Cisco Moving On Set-Top Boxes

nevermindme writes "Cisco has agreed to plunk down a whopping $6.9bn for Scientific-Atlanta, hoping to take a major share of the set-top-box market and push video efforts. The networking giant will pay $43 per share in cash for Scientific-Atlanta ($5.3bn) and swallow $1.6bn in debt. With the buy, Cisco acquires one of the more dominant set-top-box makers. In addition, it pushes well beyond the data center to touch consumers where they live."

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Cisco moving on my set top?

[Anonymous Coward]

No wonder there is so much crap on tv.

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[CmdrTaco (troll)]

Republicans: "Put you money where you mouth is you fucking hippies"

Democrats: -Silence-

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Re:Oh

[Anonymous Coward]

You know.. I just don't trust this. I'm starting to become far more paranoid over companies like Cisco, Google, Yahoo, and of course Microsoft. All 4 of those companies are very active in their China censorship, whos to say they don't only censor China's end, but our end also to some extent? How would you ever notice? -- exactly.

Here is a quote from an article I found interesting, from December 1994
 

As I write this letter, I am now looking at the front page of the London Daily Express, dated Friday, October 14th, 1994. The headlines tell of a HI-TECH multi purpose identity card, which is to be compulsory for everyone in Britain within two years! This ID card also works as a driver's license, check card and credit card. It is the only piece of plastic that will be needed. (8) It seems that everything that hits England seems to hit the United States shortly thereafter, and our U.S. Government is already planning this for every U.S. citizen. Once people have accepted this card, it will be a quick and easy step to mark people in their bodies, for there will be no other way for them to be in the economy, the buying and selling in the New World Order.

 
Ooo k. Now from the same article
 

In addition to that, the Radio Corporation of America, (RCA), which is an Illuminati-owned company, has come out with an inexpensive satellite dish that they would like to put in every home. This dish is also hooked into the fiber optics of your telephone line, and at that point you will be under constant observation by the Beast Computer. It is sad that people are so void of discernment. The RCA dishes are now selling so fast in this country that they cannot manufacture them fast enough. People are scrambling to buy them, because they will be able to pick up over 150 stations including the playboy and x-rated sex stations. These are sad days in our country, and yet we as Christians know that our Lord will soon be coming which brings a prevailing joy.

 
  I've always felt there was something shady going on with the fiber connected set top boxes, normally the multimode fiber lines are only utilizing 0.001% of possible data transfer per strand (they easily set up over the counter filter boxes to multiplex 1 single fiber strand into voice, internet, television, etc -- who want's one single company with access to everything electrically related to what you do? how long will it take said company to be brought under the control of people that can make use of access to that data.)
 
  As said before on /. by someone much smarter than myself 'technology is a great enabler, but it is a much more effective oppressor.'
  It's such an effective oppressor, we don't even know we're being oppressed, yet.
 
Both snippits from http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/1994/December 1994.html

Get that government cash!

[phorest]

Isn't our GOD(vermin)t going to subsidize the purchase of settop boxes for the poor when the digital revolution (i.e. RESOLUTION)is implemented? Wow what a concept... get into the market with both feet and get extra revenue from the trough!

Chew on that angle