I'm sure it will be done for UK Series 1 owners just like it was done in Oz/NZ, Canada, Mexico and South Africa. But, the tricks used to provide guide data for the Series 1 and early Series 2 (with original firmware) won't work with later Series 2 and current TiVos.
The groups who have the technology try to restrict it to their own geography, and have been (AFAIK) successful in not letting it spread to the US.
That was when everyone was feeling protective of Tivo.
Now that they've given UK Lifetimers a big F.U., maybe not so much.
If they did this for UK Series 1 machines it would take approximately the speed of light crossing the Atlantic for U.S. S1 hackers to put it to use over here.
If this wouldn't make it any easier to open up Series 2 and up, TiVo might even welcome this as a way to get rid of their S1 subscribers, who by now must mostly be people with Lifetimed units that don't make Tivo any money and qualify the owners for discounts on service for later models.
But I suspect that opening S1s would make it possible to figure out how to open later models, which would reduce TiVo to only making money off of the kind of people who have cable modems but are still paying AOL for dialup.
Then load the entire story and try to find the post by Multics to which Hemos was replying. Even if you've got your threshold set to -1, you won't see it, because those old archived threads never load anything with a 0 or -1 score, which means you can come across highly rated replies that make little or no sense because you can't see the low-rated post to which they are replying.
I also seem to remember something about some posts that were modded below -1, which meant that, although technically they were still there, you couldn't see them, and I also remember something about an entire thread that got "disappeared".
Why are there 2 seemingly identical versions of this story on the main page? This isn't the time-honored Slashdot tradtion of dupes from different editors who didn't check with each other, this is more clone than dupe, and it's been happening a lot every since this horrible new design was rolled out.
Speaking of names, is your last name the same as that of a Piedmont area politician whose first name is the same as a geometric-shape area town/city with a fondness for beige?
Although it looks like I misremembered and was way off on her profession...
...not to mention confusing the accidental causing of someone's death with murder.
I do agree that if it had been you or I driving that Olds off the bridge or accidentally shooting someone whilst hunting while under the influence our lack of political connections would mean we wouldn't get out of it as easily. Nor would the national press give a damn.
Actually we didn't decide that those banks were too big to fail. If they were, they wouldn't have needed help.
The phrase is actually "to big to be allowed to fail".
If enough people decide they like other search engines better than they like Google, Google will fail no matter how big they are (unless they've already sufficiently diversified into other income-producing endeavors that don't depend on the demand for their search services).
And nobody wants to do anything about it. If you care, you'd join the Metagovernment project and actually start working on the beginning of a chance at someday escaping this wretched system.
My blurry vision saw that as the Megagovernment project, and I didn't think the people behind that were allowing it to be publicly discussed or admitting its existence.
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Oh , okay, she was only taught by idiots.
I'm sure it will be done for UK Series 1 owners just like it was done in Oz/NZ, Canada, Mexico and South Africa. But, the tricks used to provide guide data for the Series 1 and early Series 2 (with original firmware) won't work with later Series 2 and current TiVos.
The groups who have the technology try to restrict it to their own geography, and have been (AFAIK) successful in not letting it spread to the US.
That was when everyone was feeling protective of Tivo.
Now that they've given UK Lifetimers a big F.U., maybe not so much.
If they did this for UK Series 1 machines it would take approximately the speed of light crossing the Atlantic for U.S. S1 hackers to put it to use over here.
If this wouldn't make it any easier to open up Series 2 and up, TiVo might even welcome this as a way to get rid of their S1 subscribers, who by now must mostly be people with Lifetimed units that don't make Tivo any money and qualify the owners for discounts on service for later models.
But I suspect that opening S1s would make it possible to figure out how to open later models, which would reduce TiVo to only making money off of the kind of people who have cable modems but are still paying AOL for dialup.
...but only the Church of Scientology has forced comments out of existence.
Not entirely true.
Go look at this post
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11125&cid=359434
from that 2001 story.
Then load the entire story and try to find the post by Multics to which Hemos was replying. Even if you've got your threshold set to -1, you won't see it, because those old archived threads never load anything with a 0 or -1 score, which means you can come across highly rated replies that make little or no sense because you can't see the low-rated post to which they are replying.
I also seem to remember something about some posts that were modded below -1, which meant that, although technically they were still there, you couldn't see them, and I also remember something about an entire thread that got "disappeared".
But it's not marked "Firehose" anymore.
Why are there 2 seemingly identical versions of this story on the main page? This isn't the time-honored Slashdot tradtion of dupes from different editors who didn't check with each other, this is more clone than dupe, and it's been happening a lot every since this horrible new design was rolled out.
In neither this story nor the previous one announcing the app has anyone mentioned Father Guido Sarducci.
Nah, it's the science of separating fools from their money.
... whilst Feathers are on welfare and are drunken bums filling the jails.
Oh, you mean the people that were doing okay, relatively speaking, before the white man came along, stole their land, and introduced them to alcohol?
Speaking of names, is your last name the same as that of a Piedmont area politician whose first name is the same as a geometric-shape area town/city with a fondness for beige?
Didn't say I liked it. I just dislike it less than the new version.
...and this new version of Slashdot looks horrible in all of them, and doesn't work as well as the previous version in any of them.
Although it looks like I misremembered and was way off on her profession...
...not to mention confusing the accidental causing of someone's death with murder.
I do agree that if it had been you or I driving that Olds off the bridge or accidentally shooting someone whilst hunting while under the influence our lack of political connections would mean we wouldn't get out of it as easily. Nor would the national press give a damn.
But they all pronounced it Molly Be Damned (except the kids, who had to say "Molly Be Durned").
To which Kennedy do you refer?
...for recommending the movie "The Brothers O'Toole", look it up.
Actually we didn't decide that those banks were too big to fail. If they were, they wouldn't have needed help.
The phrase is actually "to big to be allowed to fail".
If enough people decide they like other search engines better than they like Google, Google will fail no matter how big they are (unless they've already sufficiently diversified into other income-producing endeavors that don't depend on the demand for their search services).
Think how her brother Hugh feels.
Didn't you know that Anonymous Coward has a 3 digit id number?
666
Well, everyone knows climate control on a bus never works.
There are less illiterates than people who can't read.
Is your use of "less" instead of "fewer" part of some sarcasm that I'm not catching? Because I'm not understanding that sig at all.
...plus he has played more golf that any sitting president...
Never heard of Eisenhower, huh?
And nobody wants to do anything about it.
If you care, you'd join the Metagovernment project and actually start working on the beginning of a chance at someday escaping this wretched system.
My blurry vision saw that as the Megagovernment project, and I didn't think the people behind that were allowing it to be publicly discussed or admitting its existence.
Yeah, but a PFC? Really?
I promise you, it was entirely intentional. I've been using that line for about 40 years now.