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http://web.archive.org/web/20070711035656/http://tv-links.co.uk/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftv-links.co.uk%2F&btnG=Google+Search

Apparently their site's been copied about 200 times... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cybertriallawyer.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19970418161616/http://www7.yahoo.com/

While I admire The Pirate Bay for taking advantage of Swedish law to freely host torrents, I wonder about the legality of this. How has Swedish law generally treated trademarks and domain names?

While I admire The Pirate Bay for taking advantage of Swedish law to freely host torrents, I wonder about the legality of this. How has Swedish law generally treated trademarks and domain names?

While I admire The Pirate Bay for taking advantage of Swedish law to freely host torrents, I wonder about the legality of this. How has Swedish law generally treated trademarks and domain names?

I think this would prove the point.

According to the Wayback Machine, back in January 28th, 2003 it was up for sale: "IFPI.com is for sale. Asking price = $2000. Serious offers only to domain@hiosilver.com". By March 30th the phonographers had picked it up. (Don't be fooled by the March 19th 2003 anachronism--it's loading current frames.) And then by February 2007, they'd let it expire and it was picked up.

March 2003: owned by domain@hiosilver.com! "Hi Ho Silver"? Them be pirates!

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ifpi.com/

Looks like it really was owned by the IFPI.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ifpi.com

"Who said that IFPI.com was ever owned by the IFPI?"
Archive.org says so.

"Who said that they still own it, provided they ever did?"
Nobody says that ifpi still owns it, least of all Slashdot or TFA. Piratebay owns it, legitimately. Looks like the IFPI let their domain name expire, it was taken over early this year by sharp-eyed music sharers, then donated to piratebay.

Who said that IFPI.com was ever owned by the IFPI?

archive.org does: http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.ifpi.com

Looks like the IFPI site was there from March 30, 2003 at the latest until October 19, 2006 at the earliest. Between that time and February 2, 2007 someone appears to have snagged it (legally or not, I have no idea). Then it briefly became a blog. I guess the blogger then gave it to TPB.

I make video games and release them under the GPL. Hardly anybody cares. There are plenty of BB programs out there already. The world doesn't need another one. Same goes for my video games.

I also make music and release it for free. Hardly anybody cares, because there's plenty of "free" music out there anyways.

If you don't think that your code is really all that grand, just quietly release it and hope it somehow finds a place in someone's heart. The few comments you get about it are still nice to have.

ESR Wealth Clock

* How do you tie the hexayurts down so they don't blow away in the first breeze? I don't see any hard points to tie a rope to.

Tape anchors. The straps of tape that go up and over the point of the building terminate in these:

http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa_checklist#Assemble_the_Roof_Cone

http://www.archive.org/stream/Hexayurt_Clips_From_Combined_Endeavor/Hexayurt_Tape_Anchors_Old_Method_256kb.mp4

        * Your site has patterns for the 6 footer, and the stretch 6. Any patterns for the bigger ones?

We found the roof cones were more or less impossible to document like the building process for the smaller hexayurts, so we switched to video instructions. It might be somebody skilled with making instructions could do it, though.

        * What tape are you using? I saw passing references, but I'm not sure of the details.

Any bidirectional filament tape - 3M 8959 is one good option. Regular filament tape may also be enough. 3" wide or wider in all cases.

        * Have you given any thought to ways to scale this up slightly and make it more permanent? Maybe using structural insulated panels? I realize that's totally off-topic for your immediate purpose, but it might help win acceptance if it were seen as more mainstream.

Yes. If you go to regular SIPs this geometry is probably not optimal any more, but (for example) Thermax HD is a plausible lightweight SIP for this application, or we could go to hexacomb cardboard, which was used for making SIPs in the 1980s.

I haven't looked at wax impregnated cardboard - do you have somewhere to start learning about it?

Thanks!

You obviously didn't live in California during the Gray Davis regime. http://web.archive.org/web/20020927014827/http://www.e-gray.com/

A lot of these sorts of technologies were aggregated (PDF) by the Hexayurt folks. The hexayurt is itself one of these technologies. A roomy shelter costing just over $200, takes just a few hours to build, and has the R-value of a typical house.

http://hexayurt.com/

Once again I'm sad funroll-loops.org is only available via internet archive. This would make a prefect addition.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061004200708/http://www.funroll-loops.org/

Link to the article still on the server, but missing the comments: http://slashdot.org/hardware/98/11/11/1011216.shtml /. page on the wayback machine with comments: http://web.archive.org/web/20001219170800/slashdot.org/articles/98/11/11/1011216.shtml

Bay Area Man Makes Successful Submission to Slashdot

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In an alarming and inconsistent move, geek news site slashdot.org (NASDAQ: SDOT) accept a story submission by bay area resident Bob Johnston. Johnston, a 34-year-old UNIX administrator, was ecstatic at the news that slashdot had accepted a story submission and that the story in question was one he had submitted.

"Things like this don't come along often", remarked Johnston at a press conference earlier today," and I'm glad I was here to experience it." Johnston's story submission was a news article on wired.com about the relationship between the size of Richard Stallman's beard and the number of transistor's in Intel's latest processor. "Normally slashdot ignores my submissions, as well as those of most other people that aren't part of the geek 'in-crowd', said Johnston, "but I submitted the story anyway. I guess it must've been late, because CmdrTaco accepted the story in short order".

When asked for comment, CmdrTaco gave the following statement: "Slashdot has built its reputation on the submissions of it's readers and being an open forum to aggregate news from all over the world. Accusations such as Mr. Johnston's only hurt the Slashdot community by insinuating that we cater to an geek 'clique' in our submission approval process. Slashdot accepted his story because it was worthy of our site and in line with our vision. I did, however, have to change the icon from the Bill Gates as a Borg to the Big Giant Monty Python foot and fix a few typos."

Slashdot gets the vast majority of its content from user submissions. Contrary to CmdrTaco's statements, many regular readers of Slashdot have noted that there is a lack of consistency between which stories are accepted and those that are rejected. "I must've submitted stories all over the geek spectrum", noted Jim Davison, a 24 year-old Java consultant, "They would reject them all, but I'd see a similar story pop up a week later that was submitted by some guy named 'Anonymous Coward'. He seems to get posted a lot".

Anonymous Coward declined comment.

use the wayback machine. :) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

LOL. Looking at some of those old news stories (and the hot technology of the day) is almost as bad as looking at your high school yearbook. That said, it might be interesting to have someone to go through them and catalog some choice opinions, predictions, etc. held at a given point in time.

Then again, maybe we're still bitching about the same old stuff.

Try waybackmachine, it does have a bit here and there. :D

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

You could always use the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

WaybackMachine from archive.org goes back to January of 1998.

use the wayback machine. :) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

use the wayback machine. :) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

I have, starting with Dicks Picks Vol 1 and continue to do so. Can't remember the last store purchased album in my collection. But then again, most the bands I listen to let you tape the shows and share ....

.nato was the first 4 letter tld. It was added when a general called IANA and insisted it be put in back in the 80s. It was removed by Postel as cruft around 96 or 97 when somebody pointed out it was still in the root zone file.

Let's not forget ".museum" which led to such important names as "swiss.frog.museum" sadly now taken down, but archive.org remembers: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://swiss.frog.museum

If this page used to exist, you may find an archived version:

• in the Google Cache
• in the Internet Archive

people bought clones because they were less expensive than the real thing.

Some did, but I recall that some people were buying some of the higher-end clones because they offered some advanced dual- and quad-CPU options (for example, DayStar Digital) that were unavailable or under-spec'd by Apple at that time. In many case, they were paying the same or more for these than extant retail for Apple kit.

I found a short clip of Jobs exerting the Reality Distortion Field wrt clone licences. Jobs derides their value, but this says they were a 7.25% royalty... low, but not "$50", assuming an average of $2,000 retail for every Power Computing machine, some 50,000 generating $100m in sales.

All in all Jobs' attitude presented quite a change from Apple's earlier I Think We're A Clone Now enthusiasm. Here's another vintage video, a news extract describing Apple's short-lived experiment with Macintosh licensing.

Under Jobs, Apple resorted to several strategies to squelch the Mac cloners. One cunning method was to rebrand OS 7.7 as OS 8, thereby voiding existing pricing deals and enabling Apple to reset terms that were more punitive. In the case of Power Computing, Apple paid $100m to buy the company outright, including all its IP, and thus shut down one of the more prominent cloners. Apple also got PC's impressive direct ordering system modelled on Gateway/Dell , which enabled it to build out its apple.com sales channel.

I'm not sure if it's exactly what you wanted, but here's a few links I have handy:

Drs. Tony Arnold (Ph.D., Harvard) and Bill Parker (Ph.D., Chicago) are the developers of what reportedly is the largest, most complete set of data ever compiled on the evolutionary history of an organism. The two scientists have painstakingly pieced together a virtually unbroken fossil record that shows in stunning detail how a single-celled marine organism has evolved during the past 66 million years.

A pic of a small piece of that 66 million year line, in ~700,000 year steps.

A great piece from the Florida State University interviewing PhDs Arnold and Parker about it.

A sample common decent transitional sequence. Image 1 and image 15 are two currently living species and image 7 is their 15-million-year-old ancestor. Imagine it in a V shape in time, 1 and 15 are the two top tips of the V and the lines converge back in time to pic 7 at the bottom of the V in the past.

The time resolution we get from seafloor sediment fossils is actually much better than the 700,000 year step size used in that first pic. This shows how we can see in fine detail the process of a species population stretching out and then splitting into two child species (one smaller one larger). Each horizontal line in that diagram represents a sampling of probably hundreds of individuals from the population at each given point in time. As noted in the interview above they have been able to follow and examine foraminifera branching through literally hundreds of speciation events. A branching tree of increasing diversity.

The oldest Foraminifera weren't able to grow their own mineral shells... they made their shells by gluing together specs of mineral-dirt collected floating in the ocean. Modern Foraminifera are extremely diverse, herbivorous and omnivours and carnivours... some have even invented FARMING protecting growing and eating algae farms inside their shells... modern Foraminifera are extremely diverse living in almost every ecological niche in almost every wet habitat on earth from the shoreline to the abyssal seafloor to floating near the sea surface from the arctic sea to the equator and in freshwater lakes and ponds and even Foraminifera species that have managed to adapt to moist soil land life. Most are near-microscopic, but the largest can be over half a foot across.

If you were looking for something more specific, let me know and I'll see if I can Google it up.

I wish I could find one good webpage with all the Foraminifera info in one place. There's lots more cool info and technical science papers, but I only find them scattered piecemeal.

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@circletimesquare:

I am producing a documentary about how Free Open Source Software is going to change world culture by shifting balance of trade between the developed and developing world and by teaching the power of collaboration as opposed to hoarding. The film is called the Digital Tipping Point. What tools did you use to do your funny horror movie linked in your sig line? We are looking for collaborators who use FOSS tools.

Sorry, I had to ask.

Semi-seriously, imagine the applications for this technology. Trained crows getting shots of places that only crows can go. Imagine video of Ballmer chair throwing events, and other clandestine Microsoft sporting events visible currently only to crows. We don't want that kind of footage locked down in Microsoft Windows Media formats. We want to be able to exchange our crow footage easily via the Internet Archive, so that we can incorporate our crow footage into community-based video projects, such as the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection, which uses Ogg Theora formats.

Soon, YouTube soon will be hosting crow video feed competitions. We don't want that precious footage locked down, either.

Which raises the next question, of course, and it is more near and dear to /. readers' hearts: penguin video!

"Sure - it's not perfect, ..."

It was even less 'evil' once:

I agree wholeheartedly here. I myself make my own music. It's not particularly "good" music; I have poor equipment and no knowledge of how professional recording is done, but I have fun making it. I provide it for free to anyone who wants to listen to it, thanks to archive.org. Admittedly, that is very few people.

I used to be a major consumer of the RIAA -- I own over 500 albums! But that all stopped around the year 2000 when I decided that modern music wasn't nearly as good as the older stuff, and I already had plenty of Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and CCR discs/tapes. (The list of old music I have goes on and on, but that's besides the point.) I have not bought a CD from a major label in over five years. I'm just waiting for everyone else to do their share of the boycott.

I consider myself to be quite vain in that I listen to my own music more than the music I've bought.

1. Someone hears Hinder's Go Home Get Stoned and thinks "wow, maybe these guys really are a rock band, and this is the one minor key whiney song, like Dream On on Aerosmith's first album; the song they played on the radio that sucked, unlike the rest of the album which got no air play at all. I mean, they're singing about getting stoned.
   
   They plug "hinder" into Morpheus, find out that Hinder sucks donkey balls, and Hinder's label loses a CD sale as the P2P user deletes the files in disgust.
   
   
2. User hears from a friend that Radiohead's tune The Fog is killer, so he plugs "the fog" into Kazaa, but instead of Radiohead's The Fog they get an indie band's completely different song by the same name, and it KICKS ASS. They spend their CD budget on my friends' band instead of Radiohead, costing Radiohead's label a sale.
   
   
3. They want an old out of print song from the 1950s, and download it with eDonkey. Unfortunately for them, the RIAA busts them for downloading the song they have copyright on that is out of print and not for sale, and sue. P2P user vows never again to buy another RIAA CD as long as he lives, costing all the labels LOTS of sales.

Chips and Dips from the wayback
machine.

Early slashdot pages.

Chips and Dips from the wayback
machine.

Early slashdot pages.

Post Your Comments Here!

If you don't have anything worthwhile to say, don't say it. If people continue to abuse this feature, I will have to remove it.

And I probably posted that comment within a day or two of registering.

I went looking on my own, but it looks like you beat me to it.

I'll go one further though: the only copy of CnD in the archive. (Complete with a review of 'Air Force One')

http://web.archive.org/web/19970731134149/http://www.cs.hope.edu/~malda/cnd/

Here's the first link the wayback machine has to Slashdot itself, at the start of 1997.

You should check some of the other versions as well... later on that year, /. was already pretty damned close to what it is today, visually at least.

I personally signed up sometime around either the summer of '97 or '98, I think... possibly '98, or my UID would be lower?

Here's the first link the wayback machine has to Slashdot itself, at the start of 1997.

You should check some of the other versions as well... later on that year, /. was already pretty damned close to what it is today, visually at least.

I personally signed up sometime around either the summer of '97 or '98, I think... possibly '98, or my UID would be lower?

Here's the first link the wayback machine has to Slashdot itself, at the start of 1997.

You should check some of the other versions as well... later on that year, /. was already pretty damned close to what it is today, visually at least.

I personally signed up sometime around either the summer of '97 or '98, I think... possibly '98, or my UID would be lower?

Here's the Wayback archive of Rob Malda's page at Hope College.

From his About Me page: "In closing, I would just like to say that if you read this whole document, then you need more of a life than I need for typing it." Keep in mind that this is the same page that states he got into computers due to "A strong need to somehow construct a woman like those kids in Weird Science".

Here's the Wayback archive of Rob Malda's page at Hope College.

From his About Me page: "In closing, I would just like to say that if you read this whole document, then you need more of a life than I need for typing it." Keep in mind that this is the same page that states he got into computers due to "A strong need to somehow construct a woman like those kids in Weird Science".

PS- does anybody remember the "suckdot" parody suck.com did?

If you want a glimpse of an earlier Slashdot, take a look at the WayBackMachine. The earliest copy of Slashdot's front page there is dated 13 Jan 1998. The Slashdot poll of the day? "Netscape should GPL Mozilla".