Exactly, what's to stop the store from changing the price at the register when the barcode is scanned? Why would banning digital price tags stop that practice?

Not sure why this is an issue, we use non-language specific symbols on many things.

I share your sentiments. Haven't been a regular movie goer for at least 30 years. When I saw Avatar in theater the sound was painfully loud. I wrote letters complaining about it to the theater chain, the distributor and James Cameron's company. Only heard back from the theater chain with a reply that couldn't even get the details of theater where I saw it right. The ticket prices have rise beyond what I care to pay and I can't tolerate large amounts of sugary soda and that fake butter flavored popcorn anymore, the experience is no longer what it was. We used to have three large spacious theaters in the area where I grew up, attending felt like a real experience, and as others have pointed out people were more polite during the movie.

Vintage computer OSes often used telnet for network login access, some people had made vintage systems available for guest access. But beyond that no one should be using telnet for anything else these days.

https://www.scientificamerican...

Exactly. AT&T does that automatically. There were times they reported a possible service interruption for my area and I never even noticed since WiFi calling was available.

Companies are notorious for not recognizing the derived value they get from open source software and recognizing that if they want to keep using them without taking on the burden of self-maintenance, they should pony up some funds to those who are maintaining it. The managers with the ability to spend funds have binders on resulting in vary narrow vision.

Wow, not sure what you are doing to your vacuums, but I've had two that easily lasted over 10 years. My current one is 12 years old.

Exactly, I thought it had died years ago.

It tells me I don't need to bother to change my FHD TV for something else, especially with my aging eyes.

I use a BDXL to backup my ripped music as a fall back to backups on RAID. Probably should update the backup set to make sure my drive is still functional.

Agreed, if the bed can heat to 110 F then that has the potential to do bodily harm. Seems like they failed to define a safe state for the bed.

Sounds like the time some of my coworkers attached a mouse dongle to the docking station of the "victim". Then they'd randomly move the remote mouse from time to time, but not enough to make it obvious. Hopefully the wake phrase is trained to the computer owner only.

My B&W speakers I bought in the 1980s are still working without worrying about when a cloud service will stop. Only had to replace one tweeter speaker when a dog's tennis ball broke the cone.

Meanwhile my Beermkr is useless junk now because the cloud servers have gone away.

Both mice and headsets exist that use Bluetooth, eliminating the need for dongles. Seems like an easy solution if you aren't wedded to using older devices.