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It's not really surprising. Before he was a tech reporter, he received a solid background in tech issues as, erm, a ballet dancer.

Two things: I accidentally misspelled Seymour Hersh's name. And today's Democracy Now! coverage should be online soon in a variety of formats (high-quality audio, lesser-quality audio, other audio formats, video). All this week DN! promises more coverage from the Winter Soldier II hearings.

Two things: I accidentally misspelled Seymour Hersh's name. And today's Democracy Now! coverage should be online soon in a variety of formats (high-quality audio, lesser-quality audio, other audio formats, video). All this week DN! promises more coverage from the Winter Soldier II hearings.

Two things: I accidentally misspelled Seymour Hersh's name. And today's Democracy Now! coverage should be online soon in a variety of formats (high-quality audio, lesser-quality audio, other audio formats, video). All this week DN! promises more coverage from the Winter Soldier II hearings.

Two things: I accidentally misspelled Seymour Hersh's name. And today's Democracy Now! coverage should be online soon in a variety of formats (high-quality audio, lesser-quality audio, other audio formats, video). All this week DN! promises more coverage from the Winter Soldier II hearings.

The Winter Soldier II hearings ended yesterday. These hearings showcase soldiers telling their stories in their own words. They're riveting listening. The Mainstream media (MSM) wasn't present for them.

The MSM got the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq wrong and have yet to apologize. Reading their coverage it's a wonder anyone can understand how irrational it is to not hold war crime trials. The only Winter Soldier II coverage came from alternative news which uses the Internet extensively: Indymedia and Democracy Now!. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reports that the MSM simply wasn't there. The Washington Post ran something small in their local section because the Winter Soldier hearings happened to occur near their offices. On today's DN! Seymour Hirsch briefly talked about how shameful the MSM war coverage was. He touched on both the run-up lies and Winter Soldier II non-coverage (they'll probably have their coverage, including Hirsch's rebuttal, online later today; check out The Internet Archive for copies of DN! as well).

GoDaddy's CEO is pro-torture and pro-GITMO justice.

GoDaddy -- the violent, neoconservative registrar!

Just because the creator was a former Microsoft employee doesn't mean that everything Internet still wasn't centered around Unix.

Check out this download page from 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961220181218/http://www.realaudio.com/products/player/download.html

You'll note that everything from IRIX to OS/2 is listed as a supported platform. Which was true when RealAudio was first released in April/June 1995. (Several months BEFORE Windows 95 was released WITHOUT a web browser.) Real was attempting to target every platform that Netscape supported. Which meant heavy, heavy Unix support. Especially since Microsoft was majorly dropping the ball on the Internet at the time. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't leave Microsoft because they weren't paying enough attention to the Internet. More than one Microsoft bigwig has left for those types of reasons. :)

Back in 2000 I realized that 50 Million transistors of 4004 the first processor ever created, would out perform a P4 with the same transistor count done in the same fab running at the same clock rates. it would be over 10x faster I work out. But how to use such a device?
I had been working with a 100 PC cluster of P4 based systems to do H.264 HDTV compression in realtime. I spread the compression function across the cluster using each system to work on a small part of the problem and flow the data across the CPU's.

Based on this I wanted to build an array of processors on one chip, but I am not a silicon person, just software, driver and some basic electronics. So I looked at various FPGA cores, Arm, MIPS, etc. Then I went to a talk giving by Chuck Moore, author of the language FORTH. He had been building his own CPU's for many years using his own custom tools.

I worked with Chuck Moore for about a year in 2001/2002 on creating a massive multi core processor based on Chucks stack processor.

The Idea was instead of having 1,2 or 4 large processor to have 49 (7 * 7) small light but fast processors in one chip. This would be for tacking a different set of problems then your classic cpus'. It wouldn't be for running and OS or word processing, but for Multimedia, and cryptography, and other mathematic problems.

The idea was to flow data across the array of processors.
Each processor would run at 6Ghz, with 64K word of Ram each.
21 Bit wide words and bus (based off of F21 processor)
this allows for 4x 5bit instructions on a stack processor that only has 32 instructions.
Since it's a stack processor they run more efficiently. So in 16K transistors, 4000 gates,
the F21 at 500 Mhz performed about the same as a 500Mhz 486 with JPEG compress and decompress.
With the parallel core design instead of a common bus or network between the processors there would only be 4 connections into and out of each processor. These would be 4 registers that are shared with it's 4 neighboring processors that are laid out in a grid. So each chip would have a north, south, east and west register.

Data would be processed in whats called a systolic array, where each core would pick up some data, perform operations on it and pass it along to the next core.

The chips with a 7x7 grid of processors would expose the 28(4x7) bus lines off the edge processors, so that these could be tiled into a much larger grid of processors.

Each chip could perform around 117 Billion instructions per second at 1 Watt of power.

Unfortunately I was unable to raise money, partly because I couldn't' get any commitment from Chuck.

below is some links and other misc information on this project. Sorry it's not better organized.
This was my project.

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http://www.enumera.com/chip/
http://www.enumera.com/doc/Enumeradraft061003.htm
http://www.enumera.com/doc/analysis_of_Music_Copyright.html
http://www.enumera.com/doc/emtalk.ppt

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This was Jeff foxes independent web site, he work on the F21 with Chuck.

http://www.ultratechnology.com/ml0.htm

http://www.ultratechnology.com/f21.html#f21
http://www.ultratechnology.com/store.htm#stamp

http://www.ultratechnology.com/cowboys.html#cm

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http://www.colorforth.com/ 25x Multicomputer Chip

Chucks site. 25x has been pulled down, but it's accessible on archive.org.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.colorfo

Check out http://www.archive.org/ 's live music archive.

*THAT'S* how you do it.

Anyway, anyone who wants their Beatles collection on their iPod has already ripped it, and/or grabbed it from a discography .torrent floating around.

Still have the receipt from compgeeks.com for my Genica "MPTrip" MP3 CD Player purchased May of 2000. The first of its kind, it could hold a whopping 650MB of MP3s vs. the dinky 64MB the flash players did.... for only $99! http://web.archive.org/web/20000511030931/http://www.genica.com/MP3-CD.htm

It really was a POS though, every track on regular CDs buffered 3 seconds no matter what, including gapless CDs. It claimed to have read CD-RWs, but they later retracted that. My player did indeed play them until one day they stopped reading and started spinning the CDs BACKWARDS!

Jason Scott (of BBS: The Dcoumentary fame) gave an interesting speech about the failings of Wikipedia, including the inclusionist versus deletionist debate.

Looks like the game has been removed. It's no longer on their games menu either.

Sadly, the wayback machine doesn't have a copy and while you can see the old games menu in google's cache, google didn't cache the actual game (which was at http://en.beijing2008.cn/upload/e-games/fuwa_02_e.swf)

I remember several Obejctive-C vs. Java comparisons from several years ago, but I can find only one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040805153930/http://homepage.mac.com/spullara/rants/C1464297901/E775622191/index.html - In this benchmark Objective-C is 6.4 times slower than Java. And it's nothing unexpected - try to walk an Objective-C method call in a debugger in assembly language view someday...

I wrote several applications for Mac OS X and I don't really like Objective-C. It doesn't have a built-in garbage collector (it's possible to use conservative GC, but it's light years behind GC in Sun JVM), Objective-C is SLOW when you try to use it not only for UI, it doesn't have namespaces, and I also don't like its syntax (though it's a personal preference).

Speed Objective-C is quite OK when you need to write event handlers which are called maybe several times per second. But it's not enough for anything more serious.

Site now is offline.
Check out way back: http://web.archive.org/web/20070328175245/http://www.mildenhall.com/

Then see for yourself:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070328175245/http://www.mildenhall.com/

A lot of good music is lost like that, because it's not "polished" for the labels or it is only played in bars, clubs, etc.

And a lot of it is archived for posterity.

They do both, scroll down the wiki page a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinae_supremacy#Webography

http://www.archive.org/details/mtk144 has one release, the others seem to be there too.

In 2004, the United States reported. . . 16,137 Murders 854,911 cases of Aggravated Assault. 94,635 cases of Forcible Rape

Yes, but you haven't established that any of these are part of a systemic cultural problem. These incidents are not ethnically or culturally related, but are largely the social equivalent of gaussian white noise. Not so in Pakistan, where a pervasive culture of hatred, propaganda (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4167260.stm http://web.archive.org/web/20031114223934/http://www.mlists.net/sindh-intl/mail/mail_abuseofhistory.htm http://www.sdpi.org/whats_new/reporton/State%20of%20Curr&TextBooks.pdf) and violence causes massive deaths, specifically targeting minorities and "dissidents".

Why does only ethnic or religious violence count

Because they are part of a systemic problem in backward cultures. Normal everyday crimes are just that, normal. I know it sounds harsh, but you have to look at the big picture here. Despite all the robberies, violent crimes, rapes etc going on in the US, there is a reason why millions of immigrants from third world countries are desperately clamoring to get into the US for a better life. Because their situation in their home countries is much much worse.

The U.S. actions in Vietnam alone was responsible for between one two million deaths of non-Americans

The alternative to which was this (http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/). Plus, I'm sure that the 2 million or so of Hoa Hao Buddhists and tribal minorities in Vietnam who were massacred by Communist thugs wouldn't complain so much about US presence there.

It should also be mentioned that several of these wars were used to create the infamous banana republics

There is some truth to this. However, that was because US foreign policy was controlled by fascist paleoconservatives like Nixon who wanted third world countries to be rules by America Friendly dictators like Muhammad Zia-ul Haq etc. This is different from the more complex foreign policies of modern day neoconservatives who base their actions on the desire to foster self-determination and democracy. The only criticism here is that they tend to goof up every now and then (like in Iraq), but still, the basic model is sound, and should be applied to Pakistan.

Do you really not understand this? Do you really think I am spending all this energy because I am seeking to somehow diminish Pakistan's tragedies?

No. I think that, consciously or not, you are trying to foster liberal (in the American sense) self-hatred and guilt to try to deflect attention from the real problems through inapposite analogies.

The U.S. hasn't experienced any genocides on American soil since the various original wars against the indigenous population

A whole other (and largely exaggerated) can of worms. Let's not go there.

Why not? Well. . , for starters, take a look at the examples you're offering; they're incompatible with the subject proposal. --Hitler was the one trying to reshape populations at sword point. The reaction of the rest of the world was of an altogether different nature. And the U.S. was not deliberately attempting to re-shape Japan in its own image when responding to Nipponese war-time aggression. Japanese cultural change after WWII would not have come about unless there had been a corresponding desire within the population. It was not forced upon them. And with respect to Taiwan, there is again a big difference between diplomatic ties formed between two willing nations, and troops-on-the-ground enforcement of cultural changes within a resentful population. Do you see? As alwa

I too made a copy of the Alexander Mayer PDFs. I'm also very curious as to how that turned out. It sure did sound good, and had the nerve to make testable predictions.

I found this http://www.debunkers.org/ubb/Forum21/HTML/000228.html where someone named Kent Budge takes a shot at it, but doesn't really deflate it. So far as I could tell the Mayer presentations didn't claim that time goes backwards, so Budge's efforts sound like missing the point. The thread died very early, with zero mention of testing the predictions of the paper, so that's a dead end.

Threads here http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-110528.html and here http://www.bautforum.com/against-mainstream/37859-truth-hoax.html went on for quite some time and hammered around on it quite a bit. Both appear to have gotten hung up in Einstein-style thought experiments, with a smattering of people attempting to brand it a hoax. I notice one of those claiming hoax is now banned from the bautforum.com forum. Two physicists chimed in, one stating he was approached by Mayer in person at the AAAP in 2006 and Mayer appears to believe what he says, and one who identified himself as the experimenter who gathered some of the data Mayer references in his papers. Neither expressed an opinion on the papers. Other contributors to those threads seem to have gotten some teeth into the papers, poking holes in the thought experiment. It was esoteric enough that I'm not even sure the adversarial comments got it right. I sincerely wish that physicists would spend less time indulging in oxymoronic "thought experiments" and more time working to explain experimental data, especially when there's apparently relevant experimental data to be had in this case. An independent assessment of the alleged anomalous data and how well Mayer's theory explains it would have been nice. Wishful thinking, I suppose.

Mayer posted a statement about the revocation of his visiting scholar status at Stanford which has since dropped off the net. The Wayback Machine managed to retain a copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20060322165859/http://www.afmayer.net/pages/StanfordStory.html The statement unfortunately indulges in some paranoid remarks about established interests being threatened by his work, which puts a serious dent in his credibility. The very short Wayback Machine archive coupled with the disappearance of afmayer.net leads me to believe somebody noticed what he was up to and got him back on his meds.

A pity...

It may take someone with the minor madness of Einstein to top Einstein, but it doesn't look like Mayer managed it.

Me neither. I still have my 'Boycott Adobe' mouse pad from boycottadobe.com's cafe press store back before boycottadobe.com became one of those obnoxious ad sites. Ah, those heady days of youthful protest. Adobe backed off quickly, no doubt thinking "Not unflattering mouse pads!", but the damage was done. Unfortunately, the boycottadobe.com web site/movement folded fairly quickly after that. Perhaps they weren't selling enough mouse pads and other boycott adobe related items.

Found it! - 0n the wayback machine: CleanSlateWhitepaperV2

Nonononononononono...

This was a geek site. Like, ten years ago, maybe eight, even.

Now it's a site for wannabes, soi disant k3wl kidz and Microsoft astroturfers.

(Yes, I am getting old. So are you. So what?)

Nonononononononono...

This was a geek site. Like, ten years ago, maybe eight, even.

Now it's a site for wannabes, soi disant k3wl kidz and Microsoft astroturfers.

(Yes, I am getting old. So are you. So what?)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021130135854/http://politicalhumor.com/HumorPics/NoTalibanAnsMach.mp3

Lies beget lies.

I engaged an unnamed "pro-family" organisation in an email discussion on their pornography statistics, that 12-17s were the largest consumers of Internet pornography. When pressed for the source, they cited "Internet Filter Review".

The cached version of this page http://web.archive.org/web/20070103225905/http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html cites: Largest consumer of Internet pornography - 12-17 age group.

Whereas the current version http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html has the more plausible: Largest consumer of Internet pornography - 35-49 age group.

A quick google confirms that there are still 260-odd references to the frankly ludicrous claim that a child can outpr0n an adult, although to be fair to the organisation I corresponded with, they did change their web site to reflect the update. When I did some digging into the sources for the stats overall, they included the 1986 Meese Commission Report (in and of itself considered unreliable), and Top Ten Reviews themselves (who do clearly have an interest in over-stating the scale of the problem) disclaim everything with:

"Statistics are compiled from the credible sources mentioned. In reality, statistics are hard to ascertain and may be estimated by local and regional worldwide sources."

hulkawire frags webmasters
        Went out Friday night, and when we got back, windoze didn't know the PC had a modem.
        "What did you do to my computer?!?!" Heh heh, the modem's in Becky's PC. I felt sorry for the kids. "Leila was on it after I was!" Leila was asleep.
        Of course, I have to fix it. Damned plug n pray, windoze would only install the stupid modem into a port it was already using.
        It was pretty late before I could get windoze to understand that it was supposed to see not only a modem but another port. Which is why there was no nooze yesterday.
        So when I did get online, I found I had not only lots of mail, but more than I expected.
        Hulkawire is online! I may never have to surf for nooze again!
        If you have a gaming news page, you owe it to yourself to go there. Here are a few tidbits of FPSers:
        Gibworld is reviewing Earth worm Jim. Here's a quote- "...some sound effects are played FAR too much! The waiter aliens, for example, squeak as they walk, and in a small gang of them can sound like somebody sexually molesting a dog's chewy toy."
        If you're a UO2 fan, The Nethergate opened its "doors" as the newest Ultima Online 2 fan site.
        PC Paradox has another editorial. The article is a little rant about the age old topic of UT vs. Q3. Sure it's been beaten to death, but so what? Get out your whips and flog the dirt where the decomposed horse used to be, and may the best FPS win!
        The Frag Pipe has just added an additional 9 Team Fortress 2 Screen Shots, having a total of 67 Screen Shots. They also have a calendar by Marc Lange available for download. 1/30/2000

They used to have the (now defunct) site zeropollution.com. I was psyched by them then, but am still waiting for their ideas to materialize.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000601224638/zeropollution.com/zeropollution/index.html

(4) Plug-in memory expansions so you can learn useful skills, equations, etc. without sitting through boring lectures and tests.

(9) Perpetual youth.

(10) Ballpoint pen that doesn't run out of ink just when you need it most.

(11) Formulas that make you grow bigger or smaller, just like Alice in Wonderland.

I think you would be interested in this....

Free Audiobooks:

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
read by Cory Doctorow

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
read by Mark Forman, as part of his weekly podcast

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Unsupported, eh? You're an idiot. These are very, very well-known.

If you don't believe it, do some research. A quick google search reveals these links to be informative:
http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Other-Essays-Freethought-Library/dp/0879758333
http://web.archive.org/web/20000520040242/http://www.wels.net/sab/text/qa/qa15.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20021019195356/http://www.worldmissions.org/Clipper/Holidays/EasterAndAsherah.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr1.htm

Unsupported, eh? You're an idiot. These are very, very well-known.

If you don't believe it, do some research. A quick google search reveals these links to be informative:
http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Other-Essays-Freethought-Library/dp/0879758333
http://web.archive.org/web/20000520040242/http://www.wels.net/sab/text/qa/qa15.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20021019195356/http://www.worldmissions.org/Clipper/Holidays/EasterAndAsherah.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr1.htm

The Terrorist Surveillance Program has not existed for over a year, since 17 January 2007. All foreign intelligence collection in the meantime has occurred under the guise of FISA and the temporary and recently-sunset FISA modifications provided by the Protect America Act. With the expiry of the Protect America Act, ALL foreign SIGINT collection reverts to the 30-year old FISA rules.

If someone could point out the warrantless surveillance program that is known to exist today, I'd appreciate it. And yes, the burden of proof is on you, as simply asserting that one must exist doesn't quite cut it. Remember how TSP came to light: leaks to the New York Times. The government simply cannot keep such controversial programs secret. There is no evidence of any current, ongoing "warrantless" surveillance.

The other important thing to remember is that foreign intelligence collection never requires a warrant or court oversight of any kind; the FISA modifications were designed to enable easy foreign intelligence collection via assets on US soil or traffic that may travel physically through the United States. It does not matter in the least if the other end of the conversation is a US person on US soil, as long as they are not the target of such collection.

Such collection is always legal and allowable without a warrant if the collection occurs outside of the United States and the US person is not the target of such surveillance. Special and very extensive measures are undertaken to conceal the identity of US persons in such collection.

The main difference with what became known as TSP, and refined in the Protect America Act, was the provision to enable such collection via means to which we have easy and routine access; namely, the massive amounts of communication traffic flowing through equipment under US control. Whether or not you may agree with that is a different issue entirely. The purpose was never to target US citizens without a warrant. The purpose was to collect foreign intelligence via US assets. Currently (after PAA expiration), if traffic travels through the United States, even if BOTH ends are non-US persons physically outside of the United States, the Intelligence Community is prohibited from collection without a warrant. That's the "Intel Gap" we wanted to close.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070810175129rn_2/wikileaks.org/mirror/static/w/i/k/Wikileaks.html

I wonder if Man or Astro-man will come out of cryostasis to compose an ode to the new electron laser. Their song for the two-mile linear particle accelerator pretty much nailed it.

Absolutely right.

The focus on Facebook is really obscuring the main issue, which is that anything that you make public on the Internet remains public. Have people never heard of the Wayback Machine and other such services?

Many of them may well have removal policies, but are you really going to know about every web server that holds a cache containing information about you, and go through the trouble of contacting the administrator of each one to get it removed? Forget it. Once it is public it remains public.

I don't want to start another license war in fucking licenses, but well, if you are going to go that way, go with the grammatically-coherent DWTFYWWI license:

                              DWTFYWWI LICENSE
                          Version 1, January 2006

  Copyright (C) 2006 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

                                  Preamble

    The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the DWTFYWWI or Do
Whatever The Fuck You Want With It license is intended to guarantee
your freedom to share and change the software--to make sure the
software is free for all its users.

                              DWTFYWWI LICENSE
      TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. The author grants everyone permission to do whatever the fuck they
want with the software, whatever the fuck that may be.


You even get a statement of principles with this one!

Have you read the FAQ on archive.org's hardware setup? Their goal, just for a start, is "one system administrator per petabyte". That amount of storage is not trivial, and suggesting one copy per university is a little overzealous. The Archive has three petabytes online; that's thirty racks the way they do it.

"I'd love to see every university mirror the Internet Archive, Creative Commons and promote work from people in their community."

There you go. Push the alternatives.

Perhaps even block all legal music sites what have songs with restrictive licenses as you wouldn't want people to get their hands on the goods in the first place - too tempting to share them? Perhaps not.

But, if they hosted and promoted works with Free Licenses, they could even end up with a revenue source for the university and students and various campus groups.

Some down below on the archive now...

all the best,

drew
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22drew%20Roberts%22

The part about filtering P2P is disturbing but there's are plenty of good legal alternatives to RIAA crap. I'd love to see every university mirror the Internet Archive, Creative Commons and promote work from people in their community. Let's take that part of this stupid law and make something cool that will continue to bleed the RIAA out of existence.

Go to the wayback machine. The VERY first cached slashdot page (from 1998) there has this interesting article conviniently titled Linux Affecting MS Sales? " ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980113193017/slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=419 [archive.org] ): From the article: "Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?". Really, it's not funny anymore.

... Well, I don't have the creativity to write something this nice, and certainly I don't have the right to spoil it. Check out one of the most enjoyable short stories written by Aasimov

Journalists: Beware! San Jose Mercury technology reporter Dan Gilmore recently discovered he's been assigned a special "owner" at one of Microsoft's public relations firms, Waggener-Edstrom. These spin-masters are attached to troublesome journalists like Gilmore who have the temerity to write uncomplimentary articles about the company or its products. The really irksome reporters, according to documents spirited from the Waggener-Edstrom offices, are also assigned "buddies" at Microsoft itself. John Dodge, the editor of PC Week, has a special buddy at Microsoft, and Mary Jo Foley at Smart Reseller, is the subject of a "Mary Jo six month plan."

HEY, BUDDY: I learned today that I have an owner at Microsoft Corp.'s primary public-relations agency. The Mercury News received a copy of a document created by someone at the Waggener-Edstrom firm, in which various media reports (at least the ones perceived as having anything negative to say) about Microsoft are analyzed, with recommendations on how to deal with the journalist in question. Mary Jo Foley, of the trade journal Smart Reseller, may be intrigued to learn that she's the subject of a ``Mary Jo six month plan.'' The document provides more evidence, if anyone needed it, that Microsoft spares no expense in marketing. Every problem article has an ``owner'' at the PR agency; the owner works with the reporter either to correct errors or put a more positive spin on the situation. Some reporters also have a ``buddy'' at Microsoft; for example, PC Week's John Dodge has an unnamed buddy who is supposed to ``send mail ---- `John, that's random' '' in response to a Dodge column. My own recent piece, in which I described a messy and unsuccessful attempt to install Windows 98, caught Microsoft's attention. My Waggener-Edstrom owner is working with Microsoft ``to send letter inquiring about Dan's problems and emphasizing MS commitment to quality products.'' It appears, however, that I don't have a buddy at Microsoft. I am devastated.

Well, since you asked, yes, you would probably be guilty here in my country, Norway.

In that case, when do we see Google banned (specifically, Google cache)? And the Wayback Machine while we're at it?

I'm not saying it to pick a fight, but it stands to reason that Google's cache and archive.org can be modified easily enough by anyone with the right know-how (basically, you just modify the site that either one is caching). Will the IFPI demand their removal next?

The whole Child Porn thing is IMHO a red herring. Child Pornography is direct evidence of a criminal act (namely, the sexual abuse of a minor), and blocking such things is done in deference to the victims, not because it's liable to bring civil charges. TPB, even if all it ever did was IP violation, contains zero evidence of any crime (IP and copyright violations are civil acts, not criminal ones - it only becomes criminal when you try to sell the copies).

In this case, we're talking about a court bending over backwards to satisfy the civil demands of a cartel, and in the process do two things:

1) create bad precedents, and

2) perform collateral blockage (I think the legal term is "estoppel"?) against legitimate distributors who use/rely on that particular torrent tracker.

/P

I used to use Postnuke for one of my sites. I designed my own theme for it, and it was pretty nice - you can see a PARTIALLY saved version of it here. I figured out how to make it by looking at the code for existing themes, which was not too dissimilar to standard HTML, and hacked around with it. In version .750 they switched to a new theme system called Xandria, breaking my old theme. I never managed to convert it to Xandria, because I find the Xandria language to be incomprehensible. The documentation, what little of it there was, was equally incomprehensible, and there were no (working) conversion tools.

So I simply stopped using Postnuke.

Interesting. Check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://computer.com

This seems to be a pattern: big tech company sees domain spammers own computer.com, so they buy it to link to their website (TigerDirect for most of 2007, TechDepot a while before that, etc.). They run it for a year, but they get nowhere near enough revenue from the link to justify renewing it, and domain spammers get it again, repeating the process.