Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 11:11PM -0400, Josh Tiner wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>Furthermore...who needs cable anyways!?
>
> [snip]
>
> Well, I like cable because of:
>
> International News channel (I like watching Japanese and German news,
> and the State-owned Chinese news is *funny* sometimes)
The Chinese news is hilarious, until I remember that very many people
live there and all they can hear about is how their Great Leader did
this and that for them today because he loves them so much. They will
never read this. They might get arrested if they did. (Is anyone
knocking at (or down) your door?)
To bring this back on topic, people have been hacking TIVO boxen. TIVO
seems to run Linux. Further, folks have been putting TV tuner cards in
Linux boxen to time-shift programs. It even lets you fastforward
through the commercials, and don't be thinking there aren't some
capitalist folks upset about that.
Toss in a project discussed on this list lately to automate downloading
of anime from news groups and I'm in trouble from both the left and the
right.
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