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  1. Use the analog hole with something like a HD-PVR on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR? · · Score: 1

    Hauppauge's HD-PVR takes component input. It's an expensive and inelegant solution, but it's the one you're looking for.

  2. Re:Solution on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you mean .*

  3. Re:You're a douche on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi! Skilled people can find jobs. If you can't find one, it's because you suck, you're not trying or you have unreasonable expectations.

    Have a nice day.

  4. Translation on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Speaking as a TKECF shareholder, I wish ya'll... on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 1

    ...would just shuttup about it. Everything's fine now. Remember BP? They were worse. Please move along.

  6. Re:so uh why they'd support it? on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry, but "Regulation is necessary" seems false to me.

    In a slightly longer view, it costs money to assume that you'll continue to have paying customers if you kill/ill them with faulty beef. I think the GoDaddy situation illustrates that.

  7. Re:so uh why they'd support it? on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The recipe for getting corporate influence out of government is to reduce governmental power in corporate behavior. I'm sorry you hate Rand, but that's the gist of it. If the business isn't controlled by government, then business has no interest in government and we can all go about our lives. If you don't like what company does, please found company and change the industry, or at least your small part of it. The problem with regulation and subsidy is that it obfuscates the costs of delivery, so nobody can tell what makes sense and what does not.

  8. Re:so uh why they'd support it? on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Government regulation of an industry increases the cost of entry for new competition. Established business will support something that gives them that kind of edge.

  9. Re:Hard to do w/o a Hayes compatible modem.... on Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores · · Score: 1

    Up until a few months ago, my father. :(

  10. Re:Really now? on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 5, Informative

    USA isn't as bad as X, therefore USA is good?
    I hit my wife with an open hand...it's okay, 'though, because this guy I know hits his wife with a baton and at least I'm better than that.

    I am an American and I live in the USA. Don't forget that "the courts" are also part of the government. The federal government often and egregiously oversteps the specific privileges granted to it by the constitution; the courts, supreme and otherwise, often allow this to happen. Our government, the judicial part of it included, have made great strides in the restriction of personal freedom, including the field of censorship.

    Don't get me wrong, the USA is pretty cool, and our government is definitely an open-handed beater, but just because Iran's government sucks more, that doesn't mean that our government doesn't suck quite a bit on its own.

  11. Re:Greetings Slashdot on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must be new to /. As you stay here and become part of the community, you'll find that we're almost universally willing to help out a person in need.
    Enjoy your stay.

  12. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 2

    The beauty of 40-man raids was that you could have a half-dozen casuals and as long as they understood the mechanics of what was going on (i.e.: they didn't do stupid stuff) there's still a sizable group of folks to pick up the slack.

  13. Re:One of many? on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Yes, space herpes are problematic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw

  14. Re:Long term goals on The Rise of Robotic Labor · · Score: 1

    If you can be replaced by a robot, get a better job. (Perhaps you might like a job designing robots?)

  15. Re:Definitely Effect. on Super Scrabble Players Have Unusual Brains · · Score: 2, Informative

    Speaking as a seasoned Scrabble player, I think you mean "definately."

  16. Re:Does carmack still check slashdot? on Carmack On 'Infinite Detail,' Integrated GPUs, and Future Gaming Tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, anyone still around here is obviously a real loser.

  17. Free Surface on Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' · · Score: 2

    I'll be the first to coin "free (as in freedom) surface."

  18. Re:Linux support? on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Then this change is perfect for you. You now have a choice to not purchase streaming while purchasing the disc rentals that you loved in the first place.

  19. Re:Impact on work performance? on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 0

    False. Alcohol doesn't adversely affect short-term performance.

  20. Re:Value? on NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    In what way do manned space missions contribute to "national security?"

  21. Re:How about a second chance? on 'Spam King' Released From Prison, Now Lives In Seattle · · Score: 1

    Or other totally ridiculous stuff.

    The real issue I have with the GP is the idea that spammers are reformed by jail time, but sex offenders aren't.

  22. I live 4 miles from the general epicenter... on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 4.7 and 4.3 were kind of freaky (4.7 especially, as evidenced by some ridiculous 911 calls from the neighboring city of Conway, ~13 miles south). Everything under 4 or so is just noise.

    I just hope science proves it's these injection wells, so I have someone to sue when my house comes crashing down and I'm out the 10% deductible in my earthquake rider.

    All that said, local opinion seems to be that tornadoes are scarier than earthquakes.

  23. Re:The "low" number is misleading. on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you can get by the terrible 3-D excel charts, the numbers are moderately interesting. 72% of the issued amber alerts in 2009 were for parental abductions (Table 9, pg 20), so your conclusion is wrong. See also table 15, pg 29.

    http://www.amberalert.gov/pdfs/09_amber_report.pdf

  24. I blame George Hotz on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    He's directly responsible for these job losses.

  25. I've seen this before... on Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic · · Score: 1