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Change of VOD feeds

Anybody noticed that the normally watchable VOD feeds for their area are now scrambled....I am not able to watch my neighbor fast forward through soft core porno anymore...

Have to find something else for humor now.....
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Re: Change of VOD feeds

uh what?

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Re: Change of VOD feeds

said by bender See Profile :

uh what?
Up until A short time ago tuning through the digital cable bands, one would find the on Demand feeds for their node. They were broadcast in the clear. You could see the pauses and fast forwards they the user was doing. That seems to have changed now with Comcast, as they have now started toe scramble the feeds, so that only the actual user can see it. Probably what should be done, but it was always fun to tune around and see what the neighbors were watching on the VOD.

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Re: Change of VOD feeds

oh wow. how did you tune the digital feeds?

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Re: Change of VOD feeds

You must have a "Clear QAM" tuner, then just run the scan function, In NC Indiana the 87-90 digital channels were used for VOD. (89-2, 89-4, etc.), but they are now scrambled so I cannot see them.
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Re: Change of VOD feeds

Which, may I say, is loads of fun when your mom is visiting and flipping thru channels on your new TV.

"Hey, Shreck is on....umm and porn..."
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said by backfeed See Profile :

Anybody noticed that the normally watchable VOD feeds for their area are now scrambled....I am not able to watch my neighbor fast forward through soft core porno anymore...

Have to find something else for humor now.....
It affected all cable operators, but updates were released to fix the problem.

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How was everyone's New Year?

Just wondering how everyone is doing on day 2 of this new year?

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Re: How was everyone's New Year?

I am on the tail end of three weeks of vacation, consuming '2 Below' from New Belgium Brewery...so, guess I am not too bad.

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said by NY Tel See Profile :

Just wondering how everyone is doing on day 2 of this new year?
Worked today....about 11 hours....trying to get a project completed....
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It's the same as the other 364 days of any given year.
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Re: How was everyone's New Year?

said by Phil See Profile :

It's the same as the other 364 days of any given year.
same here...but today is my chicks birthday, so she is very happy.

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said by Phil See Profile :

It's the same as the other 364 days of any given year.
Sometimes I could find it slightly depressing (not the right choice of words but will suffice) because as soon as Christmas passes, it is like a switch is flipped and away go the festivities and celebratory atmosphere.
No more holly, jolly anything.....

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Firefox, Safari Cut Into Internet Explorer's Market Share

»tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090102/tc_nf/63826
According to the Web metrics provider, Microsoft's browser market share has declined by more than six percent since February 2008. The browser held a 68.15 percent market share in December -- its lowest in years.

By contrast, Mozilla Firefox's market share rose one-half of a percentage point from November and has climbed more than four percent since February to reach 21.34 percent in December.

Apple's Safari browser has also been chipping away at Internet Explorer's market share for months. Since February, Safari's market share has grown more than two percent to a 7.93 percent share in December.

However, Safari's rising market share is almost entirely due to the rising sales of Mac computers, which ship with Safari.

Even Google's Chrome browser, which debuted in early September, exceeded one percent for the first time in December. Among the world's top five Web browsers, only Opera appears to be going nowhere. Opera's market share has hovered around the 0.7 percent mark since February.
Other browsers keep picking up market share as IE continues to drop. MS better hope that Windows 7 & IE8 start out quick this summer and have lots of new faster features.
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Re: Firefox, Safari Cut Into Internet Explorer's Market Share

I've played with the betas of IE8 and they feel cluttered. I never liked the way they changed the bookmark system in IE7 anyway ... and now there are a bunch of new features I don't need or want.

I don't think IE8 is going to be a hit ... I think it will be the version that causes MS to realize they need to slim down the browser and let the user add the features they want, sort of like the modularization they are moving to with their server (2008) OS.

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I have been using Chrome a lot...Not as customizable as Firefox but it is fast and simple. I am probably 50 50 now between the both of them. IE7 is only used on sites that require it.......my $0.02
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Google Shows Users iPhone Easter Egg

Google informs users of some hidden settings on its Google iPhone Mobile App. The "Bells and Whistles" as they call it, are actually found under the Settings page of the app. While at first glance it looks like the "About" button is the last setting on the page but in reality if you continue to swipe your finger upward to go down the page further you will find the secret easter egg that Google has hidden away. You may need to keep swiping for a while to actually see it.
Read more: »techfragments.com/news/187/Softw···App.html

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the weekend.

have a good one everyone be safe.
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There are 10 types of people.

>There are 10 types of people. Those whom can read Binary and those who cannot.

I had to learn hex to work with main frames.
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No one will care about ISP caps if......

The super volcano at Yellowstone blows

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Re: No one will care about ISP caps if......

That would be a sight to see. No more human induced global warming... Yellowstone should shoot a nice chunk of CO2 up in the atmosphere.

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Re: There are 10 types of people.

I have seen that somewhere??

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It has been decades for me but shouldn't that be 01 types?

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Re: There are 10 types of people.

said by rfhar See Profile :

It has been decades for me but shouldn't that be 01 types?
No. That's one type of people. 10 is 2 in binary. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

(An old mainframer. I'm still waiting for ISPF to make a comeback.).

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Gonna be a long nigh

16 hour shift tonight... gonna be a long one.

I hope the network behaves itself...

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iPod.

My new ipod classic is magical.

Clarke was right!

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Go Israel!

Nice to see Israel doing something about all these attacks... I said it a few weeks ago, no way Israel was going to allow nearly 300 rocket attacks plus in a week go un-answered.

Don't want to get bombed by Israel? STOP SHOOTING ROCKETS!!

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSUoVtHx5XU

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Re: Go Israel!

agreed 100%

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yeah and they find some guy on the news all pissed about being attacked and they should go to war. wtf, so israel should just take it?
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said by KrK See Profile :

Nice to see Israel doing something about all these attacks... I said it a few weeks ago, no way Israel was going to allow nearly 300 rocket attacks plus in a week go un-answered.

Don't want to get bombed by Israel? STOP SHOOTING ROCKETS!!
Amen to that.
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»news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7809371.stm

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Re: Go Israel!

Very possible.

Then again, there's also the middle. Equipment being removed from the previously bombed facility... the Israeli's see people loading what appear to be rockets (but could of just been gas cylinders) from the complex they had already bombed, and so they bomb them. Not rockets--- but also not proof of innocence either. You'd need more information to be sure. Was it a site where rockets were produced?

So it ranges the gamut from being legitimate target to completely innocent civilians. Without more information, who knows.

No mistaking this one, however.... one even gets off before being destroyed....

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JpxyyH···=related

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Kathy Griffin should never work on CNN

Catch the comment at the end.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsR8DVGS9bM

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Sanford and Son Megathon on TV One, 6 PM Jan.3rd-6 PM Jan.4

24 hours of Sanford and Son, watch it, or I'll give you five reasons to do so They just don't make shows like this anymore

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Lift the Cuban embargo

It is time to get rid of the stupid embargo against cuba.

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PS3 - I am getting bloodshot eyes and that 6' stare...

My three young boys received a PS3 from "Santa" this Christmas (thanks to the Live.com 30% cashback back in early December), but I am staying up way too late playing some of their games.

Late nights, bloodshot eyes, and that 6' stare are starting to takes its toll...

Only one more day of the long holiday break.
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