Only the Broadband videos are pay. Some of the teeny weeny crappy quality ones are still free, but as a Brit in the USA, I did subscribe to the BBC Broadband News, and by and large I'm quite happy with it. A bit more choice and a Sport section would be welcome, but it was nice to be able to see tributes to people like Peter Ustinov, Caron Keating, plus their take on the Mars missions etc. So far I've been very pleased with it, and used it more and more each passing week.
No great science behind it, I just wanted something long with appropriate numbers and characters, and that's what it ended up being. Its still very easy for me to remember, it just happens to be 18 characters long. I firmly believe that most of the spam I was getting when I had a 6 character address was from brute force methods. I opted for the 6 character address five years ago when I didn't know any better, and didn't know what a problem spam would become.
I have had a Hotmail address for about 5 years. Two years ago I was getting sick of the spam. Even though it was all mostly going to the Junk Mail folder, I was getting fed up of my diskspace quota filling up too quickly. So I bit the bullet and changed my address to be 18 characters long before the @hotmail.com.
Took about a week to inform all my various contacts, and update the websites I felt "safe" with, and since then I've been diligent enough to avoid posting the address to any site or board. Over two years now, and I am still SPAM FREE.
So now, no "Junk Mail" to look through for false positives. All the email I get is real. The 18 character address is definately out of range of "brute force" attacks, and was only marginally annoying to my friends and family until they updated their address books.
The ONLY annoying emails I get are the occasional AOL "joke" from my mother-in-law. I just delete them individually. I'm just too scared to "block sender"...;-)
Frobes.
I've swung to and fro all morning on whether this was an April Fools joke or not, and I'm firmly of the opinion that it is NOT. The news was specifically designed to be released on April 1st to garner the extra attention of "is it or isn't it?". Sure looks like its worked to me!
I don't see satellite radio with a future. The BBC in Britain have been at the forefront of digital broadcast radio, and for the last few years have been broadcasting many new stations, which can also be picked up by TV cable and FreeView boxes in the UK - and the stations are also online. To me, this is the way forward, and the technology is coming to the US: iBiquity Digital Radio.
I think this has a lot of possibilities, and will go a long way to eliminating the hiss and drop-out of AM/FM.
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Only the Broadband videos are pay. Some of the teeny weeny crappy quality ones are still free, but as a Brit in the USA, I did subscribe to the BBC Broadband News, and by and large I'm quite happy with it. A bit more choice and a Sport section would be welcome, but it was nice to be able to see tributes to people like Peter Ustinov, Caron Keating, plus their take on the Mars missions etc. So far I've been very pleased with it, and used it more and more each passing week.
No great science behind it, I just wanted something long with appropriate numbers and characters, and that's what it ended up being. Its still very easy for me to remember, it just happens to be 18 characters long. I firmly believe that most of the spam I was getting when I had a 6 character address was from brute force methods. I opted for the 6 character address five years ago when I didn't know any better, and didn't know what a problem spam would become.
I have had a Hotmail address for about 5 years. Two years ago I was getting sick of the spam. Even though it was all mostly going to the Junk Mail folder, I was getting fed up of my diskspace quota filling up too quickly. So I bit the bullet and changed my address to be 18 characters long before the @hotmail.com. Took about a week to inform all my various contacts, and update the websites I felt "safe" with, and since then I've been diligent enough to avoid posting the address to any site or board. Over two years now, and I am still SPAM FREE. So now, no "Junk Mail" to look through for false positives. All the email I get is real. The 18 character address is definately out of range of "brute force" attacks, and was only marginally annoying to my friends and family until they updated their address books. The ONLY annoying emails I get are the occasional AOL "joke" from my mother-in-law. I just delete them individually. I'm just too scared to "block sender"... ;-)
Frobes.
I've swung to and fro all morning on whether this was an April Fools joke or not, and I'm firmly of the opinion that it is NOT. The news was specifically designed to be released on April 1st to garner the extra attention of "is it or isn't it?". Sure looks like its worked to me!
Where's the fun in that?
Yes, DAB was what I was referring to in my original post. It seems very odd that its taking so long for the US to follow the UK's lead on this.
I've just started a new reply about this. Similar stuff coming to the USA (at last) from iBiquity
I don't see satellite radio with a future. The BBC in Britain have been at the forefront of digital broadcast radio, and for the last few years have been broadcasting many new stations, which can also be picked up by TV cable and FreeView boxes in the UK - and the stations are also online. To me, this is the way forward, and the technology is coming to the US: iBiquity Digital Radio. I think this has a lot of possibilities, and will go a long way to eliminating the hiss and drop-out of AM/FM.