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AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage
etherlad writes "MythBusters' Adam Savage got a bill charging him $11,000 for 'a few hours' of Web surfing while in Canada, using his AT&T USB Mercury modem. AT&T gave him a quote on the data rate: '.015 cents, or a penny and a half, per kb.' Looks like AT&T didn't learn from Verizon's inability to do math. AT&T is also claiming Savage downloaded over 9 GB, which he calls 'frakking impossible.' Savage's huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T."
".015 cents, or a penny and a half"
Let me guess... whichever is larger?
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
lol...I don't think so. I think that everybody knows that myth is BUSTED!
I'm not sure what a crowd of angry MythBusters fans would do, but I'm sure that it would involve large amounts of kinetic energy.
there is no way in hell AT&T would be getting that kind of money out of me! you hear that AT&T?!!
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
IDK MY BFF JILL DOZ MTH 4 ATT
I wish I could have a mass following behind me that I could use to blackmail evil corporations.... Instead, here I am just clicking away at every Microsoft ad I see hoping that it'll eventually rack up some respectable cost to them.
-bitterness, sad face-
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Math? Myth? Meth?
Savage's huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T."
I'm sure the response would have been just as fast if he wasn't famous and wasn't using Twitter. These large companies have professional Human Resource departments to make sure that the customer service experience is good.
Well, *THERE'S* your problem.
Task Mangler
A proper myth should have at least some people believing it's true, although the Mythbusters have been kinda loose with that rule.
Upon seeing the bill I'm sure his first response was, "I reject your reality and replace it with my own!"
This sig is false.
Math busted.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
and this is what I think of her math skillz
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"nobody wants to mess with a man who blows things up for a living."
And what about the myth that Ma'Bell can rape you over a wireless phone connection: CONFIRMED.
It clearly states in the contract that the rates... are subject to change and new rates can be published by AT&T at any time.
I have seen this before - what is it about saying 0.02 cent when you mean 2 cent or 0.02 dollar?
One time in science class, grade 10, we had to do something where we were given some basic info about an object made out of aluminum and the market cost of aluminum. We had to figure out the raw-material cost of the object, assuming no loss during construction. So we had to use our lessons on density and whatnot to figure out the exact mass of the object and then simply multiply by price.
Problem is, most of us screwed up the ".02 cents per gram" (or whatever) part and did .02 dollars, so we were off by a factor of 100.
Class response was... informative. The few observant students who got it looked smug. Some smacked their heads at missing that. A few were severely pissed that they got the question wrong over the one part of the question that had nothing to do with science. One got that part right but botched the density part of the problem. The underachievers were either confused by the whole thing or glad they didn't even try.
And one guy... one guy spent ten minutes arguing with the teacher that .02 dollars and .02 cents were the same thing. Half a blackboard of diagrams later and she gave up trying to explain it.
Now I know where that guy works.
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