It really depends on which newsgroups you subscribe to and how assiduously you killfile. With a well-tuned killfile, Usenet is still useful even on the noisiest groups. Better NNTP clients will let you kill an entire thread or sub-thread, if you have otherwise-clueful people who can't help replying to a troll.
IIRC September began in 1993 when AOL gave its lusers Usenet access. AOL went off Usenet a couple years ago, but there's still Google Groups for the cluebies to use.
There's also some halfwit posting MI5 crap across many newsgroups His NNTP provider, Newsdemon, refuses to cancel his service or otherwise muzzle him. Oh, they'll send you a pre-done email saying that he's been banned, but they lie, and have been lying for two years. The person in question is in the UK mental-health system; obviously that's not doing so much good.
NANAU doesn't think this is enough to UDP Newsdemon, and the only solution appears to be killfiling him. Too bad DejaGoogle doesn't support any sort of killfiling.
It wouldn't surprise me if IBM still does for their mainframe stuff. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if they still offer support for old System/360s and older AS/400s.
Personal experience & aims of the product. 95 & 98SE were OK for consumer gaming & Internet & applications, which they aimed for. Not stellar (stability & security especially), but technically probably better than Mac OS 8 and 9, and Linux was not a competitor.
NT4 had an awful interface (just copy the 95 interface & be done with it!) and some design thinkos, drivers seem to be unique to it (can't use NT 3.x drivers, W2K can't use NT4 drivers), still has security problems & the occasional stability bug &c. It just wasn't good enough for Serious Enterprise Use, not that it stopped some businesses.
The local license server fucking sucks. We use that. We only use Vista on a small number of machines, for testing purposes. The license server won't activate any computers until it sees at least 25 different Vista installations.
There's a way around that, but damn that's irritating, and one of many reasons why Vista is "over my dead body" for the moment.
OTOH if you've got a fast modern PC and DOSBox, your old DOS games will run quite well.
For reference, I've got a C2D E6300, 2 GB of RAM, and a GeForce 7900 GS. With DOSBox 0.72 under Windows XP, I can run Duke Nukem 3D at 320x200 between 50 and 70 FPS, and 640x480 at 30-50 FPS (obtained via FRAPS).
Ask the innocents Uighurs that were held in Guantanamo for several years before being released.
Innocent until proven guilty doesn't always hold. FTM in France the burden of proof is on the accused; the police are given the presumption of being correct.
I'm told by someone who works in Oklahoma's DOT that the tension between concrete and asphalt roads is this:
Asphalt roads are pushed by human-factors people because they're softer and less fatiguing to drive on. Obviously this is more a factor with highways. Concrete roads are pushed by engineers because they last longer. However, they're a pain to resurface because great chunks must be pulled up ('crete is laid in large rectangles), while with asphalt you can just pull up the bits that need to be redone, say the area around a pothole.
I'm pretty sure that cars exist/are planned that use "drive by wire"; that is, there are no physical connections between the driver's controls and the throttle, brakes, and steering, it's all handled by the computer.
You have to fill out a form and get it called in in Missouri. Ostensibly it's to prevent felons and such from obtaining guns. I'm almost certain the form includes the gun's serial number.
That's for long guns (rifles, shotguns), at least. I haven't bought a pistol yet, so I don't know what the procedure is for those.
We do have concealed carry here in Missouri now, but I don't know the details (can't very well conceal a Mosin-Nagant or a K31). IIRC, though, you don't have to register with the local sheriff any longer.
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If you'd look at Google's hybrid view, it's got Navteq's name all over it.
Interesting that the inaccuracies are by design.
It really depends on which newsgroups you subscribe to and how assiduously you killfile. With a well-tuned killfile, Usenet is still useful even on the noisiest groups. Better NNTP clients will let you kill an entire thread or sub-thread, if you have otherwise-clueful people who can't help replying to a troll.
IIRC September began in 1993 when AOL gave its lusers Usenet access. AOL went off Usenet a couple years ago, but there's still Google Groups for the cluebies to use.
This chip is pure E-peen for Intel, especially since nobody can fully take advantage of the ruttin' thing.
NANAU doesn't think this is enough to UDP Newsdemon, and the only solution appears to be killfiling him. Too bad DejaGoogle doesn't support any sort of killfiling.
It wouldn't surprise me if IBM still does for their mainframe stuff. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if they still offer support for old System/360s and older AS/400s.
Personal experience & aims of the product. 95 & 98SE were OK for consumer gaming & Internet & applications, which they aimed for. Not stellar (stability & security especially), but technically probably better than Mac OS 8 and 9, and Linux was not a competitor.
NT4 had an awful interface (just copy the 95 interface & be done with it!) and some design thinkos, drivers seem to be unique to it (can't use NT 3.x drivers, W2K can't use NT4 drivers), still has security problems & the occasional stability bug &c. It just wasn't good enough for Serious Enterprise Use, not that it stopped some businesses.
3.1: Sucks
NT 3.x: Sucks
95: OK
NT4: Sucks
98: Sucks
98SE: OK
ME: Sucks
2K: OK
XP: OK.
Vista: Sucks
Guess not, then.
The local license server fucking sucks. We use that. We only use Vista on a small number of machines, for testing purposes. The license server won't activate any computers until it sees at least 25 different Vista installations.
There's a way around that, but damn that's irritating, and one of many reasons why Vista is "over my dead body" for the moment.
I'll believe it when I see it. Got an ETA?
OTOH if you've got a fast modern PC and DOSBox, your old DOS games will run quite well.
For reference, I've got a C2D E6300, 2 GB of RAM, and a GeForce 7900 GS. With DOSBox 0.72 under Windows XP, I can run Duke Nukem 3D at 320x200 between 50 and 70 FPS, and 640x480 at 30-50 FPS (obtained via FRAPS).
From what I see, DoJ's position is "he's the Decider, he's decided you're guilty (or innocent), now we'll do what we're told".
I don't have any confidence that Mukasey will change that "ethic".
Ask the innocents Uighurs that were held in Guantanamo for several years before being released.
Innocent until proven guilty doesn't always hold. FTM in France the burden of proof is on the accused; the police are given the presumption of being correct.
dcfldd is included in Helix forensics LiveCD (based on Knoppix), along with several other quite useful programs.
Have a look at http://www.e-fense.com/helix/
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on lunch.
Libertarianism is a well-armed sheep contesting the issue.
I'm told by someone who works in Oklahoma's DOT that the tension between concrete and asphalt roads is this:
Asphalt roads are pushed by human-factors people because they're softer and less fatiguing to drive on. Obviously this is more a factor with highways. Concrete roads are pushed by engineers because they last longer. However, they're a pain to resurface because great chunks must be pulled up ('crete is laid in large rectangles), while with asphalt you can just pull up the bits that need to be redone, say the area around a pothole.
I'm pretty sure that cars exist/are planned that use "drive by wire"; that is, there are no physical connections between the driver's controls and the throttle, brakes, and steering, it's all handled by the computer.
That'd be pretty exciting.
So you put a Faraday cage around the car's ECM. Problem solved?
Also, are these rays energetic enough for, say, crowd control? And what if the cops are chasing someone with a pacemaker?
Zonk.
More seriously, this is at least a somewhat interesting post.
That movie never happened.
On the other hand, Nemesis sucked and it was an even-numbered Trek movie. So maybe XI will make up for that by not sucking.
On the gripping hand, it may not be possible to produce a non-sucking Trek movie any longer.
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You have to fill out a form and get it called in in Missouri. Ostensibly it's to prevent felons and such from obtaining guns. I'm almost certain the form includes the gun's serial number.
That's for long guns (rifles, shotguns), at least. I haven't bought a pistol yet, so I don't know what the procedure is for those.
We do have concealed carry here in Missouri now, but I don't know the details (can't very well conceal a Mosin-Nagant or a K31). IIRC, though, you don't have to register with the local sheriff any longer.
How about "date-enhancing drug"?
No, the latest discovery is that your mom's vaginal secretions cure cancer.