Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress 81
inode_buddha writes "Groklaw has just received an invitation to be archived in the Library of Congress. In true FOSS style, PJ has decided to ask all the contributors and commenters if they wish to be included, since commenters own the copyrights on their comments. So far, the answer seems to be 'yes,' even for Anonymous Cowards. It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person."
Congrats (Score:5, Insightful)
I give my congratulations to PJ. She has done a remarkable service and has proven the Internet's power for citizen advocacy, education and activism. Her success can be measured by just how much her enemies tried to, and in some cases still try to discredit her.
Re:Congrats (Score:5, Informative)
It comes from the pronunciation of "blogs" in some accents: /blA.gz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as in "b(o)ther", where "f(a)ther" and "b(o)ther" are pronounced differently (e.g. British Accents) [to pronounce this, pronounce it as the "ah" in "f(a)ther", but round the lips like in "b(oo)k" and keep it a short sound] /blA:gz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as "f(a)ther", where "f(a)ther" and "b(o)ther" are pronounced the same (e.g. some American Accents) /blOgz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as "m(ore)" (e.g. some American Accents)
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The /blOgz/ pronunciation gets transliterated as "blawgs". Therefore, it is a transliteration of that accent and not a typo. It was probably chosen for this and (as people on Groklaw have noted) that it contains the word "law" in it.
c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels [wikipedia.org]
NOTE: I am using Kirshenbaum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirshenbaum) as /. does not accept Unicode IPA characters.
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I think it is spelled blag and pronounced /blag/
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It's in the original. The Library of Congress, like all government institutions, is 20 years behind the times.
I prefer Library Of Congress Will Be Archived At Groklaw [slushdot.com].
Agreed (Score:1)
Kudos to PJ. I think it is quite well deserved.
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And how much SCO stock did you buy? Bitterness becomes you, just like that boot print in your ass.
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I too offer my congratulations to PJ and the hard working Groklaw community. When I started reading her blog in the Spring of 2003 there was a lot of confusion as to the future of Linux and even the GPL. How a company that owed it's existence to Linux and the GPL (I'm referring to Caldera which became The SCO Group) could turn on the whole community as it did was a dark time in business.
Of course nearly every claim was proven false (with the possible exception of errno.h and some drivers submitted by SGI, I
Give generated IDs to anonymous cowards (Score:2)
ie through a script :
Anonymous Coward 138513
Anonymous Coward 138514
Anonymous Coward 138514
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Anonymous Coward whatever
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Or just prevent people contributing anonymously unless they give unconditional licence to reuse the prose, and affirm that they both own the content or have been granted permission to use it, or have fair use to it, under current copyright law.
[This comment (c) 2010, Anonymous Coward #1123581321]
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Or just prevent people contributing anonymously unless they give unconditional licence to reuse the prose, and affirm that they both own the content or have been granted permission to use it, or have fair use to it, under current copyright law.
Or just apply creative commons, with an attribution state.
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And what about all the people she "anonymised" when she deleted their accounts, but not their comments?
(most notably John Gabriel, but others as well.)
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An additional problem with a good number of the earlier "Anonymous" posts is that they were originally owned by and identified to their copyright owners with the use of the Groklaw User IDs. In 2004, PJ went through a purge of a number of folks she disagreed with, deleted their users accounts, and all of their comments were instantly anonymized with no chance of recovery.
PJ's essentially removing the copyright identification from those thousands of posts caused a bit of upset from those who felt that by rem
What shallI do? (Score:4, Funny)
I contributed several comments to Groklaw but those comments I lifted from a number of Slashdotters. How do I handle that? I just want to do the right thing.
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Explain that in your response to Groklaw and let them figure it out.
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Re:What shallI do? (Score:5, Funny)
The right thing is obviously to sue the true rights holders in a protracted and monumentally expensive legal battle dragging your name through the mud and ultimately making a complete ass of yourself, after artificially inflating your stock price for a little while.
Re:What shallI do? (Score:5, Funny)
There is a man in Utah (I think) who is interested in your plan and wishes to invest his unemployment benefits in suing you for infringement of his patents. Call Darl@mcdonalds.ut.us
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I AM ANONYMOUS COWARD! (Score:1)
I am anonymous coward!
Aw, hell
And by the way, omniscient slashdot filter, I WAS YELLING
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I AM SPARTACUS^wAnonymous Coward!
One LoC + x (Score:3, Funny)
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About 2 and a half Slashdots.
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About 2 and a half Slashdots.
Are we speaking quantity or quality here?
People are often dumb, but... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person.
I rather doubt many future researchers would think that "Anonymous Coward" is one person, though I can't speak for members of Congress. I can certainly imagine Ted Stevens talking about the tremendously prolific output of A. Coward flowing through a series of tubes....
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Re:People are often dumb, but... (Score:4, Funny)
It's amazing just how many books this "Ibid" chap has written.
And "et al" seems a really common surname among authors of scientific papers.
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An AC is not just a person, it's "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Tacoma. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... abraded genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by banging out trolls and flamebait on its wireless keyboard."
(With apologies to William Gibson [voidspace.org.uk] and Cory D [boingboing.net]
Mr. Anonymous Coward (Score:2)
"It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person."
That would be one seriously disturbed person ;-) The future psychologists will have a field day analyzing this guy!
I hereby... (Score:3, Funny)
... give permission for all my comments to be archived without limitations.
Yours truly,
Anonymous Coward
Now slashdot won't have to worry about that in the unlikely case anybody ever finds its contents useful enough to preserve them for future generations.
And the Smithsonian is planning an exhibit of ... (Score:3, Funny)
... the mummified head of Daryl McBride on a pike.
You toss in a quarter, and the head screams "I'll swallow your code! I'll swallow your code!," whilst you get to whack at it with a chainsaw and plink it with the shotgun out of the Smithsonian Housewares exhibit, and taunt it with Bruce Campbell grimaces.
Slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
Perhaps Slashdot should be included. But as a counter example.
I keed I keed. You guys are all great! Except for the ones who aren't.
Actually I got suckered into reading user comments on CNN.com the other day. Makes Slashdot look like powerful scholars who by all rights should be in charge of the playground. Not mopping up the melting snow with their ratty jackets.
Damnit. I really do love you guys!
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I can't figure out if you're at it with the Rum or the Whiskey.
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Actually I got suckered into reading user comments on CNN.com the other day.
I had this happen too. I feel your pain my /. brother.
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Every once in a while I do that so I can again appreciate /. It really does help.
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Perhaps Slashdot should be included. But as a counter example.
But then if a slashdot post refers to a Library of Congress as a unit for measuring data, that actual post will change the definition of a LoC so the LoC could never be meaningful on slashdot anymore.
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And Google will be charge $1.99 for each access to it.
Size of Groklaw archive (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Size of Groklaw archive (Score:5, Informative)
Your mistake is thinking that one LOC is a constant
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Hmmm, this sounds like a job for DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS!
*runs and hides*
Re:Famous ACs (Score:4, Interesting)
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Censorship (Score:2, Insightful)
PJ is notorious for censoring comments that she doesn't like. For instance, any reference to AllParadox will get your comment removed.
It is PJ's blog and she can do what she likes but it isn't nearly as transparent as she would have us believe. It would be nice if they could restore the censored comments and archive those too.
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Well you got modded down as you presumably intended but your post is still going to be archived. I like the fact that short of extreme measures from the CoS and dodgy database design posts on /. stay there forever.
I didn't like the ability of editors to delete posts from Technocrat yet I posted there. I don't like it on boing boing either.
A moderation system is a better way to suppress posts.
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Of course. I love that posts are persistent here on slashdot. It's an elegant solution to a lot of problems. I just don't think it's the only answer.
I like that things are done differently in other places too. Not everybody has to do everything the same way. Part of going to Groklaw is that you accept that PJ's moderation system is arbitrary and capricious. It has made for a good quality website, if not so full of hidden surprises of slashdot's "wild west" method, at least with less unpleasantness.
One giant I Told You So (Score:2)
SCO Group copyright claims:
9th June 2003 What evidence of origin,ownership,copyright + GPL [slashdot.org]
And soon SCO Group Vs IBM:
12th June 2003 The Trillian Project : Proof of SCO's actions [lwn.net]
Random Love, CEO Caldera, keynote address,LINUXWORLD 2000 conference, August
Here's teh solution... (Score:2)
... But who's willing to go for a name change?
Groklaw has my ok.
No New Groklaw Accounts = Anonymous Cowards (Score:3, Informative)
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As an anonymous... (Score:1, Interesting)
It is my firm belief that all anonymous posts are public domain.
It is precisely like someone shouting in a square -- and that's why I always choose to go anonymous.
I want what I say to be judged on its own merits -- praised or rejected, whatever.
That /. in practice relegated ACs to oblivion looks like totally idiotic to me (though I recognize jerks usually post anonymously)... we need a better system.
Karma is only desired by those who must collect it with daily zeal; the truly enlightened, by the proper def
Anonymous Coward AGAIN??? (Score:2)
If future researchers decided that "Anonymous Coward" was one person, how could they help but wonder at the popularity of "Apple/Microsoft/Linux Fanboi", whom AC constantly orders to "suck this".
Be careful PJ... (Score:2)
...the library of Congress has been known to f*ck people [peikoff.com].