The author specifically mentions Flickr which apparently isn't archived by Wayback. A MakeMoneyFast artist could also use his own site and switch off archive.org with a robots.txt exclusion, instantly blocking all access to previously archived versions of the site.
Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak? I forget if they both made blue boxes.:)
There was an exchange on the west fringe of Montreal island where 2600 worked on local calls, for disconnection at least, and it always made me laugh to hang up by whistling the tone. (Had to hunt a bit to nail it.)
I'd feel more confident if anyone at Google really seemed to understand Usenet. They seem to feel that it's GoogleGroups and some outside nodes. And they keep breaking the search on the Deja archive.
According to the Wayback Machine, back in January 28th, 2003 it was up for sale: "IFPI.com is for sale. Asking price = $2000. Serious offers only to domain@hiosilver.com". By March 30th the phonographers had picked it up. (Don't be fooled by the March 19th 2003 anachronism--it's loading current frames.) And then by February 2007, they'd let it expire and it was picked up.
March 2003: owned by domain@hiosilver.com! "Hi Ho Silver"? Them be pirates!
The article doesn't say that they were forced to give it to the band. It says "finished negotiations". The article does say "give back" and "reclaim", but never mentions exactly when it was that the band owned the domain in the first place. If they never did, then they probably bought the domain. I don't see how the band AC/DC should have any automatic ownership of the acdc.com domain.
Creation date: 28 Jan 2007 19:02:24 Expiration date: 28 Jan 2008 19:02:24
This looks more like the phonographers let the domain expire at the beginning of the year and someone else registered it on January 28th. This happens all the time, especially by spammers and registrars that turn it into a "search page" for a while.
(In fiction at least) The Subways Of Tazoo, Colin Kapp, 1964. In the story, it was strings rather than ribbons. The story involves an alien race that killed themselves by climate change. Tsk, what science-fiction twaddle!
Make fallacious, hero-worshipping appeals to the memes of USENET legends all you like.
I was there in comp.org.eff.talk when Mike Godwin came up with his rule. You're no Mike Godwin.
The critics of Scientology are a vast herd of ornery cats. How do I lead them?
Why doesn't the Church of Scientology let members of the breakaway Free Zone practice their voluntarily chosen beliefs as they wish?
In spite of Scientolgy's efforts to equate themselves with the Jewish Holocaust, the state of Israel thinks that Scientology is a commercial enterprise rather than a religion. (As do a lot of other countries.)
Why do the at cause "Homo Novus" Dukes of the Auditor Elite ubermen of Scientology play the victim card all the time?
Why do all the other leaders of Scientology around David Miscavige keep disappearing?
A restraining order against an anonymous coward on Slashdot? Heh. Almost always, the people assigned to these sorts of duties are doing an "ammends project" to be allowed back "onlines" with the Cthurch of Scientology. They seem to get picked for the nasty jobs because (a) they're deniable as working for Scientology, (b) they're frequently judgment-proof because they have no assets or they're so dubious in sanity that no one would believe any liable and no damages could be proven. (There's also the danger that Scientology would help out in the legal fight in order to make it as time-consuming and expensive for a critic as possible. "The purpose of a lawsuit is to harass", in the words of L. Ron Hubbard.)
It's not worth my time because I can do more to help expose the organization in an hour of working on my media references page than wasting months in court.
It's no accident that he Godwin'ed himself immediately. When Scientology starts flinging poo at anyone who dares criticize the "most ethical organization on the planet" (their words), they always reach for Hitler and the Nazis first: Germany (which is why Cruise had recent troubles there), psychologists and psychiatrists, newspapers, journalists, Germany again (Bringing your kids along to a Nazi uniformed protest is weird by anyone's standard yes?), and probably a lot more. It's no wonder that some people occasionally fling it back, where it seems to sit better (and when the poo sits...):
*"[..] This is nothing compared to what will happen when we start taking SPs
out of the government. They are rightly afraid. So don't you be. Tomorrow
belongs to us. Inevitably there are bumps in the road." L. Ron Hubbard
Yeah, and apparently I'm well-known and a leader now! I did not receive that memo yet. The raise will be nice once the Marcabs finally get caught up on my back-pay.
I have heard it is Youtube (owned by Google) policy to remove videos with a takedown notice, so they would have been removed anyway, valid DMCA or not.
This is an obvious violation of the Cthurch of Scientology's trademark, trade secret, copyright and patented techniques for dealing with its critics. How dare they!
The only source of the number leads straight back to the cthurch of Scientology which can provide no meaningful data to support that. It's highly suspect that they claim they can't, because the whole organization is obsessed with "stats" thanks to Hubbard, and every Thurdays at 2pm a report goes uplines of how many people on course, how much money, how many new people signed up, how many Stress Tests, how much money, etc.
Even one of their apologists, Dr. J. Gordon Melton said:
[..] that the church's estimates of its membership numbers -- 4 million in the United States, 8 to 9 million worldwide -- are exaggerated. "You're talking about anyone who ever bought a Scientology book or took a basic course. Ninety-nine percent of them don't ever darken the door of the church again." If the church indeed had 4 million members in the United States, he says, "they would be like the Lutherans and would show up on a national survey" such as the Harris poll.
You mean the Scientologists? It's tricky. The real believers are trained and conditioned to double-think without the cognitive dissonance bothering them at all. The part of their thought that believes that Scientology "just makes sense" and they are on a mission to save the planet and that their specific actions are ethical on a higher dynamic than "garden variety humanoid" laws just doesn't connect with the part of thought that knows that certain types of actions are criminal. For them, it's exactly like trying to see your own blind spot.
That said, I don't find most Scientologists better or worse than other people--except when it involves their conditioning. (There are some real manipulators and abusers who take advantage of others.) Once they're out and recovered (which can take years), it's interesting to listen to them try to explain their thought process at the time.
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The author specifically mentions Flickr which apparently isn't archived by Wayback. A MakeMoneyFast artist could also use his own site and switch off archive.org with a robots.txt exclusion, instantly blocking all access to previously archived versions of the site.
I can see how Social Network Aggregation apps would be useful for killers and stalkers, but isn't that a rather narrow market segment? (I hope.)
Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak? I forget if they both made blue boxes. :)
There was an exchange on the west fringe of Montreal island where 2600 worked on local calls, for disconnection at least, and it always made me laugh to hang up by whistling the tone. (Had to hunt a bit to nail it.)
Any good books in the works on how to write hot games for that platform? Think of the market! (3. Profit!)
Oh my God, it's full of pr0n.
We could have had a That's no moon for a Moon.
I'd feel more confident if anyone at Google really seemed to understand Usenet. They seem to feel that it's GoogleGroups and some outside nodes. And they keep breaking the search on the Deja archive.
According to the Wayback Machine, back in January 28th, 2003 it was up for sale: "IFPI.com is for sale. Asking price = $2000. Serious offers only to domain@hiosilver.com". By March 30th the phonographers had picked it up. (Don't be fooled by the March 19th 2003 anachronism--it's loading current frames.) And then by February 2007, they'd let it expire and it was picked up.
March 2003: owned by domain@hiosilver.com! "Hi Ho Silver"? Them be pirates!
The article doesn't say that they were forced to give it to the band. It says "finished negotiations". The article does say "give back" and "reclaim", but never mentions exactly when it was that the band owned the domain in the first place. If they never did, then they probably bought the domain. I don't see how the band AC/DC should have any automatic ownership of the acdc.com domain.
Sort of like the Crimson Permanent Assurance?
Shawn Frayne's Windbelt Wins Popular Mechanics 2007 Breakthrough Award
(In fiction at least) The Subways Of Tazoo, Colin Kapp, 1964. In the story, it was strings rather than ribbons. The story involves an alien race that killed themselves by climate change. Tsk, what science-fiction twaddle!
I use my Gmail accounts more as filters than as storage areas.
A restraining order against an anonymous coward on Slashdot? Heh. Almost always, the people assigned to these sorts of duties are doing an "ammends project" to be allowed back "onlines" with the Cthurch of Scientology. They seem to get picked for the nasty jobs because (a) they're deniable as working for Scientology, (b) they're frequently judgment-proof because they have no assets or they're so dubious in sanity that no one would believe any liable and no damages could be proven. (There's also the danger that Scientology would help out in the legal fight in order to make it as time-consuming and expensive for a critic as possible. "The purpose of a lawsuit is to harass", in the words of L. Ron Hubbard.)
It's not worth my time because I can do more to help expose the organization in an hour of working on my media references page than wasting months in court.
It's no accident that he Godwin'ed himself immediately. When Scientology starts flinging poo at anyone who dares criticize the "most ethical organization on the planet" (their words), they always reach for Hitler and the Nazis first: Germany (which is why Cruise had recent troubles there), psychologists and psychiatrists, newspapers, journalists, Germany again (Bringing your kids along to a Nazi uniformed protest is weird by anyone's standard yes?), and probably a lot more. It's no wonder that some people occasionally fling it back, where it seems to sit better (and when the poo sits...):
Maybe they could ship the hard drives in boxes that are supposed to contain bricks? That would be a switch.
Yeah, and apparently I'm well-known and a leader now! I did not receive that memo yet. The raise will be nice once the Marcabs finally get caught up on my back-pay.
Shadowy fingers behind the back of screen images should be a big advance for Porn Digital Assistants. I predict a win for this one.
I thought the Chinese discovered it in 1421?
Maybe they use one of the misprint Bibles that says "Thou shalt bear false witness"?
This is an obvious violation of the Cthurch of Scientology's trademark, trade secret, copyright and patented techniques for dealing with its critics. How dare they!
The only source of the number leads straight back to the cthurch of Scientology which can provide no meaningful data to support that. It's highly suspect that they claim they can't, because the whole organization is obsessed with "stats" thanks to Hubbard, and every Thurdays at 2pm a report goes uplines of how many people on course, how much money, how many new people signed up, how many Stress Tests, how much money, etc.
Even one of their apologists, Dr. J. Gordon Melton said: Ref: Elaine, Jarvik, Scientology: Church now claims more than 8 million members, 2004-09-18.You mean the Scientologists? It's tricky. The real believers are trained and conditioned to double-think without the cognitive dissonance bothering them at all. The part of their thought that believes that Scientology "just makes sense" and they are on a mission to save the planet and that their specific actions are ethical on a higher dynamic than "garden variety humanoid" laws just doesn't connect with the part of thought that knows that certain types of actions are criminal. For them, it's exactly like trying to see your own blind spot.
That said, I don't find most Scientologists better or worse than other people--except when it involves their conditioning. (There are some real manipulators and abusers who take advantage of others.) Once they're out and recovered (which can take years), it's interesting to listen to them try to explain their thought process at the time.