First Wave

Was it my imagination, or is First Wave starting to collapse into
technobollocks?

Would any (other) of our plethora of computer scientists like to tell me if
it's possible to protect a floppy disc so that the data on it CANNOT be
copied?

We'll ignore all the cobblers with time travel, as I'm sure we've had that
conversation before.

And we'll also momentarily ignore the small woman who can beat up a posse of
armed superhuman bad guys.

(sigh) It's still well made, but I'm beginning to worry about the plots.


Dominic

"If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid."

Isn't this the plot of pretty much every Buffy ep?


Jon

Except that Buffy's also "superhuman". She's "The Slayer". She's faster than
human, stronger than human, and heals quicker than humans.

It's all perfectly logical.

Dominic

"The right to be heard does not automatically include
the right to be taken seriously." [Hubert Humphrey]

sounds like its bordering on the killernet syndrome -


"saving user details to CD-ROM, please wait"


----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas, Dominic <DOMINIC.THOMAS@>
To: <chat@>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: First Wave
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"Thomas, Dominic" wrote:
Yes, there was an Implementation based on Tape about 15-20 years ago. The guy
who designed it was
about to make a mint from all the game companies when one of the IS (MI5/MI6)
took it of him, claiming national
security. It was meant to be the same method that they used to protect .

In principal if you have the same equipment that was used to original write the
data, then you could copy it, otherwise no.

Andrew

First Wave is crap. Was that the last episode? Alos, why is he
called 'the twice blessed man'? He lost his wife, is a hunted murderer etc.
Doesn't seem very blessed to me.


Luke