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According to a couple of friends of mine who work in Greece, the job market is too MS-friendly, so I would be surprised that there are Univ's pro-Unix. That is a good thing though.

Actually, while MS is dominant in workstations in the job market, my experience is that they don't really rely on microsoft tools (like .net). But that's just the companies I know of, so YMMV! :)

Again, it is unfair to condemn MS for this specific thing. All large companies have a large patent portfolio for their protection. If they start using them for devious purposes, then we blame them, not before. Imagine if a patent troll company bought these patents. You think the linux world would be safer?

That's just an excuse. Let's leave aside that the patent system is fucked up for a moment. If microsoft were acting in good faith, they would license their patent for free use by the OpenGL consortium of which they are part of. The real deal is that microsoft views OpenGL as a threat. Again read Judge Jackson's findings and see how nicely OpenGl fits the description of an application that exposes it's own APIs etc. Other than that, take a look at the halloween documents, or see microsoft's response if, as some people do, you believe they were a hoax. Actually the part of microsoft's case I posted earlier was one were microsoft stopped intel from actually doing something good! The way they sabotaged Java with their own JVM, Internet explorer bundling, wmv pushing. They are more than evil...

After my i80386sx I had over 10 cpus, all AMD (starting with am486 DX4), for the simple reason that when I was budget conscious they had the performance/price, and when I could afford expensive processors they had both the performance/price and max performance. Still, they have a small market share. It is obvious that intel has done something far worse than MS, because MS did not have someone outperforming them for years and years (while at the same time being compatible!)... Hmm, a Mac fanboy might jump into this now, but there are far too many reasons why Mac OS does not qualify as an AMD equivalent of the software world...

Actually, with the logic you are applying, it is _really_ wierd that either linux or Mac OSX haven't gained a bigger market share. They are in many ways superior to windows. But other than that, you are right AMD offerings currently are superior to Intels'. Tech savvy people here insist on AMD. :)

I'm done with my wife, my neighbors and my four year old girl. I also help teach a class for newbies, which has plenty of Aunt Betty and I'm familiar with all the bogus issues and FUD. I can assure you that the new environment is more comfortable for them and soon becomes more familiar.

Most distros' idea of migration is a non-destructive partition sizer and Grub. Once you can boot both, you're on your own. ... I can't figure out how to work MythTV, the remote control's dead, I can't find my documents, I have to re-enter all of my e-mail settings and I can't find the cheat sheet from the ISP, and that pretty Thomas Kincade screensaver is gone. Oh, and how do I get to the iTunes store?

Well, well, well, you seem to have done some research but I can easily refute most of the above and routinely help newbies get through the troubles that Bill Gates created. MythTV is an advanced topic and not really something most computer users are interested in. Where Windoze hides user documents is a real pain, but there are lots of good GUI tools to find them, much like you would use under Windoze itself if you wanted to really know. Xandros does a particularly good job of helping the Windoze refugee and provides links in a windows familiar desktop environment. Email and contact information are easy to migrate, despite Bill's best efforts to lock them up. ISP information is something the user has to enter whenever they move to a new computer or have to wipe and reload their broken Windoze PC. The same can be said for screensavers and every other customization done to Windoze, but can not be said of GNU/Linux, which is much easier to move from machine to machine. On the media front, I'll direct you to a record store, Magnatune, the internet archive's concert collection, and other sources of non DRM'd material. All of the things you mention are flaws that GNU/Linux does not share with Windoze and more reason to migrate sooner rather than later. Free utilities are superior in every case.

But ya got Bill Gates real good, didn't ya?

I'm not out to get Bill Gates, I'm out to keep him from screwing other people. When it's all done, he can sit around with his ill gotten $40,000,000,000. So long as he quits suing public schools, and trying to lock up computing, I'm happy. There's no chair throwing here.

Download: Here
"Piepatch": Here

And voila! Crappy pr0n galore!

Download: Here
"Piepatch": Here

And voila! Crappy pr0n galore!

I can't believe it, this is already a B-movie from 1950. You can catch it at the internet archive of movies. I think that D.O.A. for that movie stands for Dead On Arrival though.

I am shocked that Uwe Boll didn't get to direct this sure-to-be masterpiece! Can Corey Yuen live up to my expectations?!

Hmm... bistbuy.com doesnt resolve. Also, the only reference on archive.org from bistbuy.com was in Apr 06, 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040406094329/http://w ww.bistbuy.com/ ... Not sure where they are getting their information from... Their two other examples, rearthlink.net and dearthlink.net, also don't resolve. At least their pages at archive.org offer a little more evidence: http://web.archive.org/web/20040331061435/http://w ww.dearthlink.net/

Hmm... bistbuy.com doesnt resolve. Also, the only reference on archive.org from bistbuy.com was in Apr 06, 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040406094329/http://w ww.bistbuy.com/ ... Not sure where they are getting their information from... Their two other examples, rearthlink.net and dearthlink.net, also don't resolve. At least their pages at archive.org offer a little more evidence: http://web.archive.org/web/20040331061435/http://w ww.dearthlink.net/

Firefox rap by "Fox_E_Mama."

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/15403

and the audio: http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=au dio&identifier=FoxEMama

You looked Alan Ralsky up in jail?

It's a good thing you're only his brother.

Otherwise, "Alan Ralsky" might find a name change to "Betty Sue" and become someone's prison beeyitch. (it might still happen)

I wonder if he'll have to mortgage "The House That Spam Built"[1] to pay his lawyer to plea bargin to stay out of prison? What will he do for a job to pay the mortgage? (any assets, including money he might have stashed away and could use to pay the mortgage back off could, and likely would, be confiscated, just as his "toys" were in October, '5.

The DOJ has him in the can and his records are sealed for seventy-two hours.

I'm surprised the story hasn't appeared yet.

There's a story at news.google.com:

Hackers quaking over reported Spam King's arrest

My suggestion on SPAM-L was to use this opportunity to put the DMA on hold this time (they wrote CAN-SPAM and a VP said opt-in wasn't a viable economic model so they wouldn't use it) and have any number of the CongressCritters who later admitted rubber-stamping CAN-SPAM was ineffective at best, get something put into their hands which "Prevents the possibility of another Alan Ralsky" (but I also have said, "...we know there are others, but it makes for a good buzzphrase for them to use as a sales pitch to their peers, not to mention good press for them to toot their own horn. If that'll produce better legislation, such as fighting Ronnie "You Can't Legislate Me Out Of Business" Skelson, I'll let them toot all they want....").

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Here's the original Slashdot story, but the Detroit Free Press link it points to produces a 404. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine has many copies, such as this one.

(I'm dragging this out for those who don't know about the Wayback Machine)

If anyone wants additional info about Alan Ralsky there's plenty there about him.

You looked Alan Ralsky up in jail?

It's a good thing you're only his brother.

Otherwise, "Alan Ralsky" might find a name change to "Betty Sue" and become someone's prison beeyitch. (it might still happen)

I wonder if he'll have to mortgage "The House That Spam Built"[1] to pay his lawyer to plea bargin to stay out of prison? What will he do for a job to pay the mortgage? (any assets, including money he might have stashed away and could use to pay the mortgage back off could, and likely would, be confiscated, just as his "toys" were in October, '5.

The DOJ has him in the can and his records are sealed for seventy-two hours.

I'm surprised the story hasn't appeared yet.

There's a story at news.google.com:

Hackers quaking over reported Spam King's arrest

My suggestion on SPAM-L was to use this opportunity to put the DMA on hold this time (they wrote CAN-SPAM and a VP said opt-in wasn't a viable economic model so they wouldn't use it) and have any number of the CongressCritters who later admitted rubber-stamping CAN-SPAM was ineffective at best, get something put into their hands which "Prevents the possibility of another Alan Ralsky" (but I also have said, "...we know there are others, but it makes for a good buzzphrase for them to use as a sales pitch to their peers, not to mention good press for them to toot their own horn. If that'll produce better legislation, such as fighting Ronnie "You Can't Legislate Me Out Of Business" Skelson, I'll let them toot all they want....").

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Here's the original Slashdot story, but the Detroit Free Press link it points to produces a 404. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine has many copies, such as this one.

(I'm dragging this out for those who don't know about the Wayback Machine)

If anyone wants additional info about Alan Ralsky there's plenty there about him.

...oh come on it even has blinky text.

Do you think they'd notice if I submitted their old design as my own and claimed that laptop? xD

By the time they realised I could be half way through the BootCamp installation to spyware town.

Your Rights Online: Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 27, @05:05

the famous German film M

Related companies/projects happened in this order: MojoNation .. MNet .. HiveCache .. AllMyData

good luck!

Related companies/projects happened in this order: MojoNation .. MNet .. HiveCache .. AllMyData

good luck!

I actually met with several people from the patent office last week. They were visiting companies in Nevada to learn how patents effect our business. First thing I want to say is that they weren't a bunch of idiots and they took their job seriously.

Anyways, we discussed the idea of public patents, and there's a simple solution already. You don't have to patent anything to make it public. You just have to publish it. That's all. If you have something that could be patentable and you want to make sure that it's free for public use, just write up a whitepaper, date it, and make it available publicly on the web. Make sure it gets into the WayBack machine. They use these resources when researching patents, so it should prevent them getting granted. If not, it would still function as prior art.

Cheers.

Back in 2001 the Tucson Citizen did a project where they powered a Sun Colbalt Qube 3 off of solar power using a set of panels based on a very similar if not the same technology.

The panels they came from a company called TerraSun and the one I have on my desk left from the project looks remarkably like the one in the article.

Archive.org still has some pages from the site which is long defunct http://web.archive.org/web/20010807151516/www.sola rexplorer.net/gallery/index.php?TopicID=panels

Google finds reference to the technology that TerraSun was developing http://www.wapa.gov/es/greennews/2001/may14'01.htm

please ignore.

[ 1470529 ] Improper Parsing of Archive.org URL's.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1470529&group_id=4421&atid=104421

posted as AC using "Plain old text"

Attempting to use an Archive.org URL in slashdot.

testing begins:

Pasted as actual raw text: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9

Direct url syntax: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9>

'A' link: http://www.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9'>replaytv test

See pudge, it messes up....

please ignore.

[ 1470529 ] Improper Parsing of Archive.org URL's.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1470529&group_id=4421&atid=104421

posted as AC using "Plain old text"

Attempting to use an Archive.org URL in slashdot.

testing begins:

Pasted as actual raw text: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9

Direct url syntax: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9>

'A' link: http://www.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9'>replaytv test

See pudge, it messes up....

This is boring, set up an array of 14 petaboxes and you have the same thing. http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php Nothing new here, except maybe using 500gig drives to do so. WOW what an idea!

so why should it now ?
perhaps all these web2.0 children should learn a bit of web history

http://web.archive.org/web/20010331050750/www.webo s.com/webos/index.cfm

API/X-platform/DHTML/AJAX yadda yadda yadda
try and think of something new for a change, you know INNOVATIVE

The key question is what promise you are talking about. The promise of content implies co-operation with big dumb publishers. Those big dumb publishers have extracted almost every content penny out of Itunes, and left Apple with the crumbs of what they make selling hardware. The artists, as usual did not get anything. The end user gets a more restricted version of what they used to get on CD and competition gets buried if all goes according to plan.

Apple, by moving to Intel, seems to have made some of the same promisses that M$ has about how to enforce their big dumb publisher promises. The speculation is that Apple got suckered into the Intel DRM that the *AAs have promised to pour their content into. We shall see about content availability, but DRM can not and will not work on a general purpose computing device. The only reason Apple stuff has worked in the past is because they were the only snake in their pit. We shall also see how well they get along with Intel and if the new dongles will work any better than the old ones.

The HP eXPerience described above is a preview of what DRM is all about. It's not really new, as anyone who's tried to use WMP knows. The primary problem is that M$ is root and you are not. They have made a system where they can add and remove files and components but you can't. When you multiply this by the problems of non free software, which requires yet another set of rules, you get much more than the sum of your troubles. Each vendor on your system wants to be root and non of them can really co-operate because they keep their source code in a vault. The only way a general purpose computing device can work the way you want it is for you to be root. That pretty much rules out DRM for anything but set top boxes. That would make the *AAs happy enough but not as happy as eliminating general purpose computing.

Every free computer with an internet connection is a potential competitor. See Star Wreck and The internet Archive Music Files. It does not take much to make a movie and even less to make music.

DRM, at best, is a loser. At it's worst, you get what the Washington post reporter saw. The people who want copyright to last "forever less a day" and have sold you the same content on LPs, CDs and now as bits, won't ever give you a good deal. When they butt heads with Bill Gates, you get a real mess.

Personally, I always preferred the Tiny Toons parody http://web.archive.org/web/20011108133559/http://m embers.home.net/transactoid/thud.wmv

So, if the big names want to charge outrageous sums for their concerts, let them. As of now, the tatic seems to be working, but as the situation develops, I think they'll wind up pricing themselves right out of the market.

Here are 1400+ bands that actually want you to listen to their music:

    http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.p hp

Broadband connection fees and storage not included in the $0 price for the download.

http://www.archive.org/ has plenty of music and video to fill your hard disk with.

One might argue that http://www.animemusicvideos.org/ is piracy, but they haven't been shut down by the RIAA yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Underdogs may or may not be down currently, but only over a domain name problem. http://www.the-underdogs.info/ seems to work at the moment.

http://digihosters.com/~cdosorg/ more.

...though the requisite agencies are perfectly capable of shutting down abandonware sites regarding piracy.

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ Rockstar makes available older games for free.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3148013&did=1 101 best free games.

GP said: LJ has paid accounts and paid for their servers and setup years ago. its just upkeep now.

P said: Yeah, 'cause there aren't any expansion or maintenance or bandwidth or colocation facility costs to running a website, are there?

Well, it's not like memberships are a one-time thing; people have to keep paying for it. Even I know multiple people in a single group of friends that pay for LiveJournal, and it's a yearly thing that they pay it in.

Of course, that's kindof moot to this whole discussion, isn't it? The bit in question is how they've decided to offer users the choice of having ads in return for getting the kind of benefits (less restrictions on page modifications, more icons, blah blah blah) that paid-accounts get. The part I find offensive about this is just the fact that, well, they pledged never to do this. You can read what their "Social Contract" used to be over at archive.org, since they've changed it now. They said that these were "promises that we will keep" . . . although they have apparently been laying contingencies since at least January 2001, saying that "LiveJournal.com reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions on LiveJournal.com journals in the future".

A good example of saying one thing while in the fine print saying the opposite in much more legal terms.

Slashdot is eating the html code for the archive.org links, making even the entire formatting of my comment screwy, so here's the bare URLs.

The Social Contract: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401175244/http://w ww.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml
The Terms of Service circa Jan 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010126132600/http://w ww.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml

Man, slashcode sure does some weird stuff sometimes. This is what it looks like if I try to do one of those URLs as a link:

Why don't you click over http://www.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml>here, maybe?

GP said: LJ has paid accounts and paid for their servers and setup years ago. its just upkeep now.

P said: Yeah, 'cause there aren't any expansion or maintenance or bandwidth or colocation facility costs to running a website, are there?

Well, it's not like memberships are a one-time thing; people have to keep paying for it. Even I know multiple people in a single group of friends that pay for LiveJournal, and it's a yearly thing that they pay it in.

Of course, that's kindof moot to this whole discussion, isn't it? The bit in question is how they've decided to offer users the choice of having ads in return for getting the kind of benefits (less restrictions on page modifications, more icons, blah blah blah) that paid-accounts get. The part I find offensive about this is just the fact that, well, they pledged never to do this. You can read what their "Social Contract" used to be over at archive.org, since they've changed it now. They said that these were "promises that we will keep" . . . although they have apparently been laying contingencies since at least January 2001, saying that "LiveJournal.com reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions on LiveJournal.com journals in the future".

A good example of saying one thing while in the fine print saying the opposite in much more legal terms.

Slashdot is eating the html code for the archive.org links, making even the entire formatting of my comment screwy, so here's the bare URLs.

The Social Contract: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401175244/http://w ww.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml
The Terms of Service circa Jan 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010126132600/http://w ww.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml

Man, slashcode sure does some weird stuff sometimes. This is what it looks like if I try to do one of those URLs as a link:

Why don't you click over http://www.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml>here, maybe?

GP said: LJ has paid accounts and paid for their servers and setup years ago. its just upkeep now.

P said: Yeah, 'cause there aren't any expansion or maintenance or bandwidth or colocation facility costs to running a website, are there?

Well, it's not like memberships are a one-time thing; people have to keep paying for it. Even I know multiple people in a single group of friends that pay for LiveJournal, and it's a yearly thing that they pay it in.

Of course, that's kindof moot to this whole discussion, isn't it? The bit in question is how they've decided to offer users the choice of having ads in return for getting the kind of benefits (less restrictions on page modifications, more icons, blah blah blah) that paid-accounts get. The part I find offensive about this is just the fact that, well, they pledged never to do this. You can read what their "Social Contract" used to be over at archive.org, since they've changed it now. They said that these were "promises that we will keep" . . . although they have apparently been laying contingencies since at least January 2001, saying that "LiveJournal.com reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions on LiveJournal.com journals in the future".

A good example of saying one thing while in the fine print saying the opposite in much more legal terms.

Slashdot is eating the html code for the archive.org links, making even the entire formatting of my comment screwy, so here's the bare URLs.

The Social Contract: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401175244/http://w ww.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml
The Terms of Service circa Jan 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010126132600/http://w ww.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml

Man, slashcode sure does some weird stuff sometimes. This is what it looks like if I try to do one of those URLs as a link:

Why don't you click over http://www.livejournal.com/site/contract.bml>here, maybe?

Do you have any information on the break? I just did some searching and couldn't find anything about it. At the bottom of Bruce Schneier's page on Solitaire there is a link to an article Problems with Bruce Schneier's "Solitaire" by Paul Crowley, but it's dead. Is this what you're referring to?

(The article does exist in the Internet Archive at
http://web.archive.org/web/20050206214237/http://w ww.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/
It does describe what sound like they might be some problems with the randomness of the keystream, but it doesn't seem like a complete break. Sorry for pasting the address, but Slashdot doesn't seem to like IA links much.)

Anyway, I'd be curious in knowing what the problems with it are.

"Yahoo Bar" you say?

25 MB download for Mario 3?

If you're going to infringe copyright, do it properly.

1) Download an open-source NES emulator.

2) Download the Super Mario Brothers 3 ROM.

3) Enjoy. Those of you with an IPS patcher may wish to apply this for enhanced challenge/variety.

All of Mario 3 in under a meg, and no ad/spy/malware.

That was to expected from a company that went public and reports to their shareholders. Lots of money and values don't go together.

If they were first to something as important as watch one while recording another, you can bet that they'd mention it. Probably a TiVo innovation.

Perhaps. The lack of an entry in a marketing document hardly rises to the level of proof - somebody with an original ReplayTV could probably lend better perspective.

All I can tell from Archive.org is that they had the http://www.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9">requisite buffering technology in place in 1998 but weren't advertising the specific feature.

I wonder if Replay TV has any patents. This old marketing piece suggests the founder of the company found the technology obvious as early as 1991 and simply waited for Moore's Law to make it affordable. That might make it hard to convince a patent examiner that it was non-obvious. :)

The ReplayTV site went to one of those bastard non-accessible cluster-'o-GIF's sites soon after, relegating it to be lost to history.

If they were first to something as important as watch one while recording another, you can bet that they'd mention it. Probably a TiVo innovation.

Perhaps. The lack of an entry in a marketing document hardly rises to the level of proof - somebody with an original ReplayTV could probably lend better perspective.

All I can tell from Archive.org is that they had the http://www.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9">requisite buffering technology in place in 1998 but weren't advertising the specific feature.

I wonder if Replay TV has any patents. This old marketing piece suggests the founder of the company found the technology obvious as early as 1991 and simply waited for Moore's Law to make it affordable. That might make it hard to convince a patent examiner that it was non-obvious. :)

The ReplayTV site went to one of those bastard non-accessible cluster-'o-GIF's sites soon after, relegating it to be lost to history.

Thou art correct...

Sorry about the ugly link, but slashdot doesn't seem to like me putting it in ...

http://web.archive.org/web/20050224222429/http://w ww.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/vid eogames/B00005NCEZ/pictures

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/ is real enough for me, though it does borrow heavily from other sources. http://www.amvhell.com/ is especially good. What we need are laws that will make it easier for this sort of thing. Also see: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
Seems to me that there are enough "little men" with (almost) all the incentive they need.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/chen ey.htm">Hmm.. try again?

non-buggered link text:

http://web.archive.org/web/20031205032452/http://w ww.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/cheney.htm

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/chen ey.htm">Hmm.. try again?

non-buggered link text:

http://web.archive.org/web/20031205032452/http://w ww.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/cheney.htm

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/soref/chen ey.htm">How about a little history lesson?

It was Saddam that kept these groups apart in the first place. It's quite reminiscent of the Balkans.

Well that confirms that then. My work here is done. Stay out of trouble and other people's rectums. FAG!!!

Here's your prize http://web.archive.org/web/20030728080752/http://w ww.madstupid.net/

Congrats FAG!!!

(btw its FAG!!! w/ 3 !!! not FAG!! what are you just plain gay? haha)

Ayers said. "Linux would be further relegated to use in servers and business computers, since it would not be providing the multimedia technologies demanded by consumers."

People want music and movies not some greedy pig's Digital Restrictions Management. The absolute failure of "Plays for Sure" to gain any market share is because the DRM sucks. No one wants dissapearing music and convoluted subscription plans. You can, right now, get movies and music outside of such restrictions and that's where people are going to go.

• Archive.org has more than 33,000 live concerts and 70,000 recordings.
• Magnatune has all sorts of good music.
• Star Wreck shows what kind of movie can be made with a good idea and a few junky old computers and a few hundred bucks.

That's just the beginning.

These are the new winners. Their work is excellent and they are the kind of people I want to spend my money on. Do you think for an instant that I'm going to corrupt my computer with crap that will lock them out? I'm not alone. People are already outraged by DRM'd CDs and the only people less trusted than Sony is Microsoft. When whole collections vanish they will really howl. The winners will sit pretty on their nice media and wonder what all the fuss is about. Their market share is going to go up and up.

I'm keeping my set top box for the old losers but it's going away. You can get them for $40 at the walmart and they do a nice slide show if you feed them a CD of your jpegs. I'll give the MPAA four bucks here and there to watch their little movies. That's all it takes to not feel like I live in a cave. As more content becomes available elsewhere, I'll spend less of my time and money on that set top box. I've already dropped cable TV and don't miss it.

Uh oh! The Radar Men are going to be ticked! Quick, we'd better call... (dramatic pause) COMMANDO CODY! Don't worry, Mr. Coward! COMMANDO CODY will soon come to the rescue!

Gee, golly, gosh. Isn't that swell?

And now that you mention it, yes I have been spending too much time in the Internet Archive. Why do ask? :-P

It's just north of Factoria Mall, and definitely a suburban environment with houses on all sides. It's a gray two-story house, the only one on a downward-sloped street (SE 22nd Pl). Pretty good acreage. A Chevy Blazer in need of washing was parked in the driveway. I would've gotten some photos, but my cell phone battery died while cruising Crossroads Mall on Saturday (poor Verizon reception on an Audiovox CDM-8900), sorry.

As for who it is... Name Intelligence has some history and the whois info matches.

If the ones in Bellevue/98008 weren't all PO Box 7449, I'd visit them on Thursday. As it is, eNombre seems awfully similar in name to eNom, which itself has five siblings.

An obvious tip for those using the Advanced Search: it gives the registrars in chronological order, so you can look in your status bar at the numbers to see which were applied for together.

They may be providing what you want. What I want is easy to find, easy and fast to download, and of a guaranteed quality[1]. The P2P networks provide none of these, so there is a definite market it. I would consider iTMS, except that it doesn't release video in the UK in a timely fashion (I believe they still only have music videos and Pixar shorts[2]) and it overcharges horrendously in the UK (I'd pay between $1 and £1 for video, not £1.89.

[1] I am referring to picture quality here. I realise quality of the content is very hard to guarantee for most TV shows...
[2] Does anyone else remember these being free for download before iTMS hosted them? http://www.pixar.com/shorts/index.html">The Wayback Machine does...

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

from my blog
I broadly agree with Paul Graham's essay on Software Patents, but I do think he underestimates the damage from patent trolls, and from what he calls the mafia-like behaviour of some patent holders.
Paul has been lucky in the field he has worked in, but in the Audio and Video area there are many patent thickets. Perhaps it is the history of Farnsworth's victory over RCA that makes video engineers patent hungry.
My first startup, The MultiMedia Corporation, was a spin-out from the BBC in 1990. One of our products was a program called MediaMaker that combined video from tape or videodisc, CD Audio, Pictures, digitised audio and Director animations into picture icons on a timeline for making presentations. It was demoed on stage at Macworld by the CEO of Apple, and we got Macromind to publish it.
Then the patent troll showed up. A company called Montage had made a video editing system that included several video monitors showing edit points from tape. The company had gone out of business but a lawyer had bought up the patents, including one on using a still image to represent a video sequence. The troll was working his way round the video companies, and he caused enough trouble to stop work on the product while we worked on a legal defence instead.
Later, while I was at Apple on QuickTime, there was a steady stream of patent trolls claiming that Apple should pay them royalties; enough to keep several lawyers busy, and a lot of engineers spending time working on prior art evidence demonstrations.
Several potential features were excluded from QuickTime due to patent thickets. The obvious one was the Unisys LZW patent that encumbered GIF, but there were other more subtle pressures that meant adopting open source codecs was discouraged. Working on the patent license agreements for MPEG meant that technology ready to ship was deferred pending legal agreement on more than one occasion.
So I'm much lass sanguine than Paul about this. I think software patents should not be granted, and the European Union's banning of them is the right decision. I hope the Gowers Review in the UK makes this UK law as well.

Right on. It would be really nice if they offered better quality downloadable versions of the videos in addition to the quick streaming Flash/Shockwave/whatever crap. That's one reason i frequent archive.org's video collection moreso than anywhere else. If you first want to quickly see if something is any good you can download/stream heavily compressed realmedia or mpeg4. If you decide you like it (and maybe want to even add it to your media center or burn a disc) they have mpeg1 (vcd quality) and even mpeg2 (dvd quality) versions available of most things.

For another example take a look at Systm, the online technology show. They offer their episodes in H.264 Quicktime, Theora, Windows Media, XViD and even available over bit torrent to take the strain off their servers. IMHO, this is the kind of online programming that will endure. IMHO, the flash stuff is best suited for previews and short clips that are mildy amusing.

Maybe Youtube just wants to save on bandwidth, but for sites that are serious about delivering video content they should really step it up a notch. We're not on 56k modems with 640x480 15" CRT displays anymore.

Know the signs! :)