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TiVo Trouble!!!
Posted: 2002-11-26 07:54pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/26/1 ... ml?tid=133
Slashdot wrote:huskymo writes "This morning's Wall Street Journal is carrying a funny story on TiVo and Amazon's automatic customer profiling. As most Slashdot readers probably know, TiVo keeps track of which programs you record and--if you haven't told it not to--records other programs it thinks you'd like. The article describes users that TiVo's mistaken for Korean, for gay, even for "a pregnant gay man."" Funny as hell.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,, ... 08,00.html
Holy Fucking Shit!
*Note to self: Don't get a TiVo*
Posted: 2002-11-26 09:58pm
by Alyeska
Me thinks some husbands have gotten in trouble because they didn't know this when their wife took a look at the recordings...
Posted: 2002-11-26 09:58pm
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
Life sux0r. Then you get married.
And I can't see the link.
Posted: 2002-11-27 04:49am
by Hyperion
ROTFLMAO!!!! that is just awful, but pretty friggin' funny!
*note to self, don't get a TiVo...*
Re: TiVo Trouble!!!
Posted: 2002-11-27 04:57am
by Patrick Degan
Slashdot wrote:huskymo writes "This morning's Wall Street Journal is carrying a funny story on TiVo and Amazon's automatic customer profiling. As most Slashdot readers probably know, TiVo keeps track of which programs you record and--if you haven't told it not to--records other programs it thinks you'd like. The article describes users that TiVo's mistaken for Korean, for gay, even for "a pregnant gay man."" Funny as hell.
That reminds me of a funny stand-up joke I heard on TV years ago. Can't remember the comedian, but the joke's stuck with me all this time: that with recorders that watch our TVs automatically, and machines that answer our phones automatically, and stoves that cook our foods automatically, and washer/dryers that launder our clothes automatically, one day we're going to come home and find that our appliances don't need us anymore.
Posted: 2002-11-27 04:59am
by haas mark
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
LMAO!
*Note to self: Do not, repeat do NOT get a TiVo!!*
Posted: 2002-11-27 05:04am
by XaLEv
Ya gotta fuck with your Tivo's mind, man!
Set it to record stuff like Teletubbies, The Operation, Red Show Diaries and George Carlin.
Posted: 2002-11-27 05:05am
by haas mark
XaLEv wrote:Ya gotta fuck with your Tivo's mind, man!
Set it to record stuff like Teletubbies, The Operation, Red Show Diaries and George Carlin.
Then give it to fundies.