But that's no comfort if you're a boomer who spent your early years jumping from job to job, accruing few pension benefits, and then settled into a long-term corporate job, expecting you'd finally get yours--only to find the rules were being changed midgame.

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That Cablevision and Google Fiber aren't the only US ISPs on its Open Connect list -- check the site to see if yours is.

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As we all found out, however, users who prefer to roll their own Media Center box (like yours truly) will be left out of the option entirely -- support will only be available for CableLabs certified boxen, which home-rolled are, of course, not.

ENGADGET: Vista unable to stream, convert CableCARD media

These guys are the best there are at what they do--unlike yours truly, who was doing quite well until blowing the final question in my one and only Jeopardy!

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