Here's an opportunity to get in on all this consumer electronics modification that I'm perpetually going on about. Say you're an AT&T cable subscriber. You've got a bunch of set top boxes, but only one works as a DVR, due to a nonsensical policy of AT&T's.

What to do? Plug in the hard drives on the others. That's it.

It kind of boggles the mind. Major points to the DVR engineers for the outstanding degree of contempt that they showed to their foolish corporate masters by choosing this method of crippling their hardware.