So you are saying that all world class athletes are freaks? If you look to nature, super fit athletes are the norm and obese, slow moving waddlers are the genetic abnormalities (or otherwise known as an easy lunch). I think you are confusing an unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle with normality.

I think they meant to say "we already scam consumers enough to not need the cash" . I hope to see some disruptive technology to circumvent the stranglehold these dinosaurs have.

I believe Myth would work because it ignores the flag but the point I was trying to make is that the TV companies up here will try anything to screw their customers over ... these are the same companies who throttle internet connections, collude on cell phone plan pricing and try to squeeze out new competitors... now if we had a real regulatory body instead of the cable executives retirement home that is the CRTC then maybe these situations would never arise...

What I'd really like to see is a standardization of the way these signals are encoded so 3rd party suppliers can sell PVRs instead of being locked into a single vendor. I'd love to use my Tivo again or hook the signal up to a Myth box but getting HD here in Canada means a cable company h/w solution.

In Canada there is no cable card system, we are stuck with the providers boxes and they all suck. I'm with Rogers and their PVR forgets shows and refuses to play at times, I had a Tivo but when you move to HD you are SOL. The providers want you to stay with their system so you keep buying / renting their box... Firewire lets people break that link - thus they shut it down. Similar behavior can be seen on Rogers where they enable to do not record flag so that Windows Media center refuses to record some prime-time TV (even though the broadcast flag should not really exist in Canada).

To be fair that culture exists at EDS and some IBM divisions too, but Siebel is just learning the ropes in some ways. I remember when I joined EDS there was talk of "the good old days" where Ross Perot would hand out cars for good projects but also how you must close the blinds if you drink alcohol at home, socks must match suit etc etc, there was also talk about the private detective who photographed employees involved in affairs.

Jurassic Pork?

Please, please please make Fox news website pay per view... ps please also keep Glenn Beck safely locked inside.

Isn't that the name of the new Britney Spears album?

Arghhh... Call Jack Bauer!!!!