Wheel, fire, bow + arrow, animal-drawn tractors —

+1 for Animal house reference!

As a native New Yorker, this makes me very happy. It's nice to know that we don't always represent the "bad rap" that's normally affiliated with a "New Yorker."

Lockinfo? Mobile Notifier? Bite SMS? Etc etc etc?

Umm.. that's not a SuperSoaker. That's a measley squirt gun. I would have like to see the Dad shoot him with this:

Amazing. I award you +1 Internetz

How are you not starred yet?!

+1 point for stream-of-consciousness writing and not giving a damn about spelling

Customers should call their local congressmen, representatives, etc. and petition for change. In fact, we should SEE petitions. Customers need to band together and get these points down on paper. The faster this is done, the less likely the cable companies are to develop new ideas to screw us.

@Cray0n Sorry, I did not want to approve your comment. Everyone makes mistakes. However, when you're an editor/writer/etc. of a blog (and in this case, an article that has already received 15,245 views as of this posting), then it behooves me to think that one does not have 10-15 minutes to proofread one's article.

Eww - Canon.

...and is in-line with the writer's writing style and tone of the article. If he wished to be consistent, then my suggestion is still correct.

It's accepted either way. Except that the method put-forth by the Times and WSJ supports financial motives . . .

Lol — I approve!

Technically, while the overall company is classified as "news media," Gizmodo is a blog. Gizmodo does not need to adhere to a higher standard of journalistic-composure, so I never take it as such. Yet, there are times where articles are just blatantly published without proofreading that my eyes hurt after reading…

Yes, except DARPA refers to themselves as such:

I agree - a copy editor would be tremendous. However, a little proofreading would go a long way as well . . .

Lol, no?