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My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say
"this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".

For a local astronomy club, I once did a little presentation, I think the title was "bad astronomy in popular culture". While the scope was mostly about stuff like sound-in-space, space planes ála Star Wars, and so on, one of the topics I covered was Niburu - the supposed planet that will kill us all. It actually had little visibility even in mainstream press so it sort of warranted coverage.

http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm is the "Doom!" page. Anyway, for my research, I just checked out webarchive.org...and looked at the snapshots from previous years. It was basically updated every year to say that "next year IT will come". As you can see, right now it's saying "2008-2011" :). Compare with the version from 2003 february or from 2005 as examples :)

My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say
"this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".

For a local astronomy club, I once did a little presentation, I think the title was "bad astronomy in popular culture". While the scope was mostly about stuff like sound-in-space, space planes ála Star Wars, and so on, one of the topics I covered was Niburu - the supposed planet that will kill us all. It actually had little visibility even in mainstream press so it sort of warranted coverage.

http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm is the "Doom!" page. Anyway, for my research, I just checked out webarchive.org...and looked at the snapshots from previous years. It was basically updated every year to say that "next year IT will come". As you can see, right now it's saying "2008-2011" :). Compare with the version from 2003 february or from 2005 as examples :)

Have you tried the wayback machine? http://www.archive.org/index.php

Some geek (and gamer!); I spit on your grave!

CD\DVD copy protection developed by Sony DADC. The newer versions of the 'protection' scheme try to restrict 1:1 copying. I couldn't find a reference to when it was first used, but archive.org provides a mirror of securerom.com since Oct 08, 1999, so this is hardly new technology.

Are you sure you are a gamer? Titles using SecuROM include: Armed Assault, Bioshock, Neverwinter Nights 2, C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Overlord, Hellgate: London, Spore (and the creature creator), Baldur's Gate II, Unreal Tournament 2003, Hitman 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Lord Of The Rings, and The Sims 2. That's just the tip of the iceberg! Granted, it is mainly used for Windows games but I was under the impression that some PS3 and XBOX360 titles implemented the system, aswell.

Luckily, there are a dedicated group of people constantly working to exterminate these nasty "copy-protection" mechanisms. ClonyXXL and Alcoholer are but two applications that will scan the game and set the correct settings in your burning software (CloneCD or Alcohol 120%). There are also a number of patches if you look around.

Upload a high-quality MPEG-2 file to The Internet Archive, fill out the form describing the video, and let them create derivative files for you. TV shows do this daily uploading gigabytes without difficulty. You'll end up with files you can link directly to at no charge (use the "download" URLs, don't link to specific servers; download URLs will be redirected as archive.org does their internal bookkeeping). If there are any kinds of videos you want which archive.org doesn't make for you, you can upload those too. BitTorrent doesn't work as well as archive.org because when your video is no longer popular, seeders drop out and make it harder for others to get the video. Also, as more browsers have Ogg Vorbis+Theora built-in, you'll want a copy of your video encoded with Ogg Vorbis+Theora so you can use <video> with the browser's built-in support.

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<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

source
(using web.archive.org because bash.org is down)

...already uses those methods (such as the survey and the focus group), and they are employed by various degrees to control populations through their desires and fears. We're talking about propaganda masters who have a working relationship with government psy-ops. This Adam Curtis documentary on this subject is excellent.

Yup. Here's how we do it in the States.

You'll never hear about 90+% of the shutdowns because the takedown order will come with a legal threat (from the FBI) against even talking about it. A gag order.

-Matt

I think it is this video: http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987

In which Douglas Englebart discovered that it was very tiring to use a touch screen display in the 60s. Half a century later, we'll be relearning that.

Democracy Now! reports that federal agencies were involved:

Armed groups of police in the Twin Cities have raided more than a half-a-dozen locations since Friday night in a series of preemptive raids before the Republican convention. The coordinated searches were led by Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher but conducted in coordination with federal agencies.

This should hardly be surprising as federal Senator McCain, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney were all planned to appear for the RNC. It would be unusual if county and citywide police were doing this on their own without any input from any federal agency. As time passes I'm sure we'll learn more about the specific people involved at all levels.

Also, Amy Goodman, host of DN!, and two DN! producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were illegally arrested and detained. Goodman was arrested while trying to free Kouddous and Salazar. From the article:

ST. PAUL, MN--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman's crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.

Ramsey County Sherrif Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. They are currently being held at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul.

Today's DN! (video, audio) has more on these preemptive arrests and detainments including footage of the police action in progress.

Democracy Now! reports that federal agencies were involved:

Armed groups of police in the Twin Cities have raided more than a half-a-dozen locations since Friday night in a series of preemptive raids before the Republican convention. The coordinated searches were led by Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher but conducted in coordination with federal agencies.

This should hardly be surprising as federal Senator McCain, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney were all planned to appear for the RNC. It would be unusual if county and citywide police were doing this on their own without any input from any federal agency. As time passes I'm sure we'll learn more about the specific people involved at all levels.

Also, Amy Goodman, host of DN!, and two DN! producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were illegally arrested and detained. Goodman was arrested while trying to free Kouddous and Salazar. From the article:

ST. PAUL, MN--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman's crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.

Ramsey County Sherrif Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. They are currently being held at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul.

Today's DN! (video, audio) has more on these preemptive arrests and detainments including footage of the police action in progress.

Pardon me, but I'm a bit stunned that anyone might think this is the real reason Google might make a browser.

Cuz, I mean, we all remember how well it worked for Netscape. Don't we?

First, this happened to the world's most popular browser, as it grew to include a kitchen sink. Then, a little over a year later, AOL happened to Netscape. Mere days later, it was revealed what AOL's real intentions were. They later disbanded what was left of Netscape. And today, nobody gives a shit about AOL's $4,200,000,000.00 start page. (I've intentionally omitted the parts about "source code" and "JWZ," as they don't seem relevant to the point.)

Really: If this history shows us anything, it is that the web portal game is a joke. Tying it into software (and thus making it even less universal) just makes it even more laughable.

Pardon me, but I'm a bit stunned that anyone might think this is the real reason Google might make a browser.

Cuz, I mean, we all remember how well it worked for Netscape. Don't we?

First, this happened to the world's most popular browser, as it grew to include a kitchen sink. Then, a little over a year later, AOL happened to Netscape. Mere days later, it was revealed what AOL's real intentions were. They later disbanded what was left of Netscape. And today, nobody gives a shit about AOL's $4,200,000,000.00 start page. (I've intentionally omitted the parts about "source code" and "JWZ," as they don't seem relevant to the point.)

Really: If this history shows us anything, it is that the web portal game is a joke. Tying it into software (and thus making it even less universal) just makes it even more laughable.

When was the last time you saw Comcast advertising "unlimited" Internet access? Seriously. Maybe as little as 5 years ago, but I'd guess that they stopped doing it longer ago than that. For example, I couldn't find the word on their webpage from 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207135808/comcast.com/Products/Internet_Details.html?LinkID=21 In fact, on my brief reading of the archived pages, I didn't see the word "unlimited" anywhere, going as far back as 1999.

Of course, they may have been using the word in TV and print ads. I don't have an archive for that.

Regardless, I haven't seen a broadband provider use that word in the US in a very long time, with the sole exception of cellular providers, who use 5GB and "unlimited" interchangeably when referring to their data plans.

Just bury a piece of paper saying:

http://www.archive.org/details/25yearoldstuff

Step 1: Read about crays
Step 2: Pay Billco £100,000
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit

It's immersion cooling. Pour liquid, add pump and radiator/bong, submit to slashdot.

We were doing this in the 90's!

Ok... trying again:

Interstate bank of LA three hours fire, five floors:

One Meridien Plaza, scorched for 18 hours.

That 56-story steel framed building in Venezuela burned for over 16 hours.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a dialup news-delivery service called StarText from 1982 to 1997. The Internet and newspaper's web site eventually supplanted it. Until a couple of years ago startext.com still pointed to the newspaper's web site.

Here is a snapshot from 1996.

With the growing interest in Linux, I wonder if we'll see more parity of viruses between Windows and Linux.

This should sound familiar to most readers here. We've heard it before:

http://www.simson.net/clips/2000/2000.SecurityFocus.Linux_Viruses.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20000304004534/http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/3/ns-12862.html

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2120227/honeymoon-linux-users

And the same general theme has even been fitted for the MacOS crowd:

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/mac%C2%AD-security/57811.html

It's not that the concept is all that unlikely. Oddly enough, WinNT set a historical precedence for adoption and exploitation. Yet Linux / Unix has yet to pan out the same way.

What we've got to keep in mind is that Linux (and Unix variants) have been in this arena for some time. They have had exposure and faced scrutiny. In fact, the hay-day so far for Unix and Linux malware was probably around 2002 - 2004.

Whether that is the last chapter for Linux malware is yet to be seen. I would expect it isn't. Linux users must remember that it is no silver bullet. But history has shown that it appears to be fairly resilient.

That's so 1996. 3DTV and Stereographics were doing 2D - 3D conversion of video over 10 years ago. There just wasn't a demand for it in the US. http://web.archive.org/web/19971012195849/www.3dmagic.com/catalog/catalog.html

No Mac/Apple user ever says that. The only idiots that ever say that are the trolls.

What the fuck are you talking about? Have a look at the number one reason from Apple's get a mac advertising campaign from 2006.

Complete self delusion - the RDF is strong in this fanboi.

Not according to this:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981205114447/www.interix.com/22flyer.htm (product page before MS bought them out)

They did promise they were working on being UNIX(tm) certified though.

Arab World world had absolutely nothing to do with Renaissance.

Renaissance was started by citizens of Europe and it was the "rediscovery and rebirth" (= renaissance) of Ancient Greece, its culture, and values. I hope you know Greece is in Europe.

Indeed, and much of that was lost with the fall of Rome. The Dark Ages were dark for science and education, as well-- the process of rediscovery of Greek classical knowledge was only possible because it had been preserved by the Arab world:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050820072406/http://www.medievalhistory.net/islamica.htm

The internet archive has a very old version with the first few MP3s he downloaded. Now be nice and don't kill this one O.K.? And whoever was blasting him with wget loops, can you please host your mirror and post a link here?

Victor Borge's inflation language is coming back inthree vogue and it's just as twoterful as it was befive! Now back three watching Olympic elevenis.

the all important archive.org. There is a section for audio files of old audio cylinders and 78 records. If you have any that are now in the public domain, please digitize and upload for the rest of us :-)

I believe that the we're the ones who're living on the inside of the earth. The outside of the earth doesn't really exist though; instead what regular science considers to be the centrepoint of the earth is actually the very edge of the universe. Although if I bother reading your link a similar proposal is discussed there (attributed to Martin Gardner), but my link's to the site of a guy titled the Wizard of New Zealand, so it's probably more reliable than Wikipedia.

Admittedly this is talking about a VERY old version, and Microsoft has removed the article from their knowledge base, but I thought it was damn funny when I found it:

Although the sample Web site and examples in this release use Microsoft Access, we recommend that Microsoft Access be used solely for development purposes and not for production.

archive.org copy

This is referring to Access 97, and yes, I did work at an ISP that used an Access 97 database to track all their customers. Shame I wasn't aware of this warning at the time.

The internet archive has his older blog posts archived here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/williampatry.blogspot.com/

I am really sorry to see the archives go. If he doesn't want to continue writing, the man has his reasons. But the archives were full of good material.

Fortunately the Wayback Machine is on the case :)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://williampatry.blogspot.com

Just read it here. Thanks, Wayback Machine!

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/08/03/1225222.shtml
It links to a page that no longer exists, but here is an archived version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071102062929/http://www.om3ga.co.uk/2006/07/27/scratched-cds-no-problem/

The whole site (NSFW) has also been stored at archive.org

The guy is just a high school class clown - but at least class clowns had the common sense not to go around messing wit other peoples personal lives. He thought that anonymity in a large city would protect him, but that has been proven wrong.

Not that we should necessarily _rely_ on it, but http://archive.org/ exists for such a purpose.

More to your point: Microsoft's "Core Fonts" were never Free Software. The license for those fonts always prevented making derivative works (very handy when your language and usage isn't taken into consideration) which kills its chance of being Free Software. There are other restrictions which prohibit them from being considered Free Software as well. Those fonts are merely distributable non-commercially and verbatim (including the cumbersome packaging in which they were initially made available). So, as you said, Microsoft quite literally released some fonts.

More to your point: Microsoft's "Core Fonts" were never Free Software. The license for those fonts always prevented making derivative works (very handy when your language and usage isn't taken into consideration) which kills its chance of being Free Software. There are other restrictions which prohibit them from being considered Free Software as well. Those fonts are merely distributable non-commercially and verbatim (including the cumbersome packaging in which they were initially made available). So, as you said, Microsoft quite literally released some fonts.

I don't know of such a thing, but I can address some of those concerns with regard to the Internet Archive—I do know that the Internet Archive will (by default) derive video and audio files for you. If you don't like anything it derives you can hide the file so it's unavailable for download. If you want to add to the collection of files under an entry, you can also do that.

I suggest uploading the highest-quality source material you can and letting IA derive and host lesser files. So upload 24-bit FLACs, WAV, or AIFF files and let IA make Ogg Vorbis and various MP3 files for you. Upload MPEG-2 broadcast-quality movies and let IA make Ogg Vorbis + Theora, Flash, and other movie files for you. Then always link to the "download" URLs (BBB DVD ISO in NTSC format, for instance). Never link to the redirected URL because IA may need to move things around and it will keep the download URLs up to date for you.

I'm doing these things with the Big Buck Bunny entry: as I get more BBB stuff, I add to the entry. Some of the files the system made were unnecessary and derived from files it doesn't understand (like making animations from ISO DVD images).

I seriously see no reason to host with YouTube when IA is so generous in its hosting. Most people won't care where the movie comes from, only that it can be viewed easily. IA does that and far more desirable stuff for you gratis.

I don't know of such a thing, but I can address some of those concerns with regard to the Internet Archive—I do know that the Internet Archive will (by default) derive video and audio files for you. If you don't like anything it derives you can hide the file so it's unavailable for download. If you want to add to the collection of files under an entry, you can also do that.

I suggest uploading the highest-quality source material you can and letting IA derive and host lesser files. So upload 24-bit FLACs, WAV, or AIFF files and let IA make Ogg Vorbis and various MP3 files for you. Upload MPEG-2 broadcast-quality movies and let IA make Ogg Vorbis + Theora, Flash, and other movie files for you. Then always link to the "download" URLs (BBB DVD ISO in NTSC format, for instance). Never link to the redirected URL because IA may need to move things around and it will keep the download URLs up to date for you.

I'm doing these things with the Big Buck Bunny entry: as I get more BBB stuff, I add to the entry. Some of the files the system made were unnecessary and derived from files it doesn't understand (like making animations from ISO DVD images).

I seriously see no reason to host with YouTube when IA is so generous in its hosting. Most people won't care where the movie comes from, only that it can be viewed easily. IA does that and far more desirable stuff for you gratis.

Host your video somewhere else, upload it in a high-quality format, and let the site make derivatives for you (including a Flash video and a player you can embed in your webpage if you insist on placating a proprietor). Some organizations do this daily and it works excellently. YouTube needs you more than you need YouTube.

Nope, those are here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000410002943/flybyfoy.com/Foybits.html

(That is, there was a studio, with an LEM and some rocks, but no, they didn't fake it)

It seems plausable as an Earth to LEO system to this guy. I haven't verified any of these figures, but it sounds very promising. A million kilos to LEO is nothing to sneeze at.

The problem is, the advertisers are making the ads more annoying. The people who don't hate ads now will start hating them when the advertisers make them jump around the screen playing bad music.

Really? I thought part of Googles success was the fact that the adwords it displays in search results are mostly unobtrusive, but usually relevant if you take the time to look at them.

Advertisements have become more annoying over my lifetime, but the problem with most forms of advertising is that you can't measure annoyance, you can only measure sales -- and these aren't always mutually exclusive factors to the individual.

Compare Google and Yahoo! - the latter was dominant at that time (April 1999), but the lack of clutter/animated gifs helped (along with relevant data) popularise the newcomer.

That's the beauty of adblockers and online advertising - you can now link annoyance to sales - and market forces seem to be pushing away from annoying your customer.

The problem is, the advertisers are making the ads more annoying. The people who don't hate ads now will start hating them when the advertisers make them jump around the screen playing bad music.

Really? I thought part of Googles success was the fact that the adwords it displays in search results are mostly unobtrusive, but usually relevant if you take the time to look at them.

Advertisements have become more annoying over my lifetime, but the problem with most forms of advertising is that you can't measure annoyance, you can only measure sales -- and these aren't always mutually exclusive factors to the individual.

Compare Google and Yahoo! - the latter was dominant at that time (April 1999), but the lack of clutter/animated gifs helped (along with relevant data) popularise the newcomer.

That's the beauty of adblockers and online advertising - you can now link annoyance to sales - and market forces seem to be pushing away from annoying your customer.

This is the internet archive page for an affiliated company where I used to work:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000229181538/ivebeengood.com/Dispatch.jsp?.NewState=FrontPage_new&.CurrentState=Home

The whole business model of ivebeengood.com was managing online wishlists (and they did it in a DB).

Newegg had this in early December 2001, before the date.

"The only way to support all of the new DNS protocol enhancements was to totally rewrite BIND.

BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture.

I also can't help but wonder what kind of experience the folks who I see hit our site with WebTV and the PSP browser are having...
There is a webtv viewer that you can run on a PC to find out how painfull your site is to use on webtv.

Unfortunately it no longer seems to be availible from MS but http://web.archive.org/web/20050406064513/developer.msntv.com/tools/viewer/ seems to have a copy (though sometimes copies of files on archive.org are incomplete but at the very least you can get a filename to google from there)

What if they copied the source code?

Somebody else already posted these, but I'll repeat anyway... check the view-source and see if you notice the similarity.

http://web.archive.org/web/20051127084214/http://www.facebook.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060101110221/http://www.studivz.de/

What if they copied the source code?

Somebody else already posted these, but I'll repeat anyway... check the view-source and see if you notice the similarity.

http://web.archive.org/web/20051127084214/http://www.facebook.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060101110221/http://www.studivz.de/

Try these:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051127084214/http://www.facebook.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060101110221/http://www.studivz.de/

Try these:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051127084214/http://www.facebook.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060101110221/http://www.studivz.de/