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http://www.ankhsoft.com/ does the same thing, sell OEM software online and I found them on froogle so they're not some no-name never heard of company. I almost bought a copy of Windows XP Pro since the price was about half what it costs elsewhere... until I read the fine print saying that I couldn't receive services updates with the CD key they were going to send me. That's when I knew something was wrong.

iBackups.net looks almost identical to that site, with similar pricing. iBackups wanted $99 for a downloaded copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional. I'm glad the guy got 7 years in prison.

http://www.ankhsoft.com/ does the same thing, sell OEM software online and I found them on froogle so they're not some no-name never heard of company. I almost bought a copy of Windows XP Pro since the price was about half what it costs elsewhere... until I read the fine print saying that I couldn't receive services updates with the CD key they were going to send me. That's when I knew something was wrong.

iBackups.net looks almost identical to that site, with similar pricing. iBackups wanted $99 for a downloaded copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional. I'm glad the guy got 7 years in prison.

he also used to sell domination related t-shirts i think.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20050223012842/rfjason. com/resume/?page=resumecomplete Sites: http://rubberstampmanagement.com/Default.htm Jason Fortuny Kirkland, WA. RFJason@RFJason.com 425-443-1573 "It's like getting three employees for the price of one." "I can learn new technology in a matter of hours instead of weeks like other technical people." "Went on sabbatical from RSM for six months to enrich customer service experience." "Developed cost-reduced method for letterhead and business card printing."

Behold his privacy policy

... now he's yanking information that was on his site, design portfolio stuff, etc... silly man, doesn't he know about the wayback machine? :)

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

Actually, I'm looking at the site on archive.org and this guy is greasier than you portray, IMHO.

Firstly, he has the disclaimer at the bottom of the home page:
This service is designed for current legal owners of the software listed at this site.

Then if you move away from the home page, you get a different note:
iBackups.net uses the latest secure 128 bit encryption when placing all orders so you may consider your order process secure and as safe as it can be!
(because nobody ever reads the home page in deatail. you're busy looking for what you want!)

A typical sale is for a file download, and for an extra 20 bucks you get a CD in the mail.

Lastly, there is pressure for you to buy ASAP and not research the matter any further wth:
Special Offer: Save BIG when you purchase from our site within 10 minutes of your first visit!

Grump.
This is from june 15 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/*/ibackups.net

The following is from his about us page (FAQ)
  We offer a service for our software titles that NO ONE else offers and that is instant downloads on ALL of our software!

  We give you the option to have a disc included in your order!

  The download servers we use are TOP OF THE LINE! A lot of companies will use cheap servers to save money, we use Dell Dual XEON servers connected DIRECTLY to the Internet backbone. Not once have we capped on our bandwidth, this means you can download as fast as your ISP allows you to!

  We guarantee that you will not find a cheaper price on the software titles at our site! If you do, we will beat that price, or refund you the difference within 30 days of your purchase so there is absolutely NO WAY you can go wrong with us

"While I hate thieves more than most, it is quite maddening and ironic that we put software pirates away for longer than we do child rapists."

Can somebody please provide an example of somebody who was convicted of raping a child and who received less than seven years? I'm sure there are examples out there, but my guess is that they are quite rare. By comparison, the seven year sentence for software piracy was the largest such ever. So, seven year sentences for software piracy are also exceedingly rare.

"I'm sure that this man had sold this software at prices far below what any legitimate retailer could afford."

Correct. Here is a list of his prices.

"If anything, the pirated software he did sell made for great PR to those software companies. The people who would've not otherwise purchased the software at regular or semi-discounted prices are probably pleased with their purchase, and will now be far more likely to buy the new improved releases of that product later on."

This is the broken window fallacy. It's also used quite often by fans of P2P and Russian music download sites, although they usually add "plus, I might buy a t-shirt or go to a concert because that's where the real money is."

More specifically:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961106001006/www.home filmfestival.com/infopack.html

I knew I had seen it done prior to Netflix.

Note this was in 1996.

Yup and here's the backup.

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server offers Japanese verb conjugation support. This sites been around for a while: main page from 1999. I found mentions of conjugation support back as far as 2003-02-11.

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server offers Japanese verb conjugation support. This sites been around for a while: main page from 1999. I found mentions of conjugation support back as far as 2003-02-11.

According to Archive.org, Verbix has been around since at least March of 2000.

NJStar Japanese Word processor 5.01, released in 2004 (before filing date of the application). Note the features marked, respectively, "Instant English-Japanese/Japanese-English dictionary/translation" and "Japanese verb forms generator for Japanese study."

http://homeserver.us.archive.org/log_show.php?task _id=5625800

Change the number up to go into the future, down to go back.

Anyone who kept track of Joerg Schilling, and his prominent ego, was able to clearly see the inevitable fork from quite a distance away.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020703193050/http://w ww.crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/1998q4/00 3006.htm

> I went to shake his hand, being that he's done alot for this community
> of ours. Ugh, and this gets gross, he kisses my hand instead of shaking
> it. Not only that, but he slobbers on it. That called for a bit of
> bleach.

As the article notes, you can't really un-ring the bell of publishing something online, which is exactly what HA wanted to do. Obeying robots.txt files is voluntary, after all, and if the company didn't want the information online, they shouldn't have put it there in the first place."

To remove a site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots.txt file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt) and then submit your site below.

The robots.txt file will do two things:

          1. It will remove all documents from your domain from the Wayback Machine.

          2. It will tell the Internet Archives crawler not to crawl your site in the future.

To exclude the Internet Archive's crawler (and remove documents from the Wayback Machine) while allowing all other robots to crawl your site, your robots.txt file should say:

                                              User-agent: ia_archiver

                                              Disallow: /

Robots.txt is the most widely used method for controlling the behavior of automated robots on your site (all major robots, including those of Google, Alta Vista, etc. respect these exclusions). It can be used to block access to the whole domain, or any file or directory within. There are a large number of resources for webmasters and site owners describing this method and how to use it. Here are a few:

                      http://www.global-positioning.com/robots_text_file /index.html

                      http://www.webtoolcentral.com/webmaster/tools/robo ts_txt_file_generator

                      http://pageresource.com/zine/robotstxt.htm

Once you have put a robots.txt file up, submit your site (www.yourdomain.com) on the form on http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html# crawl_site.

The robots.txt file must be placed at the root of your domain (www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt). If you cannot put a robots.txt file up, submit a request to wayback2@archive.org.

As the article notes, you can't really un-ring the bell of publishing something online, which is exactly what HA wanted to do. Obeying robots.txt files is voluntary, after all, and if the company didn't want the information online, they shouldn't have put it there in the first place."

To remove a site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots.txt file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt) and then submit your site below.

The robots.txt file will do two things:

          1. It will remove all documents from your domain from the Wayback Machine.

          2. It will tell the Internet Archives crawler not to crawl your site in the future.

To exclude the Internet Archive's crawler (and remove documents from the Wayback Machine) while allowing all other robots to crawl your site, your robots.txt file should say:

                                              User-agent: ia_archiver

                                              Disallow: /

Robots.txt is the most widely used method for controlling the behavior of automated robots on your site (all major robots, including those of Google, Alta Vista, etc. respect these exclusions). It can be used to block access to the whole domain, or any file or directory within. There are a large number of resources for webmasters and site owners describing this method and how to use it. Here are a few:

                      http://www.global-positioning.com/robots_text_file /index.html

                      http://www.webtoolcentral.com/webmaster/tools/robo ts_txt_file_generator

                      http://pageresource.com/zine/robotstxt.htm

Once you have put a robots.txt file up, submit your site (www.yourdomain.com) on the form on http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html# crawl_site.

The robots.txt file must be placed at the root of your domain (www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt). If you cannot put a robots.txt file up, submit a request to wayback2@archive.org.

Thought I'd go karam slutting maybe have a load of karma hit you too. ;-)

http://www.archive.org/

check out:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020528011342/http://o ldmanmurray.com/

or if that doesn't work, pick a link from:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oldmanmurr ay.com

check out:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020528011342/http://o ldmanmurray.com/

or if that doesn't work, pick a link from:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oldmanmurr ay.com

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmare s

Chapter 1: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter1_256kb.mp4
Chapter 2: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter2_256kb.mp4
Chapter 3: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter3_256kb.mp4

Is this documentary biased? Probably some. But it still shows some interesting facts and makes a logical arguement for why Bush acts like Bush.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmare s

Chapter 1: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter1_256kb.mp4
Chapter 2: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter2_256kb.mp4
Chapter 3: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter3_256kb.mp4

Is this documentary biased? Probably some. But it still shows some interesting facts and makes a logical arguement for why Bush acts like Bush.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmare s

Chapter 1: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter1_256kb.mp4
Chapter 2: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter2_256kb.mp4
Chapter 3: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter3_256kb.mp4

Is this documentary biased? Probably some. But it still shows some interesting facts and makes a logical arguement for why Bush acts like Bush.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmare s

Chapter 1: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter1_256kb.mp4
Chapter 2: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter2_256kb.mp4
Chapter 3: http://www.archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNightmar es/chapter3_256kb.mp4

Is this documentary biased? Probably some. But it still shows some interesting facts and makes a logical arguement for why Bush acts like Bush.

use the KISS principle

Hey, that has some merit. Following in the footsteps of the band KISS, make as much ludicrous and utterly irrelevant Firefox merchandise as possible. Bowling balls, lollipops, condoms, even a coffin... let's saturate this market baby!

imagine the Tivo you could make out of one, you could have every reality TV program at your fingertips for a little less than the cost of an average house.

Or you could archive the entire internet with several of them...

Looked his website up on the wayback machine. Last pricing was around 15% of true retail pricing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401093808/http://w ww.buysusa.com/

He might only have 4.1 million left.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401093808/http://w ww.buysusa.com/

$49.99

Obviously too good to be true.

$199, I'd believe, if Photoshop were available as an OEM edition - it's reasonable given that OEM software is usually without the "OMG SHINY" box and the decent-sized manual Adobe still ships with their products. at $499, it's obviously too good to be true.

You understand that once the seal is broken on software products we will not take them back and No refund will be issued, as we have no guarantee that it or they have been removed from your computer. We will however promptly exchange defective products. This is the same policy that all software vendors have in common. You cannot buy software at a retail store and then expect a refund once you have opened it and installed it on your computer. This would be considered software piracy on your part. Buysusa does not condone software piracy and has every intention of complying with the laws pertaining to the duplication of software. So please do not ask us to break the law. All sales are final with the exception of damaged or defective goods.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050331090113/bannedda ta.com/html/terms.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20050331094954/www.buys usa.com/html/faq.html Lets you take a gander at the FAQ-- the main site isn't up any more. Apparently, they had a special number to call to get your activation codes. Probably some minimum wage employee running a keygen.

I think "Lawyers, Guns and Money" works better.

• Google
• Wikipedia
• Internet Archive
• Free Books (Project Gutenberg)

Well, since you asked; actually I like the Neuros products as well. (I was going to call them "Neuroses"...) The problem that I have with them, which isn't limited just to them but also to many of the other non-iPod MP3 players, is that they don't have good hardware/software integration.

I had a MP3 player, pre-iPod. It was called a Pontis. For its day, it was pretty innovative, and if they hadn't killed MMC cards in favor of SD, it would probably still be usable. (Okay, the RS-232 interface would be pretty painful, but that's what card readers are for.) However, the reason I never used it much wasn't because of the hardware, but because it didn't have a particularly good or well-integrated software package.

The Neuros is almost clearly better than the iPod as a player, but because it doesn't exist as part of a vertically integrated hardware/software stack, I'm not sure it's a compelling solution. The reason that the iPod blew away a lot of other players initially wasn't solely because if its looks, it was because it offered a workflow: Rip, Mix, Burn. iTunes would rip your CDs, let you mix up playlists and organize your library; then it would let you burn the results to a CD-R, or sync your whole collection to an iPod. This was in pretty dire contrast to other manufacturers at the time, who saw "music player" programs as a separate software niche from synchronization software, which was itself separate from CD burning software. While this component model may appeal conceptually to geeks and other lovers of the "UNIX way," it was obnoxious from a user's perspective: what people want and wanted is a single massive program to do it all.

When the iPod was initially being marketed, it was billed on Apple's website as a hardware and software combination. iTunes was prominently featured. Unfortunately, most of the other manufacturers of MP3 players are doing the all-too-typical hardware-manufacturer failing of making innovative hardware and combining it with crappy software and hoping it will sell. They see software development as a cost to be cut, rather than value to be added, and are thus content shipping their device with nothing but a sync program, and depending on third-parties to provide the rest.

The Neuros player is neat, and perhaps on Linux (where there exists, due to necessity, alternatives to iTunes that users could modify to work with the device), it could be handy. But on other platforms, where people are already committed to using iTunes (or Napster, or WMP), I don't see it having much future, unless Neuros develops their own iTunes alternative.

In short, I think everyone is looking too hard for an 'iPod alternative' (or killer), when really in order to have any chance of doing that, they need to replace the entire integrated "music stack" that Apple has developed: the iPod accessory market, the iPod itself, iTunes itself, and the iTunes Music store. Simply replacing one of these components -- unless it can function as a drop-in replacement for an Apple component within that 'stack' -- is probably doomed to failure for the foreseeable future.

The exception would be Microsoft, since they could potentially develop a competing integrated solution that wouldn't suck (I said could!), but it's really too early to tell. I think they may drive Zune into the ground for other unrelated reasons, more having to do with politics than architecture.

"We put in a small amount of mechanical energy and we get a large amount out ... but until this thing is validated by science we won't be doing anything commercial with it,"

Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.

It's a real issue. Historically, water shortages have brought down several civilizations, usually those with failed irrigation cultures.

It could have been worse. A few years ago, there was much talk of "privatizing" the world's water supply. Enron entered the water-trading business. (Their web site for water trading was Water2Water.com.) Fortunately, this didn't catch on, except in Australia, which does have water trading.

99% of the legitimate 99% is music. Its just legal http://bt.etree.org/ and http://www.archive.org/audio for starts.

How do you know that the independent music that you download is lawful? Heck, how do even the bands know that their music is lawful, given the subconscious copying doctrine?

"Oh, and 99% of the legitimate 99% is music. Its just legal http://bt.etree.org/ and http://www.archive.org/audio for starts."

Good thing we have Piratebay to keep them free.

Yeah, I'm relatively sure that 99% of torrent download ARE legitimate things like linux distros..

99% of the torrents I download are legitimate things. Those that aren't are usually software that I want to try and then don't use because they are inferior to freely available alternatives.

Oh, and 99% of the legitimate 99% is music. Its just legal http://bt.etree.org/ and http://www.archive.org/audio for starts.

I don't think anyone would remember, let alone know about, this company.

AdExact was a small company located in Waterloo, Ontario, and was founded by Stephen Basco (of the PixStream fortune). The company had a product that was similar to what google is starting to talk about: targeted TV advertising.

The company eventually ran out of money and had to close down the shop.

I wonder what would have happened if they had managed to stay afloat for a few years? I also wonder what did happen to all that technology and know-how?

It's the thing the Sci-Fi channel is on! And you call yourself a slashdotter...

I don't watch TV, other than down the pub for a footy match now and then (which will probably be considerably less frequent with the new EPL distribution of matches.) I do, however listen to old radio X-1 and Dimension-X plays on classic sci-fi from the 1940's and 50's. Follow this link.

can you name a movie in the public domain?

How about Night of the Living Dead? I downloaded that legally last year before Halloween. Try it out some time.

don't take it from me, they have had web pages for many years.

I assume you mean that they have had different web pages for many years, but that's not true. http://www.fsf.org/ and http://www.gnu.org/ used to serve the same web site, until the former was redesigned a year or two ago. (See archive.org for May 25, 2003, for example).

But it's true that the GNU project and the FSF are different, and the FSF has increasingly been distinguishing the two.

Didn't the RIAA say some years ago that they didn't have a problem with friends copying CDs? They said that that's not a threat and they're focusing on peer-to-peer as the end of the world. A quick, random browse through the internet archive didn't turn anything up, but I don't have the time right now to go all the way through it. Does anyone else remember this?

"Sorry, the page you requested was not found." IE, 404. So to assuage the disappointment of those who went to the geocities page you gave a URL to, here's a shameless plug for some of my buds.

Here is an old page; their hosting ran out so it only links to the (loathed by slashdot) MySpace page (warning - music plays when the page loads). Here is a shitload of MP3s from them. Here are some more musician friends and here is a half dozen CDs worth of losslessly compressed music from them.

Free music, courtesy of my friends here in Springfield; I've known and partied with these guys for years. Posamist is playing the Illinois State Fair tonight at the Bud tent, if you're in central Illinois go on out.

Marc Andreessen, short of Jaron Lanier, the most overrated poseur in tech. Glory hound, marginal programmer, front man for Jim Clark, thew guy who threw away the biggest tech opprotunity since M$ sold IBM DOS. Check out this article "Imposter Boy":
http://web.archive.org/web/20030212202753/http://w ww.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html
The fact that he gets glowing articles for wearing a suit is a true case of the soft bigotry of low expectations.