Re: Internment Camps for Political Dissidents

2001-09-24 Thread Fearghas McKay
At 4:43 pm -0700 24/9/01, Tim May wrote: >Unencumbered by any Bill of Rights or true Constitution, the Brits >are way ahead of us. Arrest on suspicion, detainment without charge, >outlawing of entire classes of organizations. That is the joy of being a subject rather than a Citizen. It is one

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

2002-06-02 Thread Fearghas McKay
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

2002-06-02 Thread Fearghas McKay
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