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  1. Re:For the price of ONE MONTH of cable on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 2

    For windows (and soon Linux) use NextPVR with a couple of HDHomerun devices attached to your antenna. Add the Kodi plugin and you have a full DVR with scheduled recordings and live, pause-able TV. Pay $25/year for reliable schedule feeds from Schedules Direct. Total cost $500 for the server, between free and $50 for any client TV, $50 for HDHomerun. $25/year for SD, annual donations to Kodi & NextPVR are my reoccurring costs.

  2. Re: NetBSD and OpenBSD "Not Affected" on Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? And what about your cozy little problem with Linux compatibility you Mormons!

    Mormons are fully Linux compatible. Some of them even use BSD.

  3. Re: Old money dies in the bitcoin world on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Who got it from Larry Niven

  4. Re:Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministr on How Kodi Took Over Piracy (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually the court ruled that hosting the copyrighted content and, while under an injunction, actively emailing out instructions on how to infringe is infringement.
    How to Start an Urban Legend: the Reporting of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Inc.

  5. Re:quality has improved on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I hooked up the old OTA antenna in my attic and get dozens of channels. HDHomerun, NPVR, MCE Buddy, Comskip and Kodi complete the set.

  6. Re:Convert on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Ripping them with the correct tools to make mkv takes 15-20 minutes. Sometimes downloading is easier though.

  7. Re:It's totally life saving! on Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection, Could Be Readily Available By 2018 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Undo bad moderation

  8. Re:Reliability? on There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Archival Blu-rays Disclaimer - I know the patent holders.

  9. Re:Go Nuclear on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo bad mod.

  10. Re:Crashplan on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 0

    +1

  11. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    This is a terrible idea! You just read an article about PR firms editing articles about science & history. Facts are the least democratic things of all!

    Do you want people to vote on science? How many people think Relativity is just E=mc^2? They ignore all the import aspects about it. If there wasn't a maximum speed (speed of light), then kinetic energy (KE=mv^2) would go to infinity and create unlimited energy.

    Do you want people to vote on History? Well, they did, and the Holocaust only killed Jews. The other 5 million killed for handicaps, homosexuality, and others don't count. There were even 3 more genocides in the 20th century alone: Pol Pot's Cambodia (the educated), Serbia (muslims), & Rwanda.

    I don't want popular opinion to warp reality anymore!

    And you even left off the Armenian Genocide.

  12. AT&T is doing it now on Verizon To Pay $25M For Years of 'Mystery Fees' · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just got a refund from AT&T because of an issue like this with my iPhone 4. I turned all data access off (e.g. if I didn't have WIFI access I would get a dialog about cell data being off) and yet I was getting hit for 0.8MB/day while it was off. According to the AT&T person, it is because the iPhone sends out data to see if the data service is available! There are even discussions about it on Apple's site.

  13. Re:Independent studies warranted on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    Or it has do do with the fact that the Federal Government owns 50% or more of the land in red states. For example, the Feds own over 60% of the state of Utah. (Google it if you don't believe me).

  14. Re:Additionally on Frog Resembles X-Men's Wolverine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean like this?
    Males of the species, which grows to about 11 centimetres, also produce long hair-like strands of skin and arteries when they breed.

  15. Re:This worries me on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Correlation does not imply causation. :P

  16. Re:The resurgence of the BSD license? on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    The solution is use BSD for R&D projects that you aren't trying to monetize and don't care if people copy and the GPL for other projects

  17. Re:Holy Shit! on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    I agree! How dare Wired misreport this so badly!

    Unfortunately, it looks like most of Slashdot is swallowing it hook, line, and sinker.

  18. So what? on Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service · · Score: 1

    It's a service, if you don't like it either don't get it or put your tinfoil hat on the phone! I for one would probably use this, at least a little. My children aren't old enough yet, but this would be useful to spot-check on them periodically to be sure that the trust should still be there.

    Also useful in emergencies of course.

  19. Re:It's available? on Sun Says Java Source Already Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    That would be here under the SCSL or here under the JRL. Pick your license. For an explanation, go here. :P

  20. Re:Swing is never finished. on SWT, Swing, or AWT - Which Is Right For You? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Gimme a break! on The Looming Battle Over Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    I agree -- as soon as we get rid of Welfare so I don't have to support all of the idiots who lose all of their money.

  22. Re:One of the coolest PVRs ever built? on Building the Godzilla of PVRs · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never watched Monk on USA.

  23. Re:Silly. on Radio Telescope Has Military Uses? · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the BBC
    ...poll by Oxford Research International was commissioned by the BBC, ABC News and other international media organisations.
    Interviewers found that 71% of those questioned said things were currently very or quite good in their personal lives, while 29% found their lives very or quite bad.
    The BBC News website's World Affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds, says the survey shows a degree of optimism at variance with the usual depiction of the country as one in total chaos.
    The findings are more in line with the kind of arguments currently being deployed by US President George W Bush, he says.

  24. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    of the three female characters I'm personally familiar with, none of them are sexy.

    Well, this is Slashdot. I think that goes without saying.

  25. XP and DMA mode auto-loss on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 2, Informative

    CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can revert to using PIO mode, despite being set to use "DMA if Available." Here's how to make Windows XP redetect the DMA capabilities of the drives.
    This behaviour occurs with the following conditions:

    Windows XP is the operating system
    A CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or sometimes even a HDD, which is known to support DMA mode now works only in PIO mode.
    The drive controller is set to use "DMA if available" but reports to be only in PIO mode.
    Following is the mechanism that has worked for me, please try it at your own risk, it involves hacking the registry:

    Open RegEdit
    Find the following KEY:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\ Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x
    The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, and so on.
    Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values:
    MasterIdDataChecksum
    SlaveIdDataChecksum
    Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings.

    This happens if a device on the bus has been getting periodic errors either because of a hardware problem or because of scratched or copy-protected CDs. XP steps down the DMA to try and stop the errors because it assumes it is a hardware problem.