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"Be careful what you wish for. The Internet might grant it." Modern Chinese Curse.

UnRickRoll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4bn5pp32w

Goatse SFW (at least top level)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070806010246/http://www.goatse.cx/

Guess they haven't heard of the Wayback Machine.

Well except for the fact The Archive now retroactively obeys robots.txt made it all but worthless the last half dozen times I was there.

Guess they haven't heard of the Wayback Machine.

Well except for the fact The Archive now retroactively obeys robots.txt made it all but worthless the last half dozen times I was there.

Guess they haven't heard of the Wayback Machine.

The folkish State has to make up for what is today neglected in this field in all directions. It has to put the race into the center of life in general. It has to care for its preservation in purity. It has to make the child the most precious possession of a people. It has to take care that only the healthy beget children; that there is only one disgrace: to be sick and to bring children into the world despite one's own deficiencies; but one highest honor: to renounce this. Further, on the other hand this has to be looked upon as objectionable: to keep healthy children from the nation. Thereby the State has to appear as the guardian of a thousand years' future, in the face of which the wish and the egoism of the individual appears as nothing and has to submit. It has to put the most modern medical means at the service of this knowledge. It has to declare unfit for propagation everybody who is visibly ill and has inherited a disease and it has to carry this out in practice. On the other hand, it has to care that the fertility of the healthy woman is not limited by the financial mismanagement of a State regime which makes children a curse for the parents. It has to do away with that foul, nay criminal, indifference with which today the social presumptions of a family with many children is treated, and in its place it has to consider it- self the guardian of this precious blessing of a people. Its care belongs more to the child than to the adult.(1)

In this passage, Hitler asserts that the state must take a greater interest in caring for children. He suggests that the state should curtail procreation by unhealthy people.

Citations,(2) bitches. Use them.

The quotation you cite seems to appear on a website belonging to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.(3) Frankly, I have no idea what this essay _is_. There is no context whatsoever. The context provided is completely baffling. They fail to provide any properly formatted citations.(4) The website claims the essay was published in the Nov/Dec 1999 issue of "The American Enterprise." A publication under this name could not be found in Ulrich's Periodical Directory online. (5)

With today's ease of access to full text materials, there is no excuse for this sort of sloppiness.

1. Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. 19th impression, Edited by Chamberlain et al, Translated by James Murphy (New York: Reynal And Hitchcock, 1941), http://www.archive.org/details/meinkampf035176mbp (accessed December 7, 2008)
2. The Chicago Manual of Style Online, s.v. "17.146 Documentation II: Specific Content > Books >Electronic Books > Electronic editions of older works," http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec146.html (accessed December 8, 2008).
3. Lapin, Rabbi Daniel. Adolf Hitler, http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/lapin.htm (accessed December 7, 2008).
4. The Chicago Manual of Style Online, s.v. "17.149 Documentation II: Specific Content > Periodicals > Information to be included," http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec149.html (accessed December 8, 2008).
5. Ulrichsweb.com, http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ (accessed December 7, 2008).

1. Company builds an interesting product.
2. The investors do everything they can to protect their IP.
3. Things start to go horribly wrong.
4. The firms assets are sold.
5. The backups of the original software get recycled. Welcome to silicon heaven!

The two classic counterexamples to your curmudgeonly and frankly unbelievable assertion (seriously, who doesn't listen to music?)

You must have been living under a rock for half a decade to think that there is only commercial music.

I listen to music all day long ... and every single album is Creative Commons licensed, either from Jamendo (14,000 albums) or from Archive.org (300,000 recordings), so I will never exhaust those catalogues in my lifetime. What's more, the albums are vastly better and more diverse than the charts crap.

And your comparison with public services is irrelevant. Music is not a public service, it's entertainment, so my subsidizing someone else's choice of commercial entertainment is completely without basis.

It's interesting that their Wikipedia page mentions him not at all.

Fun fact: Wikipedia does not contain all information about the world. Next time, if you dig a bit deeper, you might find the Internet Archive.

AFAIK this has always been Apple's policy. All they did was update the posting slightly to show the latest leading commercial AV software. Here's the previous update from a year and a half ago. I assume it was just an update of the one previous to it. (I think you will find that it looks very familiar!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113164722/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html%3Fartnum%3D4454
"Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities
Last Modified on: June 08, 2007
Article: 4454
This article describes the antivirus utilities that are available for the Mac OS.
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one program to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here are some of the available antivirus utilities:

Intego VirusBarrier X4
Publisher: Intego
License: commercial

Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh (formerly SAM)
Publisher: Symantec
License: commercial

Virex
Publisher: McAfee
License: commercial

This article provides information about a non-Apple product. Apple, Inc. is not responsible for its content. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

Mmm, I don't think so.
AFAIK this has always been Apple's policy. All they did was update the posting slightly to show the latest leading commercial AV software. Here's the previous update from a year and a half ago. I assume it was just an update of the one previous to it. (I think you will find that it looks very familiar!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113164722/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html%3Fartnum%3D4454
"Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities
Last Modified on: June 08, 2007
Article: 4454
This article describes the antivirus utilities that are available for the Mac OS.

Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one program to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here are some of the available antivirus utilities:

Intego VirusBarrier X4
Publisher: Intego
License: commercial

Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh (formerly SAM)
Publisher: Symantec
License: commercial

Virex
Publisher: McAfee
License: commercial

This article provides information about a non-Apple product. Apple, Inc. is not responsible for its content. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

Article 17159: "Locating Vendor Information" can help you search for a particular vendor's address and phone number. Keywords: ktech kmosx"

Totally free OS... but if you want to watch DVDs, you download an illegal DVD decrypter. (I know there are legal ones you can pay for.)

You're on a free operating system, so why are you trying to watch non-free movies when there are plenty of free movies in .ogv (Theora+Vorbis) format?

It's really quite simple: Teenagers buy most video games. Teenagers don't have investments and mortgages that tanked nor are they good at saving instead of spending.

Teenagers have not bought the most video games in quite a long time. In fact, the average age is 30 with 65% of game players over the age of 18. If the video game industry were to see a drop in buyers over the age of 18, they would suffer just as greatly as the rest of the economy.

I know the entertainment aspect may seem like too easy of an answer, but the historical data does support it.

During the beginning of the Great Depression, one of the most popular forms of entertainment was dancing. It usually only cost a few cents to get into a dance hall. Once there, the dancer could remain for most of the night. This was so economical that it led to a new form of sport: Marathon Dancing.

At first this extreme form of dancing was done to achieve new records. Then the dance halls started to get in on the act, and began promoting competitions. Soon, dancers would be on the floor for months at a time, with only 15 minute breaks every hour or so. (Yes, 24x7 on the floor. They slept like wolves at best!) These long marathons gave dance halls the opportunity to encourage or stage situations worthy of a soap-opera. Fights broke out, relationships came and went, people struggled not to lose their cool over the grinding months, and even weddings were performed on the floor!

The public just ate this stuff up. They spent their nickels to visit these dance halls for entertainment. If they were hungry enough, they might even try their hand at a marathon. While the lack of sleep was a killer, dance halls regularly served 12 meals a day! Quite a difference from standing in a bread line for a meager meal.

Eventually, dance was replaced with another non-stop form of entertainment: Movies.

You know the stereotype of the Bell Boy with his flashlight leading people into the dark theater? Well, there's good reason for that. Back during the depression, the movies never stopped! For a mere nickel you could visit the movies and watch for hours before it looped back to something you had seen before. News reels, Comedies, Cartoons, Features, etc. It was a true potpourri of entertainment. And since there was no television to compete, visiting the theater was one of the best ways of keeping abreast of the latest news and entertainment.

Speaking of television, yet another form of entertainment took a bite out of the market during the Depression. Radio saw a surge in public life. From comedy, to the original soap operas, to FDR's Fireside Chats, to Late Breaking News, to Orson Wells' War of The Worlds broadcast, radio was an incredible escape from the ugliness of everyday life. And every family who could manage to scrape together enough money had one.

I won't bore you with further details, but such a trend for escapist entertainment is seen throughout modern history. The worse things get, the more we turn to outlets for escape. With television on the decline, I see absolutely no reason why consumers would not find value in Video Games. They are the newest and hottest form of escapist medium. Eventually they too will be replaced by a new medium, but for now it's reasonably safe to bet on video games during any period of strong economic downturn. :-)

This same thing happened 5 years ago with 15k drives. A 73gb 15k SCSI drive was $400+, but a 80gb 7200rpm IDE drive was only $75. Now you can get that same 15,000 RPM drive for less than $50.

so just wait a few years. In 5 years that 256gb SSD will be $50, and $100 will buy 12tb.

This same thing happened 5 years ago with 15k drives. A 73gb 15k SCSI drive was $400+, but a 80gb 7200rpm IDE drive was only $75. Now you can get that same 15,000 RPM drive for less than $50.

so just wait a few years. In 5 years that 256gb SSD will be $50, and $100 will buy 12tb.

ahh yes the idea of personal supercomputing. Back in '99 I worked for Patmos International. We were at the Linux Expo for that year as well if some of you might remember. Our dream was to have a parallel supercomputer in everyone's home. We used mostly Lisp and Daisy for the programming aspect. The idea was wonderful, but eventually came to a screeching halt when nothing was being sold. It was ahead of it's time for sure. you can find out a little more about it here. I find the whole ideal of symbolic multiprocessing very fascinating though.

It did used to be called gnusolaris. We now use it as our build machine.

By pointing out the older versions on Slashdot, odds are good that Apple will demand they purge the pages from the database.

www.archive.org is your friend. As of now the alternate pages are still up.

Yeah, and over here are over 60,000 complete concert recordings which likewise are not illegal. And over here is what is almost certainly the largest legal/free torrent tracker in the world, with thousands more. I think they reported tracking the movement of over an exobyte in their first year (before they got big).

You could get the data from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080111140739/http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/

http://web.archive.org/web/20080113194857/ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/

Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...

Don't tell me, let me guess - you're the guy who wrote

When you are finished, type the following to compile and install your kernel if you are using FreeBSD prior FreeBSD 4.0 and don't want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step, or if you are using a release-version of FreeBSD and your /usr/src/ directory only contains the sys/ sub-directory.

Mechanical or Spinning disk type meters can be read optically or magnetically, or if you have a dig meter with LED interface you can monitor the LED frequency; Both allow for real time monitoring of your homes load. Monitoring the aggregate by collecting at all load points would be better, but that's a bit more complicated. try: http://web.archive.org/web/20060509092108/http://www.seanadams.com/pge/ ...for a head start. SLR-

I think the truth behind google groups is that the google-friends mailing list, originally hosted on egroups [which was later bought by yahoo, and became yahoo groups], was the original impetus for creating google groups. Later they bought deja to save it from going bankrupt. Also note that their archive was never really completed like they promised. Just look at the alt.tv.simpsons summary. The number of posts from april 1995 drop way off right when the shows popularity was taking off.

CBS Evening News with Katie Coric pretends to be "balanced" in its coverage of events for each candidate, but did nearly nothing about the "breaking news" of Obama's suggestion to kill the American coal industry

Research can be fun. Not only can you correctly spell the name of the newscasters you decry, you can also find out what the candidates said, rather than what somebody told you they said. The SF Chronicle reported this in early 2008, and even had the full audio up for months. You can still find the audio via the Wayback machine. Here is the money quote:

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted"

This quote was hardly news, and it was not even particularly controversial news until Governor Palin attempted to make it an issue. Senator Obama stated that coal plants can be built, but plants that pollute above a threshold will have to pay for excess pollutants. The US has been doing it for SO2 since about 1990, and there was been an exchange in Chicago for CO2 since 2003. It is called Emissions trading, sometimes called a Cap and Trade system. Perhaps Governor Palin simply did not read that John McCain also supports such a system.

or his association with Bill Ayers.

The press hit on Ayers quite a bit during the primary season, to the point of public exhaustion -- certainly past the point where people cared reading about it. Why would they drill it again during the fall campaign without any new information? And, before you say there was no new information because the media did not dig, take a moment to examine that logic:

1) The media reported X in the summer.
2) The media was biased because they reported no new information beyond X in the fall.
3) There was no new information beyond X found because the media was biased.

It is too bad there is no HTML <circle> tag to make clear the logic here. A far more reasonable explanation of #2/#3 is that there was nothing new to discuss above and beyond what was hashed over in the primaries. Or maybe there was, the mainstream media suppressed it, and outlets like Fox News simply lacked the resources or basic competence to dig themselves, or they too are part of the conspiracy. Possibly, but the Null hypothesis applies to social studies as well as hard science.

Yet they dove (and continue to dive into) the trivial issue of Sarah Palin's clothing...

I frankly do not care how much Palin spent on clothes, and I agree with you the media spent far too much time attacking her on trivialities, when there were more important issues to discuss.

ignoring that Hillary Clinton spent even more on the clothing she wore during her campaign this past year (or had it donated by various famous designers).

When you make a claim, substantiate it. For good or for ill, news outlets reported $150,000 on clothes. It was out of the ordinary for a high-office candidate, and so arguably newsworthy, and and they had data, so they could print it. Without data, they have to shut up, or print am embarrassing retraction. You, on the other hand, assert something as fact without even a 10 second google search. And it is the other side that is biased? Puh-leeze.

Bias is unavoidable. If you lack the judgement to see it in a given news outlet, you owe it to yourself to seek out many competing sources. T

If these black boxes were made public information, like a super wayback machine that allows the people to watch the watchers, that would be a big step forward.

You're probably thinking about the 2000 article in Wired, 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us', which he said in a 2003 interview was Wired's title, not his.. It was criticized in quite a few places, but there were plenty of people who gave merit to what he was saying.

I think it's wise to understand that there are risks inherent to almost any solution, and no just adopt technology for technology's sake -- look at what happened with the election machines, and those damned flash splash pages in the late 90s. I probably need to re-read his article, as I can't remember most of it, but I don't remember it being as pessimistic as people made it out to be.

Officials at the FBI and the White House told the Obama campaign that they believed a foreign entity or organization sought to gather information on the evolution of both camps' policy positions

Is that all they're after? Pff. The Internet Archive already lets me do that. And if that's too much work, the candidates have already done the graphical diffs for us!

/tongue in cheek

Sprint customers are buying access to sites on Cogent.

Nobody buys a Sprint or Cogent connection to get to Sprint or Cogent. They want the data from the content provider sites (pr0n and http://archive.org/ ).
Therefor Sprint is really profiting on people's desire to get to sites inside Cogent. If they cut off those sites people will drop them and get somebody else
who provides the access.

They were all about loving IBM according to this copy of the website - now, maybe not so big on Power server chips... IBM made it's choices. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927205658/http://www.pasemi.com/

Blame Netscape. Some moron in the marketing department renamed it from Livescript. It was originally supposed to work closely with Java and that apparently confused some marketing drone at Netscape.

This would seem to be a textbook example of how infringing somebody's trademark could cause confusion between vaguely similar products, except of course that Sun helped develop it with Netscape, so I assume they had no problem with it.

P.S.

Here are some cool images from that 1985 game. Remember: This was all done with a primitive 0.064 megabyte computer and phoneline modems that barely ran 1 kbit/s. It's amazing that LucasArts was able to create a graphical world using such slow connections.

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue77/habitat.php - And a RUN magazine article: http://thefarmers.org/Habitat/2004/09/the_avatar_is_legal_voting_age.html

Check out the cool Commodore 128 Pizza Box. I want one. :-) http://web.archive.org/web/20070221043915/www.fudco.com/habitat/archives/page05.jpg

NC votes flip to Obama
Votes switched from Bush to Kerry

Sorry to disappoint you.

These are just errors. It goes both ways.

I didn't say I was comfortable with Diebold's CEO saying what he did...but he didn't say he would "do anything to help the Republicans" (your obvious implication being he'd do anything, including rig his company's voting machines...even though it would take likely literally hundreds of people in the process to actually pull off what many people think happened in a coordinated fashion). What he said in a fundraising letter in his capacity as a Republican business leader in Ohio was, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."

And even though Diebold had paper trail systems as options for many of their products, they often weren't purchased by municipalities because they weren't required by law.

And I didn't say e-voting was superior. I said that it was thought to be superior by those in Congress (many Democrats, including those who sponsored the legislation which resulted in the increases in electronic voting machines, ostensibly to make the process modern and fair). The major oversight was And if you read my post, I agreed that paper voting is the way to go, if only for a reason of maintaining confidence in the process. That alone would be worthwhile.

You can't even pretend to be informed about e-voting, at all, if you had never even seen a case of votes being "switched" to anything but Republican, when there are plenty of examples of both ways. It's just that the bloggers and activists who think it's all a vast right-wing conspiracy to steal elections are a lot louder.

I'm definitely looking forward to your reply.

The best system that I've seen that provides a unified name spaces, database, and file system is the very notorious Reiser File System. You can find out more at: http://web.archive.org/web/20071023172417/www.namesys.com/.

What I like about it is the ability to search, find things, and the way that it can handle tiny chunks of data in their own tiny files as well as massive data files and directories with massive amounts of data. Who needs a database when one has a system like ReiserFS?

Bringing the advanced file system name space and search capabilities upwards into applications and presenting it to the user ensures that one uniform model is presented from the ground up through all layers of the illusion to the user.

Maybe the current implementation has problems but it can be improved...

While I'm not using the actual implementation in my system to end all systems I'm making use of a number of the key ideas in the ReiserFS system. Read the papers on the archived web site linked above.

I'm pretty sure I saw a better video.

http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951

The thing is reason #1 is already a very small percentage of musicians. 10% of CD's are profitable:

Another factor commonly overlooked in assessing CD prices is to assume that all CDs are equally profitable. In fact, the vast majority is never profitable. Each year, of the approximately 27,000 new releases that hit the market, the major labels release about 7,000 new CD titles and after production, recording, promotion and distribution costs, most never sell enough to recover these costs, let alone make a profit. In the end, less than 10% are profitable, and in effect, it's these recordings that finance all the rest.

On top of that, the percentage of musicians making much of a profit on music sales at all is so low that this hardly matters.

Further reading:
http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030313214407/http://www.riaa.org/PR_STORY.CFM?ID=491

The thing is reason #1 is already a very small percentage of musicians. 10% of CD's are profitable:

Another factor commonly overlooked in assessing CD prices is to assume that all CDs are equally profitable. In fact, the vast majority is never profitable. Each year, of the approximately 27,000 new releases that hit the market, the major labels release about 7,000 new CD titles and after production, recording, promotion and distribution costs, most never sell enough to recover these costs, let alone make a profit. In the end, less than 10% are profitable, and in effect, it's these recordings that finance all the rest.

On top of that, the percentage of musicians making much of a profit on music sales at all is so low that this hardly matters.

Further reading:
http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030313214407/http://www.riaa.org/PR_STORY.CFM?ID=491

It's right here

I tried running WoW inside of WINE, but I was taking about a 20 FPS hit for doing so. I also have a handful of games that simply don't run inside of WINE, so for the foreseeable future I guess I'm stuck with at least one system running XP. Still, it is nice to know that in a pinch I can run WoW in Linux without too much of a hassle.

I don't have Windows on my box so I don't have a fair testing environment. I know some folks claim FPS boosts in Linux over Windows. However, I kind of suspect I'm taking a hit when comparing my performance to some less-beefy Windows systems also playing WoW in my household. Now - again this isn't a good test as I know I'm pushing a lot more pixels and particles than they are. There might also be some config tweaks I can do to give me some performance. But honestly - I could probably do myself a favor and dump a bunch of addons to give me a boost too. But versatility is more important to me than raw FPS assuming I'm in a playable environment - which I am.

On that note, Wine doesn't handle everything well... or everything at all. There's plenty of stuff out there that won't work. Vent used to cause me no small amount of aggravation until a later release. But I'm a one-game pony. WoW is enough for me.

Something I'd be interested in knowing is if doing development/testing against WINE actually leads to a more stable and bug free application.

Gavriel State of TransGaming noted an example of this and claimed:

In the past few weeks, one of the CS:S updates broke under Cedega. Upon looking into the problem, we discovered something interesting: the problem that caused the game to crash on Linux was actually a bug in the game itself - a 'handle leak' - not a bug in Cedega. This actually happens far more often then one might think, since changing platforms always results in some changes, however minor, to the environment that code is run in. Later in the week, we discovered that the cause of another longstanding problem in CS:S was a result of a different game bug - an un-initialized variable in that case. Another title that we had done some work on the previous week also had a similar bug.

This effect is really just one example of what many good developers already know: the more diverse your test environments are, the more bugs can be caught, and the more robust your code can be. If you design with portability in mind, and test on a wide variety of different hardware combinations, your code will be less likely to crash on your biggest target platforms.

Now, granted, Gavriel has a bridge to sell; namely Cedega. But one of the aforementioned bugs in WoW seemed to fit this description. Many Linux Cedega / Wine folks were hit by the bug. And over time, the bug was being reported by more and more Windows users. Something about how Wine handles things really shook the bug out while it only hit a small percentage of Windows users (although with WoW's numbers, that means a lot of customers).

Yes, Linux folk did have an unusually lengthy gap back then. Worse, it coincided with the rise in YouTube popularity, so the gap was felt particularly acutely.

Video was added in Player 6. Player 8 was a massive re-architecture of the graphics engine. This was also due to include a re-architecture of the logics engine, but the latter was re-scheduled out into Player 9 timeframe. Rather than make a graphics-oriented Linux Player which would need to be rev'd in six months, the Linux Player went straight from v7 to v9. It was pain, but it's over now.

Flash/Linux has been an emphasis from the start:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815054538/www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

jd/adobe

Whatever "lobbying" was being done previously, it seems to have been completely effective. Many countries have signed, without dispute, so-called "free" trade agreements which essentially codify every US-corporate-friendly dream that could be devised by the Bushites - including DMCA-ish and software patent provisions, to speak of 2 issues in the IT area. In non-IT areas, similar capitulations are even worse. Pharmaceuticals, agriculture, all get twisted into poisonous American corporatised pretzels, to pave the way for overpriced patent drugs and monstrosities such as GM products (which should be flat-out illegal anywhere). It's as if the "sovereign" countries didn't even read the agreements, let alone take heed of the public outry that always accompanies them.

It must be so easy for them, when the signatories are Bush-puppet governments such as the Howard government in Australia (thankfully rejected at last) and Harper (which malignancy we should pray is thrown out tomorrow, or at least held safely to a minority).

Let's be honest. "Globalisation" never meant anything more or less than "America buys your stuff cheap, you buy America's stuff dear". The world does not need Wal-Mart, Microsoft, McDonald's, or any other substandard, exploitative American brand. The height of absurdity is Wal-Mart selling rice to Indians. What do the Wal-Marts in China sell? Crappy plastic Chinese crap back to the Chinese? The whole concept is absurd. What is Wal-Mart even doing in Canada?

The ultimate irony is that those tilting the playing field towards the USA, and who would most vehemently deny the insuperable insult to sovereignty that these agreements represent, also claim to believe in a "free market" - the Bushites, the Reaganites, the Friedmanites, the corrupt fuckwads, the ignorant lying Sarah and Todd Palins, the criminal Cons and neo-Cons whose chickens, we hope, are coming home to roost at last. If you're wondering why you're having trouble competing - maybe it's because you're not competitive! Top example - Microsoft can't compete on merit. They have to be anti-competitive; and you betcha they love them some FTA help. Pity they got caught at it.

But perhaps as the world wises the hell up, we finally see some logic in Bush's response: More lobbying. "Bring it on", in the Texan moron's famous catchphrase: Just expect more pushback!

But we'd prefer if you'd just Bugger off.

How is it different, you ask?
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=988461&cid=25292293
That's ^ what makes it different. The fact that you like Juno Reactor and Sex will remain here FOREVER. The fact that I tell some drunk chick at a bar about my fetishes will stay with her. The fact that I was seen in that bar with her will stay with the people who've seen it, be those 10 or 100. When it comes to the Internet, the problem is that the information will remain here for a very very long time (see http://web.archive.org/ about that) and that others can search for you and see things that you've done while you were drunk at your 18-yr old birthday party and what others have to say about that. We all do stupid things from time to time but it's mostly those stupid things that are out of the ordinary enough to be posted on Facebook by someone who thought you were funny holding a cherry between your butt cheeks and running around with a pint of beer on your head.
People will see the stupid things you've done which are stored there forever (almost). You also do freelancing in your free time and work on open-source projects (if you're a geek) or you paint or write poetry (if you're an artist). Those things are boring! Who cares about those? You may publish all that on some obscure website but when you google for your name, Facebook will be the first to pop up, of course, and on Facebook you'll find pictures of you that you didn't know about. Your future employer will probably stop after reading the first couple of result links which pose you as a drunk marijuana addict.
There are so many things you haven't considered when you wrote that post that I don't think I can write about all of them today. Besides, I'm at work right now and I only have three more hours of work remaining, then I have to go home and actually do something productive (like cooking). Hopefully, my boss won't see this post.

It's interesting how the same idea gets "reinvented" over and over. Opportunistic encryption using advertised DH public numbers is just such a thing.

ObsTCP is just a reinvention of SKIP.

See here via the Wayback Machine since the concept is long dead and buried.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021129230049/http://www.skip-vpn.org/

People aren't going to stop "pirating", nor should they. "Pirates" spend more money on music than non-pirates. It's called marketing. The MAFIAA labeled bands have radio, the indies have P2P.

Want to pirate a book? To to Cory Doctorow's site craphound.com. He doesn't mind. In fact, read the forward to Little Brother (free download of the book there) where he explains how your "pirating" his books is a good thing.

Go to my friends in The Station's site. You can "pirate" their stuff, too (first link leads to shn, flac, mp3, ogg). There are dozens of their live shows on archive.org.

You can "pirate" the top 40 by plugging your radio into your PC and sampling. Better quality, less hassle. The only downside is it's only MAFIAA dreck; you have to actually download indie music. A few years ago Micheal Crawford compiled a list of tens of thousands of songs you can pirate legally.

If you live in St Louis you have a lebal-sanctioned pirate radio station that plays seven complete CDs, uncut and uninterrupted, every Sunday night for you to sample and has done so for decades.

Only an idiot wants to keep his art secret.

Would the nuclear B-36 count? It wasn't nuclear-powered but it did have an operational power-producing nuke running in it when it was flying, with the intent to develop it into a fully nuclear-powered aircraft using a General Electric HTRE nuclear aircraft engine. It was as heavy as many subs and you had to crawl around through it, using a rope-pulled trolley to get from the front to the back.

Hey Chas-
And here a link to said April Fool's joke.

see e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20061017204807/www.blogmaverick.com/2005/12/23/this-will-make-a-good-movie-someday-overstock-com/

"How long will this service be available?

        One month. It's kind of lame to be celebrating a mid-September birthday in late October, don't you think?"

Why not keep it here for ever? It will be the search counterpart of web-archive!. If it's not too much trouble, they could bring up newer versions of their index... perhaps let's say one for each year? Think of the possibilities! We could broaden our searches in a historical way!

Plastic (except from some biopolymers, which have not really caught on yet) is made from oil-based products in an imperfect reaction

However originally plastic was made from plants not petroleum. The plastic Cellophane gets it's name from the cellulose plants produce, of which hemp was a good source. Up until the mid 1930s plastic was made from plants. Then the chemical company DuPont was granted patents on how to make plastics like Nylon from petroleum.

Then industrialists and others pushed to have hemp, which is one of the most industrially useful plants in the world, made illegal with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. For a brief period during WWII though the federal government encouraged farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. To this end the government made the movie Hemp For Victory to show to farmers.

I'd better end here before I go on more about hemp.

Falcon

I rather like these:
Jamie Gorelick with Fannie Mae
Jamie Gorelick versus encryption (found via Google 2001 index)
Barack Obama and William Ayers

Check out the first link that appears when searching on "World of Warcraft"