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Virii are based on flaws in the system that the common user doesn't know about but that doesn't stop them from spreading.

Actually, 'virii' is based on flaws in understanding the English language that common users don't know about. But that doesn't stop it from spreading...

Yea this isn't the first, but just for the record you should see princeton.edu's little hack and all the info gained:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011126105456/www.ispe p.cx/files/tucson.princeton.edu.txt

This is FBI case ID 288A-NH-41961 (Pending as of 8/7/2002)....

Here's a snippet:
mvotruba:B8EFeUIgGAWHc:24597:34:Mark E. Votruba,Economics,215 504-5158,:/u/mvotruba:/bin/csh
ijlustig:pOL0uwNfo ruXo:1621:33:Irvin J. Lustig,Civil Engineering,8-4614,:/u/ijlustig:/bin/csh
houseweb :camNw8s7t4cT6:19735:36:Housing Dept.,Macmillan Bldg,8-5641,all:/u/houseweb:/usr/princeton/bin/tcs h
anowacki:hdHbWRq.VGeZ2:23627:35:Anastasia C. Nowacki,221 1938 Hall,8-9134,:/u/anowacki:/bin/csh
slaudio:laPMRmX 38SehY:26028:20:Slavic Audio,87 Prospect St,8-2952,:/u/slaudio:/bin/csh
dwilson:O5A7wNVS8. yJ2:21098:35:Daniel M. Wilson,311 Henry Hall,8-7843,:/u/dwilson:/bin/csh
keigoh:6J69fq0Xk 09dk:21502:35:Keigo Hirakawa,411 Brown Hall,8-7841,:/u/keigoh:/usr/princeton/bin/tcsh
se ritela:zmjxedOecbSBo:16191:35:Paul A. Serritella,Recently Graduated,NONE,:/u/seritela:/bin/csh
rfrickey:MM8 RRjl/M2nTM:21893:35:Robert E. Frickey,321 Cuyler Hall,8-7391,:/u/rfrickey:/bin/csh
jgoldste:dEo0sX gJmGdzs:31581:33:Judith L. Goldstein,Not Here Until 02/01/99,NONE,:/u/jgoldste:/bin/csh

I don't think search was in Beta nearly that long. If you look at the image, it was out of Beta by 2001, so only like 3 years at most.

They do have a lot of Beta software out there, but it is still usable and has features. It has been released and is available for public consumption, so beta is just a description. Also, I was trying to compare MSN with Google (since MSN competes more directly). Google has been adding a lot of search features and such faster than MSN can manage.

It's somewhat dated but the FUD busting response to the Mindcraft fiasco has all the formulas on how to figure out what you hardware you need for your pipe. You only need to plug in current processor specs to see what you need. I could only find it in the archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20040409223206/http://c s.alfred.edu/~lansdoct/mstest.html

I hear you and agree but the internet is already is already crippled by monitoring, security and tracking.

Notice original site that web.archive points to seems to be under some constant DOS attack. Until people wake the fuck up and stop tolerating blanket sweeping mass survellience in the name of 'security' we are going to have a problem.

According to the Wayback Machine, the iBook came with 128MB as recently as September 2003 (shipping with OS X 10.2). The eMac came with 128MB as recently as April 2004 (shipping with OS X 10.3).

"[Jury member takes note: "Linux newby. Doesn't know just what the vast majority of the software that came with his distro is or does, yet."]"

Linux - plausible deny-ability comes standard.

all the best,

drew
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http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

OK, so what's next?

Am I in some sort of conspiracy with all the people on my block becasue we all have locks on our doors and windows. (Actually, I think the conspiracy goes a bit further than just my block, but I am not going into full details here on slashdot.)

So, the existance of encryption software is evidence of criminal intent? Do we finally have a big weapon to use against the MPAA and their ilk? I mean, if they did not have criminl intent, (if they have nothing to hide) then why would they need encryption?

Hmmmm.

OK, so no more ssh, ssl, pgp, gpg, rot13, oh well, back to telnet. No WEP or their ilk allowed either... back to all open access points.

Interesting times...

all the best,

drew
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http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22

Not sure why I care (perhaps because I've seen the damage a redneck can do), but here's an archive with the pictures... It's pretty funny.

That assumes A) the song has lyrics, and B) the lyrics are at all comprehensible (i.e. doesn't work for a lot of rock).

> if the song is stuck in your head [...]

If the song is stuck in your head (as opposed to, say, playing on the radio), this service isn't going to do much good, unless it's able to figure out the song when you hum a few bars, which seems pretty unlikely. :)

Google is pretty good at finding song lyrics for you, but not 100% reliable. Especially if you're mishearing the lyrics - for example, I was trying to find what turned out to be Leadbelly's Linin' Track a while ago, and the closest match I could find was Aerosmith's Hangman Jury, because what I heard as "lie on the track" was, actually, "line 'em track".

But in general, yeah, Google's pretty good at identifying songs if you have some lyrics. Whereas this new service is likely to be next-to-useless for most purposes. Especially for my main need - identifying tracks on concert recordings I get through Etree.

I wonder if you get your money back if the service can't identify the song? I could probably stump it over and over and over again with random songs from the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive. :)

See for yourself...

http://web.archive.org/web/20030413125112/http://w ww.kevinrose.com/docs/kevinrose.txt

Return of the "USSS" defacement
Archived site. It was even funnier when the Mission Impossible music played as the background sound. :-)

Its only because it ate itself!

Seriously, regardless what M$ wants to think, google will be around in some sense until the internet gets replaced which of course is inevitable. Nonetheless, the best reason google will be a force to reckon in the future is that it isnt trying to play 'flavor of the month' like so many internet portals have done in the past trying to reinvent themselves everytime share prices dropped. It remains to be seen if google will do this of course but considering the page hasnt changed much since day one (remember that story guys and gals?) its unlikely they will fall by the waist-side so easily. Of course todays winning business model is tomorrows bust in the business world so you can never be sure. Thats why i avoid the totally unpredictable business world, at least its more fun to play poker!

http://web.archive.org/web/20011130144626/http://w ww.powerplayinfo.com/

Game houses reaching a consensus? http://www.powerplayinfo.com/">HA!

From the parent post:

(running an open access point) sounds great, right up to the point where some pervert uses your open wi-fi to download child porn ...

Right now, there are a zillion anonymous proxies on wired connections. It's far more likely and convenient for J. Random Hacker to connect to one of these always-on proxies that are available from anywhere in the world than to get within 100' of your fiddly little access point.

If you're really worried about someone within 100' of your house doing something bad, sure, create a lead-lined bunker, put up chicken wire to keep the signals from leaking out, run encryption, etc.

Or, do what SFLan and hundreds of other metropolitan open wireless networks do -- stop worrying and share.

--Pat

The Presidio had 10+ terabytes of storage as of 1999 or 2000. It's where the Internet Archive and now-Amazon subsidiary Alexa Internet started.

If I remember correctly, around 1999, they had approximately 2B web pages on disk in the most recent snapshot, with the previous two snapshots on disk and another n snapshots on tape.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

... for storage. That honor goes to the Internet Archive with over 500TB.

... for storage. That honor goes to the Internet Archive with over 500TB.

So you purchase one CD for $20 and you own the rights to all of the songs on it?

You know you just want to steal music for free.

When you download music for free, you are stealing.

don't try to tell me you have a legal right to do it.

Basically, coccaine was outlawed because of blacks, marihauna because of Mexicans and opium because of the Chinese. Extacy & mushrooms were outlawed because party goers and hippies were having too much fun. etc etc etc ad infinitum

Morphine and Heroin still have medical uses (heroin is just repackaged morphine. 3x as strong) and extacy is experiencing a comeback as psychiatrists reevaluate its usefulness.

05:38

Sorry but I need to say this..

'Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities'

That would be Firefox 1.0.3.... Mozilla Suite aka just mozilla and FireFox are two separate programs and have very different versions. Saying Mozilla 1.0.3 is very misleading. Please use the correct name or it makes your news story look very silly. Who cares if a version of mozilla from 2002 has security holes.

</rant>

Against medical testing? Because they harm animals for human profit.

Yet IIRC, isn't the Number 2 person at PETA taking Insulin that is not only a result of animl research, but contains animal products?

The fundamental philosophy of the most vocal group of "environmentalists" is that I should treat the planet (or something) as being more important than human life.
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Kindly name them. I'd LOVE to see an official quote where PETA says that we should kill humans to make room for wolves.

Ah posit a known false statement as if it were proof. This is a twisted strawman argument. The OP claim was that some "environmentalists" value "the planet" as equal to or greater than human life. Instead of addressing it, you bring in PETA, and act as if the OP was sayign PETA says humans should be killed to save wolves. Interesting choice:

"Would you support an experiment that would sacrifice 10 animals to save 10,000 people?" is on their pager right here: http://www.peta.org/about/faq-viv.asp

And the answer was:
"Suppose the only way to save those 10,000 people was to experiment on one mentally-challenged orphan. If saving people is the goal, wouldn't that be worth it? Most people will agree that it is wrong to sacrifice one human for the "greater good" of others because it would violate that individual's rights. But when it comes to sacrificing animals, the assumption is that human beings have rights while animals do not. Yet there is no logical reason to deny animals the same rights that protect individual humans from being sacrificed for the common good."

This answer does in fact state a position that animals are mroe valuable than humans. Reverse their argument and it becomes this: 10,000 humans should die to save ten animals. That is a direct value assessment. 1 animal is worth 1000 humans in that equation.

Now they've removed the "No." from the beginning.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040416145443/http://w ww.peta.org/about/faq-viv.asp

Shows the first answer.

This merely means they place animals as equal to humans in value. They also compare hunters to Dahlmer.

They say that animals have rights that can't be sacrificed because they can't understand them. That it is wrong to declaw a cat; they have rights dammit!

Then they are in favor of "fixing" cats and dogs to prevent them from giving birth. What happened to those "rights"?

"the most important thing that animal guardians can do is to spay or neuter their animals" --PETA FAQ

If we follow their practice of comparing animals to retarded humans when asked questions, then they should believe in sterilizing retarded humans.

"Should the more intelligent animals have rights and the less intelligent humans be denied rights?" they ask, the implication beimg "hell no"

Yet ...
"However, animals don't always have the same rights as humans because their interests are not always the same as ours, and some rights would be irrelevant to animals." --same page as the question.

And back to the OP's point:
http://www.vhemt.org/
"The Movement doesn't even favor wanted pregnancies."

This specifically addresses the OP's claim. A group of "environmentalists" who value "the planet" above human life.

When I was in middle school they had us watch an "educational" video about software piracy called "Don't Copy that Floppy". It didn't work. Here it is: http://www.archive.org/details/dontcopythatfloppy

Heh heh..

It's Arben...
He's surprised..
A beer drinking batman just showed a boot up his ass :)

Now, this is the kind of kick-ass stories we like! drunkenbatman -- y0u da'man!

Yes. In the video at archive.org (I, II), Alan Kay talks about how Sketchpad was behind PARC's GUI work and object-oriented programming.

Yes. In the video at archive.org (I, II), Alan Kay talks about how Sketchpad was behind PARC's GUI work and object-oriented programming.

This was thought of sooner. The idea has been around a long time. It has even been tried a number of times. Check out the Axel Boldt's Free Software Bazaar from 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/19990421055648/visar.cs ustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html, or Cosource from 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/20000302160316/www.coso urce.com/ or SourceXchange (no link available). The problem is that these attempts all failed for one reason or another.

This was thought of sooner. The idea has been around a long time. It has even been tried a number of times. Check out the Axel Boldt's Free Software Bazaar from 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/19990421055648/visar.cs ustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html, or Cosource from 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/20000302160316/www.coso urce.com/ or SourceXchange (no link available). The problem is that these attempts all failed for one reason or another.

The Internet is dynamic. Get over it.

If you want to see what the net used to look like, use the http://linuxworld.com/">Wayback Machine.

Am I the only one who first thought, "Of course altavista.com doesn't work, the site is altavista.digital.com" before realizing altavista doesn't belong to digital anymore? For that matter digital doesn't belong to digital anymore.

Sigh http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://altavista.digi tal.com

Good ole days. Back before slashcode mangled your links

If you can find it, Alan Kay did a great video about the User Interface called "Doing with Images Makes Symbols". He goes over a lot of the stuff in the article and provides some background into the thinking behind their work at Xerox. http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2

I remember it well... It was hosted on yggdrasil but it's long on. Nothing's ever lost on the net, though. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.yggdrasil. com/~harmony/

Here's the definitive far-too-into-fictional-physics webpage. It's long, but an interesting read.

here

http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://w ww.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html

This is the solution archive.org uses.

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

They are on the order of petabytes

I won't get into whether such an article belongs on howstuffworks.com. I just want to say that the best discussion ever of how lighsabres might work, to the best knowledge of contemporary physics was Robert Brown's lightsabre page, may it rest in peace.

And by "rest in peace" I mean stay on the wayback machine until he brings it back.

Please bring it back!

Here's the first http://slashdot.org/">archived slashdot page from 1997.

To post a comment, any user just had to enter their name, E-mail and website.

First, they collect your search information. Next they collected your email. Now they collect your destination. You put it all together, that is quite a bit of information.

What is next?

They buy out www.archive.org and collect the evolution of your web site. It's going to be rather ironic to have google caching archive.org, and archive.org archiving google.

Then they buy out your ISP and collect the IP's that visit your web page (Of course, if your ISP has an online statistics page, they can already do this).

August 1996 Press Release WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that trekphobia -- the fear, anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly sciencefictional people hold for Star Trek -- is the result of repressed Trekkie urges that the person is either unaware of or denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Star Trek Association (ASTA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theory.

Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment involving 35 trekphobic men and 29 nontrekphobic men as measured by the Index of Trekphobia scale. All the participants selected for the study described themselves as exclusively sciencefictional both in terms of sexual arousal and experience. Each participant was exposed to trekually explicit episodic stimuli consisting of Sciencefictional, male Treksexual, Next Generational, Klingon S&M, Vulcan Tantra, and Star Wars Oriented videotapes (but not necessarily in that order). Their degree of Trekual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.

Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video depicting Next Generational sexual behavior and by the video showing two Klingons engaged in sexual behavior. The only significant difference in degree of arousal between the two groups occurred when they viewed the video depicting Kirk/Spock treksexual sex: 'The Trekphobic men showed a significant increase in penile circumference to the Kirk/Spock treksexual video, but the control [nontrekphobic] men did not.'

Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the nontrekphobic group showed no significant tumescence while watching the Kirk/Spock treksexual video, only 20% of the trekphobic men showed little or no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the nontrekphobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the Klingon S&M video, 54% of the trekphobic men did.

When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to which they were aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in both groups gave answers that tracked fairly closely with the results of the objective physiological measurement, with one exception: the trekphobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the Kirk/Spock treksexual video.

Do these findings mean, then, that trekphobia in men is a reaction to repressed treksexual urges, as psychoanalysis theorizes? While their findings are consistent with that theory, the authors note that there is another, competing theoretical explanation: cancelation anxiety. According to this theory, viewing the Kirk/Spock treksexual videotape may have caused negative emotions (such as cancelation anxiety) in the trekphobic men, but not in the nontrekphobic men. As the authors note, 'anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection,' and so it is also possible that 'a response to treksexual stimuli [in these men] is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual arousal per se. These competing notions can and should be evaluated by future research.'

Article: 'Is Trekphobia Associated With Trekkie Arousal?' by Henry E. Adams, Ph.D., Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. and Bethany A. Lohr, University of Georgia, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp 440-445.

The American Star Trek Association (ASTA), in Washington,DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing trekkies in the United States and is the world's largest association of geeks. ASTA's membership includes more than 142,000 virgins, dweebs, mama's boys, pear shaped fans, Klingon speakers and costumers. Through its divisions in 49 subfields of Trekology and affiliations with 58 state and Canadian provincial associations, ASTA works to advance Star Trek as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare, splitting infinitives, and bravely going where no man has gone before.

For more background information on this shooting, watch and/or hear Giuliana Sgrena's most recent discussion of the topic on the Wednesday, April 27, 2005 edition of Democracy Now!

For more background information on this shooting, watch and/or hear Giuliana Sgrena's most recent discussion of the topic on the Wednesday, April 27, 2005 edition of Democracy Now!

Google Inc. is not at present a publicly traded company, and we are currently unable to speculate on whether or when our privately-held status might change.

Actually, if you continue to follow the "older version links", you'll find that this is the absolute earliest version of the Google home page.

Way before the "we've moved" version
http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/http://g oogle.stanford.edu/

This is the whole Google gardware at the time: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.s tanford.edu/mvc-043f.jpg
You know what, it looks pretty much like my today living room. Does this mean I'll be rich soon? Yay!

Other pics here: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.s tanford.edu/googlehardware.html

This is the whole Google gardware at the time: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.s tanford.edu/mvc-043f.jpg
You know what, it looks pretty much like my today living room. Does this mean I'll be rich soon? Yay!

Other pics here: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.s tanford.edu/googlehardware.html

Take a look at this one

Original Google.Stanford.edu with links to Sergey and Larry's home pages

It even has forfeited domians like millertime.com The unfortunate miller family had to fork that one over. sigh.. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://millertime.com