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The photo of the secret high speed overpass prototype WAS at :
http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html ...but the shocking link finally died in July 2004 and the new location 2005 does not have a photo of a RFID bridge underpass RFID database collector.

pssst, they haven't yet wiped the archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20010502162058/http://w ww.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20010429231038/http://w ww.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm

The experiment might have worked with some kind of Ni-Cad powered analogue bricks in 2000-2001. Maybe.

And pardon my lack of physics knowledge... but wouldn't the radiation have to be ionising for this to work?

That's why we should put up a bunch of these towers. They can power the world, and we can use oil for toothbrushes.

(http://web.archive.org/web/20030418044709/http:// www.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.htm l)

[i]Oi, that joke is old, tired, and stolen from Scott Kurtz.[/i]

Well, either Scott Kurtz stole it from Scott Sharkey (of 'The Comic', which the internet has forgotten) or he came up with the same idea independantly. If the latter, is it so unreasonable to think others have done so as well?

As far as 'The Comic' goes, all that appears to remain of it is it's index on the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991003123553/http://w ww.verge-rpg.com/thecomic/
Well, that and the archive on my HDD.

(It's the 3/17/99 strip I'm reffering to if anyone cares)

You are looking for this. There's a link there to download into, also.

Technical Explanation (Wikipedia says this doesn't exist anymore :) )

http://web.archive.org/web/20000302035403/http://w ww.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa/msft-nsa.html

Yes. Do. Right now. If you haven't seen this, and if you still believe a damn thing either George Bush, Michael Moore or Osama bin Laden have to say about The War Against Terror, download this, watch it, be enlightened. Learn why they want you afraid, and how little reason there actually is to be frightened.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Since this is now an oldish discussion, posting three links to ~200MB files on /. is probably not as terrible an idea as it initially sounds :)

Yes. Do. Right now. If you haven't seen this, and if you still believe a damn thing either George Bush, Michael Moore or Osama bin Laden have to say about The War Against Terror, download this, watch it, be enlightened. Learn why they want you afraid, and how little reason there actually is to be frightened.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Since this is now an oldish discussion, posting three links to ~200MB files on /. is probably not as terrible an idea as it initially sounds :)

Yes. Do. Right now. If you haven't seen this, and if you still believe a damn thing either George Bush, Michael Moore or Osama bin Laden have to say about The War Against Terror, download this, watch it, be enlightened. Learn why they want you afraid, and how little reason there actually is to be frightened.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Since this is now an oldish discussion, posting three links to ~200MB files on /. is probably not as terrible an idea as it initially sounds :)

The Internet Archive Project http://www.archive.org/ is running on the PetaBox http://petabox.com/ rack system, which was commercialized by Capricorn Tech http://www.capricorn-tech.com/ more than a year ago.

This system uses absolutely no board/controller lever redundancy, instead they use a separate file system on every disk, then mirror pairs of 1U units, and finally mirror the entire (mirrored) rack to a geographically distant location.

I am currently testing a much denser solution, the SATABeast http://nexsan.com/products/products/satabeast/sata beast.html from nexsan http://nexsan.com/ which manages to pack 42 500 GB SATA drives into a single 4U rackmount box. With multiple RAID5 volumes and shared hot spare drives, this results in about 17-18 TB of usable file system space.

According to the nexsan engineer I spoke with today, they do so much burn-in testing of the Hitachi Deskstar drives they ship, that over the 15-18 month period they've used these drives, the total error rate has been just 0.4%.

Even if these numbers are somewhat skewed due to many systems (i.e. drives) being relatively recently installed, it is still very impressive.

For our setup we plan to use multiple full boxes, each connected to a separate NFS server. Each server has multiple FC host adapters, so if a server crashes, the corresponding box can be connected to one of the other servers.

We will also use rsync to mirror all data across the country to a secondary site.

Terje

http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php

By those who truly care about the human tradition, and spreading the music of the Grateful Dead and other freely available media.

Is this another slashvertisement?

http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php

By those who truly care about the human tradition, and spreading the music of the Grateful Dead and other freely available media.

Is this another slashvertisement?

Can't the Internet Archive be used to see some of the blogs before they were edited?

Some more on Gate's + Allen's original BASIC is preserved here . I recommend finding the Gates interview in Programmers at Work too. Oh hey, there's copy on the same page! Gates is really pretty amazing. I'd rather have Steve Jobs market my project, though...

Some more on Gate's + Allen's original BASIC is preserved here . I recommend finding the Gates interview in Programmers at Work too. Oh hey, there's copy on the same page! Gates is really pretty amazing. I'd rather have Steve Jobs market my project, though...

I think this site may have been on slashdot a few years back.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010406133220/www.tcnj .edu/~feuss2/fibre/fibre.html

from http://web.archive.org/web/20021202071205/www.worl dofwarcraft.com/wow/faq/ :
How will World of Warcraft differ from other MMORPGs?
World of Warcraft will differ from other MMORPGs in many ways. One of our main goals is to ensure that players can enjoy World of Warcraft without having to invest huge amounts of playtime. Players will be able to complete quests and experience the world at their own pace-whether it be a few hours here and there, or week-long adventuring marathons. Additionally, our quest system will provide an enormous variety of captivating quests with story elements, dynamic events, and flexible reward systems. World of Warcraft will also feature a faster style of play, with less downtime and an emphasis on combat and tactics against multiple opponents. We also plan to incorporate several unique features, which we'll disclose throughout the course of development.

Once a character reaches 60, the only playstyles are to raid or grind. At 60 you can play at your own pace, so long as that pace matches that of at least 20 other people. Story elements and dynamic events are cool, but at 60 there are fewer and fewer quests that take longer to complete and are accessible to fewer people. Fighting a huge raid boss doesn't involve much tactics against multiple opponents. And to boot, the raid itemization progression (aka mudflation) has totally thrown off PvP balance between those who raid and those who do not.

Is was Bert, not Ernie that appeared on the poster. A picture of said poster and Urban Legends take on it can be found here

Personally I liked the Lost excerpt of the Pam and Tommy Honeymoon video the best.

Oops - looks like slashcode doesn't like a URL with http:/// embedded in it.

I'll try again

The following is all one URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021112231040/http://w ww.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

Always remember when reading this sort of survey, the research done by Justin Kruger and David Dunning of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University, which shows that
participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability, and which includes the quotation by Charles Darwin ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

To put it bluntly, stupid people believe stupid things, and are easy prey for those who for one reason or another would exploit them or just have them be their followers.

To put it bluntly, stupid people believe stupid things, and are easy prey for those who for one reason or another would exploit them or just have them be their followers.

That's exactly the conclusion the RIAA wants you to draw. P2P is dirty, they tell you, because so many people use it to steal bread from the mouths of artists children. Because all material is copyright and there's no easy way to tell the publisher's intentions, ALL SHARING MUST INVOLVE SAID "PIRACY". So give up, only the pigopolists can legally distribute music and keep all the bread from ever reaching an artist.

Share music? Why would I want to do that? Next thing you know, I'll be playing it to my friends and singing it without permission. Dirty me.

That old story is so over:

• Magnatune
• Internet Archive

Go to concerts, buy music and share it. As you have noticed, not everyone is a pig and there's more than enough to go around without choke points in Holywood. I don't have to give my money to a pig when I could give it to an artist.

No, it isn't. Anything released after the first Micket Mouse movie = copyrighted.

*Ahem*...No, no it isn't. The original _Night of the Living Dead_ (1968) is in the public domain. You'll find several thousand other post-Mouse movies here http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Dare I say that free content is making warez redundant, even second rate? Free software works better than commercial software. Free media, such as can be found at places like the internet archive or http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune is better than RIAA/MPAA crap. Give your money and mind share to those who deserve it!

Allow me to pimp the Radiators, one of the best jam bands to come out of New Orleans. There are hundreds of hours of their concerts available that you can share with your friends without charge or greed.

Dare I say that free content is making warez redundant, even second rate? Free software works better than commercial software. Free media, such as can be found at places like the internet archive or http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune is better than RIAA/MPAA crap. Give your money and mind share to those who deserve it!

Allow me to pimp the Radiators, one of the best jam bands to come out of New Orleans. There are hundreds of hours of their concerts available that you can share with your friends without charge or greed.

Dare I say that free content is making warez redundant, even second rate? Free software works better than commercial software. Free media, such as can be found at places like the internet archive or http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune is better than RIAA/MPAA crap. Give your money and mind share to those who deserve it!

Allow me to pimp the Radiators, one of the best jam bands to come out of New Orleans. There are hundreds of hours of their concerts available that you can share with your friends without charge or greed.

That would be a fun page to see tucked away in a corner of archive.org.

Google itself was in beta for years. I remember back around 1999 when it started, the Google home page had a ilttle "beta" tag snuck in there.

http://www.google.com/">Google on December 2, 1998

http://www.google.com/">Google on April 23, 1999

Other hits on the Wayback Machine yield Google home pages with gray boxes where the logo should be. I forget when exactly it was that Google decided to be a search engine in its own right; way back when, you got links to "perform your search on Yahoo, Altavista," etc. when doing a Google search.

Google itself was in beta for years. I remember back around 1999 when it started, the Google home page had a ilttle "beta" tag snuck in there.

http://www.google.com/">Google on December 2, 1998

http://www.google.com/">Google on April 23, 1999

Other hits on the Wayback Machine yield Google home pages with gray boxes where the logo should be. I forget when exactly it was that Google decided to be a search engine in its own right; way back when, you got links to "perform your search on Yahoo, Altavista," etc. when doing a Google search.

There is a 24 MB version of it in .wmv (the OP linked to a 70MB .rmvb)

Still not seen it, but it's here

(why is handling URLs so difficult on this site?)

http://ia300831.eu.archive.org/3/items/al-jaishul- islami-baghdad-sniper/al-jaishul-islami-baghdad-sn iper-70mb.rmvb

When you've got the real thing available online?

http://ia300831.eu.archive.org/3/items/al-jaishul- islami-baghdad-sniper/al-jaishul-islami-baghdad-sn iper-70mb.rmvb

Seriously, isn't this sort of thing how Arnie got rich...and into office?

http://web.archive.org/web/20050331091607/http://w ww.roadkill.net/madmins/CAT509pro.html

Check this video it's even more effective due to the fact that it's 60 years old.

I remember seeing an old movie on archive.org in which the Russians were conducting similar sounding experiments with dogs, in the 1940s.

And the Wayback Machine will save it too. Mostly.

It was already invented and went commercial six years ago. It was called "ThirdVoice." It was started in 1999. It lasted about a year, ran into a lot of opposition, got into some legal problems and shut down. Webmasters hated it.

"If you have a specific example of a specific person applying a different standard to Apple than to Microsoft, let's hear it. Otherwise, STFU."

http://web.archive.org/web/1996-2005re_/http://sla shdot.org

just for starters...

Slashdot auto-screws that second link. Here it is in plain text:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.att.com/pr ess/0498/980414.bsa.html

You know, I just realized that you're looking at a different event. This article is the one where AT&T "explains" the problem of the '98 outage. If the Wayback machine ever comes back online, you should be able to find the official statement http://www.att.com/press/0498/980414.bsa.html">her e.

When most people think of trucker songs, they think of the ones recorded by Red Sovine. Dale Watson has a few good ones too. Here are a couple:

This one is kinda funny:

When most people think of trucker songs, they think of the ones recorded by Red Sovine. Dale Watson has a few good ones too. Here are a couple:

This one is kinda funny:

> I really think we need an amendment to the Constitution that says "the words 'no law' shall be
> construed by the courts to mean 'no law whatsoever, without exceptions, and this means you,
> moron.'"

Some Americans want this sort of thing banned:

http://ia300831.eu.archive.org/3/items/al-jaishul- islami-baghdad-sniper/al-jaishul-islami-baghdad-sn iper-70mb.rmvb

Can you blame them?

It's really very simple. The ACLU did actually take a stand against ECHELON at the time. They setup a website to collect information on ECHELON in August of 1999 - http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/15059prs1999111 6.html

But did they file suit against Clinton? Heck no, Clinton was a Democrat president. The ACLU is a partizan organization and will not go after Clinton.

And now that a very small subset of the eavesdropping that Clinton's Administration instituted with Echelon is being done by a GOP administration ... Well ... it's lawsuit time. The ACLU is about as partizan as you can get.

Don't believe me? They even took down all the info at www.echelonwatch.org because now that the ACLU is sueing the W administration, it must cover up the fact that something MUCH worse was going on in the Clinton Administration. You can still check out the info at www.echelonwatch.org by using the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

So yes, if you tend to be to the left of the aisle, you love the ACLU, but if you are a centrist or lean to the right, the ACLU can be seen for what it really is - The legal arm of the DNC.

I have no doubt I'll be modded down because of the extreme left leanings of /. But it doesn't make this any less true.

Al Gore gave a speech two days ago regarding the power grab. It's quite interesting. Although, IMHO, I think that Gore should have done this a long time ago, but maybe he thought that he would be lambasted as a "sore loser" (which is for another discussion, another day).

Back on-topic, I'm pleased to hear that these groups are filing this lawsuit. Since there doesn't appear to be any checks and balances in the US government anymore, somebody has to do it.

If you want to watch terrorists being taken out, check this out:

http://ia300831.eu.archive.org/3/items/al-jaishul- islami-baghdad-sniper/al-jaishul-islami-baghdad-sn iper-70mb.rmvb

It is true... it used to say that on barryleitch.com; thanks to archive.org, you can read it too:

"The infamous one with the subliminal speech. The Speech says "you will not copy this game", we originally had a bit of speech that said "You must kill mommy and daddy" but we didnt have the balls to leave that in the game..."

The slashdot decided to cut the url incorrectly when usin href so here it is again:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.urchin.com

A hit counter is extremely simple and doesn't require a lot of resources in terms of minds or hardware. What they've done requires both.

Where are the public domain sound and videos hiding? How about theGrateful Dead? I found that through Public Domain Movie Links.

The interesting thing is that the Grateful Dead is available as a streaming MP3, but in the comments section people tell you how to save it. Note: the Dead not only let people record shows, but would even offer technical help.

Well, you can start by going to the link in my sig, here are all of the bands on there. They, along with other sites like it, are mainly jam bands and the like, however. I live in Atlanta, and I have a friend that plays in a local band in Athens, Full Fathom Five. They have links on that site where you can download their whole cd for free!