Another poster pointed out the relevant EULA clause:
...You may not work around technical limitations in the software... This is also in Microsoft's other agreements. I would like to see this particular onerous line challenged in court. It is very vague, and probably impossible to judge or enforce. Lots of things have technical limitations, and people work around them all the time. I don't like EULAs in general, and this is a good place to start challenging them.
I must be in violation then, since I installed without a mouse, and instead of "clicking" the ok to continue button, I used tab + space. I worked around the technical limitation of not having a mouse and not being able to "click" my mouse on anything. I also continually change things in MS Word that Word auto "corrects", thus working around its technical limitation on knowing what it is I want it to do. I also sometimes add words to its dictionary, thus working around its limited knowledge of how to spell things...
Their agreement is between MLB and broadcasters. The people watching it aren't even part of the agreement. The broadcasters broadcasted the media in the consumers area, and the consumer watched it. They just choose to watch it some place other than their own home.
If you ever listen to the beginning of a MLB broadcast (or NFL or many other sports) one part of the leagaleze they spew is something like "no rebroadcast or retransmit allowed without written permission of MLB". I wonder if they are considering the slingbox in violation of that, since it is essentially retransmitting the video from your home to wherever you might have gone. Seems weak, and probably would not hold up in court, since the language is obviously aimed at keeping people from recording and reselling the game or any part of it without paying MLB for those rights.
As for the geographical boundaries, this probably has to do with the "blackout" area around any televised pro-sports event. Part of the pro-sport agreements include clauses that require areas near the game to be blacked out from transmitting the game in an effort to get more people to actually go to the stadium and buy a ticket to watch it there, if the game is under a certain percentage of capacity. Its a dumb rule, since most people that want to watch the game at the stadium will go to the stadium either way, and those that could care less wont change their mind if they cant watch it on tv. If they really are into it, they just get a satellite TV service that cant distinguish the boundaries anyway. The MLB has already gone after Satellite TV services for this in the past, now they are adding "On the Internets!!" to it and trying again.
Wouldn't that be a lot of starch? I mean, wouldn't we then have a shortage of it? I know it's more renewable than gas, but could they even produce enough? They're having a hard enough time with 10% corn for gas. 12 gallons of starch is like, 110 or so bags of starch at the store...
Just build a beowulf cluster of potatoe batteries and be done with it. If you run out, just dump another bag in from the grocery store
Do you understand the difference between Indy 500 and Nascar? Most of the people I know, such as myself, who watch the Indy 500 are engineers.
Well, the Indy 500 itself is becoming almost as redneckified as nascar is. Even Nascar drivers sometimes switch over to drive in it just for this one race. If you ask most people, Indy is just this race, separate from nascar, where they drive the "Indy" cars. In reality, its a whole racing series with these cars driving in ovals, the Indy Racing League (to be fair, they did add street courses this year). I would rather watch CART (CCWS) races, but much prefer GT/Lemans races where you get not only the street courses, but two vastly different car designs running at different top speeds competing at the same time, or F1, where an oval course is blasphemy and the races are recognized the world over rather than just in the US. Im sorry, ovals are boring, even though they might go faster (because they only have to turn 2 (4?) corners), the street courses demonstrate racing skill and offer much better entertainment (it always funny to watch Nascar drivers when they do their street course races, all 3 of them).
HP reported year-over-year PC sales growth of about 24 percent, or about twice worldwide PC sales growth. Whatever HP is doing right, it's more than just Vista..
At least for me, I applied the "IE6 cumulative service pack blah blah blah" update that the windows update thingy told me needed updating, rebooted, and about 5 minutes later, it popped up again, asking to install the same thing. Since I dont even use IE, I dont really care, I just wish the updater would quit thinking it needs to update what it just updated!
Well, Im packing up and going home. I wouldnt want my employer getting in trouble over patent infringement because of me. Guess Ill just have to sit at home and wait until they work out a licensing agreement or something so I can get back to work fixing code....
How else does that signal go from the DSL modem to the CO? Yeh, it travels the phonelines. At least from your modem to the nearest DSLAM. The DSLAM filters out that signal and sends it on on a seperate path back through the data circuits.
So what you're saying is the answer is no, because it doesn't go to the phone switch, but to the DSLAM. It doesn't use the POTS phone circuit, it's just carried on the copper.
I actually knew the answer to this question, I have to admit. But it certainly has detected a plethora of bullshitters.
The problem is, that copper its riding is a segment of your POTs circuit. Until it hits that DSLAM, it can ride several hops through repeaters and the like, all on copper, and all sharing the line with normal POTs calls. So to answer your question of "Does DSL even use a classic phone circuit?", yes it does, it rides the POTs circuit to the nearest DSLAM. That DSLAM might be in your neighborhood in a box, or it might be a few miles away IN A CO, hence it travels POTs lines, along with your voice, until it hits that DSLAM, all on the POTs circuit. T1s are digitally switched to the customer dmarc, and cant be run on top of POTs traffic like consumer DSL can. The only thing T1 might share is the old POTs copper, where as DSL will use the same phone jacks, repeaters, and Remote terminals as the rest of the POTs traffic. Dont be a troll, if you "knew" the answer, then why ask it, and why go further to prove yourself wrong? I also dont see the BS you are calling...unless its on yourself
Does DSL even use a classic phone circuit? My understanding was that DSL used frequencies unused by voice and was pulled off the line by separate hardware that had nothing to do with a phone circuit. You can get DSL without phone service... Well, sometimes.
How else does that signal go from the DSL modem to the CO? Yeh, it travels the phonelines. At least from your modem to the nearest DSLAM. The DSLAM filters out that signal and sends it on on a seperate path back through the data circuits.
T1 Also uses phone lines, though the originating and terminating equipment on the segment from the remote terminal to the customer site are changed to stuff to handle T1 (or HDSL, depending on which is actually used to carry the signal). At the customer end, a box much larger than your standard telco dmarc box is installed containing a "smartjack". Basically it holds a card (Adtran H2TUR normally, with space for 2) that takes the signal from the telco and changes the output to T1. Sometimes it doesnt do anything but strip out the line power as the telco signal is T1 (also called "4wire" or "True" T1), the line power is for the card/repeaters to function. Usually, they send the T1 via some flavor of HDSL and use the smartjack to change it back to T1 signaling. This is a "2wire" T1, which uses only a single pair of copper, same as your standard POTs phone line. Normally, the telco tech will just move the pairs on each end to the new equipment to change it from POTs to T1. If they cant, or the trunk line for that segment has no pairs good enough to carry the signal, they might have to pull a new line... which isnt cheap. T1s are also notorious for wreaking havok on DSL subscribers that happen to share a trunk;).
I beg your pardon, but the FSM is a fake! I always pray to the Almighty Bob. I heard of His good name when the mayor came to speak of him in my quiet sandwich shop, and it has changed my life.
Thank you, and may Bob bless you.
Believe me, Im no pink. I believe FSM and Slack go together. I would not doubt it if it was revealed the FSM gave Bob his pipe. Praise Bob!
"No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."
If I only had mod points... You state almost exactly what I was going to post myself. The "POTs" network vs the Internet network is like comparing Oranges against Oranges, where the oranges fell from the same tree but one went to the juicer and the other got sliced up for someone's breakfast. The Internet IS the POTs network. They use the same facilities, and are run by the same companies. The only difference is instead of running SS7 over the links they run IP,and the terminating equipment knows to route IP instead of SS7 (tho alot of devices are capable of both and more). What do you think T1/T3(DS3)/OC128, etc are? T1 is a link comprised of (up to) 24 DS0 lines, each DS0 carries 64kbs of data needed to transmit voice. In the telecom world, a single DS0 is a single telephone line, becaus physically that is how it is setup. Its analog only from the endpoint of an analog phone in your house to the remote terminal box down the street. From there it gets packetized and sent down one of the DS0's of a T1/HDSL/OCxxx line back to the nearest CO.
Even worse, the Terminator genes are dominant. Which has a very devastating effect if introduced by a single farmer in places where farmers still use some of their harvest as seeds for the next year.
And even worse than that is when the seeds from a farm growing the monsanto crops gets carried (by wind/birds/whatever) over to a neighboring farmer's fields, who is NOT using Monsanto seeds to grow crops... The farmer is now violating the seed patent as his plants are partly from this other seed, and he cant get rid of them with the normal herbicide since they are resistant. Add to that, that if he is trying to re-use his seed for next year's crops, and happens to mix in some of the monsanto seeds, his whole seed crop is now violating the patent, and when Monsanto finds out, they will demand their fees for this "use" of their technology. Luckily with the terminator gene, the crops just wont grow. But then again, since pollen is spread in the wind as well, and carries the genetic info, and the pollen from the monsanto field blows across the other farmers, which then starts producing seeds with either the roundup resistance or terminator gene or both... well you see where Im going. Not that its happened or anything.
.... Think Google Earth with built GPS receiver in the phone! Think Google Mail and Calendar all integrated with your phone...
Think ad sponsored applications! Working along with Google Earth and that GPS receiver such that all the businesses around you start spamming your phone as you walk by, or they all pop up as soon as you open Google Earth, with pinpoints showing where they are. Think of Google scanning your calendar and calling you to remind you of a meeting thats X distance away, will take you Y minutes to get there, and here are directions to it from where you are now, along with places you might want to stop and shop at along the way. Knowing how Google does things, this could all be really neat, as long as the spamming is kept to a minimum (which in most cases Google has been good about). I wonder how much of this the Apple iPhone thing will try to integrate as well, this seems to be a direct competitor.
If anyone knows how to fix it (and turn it into a one-liner in the process) Randal Schwartz does.;-)
...using map, no doubt. Congrats on a significant victory, Randall!
something like
map({open IN, "<$_";open OUT, ">$_.tmp";foreach $line(<IN>){ $line=~s/Randal Schwartz/Bill Gates/i; print OUT $line; }close IN; close OUT;rename($_.tmp,$_)},["terrorist_watch_list.txt" , "no_fly.doc", "fbi_persons_of_interest_list.ppt"]);
Assuming of course, his name is in plaintext in the doc and ppt files... otherwise, just need to pass it to something that can filter those to text and back.
For some reason, individual words get interpreted as internal (usually nonexistent) servers within my university. Which really annoys me.
Its a feature of WINs. Im guessing here that this university network has a microsoft domain setup, and you have WINs resolution turned on on a Windoze box. It will automagically try to take the hostname you provided and match it to a subnet in its control. I hate it, since the IT support people where I work rely on this, and build links on their support webpages using that feature. It doesnt work so well with MACs unless you can get it to sign in to the domain (and even then Im not sure, as the domain server wont let me login to it... grrr). This leaves me trying to figure out what subnet the various support sites are on, and copy/paste/edit the URLs by hand. The other possibility is your local DNS is setup to auto-resolve by appending the local subnet, or your machine itself has such a feature configured (in linux, its in the resolv.conf file, the line that starts with "search").
Supporting the parent here, go and google "Space Shuttle Lockheed" and "Space Shuttle Boeing" and see what comes up.... The results show the history here. Boeing built the shuttles under contract from NASA. Lockheed was/is looking to get that contract to build the replacement. NASA works with them to set criteria and organize the projects. If NASA advanced at the rate Scaled composites and other X-Prize competitors have, we would already be on mars. In the past, NASA advanced by leaps and bounds, it only took only 8 years to go from man in space to man on the moon, but then the Space race and cold war ended, the funding dried up, and the idiots in the president's seat started expensive wars that further dried up funding while also stifling other research. And now he wants us to go back to the moon and even onward to mars, but still cuts the budget?!/rant
Get back to me when SpaceShipOne can reach GEO or even LEO.
Its name is SpaceShipThree, and is on the drawing board... SpaceShipOne did what it was designed to do, go straight up 100miles, and come back. Asking it to reach LEO is like asking the wright flyer to cross the atlantic.
At the moment is it quite easy to download and store video content from YouTube, but no such exploit for Joost is known to exist.
Sure there is. Its just not as direct as they are thinking. Since its digital media being displayed on screen, all ya gotta do is dump the video memory of the screen area where its displayed to disk. Instant saved video. There are numerous software packages out there to do this, some free, some not, but all designed specifically for this. Similar to using a tape recorder to record the music from the radio, or a camcorder to record a TV show, but in pure digital fashion, since its pulling the direct digital image from ram. Just another tech developed to fuel the pr0n industry, mostly used for people to record webcams;)
Moderated as a troll... well, while the poster did come across trollish, I would have to somewhat agree with what was said. There is, in fact, a law that requires home owners to own a firearm, though it is not enforced. Kennesaw is also well known for their speed traps on the interstate, and has gotten in trouble for them in the past. And yes, this is Georgia, and outside of downtown Atlanta (though we are not very far from there) politics quickly turns more good-ol-boys-ish than protect-and-serve for the good of all. I live not far from Kennesaw to the south, still in the well-known conservative area of Cobb county, and would be equally unsurprised had this happened here rather than our neighbor to the immediate north. No, Im by far not a conservative myself, and am glad the areas around me seem to be changing over to more progressive ideas. Remember, this is the same area that tried to adopt a similar stance on evolution as Kansas....by putting stickers in the books (and then having to rip them back out! HAHA)
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The sneaky part is that the RIAA is hiring these guys to break the law. Yes, that's sneaky, but it's entirely legal.
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Not quite legal, its called "Solicitation". You are asking someone to do something illegal. Same as if they posed as Johns asking under-cover officers for "services". They would be arrested for soliciting the officer for those services. The officer gets away un-charged, as they have a clear conscience in the eyes of the law: they have no intent to actually perform the illegal activity as they are officers of the law itself. In this case, the RIAA is more like someone acting like an undercover cop, soliciting the potential prostitutes, getting the actual services performed, then calling the cops on the prostitute, neglecting the fact that they already participated in the illegal act themselves.
The simplest solution with digital broadcasts woiuld be an age rating flag.
let the user set the level they want to recieve and blank the channel when it exceeds thier set rating.
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I do like the idea of perhaps dynamic self censorship.
pick what offends you and have a database of the schedules flagging what you want or don't want to see.
Its called a V chip here in the US. It picks up the rating flags the broadcasters send out with shows and can trigger a child-safety lock if it exceeds a level you set in the TVs configuration. To unlock it, you just use a PIN you set there too. Almost all cable boxes around here have the feature as well, and it was required by the FCC for all TVs over 13" made after Jan 1, 2000 to include them.
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...You may not work around technical limitations in the software... This is also in Microsoft's other agreements. I would like to see this particular onerous line challenged in court. It is very vague, and probably impossible to judge or enforce. Lots of things have technical limitations, and people work around them all the time. I don't like EULAs in general, and this is a good place to start challenging them.I must be in violation then, since I installed without a mouse, and instead of "clicking" the ok to continue button, I used tab + space. I worked around the technical limitation of not having a mouse and not being able to "click" my mouse on anything. I also continually change things in MS Word that Word auto "corrects", thus working around its technical limitation on knowing what it is I want it to do. I also sometimes add words to its dictionary, thus working around its limited knowledge of how to spell things...
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If you ever listen to the beginning of a MLB broadcast (or NFL or many other sports) one part of the leagaleze they spew is something like "no rebroadcast or retransmit allowed without written permission of MLB". I wonder if they are considering the slingbox in violation of that, since it is essentially retransmitting the video from your home to wherever you might have gone. Seems weak, and probably would not hold up in court, since the language is obviously aimed at keeping people from recording and reselling the game or any part of it without paying MLB for those rights.
As for the geographical boundaries, this probably has to do with the "blackout" area around any televised pro-sports event. Part of the pro-sport agreements include clauses that require areas near the game to be blacked out from transmitting the game in an effort to get more people to actually go to the stadium and buy a ticket to watch it there, if the game is under a certain percentage of capacity. Its a dumb rule, since most people that want to watch the game at the stadium will go to the stadium either way, and those that could care less wont change their mind if they cant watch it on tv. If they really are into it, they just get a satellite TV service that cant distinguish the boundaries anyway. The MLB has already gone after Satellite TV services for this in the past, now they are adding "On the Internets!!" to it and trying again.
Tm
Did I mention the zoom function is neat too??
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Just build a beowulf cluster of potatoe batteries and be done with it. If you run out, just dump another bag in from the grocery store
tm
Well, the Indy 500 itself is becoming almost as redneckified as nascar is. Even Nascar drivers sometimes switch over to drive in it just for this one race. If you ask most people, Indy is just this race, separate from nascar, where they drive the "Indy" cars. In reality, its a whole racing series with these cars driving in ovals, the Indy Racing League (to be fair, they did add street courses this year). I would rather watch CART (CCWS) races, but much prefer GT/Lemans races where you get not only the street courses, but two vastly different car designs running at different top speeds competing at the same time, or F1, where an oval course is blasphemy and the races are recognized the world over rather than just in the US. Im sorry, ovals are boring, even though they might go faster (because they only have to turn 2 (4?) corners), the street courses demonstrate racing skill and offer much better entertainment (it always funny to watch Nascar drivers when they do their street course races, all 3 of them).
Tm
Its what HP is doing right... not being DELL.
Easter egg? I knew something smelled funny...
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So what you're saying is the answer is no, because it doesn't go to the phone switch, but to the DSLAM. It doesn't use the POTS phone circuit, it's just carried on the copper.
I actually knew the answer to this question, I have to admit. But it certainly has detected a plethora of bullshitters.
The problem is, that copper its riding is a segment of your POTs circuit. Until it hits that DSLAM, it can ride several hops through repeaters and the like, all on copper, and all sharing the line with normal POTs calls. So to answer your question of "Does DSL even use a classic phone circuit?", yes it does, it rides the POTs circuit to the nearest DSLAM. That DSLAM might be in your neighborhood in a box, or it might be a few miles away IN A CO, hence it travels POTs lines, along with your voice, until it hits that DSLAM, all on the POTs circuit. T1s are digitally switched to the customer dmarc, and cant be run on top of POTs traffic like consumer DSL can. The only thing T1 might share is the old POTs copper, where as DSL will use the same phone jacks, repeaters, and Remote terminals as the rest of the POTs traffic. Dont be a troll, if you "knew" the answer, then why ask it, and why go further to prove yourself wrong? I also dont see the BS you are calling...unless its on yourself
tm
How else does that signal go from the DSL modem to the CO? Yeh, it travels the phonelines. At least from your modem to the nearest DSLAM. The DSLAM filters out that signal and sends it on on a seperate path back through the data circuits.
T1 Also uses phone lines, though the originating and terminating equipment on the segment from the remote terminal to the customer site are changed to stuff to handle T1 (or HDSL, depending on which is actually used to carry the signal). At the customer end, a box much larger than your standard telco dmarc box is installed containing a "smartjack". Basically it holds a card (Adtran H2TUR normally, with space for 2) that takes the signal from the telco and changes the output to T1. Sometimes it doesnt do anything but strip out the line power as the telco signal is T1 (also called "4wire" or "True" T1), the line power is for the card/repeaters to function. Usually, they send the T1 via some flavor of HDSL and use the smartjack to change it back to T1 signaling. This is a "2wire" T1, which uses only a single pair of copper, same as your standard POTs phone line. Normally, the telco tech will just move the pairs on each end to the new equipment to change it from POTs to T1. If they cant, or the trunk line for that segment has no pairs good enough to carry the signal, they might have to pull a new line... which isnt cheap. T1s are also notorious for wreaking havok on DSL subscribers that happen to share a trunk ;) .
tm
Thank you, and may Bob bless you.
Believe me, Im no pink. I believe FSM and Slack go together. I would not doubt it if it was revealed the FSM gave Bob his pipe. Praise Bob!
tm
Sorry, I already have a patent on that... but if you still want to proceed, I will gladly collect royalties
tm
my source is here.
Thats not a problem, everyone knows that THE supreme being is the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
-RAmen
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Even worse, the Terminator genes are dominant. Which has a very devastating effect if introduced by a single farmer in places where farmers still use some of their harvest as seeds for the next year.
And even worse than that is when the seeds from a farm growing the monsanto crops gets carried (by wind/birds/whatever) over to a neighboring farmer's fields, who is NOT using Monsanto seeds to grow crops... The farmer is now violating the seed patent as his plants are partly from this other seed, and he cant get rid of them with the normal herbicide since they are resistant. Add to that, that if he is trying to re-use his seed for next year's crops, and happens to mix in some of the monsanto seeds, his whole seed crop is now violating the patent, and when Monsanto finds out, they will demand their fees for this "use" of their technology. Luckily with the terminator gene, the crops just wont grow. But then again, since pollen is spread in the wind as well, and carries the genetic info, and the pollen from the monsanto field blows across the other farmers, which then starts producing seeds with either the roundup resistance or terminator gene or both... well you see where Im going. Not that its happened or anything.
Tm
.... Think Google Earth with built GPS receiver in the phone! Think Google Mail and Calendar all integrated with your phoneThink ad sponsored applications! Working along with Google Earth and that GPS receiver such that all the businesses around you start spamming your phone as you walk by, or they all pop up as soon as you open Google Earth, with pinpoints showing where they are. Think of Google scanning your calendar and calling you to remind you of a meeting thats X distance away, will take you Y minutes to get there, and here are directions to it from where you are now, along with places you might want to stop and shop at along the way. Knowing how Google does things, this could all be really neat, as long as the spamming is kept to a minimum (which in most cases Google has been good about). I wonder how much of this the Apple iPhone thing will try to integrate as well, this seems to be a direct competitor.
Tm
something like
map({open IN, "<$_";open OUT, ">$_.tmp";foreach $line(<IN>){ $line=~s/Randal Schwartz/Bill Gates/i; print OUT $line; }close IN; close OUT;rename($_.tmp,$_)},["terrorist_watch_list.txt" , "no_fly.doc", "fbi_persons_of_interest_list.ppt"]);
Assuming of course, his name is in plaintext in the doc and ppt files... otherwise, just need to pass it to something that can filter those to text and back.
Tm
Its a feature of WINs. Im guessing here that this university network has a microsoft domain setup, and you have WINs resolution turned on on a Windoze box. It will automagically try to take the hostname you provided and match it to a subnet in its control. I hate it, since the IT support people where I work rely on this, and build links on their support webpages using that feature. It doesnt work so well with MACs unless you can get it to sign in to the domain (and even then Im not sure, as the domain server wont let me login to it... grrr). This leaves me trying to figure out what subnet the various support sites are on, and copy/paste/edit the URLs by hand. The other possibility is your local DNS is setup to auto-resolve by appending the local subnet, or your machine itself has such a feature configured (in linux, its in the resolv.conf file, the line that starts with "search").
Tm
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Its name is SpaceShipThree, and is on the drawing board... SpaceShipOne did what it was designed to do, go straight up 100miles, and come back. Asking it to reach LEO is like asking the wright flyer to cross the atlantic.
Tm
Sure there is. Its just not as direct as they are thinking. Since its digital media being displayed on screen, all ya gotta do is dump the video memory of the screen area where its displayed to disk. Instant saved video. There are numerous software packages out there to do this, some free, some not, but all designed specifically for this. Similar to using a tape recorder to record the music from the radio, or a camcorder to record a TV show, but in pure digital fashion, since its pulling the direct digital image from ram. Just another tech developed to fuel the pr0n industry, mostly used for people to record webcams ;)
Tm
tm
... The sneaky part is that the RIAA is hiring these guys to break the law. Yes, that's sneaky, but it's entirely legal....
Not quite legal, its called "Solicitation". You are asking someone to do something illegal. Same as if they posed as Johns asking under-cover officers for "services". They would be arrested for soliciting the officer for those services. The officer gets away un-charged, as they have a clear conscience in the eyes of the law: they have no intent to actually perform the illegal activity as they are officers of the law itself. In this case, the RIAA is more like someone acting like an undercover cop, soliciting the potential prostitutes, getting the actual services performed, then calling the cops on the prostitute, neglecting the fact that they already participated in the illegal act themselves.
tm
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I do like the idea of perhaps dynamic self censorship.
pick what offends you and have a database of the schedules flagging what you want or don't want to see.
Its called a V chip here in the US. It picks up the rating flags the broadcasters send out with shows and can trigger a child-safety lock if it exceeds a level you set in the TVs configuration. To unlock it, you just use a PIN you set there too. Almost all cable boxes around here have the feature as well, and it was required by the FCC for all TVs over 13" made after Jan 1, 2000 to include them.
Tm