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To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB
Jason writes "For years there have been stories about people getting their unlimited Verizon EVDO Wireless accounts terminated because of excessive data usage, but Verizon never explicitly said that there is a limit. Now if you dive into the terms of the Unlimited Data Service plan they have put a section in that specifically states that anything over 5GB of data usage in a one month period is considered prima facie evidence that you must be downloading movies, and you will be cut off."
Reminds me of some time ago when I got my first hard drive with "unlimited" capacity... and then accidentally filled it up with 5GB of movies in the first few days of using it.
I vowed next time to get a hard drive with at least twice unlimited capacity.
Optimist: The thumb drive is half empty! Pessimist: The thumb drive is half full...
In Canada just pay .02 cents per kB. What a great deal!
If Bush wants to kill the terrorists, he should jump off a cliff.
* - Bullshit!
"Unlimited", 5 GB means old V lawyers have a 32 bit overflow "feature" in their vocabulary, rounded up, 2^32 = 4294967296. V is also for Verizon.
You'll get in the way of a lot of perfectly good ranting about how corporations suck, Verizon in particular sucks, lawyers suck, and the government sucks for allowing them all to get away with their crimes against humanity. If people don't vent their anger here it will just build up until they snap and finally walk outside. That's the last thing anybody wants.
You hit 120GB a month? Do you remember what the outside looks like?
Paying for movies is so old-fashioned. I don't think people do it any more. If you are downloading more the 5GB then you are definitely a pirate.
But take comfort in the fact that you are helping stop global warming.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Do you remember what the outside looks like?
Of course he does, he's got all these movies of it...
Unlimited is not a term that is ambiguous in any sense. If you can take it to mean anything other tha "without limit" then you aren't speaking English.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Our new car* can drive faster than the speed of sound**, to anywhere on Earth***, and carry as many passengers as you need****!
**** Limit of four passengers
*** Scope of car limited to that part of Earth that includes the city of Detroit and surrounding areas
** Speed limited to 70MPH
* Not a car
If you advertise "Unlimited", and it's not unlimited, you're lying. Putting it in the small print doesn't make you honest, it's an admission of guilt.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
A true geek would write a script to forward all of their e-mails to themselves after 29 days so that the e-mail all remains fresh.
Check out my lame java blog at www.javachopshop.com
No, a true geek would set up something involving standard tag lines, so that people could have the email auto-shunted to certain folders.
/forced/ into providing their promised deal.
It would then allow sign up, and send 1.8GB-1.9GB of email per month distributed evenly over each day.
Make sure verizon is
34486853790
Connection too slow for X forwarding? Try "ssh -CX user@host"
Even better than unlimited - this one goes to 11 !
You get the idea.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the America public." - H. L. Mencken
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
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truthful advertising... that's a good one. it's also an oxymoron, like "political integrity" or "reality television".
sarcasm:
-noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
Yeah we all saw that episode. Was your friends name homer simpson?
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Unlimited could be short for UNbearably LIMITED...
And anyone with gspace installed could easily get past their 5G limit using only email in under a week.
The true geek runs his own mail server.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.