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Here's a blast from the past... Homeboy Nyte Sytes. The solution to all your gangsta cap-poppin' problems.

It appears birdman.org has gone the way of the dodo, as I've had to use the wayback machine to get this... Oh well.

It's really weird for me to see all these stories about Silverlight, because a few years ago, I was the webmaster/administrator of silverlight.org (see the bottom of that page), which MS now owns. Of course back then, it was just personal web and email hosting for a group of friends. My friend who owned the domain sold it to a broker a couple of months ago for...well, to MS it was pocket change, but he had no idea who the buyer was.

I had an email address at that domain for several years, so it's just really, really weird to see "silverlight" everywhere on Slashdot and in the news.

Or perhaps people would like a nicer scanned version of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions . It's fantastic, everybody should read it.

Check their web-site...

http://www.tonicsystems.com/ won't give you much but the web archive does:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060820002948/http://w ww.tonicsystems.com/

PDF seems one of the things they do.

The Nanjing Anti-African riots leading to Tiananmen Square may, themselves, have been a precursor to today's massacre at Virginia Tech University reportedly committed by an Asian student (although verification is not yet in). If so, it is important to discuss the raciosexual (yes I made up that word and it deserves reification) dynamics of campus life, particularly how it impacts the education of young men not equipped to deal with a sexual ecology that would never appear in nature. If this is taken to mean I harbor sympathies for young men who might go on murderous rampages against those of another race that are fucking their women on campus--the answer is, "Yes". If this is further taken to mean that I hold innocent young men, living among foreigners in another country, who go on such rampages--the answer is, "No".

It is on this basis that I would like to interview a Chinese nationalist with first-hand knowledge of the situation facing young men in Nanjing so we can discuss how to prevent such torture of young men trying to receive an education--and potentially prevent catastrophic wars between our great nations resulting from vicious policies of multiculturalism.

3. Balanced Base Powder

One can take, by mouth, the necessary quick bases (sodium and potassium bicarbonate, both macro minerals that the body needs a lot of) that the body needs to neutralize the stored acids in the body and correct the relative base deficiency, correct the "latent acidosis". This is what the Balanced Base Powder does. This powder also provides the necessary chloride ions in the form of Celtic sea salt and potassium chloride that are needed to recharge the hydrochloric acid producing ability of the stomach, and thereby and more importantly, the sodium bicarbonate producing ability of the same.

Take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon in water or juice between meals of Balanced Base Powder or, if this is not available, use the same amount of baking soda in water or fruit juice, between meals and before bed, i.e. three times a day.

The important thing is to take it on an empty stomach, so it can suck out the excess "deposit acid" from the acid producing cells lining the stomach (thereby generating more bicarbonate which goes into the blood stream) and not interfere with the acid that is needed at the times of eating. One needs acid in the stomach to digest food obviously so the Balanced Base Powder or baking soda should not be taken around meal times. ...

-Treatment of latent acidosis (emphasis added)

You're right, they weren't trying to sell pharmaceuticals, were they?
http://web.archive.org/web/20051230013018/www.euro americanhealth.com/order.html

The "pH imbalance" theory to everything health-related bullshit is still spewed on late-night infomercials. The fact it has been roundly debunked by medical science won't mean a thing to a faithful devote of the Church of Simple Answers and Vast Conspiracies like yourself, so I won't waste any more of my breath.

Unfortunately, an increasing number of infected individuals are found to harbour antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This results in initial treatment failure and requires additional rounds of antibiotic therapy or alternative strategies. For resistant cases, a quadruple therapy may be used. Bismuth compounds are also effective in combination with the above drugs. For the treatment of clarithromycin-resistant strains of H. pylori the use of levofloxacin as part of the therapy has been recommended.

Unfortunately, an increasing number of infected individuals are found to harbour antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This results in initial treatment failure and requires additional rounds of antibiotic therapy or alternative strategies. For resistant cases, a quadruple therapy may be used. Bismuth compounds are also effective in combination with the above drugs. For the treatment of clarithromycin-resistant strains of H. pylori the use of levofloxacin as part of the therapy has been recommended.

The "unlimited copying" comment reminded me of a presentation I heard in 2005. Essentially, the argument is that since hyperdistribution through bittorrent has been invented and can never be un-invented or stopped effectively, the current distribution model of producer - distributor - consumer can't continue. He argues that since the REAL funding for productions comes from advertisers, the producer should cut out the middle-man and distribute the content themselves. Using embedded advertising and virtually costless distribution, producers can continue to make money and prosper.

Heres the link: Piracy is Good

Of course, the presentation was two years ago and the changes he proposed still haven't come to pass. Even so, I think his ideas still have merit and everyone knows industries can be slow to adopt to change.

Cheers,

Here is an informative study done in 1999

Use of .50-caliber Machine Guns Against Personnel There is an old myth that just will not go away claiming that it is illegal to use antiaircraft weapons against troops, especially for some reason, the .50-caliber machine gun. There is no regulation in the US Army or Marine Corps that says this is illegal. In fact every US manual on air defense guns, including FM 23-65 (.50-caliber M2 machine gun), has/had a section on engaging ground targets. There is absolutely nothing in the Hague Convention of 1907 even remotely suggesting that it is forbidden. Even the use of the turn of the century large-caliber anti-balloon machine guns with incendiary bullets (in wide use when the Convention was drafted) were not prohibited from being fired on troops.

[snip]
It has never made sense that we can use flamethrowers, WP projectiles, incendiary rockets, napalm, 25mm chain guns, 155mm howitzers, fletchettes, buckshot, and saw-tooth bayonets on the enemies of democracy, much less strafe them with .50-caliber machine guns mounted in aircraft but we cannot shoot the bad guys with a full-jacketed machine gun bullet originally intended as a light antitank weapon when developed at the end of World War Ibut its okay to shoot their web gear? Somebody is on drugs.

        The source of this myth appears to have originated during World War II. In the closing days of the war in Germany infantry units often had halftrack-mounted quad .50-caliber machine guns attached to them from the antiaircraft artillery automatic weapons battalion supporting the division. They were routinely used against ground targets to include enemy troops. They were very effective in suppressing villages and wood lines prior to advancing. The quad-fifties were expending ammunition at a high rate in this role and at some staff echelon it was pointed out that if the Germans were able to mount local air attacks against our forces they might run out of .50-caliber ammunition having expended it on ground targets a valid concern.

    In some units officers apparently looking for a way to justify the ammunition conservation order to experienced combat troops (read as practical and cynical) took the easy way out and lied, merely saying it was illegal to use antiaircraft weapons or .50-caliber machine guns against personnel.

Although the faint hope of commercial value in many television properties does give some television shows some guarantee it will be around for future folks to look at (including historians), I think it is also important that the banal and the "so-common-as-to-be-worthless" content get it's shot at archival also. I think Youtube is somewhat important - it looks to be strong enough to survive until digital storage is cheap enough that our current processes of digital archival are made irrelevant. It's important, because although there are groups like the Digital Archive Project, Archive.org, and the various file trading groups which keep a lot of content alive long term, none of these have as strong a hope of legally keeping their information freely available, or have the same mass of content that Youtube/Google can provide.

It may seem rather silly to keep ahold of some of this stuff - but even if you'd never even dream of spending the time to watch any of it, I believe that our increasing ability to find new ways of consuming content and searching through it will bring surprising value, even as the value of content itself continues to fall. Youtube increases this aggregate historical value still further by also having a (youth and nerd-oriented) snapshot of a wide variety of daily lives around the world.

Ryan Fenton

Those who are curious what was on the "Norm" quote page was but are too lazy to type the URL by hand will enjoy this time saver:

Click here or copy and paste http://web.archive.org/web/20010702004226/ourworld .compuserve.com/homepages/wildkingdom/normb.htm .

I don't see any reference to "one click" nor "Amazon" nor anything remotely technical.

I wonder if this story is partly a hoax. I can't imagine that lawyers would actually send someone to look at a document like that. If so, perhaps they're just seeing if the patent attorneys even pay attention?

Those who are curious what was on the "Norm" quote page was but are too lazy to type the URL by hand will enjoy this time saver:

Click here or copy and paste http://web.archive.org/web/20010702004226/ourworld .compuserve.com/homepages/wildkingdom/normb.htm .

I don't see any reference to "one click" nor "Amazon" nor anything remotely technical.

I wonder if this story is partly a hoax. I can't imagine that lawyers would actually send someone to look at a document like that. If so, perhaps they're just seeing if the patent attorneys even pay attention?

nobody gives kimchi any credit

Blizzard is probably real worried that someone will do something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQEmu

Terrible is those $ub$cription$ were to dry up, eh? I'm not sure if this is real though:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050323031230/http://w owressources.free.fr/tutorial_wad_en.php
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Create_your_own_privat e_World_of_Warcraft_server_

Hey buddy, I was a kid during the Hanna-Barbera cartoon era. I *KNOW* unwatchable television! Compared to watching that crap over a poor antenna signal, this is a golden age.

According to /., Google was doing input prediction three years ago:

Google Suggest

According to their public Changelog, the Sogou product was released June, 2006. According to the Internet Archive, Sogou is using the eBay style fonts and similar colors, their site looks a lot like Google, and they were touting their G-mail (gigabytes of mail) service well after the Google launch Gmail. Who is copying whom?

According to /., Google was doing input prediction three years ago:

Google Suggest

According to their public Changelog, the Sogou product was released June, 2006. According to the Internet Archive, Sogou is using the eBay style fonts and similar colors, their site looks a lot like Google, and they were touting their G-mail (gigabytes of mail) service well after the Google launch Gmail. Who is copying whom?

According to /., Google was doing input prediction three years ago:

Google Suggest

According to their public Changelog, the Sogou product was released June, 2006. According to the Internet Archive, Sogou is using the eBay style fonts and similar colors, their site looks a lot like Google, and they were touting their G-mail (gigabytes of mail) service well after the Google launch Gmail. Who is copying whom?

The problem with that is then on every disc each key needs to be encoded.

Sorry, it just won't work.

I've done this myself at least since October 2005. Source code available if you send me an email, and I'll even package it nicely and write a HOWTO some day ...

Project Gutenberg uses plenty of scans from American Memory to make their etexts--they do pretty much what you describe. At the lowest level, they make a plaintext copy, but they also do formatting and in-text hyperlinking: for instance, linking footnotes to their references, or index page numbers to anchors in the text. (See the HTML version of this etext to see what I mean.) Browse to a random book from this random collection, and you'll see what the LoC provides for their collections currently. As Brewster Kahle will be involved, you might want to see what projects he's done and how they're provided: a random book from the Million Book Project is available as a DjVu document, as well (badly) OCR'd text.

Battery energy density is finally getting good enough for this sort of thing. Electric cars with real performance are at last possible, although the trunk full of laptop batteries still costs too much.

For aircraft, the price point is higher, so this could work. There are lots of little electric-powered unmanned aircraft around, from toys to small military recon units. An outfit called Aviation Tomorrow was making noise about an electric-powered kitplane back in 2002-2005. They got to the point where they'd announced the first flight test in 2005, then disappeared. What seems to have gone wrong is that they originally planned a battery powered plane, which would have worked, then switched to hydrogen and Ballard fuel cells, which didn't.

The embarrassing fact about the fuel cell industry is that almost nobody is shipping a usable product. It's still all prototypes. Five years ago, Ballard was about to launch a commercial product with Coleman, but they couldn't make it work well, and Coleman backed out. APC supposedly sells a fuel cell product for server backup power, but it doesn't really seem to be installed in any quantity. (For one thing, it requires chilled water for cooling, which is a real problem if you need power to chill the water.)

And in the case of music, the vast majority of people are "landless". Or can you show me a way to tell whether my claim to "land" doesn't infringe someone else's claim to "land", given music cryptomnesia cases such as Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music and given the current patent minefield situation?

First, I don't know about Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music so I won't remark on it. Secondly just because the RIAA "controls" most of the music sold does not mean no one else can't produce music too. Otherwise Creative Commons, internet archives.org, Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads and others websites would never exist allowing legal music downloads, at least not in their current form. Also it does not prevent others from making their own music. I might even create music myself, I have a flute by David Nighteagle I'd like to learn to play, unfortunately I haven't found someone who could teach me and I no longer learn well on my own.

Bottom line people, the right to protest DOES not include the right to anarchy, terror and violence

It does, however, include the right to speedy processing if you are arrested.

"senior police officials had said for months that they anticipated 1,000 arrests a day during the convention" (msnbc article).

So police intelligence indicated as many as 1000 arrests per day, the state and courts geared up for the onslaught, and yet the police department decided just to hold everyone in a converted maintenance garage and then release without charging them with anything? Sounds like a bit like a police state to me. Thankfully "State Supreme Court Judge John Cataldo held officials in contempt of court. "These people," Cataldo said of those arrested, "have already been victims of the process.""

So the police had a wealth of info about who they should watch and arrest and yet they went over the top and arrested entire blocks of people.

Here's a link to the story:

Arrests at GOP convention criticised

Should I just give up on music?

Should I just give up on music?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/81.95.146.98/* is slightly useful in seeing how exactly someone could get infected, but win.exe is truncated at 4096 bytes, so there's nothing to play with there ;)

That's great and all, but at the time the ReactOS crew specifically referred to leaked Windows source-code:

This is a HUGE problem, that, seemingly no one cares about.
A generation of pictures, information and general "stuff" becomes unrecoverable, worthless.
I stills shoot film for important subjects just for this reason (I'm so smart/broke - huh?)
I believe Hollywood had this problem with "nitrate" film, (most of that era's film is now dust) that's how we got "safety' film

I read something a while back about storage on crystals, I archived the info, a .pdf, oh-wait, it was on that DVD that .... nevermind.
- maybe it was this.

Holographic Storage

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/7/7

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C5313/

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Mozilla XMLTerm was an interesting project, somewhat similar to a Common Lisp CLIM "Listener", though with XML instead of Lisp.

WTF am I talking about? the merger of GUI and CLI. Basically, a shell window where e.g. you type "ls" and the listing has thumbnail icons
that are clickable. Scientists familiar with Mathematica or Texmacs might "get" the idea, too - imagine that sort of UI applied to the whole OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLTerm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050207072807/xmlterm. sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIM
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hefner1/listener.png

The internet archive has the discussion for how to make each port a different network :

http://web.archive.org/web/20070318234029/http://f orum.bsr-clan.de/ftopic5179.html

HTH

Putting up a website is like making posters and putting them up all over town. You shouldn't do it without thinking about what you are doing. If you suddenly think it's a bad idea, you are going to have a hard time rounding up all the posters. As for accidental disclosures being archived, the damage was done by the disclosure. When you take down the disclosure, you can get the content removed from the archive, in the (extremely unlikely) event it was archived during the brief period your mistake was unnoticed.

OK, I'm all for reasonable levels of personal responsibility, and I'm hardly a fan of the nanny state.

However, no-one can ever protect themselves from everything all the time. The world is too complex, and everyone is naive about something, even if they would perfectly well understand the issues if they were aware of them and then took the time to learn about the subject.

On-line publishing is one such issue, and in a world where crimes like identity theft and stalking are among the fastest growing and personal privacy is rapidly being flushed away, your arguments about due diligence look a lot like the ostrich approach to a serious problem.

The Internet Archive doesn't crawl many sites anyway: they get most of their crawl data from Alexa Internet.

Maybe still check a month's old version here here...

Wow, you're really good at spewing alarmist bullshit aren't you?

• I don't know how often archive.org scans a web page, but Google averages 1 month between full indexes (admittedly, spread out over the month). I can't imagine archive.org doing it much faster. So the chance of archive.org picking up a document that was visible for a few hours is pretty slim. Instead, hundreds or even thousands of ordinary visitors could have viewed the same information and saved it, sent it off to the press, created their own mirror, etc. You don't need to repeat the "oops, something was posted when it shouldn't have been" scenario three times.
• The Internet Archive respects the robots.txt file and will remove/not cache content that is disallowed to the ia bot. There's also procedures for removing content from the archive when robots.txt is not enough.

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

A simple trip to the Wayback FAQs would tell her how to remove all the pages indexed already, and prevent the site being indexed ever again. There's an email address if you get stuck somehow. Sorting it out by using the FAQs is quicker, so we can all get on with our lives. There is no need to sue.

Ahem

-Ted

...They want their technology back: http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wc_summ.htm (or http://web.archive.org/web/19971211230117/www.haup pauge.com/html/wincast.htm for the first occurrance of the proper hauppauge site in the web archive)

As a hoosier let me apologize that our DST battles affected you...

Scott Jones (yeah, he of Gracenote/CDDB fame) who paid the legislators because if he couldn't get the state of Indiana to switch to DST, he was going to enact a federal law to force Indiana to switch. Part of his DST propoganda blitz was that it "saved" energy...

Scott Jones

He created/paid for/ran hoosierdaylight.com which has been shut down but can be seen at wayback

Scott spearheaded the campaign because FedEx promised to turn Indianapolis' airport into their new hub, moving from Tennessee. (the airport of which, Scott was an investor) That plan fell through.

Just wondering...do you actually know any physics? Because your meaningless pseudo-scientific quasimystical terminology is really quite entertaining. What are these higher dimensions? Can you describe them mathematically? Is there any theory (in the scientific meaning, not the hypothesis-synonymous one) or evidence to support their existence?

First of all, you really need to drop the nastiness in your tone. Ridicule is a means of attempting to control another through the attempted application of shame and guilt. It is hardly the embodiment of the scientific mind you appear to champion. While I believe emotions are important, ridicule is for those who do not know how to approach the unknown without fear. It speaks volumes about the perpetrator.

Secondly, no I am not a scientist. I do, however, have a fairly strong awareness of physics and I always maintain the kind of approach to life which allows me to ask enough of the right questions to understand those who are scientists. But no, I cannot debate in terms of high numbers and formulea. Can you? If I were to present the kind of maths you are requesting, could you make sense of them? In case you can, I can submit this fellow's work. . . I have had the opportunity to converse with him through email on the subject, and I believe him to be, for a variety of reasons, a man of sound mind and high intelligence.

I can also talk at length about my understanding of how the universe works, but I am not certain it would be much use to you as you would need to have a collection of experiential building blocks which I am assuming you do not have. --That of experiencing energy and spirits and similar to the point where you cannot deny the existence of something 'more' than is covered by conventional, public arena science. The problem is that those who live in closed, safe boxes where only the 'acceptable' experiences are allowed to affect you, (and this is quite possible), the full scope of reality goes unnoticed.

Ah. I see. These higher-dimensional beings who don't obey the laws of physics are emotivores that have engineered human development to provide a source of negative vibes to feed on...this is interestingly reminiscent of Scientology. Once again, is this merely wild hypothesizing or is this back up by anything? And can you provide any scientific definition for this "higher reality" and how or why "feeding on pain" is the primary form of sustenance there?

Good lord, I'm no Scientologist! The more you learn about this area of knowledge, the more you realize just how dangerous the Scientology movement is. As per your question, entities channeled from the non-corporeal end of the existence spectrum offer a rich source of information with regard to the whole subject of how reality works beyond our own experience of it. But it is a source closed off to those who refuse to look at or acknowledge such things. Here's a link anyway to one such source, in case you are interested. . . There are several others.

Yes, and once those other factors are known, they are added to the set of relevant observations, the question is reevaluated, and the new least-assumptive theory is formulated. This is merely the reapplication of the same principle given new evidence. What you can't do is assume the other factors exist with no reason to think so, and use this as a reason to believe that the current theory is false and propose an even wilder, more assumptive theory on the basis of evidence that isn't proven or specified.

This is wonderful, but many people misuse Occam's razor to shoot down ideas before they have been properly evaluated. "Based on my limited knowledge, Occam's Razor says X is unlikely, therefore I will not bother considering X." But what if X happens to be real? Then ignoran

of Lawrence Lessig's presentation on how the Republican's invented the internet. http://www.archive.org/details/igovernance_rawfoot age_l2a

It's a cool site and all that, ... but it is NOT new or news.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://debaday.debian .net/

In the states at least, since the FCC have http://web.archive.org/web/20060503194404/www.para scope.com/articles/0497/sublimdc.htm already made their stance on this to broadcasting networks.

I think I read somewhere that the UN had a similar knee-jerk to it back then too and said the same, anyone got a link to it?

I was in a similar situation a few years back. I needed a small XML parser for our Java application. The main contenders at the time were kXML and TinyXML. Well, that URL about tells the story. Short story shorter, kXML was BSD but still too big, TinyXML was small but GPL, so I ended up writing my own. Today, kXML is still going. It's not the big projects that are hurt from a restrictive license, but the small ones.

(What is this word: I have no idea.

this idea was proposed in 2001 on halfbakery.com, an australian site for half baked ideas.

their link seems down now, so here's the wayback machine version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060305034407/www.half bakery.com/idea/OS_20ROM_20for_20the_20desktop#107 7642000