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Suddenly advertising this thing called TiVo:
We do have other DVRs available here so I do not know what the point of this is.
The iPhone went on sale today in Sydney, apparently.
And I just saw a report about an Australian woman who was finally released after reportedly being dragged off a bus and held for three weeks in Texas before being able to see a judge.
The story appears to be that she stayed in Canada for six months before beginning a six week tour of the United States and did not realise that because on the initial flight to Canada there was a stopover at Hawaii expiry of her visa was counted from this point rather than her later re-entry. Consequently when her visa was inspected she was found to have overstayed by twenty days and had to spend a similar period of time sleeping on bare concrete before being released. She claims the information she received from the US consulate about procedure was at odds with the actual state of affairs over there.
There does not seem to be much information available on this. Event the news site for the network I saw this on appears to have deleted the pages in question. The US official spoken to on the matter seemed to be suggesting it was not so much a mistake as just something which happens. Well, she got her case looked at sooner than people seeking asylum over here do (and one Australian woman was held locally in a detention centre for three years because it was not believed that she was a citizen).
What information I did find on the matter online is located here, here and here. The last is from a messageboard and not recommended for those who do not enjoy seeing vitriol directed at the United States by foreigners.
"Unlike its US counterpart, the Aussie TiVo is a crippled box. Shipping with (what we understand to be) a 160GB HD, the TiVo allows you to record up to a pathetic 32 hours of HD or 62 of SD television. If you like a show forget about copying it to DVD or your hard disk; there is no DVD burner and the Ethernet port is strictly for downloading the EPG from TiVo. No problem you might think, simply open the box (having acquired a set of security screwdrivers) and pop the hard disk into your computer. Don’t bother, as Channel Seven representatives assured us the TiVo is designed to respect Australian copyright laws and all data on the hard disk is encrypted (hence the acknowledgement of Turing encryption in the credits).
So why would you shell out nearly $700 on a TiVo?"
We do have other DVRs available here so I do not know what the point of this is.
The iPhone went on sale today in Sydney, apparently.
And I just saw a report about an Australian woman who was finally released after reportedly being dragged off a bus and held for three weeks in Texas before being able to see a judge.
The story appears to be that she stayed in Canada for six months before beginning a six week tour of the United States and did not realise that because on the initial flight to Canada there was a stopover at Hawaii expiry of her visa was counted from this point rather than her later re-entry. Consequently when her visa was inspected she was found to have overstayed by twenty days and had to spend a similar period of time sleeping on bare concrete before being released. She claims the information she received from the US consulate about procedure was at odds with the actual state of affairs over there.
There does not seem to be much information available on this. Event the news site for the network I saw this on appears to have deleted the pages in question. The US official spoken to on the matter seemed to be suggesting it was not so much a mistake as just something which happens. Well, she got her case looked at sooner than people seeking asylum over here do (and one Australian woman was held locally in a detention centre for three years because it was not believed that she was a citizen).
What information I did find on the matter online is located here, here and here. The last is from a messageboard and not recommended for those who do not enjoy seeing vitriol directed at the United States by foreigners.
