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There's an movement afoot) to make the Zorkmid into a geocoin.
Speaking of classic game cover art, the cover to Archon is now also on a geocoin.

An interesting case is this article discussing exactly that.

Eben Moglen was contacted (lawyer for FSF) and said that CPhack had that problem, and was never resolved.

The best explanation is that explicit language would be needed to be added in the GPL and other type-like liceses to hold true. As it seems, as long as there is not intertwining copyright interests, redacting the GPL seems legal. Yuck.

I don't know if it is the same Judge Edward Harrington, but from this article it appears that he was appointed by Ted Kennedy. http://cphack.robinlionheart.com/thompson#feloniou s_conduct

I'm wondering why we ever stopped using this one.

Is anyone else getting load errors from slashdot? I think we're slashdotting it.

I'd just gotten started surfing the net from work when Sunny Delight ran an online promotion. They gave cryptic hints about where to find a hidden bottle of SunnyD on some web site. You'd get a score based on how long it took for you to find the bottle, and the best score got the cool prizes. I won a $20 CDNow gift cert and a T-Shirt.

But better than that was the online community that sprung up. When we discovered that SunnyD was using banner ads from a single source, I compiled a JavaScript application to automatically generate BurstNet banner ads with every possible serial number. We pushed the limits of 1996 search engine technology doing reverse lookups on the bottle image filename. Other coders found creative ways around HTTP-REFERER when SunnyD caught on to our "creative" techniques. I learned the joys and pitfalls of message board moderation -- skills I still use today.

I guess the thing I miss from those days that's not available now is the sense of discovery. The 'net (or at least the www part) was new, and we (the searchers as well as the SunnyD admins) were exploring its limits.

For the curious, check out the Sunny D entry in this online Trophy Case. It's about 3/4 of the way down the page.

"Certain software products, often known as ``filtering software'' or ``blocking software,'' restrict users from visiting certain internet websites. [...] Critics charge that some filtering programs unfairly block sites that do not contain undesirable material and therefore should not be filtered. [...] Several commenters assert that manufacturers of filtering software encrypt the lists naming the targeted sites and that they are not made available to others, including the operators of the targeted sites themselves. R56. These commenters assert that they have no alternative but to decrypt the encrypted lists in order to learn what websites are included in those lists. [...] Such acts of decryption would appear to violate 1201(a)(1) if it took effect without an exemption for these activities. [...] The case has been made for an exemption for compilations consisting of lists of websites blocked by filtering software applications."

All I need to do is write an academic report on how to hack CSS?

No, then you'd be trying to start a second Nazi Holocaust.

To the other reply, I'll add my recommendation of RichInStyle, featuring giant bug table, plus bug-demo and css test pages. He's working on mapping support in less mainstream browsers, like different Konqueror versions and W3C's Amaya, and has a decent cross-compatibility tutorial.

On the non-css side, the Anybrowser site has useful tips, and HTML with Style pushes structure first, then layout. For "what works in what" info, there's the results pages of Robin's HTML 4 Conformance Tests and Ian Hickson's Evil Test Suite.

PS. Your timetable looks fine in BeOS's NetPositive 2.2, except that without a body bgcolor, Net+ defaults to grey, and imho, the Windows-1252 charset declaration is unnecessary.

Does anyone know of a place (on the web etc) where you can get a compact list of most of the common core of tags support by both the HTML standard and most browsers (ie. both IE and NS)as well as a list of unsupported browser specific tags.

NCD's tag/browser guide (good up to 4/5 of NS/IE), with the results of Robin's HTML 4 Conformance Tests, and Ian Hickson's Evil Test Suite for more outré browsers.

For more detail on usage/display, I recommend Webreference.com's report on html4/extensions in the 4.x browsers and Index Dot Html (big two, plus Mosaic/Opera). Hope this helps.

In Alemite Mfg. Corp. v. Staff, 42 F.2d 832 (2d Cir. 1930), the court held that a former employee of a defendant under an injunction could not be held in comtempt for acts performed independently of his former employer. Judge Learned Hand wrote:

[N]o court can make a decree which will bind any one but a party; a court of equity is as much so limited as a court of law; it cannot lawfully enjoin the world at large, no matter how broadly it words its decree. If it assumes to do so, the decree is pro tanto brutum fulmen, and the persons enjoined are free to ignore it. It is not vested with sovereign powers to declare conduct unlawful; its jurisdiction is limited to those over whom it gets personal service, and who therefore can have their day in court.

He cites abetting someone or acting as their agent as the only exception:

[T]he only occasion when a person not a party may be punished is when he has helped to bring about, not merely what the decree has forbidden, because it may have gone too far, but what it has the power to forbid, an act of a party. This means that the respondent must either abet the defendant, or must be legally identified with him.

IANAL, but it seems to me that all this means my mirror site is not affected by the injunction at all. I've never been in contact with Eddy and Matthew. They are not trying to circumvent the permanent injunction, nor am I colluding with them to do so. So as far as contempt of court goes, I'm in the clear.

You have the MPAA getting police to kick down doors and drag 16 y/o to jail.

You have the CPHack case.

We have corporations use lawsuits to shut people up instead of throwing them in jail. Or judges that give vague orders and threaten jail.