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Actually Geocities pages have a cool feature. If more than about a dozen people look at them in a week, they go offline with a "this page has exceeded its bandwidth allowance" message.

So all Googlers can tell is that your page was popular, not that it was a mass of spellink mistakes, glitter gifs, rants about your boss and pictures of you shitfaced with a bunch of losers.

I.e, if anyone apart from your drinking buddies start to look at it and post it on 4chan with comments like "GET THIS FUCKER!!1", poof it self destructs.

Geocities - truly webhosting for people who need to reinvent themselves from time to time.

This post is a joke, I know about

http://web.archive.org/web/20040926033349/http://drachenstern.tripod.com/

ney, the mateys at the bay do not post stuff like that on the bay, they give it to archive org for the world to see!

Just like the "piratebay should have no place in society" letter that came with their award from organised content back in 2007.

http://www.archive.org/download/PirateBayShouldHaveNoPlaceInSwedenOrTheEuropeanUnion/PirateBayShoudHaveNoPlace.pdf

http://blog.brokep.com/2007/11/20/global-icon-status/

http://ipodlinux.org/wiki/PP5002

Where, exactly, do you get your information that there is a MP3 decoder in that SoC?
Perhaps you're thinking of this PP brief? http://web.archive.org/web/20061202104706/http://www.portalplayer.com/products/documents/5002_brief_0108_Public.pdf

You're confusing (assuming this is where this rumor started) a hardware feature and the capability of the ARM core when using their (PP) SDK.

If it is "over a century old" - then why is it not in the 1909. edition?
WARNING! 359 MB PDF file.

Page 795.
Photoengraving, Photoepinastic, PhotoGALVANIC...

No Photog.

It is at best a colloquial, informal abbreviation that some lazy illiterate asses jotted down cause Photographer was just too long and too hard for them to spell.
So later someone, maybe, referenced it someplace as an "interesting example" of an abbreviation. (Interesting as in "Hey, come see this guy stick a fork in his eye!".)
Not that anyone gave a damn, cause idiots that make abbreviations in the middle of a syllable don't usually consult dictionaries beforehand.

Also, DO note that one of your "examples" has it spelled wrong. "Swedish fotogs".
But I guess that IS to be expected when illiterate lazy bums start thinking up words.

Hey! You know what?
Lets think up a brand new abbreviation for a photographer. This is a PERRRRFECT opportunity.
Over the next 50 years someone is bound to cite this in a blog or a tweet somewhere.
From there, it is only a hip, skip and a jump away from being in the good old OED!

Hmm... How about ph00?
People can pronounce it as "pü", and there is room in those double zeroes for 99 more abbreviations for other photo related words.
But hey! Why stop there?!

Ph00 R.G. Rts McB01 Dp07 "NA"

MUCH BETTER (and shorter) title for the article!!
Or in the sspk - MBs!

And what if it turns out not to be a myth?

And *what if* a solar flare hit the Earth and knocked out all communications? Quick, let's spend a trillion dollars and ruin the world economy to fix something not proven to be imminent, but do it "just in case" anyway...

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a MERRY Christmas... Despite the media hype you've obviously gobbled up as a good sheep, there is not the complete consensus on the issue that pols and the media seem to insist upon...

Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Scientists sign petition denying man-made global warming

The issues are not quite so clear-cut as you make them seem. Claim after claim of the alarmists has been debunked...

The Hockey Stick Graph

1998 was the hottest year on record. Not in the USA (try 1934

October 2008 was the warmest October on record? Nope!

Are GISS's data out of line with other sources of climate / temperature data?

NASA is not the only source of long-term temperature data used to evaluate climate change. Like NASA, the UK Meteorological Office's Hadley Center for Climate Studies depends on a network of ground-based weather stations using thermometers. Both are limited by their number of stations, the heat-island effects on many of the sites located in urban areas, changes in thermometer types over time and the loss of station sites over the historical periods being measured. Data gathered from these systems often has to be adjusted to remove "noise" caused by the local environment so it can be standardized for analysis.

The University of Alabama at Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems provide data gathered by Earth-observation satellites. Satellite temperature data has the advantage of being gathered across the entire surface of the Earth, except for regions near the two poles, but it is unavailable for the period prior to 1978.

How do these other data sources compare to NASA?

According to Hadley's data, worldwide temperatures have declined since 1998 and the Earth is not much warmer now than it was than it was in 1878 or 1941.

Both the UAH and RSS satellite data agree with Hadley and show temperatures declining over the past decade with only a slight increase above the 30-year average between 1978 and 2008.

Round and round we go, when the alarmists will stop, nobody knows...

... it was (obviously) all over the damn front page of kde.org...

Hm, I just can't find it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113080143/http://www.kde.org/
And the release announcement only mentions "major improvements", "major new capabilities", "improvements" etc..
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/
Am I missing something?
The announcement for 4.1 on the other hand has been quite clear about this.

For those interested in getting packages to test and contribute , several distributions have notified us that they will have KDE 4.0 packages available at or soon after the release.

What part of the release being intended for people to test and contribute is unclear there? The statement was not "For those interested in getting packages to install and replace their existing desktop environment." In that same section, there is a list of distributions that had/have packages for the 4.0 release and many have "alpha" or "experimental" in the description.

Neither the WayBack Machine nor the kubuntu.org site have complete records around that time, but this shows that at least 4.0RC2 was also being released as a test "If you want to test KDE 4 ...".

If we go look at the 4.1 announcement:

While KDE 4.1 aims at being the first release suitable for early adopting users, some features you are used to in KDE 3.5 are not implemented yet. The KDE team is working on those and strives to make them available in one of the next releases. While there is no guarantee that every single feature from KDE 3.5 will be implemented, KDE 4.1 already provides a powerful and feature-rich working environment. Note that some options in the UI have moved to a place in the context of the data they manipulate, so make sure you have a closer look before you report anything missing in action. KDE 4.1 is a huge step forward in the KDE4 series and hopefully sets the pace for future development. KDE 4.2 can be expected in January 2009.

That's also pretty clear that 4.1 is not intended for the average end-user. As if declaring it is the firstKDE4 release intended for even early adopters wasn't enough, the tone of the announcement is still one of "Get it, run it, test it."

Contrast that with the 4.2 announcement that "the KDE Community is now confident we have a compelling offering for the majority of end users." The tone of the 4.2 announcement is much more install it and "Spread the Word."

So maybe the KDE devs didn't plaster the site in blink tags with spinning siren gifs and bold red text saying "OMFG DON'T USE THIS, IT IS BROKEN AND WILL EAT YOUR COMPUTER. IN FACT, IF YOU EVEN ARE THINKING ABOUT USING THIS YOU ARE RETARDED AND SHOULD BE STERILIZED." That doesn't excuse you from ignoring what they stated in the announcement. Of course they mentioned the new technology and features they were developing into the new platform. The point is to get people excited about it so that they will test and contribute. Do end-users test and contribute? No, not really.

However, Alexa Internet, the company that crawls the web for the Internet Archive, does respect robots.txt instructions, and even does so retroactively. If a web site owner decides he / she prefers not to have a web crawler visiting his / her files and sets up robots.txt on the site, the Alexa crawlers will stop visiting those files and will make unavailable all files previously gathered from that site.

See: http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php

What is Linux BIOS?

We are working on making Linux our BIOS. In other words, we plan to replace the BIOS in NVRAM on our Rockhopper cluster with a Linux image, and instead of running the BIOS on startup we'll run Linux. We have a number of reasons for doing this, among them: ... [LinuxBIOS.org, Aug. 2000, at the bottom of the page]

You're wrong.

Thanks to Internet Pirates, a majority of the information and software lost was shared over BitTorrent networks.

I am sure they well documented what George W. Bush put on his website and what he did as President and put it into a PDF file named "GWB Legacy" or something. Maybe with a few MP3 files of his speeches and some video files as well. If not check with MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Moveon.org and other Liberal organizations who backed that stuff up on microfilm and DAT storage tape and video backups. After all they all kept close eyes on George W. Bush during his eight years as President. Now that Barack Obama is President we got Fox News, Red State.com, Little Green Footballs, Lou Dobbs at CNNHL, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative organizations making record of everything that Barack Obama does as well.

Most of the "blogs" that covered Bush are still up and running with "copy and paste" or copypasta of what the whitehouse.gov web site put up, so you can pull the text from those Bush bashing blogs who cooked up some delicious copypasta along with some trolls who trolled liberals on Usenet and Internet forums by cooking up some copypasta from the Whitehouse to get knee-jerk reactions of liberals calling them morons and idiots for repeating what Bush and other neocons said.

The digital black hole happens because when a web site is changed, nobody bothers to back up the old data. Your best bet is Archive.org aka the Wayback Machine and hope they cached a copy of the web page there.

But most media usually finds its way on BitTorrent web sites. So when Microsoft stops selling Windows XP, you'll need a Demonoid invite code or invite code to some BitTorrent web site that offers a cracked version or be legal and use Windows Vista or Windows 7.0 instead and hope that the software you need gets rewritten for Vista and above, because the current software only works with Windows XP and not Vista and 7.0 and above.

The Internet archive is (or was) meant to help ease this problem.

We also have sites like Furl that allow users to save a page for later.

The Google cache retains the contents of a site for a short time (that is, if it doesn't include noarchive tags)

Visitors to a site always have the option of saving a copy.

The issue isn't necessarily that copies don't exist, it's that there's no structured way that will ensure some copy of everything gets saved.

And when individuals "save" a copy of a website, there's no way that they make their saved copy available for historians to look at later.

The problem of personal archiving, declaring certain archives public, and making such snippets available has not been generally solved.

I wholeheartedly agree that there should be some mechanism for archiving millions, if not billions, of web pages. Someone should get right on that.

Where will you go once the vandals are editing Britannica?

Here

YouTube doesn't permit downloading of videos... Distributing them only through YouTube adds restriction to its use.

Which is probably why Whitehouse.gov has a link under the first video that says "download as high-quality .mp4". Presumably this will be true for future links as well.

I agree that the White House ought to have downloadable versions. I even agree about the Internet Archive -- and it looks like they've already posted it there, since it's the exact same file name as the MP4 on whitehouse.gov. But I think it's perfectly valid to use YouTube too. Most people don't care; it's searchable; it's where the average video viewer is going anyway. The addition of the downloadable links and the post to Internet Archive are nice extras that should mollify most critics.

What is Apple going to do in response to inevitable arrival of social-engineering malware as it gains marketshare?
What is Linux going to if/when it acheives enough marketshare among joe-sixpacks for social engineering to be profitable?

I don't know. But when IS this going to happen? We've had predictions of an impending Linux malware plague since 2000. We had the same dire warnings for MacOS in mid-2006. Nothing yet.

Let's not be too cocky though. There has been malware showing up for Macs. And even Linux has had at least one successful virus (that seems to owe a lot of it's continued existence as a quick-and-dirty rootkit). The kicker is that these incidents do not make up the massive wave that's been predicted over the past years.

And sure - the market share isn't there yet. But keep in mind that if something is particularly vulnerable, there is someone willing to exploit it. So while MacOS X and Linux make up very small numbers, if they were so ripe for the plucking someone would be more than glad to do it (although apparently botnet herders like to use compromised Linux hosts as controls).

I always love to see people with an axe to grind against the United States so eager to so utterly trivialize the Japanese. They are not a people to be trifled with, especially in war. All of this historical revisionist nonsense about how they were all ready to give in is so disrespectful to them individually and as a separate and independent culture and nation.

The Germans didn't give in so easily. They were fighting street to street all the way to Berlin even when all that was left were old men and boys. Why should we expect any less of the Japanese?

You're like some fundie that selectively chooses what part of scripture they will acknowledge.

Funny you should say that about the selective quotation of scripture. Your "analysis" ignores the United States Army Air Forces' own Strategic Bombing Survey on the atomic attacks, which produced a report that stated, among other things, the following (boldface emphasis mine):

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion (of Japan) had been planned or contemplated.

Further, it is clear that leaders in the US had signs of this before the Strategic Bombing Survey was completed. Japanese codes had been cracked, and messages were being intercepted. The Allies knew that the Japanese ambassador in Moscow had been ordered to work on peace negotiations with the Allies. Japanese leaders had been talking about surrendering a year before that, and the Emperor himself had started suggesting in June of 1945 that alternatives to fighting to the end should be considered.
Interesting fact: the Russians had agreed to declare war on Japan 90 days after the end of the European war. The actual date of the end of the European war meant that the Russians were due to declare war on Japan on the 8th of August of 1945.

Obviously because of growth through the years. The same file in 2001 was pretty much empty as well.

Did you have something in particular in mind? I ask because a lot of "limit the government" types have curious ideas about what the constitution authorizes and forbids.

Watch this: Michael Badnarik's Constitution Class. That's several hours long, but very informative. I would like a government that actually follows it.

BTW, Badnarik was the 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate.

Might have found it

"out a way of forcing down patches, and figuring
out what the effect of those patches will be,
de-conflicting their effects, and having them
applied.
"

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bsa.org/resources/2002-03-16.99.pdf
In case http://www.mediafire.com/?aj093xoyjyw

I for one want to test to see if my machine has a tpm chip (suspect so) and unlock it to use the capabilities to do some calculations can you point me towards some stuff to do that?

Worse, it's an outright lie. The record companies are freaking out about uncontrolled downloads, not because their music is being copied around (it is), but because of Free Albums Galore, headphonica, Jamendo, Internet Archive Audio and so on.... There are dozens of places to get completely free music and this is the single most terrifying use the Internet can be put to, from the big label perspective. It has the potential to break the spine of the industry's decades-cultivated promotional and sales lock-in.

Yes, there's sharing of big-label music, but I share a half dozen freely distributable albums and no big-label music at all. I'm sure that bothers them a lot more than if I were serving up the manufactured pop of the week.

It seems they're getting it slowly, though. More and more songs are distributed for free as a loss-leader on iTunes and Amazon every day. If they keep that up, they might even figure out a business plan that treats their customers like people... but I'm not holding my breath.

Does this mean that UK censors are actually blocking (part of) the New Library of Alexandria too?

That would be too rich. You'd have think they'd have learned from burning the place down the first time.

(Cooperation between internet archive and new library of alexandria)

Go to http://www.archive.org/ and see state of Apple/ Macintosh back in the day right before he came as unofficial CEO. See Macworld etc. and Usenet (via Deja/Google Usenet)

I mean, if he could fix that disaster, anything could be possible. I wasn't following Mac that time and when you browse the sites one after another and see them in concentrated way, you will be more impressed.

http://www.archive.org/

That doesn't prevent there from being a rather significant pool of classic media. Take the old Superman cartoons as an example. They all fell into public domain long before they could be grandfathered back into existence. Thus just about anyone who wants to host them, edit them, use them in a new work, or otherwise make use of those old films is able to do so. Also, some of those films are likely to be new works that are gifted into the Creative Commons in the same way the Wikipedia article text is. Think of a shark in its natural environment, a tour of a famous building, or even a re-enactment of a historical battle.

There's even work that's been done to show how Wikipedia might use the HTML5 tag if and when it becomes widely deployed. (See this page for a dev version of Opera and 2 example Wikipedia pages that support & fallback content.) Despite the seeming incongruity of allowing videos inside Wikipedia pages, the demos shown is actually quite natural.

Think, people! How does a man who does venture capital for web startups NOT wind up being strongly in favor of copyright enforcement, software patents, and all the litigation that this board has come to despise?

About the software patents: by being sane like Benchmark Capital (one of the first investors in eBay) and several other venture capital firms.

And for those kind words I'm going to post a follow up to my original post of more relevant changes between the 2.4 and latest 2.6 kernels (I'll try and add a few more words after each point).

Kernel configuration was overhauled. Outside support for more GUI menus, it now means you no longer have to do make dep after changing something. Further building modules outside the kernel tree is now not so baroque. The time to build and partially rebuild kernels also dropped. Building a kernel in parallel (i.e. using more than one CPU during the build process) works better.

Better support for configuring out unneeded parts of the core kernel on embedded systems. You can see the seeds of this going mainline in a git commit on 2.5.70. There is an outside project called Linux Tiny that produces patches aimed at being able to configure out features not needed for embedded systems. Over the course of 2.6 many of these patches have trickled into the mainstream kernel.

I mentioned that 2.6 scales better under load in my previous post. Here are some benchmark comparison graphs of 2.4 versus 2.6 kernels (the graphs also include comparisons against the BSDs but you can see that Linux 2.4 had some serious problems that Linux 2.6 addressed).

The kernel is now (on systems where there is reliable device discovery) able to automatically load the modules it needs to drive hardware. No more having to adjust static lists of which modules need to be loaded.

udev was introduced. This change meant that the entries in /dev were no longer static. In 2.4 all possible device entries (even for devices you didn't have) were shown in /dev and their major/minor numbers were fixed (which was causing problems as new devices were turning up - what major/minor number do you give them?). Additionally the other dynamic /dev system (devfs) was whittled away and killed off.

FUSE support (LWN article about FUSE). Allows filesystem drivers to be written in userspace. Currently the best Linux NTFS driver is written using FUSE and it allows fun things like sshfs. Might be handy if you need users to be able to configure where data is stored remotely, you are writing your own filesystem or you need to support writing to NTFS formatted USB disks...

There is better CFS (Samba/SMB/Windows File Sharing) support. NFS version 4 support was also added.

cpufreq support. The kernel can clock down the CPU speed (usually by changing voltages via some hardware interface) to save large amounts of power. This can be done in response to work load so you run at full speed as often as possible and then when things are quiet you scale down to the lowest setting (you often save the most power when doing absolutely nothing so it pays to finish things as quickly as possible).

Any switch from 2.4 to 2.6 will of course require userspace changes (updated modutils, udev, later gcc, later glibc).

There is also davej's post Halloween document discussing changes from 2.4 to 2.5. This is very detailed and is another excellent reference.

Many many other things have changed too (e.g. ALSA support for sound has been added) but I have tried to keep the ones mentioned at least tangentially related to the original scenario :)

But really, that particular argument would carry more weight if there existed any MKV+h.264 files that weren't pirated. I can't recall ever seeing one.

Erm, perhaps try looking. Here you go.

Google from 1999

It somehow reminds me of back in the day when you could store digital audio on video tape.

Tip: you'll get a faster response if you ask wikipedia instead of slashdot.

Yay! Finally end users can enjoy Google as it was meant to be! I mean, standard IPv4 is fine and all, but it has been around ever since we switched to broadcasts in color, over 40 years ago. Such ancient technolology has no place in the 21st century, except in a museum. So now, with the help of our supportive ISPs, you can finally have the Sensational Internet Experience (tm) you so desperately need! ...

Now if only there would be a single consumer ISP in my country that would serve HD Internet addresses... right now, the only one that even acknowledges its existence is xs4all, and they offer only a 6to4 tunnel.

I doubt this was novel in 2000 (when the patent was filed)- Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to December 1998. The place: www.baen.com. Sample Chapters and the like were available as described in the patent at least 2 years prior to it's being filed. I think that qualifies as prior art.

If "The Power of Nightmares" is to be believed, and it does seem like an excellent BBC documentary, the neo-cons and conservative muslim movements have similar roots in a reaction against decadence within the homelands. Both have profited from each other. I don't think it's as simple as a "West==Evil" argument.

You can watch/DL from the internet archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

In that case you may find this interesting: http://web.archive.org/web/20070303162910/http://www.sustainablenuclear.org/PADs/pad8301cohen.html

Macquarie Uni is IP paranoid since they lost a WLAN project to Radiata.

Story: in the early 1990s, Macquaire Uni Electronics department and CSIRO were co-inventers and developers of 802.11a. In 1995 the project was shut down and via some mechanism the IP was transferred to Radiata Communications. In 2000 Radiata hit the jackpot, selling out to Cisco for A$560 million. Macquarie Uni then had a retrospective fight on its hands to get a pound of flesh. I gather they got something eventually. Since then they are IP paranoid.

The irony is that if Macquarie had locked up the 802.11a IP, Radiata probably would have failed and the Uni would have ended up with nil instead of the millions they did get, (even if it did fall short of what they wanted).

Sadly, I can see that in time every AU uni will try to force students to hand over IP. In the student's favour, they are in a stronger bargaining position than they think, since Unis are often desperate for good postgraduate students. You did the right thing by walking when they refused to negotiate. Go to a uni that lets you keep your own IP instead. If every student did that the greedy unis would wither and die.

Newcastle has talked of modifying their IP policy, but AFAIK the proposed changes (to the detriment of students) have not been implemented.

Macquarie Uni is IP paranoid since they lost a WLAN project to Radiata.

Story: in the early 1990s, Macquaire Uni Electronics department and CSIRO were co-inventers and developers of 802.11a. In 1995 the project was shut down and via some mechanism the IP was transferred to Radiata Communications. In 2000 Radiata hit the jackpot, selling out to Cisco for A$560 million. Macquarie Uni then had a retrospective fight on its hands to get a pound of flesh. I gather they got something eventually. Since then they are IP paranoid.

The irony is that if Macquarie had locked up the 802.11a IP, Radiata probably would have failed and the Uni would have ended up with nil instead of the millions they did get, (even if it did fall short of what they wanted).

Sadly, I can see that in time every AU uni will try to force students to hand over IP. In the student's favour, they are in a stronger bargaining position than they think, since Unis are often desperate for good postgraduate students. You did the right thing by walking when they refused to negotiate. Go to a uni that lets you keep your own IP instead. If every student did that the greedy unis would wither and die.

Newcastle has talked of modifying their IP policy, but AFAIK the proposed changes (to the detriment of students) have not been implemented.

I'd like for web.archive.org to be more reliable.

If that's the truth, then surely you've been to the right place to get that done.

What about archive.org?

Ah, apparently not... :-D

Not even the Wayback Machine can save them...

"We're sorry, access to http://www.journalspace.com/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."

-- Dave

The article says the data recovery company has found the drives wiped. There is no recoverable data.

It seems like the actual site failure was on the 23rd or so.

IMarv

PS, the internet archive was blocked by their robots, so there isn't even that to look at. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.journalspace.com

That's the problem with randomness, you can never tell.

http://www.archive.org/ maybe

You're right, why would anyone want to see a 90 year video old?
Or a movie that's 60 years old.

Sarcasm aside, I do think you have a somewhat valid point. Most videos probably aren't worth the effort it would take to save them. I think it's silly to build huge libraries of preserved home movies to cling to the past. I really don't care to save the wife's old VHS copy of Ace Ventura.
Still, I would like to preserve a couple of these older movies for "someday." At least so I have something to show my kids of the grandfather they never got to meet.

You're right, why would anyone want to see a 90 year video old?
Or a movie that's 60 years old.

Sarcasm aside, I do think you have a somewhat valid point. Most videos probably aren't worth the effort it would take to save them. I think it's silly to build huge libraries of preserved home movies to cling to the past. I really don't care to save the wife's old VHS copy of Ace Ventura.
Still, I would like to preserve a couple of these older movies for "someday." At least so I have something to show my kids of the grandfather they never got to meet.

When I was writing my master's thesis, I soon became painfully aware that most CS papers are written very hastily, contain loads of errors and sometimes just simply plain don't make sense.

At least CS is not quite as degenerate as the humanities -- recently I read this "PhD thesis" that was actually approved with lowest grade on a technicality after it was already initially rejected after a defense that was supposedly successful.

I am sort of ashamed of my university knowing that someone can call himself "Doctor" after submitting something like that.

Looking at this cert further, it's a very wierd certificate. "Issuer" of ""www.mozilla.com" has "O=Comodo CA Limited". That's descended from "Positive SSL CA", for which "Issuer" has "O = The USERTRUST Network". That's descended from "UTN-USERFirst-Hardware", for which Issuer has "O = AddTrust AB". That's descended from "AddTrust External CA Root". Why is a Comodo cert being issued under AddTrust? Comodo is a root CA itself, with its own root certs in major browsers. Something is not right here.

So who's AddTrust? Their web site says "Under Reconstruction". This does not look good. Checking the Internet Archive, we find "JOIN THE ADDTRUST FAMILY Gain an edge over your competitors by providing co-branded PKI services"

AddTrust went beyond using resellers. They apparently allowed subordinate CAs to issue certs in AddTrust's name: AddTrust's rapid Trust Service Provider (Licensee) start-up package allows you to deliver cutting-edge public key infrastructure (PKI) services cost-effectively and in a way that best complements your business model. Literally within months you can start selling pre-packaged outsourced PKI services allowing your customers ... AddTrust's globally recognized PKI brand is designed for co-branding with companies recognized for high-quality IT services and products. ... Rather than relying on external certification authorities, you can easily provide high-end certificates yourself by becoming an AddTrust-licensed Trust Service Provider. This allows you to decide how much of the underlying secure infrastructure you want to run and invest in yourself.

The relationship between Comodo and AddTrust is mentioned in this email. Robin Aldin of Comodo wrote: There is no ongoing relationship with AddTrust AB, Sweden. I'm not even sure if AddTrust AB still exists as a company. I think AddTrust may exist now only as a brand of ScandTrust AB. Sweden - although Comodo does have the right to continue using the root CA certificates which we purchased from them and which bear the AddTrust name.

So the party ultimately responsible for this certificate is out of business?

Minnesota does not allow this to happen after problems in the 2004 election. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=208.08&year=2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20041217034158/http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5134791.html

For those who are interested, pictures of the black hole can be found here

Regarding the 1960s movie Incubus with William Shatner, which was the first American movie to be done entirely in Esperanto:

Incubus is "the movie-watching event of a lifetime" according to Forrest J. Ackerman, the man whom Ray Bradbury called "the most important fan/collector/human being in the history of science-fantasy fiction." Mr. Ackerman, winner of 6 Hugo awards, also said, "There are perhaps a baker's dozen of lost films of the fantastic that imagi-movie fans thirst to see: London After Midnight, Mystery of Life, Night of the Gods, The Young Diana, and... Incubus.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070102034106/http://www.incubusthefilm.com/

A "web Time machine" already exists, they call the "Web archive" and it isn't a commercial crapware like everything Adobe does. You know, we are talking about the company that exploits unused sectors of the hard disk to store the nasty DRM of their software crap, surely I wouldn't give them a fucking bit of anything to analyse on the web..... http://www.archive.org/index.php