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If by less then 3 years, you mean over five years, then you're closer.

"Of course there's no pleasing the slashdot crowd."

Not when we've been around long enough to remember that mp3.com started as an "mp3 warez" site. Speaks volumes.

If you go to gmail.co.uk, you now recieve a "website not configured at this address".

However, a quick trip to the Wayback Machine shows the old version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041112084149/http://w ww.gmail.co.uk/

What does this mean? Are they stopping the use of gmail.co.uk?

and go figure, SEVEN YEARS AGO they were posting about http://www.slashdot.org/">Java being open source or not...

plus ca change...

These idiots have been so careless as to post on their www.pennyarcade.com web site what they are doing regarding the harassment of me.

Actually www.pennyarcade.com was the website for a "Queer theatre" troupe.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021123192944/http://w ww.pennyarcade.com/

I guess it's a moot point to jokingly call Jack homophobic. His attacks on Islam have already painted him as cookie-cutter Christian Right.

Well, according to the Wayback Machine this overall design goes back to at least the second year of Slashdot's existence. According to my whois output Slashdot.org was registered:

Created On:05-Oct-1997 04:00:00 UTC

Regarding a complete redesign, sure some stuff could be changed but this layout is conducive to the type of conversations we have on here. When I don't have mod points I cruise at +3 - Nested - Highest Scores First. I've seen posts on Digg about how Digg is going to be the death of Slashdot and I just don't agree. Sure there are teh lamers on here that post stupid crap. When you get above a certain moderation threshold on Slashdot (for me it seems to fluctuate between +2 and +3) the discussion differences between Digg and Slashdot on highly technical matters are an order of magnitude different. Similar to the difference between a conversation on filesystems in a high school comp-sci class and a Post-Graduate discussion on filesystems.

I didn't mean for this post to turn into a jab at Digg.com but the sheer stupidity of most comments there and the overall juvenile quality of the discussion has turned me off of it completely.

Digg is the exact opposite from Slashdot for me. I go to Digg to look at the links and absolutely ignore the usually useless drivel in the comments. I go to Slashdot and ignore the link and dive into the overall interesting and enlightening comments! Laugh all you want but I've found most comments at Digg.com to consist of "LOL me too, that is teh stupidz who would ever buy that????" No thanks.

You can see a bit of the evolution of Slashdot here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20040223103236/http://w ww.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_haxxxor.html http://hoghole.com/videos/

Don't tell the MPAA, they will buy it and turn it to something horrible like movie.com! See tv.com!=tvtome.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19970122085113/http://i mdb.com/ (couldn't use HTML link for it, so copy and paste that (no spaces)).

If you read about it, the U.S. government is far, far more corrupt than the average person thinks. Huge amounts of money are borrowed and embezzled. Some people say the money is not stolen, but it somehow makes it to the pockets of the rich, making the rich richer.

The U.S. government is very violent: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories. The violent way is preferred because it is more profitable: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former President of the U.S. and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

Here is the same video, but with no transcript, and it requires watching a commercial: Andy Rooney on the Iraq War. Here is an MP3 file of the same broadcast: Andy Rooney on the Iraq War. Here is a transcript from the publisher: Ike Was Right About War Machine.

The U.S. government is for sale to whomever has money: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

From reading about the U.S. government, I've found that many agencies operate efficiently and sensibly, but that the corruption caused by the military-industrial connection is more than one person can completely understand, there is so much material.

I think the tobacco industry realizes how devastating to their several century old deathgrip (heh) on America if marijuana were freely available.

I don't as the tobacco industry would be for keeping hemp illegal as they can just as easily grow hemp themselves for one, and growing hemp is cheaper than tobacco. Hemp doesn't require any external chemical inbputs whereas tobacco uses a lot of herbicides and pesticides. Sure people could grow their own to smoke but hemp has many more uses than just smoking it. Hemp seeds are an excellent source of proteins or amino acids and much of the plant can used for food. Seeds are also a good source of oil. The oil can be used to make biodiesel, and the plant can be used to make methanol. Both of these are net carbon neutral sources of fuel for vehicles. The cellulose from hemp can be used for making plastic as well. For all of these uses hemp would have to be farmed and tobacco farmers wouldn't have a problem switching. Actually at one tyme farmers grew both hemp and tobacco, as did Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson once wrote that he thought there should be a law requiring farmers to grow hemp, but he could never propose such a law himself because he knew this would be an abridgement of farmers rights. During WWII the federal government made the movie "Hemp For Victory" to encourage farmers to grow hemp.

Quite simply hemp is a vary versatile plant and was made illegal because powerful industrialists thought it could possibly threaten them.

i've never known anyone to get high and oh, say, beat their wife, or wreck head-on at 90mph racing down roads, or even really do much of ANYTHING

Violence induced by cannaboid use was one of the "reasons" hemp, marijuana, was made illegel. Take a look at the movie "Reefer Madness". Yet, it has actually been shown to have the opposite effects. Instead of making people violent it makes people sedate, tranquil, or laid back. It's such a shame lies were made to made hemp illegal, especially when it's one of the most industrially useful plants there is.

Try this link from The Wayback Machine, they have quite a few of the pics: Archive.org
My favorites, The Buffalo and The Wright Brothers

Try this link from The Wayback Machine, they have quite a few of the pics: Archive.org
My favorites, The Buffalo and The Wright Brothers

Try this link from The Wayback Machine, they have quite a few of the pics: Archive.org
My favorites, The Buffalo and The Wright Brothers

http://web.archive.org/web/19970401113847/http://w ww.chemistry.com/

It was bought out.

Considering the secretary who wrote such letters, as requested by the commanding officer, confirmed that the sentiment of what was written was correct

Sentiment, maybe, but not applied to Bush in particular:

"Knox said she had no firsthand knowledge of Bush's time with the Texas Air National Guard, although she did recall a culture of special treatment for the sons of prominent people, such as Bush and others."

link

Does anyone know how exactly they scored the Grand Challenge? I was watching the leaderboard the whole day as I was coding, and one of the CMU vehicles was the first to finish as far as I can recall...furthermore, the spread BETWEEN the top three vehicles (CMU, Stanford, CMU) seemed to vary from time to time. I have my doubts as to the validity of the data since there were also a couple glitches during the race where all of a sudden a bunch of vehicles' mileage and stuff were kicked back by a good amount. -------------- I also monitored the GPS based map-tracker the entire Race. Stanley was on H1landers bumper on the upper-portion of the course (west of the 15 fwy). On the bottom part of the course (before Beer Bottle Pass), Stanley made the pass. I uploaded a few screen shots: http://darpagc.textamerica.com/ Stanley was the 1st physical finisher. I was involved with robotics/vision research as a grad student & I am also involved with OffRoad Racing (see http://www.jumplive.com./ I can say this years route seemed to be way easier..mostly just dirt roads. No whoop sections. Last year, it was in the Barstow area, where it can be pretty rough (all the top OffRoad Racing teams test there). Here's a sample of some REAL OffRoad Racing (there was "pausing" for the DARPA GC '05, if a 2nd vehicle got on the bumper of the 1st vehicle): http://web.archive.org/web/20000925132425/www.seel eyracing.com/barstow/end/vgeorgel4fps3.mov It was taken from the area known as "Mile of Danger". Could the 'bots read a "fork" in the desert? Someone (who was part of a team for awhile) claims the DARPA GC was a sham. https://dtsn.darpa.mil/grandc/forum/topic.asp?topi c_id=1657&forum_id=30&Topic_Title=What+a+scam%2C+r ace+wa+sno+challenge+at+all!&forum_title=Grand+Cha llenge+Event&M=False&S= It wasn't a race, more like a rally. I did a LiveWebCast of the SCORE Primm 300 offroad race a month ago: http://primm300.textamerica.com/ These vehicles took an a far rougher/tougher course, even the stock VW Baja Bugs: http://www.dezertrangers.com/iB_html/uploads/post- 1-87711-class11s.jpg I bet one of these bugs coulda placed high (or even won) the DARPA GC. You can see this thread for more pics of the Primm 300: http://www.dezertrangers.com/cgi-bin/ib/ikonboard. cgi?s=e3be4804ea8ddd2f033271bbc686d107;act=ST;f=1; t=27465;st=0 You can see some silty areas. Stanley woulda had a problem, the CMU Hummers probably not.

1. It is not illegal to use mono or to develop mono.
2. C#/.net libraries are ECMA standards

However,

1. Microsoft has the right to charge a RAND (reasonable and non-descriminatory) fee at any time for the use of these standards.
2. They have never, ever, stated in any binding way that they would not do so in the future.
3. *any* fee, even minimal would result in the instant death of any OSS project dependent on those standards.
4. RAND can (and frequently does in the proprietary software world) mean several dollars per download! Or requiring build licenses for all developers producing binaries (every end user of gentoo for example!) that are in the hundreds of $ range. These are all reasonable and non-descriminatory in that context!

Miguel De Icasa and Ximian/Mono people *know* this full well but don't want to admit how dangerous mono adoption is for the gnome community. They cite a BS casual mailing list post from the head engineer of .net as their claim that MS will never sue.

See how much crap this is for yourself (from official Mono faq):

http://web.archive.org/web/20030609164123/http://m ailserver.di.unip

http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html#patents

Jim Miller's off hand email is the *only* assurance anyone has ever received that MS would never charge a RAND fee! If this were truly MS's commitment then they could release a statement or legally commit themselves to that! This email is not not not legally binding people! Until MS makes a legally binding agreement to never charge for use of these standards, it is not ok to use mono!

See also Seth Nickels' blog on this subject "Why Mono is currently an unnacceptable risk":

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/2004/May

The two main arguments against what I'm saying are realy crap also:

1. Java is also proprietary:

Yes but Sun has licensed Java in such a way that they are legally prohibited from charging *any* royalties at all for existing releases of Java. We know with 100% certainty that Sun will never try and collect any RAND fee. Ever. The situation with Java is totally different for this reason. Even if Sun changed its mind or was purchased by a less generous company (like MS for example), existing releases of Java and alternative implementations based on existing released specs would always remain free as in beer. The no version of the .net ecma standards ever has been comparably free.

2. You are always infringing somewhere, worrying about this is wasting your time:

True, there is always a danger of unknowingly infringing. However, in this case mono is knowingly using patented software. If MS decided to collect or sue, mono and gnome would have absolutely zero defense! Furthermore, MS is well known for destroying threatening companies when it suits them to do so! They have done this many times in the past. Remeber how they *lost* an anti-trust lawsuit? It is because they are agressive, unscrupulous and incredibly rich and illegal monopoly that used its power to destroy competition. They can and will crush gnome if gnome threatens MS! Mono is the ultimate submarine. We build it, integrate it so gnome can't live without it, then they kill gnome by charging for builds. Bam. Gnome is dead on that day.

Take Away: Mono is cool but way too dangerous. Smart people and companies are staying away from it (which turns out to be *most* companies by the way. That is why Redhat and others are pushing Java as an alternative). People who back mono either have motive (ximian), are misinformed (most of the people on this forum), or just dumb (people who are really drooling over the potential of mono so they are ignoring the risk, probabl

My experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites. Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate at each division more than once in a month.

Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and BenQ.

If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.

Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a rough neighborhood.

My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

See also Andy Rooney speaks out against the war in Iraq.

"... getting a PC with a blank hard drive costs more than the same hardware running Windows XP."

This is only what Slashdot readers have been saying for years: A Microsoft operating system has negative value.

Seriously, my experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites. Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate more than once in a month.

Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and BenQ.

If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.

Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a rough neighborhood.

My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

See also Andy Rooney speaks out against the war in Iraq.

"based on a philosophy of limited government"

I bet they don't want to limit the government's ability to grant copyrights and patents.

"free markets"

These don't exist for goods given monopoly protection by said governments. (I.E. Copyright or patent protections.) There are no Free Markets in these goods. (Am I wrong? Well there may be Free Markets in goods protected by copyleft copyrights or other Free Licenses.)

I went down to the Free market the other day, but everyone wanted me to give them money before they would let me have their stuff. What kind of Free Market is that? ~;-)

all the best,

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"No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits."

I just watched someone sign up for two domain names two days ago. The agreement stated that the terms could be changed by the registrar at any time. (With certain notice requirements.)

Am I to believe that these types of terms of service / use do not exist, or that all of the people who agree to them are legally insane?

all the best,

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We can do a bit more as well.

Seek out, fund and promote people making copyleft music.

Listen to it. Hey you can even fund the creation of some. Or record a local band for free if they agree to release their work with a copyleft license.

Here is a song I had a hand in. If anyone wants the individual tracks, let me know.

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues

all the best,

drew

http://web.archive.org/web/20040924022505/http://w ww.flock.com/

From http://www.picketwyre.com/~mye/i_am_not_a_consumer .html">Mye Laande's rant: Do yourself a favor - everytime you see or hear the word "consumer" used in a sentence this week, substitute "citizen", and watch your attitudes change.

It's more like the Million Books project. Project Gutenberg does a lot more than just scan the books; they proofread and post-produce them.

be aware that thats great in europe where software patents don't apply yet but for the americas mono is a can of worms. see:

http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=11889&comm ent_id=32499 [osnews.com]

"1. It is not illegal to use mono or to develop mono.
2. C#/.net libraries are ECMA standards

However,

1. Microsoft has the right to charge a RAND (reasonable and non-descriminatory) fee at any time for the use of these standards.
2. They have never, ever, stated in any binding way that they would not do so in the future.
3. *any* fee, even minimal would result in the instant death of any OSS project dependent on those standards.
4. RAND can (and frequently does in the proprietary software world) mean several dollars per download! Or requiring build licenses for all developers producing binaries (every end user of gentoo for example!) that are in the hundreds of $ range. These are all reasonable and non-descriminatory in that context!

Miguel De Icasa and Ximian/Mono people *know* this full well but don't want to admit how dangerous mono adoption is for the gnome community. They cite a BS casual mailing list post from the head engineer of .net as their claim that MS will never sue.

See how much crap this is for yourself (from official Mono faq):

http://web.archive.org/web/20030609164123/http://m ailserver.di.unip [archive.org].....
http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html#patents [go-mono.com]

Jim Miller's off hand email is the *only* assurance anyone has every received that MS would never charge a RAND fee! If this were truly MS's commitment then they could release a statement or legally commit themselves to that! This email is not not not legally binding people! Until MS makes a legally binding agreement to never charge for use of these standards, it is not ok to use mono!

See also Seth Nickels' blog on this subject "Why Mono is currently an unnacceptable risk":

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/2004/May [gnome.org]

The two main arguments against what I'm saying are realy crap also:

1. Java is also proprietary: Yes but Sun has licensed Java in such a way that they are legally prohibited from charging *any* royalties at all for existing releases of Java. We know with 100% certainty that Sun will never try and collect any RAND fee. Ever. The situation with Java is totally different for this reason.
2. You are always infringing somewhere, worrying about this is wasting your time: True, there is always a danger of unknowingly infringing. However, in this case mono is knowingly using patented software. If MS decided to collect or sue, mono and gnome would have absolutely zero defense! Furthermore, MS is well known for destroying threatening companies when it suits them to do so! They have done this many times in the past. Remeber how they *lost* an anti-trust lawsuit? It is because they are agressive, unscrupulous and incredibly rich. They can and will crush gnome if gnome threatens MS! Mono is the ultimate submarine. We build it, integrate it so gnome can't live without it, then they kill gnome by charging for builds. Bam. Gnome is dead on that day.

Take Away: Mono is cool but way too dangerous. Smart people and companies are staying away from it (which turns out to be *most* companies bye the way. That is why Redhat and others are pushing Java as an alternative). People who back mono either have motive (ximian), are misinformed (most of the people on this forum), or just dumb (people who are really drooling over the potential of mono so they are ignoring the risk, probably ximian and some gnome developers again)"

For free legal wifi in the San Francisco Bay Area goto

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

How is google going to compete with this? Just read what SFLAN offers, for FREE, with NO ADS.

Well they have this:

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

Hopefully Google's offering won't hinder the development of sflan.

"The first thing I do in any new city is take a photo of the metro-system with my phone, I'm not sure how they're going to police against that."

Well, they may try the approach of fining a few "pirates" a hundred thousand dollars and sending them to jail for five years to scare the rest into not violating their precious copyrights. That seems to be one of the favoured tactics.

My stuff, on the other hand, comes with

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=(creator%3 A%22drew%20Roberts%22)%20OR%20(collection%3A(ourme dia)%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fauthor%3A(drew%20Robert s))

a Creative Commons BY-SA licnese or

http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

a GPL (I would put license, but that would be redundant now wouldn't it.)

I hope to keep all of my work going forward under some sort of copyleft type license. (Or at least move them through a system where they end up copylefted.)

all the best,

drew

The Moller FAQ page says they expect it within 4 years.

Do they have applied a discount for all the P2P users getting legit content from :

http://www.jamendo.com/
or
http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collec tion=opensource_audio
or
http://www.legaltorrents.com/
or
http://bt.etree.org/
or
http://torrents.gentoo.org/
or
http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/
or ....

See a list of legitimate content at the end of this page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Ah, Clippy, a.k.a Microsoft Office's evil reincarnation of Iago. (hint: download the archived episodes...)

Why do you assume that I assume? Maybe I read this article from 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20011208013445/http://d ailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011205/tc/electronic_pap er_race_2.html" "It also refreshes at about 50 Hertz, fast enough to stream video."

• http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sound (Check bottom)
• Internet Archive: Open Source Audio
• Free Classical Music Archive recordings performed by the MIT choir and other amateurs (quite high quality)
• The Choral Public Domain Library describes itself as 'A Free Sheet Music Archive'
• Mutopia: a collection of public domain sheet music
• Project Gutenberg music section
• MusicBrainz: a database of structured metadata about audio releases

Archive.org Moving Images Repository: http://www.archive.org/details/movies Archive.org Live Music Repository: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php I believe they collaborate with other projects to assemble these repositories, for instance their text database has Project Gutenberg's works (among others).

Archive.org Moving Images Repository: http://www.archive.org/details/movies Archive.org Live Music Repository: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php I believe they collaborate with other projects to assemble these repositories, for instance their text database has Project Gutenberg's works (among others).

via the way back machine

Here's a preview of what google looked like 7 years ago

I know archive.org had older versions of the page, but for some reason this is the oldest one I can get today. You can try this link to an older preview, but it doesn't seem to work for me anymore.

Here's a preview of what google looked like 7 years ago

I know archive.org had older versions of the page, but for some reason this is the oldest one I can get today. You can try this link to an older preview, but it doesn't seem to work for me anymore.

Puts a whole new twist on this website, eh? http://web.archive.org/web/20040926071437/http://w ww.dolphinsex.org/

To see what would happen if Linus got hit by a bus, please see here: http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=38b40d78 -087dd360"http://web.archive.org/web/2000042200535 6/http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=38b40d 78-087dd360

This might help to prevent a few people from sharing copyrighted material, but what's to stop the RIAA from suing due to the fact that someone could still find a way around the filter? Remember napster had a similar issue when it was used to trade music online. Even with the filters in place, napster had to shut down until its filters didn't even let one single copyrighted song to pass through.

Of course, what's the need of using software like limewire, kazaa, etc, go to Dmusic, allmusic.com, or even Epitomic.com. For movies, go to archive.org. For software, use your favorite search engine to look for any OSS, Freeware, or Shareware equivalent.

yeah, remember when the original napster was in it's last throws and people were doing this sort of thing?
http://web.archive.org/web/20010402083936/http://n apcameback.com/

While it is playing the blues, who does it tip off if not antipiracy organizations?

all the best,

drew
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Rainwater Blues
You can get it for free and you can even sell copies if you want.
Creative Commons BY-SA License.

I'd be really pissed if it deleted my historical documentary collection (Power of Nightmares, for example)

"Tommi Kyyrä, of IFPI Finland has said that being able to play music on a Linux or Apple computer is a privilege not a right, and that those that can't because of DRM'd CDs should just go out and buy a CD player."

He is c...., but if it gets to that, fine. I will just play my own music on my own instruments, and if I get good enough, release it under a copyleft license. In any case, people with those attitudes can kiss my money goodbye.

all the best,

drew
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This is a song that I had a hand in the creation of that is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license.

"Hu Jintao / Wen Jiabao '08 ?"

Are they American born? Or are you taking his "any candidate" further than I took him to mean?

all the best,

drew
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