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in gentoo u just need emerge --backport --fuck-upstream --unrollloops --skip-rarely-taken-else-clauses --inlinelimit=9999999999999999999999

"All the people complaining about DRM should actually DO something"

DONE.

Sayings - Deterred Bahamian Novel - http://www.ourmedia.org/node/262954

Tings - Anuddah Bahamian Novel - http://www.ourmedia.org/node/85937 &
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/111123

drew Roberts's Storefront - Lulu.com - http://www.lulu.com/zotz

Some tings for you from zotz : CafePress.com - http://www.cafepress.com/zotz

Now for some other stuff of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zotzbr o&search=Search
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=(creator%3 A%22drew%20Roberts%22)%20OR%20(collection%3A(ourme dia)%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fauthor%3A(drew%20Robert s))
http://code.google.com/p/drsoundwall/
http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://musicians.opensrc.org/DrewRoberts
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zbcw

I am not the only one doing such things either. For instance:

http://ccmixter.org/media/tags/attribution

"so CREATE something yourself and see how it works voluntarily instead of forcing authors to agree with your politics."

Ah, I am not the one running to get copyright laws amended over and over. Retroactively. There was a legal (lopitical?) agreement made with the public, but it wasn't good enough for some. They wanted to change the agreement. Now it is wrong for others to change it back to something more like it was? Or even completely different?

Seems some people are trying to force us into new "agreements." Why should we not fight back?

all the best,

drew

I think he's talking about "Inside the Native API".

The closest thing currently at the MS version of sysinternals seems to be "Inside Native Applications". (In all fairness, this second link seems to contain information I don't ever remember seeing at the old SysInternals. But I am very disappointed that the aforementioned link disappeared.)

Speaking to a developer at a fairly large company about it, he said : "forget Mac and Linux, we say the application requires Microsoft IE 5 [at the time]". I was flabbergasted by that attitude.

Not only is he mandating a certain browser, but an entire operating system and hardware architecture! And that went unchallenged.

FWIW, Microsoft actually released versions of IE 5 for Solaris and for HP-UX.

["Internet Explorer for UNIX" page]

It's one of those historical oddities, like Windows NT being supported for PowerPC, DEC MIPS, and Alpha. (for a while, anyway...)

I've had good results uploading my material to Archive.org's Moving Picture Archive. They even prompt you with a generator while uploading your video to build a Creative Common's license suitable for your project. Of course, it never caught on amongst the general population because they don't allow copyrighted stuff and actually enforce it. As far as simplicity though, you can upload any format you want, in streaming or downloadable form without having it converted a second time to flash.

I did an hour long documentary and used Google video for the 'preview' version, and directed people to archive.org for a high quality download. YouTube degraded the quality so much that I practically begged people in the description to view it at another location. If it weren't for YouTube's popularity I would have preferred not to include it there at all.

'Course, it kinda has to be your thing, but that goes without saying.
This is just what I'm listening to now: http://www.archive.org/details/mtk165
Click up in the right corner to ge to where you can browse their whole collection.
Anyway...

Sprawl does not make sense to people who have never read "Total Atomic Defense"http://www.archive.org/details/totalatomic defen00kindrich

I found a copy in the attic of the frat house where my girlfriend lived back in the 70's and left it in the crapper for 'light reading' to take one's mind off what should be an autonomous bodily function. After reading through it places like Houston and Denver will make a lot more sense.

By the way, it is a beautiful book with a Ferrari red cover. I have since purchased my own copy and have prominently it in the guest bathroom

is there a web archive somewhere of http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm ??

At the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20050218224540/http://w ww.cheswick.com/ches/map/gallery/index.html

Actually it is the perceived speed of light that is the upper limit. In other words, the maximum speed light can ever be measured at is C.

The key point in the above is the word 'measured'. There is nothing that prevents the universe from providing an alternate way of propagating information. For example:

http://www.archive.org/details/IanWoolfMozartFaste rThanLight

There are phenomena like the Tunneling effect or the Quantum Entanglement effect that have not yet totally understood and explained...these phenomena might one day be used for breaking the speed of light barrier.

The wayback machine says:
http://www.archive.org/details/Amigaand1985/

Their previous host was Serverbeach, they had for ages a link to a referral code on their site which I just found again by looking in archive.org :
http://web.archive.org/web/20070117225745/http://w ww.isohunt.com/serverbeach-coupon-code-referral.ph p
The page does not exist though, it redirects to isohunt's main page

Main Site - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html

Panaromic view - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/bridge%20p2b.jpg

Main Site - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html

Panaromic view - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/bridge%20p2b.jpg

Main Site - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html

Panaromic view - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/bridge%20p2b.jpg

Main Site - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/theaterphoto.html

Panaromic view - http://web.archive.org/web/20060424173133/http://w ww.reighn.com/bridge%20p2b.jpg

"First thing I thought of from the name is can I find Linux Distro ISOs."

I can see how somebody who's had no experience with piracy might have thought that, but a visit to the site would have cleared up that misconception for you REALLY fast. The top three searches recently were "Prison Break," "Snakes on a Plane" and "Miami Vice" -- not Linux distros, obviously. The only OS in the top searches was "Windows Vista," which is not freely distributable.

(I tried posting this as a reply to the blog posting, but I'm not getting the confirmation email, so I'll post it here)

From a purely technical standpoint, I agree with your assertion that, for well-baked files like RSS DTDs, clients should not be relying on a file hosted by an arbitrary service.

That being said, please understand that the emotional message you're sending is: "Don't rely on Netscape".

Why?

Back when RSS was first starting out, Netscape's documentation said to use Netscape URLs for the RSS DTDs. Witness this page, published by Netscape, from late 2000:

Now, a shade over six years later, Netscape is saying "Oh, yeah, what we told you to do? Never mind. We're not supporting it any more."

If Netscape/AOL was shutting its doors, that'd be one thing. If the service in question was obviously onerous, that too would be understandable. Or, if Netscape told people "For the love of all that is holy, don't use our URLs for your DTD needs!" from the get-go (based on that document, you didn't), any such reliance would be our own fault.

But, because AOL does not want to serve up two static files, each of which is smaller than the "Netscape Reports" graphic on the netscape.com home page, Netscape is abandoning a service they told people to use.

So what are we to think about Netscape's current services and their long-term usability?

So, Kucinich apparently hasn't found a place for this on his newer site, but thankfully via the magic of the Wayback Machine, I can point out that Kucinich has received the endorsement of Grandfather Twilight, a classic children's book character. Clearly, that lends him enormous credibility for 2008, as it did in 2004.

According to the Internet Archive, the DTD was last changed in February 2003. Here's the latest copy of RSS 0.91. Perhaps someone should set up a redirect at PURL.

According to the Internet Archive, the DTD was last changed in February 2003. Here's the latest copy of RSS 0.91. Perhaps someone should set up a redirect at PURL.

According to the Internet Archive, the DTD was last changed in February 2003. Here's the latest copy of RSS 0.91. Perhaps someone should set up a redirect at PURL.

I think Google has a case to answer here, I simply don't believe Microsoft maps can possibly legitimately be ranked where it is.

Since this is the first I had heard of Microsoft's map site, I am not struggling with this so much. First, if you search for "map", it's at position six. Looking at the Alexa comparison, the Wayback Machine (compare with the one for Google Maps), and the Wikipedia history for Microsoft's maps, this all seems appropriate to me.

And as the clincher, the SNL skit Lazy Sunday mentions Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, and Google Maps. No mention of Windows Live Local (or is it Microsoft Virtual Earth? Or, as you call it, Microsoft Maps?). As they say, "Google Maps is the best. Double true!"

I think Google has a case to answer here, I simply don't believe Microsoft maps can possibly legitimately be ranked where it is.

Since this is the first I had heard of Microsoft's map site, I am not struggling with this so much. First, if you search for "map", it's at position six. Looking at the Alexa comparison, the Wayback Machine (compare with the one for Google Maps), and the Wikipedia history for Microsoft's maps, this all seems appropriate to me.

And as the clincher, the SNL skit Lazy Sunday mentions Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, and Google Maps. No mention of Windows Live Local (or is it Microsoft Virtual Earth? Or, as you call it, Microsoft Maps?). As they say, "Google Maps is the best. Double true!"

Now is a good time to read and print...

The good news about nuclear destruction
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=516 48

What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent!
http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm

Don't forget to duck and cover.... this keeps you safe from a nuclear blast.

http://www.archive.org/stream/DuckandC1951/Duckand C1951_64kb.mp4

Disclaimer - I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy. I just wanted to find first-hand whatever I could about this situation.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cisco.com
has a nice listing of previous cisco home pages. I browsed through this quite a bit, and it looked like they were using the term "communicator" extensively. I didn't see iPhone on any of these historical pages. I'm inclined to think they just might have made "iPhone" a new, featured product in the last 72 hours.
Interestingly, I did find iphone by VocalTec in 1996, see:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961225003516/www.voca ltec.com/iphone.htm
but since VocalTec is an Israeli telecom equipment provider, and IANAL, I don't know what to make of this. My only thought is that probably their iPhone is no longer being actively used, and I don't know if it was even a trademarked name.

Disclaimer - I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy. I just wanted to find first-hand whatever I could about this situation.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cisco.com
has a nice listing of previous cisco home pages. I browsed through this quite a bit, and it looked like they were using the term "communicator" extensively. I didn't see iPhone on any of these historical pages. I'm inclined to think they just might have made "iPhone" a new, featured product in the last 72 hours.
Interestingly, I did find iphone by VocalTec in 1996, see:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961225003516/www.voca ltec.com/iphone.htm
but since VocalTec is an Israeli telecom equipment provider, and IANAL, I don't know what to make of this. My only thought is that probably their iPhone is no longer being actively used, and I don't know if it was even a trademarked name.

This is just some bloggers, not a legal opinion, even if it's from a lawyer.

Here's a demonstration that Cisco was continuously using the trademark: the support web site for the iPhone, as archived at archive.org. "With InfoGear recently being acquired by Cisco Systems, there is currently no change to your iPhone coverage. We hope you continue to enjoy using your iPhone, and we thank you for your business. So, even if Cisco wasn't selling new units, they were still supporting the old ones. That page has been archived every year since 2000, so that's a form of continuous use.

There's an active user base. The University of Florida went iPhone. There's a description of their configuration here. They have a VoIP infrastructure with three Cisco CallManagers, two Cisco 6608 VoIP gateways, a Cisco Unity voice mail system, and many Cisco IP telephones, some of which are iPhone units, on desktops. The University of Pennsylvania also went iPhone. There are probably corporate installations too, but they tend not to publish their phone instructions on the public web. Those installations have to be supported, which is something Cisco does, and gets paid for. Cisco is in the network infrastructure business, after all.

As long as there's support, and support-related revenue, the trademark is clearly in use.

Archived version of her clients page from 2004 - for those who like to see things with their own eyes.

It's kind of nice that there's no sense in removing information to downplay it. It's scary that there's no sense in removing information to downplay it.

I, for one, would be interested in finding Al Gore's home phone number and leaking that.

Here's an interesting bit from archive.org's Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060824185939/www.cisc o.com/en/US/swassets/sw293/trademark_statement.htm l
That's their archive of cisco.com back in August 24th in regards to their trademarks. No iPhone.

Now, visit the same page as it is currently:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/swassets/sw293/trademar k_statement.html
Amazingly, there's now iPhone listed. And iPhone's now featured on their front page, where before it barely had any mention other than compatibility statements.

Took them 7 years to update their trademark page. Good timing, that.

Steve, buddy, if you use this to win, I want one of each product line.

And now? With the .mp3 format and the internet and the whole "information age," what big independent act is around to follow in those footsteps? Koopa? Sure, there are independent "jam" acts all over the place trying to fill that void (Umphrey's McGee, Gov't Mule, Tea Leaf Green, String Cheese Incident as well as smaller acts like Soldiers of Jah Army and The Bridge) but, even with the help of the information age and the internet, have yet to really take off.

"...do we necessarily need a large label? Probably nowadays, no you don't." No, you don't. The Dead proved that over 30 years ago. Also proved you don't need the internet or any fancy information age form of communication, either.

Don't get me wrong. The most powerful way (especially for independent musicians) to get your music out is word of mouth. And sure, cell phones and the internet and sites like the Internet Archive all help, but likely it will still take a friend to tell you they saw [insert band here] and really liked them for you to do anything about it or to take notice of said artist. Great, so bands have websites and people can go there and possibly download music, or buy their CDs, or read all about them. People still need to have some motivation to go to that website.

I posted this problem yesterday here.

Apparently Apple didn't meet Cisco's terms.

Now, Apple is in a terrible position. They either meet Cisco's terms, or change the name. Cisco could have Apple products seized and forfeited at Customs for trademark infringement.

Cisco has been selling and servicing products under the iPhone name for years. Here's the original InfoGear iPhone product announcement from 1999. "With just a few simple points of the stylus, you can make phone calls, check email, or search the Web." It was even on Slashdot.

Find active email address for SPAMMing from the Internet Archive, and they supporrt the Creative Commons.
http://homeserver.us.archive.org/log_show.php?task _id=9600001

NSFW = Not Safe For Work, yet this guy send in an email from work! Way to go "benji rainforest", hope your porn needs do not get in the way of your duties at Sysco Alabama. If they do, I am sure you can be replaced.

http://kink.com/php/modelt/?action=show&id=13670

"they hope it will spark development of rapid prototyping for the consumer market in the same way the Altair 8800 did for personal computing in seventies."

I see them being used this way.

Whatever you do, DO NOT USE BLARS he runs a pretty mean black list, so bad that he his website probably got pulled or he was forced to pull it

if you happen to be the mail admin i would suggest checking out mxtoolbox.com

• The first 90,000 miles are toll-free, Cisco Systems company profile (detailed), 8 September 2002.
• The first 90,000 miles are toll-free, Cisco Systems Newsroom news story (brief), as seen on Newsroom, 21 February 2001.

Articles discussing this include:

• Now that's a long distance call!, Humans in Space, NASA, 3 June 2003.
• Johnson Space Center, NASA Spinoff magazine, 2001.http://www.techbriefs.com/spinoff/spinoff2001 /johnson.html -->
• This isn't Houston, Lafe Low, CIO Magazine, 1 October 2001.
• Voice over IP takes a giant step forward, Jon William Toigo, Washington Technology vol. 16 no. 1, 2 April 2001.
• Astronauts call home via shuttle VoIP link, William Jackson, Government Computing News, vol. 20 no. 5, 5 March 2001.

UFOs are not fun and games, they are not delusions. They are real. The phenomenon has involved real technology, doing real things that are not supposed to be possible. This technology, since at least World War Two, has engaged in a confrontational and provocative manner with U.S. military forces on many occasions. It has involved both air space violations and alarmed responses, and has elicited the concern of some of the highest ranking military and intelligence officers in the country.

We know this because, for a relatively brief period in America's history (primarily the late 1970s and into some of the 1980s), the Freedom of Information Act enabled researchers to obtain official documents from government agencies which clearly demonstrated this. Not that FOIA is officially dead today, but it has had its ups and downs over the years. As far as obtaining UFO-related information, FOIA's moment of glory was long ago, in the post-Watergate and post-Vietnam era.

Thus, agencies such as the CIA, DIA, FBI, and pick your alphabet-soup agency, which for years had steadfastly denied having anything to do with UFOs, suddenly released thousands of pages of documentation proving the opposite. It is true that, among these officially released documents, there is no absolute smoking gun - e.g. a memo from the President stating "Okay, what do we do about these pesky aliens, anyhoo?" There are, however, quite a few documents that are one cut below this. That is, documents that describe utterly awesome military encounters with the unexplainable.

Taken individually, such FOIA documents do not prove the existence of UFOs as something "not us." After all, people, even military witnesses, can make mistakes. Radar can be faulty or misinterpreted. But, taken as a whole, the released FOIA documents provide a large body of evidence relating to serious military encounters with UFOs. After you read the first fifty of these, you start to wonder.

Let's review a couple of these documents. . .

You can read the whole of his essay, (in two parts).

The quote from above comes from the second part. The first part is, what I thought, a fascinating historical review of how the world works with regard to secrets.

Or you can read his book. It comes highly recommended. --This is not your average "Woo woo, Leonard Nimoy looks at UFO's!" book. It only looks at cases reported by multiple airforce/military/police witnesses, (due to their typically being selected for being sane and sound individuals as well as the procedural documentation recorded in each case as a requirement of their jobs). Even though civilian accounts are left out, the book still manages to cover a couple hundred cases from the 40's to the 70's. It also deals in depth with the military and political side of the issue, and easily refutes many of the common misnomers about UFO's, (of which several are represented on this site).

He doesn't, however, get into what UFO's are here to do. That's a whole other can of worms.

Here is some channeled work which attempts to shed light on that subject, among others. (Beware, with a group like the one this particular material comes from, a lot of creepy people also come out of the woodwork to spread fear and confusion and lies, etc., in order to stop people from looking. So take everything, including this, with a grain of salt. This is the kind of material and subject matter which makes people want to play a lot of video games and shut out eve

OFFER FUCKING DRM FREE MUSIC FROM YOUR OWN SITES

Although DRM is a big motivating factor for us people that understand the issues surrounding new technology, most people still don't know what it is, or how invasive it is. As much as I'd like to be able to buy DMR-free music to instantly download from the Internet, I doubt such a move would have much impact on sales.

Incidently, as you're into being legal yet avoiding DRM (a difficult combination), have you considered downloading legally free music from archive.org's Netlabels section?

and will be taking the next boat to another continent

Tsk, tsk. Loose Lips Sink Ships. I hope you're on good terms with the Bermuda Triangle's secret masters....

I'd rather pirate the track and give the artist the buck directly. If only there were a way to do that...

I'd rather pirate the track and give the artist the buck directly. If only there were a way to do that...

In 2001, the FBI rounded up large numbers of Israelis, some of whom failed polygraph tests

It's disingenuous to ask us to "Name a spy caught after failing a polygraph test" because 99% of the time, "spies" get deported with no other consequences.

Of the remaining 1%, the government screws up most of the cases & drops (or never files) the espionage charges in lieu of something else they can easily prove.

http://www.nice-tits.org/

Welcome to the official site of the Royal Tit-Watching (Ornithological) Society of Britain. We hope you enjoy viewing our splendid collection of tits.

Yankee
Hotel
Foxtrot

http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

It's not music, it's numbers stations. You can take a listen at just a few mp3s to check what a number station sounds like.

6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer.
Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care?
7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
I'm assuming they knew this when they made it.
9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while.
11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis.
15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest.
17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Does that even warrant a comment?
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862.
24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK.
Only 1/3?
28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000.
32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
This is from 2003..
35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers.
Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory?
37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre
You mean they test materials now?
41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland.
Insert prior evidence here.
42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov
2004.
48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles
2001
49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes
1978
50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.
Didn't know, or didn't care to know?

I'll let someone else do the last 50.

6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer.
Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care?
7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
I'm assuming they knew this when they made it.
9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while.
11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis.
15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest.
17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Does that even warrant a comment?
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862.
24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK.
Only 1/3?
28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000.
32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
This is from 2003..
35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers.
Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory?
37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre
You mean they test materials now?
41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland.
Insert prior evidence here.
42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov
2004.
48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles
2001
49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes
1978
50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.
Didn't know, or didn't care to know?

I'll let someone else do the last 50.

Google didn't invent quotes, the minus sign or other logical search operators -- I was using those back when Altavista was king -- but their site:, inurl:, etc type searches are useful. In Firefox specifically, it's nice to be able to type something like moviename site:imdb.com and have the proper imdb movie page (usually) pop up. At any rate, the real innovation of Google was/is their ranking technique which, although abused, still provides highly relevant results.

PS: Linux users are breaking the LAW every time they watch a DVD using their OS.


Bullshit. I've burned quite a few movies to DVD from archive.org and I doubt any of them violate even the US's draconian laws.