88 newsgroups out of 100,000 and they cut all alt.* access? could the real motivator here be to block access to the alt.binaries.* tree's ? I find it disturbing that his office is looking for porn, they should be dealing with direct complaints rather than drumming up business, the act of downloading and possessing this stuff with intent is illegal already. That being said, if Time Warner's newsgroup service is going to be censored, stop using it; Comcast dropped the feeds access for the @home customers shortly after taking over (and don't tell me a 2GB per month giganews account is the same as having ISP provided) For anyone affected and still in the need of usenet access, get a giganews platinum (diamond?) account, the transactions are done via SSL and they're retention is 200 days. I pay an additional $30 USD monthly but its one of the few ISP services I have subscribed to where I feel I might be getting my money's worth.
I find it curious that when its paper and cloth burning it's an outrage but when its 0's and 1's filtering it is ok.
Censorship has taken on a new look but the intent is the same.
yeah, add me to the list of those that paid and got a 'server failed' mine happened at 2.3% in on the lossless, not only did it fail and the one time link expire, their 'support' email address appears to be a one way ticket to nowhere.
Usually NIN's music inspires a little rage but usually not in this manner.
The US supports the requests of the Taliban; apparently turning cell towers off has the opposite effect, phones seeking signal will broadcast at full strength while searching, the 5 fold increase in signal strength should allow new cellphone guided missiles to zero in with previously unrecorded accuracy.
Wow, Sun outsources their email? thats enough to tell me that you don't know what your talking about, they outsource many things but email isn't currently on that list.
ok, playing fanboy for a second, you list the cheapest wii available at 565 to make the 360's price look good.
Why not also mention that the 360 has the best warranty? Why not mention why (hint, red rings for the holidays)?
If not for Nintendo's amazing understanding of their audience the WII would not be able to compete, graphically, computationally its inferior, but that doesn't matter, its fun.
The XBOX360 would be a great system if not for the continual doubt as to the longevity of the hardware and the perpetual noise, also, Microsoft should be including a HDDVD-Rom capable drive in the mid and high end versions, it would be cheaper than that damned external $200 dollar optional 'player' and it would turn the box into the media center that Microsoft so desperately desires.
Sony should drop their bottom pricepoint to $300 but really, looking at the hardware specs and cost I don't see how.
and yeah, I own a PS3; when I find a WII in stock I suspect I will own one of those as well, the only thing on the 360 that I find attractive is the Halo franchise but it isn't enough to make me drop coin.
as a matter of fact, not yet, I will install it, checksum the executables against their respective versions and anything that shows as 'different' will get a request, makes it easier to be specific and highlights anything unusual.
having just gone through this procedure with a 4x250 (to 4x500) unit I can say that it works; heres how: 1. resync the volume *before* starting, it will check the drives for consistant behaviour. 2. replace the drives one at a time, i.e. pull one, put one in, wait for resync, repeat. 3. after all drives are replaced the readynas will do a resync/volume check on its own. 4. reboot and wait a somewhat long time for the volume to be resized.
any deviation from this and I suspect data loss is pretty certain, I would have tried placing the 250 you pulled back in first but can see how this could happen, reading the thread it would seem that this happens when there are less than 4 active drives, did it happen on the resync before replacing the first drive (did you do this?) or during the resync for the first drive?
this does demonstrate the need for backups still, raid has its own unique set of problems, I use my readynas as a backup device, meaning I have more than one copy of the data housed there, for that purpose it is excellent.
best regards.
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Just out of curiosity (morbid as it may be) were the drives on the supported list? Infrant has had some problems with WD disks dropping off as they have (by default) an intensive scrubber built it that runs every few days, this typically drops the drive out of raid sets; this gets worse when you follow the recommended practice of matching your drives....This problem isn't infrant alone, WD has released a firmware update for the drives as they tend to drop from any raid controller; I know this for fact as I am using the 'unsupported' ys drives right now in mine, after flashing them the drops stopped.
Their tech support (in the past) was great, they seem to have been on hold for the past year (netgear bought them, that tends to dampen response at least in the short term) but I have seen a flurry of firmware updates recently (beta 4.0 code) NFS is much improved as they have moved to the 2.6 kernel.
sorry to hear your experience, several of my friends have these and we have all been very pleased with them, shame about netgreat buying them as it has driven the price up $100 or more.
Your radio is nice, but can it transmit? imagine a world where the NSA sprinkles a little 'dust' comprised of low wattage radios designed to link up, point to point they should cover the distance between all those being listened to and those doing the listening.
Before switching careers mid life I worked for several retail establishments, including doing loss prevention major metropolitan district.
Bricks/Tiles do get placed into packages for return, I've seen a router box repacked with a ziplock bag of dirt, I've seen a Macintosh computer returned with cinder blocks in it.
That being said someone mess up here, I've returned items to Best Buy, given that most of what I buy there amounts to storage and peripherals for my various toys I've noticed that they at least give a momentary glimpse as to the contents of the box, serial number and/or model numbers are matched etc.
Recently I noticed that Best Buy also tags returned items with a 'license plate' (their name) tag that presumably tracks the life of that item from return to restock and subsequent resale.
Expensive small stock on shelves at Best Buy typically have those annoying wire alarm devices to prevent opening/repackaging instore.
So given the above scenario:
1. The drive was in the box when purchased and a fast one is being pulled on Best Buy, I applaud them for standing up to this as its a rare day indeed when it happens with the support of Corp.
2. The drive wasn't in the box when purchased and this customer is getting the shaft, this leads to three other possibilities.
a. The drive was swapped in store by an employee (this is more often the case than you would believe).
b. The drive was swapped in store by a customer.
c. The Box of tiles was swapped by a previous customer and returned.
OK, so given the 3 options A and C are most likely, B would be a why bother, not suggesting a thief is smart but the more time spent manipulating a package the better chance you have to get caught, replacing tiles in a box would have been done in comfort somewhere I imagine, a back stock room, a bath room, a house.
If it was secured by an alarm and swapped in store thats an employee, If it was returned by a customer with tiles in box thats the fault of the customer, the customer service rep as they were unable to follow a very simple procedure to insure this kind of thing doesn't happen. (license plate, model/serial check).
I have seen managers deal with this kind of problem in much the same way, tell the customer tough and reinforce the rules to avoid this again, why?
Managers are quite often held accountable for shrink (nice term, unaccounted for stock losses, assumed to be theft but sometimes just crappy accounting) either for continued employ and/or bonuses, its these bonuses that lead to funny accounting, during a slow quarter a hard drive could make the difference during a busy one it amounts to almost nothing.
after saying this I have a couple of questions for the original poster:
1. Was it a previous return at discount? 2. Was it in a locked/cable wrap?
did you report this to the Police in your area? technically its fraud either way, either you misrepresented your return or the store misrepresented an item they sold you, if I put a Porsche emblem on a Honda and sell it as a Porsche, well, you get the picture.
Best of luck to you on this, if the local managers and Corp were willing to do this they believe (right or wrong) that they have a defensible position and that you will just 'go away'
Concept is simple, a bunch of folks standing in a circle holding wii-motes shaking them towards the center.
I agree with an earlier post, the sims would look no better on a WII than an XB360 or a PS3, each of the new systems is innovative in their own right but using something like an innovation in control as an indicator of 'next-gen' status is a little silly.
When shopping for tech toys I always treat the rebate as secondary, the price has to be the lowest before the rebate, if the rebate is instant even better but you just can rely on the companies servicing these things to come through; read the fine print on most of the rebates and you will find that you are responsible for making sure the company has received and processed your rebate, once its sent you've more than likely sent the only copy you have along with the original qualifying UPC/product label, once that's lost your chances at getting the rebate fulfilled are next to nil.
This kind of news just amuses me, it is obvious though that the company didn't do this intentionally, that kind of move would have involved shredding.
Though usually true, the chip(s) used are a complete PS2 emotion engine set, they are as good as the real deal; It might be possible for Sony to 'enhance' the PS2 experience in emulation, than again there is something to be said for *not* upgrading your PS3's OS, if Sony follows the PSP model each new release will get them closer to closing potential DRM end arounds.
I am truly on the fence here but have no plans on selling my ps2, so near perfect emulation is just fine, I'll wait to see what I suspect Sony will do.
the current 80 GB bundle will stay at its current price, the new 80 GB edition will be cheaper with less goodies (no game, no wifi, no flash slots, no controller, whatever they can strip to show value).
How do I get in this class? do I purchase music? do I pose as someone downloading music? can I turn myself into the riaa in the hopes that they can include me in the pay out?
These folks chasing after a 10 year old is one thing, but I seem to recall they went after a dead man as well, can't wait to see how this plays out.
They got caught running a site; the purpose of which was the implied download of movies. They suggested the installation of client software to facilitate the download of movies, this software scanned the host installed for illicit files and phoned home.
Once caught they removed all evidence of it's existence.
One could presume that they're actions would suggest knowledge of wrong doing. A search for google cache for this site reveals nothing, but the site has been up and registers since after the 7th of February.
Anyone have web-cache of this site? Anyone have the client installed? If you do you might have cause for a legal complaint and a subpoena to seize their machines, one that is accelerated in nature as they are attempting to cover their tracks.
IANAL but this seems like a good way to get a foot in the door of their perfectly 'legal' operation.
Microsoft decides to enter console market. Bungie is well along in developing Halo Microsoft buys Bungie Halo becomes an exclusive release on xbox, PC/Mac versions are released later.
Microsoft has already established that they will pay to have exclusive content, it's actually a kinder gentler approach to pay for exclusive content then it is to buy the company out and lock it in.
my 2 cents but I miss the days when Bungie was doing more than lip service to the oddballs that like gaming on Macs.
Ambushing an armed person while unarmed is silly but possible, charging one with two pistols is pretty suicidal, might work, might be selfless but will most certainly result in someone being shot; given the eyewitness reports about how calm and methodical this guy was it would be a really bad idea.
A classroom full of armed students; though I am an avid gun owner I believe a school shooting isn't something you plan for and a act like this would still occur, he might not have killed as many but he still would have killed, increased risk of accidental shooting would go up quite a bit at such a school, as would professor mortality. In a classroom shooting it would also make the job for the police much more difficult, imagine rolling up and finding students apparently shooting at each other; what to do, what to do, shoot first? tell them to freeze? sounds like a good training scenario.
its easy to offer advice after the fact, but what strikes me is that there should have been an evacuation plan, the students should have known it and the two locked doors shouldn't have prevented it. Situational awareness will not always save you in a situation like this but it could certainly help.
look a guy holding two pistols, wearing a tan vest and playing with knives? He's channelling Laura Croft.......
seriously though this was a sad act and using it to do anything but show the need for good mental health care dilutes this incredible loss; whether its the anti-gamers or anti-assault rifle camps, they should at least allow those mourning to do so in peace.
If anything, organized society and religon appear to be the crux of this guys confusion, lets start by taking them off the market.
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88 newsgroups out of 100,000 and they cut all alt.* access? could the real motivator here be to block access to the alt.binaries.* tree's ? I find it disturbing that his office is looking for porn, they should be dealing with direct complaints rather than drumming up business, the act of downloading and possessing this stuff with intent is illegal already. That being said, if Time Warner's newsgroup service is going to be censored, stop using it; Comcast dropped the feeds access for the @home customers shortly after taking over (and don't tell me a 2GB per month giganews account is the same as having ISP provided) For anyone affected and still in the need of usenet access, get a giganews platinum (diamond?) account, the transactions are done via SSL and they're retention is 200 days. I pay an additional $30 USD monthly but its one of the few ISP services I have subscribed to where I feel I might be getting my money's worth.
I find it curious that when its paper and cloth burning it's an outrage but when its 0's and 1's filtering it is ok.
Censorship has taken on a new look but the intent is the same.
an early form of the number 42?
Killer filesystem.
yeah, add me to the list of those that paid and got a 'server failed' mine happened at 2.3% in on the lossless, not only did it fail and the one time link expire, their 'support' email address appears to be a one way ticket to nowhere.
Usually NIN's music inspires a little rage but usually not in this manner.
The US supports the requests of the Taliban; apparently turning cell towers off has the opposite effect, phones seeking signal will broadcast at full strength while searching, the 5 fold increase in signal strength should allow new cellphone guided missiles to zero in with previously unrecorded accuracy.
Wow, Sun outsources their email? thats enough to tell me that you don't know what your talking about, they outsource many things but email isn't currently on that list.
I smell Troll.
Western Digital in regards to YS series drives and raid sets:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1493
If the link breaks (slashcode made me shorten it for post fud check)
look for 'WD5000ABYS raid' on their FAQ site or alternately answer faq id 1493.
Infrant in regards to the same, look at the bottom of the HDD compat list, it calls out WD series drives, the YS series and raid drops.
A couple more weeks on these drives and I am still happy with 0 errors, serving HD content to my PS3 has never been easier.
ok, playing fanboy for a second, you list the cheapest wii available at 565 to make the 360's price look good.
Why not also mention that the 360 has the best warranty? Why not mention why (hint, red rings for the holidays)?
If not for Nintendo's amazing understanding of their audience the WII would not be able to compete, graphically, computationally its inferior, but that doesn't matter, its fun.
The XBOX360 would be a great system if not for the continual doubt as to the longevity of the hardware and the perpetual noise, also, Microsoft should be including a HDDVD-Rom capable drive in the mid and high end versions, it would be cheaper than that damned external $200 dollar optional 'player' and it would turn the box into the media center that Microsoft so desperately desires.
Sony should drop their bottom pricepoint to $300 but really, looking at the hardware specs and cost I don't see how.
and yeah, I own a PS3; when I find a WII in stock I suspect I will own one of those as well, the only thing on the 360 that I find attractive is the Halo franchise but it isn't enough to make me drop coin.
as a matter of fact, not yet, I will install it, checksum the executables against their respective versions and anything that shows as 'different' will get a request, makes it easier to be specific and highlights
anything unusual.
paranoia can be a healthy state of mind at times.
I just went out to http://universitytoolkit.com/ and grabbed my own copy for evaluation purposes...... looking forward to playing with this 'toolkit'
having just gone through this procedure with a 4x250 (to 4x500) unit I can say that it works; heres how:
1. resync the volume *before* starting, it will check the drives for consistant behaviour.
2. replace the drives one at a time, i.e. pull one, put one in, wait for resync, repeat.
3. after all drives are replaced the readynas will do a resync/volume check on its own.
4. reboot and wait a somewhat long time for the volume to be resized.
any deviation from this and I suspect data loss is pretty certain, I would have tried placing the 250 you pulled back in first but can see how this could happen, reading the thread it would seem
that this happens when there are less than 4 active drives, did it happen on the resync before replacing the first drive (did you do this?) or during the resync for the first drive?
this does demonstrate the need for backups still, raid has its own unique set of problems, I use my readynas as a backup device, meaning I have more than one copy of the data housed there, for that
purpose it is excellent.
best regards.
Just out of curiosity (morbid as it may be) were the drives on the supported list?
Infrant has had some problems with WD disks dropping off as they have (by default) an intensive scrubber built it that runs every few days, this typically drops the
drive out of raid sets; this gets worse when you follow the recommended practice of matching your drives....This problem isn't infrant alone, WD has released a firmware
update for the drives as they tend to drop from any raid controller; I know this for fact as I am using the 'unsupported' ys drives right now in mine, after flashing them the drops stopped.
Their tech support (in the past) was great, they seem to have been on hold for the past year (netgear bought them, that tends to dampen response at least in the short term)
but I have seen a flurry of firmware updates recently (beta 4.0 code) NFS is much improved as they have moved to the 2.6 kernel.
sorry to hear your experience, several of my friends have these and we have all been very pleased with them, shame about netgreat buying them as it has driven the price up $100 or more.
OK,
Your radio is nice, but can it transmit? imagine a world where the NSA sprinkles a little 'dust'
comprised of low wattage radios designed to link up, point to point they should cover the distance between all those
being listened to and those doing the listening.
paranoid? you bet.
the land that was free, the home of the braves.
Before switching careers mid life I worked for several retail establishments, including doing loss prevention major metropolitan district.
Bricks/Tiles do get placed into packages for return, I've seen a router box repacked with a ziplock bag of dirt, I've seen a Macintosh computer
returned with cinder blocks in it.
That being said someone mess up here, I've returned items to Best Buy, given that most of what I buy there amounts to storage and peripherals for my various toys I've
noticed that they at least give a momentary glimpse as to the contents of the box, serial number and/or model numbers are matched etc.
Recently I noticed that Best Buy also tags returned items with a 'license plate' (their name) tag that presumably tracks the life of that item from return to restock and subsequent resale.
Expensive small stock on shelves at Best Buy typically have those annoying wire alarm devices to prevent opening/repackaging instore.
So given the above scenario:
1. The drive was in the box when purchased and a fast one is being pulled on Best Buy, I applaud them for standing up to this as its a rare day indeed when it happens with the support of Corp.
2. The drive wasn't in the box when purchased and this customer is getting the shaft, this leads to three other possibilities.
a. The drive was swapped in store by an employee (this is more often the case than you would believe).
b. The drive was swapped in store by a customer.
c. The Box of tiles was swapped by a previous customer and returned.
OK, so given the 3 options A and C are most likely, B would be a why bother, not suggesting a thief is smart but the more time spent manipulating a package the better chance you have to get caught, replacing tiles in a box would have been done in comfort somewhere I imagine, a back stock room, a bath room, a house.
If it was secured by an alarm and swapped in store thats an employee,
If it was returned by a customer with tiles in box thats the fault of the customer, the customer service rep as they were unable to follow a very simple procedure
to insure this kind of thing doesn't happen. (license plate, model/serial check).
I have seen managers deal with this kind of problem in much the same way, tell the customer tough and reinforce the rules to avoid this again, why?
Managers are quite often held accountable for shrink (nice term, unaccounted for stock losses, assumed to be theft but sometimes just crappy accounting)
either for continued employ and/or bonuses, its these bonuses that lead to funny accounting, during a slow quarter a hard drive could make the difference during a busy one it amounts to almost nothing.
after saying this I have a couple of questions for the original poster:
1. Was it a previous return at discount?
2. Was it in a locked/cable wrap?
did you report this to the Police in your area? technically its fraud either way, either you misrepresented your return or the store misrepresented an item they sold you, if I put a Porsche emblem on a Honda and sell it as a Porsche, well, you get the picture.
Best of luck to you on this, if the local managers and Corp were willing to do this they believe (right or wrong) that they have a defensible position and that you will just 'go away'
Concept is simple, a bunch of folks standing in a circle holding wii-motes shaking them towards the center.
I agree with an earlier post, the sims would look no better on a WII than an XB360 or a PS3, each of the new systems is innovative in
their own right but using something like an innovation in control as an indicator of 'next-gen' status is a little silly.
idiots, I can put in html that by reading this you acknowledge I am the ruler supreme, putting foot to butt is a little different.
lynx works, I wonder at what point do they consider it a violation, my application has to view the source, isn't that a legal proxy for me?
what about web proxy's?
I suspect that putting such a policy on their site has increased traffic a thousand fold......
IT shops are reporting record absences this morning.....
When shopping for tech toys I always treat the rebate as secondary, the price has to be the lowest before the rebate, if the rebate is instant even better but you just can rely on the companies servicing these things
to come through; read the fine print on most of the rebates and you will find that you are responsible for making sure the company has received and processed your rebate, once its sent you've more than likely sent the only copy you have along with the original qualifying UPC/product label, once that's lost your chances at getting the rebate fulfilled are next to nil.
This kind of news just amuses me, it is obvious though that the company didn't do this intentionally, that kind of move would have involved shredding.
Though usually true, the chip(s) used are a complete PS2 emotion engine set, they are as good as the real deal;
It might be possible for Sony to 'enhance' the PS2 experience in emulation, than again there is something to be said for *not* upgrading your PS3's OS,
if Sony follows the PSP model each new release will get them closer to closing potential DRM end arounds.
I am truly on the fence here but have no plans on selling my ps2, so near perfect emulation is just fine, I'll wait to see what I suspect Sony will do.
the current 80 GB bundle will stay at its current price, the new 80 GB edition will be cheaper with less goodies (no game, no wifi, no flash slots, no controller, whatever they can strip to show value).
JMHO
How do I get in this class? do I purchase music? do I pose as someone downloading music? can I turn myself into the riaa in the hopes that they can include me in the pay out?
These folks chasing after a 10 year old is one thing, but I seem to recall they went after a dead man as well, can't wait to see how this plays out.
They got caught running a site; the purpose of which was the implied download of movies.
They suggested the installation of client software to facilitate the download of movies, this software
scanned the host installed for illicit files and phoned home.
Once caught they removed all evidence of it's existence.
One could presume that they're actions would suggest knowledge of wrong doing.
A search for google cache for this site reveals nothing, but the site has been up and registers since after the 7th of February.
Anyone have web-cache of this site? Anyone have the client installed? If you do you might have cause for a legal complaint
and a subpoena to seize their machines, one that is accelerated in nature as they are attempting to cover their tracks.
IANAL but this seems like a good way to get a foot in the door of their perfectly 'legal' operation.
Microsoft decides to enter console market.
Bungie is well along in developing Halo
Microsoft buys Bungie
Halo becomes an exclusive release on xbox, PC/Mac versions are released later.
Microsoft has already established that they will pay to have exclusive content, it's actually a kinder gentler approach to
pay for exclusive content then it is to buy the company out and lock it in.
my 2 cents but I miss the days when Bungie was doing more than lip service to the oddballs that like gaming on Macs.
Ambushing an armed person while unarmed is silly but possible, charging one with two pistols is pretty suicidal, might work, might be selfless but will most certainly result in someone being shot; given the eyewitness reports about how calm and methodical this guy was it would be a really bad idea.
A classroom full of armed students; though I am an avid gun owner I believe a school shooting isn't something you plan for and a act like this would still occur, he might not have killed as many but he still would have killed, increased risk of accidental shooting would go up quite a bit at such a school, as would professor mortality. In a classroom shooting it would also make the job for the police much more difficult, imagine rolling up and finding students apparently shooting at each other; what to do, what to do, shoot first? tell them to freeze? sounds like a good training scenario.
its easy to offer advice after the fact, but what strikes me is that there should have been an evacuation plan, the students should have known it and the two locked doors shouldn't have prevented it.
Situational awareness will not always save you in a situation like this but it could certainly help.
look a guy holding two pistols, wearing a tan vest and playing with knives?
He's channelling Laura Croft.......
seriously though this was a sad act and using it to do anything but show the need for good mental health care
dilutes this incredible loss;
whether its the anti-gamers or anti-assault rifle camps, they should at least
allow those mourning to do so in peace.
If anything, organized society and religon appear to be the crux of this guys confusion, lets start by taking them off
the market.
Nicerette for cannibals.......
85% less human.
free range.
or for the perverse, my little love pony.