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Yeah, I saw their homepage link to http://help.monster.com/besafe/email/, but I thought that was a general "don't respond to phishing email" warning. It doesn't give any indication that it's something they put up specifically to address this. Mind you, looking back at monster.com in the wayback machine, they don't appear to have had that link on their homepage back on 14 June.

Until they fix the quality, price, licensing, and DRM issues, I'll stick with either Creative Commons, or Public Domain works.

Commercial offerings are often limited to private home use only. The other offerings can be played at the block party on the big screen or other social gathering. I just downloaded the older Little Shop of Horrors and Night of the Living Dead.

http://www.archive.org/details/Little_ShopOf_Horro rs.avi
http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living _dead
Note many of these links are at higher resolution than the commercial offerings.
Home page.. http://www.archive.org/details/movies Please don't slashdot them too bad. I'm still downloading some stuff.

Use the D/L links on the left side of the page or use a torrent to save bandwidth.

This is one of the reasons the studios hate public domain. It can compete with commercial markets.

For audio, there is lots of public domain material. Look for Old Time radio. Much of the material is tied up in compiliations for a price due to bandwidth costs, but some free for the taking is out there.

Until they fix the quality, price, licensing, and DRM issues, I'll stick with either Creative Commons, or Public Domain works.

Commercial offerings are often limited to private home use only. The other offerings can be played at the block party on the big screen or other social gathering. I just downloaded the older Little Shop of Horrors and Night of the Living Dead.

http://www.archive.org/details/Little_ShopOf_Horro rs.avi
http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living _dead
Note many of these links are at higher resolution than the commercial offerings.
Home page.. http://www.archive.org/details/movies Please don't slashdot them too bad. I'm still downloading some stuff.

Use the D/L links on the left side of the page or use a torrent to save bandwidth.

This is one of the reasons the studios hate public domain. It can compete with commercial markets.

For audio, there is lots of public domain material. Look for Old Time radio. Much of the material is tied up in compiliations for a price due to bandwidth costs, but some free for the taking is out there.

Until they fix the quality, price, licensing, and DRM issues, I'll stick with either Creative Commons, or Public Domain works.

Commercial offerings are often limited to private home use only. The other offerings can be played at the block party on the big screen or other social gathering. I just downloaded the older Little Shop of Horrors and Night of the Living Dead.

http://www.archive.org/details/Little_ShopOf_Horro rs.avi
http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living _dead
Note many of these links are at higher resolution than the commercial offerings.
Home page.. http://www.archive.org/details/movies Please don't slashdot them too bad. I'm still downloading some stuff.

Use the D/L links on the left side of the page or use a torrent to save bandwidth.

This is one of the reasons the studios hate public domain. It can compete with commercial markets.

For audio, there is lots of public domain material. Look for Old Time radio. Much of the material is tied up in compiliations for a price due to bandwidth costs, but some free for the taking is out there.

Wait a minute... OK, follow the trail.
co2science.org is owned by craig idso, who has in the past been linked to exxon mobile, and exxon has funded co2science.org in the past (Here). Also, co2science was paid $250,000 to make a video about how good global warming would be for society, funded by Western fuels. Do a search on the dude, All you'll find is his links to big business, and little in the way of credentials. For Instance:
http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Corrupt_Idsos.html
On his work with the Coal Industry
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=129849 &p=irol-newsArticle&ID=577889&highlight=
and for the other side of the aguement, a guy only using 2 sources makes the same case you are, and surprise, one is idso, and the other is a Balling character who is usually listed alongside the Idso's and their funding sources
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA334.html

I totally agree, the pages one accesses often must be clean and fast. Google home has still things i didn't like (arial default font, failed to work as local page, and a look somewhat too anonymous). But that was easy to fix. It was also online (but the page was against google guidelines in several ways) and is still kinda accessible through the library

Itchy ears indeed! Perhaps MrKaos should stop sitting on them. Music is only marginally about the medium. Have a listen to this lame old mp3 of Leadbelly. He wasn't concerned with how it was recorded or encoded, it was about the message: http://www.archive.org/details/Leadbelly-Where_Did _You_Sleep

Actually, that's incorrect.

Many nations have equivalent parallel classification schemes, including using the terminology "top secret". Long-standing agreements between various nations allow sharing of information in the same categories.

See here and here for details.

If FTS is a contractor on terrorism investigations, it could very well be handling "top secret" data. The article refers to it as "top secret", but you're correct: it's not clear if "top secret" is merely being inappropriately applied here, or whether the information really could be technically "top secret".

It is (PowerPoint) quite routine for contractors to handle classified information in the US and UK.

There have been so many, but here a few of my favorites:

Enderle: "SCO Should Win"
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C1545173%2 C00.a...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1563242,00.as p

Lyons: "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets"
http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.h tml

BTW: Dan Lyons is also the guy who screamed and cried about anonymous boggers, and message board posters, then he turned out to be the fake Steve Jobs.

Didio: "SCO Group Gains Psychological Edge, Registers UNIX System V Copyrights"

"The fact that SCO registered its UNIX System V copyright lays to rest an earlier, erroneous contention by Novell president, Jack Messman, claiming that SCO did not own the copyrights."

http://www.techupdate.com/techupdate/stories/main/ 0,14179,2914388,00.html

Groklaw: "Maureen O'Gara reportage on a court hearing she didn't attend, yet magically was able to report on both the contents of a sealed SCO filing *and* what was shown by SCO's lawyers on a projection screen only Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells and the lawyers were supposed to see."

Here is the O'Gara article:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041025040145/http://w ww.linuxworld.com/story/46800.htm

I think O'Gara was also the very first to report on the death of Val Noorda Kreidel. Maybe even before the coroner's report was out.

Some would say he [Ron Paul] actually espouses true Republican values.

I would agree. He is definitely enough of a casual racist to appeal to The Base.

only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions

I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.

A true Republican, indeed.

There are a couple of places that mention it:
http://www.patentarcade.com/2006/02/news-red-cross -enforces-trademark.html
http://www.davis.ca/en/blog/Video-Game-Law/2006/01 /30/ARE-YOU-USING-THE-RED-CROSS-SYMBOL-IN-YOUR-GAM ES

Here's an internet archive of the letter mentioned in the blogs in pdf format: http://web.archive.org/web/20060206213819/http://w ww.davis.ca/community/blogs/video_games/files/red_ cross_letter.pdf

I have also found the link for the Red Cross Emblem Brochure that for some reason doesn't seem to work in the pdf:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000340&tid=0 19

I believe I was the first one to write a fake Steve Jobs' blog. I stopped when it reached the top 5 results for a 'steve jobs' search and Apple's legal department contacted me. http://web.archive.org/web/20040102222820/http://j ustonemorething.com/

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

Not to fuss about the hook up some university head is giving to the company...

But what exactly is special about the ChaChaCha service itself? If I need a "guide" for my searching, it's not much more effort going on IRC and finding someone who may know something in conjunction with being able to copy and paste links. Then you have the combined power of two people googling at once with a shared knowledge base. (And perhaps one is more skilled at searching or sorting out chaff to get the relevant information instead of useless spam sites.) And this is usually done for free 99% of the time. (Somebody in a chat full of lurkers feels satisfied for being useful on occasion, which is typically payment enough.)

And if you want to use a human powered search engine without the guide bit, there's always the Open Directory Project

This is not the film you're looking for. http://www.archive.org/details/isforAto1953 However that's what I got when I used the search term atom. I know they have film of the tests on the containers they were going to use at Yucca Mountain so they may have what you want too.

My source is this: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/29/1 633205&mode=thread&tid=17

Which supposedly contains a link to the part that says you can use it for free with freely distributable software. The link is to a MP3liscensing page, which, at the time of this writing, appears to be down. It also has a quote from Thompson on the matter. As far as everything else goes, it's my understanding that this is standard practice. Or that a different method of free decoder, charged for encoder, is used. I haven't looked into it too much for other patented formats though.

There's also this: http://web.archive.org/web/20000818191854/www.mp3l icensing.com/royalty/swdec.html which represents the old policy page. This has been changed to remove the free-for-free-programs clause apparently, though it is also said that this change does not represent a change in policy. So I dunno hat exactly that's supposed to mean.

um... let me rewrite that for clarity:

don't forget that OS X (iPhone's OS) is derived from Mac OS X, which in itself has a pretty powerful TTS engine, that frankly sounds MUCH more human, though still not natural. i'd be kinda surprised if apple's TTS engine isn't already on the iPhone waiting to be used - especially since they've been putting some resources into it lately. [link - it's a shame they don't have the sample for alex posted anymore... you'll hear it in october!]

This movie is really interesting, we watched it at the iCommons in Dubrovnik. You can also download it from archive.org in several formats. http://www.archive.org/details/Good_Copy_Bad_Copy- film

I dunno about video, but try the etree forums or the Live Music Archive. There are lots of experienced concert tapers there, and they love talking gear.

If you do tape any shows, be sure to seed them on bt.etree.org. Thanks!

This has a video that sums up CP/M, Gary Kildall, IBM, and the MS saga. It's very pertinent to this article. http://www.archive.org/details/GaryKild

Bill Gates says, "there can only be one" in reference to competing operating sytems in this video.

Prepend web.archive.org to those addresses and away you go.

http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/02/mad-rip-part-3.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip-part-2.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip.html

Prepend web.archive.org to those addresses and away you go.

http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/02/mad-rip-part-3.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip-part-2.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip.html

Prepend web.archive.org to those addresses and away you go.

http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/02/mad-rip-part-3.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip-part-2.html
http://web.archive.org/holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2 007/01/mad-rip.html

thanks, this brought back memories ... http://web.archive.org/web/20010516023935/http://w ww.technicalabuse.com/ If Google provided a darker iGoogle page I would switch to it.

I think you need one of these:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070321014029/http://w ww.fu-fme.com/index.html

http://web.archive.org/*/medison.se

The domain has been used on and off, and yes it seems there was a Medison Consulting site back in '04.

They don't though, so their patented GM genes end up in the crops of people who chose not to use their seeds. Since the genes are their property, they feel that they are entitled to money for them, and end up suing the farmers who used their products either unknowingly, or even unwillingly.

The same can be said of the RIAA affiliated record companies and their copyrighted songs. Say I'm looking for the song The Fog by The Station. The link is to the actual song on archive.org. Now, say I'm trying to find it on bittorrent or kazaa. I'm very likely to download "The Fog" by Radiohead by mistake. Note that until I made this post I didn't know Radiohead had a song with that name, nor any of the other bands on the linked Google search. Guess what? I was looking for a song that an indie band wants you to hear, and I'm in danger of being sued by Radiohead's label!

Note that Dave and the guys from The Station are friends of mine, which is why I use them as an example ;) but the same could be said of any of the other thousands of bands out there who are begging for you to hear them!

Bow to the corporations, their lawyers, and the US government that they own.

-mcgrew/a

From my collection:
* Nanotechnology information [archived] [2002]
* Bibliography of nanotechnology and nanoscience [pdf] [2004]
* Brad Hein's nanotechnology website
* Ned Seeman's DNA nanotech bibliography
* MEMS/nanotech reading list
* Even more publications in nanotechnology
* sci.nano archives
* The open micro/nano-manufacturing project
* Nanotech in scifi

And if anybody has links on nanomechanical synthesis, that'd be much appreciated. IIRC, nanolithography is one of the main areas of development, along with nonlinear optics to get the required precision manufacturing.

As has been no doubt said, web metrics is as imprecise an art as TV metrics, and in the end it only serves as a wet finger in the air to provide rough data to another industry that thrives on educated guesses. I haven't used Alexa for years (I've been Linux or Mac and Firefox/Mozilla/whatever for a long time) but I recall back then that the toolbar didn't just do whatever it did, but was crammed with third party apps which could only be described as spyware and which on occasion could pull down a machine while the various bits called home but even now it seems that there is no alternative to a degree of spying either on the desktop or on the server side, and while it's a service that advertisers think they need, it's one that they will pay for and for which web developers will put their hands in the stream to catch some of the money. Also, to be fair, Alexa helped found The Wayback Machine so they have returned something to the web.

The way to "bleed them to death by a thousand cuts" isn't to download their music, but to STOP BUYING IT. Support the (mostly superior anyway) indie musicians instead. Support your local musicians. Buy/download indie music. There are literally THOUSANDS of very good bands who post their music on their web sites and would thank you for sharing it. Don't share the MAFIAA's music, share indie music!

Here is some FREE music (live shows) in lossless SHN and FLAC format by some friends of mine. If you like it, go to one of their shows (they play at half the US) and/or buy a CD or two. IMO their first one was the best, but YMMV.

-mcgrew

Let the user become the crawler- and do not eliminate the search giants (just don't rely on them completely). Already I sort of operate like a (slow) crawler with my queues of links to read, bookmarks (be weary- big load) and indexing those very interesting or important pages, sharing related tidbits, etc. Just feels like the natural extension, though I am sure that many people will want to stick with traditional GUIs and "back/forward" habits. There is also some interesting discussion in ATLAS-L re: future search infrastructures. So, in the spirit of promoting development in this area, linkage:

* Grub article (now defunct)- was distributed peer-to-peer crawler. (see also)
* Boitho, another distributed crawler
* YaCy- another peer-to-peer crawler
* How to build a web spider
* C++ web crawler lib
* LibWWW (perl)
* W3C's WebBot
* The Internet Archive's Heritrix crawler
* WebSPHINX- customizable crawler

Somehow, this is like an extension of surfraw. I imagine that soon enough we will start up an open source crawler-browsing hybrid software package, though have been surprised that nothing like it has popped up yet- it's (usually) the way of the programmer to make sure that he has the ability to do what the giants are doing. Maybe we have all been collectively blinded by graphical web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and "click-click-click" thinkware?

Let the user become the crawler- and do not eliminate the search giants (just don't rely on them completely). Already I sort of operate like a (slow) crawler with my queues of links to read, bookmarks (be weary- big load) and indexing those very interesting or important pages, sharing related tidbits, etc. Just feels like the natural extension, though I am sure that many people will want to stick with traditional GUIs and "back/forward" habits. There is also some interesting discussion in ATLAS-L re: future search infrastructures. So, in the spirit of promoting development in this area, linkage:

* Grub article (now defunct)- was distributed peer-to-peer crawler. (see also)
* Boitho, another distributed crawler
* YaCy- another peer-to-peer crawler
* How to build a web spider
* C++ web crawler lib
* LibWWW (perl)
* W3C's WebBot
* The Internet Archive's Heritrix crawler
* WebSPHINX- customizable crawler

Somehow, this is like an extension of surfraw. I imagine that soon enough we will start up an open source crawler-browsing hybrid software package, though have been surprised that nothing like it has popped up yet- it's (usually) the way of the programmer to make sure that he has the ability to do what the giants are doing. Maybe we have all been collectively blinded by graphical web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and "click-click-click" thinkware?

1GB/s * 1 month = 1GB/s * 30 day/month * 24 hour/day * 3600s/hour = 2,592,000 GB.

A big disk (Seagate ST3750640AS) is 750GB.

324,000 GB / 750GB/disk = 3,456 disk.

At AUD467 per disk this will cost AUD1,613,952 (plus computers+net). Even cheaper if you allow for the fact these are retail
prices for wholesale quantities. Let's take the startup current of 2A@12V as the worst case power
consumption and we end up with a maximum power of 83kW. That's less than 35 domestic heaters (2.4kW ea).

Okay, it's not trivial stringing together 3,456 disks, but it's not exceptional either. It is no bigger in
scale than a typical university network. Or just buy a few of the Internet Archive's Petaboxes off the shelf.

Here are some funny web comics that might put this whole debate into perspective:

http://xkcd.com/c221.html

Dilbert (from 2001)

http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://d ilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20 01182781025.gif

[Tour of Accounting]
Accounting Troll: "Over here we have our random number generator"

Number Generator Troll: "Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine"

Dilbert: "Are you sure that's random?"

Accounting Troll: "That's the problem with randomness: you can never be sure"

That would be Lavarand from, oh, just 10 years ago.

Rich

The article was absolute rubbish, but it contained a link to an informative lecture by Prof. Eben Moglen, given last month in Edinburgh. Moglen's points relating to economics and economic history were surprisingly weak, and there were various other errors and questionable assumptions/logic. However, it provided a good insight into the ideology behind and ultimate aims of the Free Software Foundation, and why v3 of the GPL is arguably necessary to achieve those aims.

Before you call me a liar, sir, let's look at the facts. I will be quoting extensively from Bush v. Gore, which, as you presumably already know, is the US Supreme Court's decision in this case. You can find it at: Bush v. Gore.

Every single recount found Bush won Florida.

I'm not arguing that the "official" version of reality is "Bush won Florida". Conversely, here's something that supports my assertion that Gore *would have* won Florida if the count had continued:
Recounts Could Have Given Gore the Edge.

Besides which, the recounts, as they were happening, were illegal: the courts in Florida did not have the authority to order them, only the Secretary of State for Florida had any authority over the counting process.

The recounts were, in fact, perfectly legal. The Florida Supreme Court *did* have the authority to order them.

The court therefore ordered a hand recount of the 9,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County. Observing that the contest provisions vest broad discretion in the circuit judge to "provide any relief appropriate under such circumstances," Fla. Stat. 102.168(8) (2000), the Supreme Court further held that the Circuit Court could order "the Supervisor of Elections and the Canvassing Boards, as well as the necessary public officials, in all counties that have not conducted a manual recount or tabulation of the undervotes ... to do so forthwith, said tabulation to take place in the individual counties where the ballots are located."

The US Supreme Court did *not* stop the count based on the question of the *legality* of the intercession of the Florida Supreme Court; indeed, they accepted it, otherwise the question *could not have risen to the level of analysis by the US Supreme Court*. Here, in fact, is the basis of their finding:

The question before us, however, is whether the recount procedures the Florida Supreme Court has adopted are consistent with its obligation to avoid arbitrary and disparate treatment of the members of its electorate.

For purposes of resolving the equal protection challenge, it is not necessary to decide whether the Florida Supreme Court had the authority under the legislative scheme for resolving election disputes to define what a legal vote is and to mandate a manual recount implementing that definition.

The US Supreme Court found that, in fact, that, while the compiled law of the state of Florida, calls for "the intent of the voter" to determine the actuality of any ambiguous vote, the procedures in place were insufficient to determine that intent, and, thus, constituted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.

The recount mechanisms implemented in response to the decisions of the Florida Supreme Court do not satisfy the minimum requirement for non-arbitrary treatment of voters necessary to secure the fundamental right....The problem inheres in the absence of specific standards to ensure its equal application. The formulation of uniform rules to determine intent based on these recurring circumstances is practicable and, we conclude, necessary.

Upon due consideration of the difficulties identified to this point, it is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process without substantial additional work....we reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida ordering a recount to proceed.

As you can clearly see, I have rebutted all the assertions of the first paragraph of your reply.

Moving forward, I notice that you neatly sidestepped the question of "chicanery in Ohio"

here, though a little bit before archive.org found it as shown in the link. Unfortunately, a domain scammer went in and grabbed it just as it expired and I lost my first domain name.

Xian? God, why do I allow humanity to continue living... I think it's especially funny that you show how you're better than "intolerant" people by being intolerant yourself.

it used to be here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spies.com/~gus /musings/aug96.htm and before that it was here http://atlas.comet.net/~gus/musings/aug96.htm which might predate the wayback machine

Thats when the wayback machine says geocities started up (or maybe when the wayback machine started?)

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://w ww.geocities.com/

I remember living in hotsprings for a while :) no one had more animated gifs than I.

He has the music there, if we have similar playing devices, when not let me cherry pick a few songs off his immediately, then 3 days later when I'm syncing ask if I want to buy them? I get the music legally, after a few days free use, the IP holder gets their due ...

Once you pay the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane. M$'s rent a music schemes are not a one time payment, and they will try to push everyone into it. Do you think they will pay the RIAA or artists what's fair? Yeah, right.

An alternative you left out is that artists adopt other methods of promoting themselves that don't involve suing people. That way, you get to trade as much of your friend's collection as you want. The artist gets promoted and everyone wins, except the mafiaa.

What do you mean "remember"? I use it all the time.

This is almost a rerun of the story of Apraphul, as told by A.K. Dewdney in the Computer Rereceations column of Scientic American:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991008112046/http://w ww.owlnet.rice.edu/~laing/apraphul.html

Starship Stormtroopers

"because most large corporations are sick to death of the hoops they have to jump through for the GPL"

Who do you think was in the bi-weekly meetings with Eben Moglen et al. for the past 18 months working on the GPL drafts?

I refer you to part of a transcript from a recent speech that Moglen gave at the Scottish society for Computers and Law annual lecture for 2007:

Every other week for the past 18 months, we've convened a conference call of twenty-one of the largest IT vendors in the world. Those companies, whose names are household familiar in every household and business familiar in every business. Working in teams that varied from one person from some of the companies, to five or six in others. Carefully studying every single word, commenting as though their lives depended upon it - as in some of the businesses they did. On every detail of the license's functioning in the global IT economy. We also convened, every other week, a conversation among twenty-four of the largest users of software in the world. Banks and brokerages, government agencies, and the lawyers who acquire software on their behalf.