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Atari ST by zonker · 2000-01-04 04:21 · Score: 0 · on Amino Got More Than the Amiga Name

the st was cool. not as powerful in a number of ways and had a shorter lifetime but still a great machine...

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doesn't matter if they use it by zonker · 2000-01-04 04:19 · Score: 0 · on Amino Got More Than the Amiga Name

that'll be a good 60 or so years more... that is unless US copyright changes and if that happens it will probably be well over a 100 years...

but what do i know...

(and yes, i realize your post was humerous)...

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here here! by zonker · 2000-01-04 00:20 · Score: 0 · on The ROX Desktop

thank you for reminding us for our sins :)

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Re:Electric hand dryer? by m3000 · 2000-01-03 05:02 · Score: 1 · on Top 10 Gadgets of All Time

I too thought that was a really stupid choice. They hardly ever make my hands completely dry like a paper towel. And since I get bloody noses a lot, I like having the paper towels there to stop the bleeding instead of venturing into the stalls, or worse, someone being in the stall. And, according to a very unscientific but interesting study (very cool site by the way) says that they don't help as much with getting rid of germs as paper towels do.

Re:argghh! by zonker · 2000-01-03 00:40 · Score: 0 · on Interview: Ask Steve Wozniak

not that i know of, however you can read your own list of stories that you have submitted by clicking on the "Submit Story" button on the left side. It will show you the last 5 (i think it's five) stories you have submitted. I know I'm not the first person to say this, (and not the last either, I'm sure) but it is rather aggrevating when you submit a good idea for a story and it gets ignored... Oh well...

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me too... by zonker · 2000-01-03 00:19 · Score: 0 · on Interview: Ask Steve Wozniak

Yeah, a Gassee interview would be cool. BeOS rox the box!!

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Re:argghh! by zonker · 2000-01-02 23:04 · Score: 0 · on Interview: Ask Steve Wozniak

Lessee here... yup, here it is...

1999-12-14 11:54:07 Weekly Interview w/ The Woz (interviews,apple) (rejected)

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argghh! by zonker · 2000-01-02 23:03 · Score: 0 · on Interview: Ask Steve Wozniak

geeeze you know, i submitted this as an idea for an interview and it got rejected. pisses me off...

anyway, i'm glad he is getting interviewed though... he's a really cool guy.

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Typical microsoft 'fix' by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-31 08:02 · Score: 0 · on Y2K Rollover - Post Your Experiences Here!

Compare the "fixed" site to the original

"We can't fix the bug, so let's just move this one month earlier. At least we'll look good."

Berst? by zonker · 1999-12-31 01:13 · Score: 0 · on Berst Names Young/Torvalds 2 of 7 People to Watch

Berst... Icky...

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GPS? by zonker · 1999-12-30 19:45 · Score: 0 · on Y2K Rollover - Post Your Experiences Here!

anybody test their GPS systems yet?

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OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44