Washington DC's Metro has had ATC, the precursor to this technology, since day one, which is March 27, 1976.
The staff that is on the trains are called "operators" and under normal operations just provide for passenger safety by closing the doors and emergency stopping of trains.

This is a super-old story. The only thing new is that Eaton got involved.

The Volt is an electric car with a generator. The gasoline engine generates electricity to run the electric part of the car.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that all of today's hybrids are just regular, conventional cars with really big starter motors inside them. I'm looking in your direction, Toyota.

The Volt is an electric car with a generator. The gasoline engine generates electricity to run the electric part of the car. It's just like a modern locomotive.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that all of today's hybrids are just regular, conventional cars with really big starter motors inside them hooked to really big batteries.
That's lame.
I'm looking in your direction, Toyota.

Funny, this recently bankrupt company already has another satellite up there doing nothing since 2001.

Striker, the Atom is Core 2 Solo architecture which is derived from the version of Celeron M used in this EEE. Not sure why you say it is not out-of-order since it translates the CISC into RISC internally which is nearly always out-of-order. Since it does not ship in 900 MHz so that is another good confirmation that the EEE is not Atom.

How can you know it's not mis-identifying the processor?
ATOM is an evolution from the Celeron M.

Do you actually have the CPUID string?

Supposedly, the way they have done it, is on the single-tuner units when the unit is recording, the TV output that is doing the recording is not allowed to fast forward or rewind the currently-recording program.

On the dual-tuner units the device acts as if you are using the OTHER tuner. They have this concept of Dual-view and Single-view modes. In Dual-view there are two separate tuners for two separate rooms on one box. In Single-view it uses the "unused" tuner for the recording and the "primary" tuner for live programming.

This means that the the tuner is not doing any recording on the active television you are using, and you can thus watch recorded programming and live programming on the OTHER tuner, technically not violating the patent.

It's cheesy and I'm not sure if it will legally work but that is what Echostar is doing.

Perhaps this cheesy solution gives them leeway for a smaller licensing fee.

You can't buy a DVR today from Echostar that doesn't have two tuners AND two outputs on it, either, and the cost of enabling the second tuner is included in the DVR monthly fee so it's a no-cost option and it technically doesn't violate TiVo's patent anymore, so Echostar says.

Hope that helps.

Supposedly, the way they have done it, is on the single-tuner units when the unit is recording, the TV output that is doing the recording is not allowed to fast forward or rewind the currently-recording program.

On the dual-tuner units the device acts as if you are using the OTHER tuner. They have this concept of Dual-view and Single-view modes. In Dual-view there are two separate tuners for two separate rooms on one box. In Single-view it uses the "unused" tuner for the recording and the "primary" tuner for live programming.

This means that the the tuner is not doing any recording on the active television you are using, and you can thus watch recorded programming and live programming on the OTHER tuner, technically not violating the patent.

It's cheesy and I'm not sure if it will legally work but that is what Echostar is doing.

Perhaps this cheesy solution gives them leeway for a smaller licensing fee.

You can't buy a DVR today from Echostar that doesn't have two tuners AND two outputs on it, either, and the cost of enabling the second tuner is included in the DVR monthly fee so it's a no-cost option and it technically doesn't violate TiVo's patent anymore, so Echostar says.

Hope that helps.

This does not mean the DiSH DVR goes away.
In fact all DiSH DVRs that are working now, including the oldest ones, were updated automatically last year to remove the infringing technology from them.

Nobody today uses a DiSH Network DVR that uses any of the TiVo IP-infringing technology on it.

Move along, no consumer concerns here.