Azat Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 I am glad I don't own a Tivo... http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1...2356908,00.html "Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn't a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean. But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It's their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that records some programs it just assumes its owner will like, based on shows the viewer has chosen to record. A phone call the machine makes to TiVo, Inc., in San Jose, Calif., once a day provides key information. As these men learned, when TiVo thinks it has you pegged, there's just one way to change its "mind": outfox it. Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff." "The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich." He mentioned his TiVo tussle to a friend, who told an executive at CBS's "The King of Queens," who then wrote an episode with a My-TiVo-thinks-I'm-gay subplot." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif Oh man! I really needed that... that's one of the FUNNIEST things I have read in a while. Scarry aint it? I'm sure our "intelligent systems" are going to go through a maturing period (and even maybe adolescence) before they become useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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