Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: > Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC > against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a "Tipper Sticker", indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

om: Jack Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:34:39 -0400 On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:18:52AM -0400, sunder wrote: > Jack Lloyd wrote: > > >Still, I lik

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Damian Gerow wrote: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to represent what he said through that phrase. What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its importance, and then pu

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:18:52AM -0400, sunder wrote: > Jack Lloyd wrote: > > >Still, I liked this quote: '"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot > >in a > >democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US > >these > >days, it seems like. > > What do you expect whe

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Jack Lloyd wrote: Still, I liked this quote: '"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these days, it seems like. What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al "I Invented the Innnernet" Gore, an

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

Thus spake sunder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 11:31]: : What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al "I : Invented the Innnernet" Gore, and George "Nucular" Dubbya? Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-ch

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:28:07PM +0100, Graham Lally wrote: > Current report: > > > > The tech: > > > > Bit scant on details.. anyone know anything more about how the machine >

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

At 06:48 PM 4/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3611227.stm >By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, >eliminating censorship of any kind. > >This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer >(P2P) fil

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

Eugen Leitl pastes: > File-sharing to bypass censorship > By Tracey Logan > BBC Go Digital presenter > If there's material that everyone agrees is wicked, like child pornography, > then it's possible to track it down and close it down > Ross Anderson, Cambridge University I think the problem

Re: bbc

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:01:01PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > >Did the IRA bomb the BBC newserver or something? They've been down for two > > days now. > > There has certainly been no interruption in service in the UK; I look > at it daily. > > Ho

Re: bbc

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Did the IRA bomb the BBC newserver or something? They've been down for two > days now. There has certainly been no interruption in service in the UK; I look at it daily. However, news.bbc.co.uk is not one machine. The BBC has at least two clusters

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

At 0:24 -0700 2002/06/02, Marc wrote: >To be honest, the complaints about this are excessive. The problem >isn't that the TiVo recorded a promotional show, it's that it recorded a >show that has some semi-adult content in it and parental controls don't >restrict promotional recordings. ...and the

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

>Last I knew, TiVo ran a customized Linux base OS, the source of most of which was >publicly available. The recording app is proprietary, though, I think. modified linux kernel + some other bits for booting. Anything interesting is probably proprietary. sources available from http://www.tivo.

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

Steve Schear wrote: > BBC hijacks TiVo recorders > But viewers in the UK were surprised this week to find that the > second episode of the little-known BBC sitcom "Dossa and Joe" had > been recorded without their knowledge and added to the system's main > menu screen. Hmmm. My Tivo didn't record

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

At 3:08 pm -0700 1/6/02, jet wrote: > >However, the show didn't take up any user space, but was stored in >reserved system space that's kept around for use during software upgrades >and whatnot. And adult material available to children before the watershed? And whilst the programme was being rec

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

At 10:39 am -0700 1/6/02, Steve Schear wrote: > >[This sort of thing is why I will never consider buying networked >appliances that I don't feel are in my control. Has anyone considered >reverse engineering Windows for an open source release?] There is a commercial Windows package that does the

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:39:52AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: > [This sort of thing is why I will never consider buying networked > appliances that I don't feel are in my control. Has anyone considered > reverse engineering Windows for an open source release?] To be honest, the complaints abou

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

>By the way, so far my Ultimate TV hasn't tried any such Big Brother tricks on me. >Though they may have their own corporate clowns looking for revenue enhancement. >Downloaded ads that play before every recorded show can be viewed. Schemes to disable >fast-forwarding through commercials. Bac

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Tim May wrote: > your corporate bosses the Law of Unintended Consequences. I foresee Everything has unintended consequences, the "Law" is spin doctor bullshit. -- When I die, I would

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 03:08 PM, jet wrote: >> They were even more surprised to find that they won't be allowed to >> delete the programme for one week, and that more sponsored recordings >> are on the way. >> ... >> > > However, the sh

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

>They were even more surprised to find that they won't be allowed to >delete the programme for one week, and that more sponsored recordings >are on the way. >... > However, the show didn't take up any user space, but was stored in reserved syste

Re: Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 09:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > also, much of this is disruptive technology ... either because of > technology itself and/or the second order effects of infrastructure cost > reduction ... which would tend to have a distabelizing effects on > operations that

Re: Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

note that it didn't eliminate the economies of scale of network operation there is still massive investment required in things like fiber. some amount of the current pricing could possibly be an "overbuilt" & "over-invested" infrastructure ... some number of operations going bankrupt ... and

Blair accidently sells the roads (was Re: BBC article: "Vehicles 'tracked'")

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 11:58 AM + on 2/24/02, Graham Lally wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1838000/1838185.stm For those on the left side of the pond, road pricing has been big issue in Britain, started by libertarian conservatives in the dawn of the Lady

Re: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Watching your every move

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over here in the midwest USA these cameras have been springing up on the > highways (mounted on the overhanging sodium lamps) like crazy. What's really > amazing is that there is so little public *notice* of them (I realize the > public may not bit