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| 09-07-14 03:50pm - 3759 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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jook (0)
Active User  Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
Usenet I haven't checked out newgroups for at least a few years. I never downloaded porn from there, just music. Can anyone report on the status of porn sites there, like is it worth bothering with? | |
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| 09-07-14 04:16pm - 3759 days | #2 | |
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LPee23 (0)
Active User  Posts: 399 Registered: Jul 14, '13 Location: USA |
Usenet is mostly pirated stuff, and in the year 2014, who still goes there anyway? There are still some amateurs who upload their pics and videos there, but why they don't go for any number of the free image and video hosting sites available today is a mystery to me. Usenet makes me a little nervous when it comes to porn, due to their ongoing history of hosting the type of content I would not even want to accidentally stumble across. If Usenet was once the wild west, it is now mostly a ghost town. It amazes me that people still post stuff there, but they do. Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. | |
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| 09-08-14 11:59am - 3758 days | #3 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Usenet and torrents are the devils playground and not in a good way. Many a " hidden internet stalkers" prowl the Usenets looking for someone to grab the title . New Teen Porn Hot video and now they have infected your PC. Torrents are just as bad and about every prated porn now days is hooked with a nice tag with your IP addy. Porn is reasonably low cost, or surf the internet many a pics can be see legally on line. Just remember nothing is free and there is always a price, malware, adware, virus, or hostile pc take over is not worth the rare chance you can get to see a boobie and pussy for free. Since 2007 | |
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| 09-08-14 12:17pm - 3758 days | #4 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I would say that legitimate porn is cheaper than it has probably ever been. Many sites (at least those who haven't gone bust) are charging less money for more content than ever. Obviously some buck the trend, but overall the trend is very much in the favour of the consumer. I certainly wouldn't want to risk the health of my PC (laptop/tablet/phone/anything else) and it's files to save a small amount of money. Plus websites are getting much better are tracing where their stolen content is going and prosecuting those involved. It's just not worth the risk. And don't forget that a percentage of money spent on legitimate content goes towards shooting new content. Stolen stuff doesn't encourage new material to be made. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-08-14 01:44pm - 3758 days | #5 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
This is true, with my software on my site I can down to the second look and see who was where what and when, I can track their tor-browser and get their actual IP, and all sorts of obvious stuff like browser, PC ID and such. 10 years ago it took a master hacker to see all that. I just click a button and can see anything bout a visitor. If I can see it you know others out there are using it in many ways, some good and some to track your access to stealing their content. We did an experiment a few years ago, we ran wide open access to the internet. No firewall software or anything to see what would occur. Well obviously we were hacked, and our bios on the PC basically in all practical sense was melted. The PC became a pile of plastic. The illusion is you are safe to do what ever, hackers good ones may be, but if you are pirating the only space between you and jail is how good your magic is on your PC. one slip, one miss step and they gotch you. I want to enjoy my ladies on here, not wonder if they will be knocking on my door to serve me papers for watching a pirated video of Marylou rotten crotch. Its simply not worth and as ed said it just way to affordable to even risk one little rewards "MAY" occur.  Since 2007 | |
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| 09-08-14 04:25pm - 3758 days | #6 | |
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jook (0)
Active User Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
Ok, just asking. I thought usenet might have changed. Thanks for the warnings. | |
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| 09-09-14 10:18am - 3757 days | #7 | |
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AWpress (0)
Active Webmaster  Posts: 118 Registered: Nov 20, '12 Location: The Netherlands |
Usenet, lol. | |
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| 09-09-14 05:34pm - 3757 days | #8 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^The strange thing is that I would gladly go back to those early days of computers. There were still things left to discover and the people making stuff had an interest beyond making huge sums of money. Playing the Ultima series of computer game and seeing version 4 where you finally could see your tiny character on screen. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-09-14 08:24pm - 3756 days | #9 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
FWIW, my first computer was a Commodore 64. I was the only person I know with a Commodore. The few others who had computers had Atari's or TI's. My C64 was great. I loved it. I also loved the Ultimas. I learned to type playing Zork and the early Ultima's. Man, that goes *way* back. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 09-10-14 05:53pm - 3756 days | #10 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't think I played Zork but I did play some similar text based games. I was lucky in that by the time I had a computer. They were finally making games with graphics. I incorrectly said that I played Ultima 4 first but it was really three since it was the first one where you could see you character. My first computer was an Amiga but it was disappointing because there weren't many games for it but I than got an Apple IIC and that's when my joy of computer games really got going. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-11-14 09:58am - 3755 days | #11 | |
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AWpress (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 118 Registered: Nov 20, '12 Location: The Netherlands |
My first computer was an Amstrad; the thing took cassette tapes, and it's OS was a console that only accepted commands in BASIC. If you wanted to play a game, and you didn't have the cassette, then you literally had to type out the source code in BASIC. Classic. | |
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| 09-11-14 02:28pm - 3755 days | #12 | |
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biker (0)
Active User  Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
The Commodore 64 was my first computer. Had some good games to play on it. The printer was more expensive then the computer. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 09-11-14 04:42pm - 3755 days | #13 | |
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jook (0)
Active User Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
You're all a bunch of old men living in the past. Ok, me too, haha. Radio Shack TRS-80 was my first, late 70s. | |
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| 09-11-14 04:46pm - 3755 days | #14 | |
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jook (0)
Active User Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
Who woulda thunk I'd be playing eeny meeny miney moe in deciding to get an iPhone 6. | |
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| 09-12-14 04:06am - 3754 days | #15 | |
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AWpress (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 118 Registered: Nov 20, '12 Location: The Netherlands |
I don't look back on this era with too much nostalgia, but one thing that I think we cold really bring back is how computing came with a basic level of DIY programming and even electronics. I think it'd be good to bring that stuff into the basic high school curriculum (e.g. Ok guys, here's a raspberry pi each; attach these LEDs to it, and write a program to control how they flash). | |
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| 09-12-14 04:32am - 3754 days | #16 | |
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jook (0)
Active User Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
I feel the opposite. Things were much simpler. Any yo yo could be a computer wiz and I was one back then. I read manuals from cover to cover and became proficient in DOS, Novell, basic programming, lotus 123, etc. now I have a mac that you can only open to upgrade memory and I'm dependent on tech support for minor problems. Once windoze came out, things started to change rapidly and I had no time to keep up. But there's no looking back. It's amazing how much we've progressed. Who would've thunk that one day we'd be able to watch porn in HD on a 27" screen, haha. | |
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| 09-12-14 06:36pm - 3754 days | #17 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Probably no one but then again who would have thought that so much of it is so crappy that you don't want to watch in on any screen. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-14-14 07:54am - 3752 days | #18 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Growing up in Silcone valley before it was so, I was running old pc's before they ever hit public use, we dumpster dived every weekend at Advanced Micro,Intel,Atari, Sun and many more before were even aware they were around. It was a huge adventure as we built our own thing things in the workshop our back. By the time I was old enough to drive security was going up and dumpster diving ended with barbwire fences. Since 2007 | |
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| 09-17-14 04:26am - 3749 days | #19 | |
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jook (0)
Active User Posts: 325 Registered: Dec 22, '13 Location: jersey city |
Back to my OP. I had joined usenet.com on a trial at the same time I posted my message here. After a 3 day trial, it becomes a recurring subscription for $9.99/mo. until you cancel. I decided not to pursue it after the comments made here. Cancellation must be done online. However, I could not get my password to work. I emailed numerous times and spent several hours trying to resolve the problem, but nothing worked. I emailed and told them I only wanted to cancel and asked them to cancel me. They refused!!! They said I had to go online to do it. Duh, here we go, catch 22. When I told them I couldn't get on their site because I couldn't log on, they came up with a crazy fix... delete this file, do a few hula hoops, blah blah. I actually tried their fix and it didn't work. Still, they wouldn't budge and cancel my account. So, I was charged. I easily got my bank to charge it back. I was finally able to get their phone number from the credit card statement. And of course, it's a generic voice mail and no one returned my call. My bank even tried. My concern is that this is going to become a monthly routine. My bank says they can't do anything. Even if I canceled the card, the charge would follow any new card I got from them. There is no way to stop this except by canceling my card altogether and going to another bank, something I don't want to do. All you guys who whine about how shady some porn sites are (including me!), they are not the only mine field out there in the internet wilderness. Anyone have a suggestion? | |
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| 09-17-14 05:30am - 3749 days | #20 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
If you cancel your old credit card, and a new credit card is issued to you from the same bank, new charges to the old credit card should not carry over to the new card card. That is the reasoning behind cancelling an old credit card. The credit card company might allow some charges to flow through to the new account, but that is at the discretion of the card company. If you talk to the credit card company, tell them you don't want that specific charge to be allowed on your new credit card account. And that should be the end of it. As long as you don't give the usenet biller your new credit card account numbers, you should be fine. The usenet biller can charge the old credit card, but any future charges to the old credit card number should not be honored or processed. Because the old credit card account was closed. That's what they mean by closing an account. | |
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| 09-17-14 06:54am - 3749 days | #21 | |
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AWpress (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 118 Registered: Nov 20, '12 Location: The Netherlands |
Grr. Predatory billing practices like that suck. | |
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| 09-25-14 05:08pm - 3741 days | #22 | |
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Micha (0)
Active User Posts: 321 Registered: Jul 04, '10 Location: san jose ca |
I've lived in the Silicon Valley since 1979 My first puter was an Osborne Executive, an all in one portable (30 - 35 lbs) running the CPM OS The guy who wrote that OS had an appointment in Santa Cruz with Bill Gates to negotiate for Microsoft’s new OS but decided to blow him off to go surfing, so Gates went with MSdos. ZORK was a sizable part of my day and I mastered it before too long becoming a minor celeb amongst the locals who would ring my phone at all hours seeking hints. Jobs and Woz toured the Xerox facility in PaloAlto and saw their new GUI (graphic user interface) and went home with a new challenge. They soon developed their own GUI and showed it off to Gates who then went home with a new direction and a few months later Windows was in the stores. Xerox and Apple have probably been kicking themselves since then. In those days the internet was so painfully slow and storage was so minimal, that naked girls were not an option. I downloaded two or three pix and gave up. In the late 90s, I set up a desktop system for a friend. He said "what about naked girls"? "Don't bother" says I, "It's like watching paint dry" A week later, he phoned and said "au contrair" He then emailed me several hundred bookmarks and dramatically change how I filled leisure time from that point on. unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. | |
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| 12-20-14 05:04pm - 3655 days | #23 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
quite timely and interesting thread. Another one of many that Gives us, whose cyber-limitation are stymied at even such simplicities as defining HTMLs, openings of more chance to see some of our pro's at work. | |
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