"Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud" Just think about that title for a moment. If you repeated that to someone 30 years ago -- even to someone with an good tech background, who spoke English as their native tongue -- they would probably have thought you're speaking complete and utter gibberish. Actually, I'm not so sure they'd be wrong.

You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means...

There, fixed that for you.

Not that I can provide any of the details, but Nielson DOES (or at least DID) use DVR-watchers' data.

How do I know?

I'm a TiVo-Nielsen family. There was a specific enrollment they had about 5 years ago for Nielsen to use TiVo data from selected households, and I was chosen & signed-up. Now, what Nielsen and TiVo do with that information, if your Nielsen-family status is based on your location or your account or your physical DVR... or if Nielsen/TiVo are even still collecting the data -- I don't know.

What I can tell you is that, circa 2005, Nielsen was collecting data from TiVo DVR users.

I'm sure that the folks who didn't want to adopt the automobile over horses, and those who spurned the telephone in favour of older forms of communication espoused similar views.

FWIW, I think you won, Raju. Your argument was pretty clear, and I think D-a-B was confused or something. S/He seems to think that Mao was somehow the cause of the CR without thinking how Mao was able to get that power in the first place. Sorta like saying a bullet was the cause of a murder, without looking at the person pulling the trigger.

The AC spontaneously declaring victory was just... weird. Kinda like Bush stating "Mission Accomplished", when it obviously wasn't.

Ok... well... er...

Now what?

I guess, let's all let it go?

Oh, you mean written by _this_ guy? "William J. Rea, M.D., who operates the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas, is facing disciplinary action that could lead to revocation of his medical license. The Medical Board of Texas has charged him with (a) using pseudoscientific test methods, (b) failing to make accurate diagnoses, (c) providing "nonsensical" treatments, (d) failing to properly inform patients that his approach is unproven; (e) practicing in areas for which he has not been trained; and (f) representing himself certified by a board that is not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties."

Give it a few years -- with the global warming deniers in power everywhere, its only a matter of time before Moose Jaw becomes know for its citrus groves, and Yellowknife has lush palm groves...

I call shenanigans. When *I* listen to my patients' hearts, I'm listening for new or changed murmurs, irregularity in the rate, bounding of pulses -- and you're taught to do things systematically, and for a reason. Insurance companies give us about 15 minutes per patient if we want to be able to keep our head over water, so if you think anyone wastes time with useless mumbo-jumbo, you're way off-base. Anyway, you don't diagnose a "heart attack" with your stethoscope.

You are likely to be eaten... by me?