RE: [backstage] Press Association API?

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Thanks Matt Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk work: +44 (0)1612444063 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@li

[backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Forrester
http://bbc5.tv found via Michael I find this quite interesting... http://bbc5.tv/eyeplayer/?q=terms-conditions "THE FOUNDERS OF BBC5.TV AGREE THAT AS THE BBC IS NOT ADHEREING TO FAIR EDITORIAL GUIDELINES, IT IS THEREFORE PARTIALLY DEFUNCT. THE FOUNDERS OF

[backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread David Greaves
So here we are, a month after Which? gave out the same dumb advice the BBC follows: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_791/7910045.stm Sensationalist pillock :) I can't wait for someone to be seriously hurt trying to drill through a hard drive. FWIW: http://16systems.

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, David Greaves wrote: > So here we are, a month after Which? gave out the same dumb advice the BBC > follows: > >  http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_791/7910045.stm > > Sensationalist pillock :) > > I can't wait for someone to be seriously hur

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Sean DALY
back in the day, before a recording session we would degauss the reels with a magic wand degausser, on the understanding that doing so to a master tape would mean a fate worse than death. I still have a little one somewhere which I would use on quarter-inch reels, I wonder if that would work on a

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread vijay chopra
There's only one way to be sure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o 2009/2/25 David Greaves > So here we are, a month after Which? gave out the same dumb advice the BBC > follows: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_791/7910045.stm > > Sensationalist pillock :)

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Richard Lockwood
Um - what are you suggesting as an alternative? Alright, even with a hole drilled through it, it's still possible to get some data back - the tinier bits you can smash your drive into, the less chance there is of anyone getting the data back in any meaningful form. It's more a question of "who wo

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Richard Lockwood
OMFG - TEH CONSPIRISSY TEHEORISTS R OUT IN FORSE Arseholes. R. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Ian Forrester wrote: > http://bbc5.tv found via Michael > > > I find this quite interesting... > http://bbc5.tv/eyeplayer/?q=terms-conditions > > "THE FOUNDERS OF BBC5.TV AGREE THAT AS THE BBC IS

[backstage] 4th Oekonux Conference - March 27th-29th in Manchester

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Sounds like OpenTech but much more focused around free software and free culture. Its also on our backstage calendar which you can also view directly now - http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/node/11 --- Free Software and Beyond

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread David Greaves
Richard Lockwood wrote: > Um - what are you suggesting as an alternative? Read the 2nd URL. In this day and age it *is* important to teach people about electronic security. This "story" completely fails to do so. Excerpt from that URL: Legitimate data recovery firms know that recovering data

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Richard Lockwood
When it boils down to it, you *can* retrieve old data from a zeroed disc. It's a case of "is it worth it?". In the case of criminal investigations - maybe it is. In the case of chasing your overdraft, probably not. The problem with the BBC's story is that they fail to make this clear. Cheers,

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Tom Morris
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 19:06, Richard Lockwood wrote: > Me, I reformat them, smash 'em up with a lump hammer and stick 'em in > the "general metal" recycling at the local recycling centre, on the > basis that it's more trouble than it's worth to get data back, just to > get my bank details, or my

Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes

2009-02-25 Thread Andy
In case anyone was wondering I did go for parsing the results of /programmes/a-z/by and everything appears to be working fine. I ran into a slight problem where I forgot to convert HTML entities found in the page source, but tat' mostly fixed (it can't fully handle all named entities but the Beeb s

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Richard Lockwood wrote: OMFG Drat! I missed that - did Anthony Reorganize His Department Again ?! But four letter words^H^H^H^H^Hdepartment acronyms are good ! - TEH CONSPIRISSY TEHEORISTS R OUT IN FORSE Dw - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussi

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
> Richard Lockwood wrote: > In this day and age it *is* important to teach people about electronic > security. > > This "story" completely fails to do so. There is something you could argue the BBC should be doing around this. There was a suggestion that Webwise 2.0 could be perfect for this...

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
LOL :) On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:37 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Richard Lockwood wrote: > > > OMFG > > Drat! I missed that - did Anthony Reorganize His Department Again ?! > But four letter words^H^H^H^H^Hdepartment acronyms are good ! > > > - TEH CONSPIR