Bandwidth Caps Are Evil

May 29, 2009

I have no pity for those who cap bandwidth. It’s the norm in Europe, but intolerable here in the United States. A few companies here have been considering bandwidth caps for their users, but the public has opposed it so violently that they scrapped all of their capping plans — for now. A small, local [...]

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Google Reader: Amazing

May 23, 2009

RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) is a kind of news feed created so that users could have more simplified access to their news. Most blogs, news organizations, and websites that are updated frequently contain RSS (or Atom, another kind of news syndication) feeds. RSS feeds are also referred to as live bookmarks in Firefox. Basically, Firefox’s [...]

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Verizon: Money > Life

May 22, 2009

“A 62-year-old man had a mental breakdown and ran off after grabbing several bottles of pills from his house. The cops asked Verizon to help trace the man using his cellphone, but Verizon refused, saying that they couldn’t turn on his phone because he had an unpaid bill for $20. After an 11-hour search (during [...]

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