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Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz)

Posted by msmash on from the who-doesn't-like-free-downloads? dept.

An anonymous reader cites an amusing article on Stuff: When Telstra offered its mobile customers unlimited data for two separate days this year as compensation for network outages, some customers took it as a challenge to download as much as they possibly could in one day. On Sunday, 27-year-old Sydney resident John Szaszvari outdid himself and everyone else by ploughing through almost a whole terabyte of data. That's more than double what he managed during the first free data day in February -- an already mammoth 425GB.

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  1. This. by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why we can't have nice things.

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    1. Re:This. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is why we can't have nice things.

      You just need to get an ISP with a rigorous electron/photon recycling program.

    2. Re:This. by jittles · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is plenty of bandwidth to go around.

      That depends entirely where you are, and how many people are sharing the same cell tower/sector with you.

      We have no room for your "physics" nonsense around here, buddy. Go back to YouTube with all those ridiculous evolution and other psuedoscience videos. People come to Slashdot to discuss real science. Come back when you've finally learned the earth is flat.

    3. Re:This. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why is it always just when you insult someone that your proof-reading skills disappear into the abyss... Now you just look plain silly, AC. ;)

      Not sure if /. does it or not but on Reddit when someone posts something the admins dislike they can use a "wand" to screw up the grammar in order to make people perceive them as idiots.

  2. Re: Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    4K porn should die. The lower resolutions smoothed out those little skin imperfections. Now every wrinkle is a canyon. And 60 fps? What's wrong with Reverse Cowgirl Anal at 30 fps?

  3. 994GB of Horse Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    994GB.

    neigh!

  4. Re:Begs the question... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    His job is posting pro Msft comments on Slashdot...

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  5. Japanese Man eats 59 hotdogs in one day by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 4, Funny

    World amazed by new record.

    "I never thought he would do it," said one spectator.

    "I came here thinking I would win, and then this happened," said a contestant, followed by several expletives.

    "You've gotta respect that," explained one of the judges.

    "I agree. This is big important news," said a Slashdot editor.

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  6. Re:It is called Pareto principle by VorpalRodent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr Vilfredo Pareto discovered this phenomena 120 years ago.

    This was all the more impressive considering the limited 4G coverage at the time.

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