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You're probably thinking about Brewster Kahle and his bookmobile. He drove around Africa demonstrating how he could download public domain books via satellite and print them out in the back of his van. He also does this in the U.S.

The far left equivalent of fascism isn't anarcho-socialsim, but communism in its various flavors. If you look at the list of political parties vying for power in the 2004 election, there were plenty of socialists and communists, but actual (joking aside) fascists didn't make the cut. Although today there are a few pathetic wanna-be "Nazis" and various other fascists in the United States, they are not even close to being a political force and tend to be social misfits. In the 1930s they had a small presence and influence in some ethnic communities, but not today*. After the US learned about them, fought against Japan, Italy, and Germany, and saw the results of fascism close up, especially the Nazi atrocities, support for fascism in the United States shriveled to practically nothing.

If anything, political discourse in the US tends towards the liberal side, not conservative. There are plenty of people arguing liberal and even leftist positions. Conservative positions do get fairly regular representation in various forms. Fascism, no.

Anarcho-socialism is so far out, nobody advocates for it. We live in an organized society, not the jungle. I doubt that it is even as "influential" as fascism.

* The various "fascists" and racist organizations (The Order, Aryan Nations, etc.) tend to be more of a crime problem (as in bank robbing) than a political problem.

The far left equivalent of fascism isn't anarcho-socialsim, but communism in its various flavors. If you look at the list of political parties vying for power in the 2004 election, there were plenty of socialists and communists, but actual (joking aside) fascists didn't make the cut. Although today there are a few pathetic wanna-be "Nazis" and various other fascists in the United States, they are not even close to being a political force and tend to be social misfits. In the 1930s they had a small presence and influence in some ethnic communities, but not today*. After the US learned about them, fought against Japan, Italy, and Germany, and saw the results of fascism close up, especially the Nazi atrocities, support for fascism in the United States shriveled to practically nothing.

If anything, political discourse in the US tends towards the liberal side, not conservative. There are plenty of people arguing liberal and even leftist positions. Conservative positions do get fairly regular representation in various forms. Fascism, no.

Anarcho-socialism is so far out, nobody advocates for it. We live in an organized society, not the jungle. I doubt that it is even as "influential" as fascism.

* The various "fascists" and racist organizations (The Order, Aryan Nations, etc.) tend to be more of a crime problem (as in bank robbing) than a political problem.

What formats do these devices understand? The OCA's books are available in a variety of formats, including text, xml (which is just the text annotated with positional information), and high- and low-resolution jpeg. Click on the "FTP" link to the left in the details page to see all formats:

details page
FTP index

It shouldn't be too difficult to write a little software that takes the xml + jpeg and combines them into a cohesive html document .. converting the xml to html would be easy, but recognizing the "garbage" where an illustration goes would be harder. Once you had code that recognized it, though, cropping and inserting the appropriate jpeg region would be trivial (the garbage's positional information is noted in the xml along with all the rest of the text).

-- TTK

What formats do these devices understand? The OCA's books are available in a variety of formats, including text, xml (which is just the text annotated with positional information), and high- and low-resolution jpeg. Click on the "FTP" link to the left in the details page to see all formats:

details page
FTP index

It shouldn't be too difficult to write a little software that takes the xml + jpeg and combines them into a cohesive html document .. converting the xml to html would be easy, but recognizing the "garbage" where an illustration goes would be harder. Once you had code that recognized it, though, cropping and inserting the appropriate jpeg region would be trivial (the garbage's positional information is noted in the xml along with all the rest of the text).

-- TTK

Have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! We're not gonna honor those bogus treaties1

Yes - they'll fight the extension of copyright. The Internet Archive filed an Amicus brief in the Eldred case (which sadly went against Eldred and the congress' new terms were left standing).

Brewster Kahle (the founder of the archive) is now personally suing the Attorney General over 'orphan works' (represented by Larry Lessig). Some details of the ongoing case here :

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 76756

and

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/case/kahle-v-gonzales

People have the right (or ought to anyway) to keep domains that they purchase, develop, and maintain in good faith

I agree, though in this case the guy is just a cybersquatter. If you look at this site's history, you'll see that as late as Jan. 2006, the guy had it parked. Legally I still think he's entitled to it, but I don't feel any sympathy at all for this guy. He sat on that domain for years hoping somebody would buy it out. After he was sued over it, it suddenly became a shopping site for computer games.

This is laughable.
I agree, your post is laughable. I didn't write that one bombing constituted an insurgency, I listed the bombing as an example of an attack from it. I also specifically stated that five (5) Americans were killed in that one incident, not the mention the Germans killed. "ROTFL!" isn't really a counter-argument.

Somehow I doubt that you have any relatives that died fighting as "anti-Nazi partisans". At the very least I can't believe that you ever spoke to any survivors. If you had, I doubt that you would find the idea of Nazis engaging in post-surrender terrorism and guerilla warfare as being a subject of humor, particularly since as a minimum there would be some fascists fighting to avoid the hangman's noose for things like this. Frankly, it is you who insult their memory and sacrifice, not me.

"Weeeell, mp3s are not illegal. There are a LOT of music out there, that is free, so mp3s4free could easily be a site linking to those specific mp3s."

If you've any doubt, the Internet Wayback machine is a good source. Here's one of the fina l incarnations. Take a look at the "popular downloads." If you're lucky enough to not be exposed to popular music regularly, I'll translate: Britney Spears, Nickelback, Dido, Ludacris and Matchbox 20 are not unsigned acts who allow their music to be distributed freely.

"So if I link to Google and Google links to something illegal, then I can get sued?"

Very doubtful. Intent and scope are a big part of it. If you were to create a site exclusively dedicated to providing links to Google search results pages which contained exclusively unauthorized copies of copyrighted works, then you might expect a C&D. In other words, the "common sense test" works here.

"As I read this, this means that I am infringing if I think it's okay that you infringe. Which also means that if I argue that it should be legal to infringe on copyrighted material, then I am already infringing."

That's a pretty slippery slope. Do you really think that?

Well lets see here.. you could go look and see who owns the national debt.. because MOST of it is the Federal Reserve.

Why is that? Because when America needs money for say.. a war.. we ask the Fed for a loan for full face value + interest + the printing cost. We could just have congress print the money as it states in the constitution and as we have done before. Both devalue the dollar but only one puts the government in debt.

Why would we make debt when we don't have to? This system does not work out in the American peoples favor.

Is it so crazy to suggest that congress just prints the money and makes it legal tender backed by its ability to collect taxes without paying a private bank a loan on it? I don't see why this is a hard sell to people and people who mention it are instantly labeled idiots and anarchists out to destroy this country. I love this place, but this long standing system of debt wrong.

The good news is.. if the 16th admenment was ruled unconstitutional then.. it wouldn't start being against the law today.. it would have never been a law to begin with.. so we don't have to pay the debt at all.. (if that were even possible.)

According to the Wikipedia article you linked to, Fred Singer does not claim that global warming is not happening.

[...]the Science Environmental Policy Project [...] claims that global warming is not happening

He claims that second-hand smoke is not as significant a factor as was previously published in the EPA report.

Perhaps they also ought to consider uploading to The Internet Archive which would help them offload the bandwidth burden. The Internet Archive carries a wide variety of works under a variety of licenses.

They were not lying to their customers. They did not omit an official Nintendo/Rare logo from the advertisements

I do not see one mention in those articles of Nintendo/Rare logos on the site at the time. Not to mention, the PSP logos are all over alliwantforxmasisapsp.com or whatever it is. In both cases, neither company comes out and says "We're company X" anywhere. Here's the link to the web archive. Show me where the website takes on the Nintendo Logo before March 2, 2000 (the date of the articles).

I agree with everyone that the attempt by Sony is lame. I don't agree with those that say that this is a criminal stunt by Sony and deserves punishment in some way.

these guys probably thought that ICQ/Miranda had the best website ever (if you think it's bad there, it was messier years before)

Remember all those free hosting services? Where are they now?

Besides, web hosting is so cheap today. For under $10/month, you can have a full web site on a good commercial hosting service. You can use CGI, Java, Perl, Python, MySQL, and AJAX. You get a gigabyte of disk space and no limit on traffic.

Further down the food chain, there's 50megs.com, at $2.00/month. Free if you're willing to accept ads. Less space and fewer features.

If you don't want the bother of running a web site, there's Myspace and its clones. Geocities is still around, although now owned by Yahoo.

If you want to store public domain material of lasting value that others might someday need, you can get a free Internet Archive account and upload it there. They have petabytes of disk space. If you have software source, there's SourceForge.

So who needs another free hosting service?

...require distributors and external end users to agree to terms that protect it at least as much as this agreement;

Its a logical extension to the program "rootkit revealer" by sysinternals (who they happend to have bought out).

Which is an interesting comment considering that GhostBuster came first.

Actually, in a rare turn of events, GhostBuster isn't the reincarnation.

MSR has been working on GhostBuster for some time, with a white paper released July 2004. That MSR site says that RootkitRevealer was released Feb 22, 2005. This fact is confirmed by archive.org, where the version archived Feb 22 does not contain RR and the one from Feb 23 does. (Not to mention the front page listed it as Feb 22.)

while the rest of your post is pretty insitefull the last bit there i dont think applies well to the gun debate as marijuanna is not a weapon.

Ah but hemp, aka marijuana, has been very important in war, the US government made and showed the movie Hemp For Victory to farmers to enncourage them to grow hemp during the Second World War. The cords of the parachute that George Bush Sr used when he bailed out of is plane when it was shot down in the Pacific during WWII were more than likely made from hemp.

Try this instead.

Wow, that's a whopper. Because according to Eben Moglen:

That OLPC is a hand-powered thick-net router. When you close the lid as a kid and put it in the shelf at night, the main CPU shuts down - but the 80211 gear stays running all night long on the last few pulls of the string. And it routes packets all night long and it keeps the mesh. The village is a mesh when the kids have green or orange or purple boxes. And all you need's a downspout somewhere, and the village is on the Net.

(Go to 41:54 in the video. Downloadable version also available.)

The rest of his presentation is fantastic, BTW.

The server is now slashdotted (or otherwise FUBAR). Use a mirroring service when posting to Slashdot, nyud.net or archive.org (linked to above article). TY. Interesting article, though.

First, Didn't the neo-nazi youths have this title all wrapped up before there were violent games?

Back then, they weren't "neo-nazi", they were actual Nazis, or Hitler Youth.

There is some interesting original footage of various fascist (German, Italian, Japanese) youth activities in Capra's Prelude to War. It's eye opening stuff.

Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/etree has a nice live music archive.

A year ago (November 2005) there was a flurry of military silly string articles (LifeHacker, Schneier, others) all leading back to a cockeyed.com article, which quoted a soldier saying they used it for locating tripwires. The site didn't leave the content up for long, but it's preserved at the Internet Archive.

Where do they come up with this 500 million users rubbish? If Yahoo has that many than I would guesstimate that Google has 1.8 billion users, closing in on 6 billion very fast.

But whatever, last time I went to yahoo to get some email, it was very difficult to actually find the "mail" link... it's so cluttered with media & celebrity bullshit.. a painful experience.

Here's a weekend project on the subject.

And you think M$FT is building this for philanthropic purposes?

Before Novell bought them Ximian forked OpenOffice. The site (ooo.ximian.com) is gone and I haven't been able to find it on Novell's site. The WayBack Machine has it, though.

This is a google cache of talkorgins.org showing the porn spam links.

However, I checked on deepx.com and it is *not* a porn site.

From DeepX.com's about page:

XML provides an open and flexible language for the creation, management and exchange of electronic content. Founded in 2000, deepX has an experienced team of consultants and developers, who specialise in the design and development of solutions using XML and the emerging technologies related to XML.

Also, another link shows www.theoi.com and it is *not* a porn site, either:

Here's how THEOI used to look via the Wayback machine.

Theoi.com has been banned by Google (no reason given) and forced to close down as a result. There are no plans to re-establish this site in the future.

wu.edu.gh is Valley View University is a Seventh Day Adventist college in Ghana.

Both deepx.com and wu.edu.gh redirect to porn sites.

Unsurprisingly, wu.edu.gh, theoi.com and deepx.com have been de-indexed by google.

I speculate that all these sites that have been de-indexed were tagged by automated processes.

hereyou go, sans pics - there is also this at Archive.org, but you may be waiting forever for the pics to load.... :)

Internet Archive link:
Over the Limit

It's slow but it works. Most of the images are still there, too.

Oh, so to make an innovative program based on a new concept, the people producing that program must have also been the first people ever to think of that idea?

You can still find a copy of the slashdot subculture section on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/*/en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Slashdot_subculture

The Shuffle supports Apple Lossless? It isn't listed in their specs.

(snip) you would understand that Microsoft was never a licensee, so the claim that they dropped Gracenote is totally impossible and false. Microsoft initially used third parties (who in turn used a wide variety of data sources, sometimes their own hand-entered data), not CDDB/Gracenote for its "Deluxe CD Player" product.(/snip)

WRONG! The feds do in fact log all car tires that pass secret monitoring points on certain highways and have for many years since T.R.E.A.D. was enacted by law. License plates are transferrable and also not 100% discernable.

It is a US felony to commercially import or sell auto tires that do not have a sanctioned spy chip RFID radio transpnders in them, with a unique GUID for every tire.

A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFID chips embedded in the tire).

Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people as far back as 2002.

I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

The US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border.

Photos of untamperable tracking chips before molded deep into tires! :
http://www.sokymat.com/index.php?id=94

the first subcontracter secretly hired for providing gear for bulk logging of tire RFID on highways in 2002 was :
http://web.archive.org/web/20021014102238/telemati cs-wireless.com/divisions.html

ALL USA cars can be radio tracked using the tires. Refer to tire standard AIAG B-11 ADC, (B-11 is coincidentally Post Sept 11 fastrack initiative by US Gov to speed up tire chip standardization to one read-back standard for highway usage).

The AIAG is "The Automotive Industry Action Group"

The non proprietary (non-sokymat controlled) standard is the AIAG B-11 standard is the "Tire Label and Radio Frequency Identification" standard

"ADC" stands for "Automatic Data Collection"

The "AIDCW" is the US gov manipulated "Automatic Identification Data Collection Work Group"

The standard was started and finished rapidly in less than a year as a direct consequence of the Sep 11 attacks by Saudi nationals.

All tire manufacturers were forced to comply AIAG B-11 3.0 Radio Tire tracking standard by the 2004 model year.

(B-11: Tire & Wheel Label & Radio Frequency ID(RFID) Standard)

http://mows.aiag.org/source/Orders/index.cfm?task= 3&CATEGORY=AUTOIDBC&PRODUCT_TYPE=SALES&SKU=B-11

(use google cache to glance at that link if you are a hacker, all access to that page is watched by the feds, as are orders.)

A huge (28 megabyte compressed zip) video of a tire being scanned remotely was at http://mows.aiag.org/ScriptContent/videos/ (the file is "video Aiagb-11.zip").
THAT LINK was still valid as recently as Feb 2004, long after my 2002 ignored warnings on slashdot. But in July 2004 died after feds saw my origianl warnings regarding T.R.E.A.D. act (RFID citizen tracking)

Here's an old version of one of my webpages:

        http://web.archive.org/web/19990210111728/www.geoc ities.com/SiliconValley/9498/sqroot.html

And here's an updated version of the same page:

        http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/sqroot.html

It isn't an exact rendering of the code in question, but it explains enough for any skilled hacker to 1) understand what's going on and 2) modify the code to create the resulting code that's in the Quake 3 source. Furthermore this web page has existed since about 1997 (archive.org doesn't go back that far for some reason.)

Now *IF* in fact the code origin comes from someone who took ideas from my site, I should point out that *I* am not the originator of the idea either (though I did write the relevant code). Bruce Holloway (who I credit on the page) was the first person to point out this technique to me at around the 1997 timeframe (prior to this, I created my own method which is similar, but not really as fast). (Vesa Karvonen informed by of the technique (through a code snippet with no explanation) at roughly the same time as well.) It was a technique well known to hard core 3D accelerator and CPU implementors, and follows an intentional design idea from the IEEE-754 specification.

Prof. William Kahan, one of the key people who specified the IEEE-754 standard (the standard for floating point the many CPUs use, starting with Intel's 8087 coprocessor) apparently presented this idea, and is the source for where Bruce Holloway got the idea. The IEEE-754 standard came out around the 1982 time frame. Though, its very likely that these ideas originate from even earlier in computing history.

But be warned: This web page is not only uncited, it is no longer on the web outside of the archive.

Three cheers for Archive.org: Penetration Testing Using Social Engineering (Part 1). He make himself sound like a mystical ninja some times, but still entertaining.

Use this: http://www.archive.org/create.php

Enter a descriptive identification string following the simple syntax rules given, and it will present you with an ftp server to which to upload your game's files. After you have completed uploading your files, click on the "done" link and then fill out the web form for your item's metadata.

I realize our item creation interface sucks, but finding the spare cycles for rewriting it is problematic. We're a nonprofit with a tiny staff, dealing with huge content on a shoestring budget. Please bear with us. Revamping this interface is in fact on our to-do list.

-- TTK, Software Engineer, Data Collections Group, The Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php

Alexa Internet has been crawling the web since 1996, which has resulted in a massive archive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet

Alexa Internet is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com, that is best known for operating a website (www.alexa.com) that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an Alexa Toolbar, allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links.

http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm
Is Alexa spyware?
Well, no ... probably not. At least not if you haven't deliberately installed some of their software.

But Lavasoft's Ad-Aware identifies a standard registry key included with Internet Explorer as "Data Miner" spyware, with little or no further explanation, and offers to delete it. I hope this page offers a better explanation, and other alternatives to deletion. Spybot identifies it too, with more explanation, and they have a smarter strategy to deal with it (more below).
The issue is the 'Related Links' feature of IE (pre-XP SP2) which appears as the 'Tools'/'Show Related Links' menu item (and a corresponding toolbar button if you added it from the 'Customize...' link on the toolbar). If you use that feature, IE will contact the Alexa servers, via MSN, to obtain information about other web pages which seem to be related, open an Explorer Bar, and display those (plus adverts and whatnot). Go check the Alexa web site to see if you think that is a good idea (and, just to be clear, I think it's a very sucky idea), or just to double-check that you haven't deliberately or unintentionally or absent-mindedly installed some of their software.

Essentially it a two edged sword.
you have the positive in the internet archive which is kind of a byproduct from alexas data mining activitys

It didnt have to be created at all but Alexas authors figured we wouldnt mind if they tracked our visits to different sites if they gave something useful back (The Internet Archive). ..

Excellent point. I shouldn't have oversimplified. Reconsidering, I disagree with me too.

The nugget of truth in my oversimplification is that a narrow focus on the competition, rather than one's own strengths and convictions, would place FOSS in the inferior position of reacting instead of acting. It also limits ambition: how important is owning the desktop in the age of network?

I am hoping that the FOSS does "win" - because I care about free as in freedom, and I think FOSS (and open knowledge in general) lays the groundwork for achieving that[1]. It's a bulwark against your DRM doomsday scenario. So in the wider picture, freedom is more important than building good software. At one level we can't lose, and it's heartening and helps us play to our strengths if we keep that in mind. At another, however, we can certainly fail to win. My previous statement was a misrepresentation, because I personally care about the not winning more than I do about not losing.

[1] See Eben Moglen's speech at the Plone conference for a brilliant take on FOSS, history, and freedom: view or download.

Haha, "Netscape should GPL Mozilla?" http://web.archive.org/web/19980113192501/slashdot .org/slashdot.cgi?mode=pollresults&pollTopic=netsc ape

RedHat chooses Gnome!

Contributed by mojoski
[RedHat] Tue Jan 13 at 10:56AM EST
From the taking-on-the-world dept.
RedHat has announced the formation of a new department known as "Red Hat Advanced Development Labs" who will be working with the people of the GNOMEteam to advance a free desktop and many nice tools for linux. Here is a link to the announcement made by Marc Ewing at RedHat. Thanks to the folks at freshmeat for making me aware of this.

Can companies like RedHat continue to make money on Free software. I'm guessing that they can. What do you think?
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Sorry. Mod me off topic I guess....

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

You might be interested to watch this. These OLPC laptops are simply Mr Kay's "Dynabooks" with (heh) inferior software. And they are cheaper than the textbooks they replace.