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  1. That's more-or-less my use case too; I don't use much data out of wi-fi areas, so my bill (two phones, each with a GB of data) runs about $55. It's a lot less than I was paying for att (90+ bucks for two phones plus 6 GB take-or-pay that I never used all of but once). Perhaps everyone else is doing better? The magic for me is that I only pay for the cellular data I use. No complex roll-over schemes; If I don't use that 1 GB, they give me the money back on the next bill (penny a MB). If I use more, it's still at that 10 bucks per GB rate. The support, which I've used a couple of times now, is first-rate ... after the big two (U.S.: Verizon and AT&T), it's somewhere between refreshing and just weird.

  2. May I suggest ... on Second Time In 9 Months: AT&T Raises Phone Activation Fee $5, Now Charges $25 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google's project fi? Just pay for the data used, penny a meg, 20 bucks for unlimited voice/text. Not associated except as a fairly new customer ... Liking it so far.

  3. Re:The American version... on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1
    Actually, in Oregon, using unemployment to start a business is not only legal, it's encouraged. For those too lazy to click :-)

    If you participate in the SEA program you won't have work search requirements while claiming benefits. You can receive business start-up counseling and advice from Oregonâ(TM)s Small Business Development Center Network (SBDC) free of charge. *Classes and books are at cost to the participant, no training funds are available at this time. If you make money from your private enterprise, you keep the proceeds and still get your full weekly benefit payment. People come to the program in all states of readiness to do business, so we donâ(TM)t require applicants to wait for a class to start etc. When you are accepted in to the program is when you start.

  4. Re:a job guarantee would be a better solution on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    We could call it the WPA.

  5. Appears we're looking at the unholy spawn of ransom-ware and multi-level-marketing. Fetch holy water and an axe.

  6. Report 12323a: "Instead of personal effects, luggage contained bobcat. Would not inform again ...

  7. Not regulated ... on Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    A couple of minutes spent with Google suggests that, contrary to my knee-jerk reaction, these would probably not be subject to regulation (see section three of this. Wording for the product blurb, in conjunction with that fda document, suggest that they're thought this through :-)

  8. Greener than you Think on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    A great SF on more-or-less this theme: Greener than you Think. The protagonist's fecklessness rivals Ignatius J. Reilly.

  9. APress as well on O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% (oreilly.com) · · Score: 2

    APress does discounts annually for cyber-Monday as well ... 10 bucks per e-book, 12.50 for paper. Makes a fellow all gluttonous ...

  10. Um, dude, having a working cell phone in a SCIF? Might not be a big f*cking deal where *you* come from ...

  11. Typo in summary on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    According to a new study reported by The Wall Street Journal ...

    You probably meant to type "According to a new study reported by a fox-media-pwned newspaper ..."

  12. Re:I think we should do this on Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  13. This! Pushing electronic voting is inexplicable unless you're either in sales for voting machines or want riggable elections. And if it's the latter, better hope you're the only party interested in doing the rigging. I'm a big fan, btw, of broken-arrow ballots

  14. Re:Overwhelmed ... on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The odds, as I discovered to my delight later, were really poor. There was lots of good, informative discussion about the tech (like why a sand-pit was a bad alternative, for example). Thank you, Slashdot-ers!

  15. Overwhelmed ... on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Overwhelmed by the design of everyday things. Engineering marvels everywhere, everyone enriched thereby.
    What are the odds that this is the only politically neutral post in this thread?

  16. If you're not paying for the product ... on AT&T CEO: DirecTV Now Streaming Service Will Cost $35 a Month (variety.com) · · Score: 1
    If you're not paying for the product, *you're* the product, so goes the common wisdom. However ...

    AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal

    ... there's nothing to say that you can't pay *and* be the product. Your choice of viewing is just more grist for AT&T's info-mill

    As an aside, is it just barely possible that the TimeWarnerAT&T corporate name might be TWATT(tm)? Pleeeez?

  17. Re:TLD not copywrite protected on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No no no! Copy on write should give just enough protection, without demanding unnecessary extra space. That's surely what is meant here ...

  18. Re:Need more unions and workers rights! on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, almost no one waits to have a child or children when they can afford to, if you factor in misfortune. I certainly couldn't have coasted through the rest of my kid's upbringing if I'd become unemployable shortly after his birth, and/or had a sick enough kid to require a million or two in medical care. Are you yourself so breathtakingly well off that you could have done that? If so, kudos (and small wonder at your remarkable lack of empathy), but I predict a pretty precipitous population drop if everyone were do be held to your (perfect, morally upright) standards.

  19. Re:surprising lack of coverage on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact you finished your statement with "GTF of my lawn" is really kind of ironic.

    Ha! That was completely unintentional ... like much of my best work :-) The film did not show here taking part, btw. And it did show (metaphorical) Pinkertons setting dogs loose on the protesters. Ms. Goodman does have a point of view, so this is very different from, say, a Fair and Balanced(tm) journalist covering the same issues (were they to do so).

  20. Re:surprising lack of coverage on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't ordinarily reply (a/c and all), but your use of the exclamation point and your super-mad skillz at google moved me. Try this: site:cnn.com "amy goodman", and show me all that stuff you've found posted in, say, the last week (since this story took its current shape). So: Nonsense! back atcha

  21. surprising lack of coverage on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The large-media coverage on this has been near nonexistent. NYTimes is carrying one AP wire story about it, but no editorial comment. CNN has literally *nothing*. This has been news for weeks (thought the charges were changed from trespassing (after it seemed hard to make that stick) to rioting). Rolling Stone had been reporting on it, but really? Why do I have to get important political news from a music mag (or from, say, a tech website)? Why do I hear so much more about Trumps hand size and sexual escapades than I do about obstruction of freedom of the press? I mean, yeah, I know why, really (a generation fed on intellectual pap); just whining, I guess. Now GTF off my lawn, 'k?

  22. A portable, directional EMP device cannot come soon enough.

  23. PT Barnum disagrees ...

  24. ... and it is us. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug ...

  25. Wow, that's a lot of marketing-speak for a technical analysis. Funny my ad-blocker missed this one ...