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You could profile the music and make a "Tolerance Level" where the song would just have to be close

And this is what commercially available audio fingerprinting solutions do.

but would that affect cover bands?

Why would that be a bad thing? When a fellow pirates a song, he breaks two copyrights: the copyright on the recording and the copyright on the underlying song. The original recording and a recording by a cover band are covered under the same copyright on the same musical work by the same songwriter.

BUT:

Pretty soon, songwriters will have the entire space of Western music covered with copyright. There exist only a limited number of notes in a chromatic scale (namely twelve) and a limited number of possible melodies of a finite length, and sooner or later, they'll all be used up. This is why you must petition your legislators to repeal copyright term extensions.

At my local arcade (Bird Bowl in Miami, FL), the tables have actually been rigged.... to keep the ball in play longer.

You know that pin that's mounted down below the flippers, which allows you to save a ball that's heading SDTM? On most machines, that's not standard equipment.. but they've added it. Yes, I'm spoiled...

How has 'building|making' been/is confused/missused/associated with 'destroying|demolishing' things?

Case :

I think before publishing material publicly, one should do some research and confirm sources/results with other relevant people on that subject.
(eg. confirm "hack[er|ing]/crack[er|ing]" with (a) guru[s] in computers, like ESR).

This goes aswell to the slashdot editors for their (subject)postings; and all other form of publishing (you know who you are).

Reference :
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker.htm l
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker-eth ic.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracker.ht ml
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracking.h tml
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=dark-side %20hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=cracker
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_hacker.html
http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci212220,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci211852,00.html
....and many more are out there, on the World Wide Web.

How has 'building|making' been/is confused/missused/associated with 'destroying|demolishing' things?

Case :

I think before publishing material publicly, one should do some research and confirm sources/results with other relevant people on that subject.
(eg. confirm "hack[er|ing]/crack[er|ing]" with (a) guru[s] in computers, like ESR).

This goes aswell to the slashdot editors for their (subject)postings; and all other form of publishing (you know who you are).

Reference :
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker.htm l
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker-eth ic.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracker.ht ml
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracking.h tml
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=dark-side %20hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=cracker
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_hacker.html
http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci212220,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci211852,00.html
....and many more are out there, on the World Wide Web.

How has 'building|making' been/is confused/missused/associated with 'destroying|demolishing' things?

Case :

I think before publishing material publicly, one should do some research and confirm sources/results with other relevant people on that subject.
(eg. confirm "hack[er|ing]/crack[er|ing]" with (a) guru[s] in computers, like ESR).

This goes aswell to the slashdot editors for their (subject)postings; and all other form of publishing (you know who you are).

Reference :
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker.htm l
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker-eth ic.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracker.ht ml
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracking.h tml
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=dark-side %20hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=cracker
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_hacker.html
http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci212220,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci211852,00.html
....and many more are out there, on the World Wide Web.

Star Trek II: Space Seed: Lost scenes.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to subject themselves to LILO any more

Unless, of course, you want to support an evil corporation that goes by the name of The Walt Disney Company.

The Truth About Lilo & Stitch

Since grub can read your filesystems, you'll never be stuck needing to use a rescue disk if there is still a valid kernel somewhere on your HD.

That is, unless something else <cough>Windows Update</cough> eats your dual-boot machine's master boot record.

Since these guys are already doing bootable CDs, they could do one for a generic PC. Have it put up a VGA Blue Screen of Death mock-up as early as possible and then target machines that look out-of-the-way and/or unused, especially older looking machines.

Lots of places that I've been have these sorts of boxes sitting around because they become unused gradually. I've seen machines like this display BSoD for weeks on end before anyone bothered to either reboot them or turn them off.

With this approach, the total leave-behind hardware investment is $0.25 for the CD-R.

Faraday cage.

February 8th, 1996.

Is anyone else as uninspired as I am with current technology? It used to be so cool. The Future Is Stupid

Take all the best parts of the movie. String them together in one 2-minute epileptic-seizure-inducing orgasm of light and sound, preferably with some modern rock/psuedo-metal song in the background. Stick your title on the end in a grunge or techno font along with "This movie has not yet been rated," and a release date between 6 months and a year into the future.

No, that's a teaser.

A trailer is where you start with some soothing an peaceful scene, when

[Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells"/Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs' "Louie Louie"/Smashmouth's "All-Star"]

starts playing and Don LaFontaine intones the words "In a world

[gone mad/where dreams come true/where shit happens]..."

and some fast paced cuts show the the audience that this movie is supposed to be

[scary/funny/action-packed].

Then Mr. Fontaine tells us about the "one

[man/woman/dog]

[brave/smart/stupid]

enough to

[fight for something/change everything/screw everything up]"

while we see our protagonist looking

[determined/happy/dumb as a sack of hammers].

Then a quick montage of the

[funniest/exploding-est/tear-jerking-est]

scenes interspersed with a voiceover telling us what

[A-list/B-list/C-list]

celebrities have top billing and that the movie is

[based on a book by somebody/based on a true story/based on an older, better movie/from the director of some other movie that made money],

then finally we get the title of the movie and a screenful of tiny text acknowledging all the people who got paid enough to feed a village in Botswana for a

[month/year/decade]

for their work on the film.

This is a standard part of any film school curriculum, you see. Job applications in Hollywood test you on this stuff.

-Isaac

I'm curious: do you genuinely have the inability to google for "Fibonacci heap", or are you just trolling really, really, poorly?
I mean, I can forgive your not checking e2, but not so much as to google? C'mon.

the 6 month decomposition of MS Windows

If I own a 1980 Zephyr station wagon and the parts are no longer available for me to fix it, does that mean that I can go out, steal somebody else's car, and be legally free from ramifications?

But does it also mean you can't manufacture such parts yourself?

you own the engine and frame of the car, but not the seats. You should therefore be able to go out and steal seats, wheels, a drive shaft, car mats, and every other "accessory" to the car.

Or make them yourself. Get a flash cartridge and copy games onto it, making sure that you possess and own a genuine original copy*. You're protected under 17 USC 117, the law that permits the owner of a copy (e.g. a cartridge) of a copyrighted computer program to make limited copies.

* No, that's not necessarily the situation with the rental outlet described in the present Slashdot article.

Nintendo tries to apply 17 USC chapter 9 (mask work law) to game cartridges in an attempt to get around the backup law. IANAL, but I don't think Nintendo has a case. Apparently, mask work law doesn't apply because it applies to the actual semiconductor masks, not the underlying computer programs. Besides, mask work law doesn't apply to NES or Super NES games because mask work rights last only 10 years (in contrast to perpetual copyright), and the design for NES and Super NES ROM masks was laid down in 1985 and 1991 with the release of the pack-in titles.

Eventually, in several dozen years, they will fall to public domain as the copyrights expire.

Not if you keep voting for Senators and Representatives who continue to extend the term of copyright.

Also, if I send a 10KHz sine wave straight into somebody's head at 170dB SPL, I don't think they're going to be able to do much until I turn it off. They'll probably be partially deaf, too, at least for a little while.

Very interesting article here.

I'm playing a lot of Megaman since then :)

--
Experimental music

And he can't use iPods to match up beats

How do you know he doesn't just go pull up some wav editor and normalize everything to (say) 125 bpm before encoding his set and copying it to the iPod players?

Here's a short essay I wrote about a year ago about digital DJing.

Fuck these people. If *any* private organization launches attacks at my machine, I will defend myself electronically and fight back. If any LEO shows up at my door for defending myself against these legitimized criminal organizations, well, I'll start excersicing my 2nd ammendment rights how they were meant to be excersiced.

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Youre going to buy guns? Lots of guns?

This is nothing huge. I lost faith in the american legal system the day I found out that the worlds first non-trivial executable titanic prime is illegal under the DMCA. (It forms a gzip file of the C-source of the DeCSS code.)

Ugh. This leaves me with two options. Vigilante justice is out, though I empathise with the sentiment this fellow feels. Being attacked with relative impunity (honestly, who has the cash to take the xxAA to court? Not I.) Civil Disobediance, a la Phil Berman... or moving to, say... Narau. Last I checked, they didnt favor the rights of corporations over the rights of their citizens. ...much less while having the gall to profess their existence as the "land of the free".

If the linux kernel had been released using the BSD license it would still be popular
Why do I mention this? The point is that *how* the project is run has a lot more to do with how the development is managed than the details of the license. BSD *could* just as easily be run as a bazaar and I've seen plenty of GPL-licensed projects whither on the vine because for one reason or another the founders don't allow adequate control to the 'troops'. And OSS troops have a way of voting with their feet when projects don't meet their needs.

Many of todays license 'zealots' are seriously misinformed
I have read opinions on /. that BSD is somehow beholden to GNU because because "most of BSD is GPL code" Of course this is nonsense, yes lots of GPL code runs on BSD and some (e.g. gcc) is indeed part of the *BSD variants. However people who actually use the BSD's have probably observed that most of the OS tools are not the GPL variants; ls, cat, more ... are all quite different on BSD vs Linux. Hell, OpenBSD (the only current BSD I use) provides csh, and it's /bin/sh is a POSIX shell, not bash.

For all the "idealism" RMS and FSF are practical in what they do
Myth would have us believe that Linus is the king of practical and RMS will sacrifice no practicality on the alter of the GPL. I'm sorry but facts do not bear this out.

In '93 when I chose to push a little corporate $$ at FSF I purchased tapes for GCC, emacs, X11 and various GNU utilities. FSF was as happy to accept their $150 fee for X11 as the GNU pieces. Later, when Linux had quite enlivened the opensource arena RMS (in '98 I think) decided that the X license was bad (I think this is the same timeframe as he started in on the GNU/Linux rants).

I think it's notable that RMS/fsf have redoubled their efforts on the Linux kernel at the time that Hurd is finaly ready for prime time. I wish them well in yet another attempt to balkanize the landscape, I'm sure the Debian folks at least will be on the bandwagon ...Ho-hum ...

Now it's time for the ad-hominem ??
I'm sure RMS is a fine guy, and there are things about him that I find admirable. However, I truly find the tune he dances to to be all about RMS. Over the years he's used whatever tactic seems best to push his personal agenda. Honestly if I want to play power games I'd far prefer to do it in a context of leathersex or BDSM, which is a helluva lot more fun way to play power games imo.

If the linux kernel had been released using the BSD license it would still be popular
Why do I mention this? The point is that *how* the project is run has a lot more to do with how the development is managed than the details of the license. BSD *could* just as easily be run as a bazaar and I've seen plenty of GPL-licensed projects whither on the vine because for one reason or another the founders don't allow adequate control to the 'troops'. And OSS troops have a way of voting with their feet when projects don't meet their needs.

Many of todays license 'zealots' are seriously misinformed
I have read opinions on /. that BSD is somehow beholden to GNU because because "most of BSD is GPL code" Of course this is nonsense, yes lots of GPL code runs on BSD and some (e.g. gcc) is indeed part of the *BSD variants. However people who actually use the BSD's have probably observed that most of the OS tools are not the GPL variants; ls, cat, more ... are all quite different on BSD vs Linux. Hell, OpenBSD (the only current BSD I use) provides csh, and it's /bin/sh is a POSIX shell, not bash.

For all the "idealism" RMS and FSF are practical in what they do
Myth would have us believe that Linus is the king of practical and RMS will sacrifice no practicality on the alter of the GPL. I'm sorry but facts do not bear this out.

In '93 when I chose to push a little corporate $$ at FSF I purchased tapes for GCC, emacs, X11 and various GNU utilities. FSF was as happy to accept their $150 fee for X11 as the GNU pieces. Later, when Linux had quite enlivened the opensource arena RMS (in '98 I think) decided that the X license was bad (I think this is the same timeframe as he started in on the GNU/Linux rants).

I think it's notable that RMS/fsf have redoubled their efforts on the Linux kernel at the time that Hurd is finaly ready for prime time. I wish them well in yet another attempt to balkanize the landscape, I'm sure the Debian folks at least will be on the bandwagon ...Ho-hum ...

Now it's time for the ad-hominem ??
I'm sure RMS is a fine guy, and there are things about him that I find admirable. However, I truly find the tune he dances to to be all about RMS. Over the years he's used whatever tactic seems best to push his personal agenda. Honestly if I want to play power games I'd far prefer to do it in a context of leathersex or BDSM, which is a helluva lot more fun way to play power games imo.

It's probably from Monty Python.

For those that do not know... LART == Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. See e2 for more info.

You typoed it, there is an entry :)

Palermo scale.

What's that? hm.

I remember at one point in the distant past whenever they used a term in an article it was unlikely anyone would have heard of, like "Palmero Technical Scale", the slashdot editors would put a little [?] box with a link to the appropriate entry on the public collaborative encyclopedia everything2. (OK, so everything2 doesn't have an entry on palmero technical scale, but i'm sure it would pretty soon after slashdot linked it :))

Why did slashdot stop doing that? It would eliminate a lot of confused, unnecessary discussion. Did the everything2 people just ask slashdot to stop, or something, because they were sick of getting hordes of slashdotters who would start posting stuff without reading the FAQs directed to them?

Actually a lot of stuff has been picked up and was announced at Anime-Expo two weeks ago. I think they picked up many much better series than Rahxephon. Rahxephon is just a bad NGE ripoff.
Pioneer announced "Mahoromatic", a nice and entertaining series from the creators of NGE, Gainax. They also announced "Chobits". Bandai announced "Argento Soma", a nicer NGE ripoff and "Infinite Ryvius".
If you want to know why it has become hard to find Rahxephon subs now, you should check this node explaining the ethics of fansubbing. If you don't know what fansubbing is all about, you may check this node or the homepages of Animeco or Elite Fansubs. Two of the larger fansub groups. Look at "Jungle wa itsumo hale nochi guu" for an example why fansubbing is still usefull.

Actually a lot of stuff has been picked up and was announced at Anime-Expo two weeks ago. I think they picked up many much better series than Rahxephon. Rahxephon is just a bad NGE ripoff.
Pioneer announced "Mahoromatic", a nice and entertaining series from the creators of NGE, Gainax. They also announced "Chobits". Bandai announced "Argento Soma", a nicer NGE ripoff and "Infinite Ryvius".
If you want to know why it has become hard to find Rahxephon subs now, you should check this node explaining the ethics of fansubbing. If you don't know what fansubbing is all about, you may check this node or the homepages of Animeco or Elite Fansubs. Two of the larger fansub groups. Look at "Jungle wa itsumo hale nochi guu" for an example why fansubbing is still usefull.

Austrailai? What do you mean exactly?

I've just asked Google, and it can't answer my question. Nor can E2.

Did you mean "Australian"? I'm guessing so. Now, you're forced to preview a story before submitting, and on a standard QWERTY keyboard the 'n' and the 'i' are far apart. So, simply, where the hell did you pull "Austrailiai' from?

I guess you are the geek. I have no idea what "fantasy character" OGG is named after (I believe you, it is just that you would have to be a geek to realize that it is a fantasy character).

Well, I'm geek enough to read Slashdot, which has mentioned in past articles that "Ogg Vorbis" has something to do with Terry Pratchett. I just looked up the FAQ at the Vorbis website, which pointed me to this page that confirms that Vorbis is from a character in one of his books, and Ogg is from the old game Netrek.

I've read this kind of thing before here, and it bugs me every time.

Suppose you and I are standing next to each other on the street. You say "I don't like that car" and I say "I like that car." Are we hypocritical? No. We are two different people with two opinions.

If a week ago a bunch of people supported MS plan X and today a bunch of people asserted that it's the work of the devil, there is no hypocracy as long as they are different people.

There are some 4e5 registered users around here. Some of them are probably hypocrits. Some of the editors might be hypocrits. The only way for "Slashdot" to be hypocritical is for all of us to agree to have a single opinion on all issues.

Unless some TOS agreement somewhere has changed, I haven't agreed to any such thing.

The latest Disney licensed character's need something to make them happy. Unscramble the letters to find out what they need! : HAPYP MAEL.

Taking "Disney licensed characters" to mean "Disney's Pinocchio" (yes, Pinocchio was around long before Disney; that's why I'm specifying a likeness), and "HAPYP MAEL" to descramble to "HAPPY LAME", you get this picture and this story. I have to wonder what kind of Tool thinks this stuff up.

The latest Disney licensed character's need something to make them happy. Unscramble the letters to find out what they need! : HAPYP MAEL.

Taking "Disney licensed characters" to mean "Disney's Pinocchio" (yes, Pinocchio was around long before Disney; that's why I'm specifying a likeness), and "HAPYP MAEL" to descramble to "HAPPY LAME", you get this picture and this story. I have to wonder what kind of Tool thinks this stuff up.

The funny thing about the movie [The Wizard] was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played [a beta version of Super Mario Bros. 3]

She says: "Find a warp!" There were warp zones in the first three Super Mario Bros. games (SMB 1, SMB 2: The Lost Levels, and SMB 2: Mario Madness).

like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was ....

She says: "Use the flute!" Jimmy played a metric buttload of NES games to prepare for the competition. The puzzles in those games typically fell into cliché patterns. It's not likely that he never touched Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, which included warp whistles that even played the same tune.

What ticked me off with respect to the final round of that movie was how Jimmy got points just for warping to world 4 Giant Land. None of the Super Mario Bros. games give you points for warping. And the game didn't seem to have the concentration game yet. SMB 3 gives the player a concentration game (called "N-spade" by some players) after every 80,000 points; Jimmy finished with 81,520. Yes, I'm sick enough to remember that.

Chances are it's just got a date or an ID on it, no signing or anything fancy like that, meant to keep stores from playing the wrong disc or from having playable music if they don't continue to subscribe.

I'd dump an image and look for something nonstandard in the TOC. If I were making a player that locked users out, I'd put it right there so I could use a standard CD player and just add code to compare the tail of that buffer to a 16 bit date number or such.

If you're really unlucky, they might actually be going so far as to put this on a special kind of limited use disc (a unique Disc Application Code in the Wobble Track), but it's unlikely they'd go to that expense unless this is a very popular and expensive service (which it may well be). At the least, I wouldn't be surprised if it were an audio disc and not a data CDR. I believe gcombust can tell you what DAC was read when a disc was inserted, and that might tell you more.

By the way, if it does have a special DAC, you're screwed without getting special media pressed or modifying the player. You can't write a wobble with a regular CD burner.

Red Carpet makes all other package management systems look silly, including rpm, and up2date.

In a world like ours with Joe and Bob trying to unify/standardize their linux (United Linux, LSB), and Fred and Sam trying to stabalize theirs (Debian GNU/Linux), users are left to figure out what might be best, safest, easiest to use.

If your a newbie, do yourself a faver and use Ximian Gnome, red-carpet in particular. I use KDE, but still use red-carpet to keep my system up to date when a new security hole needs patching, or to do cool stuff like install ruby.

There is life beyond apt.

Doesn't my hometown have beatiful girls?

without copyright protections a lot of things wouldn't get made in the first place.

Assuming life after publication is 50 years, and copyright gives the author's estate the monopoly for 70 years after the death of the author, how do you justify giving one author a monopoly over a work for 120 years?

With copyright protections, a lot of things wouldn't get made in the first place because 1. some authors, publishers, and estates refuse to license a work at any price, and 2. some authors, publishers, and estates have a reputation of filing frivolous lawsuits accusing plagiarism, discouraging people from creating new works for fear of the cost of a legal defense.

Board games [link to monopd and Atlantik] under Linux work

But because they're not Hasbro brand, they can't use the exact copyrighted look of the Hasbro boards. For instance, Hasbro may be able to win a lawsuit against somebody who uses the exact layout of the shortcuts on the Candy Land board or on the Chutes and Ladders board in a free clone.

Unfortunately, you live with a brandist. Brandists are people who claim that anything that doesn't carry the original brand must be inferior. As cuyler wrote in this comment: "And the final note, whatever scrabble game you'd find for linux might the the most amazing thing in the world but it's missing one thing. It's not Hoyle. It doesn't matter."

Mad props

I wonder if she's related to Lady 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool... ;-)

It's funny how concepts like these move in groups in my life. I had read "Neuromancer" about 15 years ago and had forgotten most of it. Earlier today I read the thread on the new Star Wars game. In that thread there was a post by a Bioware employee using the nickname Dixie Flatline (I normally don't even read nicknames on Slashdot, except in this case I wanted to see who it was that worked at Bioware). The name Dixie Flatline rang a bell with me because I used to use the same handle on a BBS many years ago, but I couldn't remember where I had gotten the name from. Then "Neuromancer" clicked in my head, so I went to E2 to refresh my memory of who Dixie Flatline was. To make a long story short (too late) I spent the better part of an hour reading the various "Neuromancer" and William Gibson related nodes, one of which was titled "Lady 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool."

Err...the gist of this is that I would have had no idea who you referring to (much less gotten the joke) had I not inadvertantly caught that comment in the Star Wars game thread and done some reading up on it. My life is frequently like this...a never-used memory is suddnely jogged by something during the day which then turns up several more times over the course of the day. I think that's proof that everything really is connected.

Oh, crud. I just noticed that slashdot edited out the spaces in those links, meaning none of them work. Let's try that again with %20s this time.

Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

THOSE links will work.. I'm really sorry about that. Figures, the one time i forget to hit "preview", this happens.. blah.

If an echo filter adds echo, then what does a lameness filter do?

-- super ugly ultraman

Oh, crud. I just noticed that slashdot edited out the spaces in those links, meaning none of them work. Let's try that again with %20s this time.

Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

THOSE links will work.. I'm really sorry about that. Figures, the one time i forget to hit "preview", this happens.. blah.

If an echo filter adds echo, then what does a lameness filter do?

-- super ugly ultraman

Oh, crud. I just noticed that slashdot edited out the spaces in those links, meaning none of them work. Let's try that again with %20s this time.

Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

THOSE links will work.. I'm really sorry about that. Figures, the one time i forget to hit "preview", this happens.. blah.

If an echo filter adds echo, then what does a lameness filter do?

-- super ugly ultraman

Oh, crud. I just noticed that slashdot edited out the spaces in those links, meaning none of them work. Let's try that again with %20s this time.

Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

THOSE links will work.. I'm really sorry about that. Figures, the one time i forget to hit "preview", this happens.. blah.

If an echo filter adds echo, then what does a lameness filter do?

-- super ugly ultraman

What i wish is that slashdot would go back to doing the little [?] links to everything2. That way they could just use terms without caring who read it, because everyone could click the little question marks and find out what those things are.

Since they seemed to have abandoned that practice, though, here's a suggestion: when they reference something you don't recognize, look it up on everything2 yourself. It's a good reference. Here are the entries for:
Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Those links should cover just about anything you could concievably want to know about the backstory of this /. article.

What i wish is that slashdot would go back to doing the little [?] links to everything2. That way they could just use terms without caring who read it, because everyone could click the little question marks and find out what those things are.

Since they seemed to have abandoned that practice, though, here's a suggestion: when they reference something you don't recognize, look it up on everything2 yourself. It's a good reference. Here are the entries for:
Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Those links should cover just about anything you could concievably want to know about the backstory of this /. article.

What i wish is that slashdot would go back to doing the little [?] links to everything2. That way they could just use terms without caring who read it, because everyone could click the little question marks and find out what those things are.

Since they seemed to have abandoned that practice, though, here's a suggestion: when they reference something you don't recognize, look it up on everything2 yourself. It's a good reference. Here are the entries for:
Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Those links should cover just about anything you could concievably want to know about the backstory of this /. article.

What i wish is that slashdot would go back to doing the little [?] links to everything2. That way they could just use terms without caring who read it, because everyone could click the little question marks and find out what those things are.

Since they seemed to have abandoned that practice, though, here's a suggestion: when they reference something you don't recognize, look it up on everything2 yourself. It's a good reference. Here are the entries for:
Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Those links should cover just about anything you could concievably want to know about the backstory of this /. article.

What i wish is that slashdot would go back to doing the little [?] links to everything2. That way they could just use terms without caring who read it, because everyone could click the little question marks and find out what those things are.

Since they seemed to have abandoned that practice, though, here's a suggestion: when they reference something you don't recognize, look it up on everything2 yourself. It's a good reference. Here are the entries for:
Good Omens
Terry Gilliam
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Those links should cover just about anything you could concievably want to know about the backstory of this /. article.

This is exactly the kind of problem that Danny Hillis and the The Long Now Foundation have been pointing out for years. Digital data doesn't last.

"Science historians can read Galileo's technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minsky's from the 1960s."

That's why they started the 10k year library project. A part of this project that interests me especially is the Rosetta Project. It's a "near permanent archive of 1,000 languages". It's still a work in progress, so I hope they succeed. In my eyes it's definitely a worthwhile endeavour.