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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.

For most all of my 'internet life'...starting back about '93-'94 or so, I pretty much always used pseudonyms, and rarely if ever gave out personal information.

I think most people back then did pretty much the same. It just seems common sense doesn't it? When did people start really acting stupid AND not only documenting it and publishing it for eternity? Do people not have the common sense to know that actions can follow you over time?

This started to change when people started putting personal servers on the 'net, and completely died when AOL (where you get to pick your own email name) joined Usenet in 1994. After that, your online name was pretty much anything you wanted it to be.

Since the Vrije Universiteit Comp-Sci webserver has buckled under the firepower of the fully armed and operational Slashdot Effect, those who want to RTFA can go to Archive.org's Wayback Machine ...

'cause TFA was written in May 2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os/

Why don't you write a song or book or create a painting, and I'll copy it. Lets see how quick you change your tune. Dah, How 'bout this: http://www.archive.org/details/What_To_Do_In_A_Zombie_Attack Please, download the High Quality MPEG-2 video. Sure, I have a DVD on sale on amazon.com, with extra features and crap, but i don't mind. Why? Because i am not trying to make back 200 Million Dollars on what I spent on it.

"Misspelling and synonyms

A good webserver should catch misspellings or synonyms - taking you to the appropriate content or offering a list of near matches (instead of a common 404). Above I used /employment (of a bad URL) but one should catch requests for /employment. Similarly, I don't know of any site's URL structure that isn't annoyingly brittle... where a /job/hamilton will work but /jobs/hamilton will not.

Providing this feature doesn't mean manually considering all possible synonyms. There are dictionaries and thesaurus's available (mod_thesaurus?) so - upon a 404 - the server could return a list of near spellings and near meanings." - Designing URLs

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

I interviewed Sterling about this very topic in his home. His video is here. If you like hi-res, you might want to consider downloading it, rather than streaming it. This is raw video (raw meaning un-retouched, not raw .dv), for the world to rip, mix, and burn, as long as you comply with our Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license. The first segment is here

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_001.ogg

Slashdot doesn't let me link all of the video, so I'll just tell you that the second segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_002.ogg
And the third segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_003.ogg

You get the pattern.

The last segment for that tape is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv259_02_sterling_ball_006.ogg

And the last segment in the whole interview is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv260_03_sterling_ball_001.ogg

This is the link to search for Sterling Ball's interviews:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Adigitaltippingpoint%20AND%20subject%3A%22Sterling%20Ball%22

I think that it is really funny that this story still has legs. Microsoft and the BSA really shot themselves in the foot with this tactic. Sterling says that, as of 2005, he had saved $200,000.00 easily for his business by switching to Free Open Source Software.

Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

Was on it. From what I can tell, that page has hardly been touched in the many years since it was posted.

Several years ago I worked at a german university where recognizing of human faces was researched. We also did 3D reconstruction of faces, which was useful for training some algorithms. Although the technique is very different, 3D reconstruction from 2D images is not that new. Some examples can still be seen here: link

Come on people, I'm sure this does not come as a surprise to those of us with some Internet history. Exploits like this date way back to my early days of waiting on the 5 second updates that webcams once needed (late 90's).

To stir some brain memory cells around I'm going to have to post a couple of links here.

Seems the WayBackMachine is missing a whole lot of data on this site and without checking every link to see if I could get a peek at the oldest version of the site I found one version and stopped looking.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031124201643/spotlife.com/home.jhtml;?_requestid=140484

Doesn't anyone remember the exploit with Spotlife? Where you did pretty much the same thing - protected pictures were not really protected - you could thwart their security by breaking out of the frames and calling on the frame that had the cam picture directly and you'd get instant gratifica... access to any private show.

Needless to say... Many young girls found their "private shows" quickly shared on the still existing http://www.hush-hush.com./ Hush Hush hasn't even changed very much since then either and all the old Spotlife pictures can be found in the First-Flirt archives.

Ahhhh.... The Memories

Links.net was the first site with pages of link collections that I used regularly. It was actually the personal site of Justin Hall -- still is, I think -- who was also the first one I recall seeing chronicle events of his life on his site regularly. The earliest capture at the Wayback Machine is an example of what he used to post, but at this point the site was more blog and less link collection.

I suppose if you want to see what's hosted at that domain now you have to know what you're looking for.

DMB just gets shit cause he's commercial, which is kind of antithetical to the exploratory nature of jam, nothing personal. But as for the good stuff I'm sure you don't need me to mention the Grateful Dead and Phish. Others include the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and the Steve Kimock Band. There's a lot more where that came from too.

DMB just gets shit cause he's commercial, which is kind of antithetical to the exploratory nature of jam, nothing personal. But as for the good stuff I'm sure you don't need me to mention the Grateful Dead and Phish. Others include the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and the Steve Kimock Band. There's a lot more where that came from too.

DMB just gets shit cause he's commercial, which is kind of antithetical to the exploratory nature of jam, nothing personal. But as for the good stuff I'm sure you don't need me to mention the Grateful Dead and Phish. Others include the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and the Steve Kimock Band. There's a lot more where that came from too.

DMB just gets shit cause he's commercial, which is kind of antithetical to the exploratory nature of jam, nothing personal. But as for the good stuff I'm sure you don't need me to mention the Grateful Dead and Phish. Others include the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and the Steve Kimock Band. There's a lot more where that came from too.

DMB just gets shit cause he's commercial, which is kind of antithetical to the exploratory nature of jam, nothing personal. But as for the good stuff I'm sure you don't need me to mention the Grateful Dead and Phish. Others include the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and the Steve Kimock Band. There's a lot more where that came from too.

but it doesn't take a genius to realize that you can't make much of a business of shipping a $4 gallon of milk.

Yeah, but shipping 20-lb bags of dog food is going to catch on like crazy!

Ahhh.. the good old days, when Poop.com was a shop for fossilized dinosaur dung. Endangered feces, indeed.

I am sure someone at Slashdot will know how Opera got its name. I kind of guessed that some geek way back bought the domain name thinking it would be worth millions, then in the end used it for a company cause it was cool to have a generic domain.

I don't think so, as Opera started out at opera.nta.no and got the opera.com domain only later. The Wayback Machine says the domain was owned by someone else in 1998.

The same genius that in June of 2007 had http://web.archive.org/web/20070629093649rn_1/www.meat.com/badbrowser.htm as a home page for spiders. I'll get right on that upgrade to IE 4 there champ.

Well, I must say I never thought of making a /. article out of this one, but since about 1999 which is when I started working on my own computers for hobby, I would use stupid.com as a network test to see if I was online or not and not just loading a cached page (since I only go there when I am testing my network once in a blue moon...) One thing I have noticed about this site, it still feels like I'm in 1999 when I load it...

just as entertaining today as they were in the old days.

And while we're on the subject, has anyone else noticed how terrible tabbed browsing is in Firefox? You can't even detach the tabs.

Adobe holds a patent on the idea. They even used to brag about it.

It would be great if you could get Adobe to give the Mozilla Foundation a license.

If it's a hoax, it's a half-decade old one. Be sure to check out the demo video if you can find it, and bear in mind that a 1.61GB Memory Stick was a big deal once upon a time.

The Atom Chip website has changed a lot since I first saw it, the only constant seeming to be the slogan about nanomicrons (femtometres?). "Back in the day", their website's images were mostly HTML-resized giganto-pics, but if you trudged through it, you found an absolute gem. They've taken it down for obvious reasons, but the Internet Archive still has the classic, the unforgettable, Solar Memory demo video.

At least it's better than their old site.

Obviously you've never watched Bugs Bunny cartoons. When you run out of gas you either come to a complete stop, or you simply use the air brakes.

Dan East

Such an obviously bad point.

RIAA music isn't worth the money (maybe make it a dime and I'll buy it) nor is it worth the effort to torrent. I'll rip my MP3s from indie CDs, and if I want any RIAA MP3s I'll sample them off the damned radio, way less hassle than either legal or illicit internet downloads.

And the formats aren't good enough. I buy lossless music on CD, vinyl, and cassette. And download lossless indie files from archive.org. Here are some files from some old friends of mine in SHN. FOLAC, MP3 and Ogg format)

-mcgrew

(The linked diary is an account of the night I met Dave & company: "Holly walks up and starts chatting! Cool. She could be a movie star. The word 'Hollywood' takes on a whole new meaning.")

All this talk of meat is making me thirsty

> and if you wipe all traces of your CC licensing from the internet then they can't prove it, and you win.
there's always the wayback machine http://www.archive.org/index.php it's hard to remove something from the internet once its there ( something I found out recently when trying to remove some accounts from various social web sites - they don't like to remove accounts I found - upsets there stats - 16 trillion users and climbing )

I don't know what "generic software" is but there's nothing stopping you from paying developers to hack on free software to meet your needs now. What requires "draconian" enforcement isn't just about payment for software licenses, it's about keeping users from doing things neighbors and friends do with each other—sharing. There's no draconian enforcement of free software licenses. Just 2 years ago at the Plone Conference, Eben Moglen, lawyer and longtime GPL enforcer, said much of his GPL enforcement work was done quietly and that Stallman given him a directive of pursuing compliance, "I have a rule. You must never let a request for damages interfere with a settlement for compliance." (movie in various formats, transcript).

I don't see free software copyright compliance threatening rape (as Stallman says the lobbyists for proprietary software development firms has done in countries outside the US), putting language in free licenses to try and get physical access to your computer to do license enforcement (which is how the BFA justifies raids on their client's customers), or stopping commercial redistribution of the software. Proprietary software developers and their agents do these things.

By defining a user's freedom in terms of "programmer interest" ("mainstream" essentially means what this privileged class says it means) you're placing one set of people's priorities above another. The free software movement rejects this because it is interested in equality amongst all computer users—we should all have the freedom to run, inspect, share, and modify software and our computers at any time for any reason we deem necessary. Note that they discuss freedom (permission), not skill. What you're willing to spend time learning is a restriction you place upon yourself, a restriction of skill, not freedom, and that ability is no justification for another user's freedom.

I also don't know what you mean when you say that Stallman "wants copyright to be optimal". Two years ago at the FSF member meeting (which anyone can attend, by the way, one need not be an FSF member) I asked Stallman to describe how he would organize copyright and he gave an explanation consistent with what he had said before about granting a blanket non-commercial verbatim copying and distribution permission and then an increasing set of restrictions depending on the type of work (functional works being one such type). The reason everyone should be free to share and modify functional works comes right from his perspective on free software.

Release early, release often.

It's a project to *build* a search engine, not a search engine. We've been telling everyone that constantly. I'm sorry Michael's disappointed, but having said that, we didn't build it for him, but for people who think that openness, transparency, and participation are more important than slick releases.

When I launched Wikipedia, I wrote at the top of the first page "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". On that day, anyone reviewing it would have laughed. What's this? There's nothing here! This is not an encyclopedia, it is an empty website with some funny editing syntax!

So the comparison to Google on day one is just mistaken. Google didn't launch a project to build a human-powered search engine, they launched an algorithmic search engine with a clever new idea. So they didn't have to wait for the humans to come in and start building it.

We aren't even running with a real index yet, just a placeholder index. Yeah, the search sucks today. But that's not the point. The point is that we are building something different.

"We quadrupled the TSA, you know, and hired more people who look more suspicious to me than most Americans who are getting checked," he says. "Most of them are, well, you know, they just don't look very American to me. If I'd have been looking, they look suspicious ... I mean, a lot of them can't even speak English, hardly. Not that I'm accusing them of anything, but it's sort of ironic."

On-line communities are powerful places to be. Just look at Markos Moulitsas (video warning), the founder of the Daily Kos political blog. What started out as a rant against conservative thinking back in 2002 has now become THE place for Democrats to hang out. Jimmy Carter, Teddy Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Nancy Pelosi, and lots of other Democratic leaders have now posted comments on that website, which runs on all Free Open Source Software tools, according to the above-linked interview with Markos.

So if you want to be a participant in the power of on-line communities, maybe you are going to have to give up a wee bit of privacy, depending on the community. But look what you get in return: influence and fun. By contrast, those who do not want to participate risk losing relevance, which is one example of the tragedy of the anti-commons. If you are not willing to share something, then just stay off line. Most communities will require you to give *something* to participate: your thinking, some personal information, *something*. Same thing for communities in the physical world. You have to join a group and shake a few hands to participate in the group.

Funny how everyone you talk to has a different "The Matrix was based on ..." story.

No, the comparison is not really apt, as the PortalPlayer system includes a firmware with those codecs built in. Please refer to the PP5022 Product Briefing for details. I'm not really claiming one way or another on the suit's merits, as I am not a lawyer, but OP seemed to be having some difficulty accessing the article.

No, that's not why TV news is soundbites. When you reduce the amount of time in which someone is allowed to make their point, you reduce what they can say. When one has little time to speak, one can only make the same old points we've heard a dozen times before. Reframing the issue to talk about new ways of thinking takes time. Explaining more significant points that help the audience understand larger patterns takes time. The corporations that own so many TV channels all benefit from keeping tight control over the ends of allowable debate. For instance, when there's war analysis the corporate news will invite a military official (current or former) and someone else who is pro-war, so at best the debate is sure to never bring up any of the lies that were repeated by the corporate media. Instead, as so many news clips show, you get a weapons hardware show (complete with 3-D graphics of tanks, missiles, etc.). Very rarely will someone with an anti-war perspective get on-air, according to FAIR in a study of news shortly after the US invaded Iraq:

Nearly two thirds of all sources, 64 percent, were pro-war, while 71 percent of U.S. guests favored the war. Anti-war voices were 10 percent of all sources, but just 6 percent of non-Iraqi sources and 3 percent of U.S. sources. Thus viewers were more than six times as likely to see a pro-war source as one who was anti-war; with U.S. guests alone, the ratio increases to 25 to 1.

When a network is owned by a military contractor (like NBC which is owned by contractor General Electric), it's all too clear who benefits from the status quo and why this is the way it is.

Democracy Now! is a daily TV news hour that gives people a chance to speak (audio and video archives on archive.org in a variety of formats, transcripts of a lot of their segments are on their website gratis). They cover important stories, not the fluff (celebrity goings-on, daily weather reports, sports, and traffic reports) and they cover many stories the corporate news won't touch or won't discuss from a perspective not favored by corporate lobbyists (independent and lesser-known candidates in big elections, "third rail" issues like the death penalty, Israel/Palestine conflict, Texaco/Chevron/Coca-Cola killings around the world, corporate media control, universal health care).

No, that's not why TV news is soundbites. When you reduce the amount of time in which someone is allowed to make their point, you reduce what they can say. When one has little time to speak, one can only make the same old points we've heard a dozen times before. Reframing the issue to talk about new ways of thinking takes time. Explaining more significant points that help the audience understand larger patterns takes time. The corporations that own so many TV channels all benefit from keeping tight control over the ends of allowable debate. For instance, when there's war analysis the corporate news will invite a military official (current or former) and someone else who is pro-war, so at best the debate is sure to never bring up any of the lies that were repeated by the corporate media. Instead, as so many news clips show, you get a weapons hardware show (complete with 3-D graphics of tanks, missiles, etc.). Very rarely will someone with an anti-war perspective get on-air, according to FAIR in a study of news shortly after the US invaded Iraq:

Nearly two thirds of all sources, 64 percent, were pro-war, while 71 percent of U.S. guests favored the war. Anti-war voices were 10 percent of all sources, but just 6 percent of non-Iraqi sources and 3 percent of U.S. sources. Thus viewers were more than six times as likely to see a pro-war source as one who was anti-war; with U.S. guests alone, the ratio increases to 25 to 1.

When a network is owned by a military contractor (like NBC which is owned by contractor General Electric), it's all too clear who benefits from the status quo and why this is the way it is.

Democracy Now! is a daily TV news hour that gives people a chance to speak (audio and video archives on archive.org in a variety of formats, transcripts of a lot of their segments are on their website gratis). They cover important stories, not the fluff (celebrity goings-on, daily weather reports, sports, and traffic reports) and they cover many stories the corporate news won't touch or won't discuss from a perspective not favored by corporate lobbyists (independent and lesser-known candidates in big elections, "third rail" issues like the death penalty, Israel/Palestine conflict, Texaco/Chevron/Coca-Cola killings around the world, corporate media control, universal health care).

Deja News circa 1998.

They're The Veal of the Sea!

If you still think you "need" the **IA, you're just not very resourceful -- or discriminating. Here's two I use all the time, there are of course others.

Music

Feature Films

If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail.