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You want them to modernize? Get as many people as you can to stop using cable for TV.
As a Canadian, I run into this bullshit all the time. Comedy Central embedded videos, hulu, etc. The whole thing seems like a perversion of the promise of the internet: to connect us all... It's double ironic in the OPs case, given the stated goals of the olympics. Going around via VPN is well within my technical means, but I don't want to support the people who behave this way online, so I usually don't view the geo…
Why doesn't he just go to the local sports bar?
Use your email and get a temporary pass on NBColympics.com. Although it only lasts 4hrs but I assume you can use a different email after that and it might still work.
Gmail's + syntax doesn't work. So -- email+1@gmail.com, email+2@gmail.com as a strategy doesn't work. I tried that.
The "+ syntax" does not belong to Gmail, nor was Gmail the inventor of same. foo+bar@domain.net is an ancient tradition, dating back almost to the dawn of SMTP. Of course, the interpretation of the local part is entirely up to the MTA handling it, but foo+bar is pretty widespread. Certainly Sendmail supports it.
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As with any DNS provider they can presumably spoof any site they wish too; so I'd be pretty cautious about using them for all DNS calls.
On Mac OS X, you can use them just for specific domains. For example, create: /etc/resolver/bbc.co.uk with the contents: nameserver 208.122.23.22 nameserver 208.122.23.23 And now you'll be using unblock-us's name servers for just bbc.co.uk and its subdomains. You could do something similar for your entire network with dnsmasq.
This won't get you live coverage, but it will get you legal NBC coverage on your home TV... The broadcast industry does not want American's to know this, but they are legally obligated to provide the free "over the air" stations on cable (coax) even if you do not pay for cable service. In other words, do what I have done: 1. You need a modern cable-ready TV 2. Plug the coax into the wall (assumes your residence had c…
Are you sure cable providers are required to provide free over-the-air stations? I haven't heard of that being a requirement and can't find anything online except vague claims without citations. I've heard of low-cost plans that provide all the equivalent over-the-air stations, but no legal requirement to provide those for free. That said, this certainly does work for some people. It worked for us for a while after w…
As a Canadian, I run into this bullshit all the time. Comedy Central embedded videos, hulu, etc. The whole thing seems like a perversion of the promise of the internet: to connect us all... It's double ironic in the OPs case, given the stated goals of the olympics. Going around via VPN is well within my technical means, but I don't want to support the people who behave this way online, so I usually don't view the geo…
Except this time around, CTV has done a good job of providing Olympic coverage to non-TV people. The iOS app is great, and the web portal is great, and it's free.
>I didn’t go out and buy an antenna, but I was able to tune quite a few channels Why not buy an antenna, especially an amplified one? That will run circles around using a shielded coax cable as an antenna. >FAIL. There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription Sorry, that doesn't follow when you didn't even try a TV antenna.
1. NBC cut short the open ceremony 2. NBC delayed the broadcast of the swimming 3. Online (from the BBC, and from NBC with commercials) you can get a stream of any event you want.
The online option, and the online option from the BBC especially just blows away an OTA broadcast. BBC has something like 24 different streams for live events. Vs. buying rabbit ears which gives me 1 channel.
And as for running circles around COAX, the only channels I can't get with COAX are CBS and NBC. Everything else comes through in HD either on it's own or if I'm touching it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4305905
NBC ought to be ashamed. Their online offering is pure crap.
I just tested this using a free proxy. Any slow/unstable proxy will work just fine.