usenetserver.com isn't bad. $15 a month for Unlimited, 10 ports, binary retention is 110 days.
Cheaper if you buy a 3 month block ($40) - afaik, the cheapest provider that doesn't suck. Giganews is $25/month with 200+ days retention, but I think that $120 a year doesn't really give you anything.
I've used them for about 2 years now, they've had a few problems - SSL when they introduced it was a bit wonky, some data corruption once, but generally pretty good and when I complained they gave me a few weeks free. Never had a speed issue. Web based search (the v2) is pretty neat (saves nzb files). Completion is quite good.
If you sign up and want to give me a referral, use # 251754
With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet
Wrong. Lets get this clear - The recent push to shut down usenet access is being led almost solely by Andrew Cuomo - the Attorney General from NY - some guy who you probably never voted for. In fact, you've probably never even seen his name on a ballot.
Isn't it cool how some douchebag elected in a different state gets to dictate national policy? Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Well, I don't know about the other ones, but Erowid isn't generally known as a drug scare site.
I don't know - Erowid does have it's fair share of "I did pot, coke, mecaline, meth and acid within 4 hours" stories in the experience vaults. A fair bit of those should scare the hell out of anyone (and work as a great source for trolls)
AVG was nice and efficient 2 years ago. Since then, it has gotten all bloated. It's not as bad as "some other well known vendors", which cripple systems with less than 2gb of ram, but that's not saying much.
NOD32 is the new champ, but you still notice it running under Vista.
Why is it that XP 64 bit (apart from lack of driver support) isn't at all bad, and Vista, also presumably based on Server 2003, isn't all that good?
You hit the nail on the head - driver support for xp 64 bit is still crap. Yes, it's the fault of the device manufacturers, but if people don't get any sound, crappy video, etc, they won't use that OS.
I'll put $20 down that their test rig wasn't running an antivirus, since those kinds of apps kill performance like nothing else on Vista. Also bet you UAC was off.
In any case, MS claims this was is a "demo" which suspiciously sounds like "video" or at least a restrictive environment.
Speaking of controlled environments - the "ooh shiny" does make it seem much faster than it really is if you're not running a side by side comparison. People are more than willing to wait 1.25 seconds to open up "Computer" if 3/4 seconds is spent in animated windows, fades and icons filling in.
Honestly though, from a marketing standpoint, it's time to just give up marketing Vista and time to start praising the virtues of Windows 7. Redmond should be happy with the money they are making bundling the OS with new hardware sales. At this late stage, marketing money is just being pissed away. They sure as hell aren't going to convince anyone knowledgeable to "upgrade."
Also from a marketing standpoint, it would be nice to release some "Ultimate Extras" so the MS fans who dropped the extra $200 on ultimate don't feel like they got screwed. And I mean "now", not "3 months before the release of Windows 7 in a last minute attempt that will be seen as disingenuous and only serve to piss people off" Get an damn intern to write a few screen savers or something.
The thing is, there is a limited number of "without cause" exclusions each side can use - and given the fact that there are more people who don't know than people who do, the jury will be skewed as I've mentioned previously.
No push within the app, as far as I know, but it's a simple file in a known location, so you should be able to replace it with a logon script, although it may take a bit of fine tuning to get the "users are members of what group?" thing down.
You can tweak the group rights centrally (or at least on the router), but user connecting will still need to "log onto the group" if that makes any sense.
It sounds like the city is just trying to find something, anything and hope it will stick.
This may be a bit too cynical, but it's looking more and more like the DA purposefully released the group keys to the public (yay for prosecutorial immunity) so they can justify the charges.
While the name is douchebaggy, it's probably the best place for the average consumer to get support for their computer. They do hardware and software on both an appointment and walk in basis. Training too. Some stuff is billed, some stuff isn't.
It sure as hell beats the shithead high school junior with a tongue ring at Best Buy.
His assets, at, IIRC $244,000 pale in comparison to what was spent on the defense ($3 million?)
As for disbarment? Big deal. He conspired with the DNA lab to illegally conceal exculpatory evidence in the case via a malicious prosecution because allegedly "he thought it would be great advertising for his re-election."
His actions in that case also cast a shadow on every successful prosecution and undermined the legal system (rightfully so IMHO)
I personally don't care about that particular case, but it clearly shows the level of immunity prosecutors possess. Near the end, everyone knew what he did, why he did it, everyone despised his actions, but his punishment was still a sick pathetic joke.
I don't consider disbarment a punishment in cases of malicious prosecutorial misconduct - a disbarment should be a given in cases such as this. Felony charges and hard time should be "punishment"
Oh... and Nifong can get his license back in 2012.
Radio isn't just music. MP3 players can't give you live sports or talk yet (outside of local FM).
Wrong audience. People on/. will download the commercial free torrent 20 minutes after the game or bitch at each other right her on/. , thank you very much.
Oh please. Their struggles are about as legitimate as Microsoft's whining that there aren't enough H1B visas being handed out and that there are no qualified Americans for X thousand jobs.
oh wait the configuring of each remote client? What does that mean
It means that these "passwords" are group names + passwords, etc, inside of PCF files, which is how the cicso vpn client saves connection data (i.e. IP address of router, other settings, etc)
If every single remote workstation / laptop needs to be configured, it is due to changes in this - since most users have no clue how to change it / are unable to change it.
User authentication is separate from this and is typically not saved (you can do it, but it involves making a file read only during connection, etc, etc)
As for this "evidence", it's bullshit - any sysadmin has a number of VPN profiles on their PC / laptop. Of course, it was "shiny" enough for the judge in this case to keep bail at 5 million. Shame a first year community college student wasn't at the hearing to try and clarify.
The problem is the jury will be filled with people who are clueless about computers, as the DA will remove anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of network security.
Not really "jury of your peers", but everyone unofficially agrees juries composed of dumbasses make trials nice and quick. Anyways...
As for Kamela's dumbass move? Prosecutors in the USA enjoy virtual immunity, even something as stupid as she did won't result in any repercussions - at least in the court systems - once script kiddies get a hold of the passwords, it ought to be fun.
To put it in perspective, the media whore Nifong - who intentionally and maliciously continued the prosecution on the innocent duke team got a whopping day in jail and a minor fine. Yes, there are also civil remedies, but civil remedies sort of pale in comparison to the power a prosecutor can wield via the court system - namely that of imprisonment and even death.
The city is probably going to end up eating its words.
They won't. The prosecutor, in an attempt to not look like a Nifong will throw out every juror who doesn't have 12:00 blinking on their VCR.
Then it's the standard "dazzle them with bullshit", "experts whose testimony is either due to incredible incompetence or intentional malice and just happens to favor the prosecution" and rhetoric that infects courtrooms these days.
The judge won't know a TCP packet from an operating system and neither will the jury, unless they lie during jury selection.
After 40-50 hours, that is completely normal, even if you take excessive amounts of caffeine / stimulants or non stimulant drugs such as modafinil or adrafinil. Even if "desire for sleep by drowsiness" is totally eliminated, it really isn't all that pleasant and you'll find you want to sleep because of the effects. I also tend to find myself bored fairly easily.
There is at least one mod for forums sites that lets you "silently ban" the troll. They can continue to visit the site, post and continue to reply to messages, but nobody except the troll / troll's subnet sees them.
Perhaps, but the "secret" story on this is that he was the guy (as in the only person) who rolled out and administered the city's network.
I've seen Municipal IT depts and the majority are full of fuckup "political appointees". Competency is not required to keep getting their paychecks and mediocrity is not punished.
I do know that, but the Muslims I know never seemed to be very concerned about where their meat came from when I've gone out eating / shopping with them. Most didn't buy meat at the "Muslim store" - they just went to Fred Meyers or whatever. I'm sure this would be different in an area with more Muslims and more food stores that cater to halal diets, but I wouldn't be surprised if most American Muslims are so casual about the source of their meat (and are more focused on the types of meat, rather than their source)
The source of meat in the USA is... rather questionable unfortunately.
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"not getting raped by bullshit long distance charges just because you're calling from a cell phone" - reason 1
It should be noted that Discover will only deal with chargebacks where the purchase was made in the last 6 months. Discover sucks ass in this regard.
usenetserver.com isn't bad. $15 a month for Unlimited, 10 ports, binary retention is 110 days.
Cheaper if you buy a 3 month block ($40) - afaik, the cheapest provider that doesn't suck. Giganews is $25/month with 200+ days retention, but I think that $120 a year doesn't really give you anything.
I've used them for about 2 years now, they've had a few problems - SSL when they introduced it was a bit wonky, some data corruption once, but generally pretty good and when I complained they gave me a few weeks free. Never had a speed issue.
Web based search (the v2) is pretty neat (saves nzb files). Completion is quite good.
If you sign up and want to give me a referral, use # 251754
With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet
Wrong. Lets get this clear - The recent push to shut down usenet access is being led almost solely by Andrew Cuomo - the Attorney General from NY - some guy who you probably never voted for. In fact, you've probably never even seen his name on a ballot.
Isn't it cool how some douchebag elected in a different state gets to dictate national policy?
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Well, I don't know about the other ones, but Erowid isn't generally known as a drug scare site.
I don't know - Erowid does have it's fair share of "I did pot, coke, mecaline, meth and acid within 4 hours" stories in the experience vaults. A fair bit of those should scare the hell out of anyone (and work as a great source for trolls)
AVG was nice and efficient 2 years ago. Since then, it has gotten all bloated. It's not as bad as "some other well known vendors", which cripple systems with less than 2gb of ram, but that's not saying much.
NOD32 is the new champ, but you still notice it running under Vista.
Why is it that XP 64 bit (apart from lack of driver support) isn't at all bad, and Vista, also presumably based on Server 2003, isn't all that good?
You hit the nail on the head - driver support for xp 64 bit is still crap. Yes, it's the fault of the device manufacturers, but if people don't get any sound, crappy video, etc, they won't use that OS.
Vista isn't really "based" on 2003 Server either.
I'll put $20 down that their test rig wasn't running an antivirus, since those kinds of apps kill performance like nothing else on Vista.
Also bet you UAC was off.
In any case, MS claims this was is a "demo" which suspiciously sounds like "video" or at least a restrictive environment.
Speaking of controlled environments - the "ooh shiny" does make it seem much faster than it really is if you're not running a side by side comparison. People are more than willing to wait 1.25 seconds to open up "Computer" if 3/4 seconds is spent in animated windows, fades and icons filling in.
Honestly though, from a marketing standpoint, it's time to just give up marketing Vista and time to start praising the virtues of Windows 7.
Redmond should be happy with the money they are making bundling the OS with new hardware sales.
At this late stage, marketing money is just being pissed away. They sure as hell aren't going to convince anyone knowledgeable to "upgrade."
Also from a marketing standpoint, it would be nice to release some "Ultimate Extras" so the MS fans who dropped the extra $200 on ultimate don't feel like they got screwed. And I mean "now", not "3 months before the release of Windows 7 in a last minute attempt that will be seen as disingenuous and only serve to piss people off"
Get an damn intern to write a few screen savers or something.
The thing is, there is a limited number of "without cause" exclusions each side can use - and given the fact that there are more people who don't know than people who do, the jury will be skewed as I've mentioned previously.
I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain pot doesn't give you "flashbacks"
No push within the app, as far as I know, but it's a simple file in a known location, so you should be able to replace it with a logon script, although it may take a bit of fine tuning to get the "users are members of what group?" thing down.
You can tweak the group rights centrally (or at least on the router), but user connecting will still need to "log onto the group" if that makes any sense.
It sounds like the city is just trying to find something, anything and hope it will stick.
This may be a bit too cynical, but it's looking more and more like the DA purposefully released the group keys to the public (yay for prosecutorial immunity) so they can justify the charges.
While the name is douchebaggy, it's probably the best place for the average consumer to get support for their computer. They do hardware and software on both an appointment and walk in basis. Training too. Some stuff is billed, some stuff isn't.
It sure as hell beats the shithead high school junior with a tongue ring at Best Buy.
His assets, at, IIRC $244,000 pale in comparison to what was spent on the defense ($3 million?)
As for disbarment? Big deal. He conspired with the DNA lab to illegally conceal exculpatory evidence in the case via a malicious prosecution because allegedly "he thought it would be great advertising for his re-election."
His actions in that case also cast a shadow on every successful prosecution and undermined the legal system (rightfully so IMHO)
I personally don't care about that particular case, but it clearly shows the level of immunity prosecutors possess. Near the end, everyone knew what he did, why he did it, everyone despised his actions, but his punishment was still a sick pathetic joke.
I don't consider disbarment a punishment in cases of malicious prosecutorial misconduct - a disbarment should be a given in cases such as this. Felony charges and hard time should be "punishment"
Oh... and Nifong can get his license back in 2012.
Radio isn't just music. MP3 players can't give you live sports or talk yet (outside of local FM).
Wrong audience. /. will download the commercial free torrent 20 minutes after the game or bitch at each other right her on /. , thank you very much.
People on
Oh please. Their struggles are about as legitimate as Microsoft's whining that there aren't enough H1B visas being handed out and that there are no qualified Americans for X thousand jobs.
It's also standard practice for sysadmins to keep around cisco vpn profiles (i.e. pcf files)
Which is what Kamela the retarded DA exposed.
See this post
oh wait the configuring of each remote client? What does that mean
It means that these "passwords" are group names + passwords, etc, inside of PCF files, which is how the cicso vpn client saves connection data (i.e. IP address of router, other settings, etc)
If every single remote workstation / laptop needs to be configured, it is due to changes in this - since most users have no clue how to change it / are unable to change it.
User authentication is separate from this and is typically not saved (you can do it, but it involves making a file read only during connection, etc, etc)
As for this "evidence", it's bullshit - any sysadmin has a number of VPN profiles on their PC / laptop.
Of course, it was "shiny" enough for the judge in this case to keep bail at 5 million. Shame a first year community college student wasn't at the hearing to try and clarify.
The problem is the jury will be filled with people who are clueless about computers, as the DA will remove anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of network security.
Not really "jury of your peers", but everyone unofficially agrees juries composed of dumbasses make trials nice and quick. Anyways...
As for Kamela's dumbass move? Prosecutors in the USA enjoy virtual immunity, even something as stupid as she did won't result in any repercussions - at least in the court systems - once script kiddies get a hold of the passwords, it ought to be fun.
To put it in perspective, the media whore Nifong - who intentionally and maliciously continued the prosecution on the innocent duke team got a whopping day in jail and a minor fine. Yes, there are also civil remedies, but civil remedies sort of pale in comparison to the power a prosecutor can wield via the court system - namely that of imprisonment and even death.
In my own humble opinion, then SF DA's office is full of idiots.
Or fuckup political appointees (just like the majority of the IT department), but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
7. Cisco PCF files w/ the group names, etc, filled in.
That's probably what this is, and the increasingly desperate prosecutor is trying to find things that can be used to dazzle the jury.
The city is probably going to end up eating its words.
They won't. The prosecutor, in an attempt to not look like a Nifong will throw out every juror who doesn't have 12:00 blinking on their VCR.
Then it's the standard "dazzle them with bullshit", "experts whose testimony is either due to incredible incompetence or intentional malice and just happens to favor the prosecution" and rhetoric that infects courtrooms these days.
The judge won't know a TCP packet from an operating system and neither will the jury, unless they lie during jury selection.
After 40-50 hours, that is completely normal, even if you take excessive amounts of caffeine / stimulants or non stimulant drugs such as modafinil or adrafinil. Even if "desire for sleep by drowsiness" is totally eliminated, it really isn't all that pleasant and you'll find you want to sleep because of the effects.
I also tend to find myself bored fairly easily.
There is at least one mod for forums sites that lets you "silently ban" the troll. They can continue to visit the site, post and continue to reply to messages, but nobody except the troll / troll's subnet sees them.
Full of Win, IMHO
Perhaps, but the "secret" story on this is that he was the guy (as in the only person) who rolled out and administered the city's network.
I've seen Municipal IT depts and the majority are full of fuckup "political appointees". Competency is not required to keep getting their paychecks and mediocrity is not punished.
I do know that, but the Muslims I know never seemed to be very concerned about where their meat came from when I've gone out eating / shopping with them. Most didn't buy meat at the "Muslim store" - they just went to Fred Meyers or whatever.
I'm sure this would be different in an area with more Muslims and more food stores that cater to halal diets, but I wouldn't be surprised if most American Muslims are so casual about the source of their meat (and are more focused on the types of meat, rather than their source)
The source of meat in the USA is... rather questionable unfortunately.