MythTV works for me. It already eats the commercials from the recorded shows, and with simple scripts, I can encode old Star Trek shows onto my iPhone. If you haven't used it recently, I suggest taking a look. MythTV.

I read this as "Soul Plane to make Public Debut."

Huh? Carbon isn't a profit center, it's a cost center: you pay for it.

It still amazes me that there is so much of this material being dumped and vented into the atmosphere. Why isn't CO2 a raw material, instead of a waste material? Don't people need dry ice, or beer-making supplies? Will this change when we have industrial-scale fullerine fabs?

Yeah, but no one wants to be the loony scientist who goes UFO hunting.

I want to be paid to go UFO hunting. This sounds like a fun job. Contact me if you're hiring.

Put them on Ritalin if they are bored in class.

This is a pretty stupid idea. I had four years of long division in grade school. That was the entirety of my math education. I'll tell you, no matter how many times you do long division, you won't get any better at it. This made me bored beyond anything I can be bothered to articulate. Did Ritalin help me? Sure, but it didn't help me to not be bored at school. The schools don't have to be entertaining like television, but if they teach something, and the students know what it is, MOVE THE FUCK ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. Some people posting here on Slashdot have had good scholastic educational experiences, and I think this is great. Almost my entire scholastic experience was child-storage, grade-school to high-school. I get very angry when I think about it now, all that time I could have been working in a factory, or doing something of value instead of sitting there bored out of my fucking skull learning about long division, and obscure battles few people care about.

What exactly is wrong with reporting a crime that your neighbor did?

What's wrong with reporting a crime that your [boss|teacher|brother|parent|child] did?

...watch your view counter spin like Orwell in his grave.

You may need to gear it down and use a tachometer. I understand he's starting to fly apart in there.

I've been wanting to put a camera in my car, and record people driving like drunken morons during my commute. I'd love to have a forum to post this kinda stuff, and even better if the police do something about it. Bug reports for the neighborhood. People need to be shamed into driving better. Or shot.

I heard a Smashing Pumpkins tune used to sell cars yesterday. Lots of old hippie anthems are now used in car commercials and ads for Viagra, etc. It seems to me that few marketers using some of these songs are familiar with the underlying themes. Songs about heroin use used to advertise birth control, et al.

Thanks. Now I imagine James singing about Free Credit Report Dot Com with his pirate hat, and Lars behind him listening to the music he pirated on his iPod.

That's a long way away from the kill 'em all days. It is very sad.

Hmm... Can monkeys get /. accounts? :-)

Score: 0 Redundant

They don't work, and you have to travel to some fly-over state in order to pick it up. Then you have to transport it. Floating things are probably about as annoying an a jeep, especially if the useful equipment and parts have already been stripped from the unit.

Still, if you pay attention, some of these disposals are useful. They have real estate, missile silos, airports in nowhere, etc.

There are battleships for sale also. $15 jeeps, old broken trucks -- the government tries to sell whatever it can. I used to visit a computer junkyard, and they'd buy tractor-trailors full of decommissioned computing equipment. We got all kinds of neat toys from there, including some pretty standard usable stuff. What I want, is to buy the SS Consoleeza Rice, and park it in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and live there. However, anything that is large enough and floats should be okay.

Is this porn for the security researcher? I guess I should RTFA.

The guy is a public figure with a public job. Give him a public cell phone.