O'Reilly Builds a MythTV Box 203
enrico_suave writes "While the Broadcast Flag battle continues, it's still legal to put together your own HDTV PC HTPC/PVR. O'Reilly has posted part 1 in a series of articles describing the ins and outs of Building a MythTV Box" From the article: "For now, the good news is that it is still legal to put together your own home-theater PC. Parts are now cheap enough that it is no longer ridiculous to build a PC specifically to handle TV for you, much like the VCR in Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency..."
Why? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait, it was the other O'Reilly? Nevermind...
Re:Why? (Score:4, Funny)
Sweet.
Bill O'Reilly? (Score:5, Funny)
Linus: Well, the system is an operating system that is maintained by many people. I just make the kernel. The userland is built by academics ar...
Bill O'Reilly: Wait a second! Wait a second! You are saying that academics build this, and trying to give it away for nothing, for the purpose of running commercial entities out of business?
Linus: No, that's not true at all... we build software to give it away to anyb...
Bill O'Reilly: And what's this I hear about writing software to enable pirating of television programs? You understand that we have men and women, DYING OVERSEAS, to protect our way of life, and our way of life is CAPITALISM... where's the logic in what you are doing?
Linus: Bill, I don't think it's a matter of capitalism but rath...
Bill O'Reilly: Awwww come on! COME ON! You're just... you know, you smug academics elites are all alike. You just want to take and take and take... and give away at the expense of the America pulbic! Well, I'll tell you -- we AIN'T buying it on the Factor. We ain't buying it one bit. And if you're smart, you'll wise up... next up on the Factor, some people claim that liberals eat live human fetuses. We'll investigate and show you how they're right and what you can do to stop it.
OT: Jingle (was Re:Legal/illegal?) (Score:2, Funny)
On the plus side, the picture it's based on will, when viewed by any man questioning his heterosexuality, scare him straight for a very long time. http://bash.org/?42262 [bash.org]
Yet another Bill O'Reilly jab (Score:1, Funny)