Honestly, it's deplorable that the BBC has gone back to their long-standing tradition of willful destruction of archive material.
Do you really believe that they will destroy all traces of the Cult website from their backup archives? The reason they destroyed their media in the past was because the archive of video was expensive, and at the time they didn't believe they had a real reason to justify the costs. However, there's no real reason for the BBC to 'destroy' this data, the only large cost is keeping it up-to-date - which is why they've stopped it.
As such, I'm sure the BBC will keep the material backed up somewhere for any possible future use. Of course I disagree with their decision, although I do understand the need to cut costs. However, it's hardly on the scale of 'willful destruction of archive material'.
You're making the assumption that Microsoft will make each generated key grant you access to WPA for an indefinite period.
This may be the case now during their trial period, but if Microsoft so desire, they can force you to generate a key for each download if you don't use IE/ActiveX.
But that's bogus, you still need "access" to a authentic copy to perform this hack. It's not really a hack at all.
Agreed.
Microsoft could either restrict WGA downloads to only those using IE with ActiveX, or provide an alternative way for browsers to get past WGA. They did, and the simple/most user-friendly way is to get the user to download a program which will generate a key.
There's no way that Microsoft could know that you were running the program on a different machine. It's an inherent weakness of the system, but one Microsoft needed to make to allow non-IE/ActiveX browsers to work with WGA.
It does represent very little threat though - you still need access to a legitimate copy of XP to download a file. If you've got that, why not just download the files on the legitimate machine?
Continuous improvements led to its (BitTorrent) emergence as a force in 2003; by early 2005 it was perhaps the dominant protocol on the Net, second only to TCP/IP itself.
I'm sorry, but this guy doesn't know what he's talking about - you can't make a meaningful statement comparing the usage of the BT protocol to the 'TCP/IP protocol'. If he's going to make such statements, at least he should compare it to something relevant, like HTTP or FTP.
Agreed - there are negative reports about BT all the time. If Microsoft had happened to put up their research paper after the next attack on BT by the RIAA, would we have had similar conspiracy theories then ?
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This new 'first' series is considered by some to be the 27th series of Doctor Who, and by others to be the first series of a new production (although I'm not sure on the exact reasoning behind either viewpoint). This new 'third' series will therefore be considered the 29th series by some.
Also, in case any Americans are reading this and are slightly confused, we tend to use the word 'series' instead of 'season'.
Well, it'd have to refuse access to a driver if it encountered an improbably high alcohol content - otherwise anybody could get past the system by dabbing their hands in an alcoholic drink.
There's too many ludicrous statements in the article to make it feasible, such as the following:
I found that the tools needed to give the Microsoft Explorer Web browser included with Windows XP some of the same modern features that are standard in the Firefox Web browser that comes with SimplyMEPIS are pay-for add-ons
I've not encountered any pay-for add-ons for IE like that myself, but I've certainly seen free ones about, such as Maxathon, or even Firefox for Windows, but I guess the author isn't aware of any of these things...
It may be a bit of a coincidence, but the timing of those BitTorrent sites being sued seems to have been judged to perfection by the RIAA, just in time to piss off the tech-savvy Enterprise fans by deprieving them of the finale...
A good example of a game that could have done with the reviewers finishing the game is KOTOR2. All the reviews I read were positive, and I was looking forward to a game that lived up to the first one, and it certainly looked that way for a while. However, after a certain point in the game, it all went downhill, and now I consider it to be the most disappointing game I've played.
It was obviously rushed by Lucasarts for a Christmas release date, and there's even unused remnants of some of the unfinished material in the retail products. If you have the PC version, there are a number of dialog files which greatly expand on the 'ending', and the Xbox version even has an unfinished location present, together with developer notes, which you can access with a hacked gamesave.
If the reviewers had all played the game to completion, I'm sure they would have given the game a significantly worse score. But, because they don't, companies like Lucasarts can get away with rushing the game, as customers will have no idea of the 'unfinished' state until it's too late.
It's been known for a fair while about the return of the Daleks - Eccleston has said in radio interviews that they will appear in this next (the 6th) episode, and that they will also have a part to play elsewhere in the current series (although he has been somewhat vague on the details).
The date on the linked article is March 31, 2005, so it can't realistically be linked to April Fools Day. It doesn't help that it's amongst the seemingly never-ending 'joke' stories posted today though.
They lied. 2003 is a very poor execuse for a Desktop/Gaming machine. Not even Microsoft recommends it as such.
I'm not quite sure why this was modded insightful - the new desktop OS XP64 is built upon the same codebase as 2K3 SP1, and accordingly, both XP64 and 2K3 SP1 went RTM (final) at the same time.
It seems likely to me that he had already worked out the encryption for v4.7 of iTunes, but deliberately withheld it as he anticipated the forced upgrade to v4.7, and releasing such a 'quick fix' serves to gain him more notoriety.
It'd be good to see a Knoppix-like DVD, complete with the Wikipedia database and software, so you could just boot a computer from it and get complete access to a huge amount of free information, without having to have internet access.
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Er... no it wouldn't. Google, as useful as it is, is not essential.
Do you really believe that they will destroy all traces of the Cult website from their backup archives? The reason they destroyed their media in the past was because the archive of video was expensive, and at the time they didn't believe they had a real reason to justify the costs. However, there's no real reason for the BBC to 'destroy' this data, the only large cost is keeping it up-to-date - which is why they've stopped it.
As such, I'm sure the BBC will keep the material backed up somewhere for any possible future use. Of course I disagree with their decision, although I do understand the need to cut costs. However, it's hardly on the scale of 'willful destruction of archive material'.
This may be the case now during their trial period, but if Microsoft so desire, they can force you to generate a key for each download if you don't use IE/ActiveX.
Agreed. Microsoft could either restrict WGA downloads to only those using IE with ActiveX, or provide an alternative way for browsers to get past WGA. They did, and the simple/most user-friendly way is to get the user to download a program which will generate a key.
There's no way that Microsoft could know that you were running the program on a different machine. It's an inherent weakness of the system, but one Microsoft needed to make to allow non-IE/ActiveX browsers to work with WGA.
It does represent very little threat though - you still need access to a legitimate copy of XP to download a file. If you've got that, why not just download the files on the legitimate machine?
I'm sorry, but this guy doesn't know what he's talking about - you can't make a meaningful statement comparing the usage of the BT protocol to the 'TCP/IP protocol'. If he's going to make such statements, at least he should compare it to something relevant, like HTTP or FTP.
Agreed - there are negative reports about BT all the time. If Microsoft had happened to put up their research paper after the next attack on BT by the RIAA, would we have had similar conspiracy theories then ?
Also, in case any Americans are reading this and are slightly confused, we tend to use the word 'series' instead of 'season'.
from the don't-worry-jamie-we-won't-post-it dept.
See, reverse-psychology does work!
Besides, washing your hands isn't that hard.
I found that the tools needed to give the Microsoft Explorer Web browser included with Windows XP some of the same modern features that are standard in the Firefox Web browser that comes with SimplyMEPIS are pay-for add-ons
I've not encountered any pay-for add-ons for IE like that myself, but I've certainly seen free ones about, such as Maxathon, or even Firefox for Windows, but I guess the author isn't aware of any of these things...
It may be a bit of a coincidence, but the timing of those BitTorrent sites being sued seems to have been judged to perfection by the RIAA, just in time to piss off the tech-savvy Enterprise fans by deprieving them of the finale...
It was obviously rushed by Lucasarts for a Christmas release date, and there's even unused remnants of some of the unfinished material in the retail products. If you have the PC version, there are a number of dialog files which greatly expand on the 'ending', and the Xbox version even has an unfinished location present, together with developer notes, which you can access with a hacked gamesave.
If the reviewers had all played the game to completion, I'm sure they would have given the game a significantly worse score. But, because they don't, companies like Lucasarts can get away with rushing the game, as customers will have no idea of the 'unfinished' state until it's too late.
It's been known for a fair while about the return of the Daleks - Eccleston has said in radio interviews that they will appear in this next (the 6th) episode, and that they will also have a part to play elsewhere in the current series (although he has been somewhat vague on the details).
I don't think the price is the issue - people do have a choice not to buy/sign-up for a beta product.
It's up to the consumer if they want to risk using a beta product (and thousands of people choose to 'risk' their e-mail with the GMail beta).
Well, it's good enough for Google too.
The date on the linked article is March 31, 2005, so it can't realistically be linked to April Fools Day. It doesn't help that it's amongst the seemingly never-ending 'joke' stories posted today though.
I'm not quite sure why this was modded insightful - the new desktop OS XP64 is built upon the same codebase as 2K3 SP1, and accordingly, both XP64 and 2K3 SP1 went RTM (final) at the same time.
It seems likely to me that he had already worked out the encryption for v4.7 of iTunes, but deliberately withheld it as he anticipated the forced upgrade to v4.7, and releasing such a 'quick fix' serves to gain him more notoriety.
Then ... Apple would be cool.
... Apple wouldn't be allowed to sell music anymore.
Then
It'd be good to see a Knoppix-like DVD, complete with the Wikipedia database and software, so you could just boot a computer from it and get complete access to a huge amount of free information, without having to have internet access.
I presume you missed the sarcasm :)
Microsoft != continued support
...right?
Microsoft != F/OSS
therefore,
F/OSS == continued support
The BBC News site is only effectively free for those that don't pay a UK license fee - it's funded from part of that.