begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:04:26AM -0700: > SJS wrote: > >I buy (and loan out) DVDs. > > Wouldn't another solution be tivo/MythTV?
If I had any sort of TV reception, yes. To get anything of interest at a reasonable quality, I'd need cable. I've had cable. It's not good for me. I don't time-shift well. > This topic of conversation among the general public usually turns up > someone (usually a sales or marketing guy, so it isn't too likely to > happen on this list) who believes that if you are blocking ads on a > website that you are somehow "stealing" the content. Stealing? Ha. But I can see "Depriving of revenue". Especially if the site gets paid to show the ads, instead of getting paid for click-through. Mostly, I've come to object to a website being made up of a gazillion sources -- it's not uncommon for some web-pages to have a dozen-plus external servers providing something (ads, stats, trackers, etc.), which seems just silly. If you want to serve up an ad to me, host it on your own damn machine. > And of course I love to ask such people if they have ever gotten up from > watching TV to take a leak during a commercial break. It's apparently -- hearsay, mind you -- illegal for someone to purge your mailbox of all those advertisements. Of course, in the future, we'll have TVs that can sense when you're there, and when you get up to walk away, they'll helpfully pause the commercial for your convenience. -- DRM and a motion sensor. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
