 year old. They go after people who have images of children. All of the court cases I've seen involve children, not teenagers. 80% of child porn involves people under the age of 12. http://web.archive.org/web/20071202021456/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/16/international/i170148D42.DTL

How do you know what the police will do? 80% of child porn cases? What about the other 20%?

Re:Wow is this guy wrong.... by maryland157 · 2012-09-09 10:22 · Score: 1 · on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press

The police have better things to do than go after someone who had images/videos of a 16/17 year old. They go after people who have images of children. All of the court cases I've seen involve children, not teenagers. 80% of child porn involves people under the age of 12. http://web.archive.org/web/20071202021456/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/16/international/i170148D42.DTL

Re:Obvious propaganda is obvious. by fm6 · 2012-09-08 12:37 · Score: 4, Informative · on China's Yangtze River Turns Red

I don't remember the parties having any colors when I was a kid, though according to WP, the Dems and Reps did indeed sometimes use Red and Blue respectively. And of course everywhere but here, the left is "Red" and the right is "Blue". I think this has to do with the left being fond of waving red flags (an old symbol for a fight to the death) and the right usually being associated with asserting traditional hierarchies, which originally meant rule by so-called Blue Bloods — people who had the right ancestors.

But the red flag became the symbol of the socialist movement, which has always been unpopular in the U.S. I think American liberals consciously avoided using red, so as to avoid assisting those who defined a commie as anybody to the left of Genghis Khan. So the standard color scheme never really caught on here. Meanwhile, the world socialist movement fell out of favor after the biggest Marxist state collapsed and the second-biggest basically switched over to intensive capitalism — pretty much destroying the whole red-versus-blue image. Since Americans aren't great at historical memory, they were now free to re-invent the color scheme.

It's true that the current Red-State/Blue-State thing started out on TV. (WP says it was first used in the 2000 presidential coverage). But I think the main credit for its spread goes to the right, which embraced an image that neatly illustrated their claim that liberals represent a group of people living in a few prosperous coastal states, and who completely ignore the needs of Americans in flyover states.

Note that redstate.com is an influential political blog, while bluestate.com belongs to an obscure lighting and design firm whose web site has been in parking mode since 2007.

Re:Huh? by msauve · 2012-09-08 01:21 · Score: 1 · on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook

"Then it has changed. Their site used to employ the terminology of "donations" and "donators" along with "pledges", "

You continue to mislead. Even the earliest terms of use stated

Though Kickstarter cannot be held liable for the actions of a Project Creator, Project Creators are nevertheless wholly responsible for fulfilling obligations both implied and stated in any project listing they create

Nothing there which could lead to a claim that they "suggest" rewards be fulfilled. Also, they never use the term "donation," as you claim.

Kickstarter.com ("Kickstarter") is a venue for fund-raising and commerce. Kickstarter allows certain users ("Project Creators") to list projects and raise funds from other users ("Backers").

Re:Perhaps it is due to a misunderstanding? by khayman80 · 2012-09-06 15:27 · Score: 1 · on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent

(Ed. note: I've been trying to post comments like this one since 2012-09-01, but they never appeared on my article at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. So I finally posted this reply at my website, Slashdot, and Mike Haseler's website Scottish Skeptic.)

Let's get the facts straight. Even doubling CO2, means its greenhouse effect would only rise global temperatures by 1C. That is half the threshold for action set by the IPCC.
But, this scam has nothing to do with their real science. These charlatans would be predicting the same nonsense if CO2's effect were twice as high or half as much, because the real contribution of CO2 is much smaller than the natural variation.
And let's not forget:
1. This scam is based on a rise in temperature from 1970 to 2000 which happens to be coincident with rising CO2. The overwhelming bulk of this rise has nothing to do with CO2 greenhouse effect.
2. Largely the same academics who cry wolf over this short term trend were crying wolf over the short term cooling before the 1970s.
3. It all stopped in 2000 (1998 to be precise). That's 14 years without warming, compared to the 30 year trend they say proves warming will continue till the earth fries (much like we were heading for an iceage)
4. And just to cap it all, it warmed the same amount, for the same period, before CO2 was measured rising between 1910 and 1940 and guess what ... we didn't end up global warming doomsday then either. [Mike Haseler, 2012-09-01]

0. Many diverse lines of evidence (paleoclimate, modern observations, fundamental physics) show that doubling CO2 warms the planet by roughly 3C.

1. Human CO2 forcing has increased dramatically since 1970, while solar irradiance, volcanic activity, cosmic rays, solar flares, etc. have remained about the same.

2. Even during the 1970s, most scientific papers were predicting warming.

3. Skeptical Science's "going down the up escalator" shows at a glance that this often-repeated myth about global warming ending in 1998 is wrong.

4. The rate of warming from 1910 to 1940 was about 0.13C/decade compared to about 0.18C/decade from 1975 to 2005. But scientists don't simply compare the rates; they examine natural and human radiative forcings which change the global climate's total energy, which is indeed an average over at least several decades. In the early 20th century there was a lull in volcanic eruptions which usually cool the climate by blocking out the sun over a few years. Early human CO2 emissions and a slight increase in the Sun's brightness also played small roles. Internal variability modes, which shift energy from one part of the globe to another (i.e. climate cycles) are also important. Temperatures measured in the 1940s were warmer than the models; this discrepency is thought to be due in part to Ar

Let's party like it's 1999 by Microlith · 2012-09-04 13:33 · Score: 2 · on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers

http://web.archive.org/web/19991006062047/http://www.accsdata.com/drffreeze/TestBox2.htm

Sadly, all the pictures appear to have been lost.

I remember this guy going through and dunking his systems in Mineral oil over a decade ago, back when I was in 11th grade. You know, back with the BP6 was amazing shit and slotkets were an essential overclocker's tool.

Re:Hey! by BadPirate · 2012-09-04 05:47 · Score: 1 · on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe

Actually actually... While frowned upon Soda is okay:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021026175515/http://templehill.com/soda_caffeine.html

As long as you don't heat it up in the microwave first. God hates it when it's warm.

Link to old experiments by trout007 · 2012-09-04 00:03 · Score: 1 · on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming

http://archive.org/details/KSC-04PD-1312

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