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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...syndication=rss

actually I admit I sometimes watch Fox news. But I think this is a nifty little invention.

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There is an easier way to deal with this... it's called the channel change button .

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liberals aren't smart enough to work remote controls.

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Man, I would love to buy a few of these and sneak them on to my father's tvs.

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Ok the guy is a dumb liberal, but ...

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The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary, as well as a few death threats since the device debuted in August.


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The following I found interesting. And yes, it is from that ever-truthful provider of impartial fact, Daily Kos. BUt interesting nonetheless

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by DavidNYC
Sat Mar 26th, 2005 at 11:00:24 PST

I gotta love this kind of ingenuity:


It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he's sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets, since its August debut.

Kimery says, unsurprisingly, that he's gotten a quite a bit of monkey mail - the sort of badly misspelled and incoherent rants which the proprietor of any popular website is likely to get. But he also claims to have gotten death threats, which are a whole `nother ball of wax. The reporter on the story apparently didn't ask to see them (why is that such a hard thing to do?), but after Hunter's "Blood Sport" series, I'm inclined to believe Kimery:


The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary - as well as a few death threats.

"Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Kimery, 45.

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actually I admit I sometimes watch Fox news. But I think this is a nifty little invention.


Slightly illegal, isn't it?

EDIT: nm, since it only blocks your TV

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No, I think watching FoxNEWS is still legal.

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Slightly illegal, isn't it?

EDIT: nm, since it only blocks your TV


LOL, yeah I think blocking other people's tv's (if we could somehow create such a technology) would attract the attention of the FCC.

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There is such a device, it's called a frequency jammer.

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There is such a device, it's called a frequency jammer.


Fox news doesn't come in over the air waves, but through a cable.

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The signal is still transmitted at a certain frequency. If you plugged in a signal generator to the co-ax cable coming into your house, tuned it to the frequency that FOXNews is transmitted at and had it generate garbage then you'd be able to **** up a lot of people's reception....

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Of course, it wouldn't take long for them to trace the source of the interference and bust down your door...

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The the device is called scissor

"Like I always say, to every problem there is an engineering solution" - Wally to Dilbert after building a catapult that would shoot his computer out of the office (okay the story is more complicated)

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This is such old news.

Boston Legal had an episode on these two weeks ago, where a school principal had installed these on the televisions at a high school.

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Of course, it wouldn't take long for them to trace the source of the interference and bust down your door...


Plug it in to somoene else's house

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actually I admit I sometimes watch Fox news. But I think this is a nifty little invention.


Actually this is a commonplace device in the CATV world. Its called a notch filter. The components inside the device are set up such that they pass all frequencies save one, which is "notched out". One problem for this inventor I see cropping up shortly is that Fox is on different channels (or frequencies) in different CATV systems. Here in Syracuse its either Ch8 or Ch68, at my mother's house its Ch2, etc. . So either the guy has to find out from the buyer which channel Fox resides on in his CATV system and set up the notch filter components accordingly, or else he's selling devices that won't do the intended job in a lot of CATV systems.
Here is a website for a company that has been making notch filters for over 30 years. FYI.


D

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Ok the guy is a dumb liberal, but ...


No he isn't. Read the article--he was a Republican until the 1990s, and is now an independent moderate. It doesn't take a "dumb liberal" to realize that Faux News is a travesty.

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why would anyone buy this? I don't have a problem not watching Fox News... it's simple. DON'T TURN IT TO THE CHANNEL!

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I would like to introduce the Fair and Balanced Internet Filter, brought to you by Fox News.

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No he isn't. Read the article--he was a Republican until the 1990s, and is now an independent moderate. It doesn't take a "dumb liberal" to realize that Faux News is, a travesty.



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actually I admit I sometimes watch Fox news, But I think this is a nifty little invention.


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liberals aren't smart enough to work remote controls. 100% Compliant with Patriot Act legislation.


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why would anyone buy this? I don't have a problem notwatching Fox News... it's simple. DON'T TURN IT TO THE CHANNEL!

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Man, I would love to buy a few of these and sneak them on to my father's tvs.


As I thought. The left will buy these for people who have a "problem" in their view.

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