Nielsen @ home!

I once was selected to be a Nielson Family, one of the proud few people selected to represent a small portion of the nation in my choices of television viewing. The way it works now is, they send you this pad of paper for every member of your household, and you have to manually write down every minute of what you are watching. Now anybody that knows me and my family knows this thing isn't going to work, we're simply too lazy! I think that a system should be built into your television that records what you're watching, and every so often send this record to the Nielson people so they can develop TV ratings, it would be more accurate, because it would record what everybody is really watching, not just what some person is writing down (most likely the shortest title or easiest thing to write down) Now as an added bonus (yes, it can get better!), I think there should be a rating device on the remote control that allows you to rate the quality of the TV shows you're watching with a simple 3 button format, Really Sucks, Sucks, or Only Sucks a little. This would prevent shows like Xena, or Pro Wrestling from remaining on TV (once people realize the only reason to watch is to document the decline of humanity).