Why offer that much throughput then complain when people actually make good use of it.
If you want people to buy business lines, make it competitive with your home accounts.
perhaps you didn't read the summary. He has a 300Mbps/65Mbps plan (300 megabit/65megabit = 37.5 megabyte/8 megabyte). He used 77 terabytes in a month. Most people only has 1 to 4 terabyte hard drives in their home computers. He used 77 terabytes. That would fill the entire hard drive of the average home computer about 50 times, and he did that in a month. Excessive much? Yes.
According to Math, 37.5 megabytes a second is 3.2 terabytes a day, so he had to be running full bandwidth for 24 days straight. Pretty sure all of our ISPs would be calling us if they noticed we were downloading at full speed for 24 days straight.
You must have been a really boring kid, we did a lot of things a **LOT** worse than this, and those of us who were caught got suspended for a couple of days. Of course we were white kids in a small town (and that house didn't burn down) so of course there was no public outcry.
things were different back in the day before kids started killing 20 kids at school and bringing actual bombs to school.
World has changed, it's not the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s anymore. After Columbine and 9/11 shit got real. Can't just set off bombs in public places and expect police not to show an interest.
Yes it's illegal, but they were hoping no one would notice. AT&T is not going to like what the FTC does to them when they finally get off their butts and do what taxpayers pay them to do. I'm sure the US Govt would love an extra half billion in "fines".
Isn't everything considered "an unauthorized science experiment"?
"No officer I was not speeding, I was conducting an unauthorized science experiment on acceleration!"
"No your honor I did not stab a person, I was conducting an unauthorized science experiment on human anatomy!"
etc, etc. This teen could have very easily hurt herself and others, and if she did the school would have been sued for millions for allowing her to conduct "an unauthorized science experiment".
I'm glad she was expelled and I'm glad the police investigated. Don't think she should go to jail forever but this is serious, not a joke, and should have serious consequences. If you wanna do dumb things, do it at home, blow things up in your backyard, set the kitchen on fire, I don't care, just don't do it at school, the mall, etc.
Or should we send every teen who blows something up at school to space camp?
AMD/Nvidia/inbreadkitty comes out with faster, more expensive video card, News at 10. This happens yearly, why is this on/.? I understand being on the hardware websites, but not here
Doesn't matter, he has no money to fight his own legal battles, much less go after google. And wasn't he arrested for having a website that encouraged stealing movies? Ironic he's now upset people are "stealing his patent" (quotes because he hasn't proven anything in court yet)
Using drones for delivery is not a new idea at all, problem is no one has the money to spend on something that will not make a profit. Other drone delivery systems are at least using them to deliver beer or newspapers or other things, and if a disaster struck I suppose they could be used to deliver water instead of beer
https://www.google.com/search?q=drone+delivery
It's not bullshit, it's been well known since the 80s that consoles can do more than PCs because they are locked down boxes with the exact same specs rather than trying to test a game on dozens of CPUs and GPUs and just making it "good enough" to work on the average CPU and GPU. That's the problem with PCs, you can make a beautiful looking game that runs on only the latest $600 video card and looks like a slid show on $100 cards or you can make an average looking game that runs on $100 video cards but you can't have it both ways, and since they wanna sell as many copies of the game as possible which one do you think they're going to do?
If a dollar a week is too much than by all means don't buy ANY console. The two real advantages of the new Xbox One is the Kinect 2.0 was designed with the system so all games will be compatible and the fact that the Xbox One is NOT backwards compatible so all games are original Xbox One titles designed to work with the new Kinect. The new Kinect and requiring Xbox One games could be the game changer that can kill the Wii U's interactivity and PS4's graphic advantage. I don't own a xbox 360 but I might buy a xbox one depending on the titles. I'd love to see a fitness trainer game that could watch and adjust if the workout is too hard or easy for the user and respond accordingly in real-time with additional coaching or changing the program.
I have calibrated and help set up a laser trap for some biophysics research. doesn't mean I invented the laser trap.
That's my point, article said she did invent it: "Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds"
No where in the article does it mention a team of doctors invented actually invented it, they did the work, they did the calculations, they did the experiments and research. Her contribution was little to none. Giving her credit is like the janitor at Google getting credit for the latest Google accomplishment.
Ok did the research, she "invented" the wheel, they have been using this method since at least 2007. Her method uses "a novel core-shell nanorod electrode with hydrogenated TiO2 (H-TiO2) core and polyaniline shell. H-TiO2 acts as the double layer electrostatic core. " http://www.usc.edu/CSSF//History/2013/Projects/S0912.pdf
Not so novel: "Incorporating the utilization of carbon nanotubes cathode and TiO2 nanotubes anode in energy storage, a nonaqueous hybrid supercapacitor was developed in order to significantly increase the energy density of the supercapacitor." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18019169/
Also dr yat li which she claims was "supervising" her seems to think he invented it a year ago without her help. Notice his name is on this article with other doctors but her name is missing: "Hydrogenated TiO2 Nanotube Arrays for Supercapacitors" http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl300173j
She basically did a chemistry experiment that had already been done and published, she invented nothing
Surprised none of the top comments mentioned that this seems like complete BS. Greatest minds from Samsung, Apple, and every electric car company can't figure this out, but a 18 year old did, and she didnt demonstrate it running something useful like a smartphone or tablet, she demonstrates it working on a single LED that runs for days on a battery anyway, and the article is horribly light on details. Surprised this even made it on/. since it sounds like a April fool's joke or something from the onion: "teenager creates invention dozens of billion dollar companies have been researching for decades"
Roomba is right. They've been predicting robots taking over since the 70s. Remember all those robot articles in popular science back then? And what do we have now, 30+ years later? Roomba. Nothing has changed. Only place that has robots are factories and they're still millions of dollars. Robots might be great at moving items or going to an exact point and welding, but it will be many years before they get cheap and smart enough to think and react on their own to any situation. We can't even make SPAM filters that work perfectly and that's far simpler than building an iPhone. When most cars sold are self-driving then I will worry about robots taking over, but last I checked self driving cars aren't even for sale and google has been working on their's since 2005 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
Ya because you have to plug your iphone in constantly. I've disabled this and iTunes doesn't pop up when I plug in the iPhone. Only reason I ever plug in the phone is to take photos and videos off of it. Other than that there's no need to plug it in to the PC, everything backups up wirelessly or to the cloud automatically.
I find that hard to believe. I've owned one of these cheap chinese tablets, and the only thing it ran was a browser and even that was slow. Very few apps ran fast enough to be useable, and the only games that worked were 10+ years old like bejeweled. So while some people might buy these cheap tablets to "try out a tablet", it won't be long before they're throwing it across the room in frustration and wishing they just bought an ipad
Because we wanted cheaper solar, so when facts came out that the chinese was stealing the tech and selling it for nothing everyone cheered, except the US solar manufactures. Harley is a household name, we didnt wanna be riding Gofastlongtim bikes, so the US govt put a stop to that
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Why offer that much throughput then complain when people actually make good use of it.
If you want people to buy business lines, make it competitive with your home accounts.
perhaps you didn't read the summary. He has a 300Mbps/65Mbps plan (300 megabit/65megabit = 37.5 megabyte/8 megabyte). He used 77 terabytes in a month. Most people only has 1 to 4 terabyte hard drives in their home computers. He used 77 terabytes. That would fill the entire hard drive of the average home computer about 50 times, and he did that in a month. Excessive much? Yes.
According to Math, 37.5 megabytes a second is 3.2 terabytes a day, so he had to be running full bandwidth for 24 days straight. Pretty sure all of our ISPs would be calling us if they noticed we were downloading at full speed for 24 days straight.
You must have been a really boring kid, we did a lot of things a **LOT** worse than this, and those of us who were caught got suspended for a couple of days. Of course we were white kids in a small town (and that house didn't burn down) so of course there was no public outcry.
things were different back in the day before kids started killing 20 kids at school and bringing actual bombs to school.
World has changed, it's not the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s anymore. After Columbine and 9/11 shit got real. Can't just set off bombs in public places and expect police not to show an interest.
Like I said, I think the punishment fit the crime, we don't need every student setting bombs off at school and calling them "unauthorized science experiment". And I love how they said "she's a honor roll student", as if that means getting a good grade means the rules don't apply? And yes, setting off bombs is actually prohibited in the rules: "Section 7.05 of the school's conduct code, Lauderdale says, which mandates expulsion for any "student in possession of a bomb (or) explosive device... while at a school (or) a school-sponsored activity... unless the material or device is being used as part of a legitimate school-related activity or science project conducted under the supervision of an instructor."
Wow. What a textbook example of a concern troll.
And what a textbook example of a troll: "Anyone who disagrees with you is not a troll. Seriously."
"derailing a thread: A common result of a troll attempting to have fun at the expense of people actually trying to use the forum."
Yes it's illegal, but they were hoping no one would notice. AT&T is not going to like what the FTC does to them when they finally get off their butts and do what taxpayers pay them to do. I'm sure the US Govt would love an extra half billion in "fines".
Isn't everything considered "an unauthorized science experiment"?
"No officer I was not speeding, I was conducting an unauthorized science experiment on acceleration!"
"No your honor I did not stab a person, I was conducting an unauthorized science experiment on human anatomy!"
etc, etc. This teen could have very easily hurt herself and others, and if she did the school would have been sued for millions for allowing her to conduct "an unauthorized science experiment".
I'm glad she was expelled and I'm glad the police investigated. Don't think she should go to jail forever but this is serious, not a joke, and should have serious consequences. If you wanna do dumb things, do it at home, blow things up in your backyard, set the kitchen on fire, I don't care, just don't do it at school, the mall, etc.
Or should we send every teen who blows something up at school to space camp?
If anyone wants to see what one of these look like click here, it's easy to see why someone would think this is a bomb with the loud bang and good amount of smoke.
What is not considered a "unauthorized science experiment"? Doesn't that cover pretty much anything someone could do?
AMD/Nvidia/inbreadkitty comes out with faster, more expensive video card, News at 10. This happens yearly, why is this on /.? I understand being on the hardware websites, but not here
Same in most major US cities. But people have to have a place to live but they don't have to play video games. If its too much, don't buy it
Doesn't matter, he has no money to fight his own legal battles, much less go after google. And wasn't he arrested for having a website that encouraged stealing movies? Ironic he's now upset people are "stealing his patent" (quotes because he hasn't proven anything in court yet)
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Using drones for delivery is not a new idea at all, problem is no one has the money to spend on something that will not make a profit. Other drone delivery systems are at least using them to deliver beer or newspapers or other things, and if a disaster struck I suppose they could be used to deliver water instead of beer https://www.google.com/search?q=drone+delivery
It's not bullshit, it's been well known since the 80s that consoles can do more than PCs because they are locked down boxes with the exact same specs rather than trying to test a game on dozens of CPUs and GPUs and just making it "good enough" to work on the average CPU and GPU. That's the problem with PCs, you can make a beautiful looking game that runs on only the latest $600 video card and looks like a slid show on $100 cards or you can make an average looking game that runs on $100 video cards but you can't have it both ways, and since they wanna sell as many copies of the game as possible which one do you think they're going to do?
If a dollar a week is too much than by all means don't buy ANY console. The two real advantages of the new Xbox One is the Kinect 2.0 was designed with the system so all games will be compatible and the fact that the Xbox One is NOT backwards compatible so all games are original Xbox One titles designed to work with the new Kinect. The new Kinect and requiring Xbox One games could be the game changer that can kill the Wii U's interactivity and PS4's graphic advantage. I don't own a xbox 360 but I might buy a xbox one depending on the titles. I'd love to see a fitness trainer game that could watch and adjust if the workout is too hard or easy for the user and respond accordingly in real-time with additional coaching or changing the program.
I have calibrated and help set up a laser trap for some biophysics research. doesn't mean I invented the laser trap.
That's my point, article said she did invent it: "Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds"
No where in the article does it mention a team of doctors invented actually invented it, they did the work, they did the calculations, they did the experiments and research. Her contribution was little to none. Giving her credit is like the janitor at Google getting credit for the latest Google accomplishment.
diatomaceous earth will kill any crawling insect and it's so safe you can eat handfuls of it and buckets of the stuff are only about $25, it's used to filter swimming pool water
http://lifehacker.com/5835163/kill-bugs-with-diatomaceous-earth
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Ok did the research, she "invented" the wheel, they have been using this method since at least 2007. Her method uses "a novel core-shell nanorod electrode with hydrogenated TiO2 (H-TiO2) core and polyaniline shell. H-TiO2 acts as the double layer electrostatic core. "
http://www.usc.edu/CSSF//History/2013/Projects/S0912.pdf
Not so novel: "Incorporating the utilization of carbon nanotubes cathode and TiO2 nanotubes anode in energy storage, a nonaqueous hybrid supercapacitor was developed in order to significantly increase the energy density of the supercapacitor."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18019169/
Also dr yat li which she claims was "supervising" her seems to think he invented it a year ago without her help. Notice his name is on this article with other doctors but her name is missing: "Hydrogenated TiO2 Nanotube Arrays for Supercapacitors"
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl300173j
She basically did a chemistry experiment that had already been done and published, she invented nothing
Surprised none of the top comments mentioned that this seems like complete BS. Greatest minds from Samsung, Apple, and every electric car company can't figure this out, but a 18 year old did, and she didnt demonstrate it running something useful like a smartphone or tablet, she demonstrates it working on a single LED that runs for days on a battery anyway, and the article is horribly light on details. Surprised this even made it on /. since it sounds like a April fool's joke or something from the onion: "teenager creates invention dozens of billion dollar companies have been researching for decades"
Roomba is right. They've been predicting robots taking over since the 70s. Remember all those robot articles in popular science back then? And what do we have now, 30+ years later? Roomba. Nothing has changed. Only place that has robots are factories and they're still millions of dollars. Robots might be great at moving items or going to an exact point and welding, but it will be many years before they get cheap and smart enough to think and react on their own to any situation. We can't even make SPAM filters that work perfectly and that's far simpler than building an iPhone. When most cars sold are self-driving then I will worry about robots taking over, but last I checked self driving cars aren't even for sale and google has been working on their's since 2005 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
This. iTunes is worthless. iPhone will backup wirelessly to the PC, no need for a physical connection.
Ya because you have to plug your iphone in constantly. I've disabled this and iTunes doesn't pop up when I plug in the iPhone. Only reason I ever plug in the phone is to take photos and videos off of it. Other than that there's no need to plug it in to the PC, everything backups up wirelessly or to the cloud automatically.
The whole "OMG cheap guns for criminals" angle is pure FUD.
For now. Tech will get better, faster, cheaper, always.
still better, faster, cheaper to go buy a metal pipe at home depot and build a gun for $20
I find that hard to believe. I've owned one of these cheap chinese tablets, and the only thing it ran was a browser and even that was slow. Very few apps ran fast enough to be useable, and the only games that worked were 10+ years old like bejeweled. So while some people might buy these cheap tablets to "try out a tablet", it won't be long before they're throwing it across the room in frustration and wishing they just bought an ipad
Because we wanted cheaper solar, so when facts came out that the chinese was stealing the tech and selling it for nothing everyone cheered, except the US solar manufactures. Harley is a household name, we didnt wanna be riding Gofastlongtim bikes, so the US govt put a stop to that
I'd like to hear the answers to those questions too, and if I had mod points you would have all of them
Entire article is false, EPA changed the testing in 2008. Since 2008 they test mpg up to 80mph and accelerate at 8.5 miles per second, roughly 0-60 in 7 second