* Posts by Charles Calthrop

304 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2007

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Free Software Foundation plans protests at 'corrupt' BBC

Charles Calthrop

I don't understand the anology

If the BBC suddenly said "you now need a SONY telly to watch the Mitchell Brothers rutting like shaven haired stags, or Anne Robinson looking like a partially re-animated corpse which has been buried, dug up, buried, dug up again, had the dirt brushed off and Weakest Link gags tattooed on to the back of her cold, lifeless eyelids", there would be an outcry cos terrerstial TV is in an established format. But TV on demand via the web from the Beeb is NOT an established service.

It's in BETA. Surely it's better to start with something that most people use. I.E IE and XP, rather than Linux which is only used by two dozen bitter "Doctor Who" fans moaning on alt.real.ale.isn't.as.good.as.it.used.to.be

DRM is a requirement. Now, you can moan about it all you like, say it's unfair etc, that you can get around it, and that it's contrary to the "spirit" of the Beeb, but DRM is a requirement. Can you really see the Beeb saying to the rights holders "Well, we're giving it away free cos Linux doesn't like DRM"? Surely iPlayer with DRM is better than nothing? Its the start point, not the destination.

Stripogram councillor rocks Devon Lib Dems

Charles Calthrop

talented

From her website: If you are a professional photographer or boxing promoter then Jessica is the ideal candidate.

I'd never heard of topless boxing before.

Dinner party guest makes gruesome discovery

Charles Calthrop

The police are not as guilty as the murderer

"The police are just as guilty of allowing this poor woman and child to die as the offender."

Nonsense. If you take that approach, the victim was as guilty as the murderer, for "allowing" herself to get murdered, and people who get raped are as guilty as rapists for wearing short skirts.

Hippie-era CIA skulduggery report unveiled

Charles Calthrop

worse than the Russians, my FOOT

That's the type of ill concieved statement which gets my goat. Sure Stalin wiped out millions and millions of people, millions more in prison, the whole population terrified, but at least they never had the CIA to worry about.

Utter, utter balls.

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