Are they? They seemed pretty firm about only providing digital starting in 2014.

How is it a scam? I can see calling them a taxi company without proper licensing, but they're providing a service people want, not scamming them out of money.

I'd throw that in the "DRM on the movie breaks"

There might be some places showing old films, but at least the big studios have stopped production entirely on 35mm starting this year.

They just ended mass film production so it's pretty much all digital these days. Someone just presses start (or it's programmed to start at the appropriate time). Nothing to go wrong unless the lamp blows or the DRM on the movie breaks.

That's probably a side effect of having a modem/router/wifi hybrid since DOCSIS(?) certification requires they prevent the user from tampering with settings, so in order for it to be configurable, you need to tell the ISP what settings you want and the ISP can set them with SNMP

Power over coax to ethernet? I don't think Comcast runs plain ethernet to anyone since the signal would degrade pretty fast.

Because it's IMPOSSIBLE for a company to have customers other than its primary revenue stream. Even if you sell products to your other products and provide support to your products and ask your products for feedback to make your products better for your other products. Or something like that.

Want to guess how I know that you didn't RTFA? The main article even has a photo of him!

On the overall ranking, Hitler is ranked #5 after Carl Linnaeus, Jesus, Aristotle, and Napoleon
For the 2DRank (places emphasis on outgoing links as well as incoming) he's #1

So basically you're saying you didn't understand the basic premise or the article.

I can easily navigate home and find a pizza shop normally too, but when I want a navigation system to get home I'm often somewhere where I DON'T know the best route. I might be able to drive back, but if it's a multi-leg trip or through areas without 2-way streets then it doesn't help. Nav systems for normal driving are most useful for when they can route around traffic, since they know more than I can in that situation. Which of the three routes should I take to get home? A couple clicks on the nav system and I'm on my way.

Generally the FCC has to reply to all unique letters, so the boilerplate "click here to email the FCC" forms all count as one that they have to reply to.

And just think if the poll winner starts appearing on normal /. but not on beta!

Intelligence is useless if you can't search for useful information within it. Search and intelligence go hand in hand.

Well the thumbnail shows a "robot" - the type you might see in a 1960's sitcom. There's nothing specifically robotic about anything in this apart from that image.

There could be a use as a basic 3D printer, though it seems like it'd be a bit limited.

Just write it off at MIT hype.

The contract also required it to be commented. Unfortunately the expert only got part way though that before reaching the deadline.