The more they say it... The more they believe it... This is why political parties and interest groups "own" news organizations (indirectly)
The nice lady on the morning news had been saying X for 3 months... She even read the cue cards stating supporting "facts" supplied by interested parties... It must be true, I don't need to research it...
Not to mention... If you want to stream a 4K Show over Hulu or Netflix, you'd hit your AT&T or cable provider's MONTHLY bandwidth cap in ~5 MINUTES. (variable, depends on compression, cap, buffering, throughput, etc.)..
Reminds me of LTE, Verizon Wireless is quick to point out you can download from them at over 50Mb/sec.. they wont tell you that after 60 seconds your phone bill is now $600
I don't see a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for Canada
Also, it's difficult to charge government organizations for a felony... Its even more so difficult to charge a law enforcement official of doing any wrongdoing unless there's a 100:1 outcry against the officer, and it's on tape, and the officer loses support from his peers.
If i send you an e-mail @hggdfshjd.org, how do i know your storage or e-mail handling policy?
E-mail has no reasonable expectation of privacy or secrecy. If anything, it is nowadays considered standard that your e-mail will be stored for at least 30 days, or until deleted. Unless you send an e-mail to a government address, then it's longer depending on the branch/locality/etc... or if it's to someone in the financial industry.. then it's saved even if it's deleted (until requested by a probe, then it's deleted)... My point is, everyone has a different policy, and no e-mail between two people can be ensured privacy and secrecy on unencrypted messages. when going between two distant servers
Also, when the message does arrive, regardless of service, the message will also be scanned by a junkmail filter. It will also, likely, be parsed by the recipients mail filter setting, and also by their anti-virus, anti-phising, and other anti-whatever systems. What makes Gmail's system different? If i submit a message to my ISP as junk, I'm releasing your e-mail to a 3rd party without your consent, and half a dozen machines will read it, process it, and act on it.
If we block recipient mail systems from "automated-reading" of messages, we effectively make it illegal to filter ALL junk, spam, and phising protections. With the track record of poorly-worded laws we've had, I'd rather assume privacy/secrecy risks myself with encryption, than allow judges, lawyers, and elected officials choose the wording.
Midleading Advertisements CAN be countered by fine print.
Nearly every commercial that mentions a percentage or dollar figure will have a star(*).. and either a 1/16th inch print paragraph will follow(for tv), or one of the 100 fastest talkers in the world will chime in (saying the paragraph in 5 seconds)
Both of which, while 100% unintelligible to 99% of the population, are legal defenses in court.
And there's more ways they can get around misleading advertising. My favorite is the "I think/I Feel/I Like".... No star needed.. 99% free reign*... Man: "Crime is on the rise, you owe it to yourself and your family to protect them." Woman: "I feel safer now that I bought my pet USB Rock":-) (99% free reign has minor limits, it cant break OTHER laws.. like claiming to cure a disease -- but it can: "I feel it helped me fight (disease)")
What about my freedom to go 200kph down a highway that's limited to 80 kph?
what about my rights?
so what if my right to speed infringes on another persons right to live, as i cut them off, or force them off the road, or force them to apply the breaks and then get rear-ended, or I ____ up and collide with someone else.. well.. It's still my freedom to kill other people through my reckless actions on a publicly paid for roadway...
I would argue the media organizations have overblown the terrorism angle so they can have 24/7 terror news coverage. Just yesterday with the spanish train derailment the radio broadcaster said "another train derailment happened a decade ago in Madrid, Spain, 350 miles from this trains location, it was connected to a terrorist attack. Authorities have claimed this incident, however, looks like an accident."
Why bring up a terrorist attack a decade and 300+ miles away? I doubt they are even on the same track, run by the same company, or in any other way related -- except by being trains in the same country.
The public becomes afraid, and the public forces the government to do something. Is the NSA program overboard? Personally I don't think so -- I think it should INCLUDE Americans.
My only objection to the program is that, by existing as a government program, lobbiest might take it over and force MPAA/RIAA detection & crack downs.. and then more and more minor cases, until a teenager texts about a kid in his school smoking weed in the bathroom and gets the FBI knocking on his parents door.
so.. you understand that Businesses exist & want to make money
Yet you fail to realize Freedom of speech is protecting people from government limitation.. NOT promising the people they can say what they want and have a business reprint it for the public.
Must be watching too much Fox news...
Asking google to host your advertisements blogs for free under the guise of freedom of speech is akin to demanding CNN, NBC, and Fox to show on air a 30 second advertisement commercial for your business. This advertisement *must* cost nothing for you, and the entire cost of the hosting/advertising must be borne by the network at no cost to yourself. Any other terms, such as requiring you to pat for host, is a violation of the constitution, the founding fathers, and some other mumbo-jumbo bullcrap. Which is what this is, mumbo-jumbo bull-cap.
Now, I'm all for freedom of speech. However, I understand it gives me the right to stand on a soapbox and say my opinion, however, it doesn't give me the right to do it on Starbucks property, nor does it allow me to direct Starbucks customers to Caribou coffee... Nor does it require Starbucks to provide me with restrooms, coffee, and a meal while I advertise Caribou Coffee.
Anyway, carry on.. and btw, the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "
But if it was sexually transmitted to an unknowing new host... That new host at some point might be tested by pirate gene police... Creating a legal threat to this new host that they now belong to umbrella corp... Aka big Mons...tana... Yes... I'm talking about the State........ Not some company with more lawyers and secret police then researchers...
They already had him on doing a drug sale, and the cell phone was searched after he was read his rights and his items were confiscated for booking.
It is kinda a grey area, but I'm happy this case is not about searching someone BEFORE any crime was committed & booked... rather, it was after he was arrested. There was also no password/encryption in use.
This does bring up a mixed feeling.... But i think the judge made the right call -- There was no immediate danger, or issue, that could justify bypassing the individuals rights. He was already in custody and being charged for a crime... His phone was safely in police custody and being processed to store. A judge should have reviewed the information and issued a warrant to search the phone.
If the crime was kidnapping, and the phone might have information on where to go to save someone's life.. I'd agree in a heartbeat that his phone should be searched immediately.. But this guy was being processed to go behind bars and nothing in the phone could have reasonably been useful to solve any immediate crises.
I would tend to agree.. I love what they've done.. But their 100% job security (alone) makes their viewpoint skewed (not necessarily bad.. just different)...
They no longer have to worry about potential employers accessing their facebook/g+ account.. or their potential employment.. or ability to pay for things (like insurance)... I've gone through and sanitized (deleted) my accounts with services twice over the last 5-6 years to help make sure i leave less footprints for the future... I'm sure their understanding (and ability to remove) such content is a lot better.
If you want to complain about borrowed money being misused.. and political mumbo-jumbo..
The FAA needed to cut 50 MILLION dollars.. if you ask a republican newcaster.. they would stress the word MILLION and then throw Obamacare into the conversation somehow.. saying how it is his fault..
A Democrate, on the other hand, would say that the sequester should never have happened, and the only reason it did happen is because republicans wanted to make a statement.. They would throw in an accusation that the tea party is trying to push barrels full of expired government-dependents stuffed into barrels off the dock and into the port's waters.
If you're an independent watching all this.. you see a ____ ton of complaining and bickering... Children playing around with amounts to monopoly money to them... and on one hand both sides have a public opinion.. and on the other, both sides are slipping $5 million to their brother's or sister's company to build a childrens playground in Washington state, as part of a transportation bill in florida.
In the end, no one ever wants to look at the numbers and see how both sides are throwing feces at each other because the parties are polarized, and every media organization is owned by someone who is a member of one party or the other.
My point is, depending on which side of the argument you look at, both of them are fallocies designed to over-hype an issue into some massive full-blown socialists-are-in-the-white-house or republicans-are-destrying-our-country propaganda.. and no one looks at the actual numbers:
A jump back in history: FAA Expenses (Outlays) 2003: $12,721,000,000
Attempted cost savings w/ Furlough: 50,000,000
God that's too many zero's... it just makes things seem so confusing dont they... 16,747... 000,000 -.....50... 000,000 16,697.. 000,000
or still 4,000... 000,000 more then it's budget a decade ago...
Out of all that budget growth and bloat.. they ONLY place they could substantially cut "In the name of safety" is $50 for air traffic controllers? They had $17 billion to play with
However, a subscription model is also a good counter to this quantity-over-quality price strategy they have...
They can pump out as much crappy movies as they want and the viewers can choose to watch it or not... but compared to a traditional model you only need to see 2 or 3 movies to 'break even'
This is one of those things the government did NOT screw up..
Philosophically, "we the people" empower the government to enforce stability and rules. Some of these 'rules' are more annoyances -- but we're certainly glad they are there... such as public urination... or the requirement for a business that serves food and drink to allow you to use their restroom..
Sometimes businesses need to be kept in check because they start to break this social contract of people playing nice... and individuals don't have enough power to do anything about it, and it's technically legal.. so a new law needs to be passed to keep things working
Did this take away from valuable congress debate time? Probably not.. Most of the violations were small local or small businesses, or otherwise businesses without big pockets to buy a congressman or 40...
So I'm fairly sure this one went by smoothing and quickly.... without someone reading books for 2 months to hold up congress like the Civil Rights act... Wish I was there, I love audible.
I get a feeling her problem is along the lines of:
1) You paid money (or paid with eyes/ears on an advertisement) to listen to her song 2) She doesn't know you did so...
She's not getting "Money for you listening".. or at least, she has no way to know it.. Pandora doesn't tell her how many times her music was listened to... Being in a business.. it IS helpful to know exactly how many transactions you made to get your $500... or.. how many of what song was sold..
I agree with you.. She doesn't need my name, or birthday, or my financial information.... But if she wants to know I listened to Her Songs X, Y, and Z... and that I bought Her Song A.. She should, in my opinion, be able to get some kind of breakdown of that information (Here is $250, your songs were listened to by 20,000 people.. 240 bought the following songs:)
This data requires no data mining.. It's data Pandora already has and uses to pay her royalty... and the only cost is from writing the artist a semi-detailed receipt to go with her royalty check.. currently Pandora says "Here's $300, no.. you can't know how many times each song was listened to.. no.. you can't know how many songs people bought"
Great for us.. Great for Pandora... makes learning what we (the audience) like to listen to and buy impossible without getting the tainted groups of fanatics who seek the artist out on their own..
" One of the new T-Mobile plan's flaws, though, is that it cannot be used for tethering "
Verizon & AT&T do not either.. not a huge flaw there as T-Mobile gets a one-up on their higher market share competitors.. on top of being GSM like AT&T, you get a bit more phone freedom (minus the #g band differences, which seem to be more of a moot point nowadays anyways for international travelers... since 3g band frequencies change by country)
I mind when sites use ad servers that slow down my computer and/or mobile device because it tries to make a dozen calls to different servers to try and load in some complex advertisement..
Then I go to try and zoom in on the website's content and the advertisement shows up 1/2 cut off.. and the little "Close" button gets stuck off-screen.. So I lose not only the ability to read a content on a website, but am forced to see half of an advertisement without the ability to get past it....
Unless I block/avoid the advertisement.
I Love google ads, most of the other ads use obnoxious strategies to annoy me into reading their message
Would your grandmother/parents/other non-techie friends pay $9/month for internet if it was a 3 year agreement paid up front from a fairly reputable (as in not likely going under) company?
My grandfather paid $15/month for dial up, I'll wager Google is giving these $300 customers more then 56Kbps even if they throttle them.. I pay over $50 a month for FiOS and I don't even get over 30 Mbps.. If i wanted gigabit speeds I could not even request it from FiOS... and their plans hit $300/month without hitting *half* this service... I'd say the pricing is great
I think right now servers & computers will be the bottleneck... Unless you're writing your download to a SSD or RAID array... you barely can handle a 1 Gbps write (quick math, 1Gbps = ~125MB/s)
Unfortunately ST is acting like old carriers still...
They proclaim avidly they are unlimited and hide behind their TOS whenever you ask them about data limits... or dodge the question entirely on their support forums...
as an AT&T MVNO they probably have a 2GB limit per billing cycle
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I see the kinda words you're flinging around.. And I approve!
The more they say it... The more they believe it... This is why political parties and interest groups "own" news organizations (indirectly)
The nice lady on the morning news had been saying X for 3 months... She even read the cue cards stating supporting "facts" supplied by interested parties... It must be true, I don't need to research it...
Not to mention... If you want to stream a 4K Show over Hulu or Netflix, you'd hit your AT&T or cable provider's MONTHLY bandwidth cap in ~5 MINUTES. (variable, depends on compression, cap, buffering, throughput, etc.)..
Reminds me of LTE, Verizon Wireless is quick to point out you can download from them at over 50Mb/sec.. they wont tell you that after 60 seconds your phone bill is now $600
I don't see a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for Canada
Also, it's difficult to charge government organizations for a felony... Its even more so difficult to charge a law enforcement official of doing any wrongdoing unless there's a 100:1 outcry against the officer, and it's on tape, and the officer loses support from his peers.
If i send you an e-mail @hggdfshjd.org, how do i know your storage or e-mail handling policy?
E-mail has no reasonable expectation of privacy or secrecy. If anything, it is nowadays considered standard that your e-mail will be stored for at least 30 days, or until deleted. Unless you send an e-mail to a government address, then it's longer depending on the branch/locality/etc... or if it's to someone in the financial industry.. then it's saved even if it's deleted (until requested by a probe, then it's deleted)... My point is, everyone has a different policy, and no e-mail between two people can be ensured privacy and secrecy on unencrypted messages. when going between two distant servers
Also, when the message does arrive, regardless of service, the message will also be scanned by a junkmail filter. It will also, likely, be parsed by the recipients mail filter setting, and also by their anti-virus, anti-phising, and other anti-whatever systems. What makes Gmail's system different? If i submit a message to my ISP as junk, I'm releasing your e-mail to a 3rd party without your consent, and half a dozen machines will read it, process it, and act on it.
If we block recipient mail systems from "automated-reading" of messages, we effectively make it illegal to filter ALL junk, spam, and phising protections.
With the track record of poorly-worded laws we've had, I'd rather assume privacy/secrecy risks myself with encryption, than allow judges, lawyers, and elected officials choose the wording.
Midleading Advertisements CAN be countered by fine print.
Nearly every commercial that mentions a percentage or dollar figure will have a star(*).. and either a 1/16th inch print paragraph will follow(for tv), or one of the 100 fastest talkers in the world will chime in (saying the paragraph in 5 seconds)
Both of which, while 100% unintelligible to 99% of the population, are legal defenses in court.
And there's more ways they can get around misleading advertising. My favorite is the "I think/I Feel/I Like".... No star needed.. 99% free reign*... :-) (99% free reign has minor limits, it cant break OTHER laws.. like claiming to cure a disease -- but it can: "I feel it helped me fight (disease)")
Man: "Crime is on the rise, you owe it to yourself and your family to protect them."
Woman: "I feel safer now that I bought my pet USB Rock"
What about my freedom to go 200kph down a highway that's limited to 80 kph?
what about my rights?
so what if my right to speed infringes on another persons right to live, as i cut them off, or force them off the road, or force them to apply the breaks and then get rear-ended, or I ____ up and collide with someone else.. well.. It's still my freedom to kill other people through my reckless actions on a publicly paid for roadway...
(/sarcasm)
I would argue the media organizations have overblown the terrorism angle so they can have 24/7 terror news coverage. Just yesterday with the spanish train derailment the radio broadcaster said "another train derailment happened a decade ago in Madrid, Spain, 350 miles from this trains location, it was connected to a terrorist attack. Authorities have claimed this incident, however, looks like an accident."
Why bring up a terrorist attack a decade and 300+ miles away? I doubt they are even on the same track, run by the same company, or in any other way related -- except by being trains in the same country.
The public becomes afraid, and the public forces the government to do something. Is the NSA program overboard? Personally I don't think so -- I think it should INCLUDE Americans.
My only objection to the program is that, by existing as a government program, lobbiest might take it over and force MPAA/RIAA detection & crack downs.. and then more and more minor cases, until a teenager texts about a kid in his school smoking weed in the bathroom and gets the FBI knocking on his parents door.
so.. you understand that Businesses exist & want to make money
Yet you fail to realize Freedom of speech is protecting people from government limitation.. NOT promising the people they can say what they want and have a business reprint it for the public.
Must be watching too much Fox news...
Asking google to host your advertisements blogs for free under the guise of freedom of speech is akin to demanding CNN, NBC, and Fox to show on air a 30 second advertisement commercial for your business. This advertisement *must* cost nothing for you, and the entire cost of the hosting/advertising must be borne by the network at no cost to yourself. Any other terms, such as requiring you to pat for host, is a violation of the constitution, the founding fathers, and some other mumbo-jumbo bullcrap. Which is what this is, mumbo-jumbo bull-cap.
Now, I'm all for freedom of speech. However, I understand it gives me the right to stand on a soapbox and say my opinion, however, it doesn't give me the right to do it on Starbucks property, nor does it allow me to direct Starbucks customers to Caribou coffee... Nor does it require Starbucks to provide me with restrooms, coffee, and a meal while I advertise Caribou Coffee.
Anyway, carry on.. and btw, the first amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "
Says ____ about applying to business.
But if it was sexually transmitted to an unknowing new host... That new host at some point might be tested by pirate gene police... Creating a legal threat to this new host that they now belong to umbrella corp... Aka big Mons...tana... Yes... I'm talking about the State........ Not some company with more lawyers and secret police then researchers...
Read the briefing...
They already had him on doing a drug sale, and the cell phone was searched after he was read his rights and his items were confiscated for booking.
It is kinda a grey area, but I'm happy this case is not about searching someone BEFORE any crime was committed & booked... rather, it was after he was arrested. There was also no password/encryption in use.
This does bring up a mixed feeling.... But i think the judge made the right call -- There was no immediate danger, or issue, that could justify bypassing the individuals rights. He was already in custody and being charged for a crime... His phone was safely in police custody and being processed to store. A judge should have reviewed the information and issued a warrant to search the phone.
If the crime was kidnapping, and the phone might have information on where to go to save someone's life.. I'd agree in a heartbeat that his phone should be searched immediately.. But this guy was being processed to go behind bars and nothing in the phone could have reasonably been useful to solve any immediate crises.
I would tend to agree.. I love what they've done.. But their 100% job security (alone) makes their viewpoint skewed (not necessarily bad.. just different)...
They no longer have to worry about potential employers accessing their facebook/g+ account.. or their potential employment.. or ability to pay for things (like insurance)... I've gone through and sanitized (deleted) my accounts with services twice over the last 5-6 years to help make sure i leave less footprints for the future... I'm sure their understanding (and ability to remove) such content is a lot better.
Indeed, Ingress is a nice little game being done by some part of Google (still not sure the exact relationship.. think it's a subsidiary)
If you want to complain about borrowed money being misused.. and political mumbo-jumbo..
The FAA needed to cut 50 MILLION dollars.. if you ask a republican newcaster.. they would stress the word MILLION and then throw Obamacare into the conversation somehow.. saying how it is his fault..
A Democrate, on the other hand, would say that the sequester should never have happened, and the only reason it did happen is because republicans wanted to make a statement.. They would throw in an accusation that the tea party is trying to push barrels full of expired government-dependents stuffed into barrels off the dock and into the port's waters.
If you're an independent watching all this.. you see a ____ ton of complaining and bickering... Children playing around with amounts to monopoly money to them... and on one hand both sides have a public opinion.. and on the other, both sides are slipping $5 million to their brother's or sister's company to build a childrens playground in Washington state, as part of a transportation bill in florida.
In the end, no one ever wants to look at the numbers and see how both sides are throwing feces at each other because the parties are polarized, and every media organization is owned by someone who is a member of one party or the other.
My point is, depending on which side of the argument you look at, both of them are fallocies designed to over-hype an issue into some massive full-blown socialists-are-in-the-white-house or republicans-are-destrying-our-country propaganda.. and no one looks at the actual numbers:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collectionGPO.action?collectionCode=BUDGET
Recent:
FAA Expenses (Outlays) 2013: $16,747,000,000
FAA Expenses (Outlays) 2012: $16,894,000,000
FAA Expenses (Outlays) 2011: $15,842,000,000
A jump back in history:
FAA Expenses (Outlays) 2003: $12,721,000,000
Attempted cost savings w/ Furlough: 50,000,000
God that's too many zero's... it just makes things seem so confusing dont they... ... 000,000 ... 000,000 .. 000,000
16,747
-.....50
16,697
or still 4,000 ... 000,000 more then it's budget a decade ago...
Out of all that budget growth and bloat.. they ONLY place they could substantially cut "In the name of safety" is $50 for air traffic controllers? They had $17 billion to play with
However, a subscription model is also a good counter to this quantity-over-quality price strategy they have...
They can pump out as much crappy movies as they want and the viewers can choose to watch it or not... but compared to a traditional model you only need to see 2 or 3 movies to 'break even'
This is one of those things the government did NOT screw up..
Philosophically, "we the people" empower the government to enforce stability and rules. Some of these 'rules' are more annoyances -- but we're certainly glad they are there... such as public urination... or the requirement for a business that serves food and drink to allow you to use their restroom..
Sometimes businesses need to be kept in check because they start to break this social contract of people playing nice... and individuals don't have enough power to do anything about it, and it's technically legal.. so a new law needs to be passed to keep things working
Did this take away from valuable congress debate time? Probably not.. Most of the violations were small local or small businesses, or otherwise businesses without big pockets to buy a congressman or 40...
So I'm fairly sure this one went by smoothing and quickly.... without someone reading books for 2 months to hold up congress like the Civil Rights act... Wish I was there, I love audible.
Point to clarify:
When I say she should have access to my information, I mean in bulk --
E.g. "3000 people listened to song Y" -- the fact I, specifically, listened to it should not be included.. just general numbers of which I am included
I get a feeling her problem is along the lines of:
1) You paid money (or paid with eyes/ears on an advertisement) to listen to her song
2) She doesn't know you did so...
She's not getting "Money for you listening".. or at least, she has no way to know it.. Pandora doesn't tell her how many times her music was listened to... Being in a business.. it IS helpful to know exactly how many transactions you made to get your $500... or .. how many of what song was sold..
I agree with you.. She doesn't need my name, or birthday, or my financial information.... But if she wants to know I listened to Her Songs X, Y, and Z... and that I bought Her Song A.. She should, in my opinion, be able to get some kind of breakdown of that information (Here is $250, your songs were listened to by 20,000 people.. 240 bought the following songs:)
This data requires no data mining.. It's data Pandora already has and uses to pay her royalty... and the only cost is from writing the artist a semi-detailed receipt to go with her royalty check.. currently Pandora says "Here's $300, no.. you can't know how many times each song was listened to.. no.. you can't know how many songs people bought"
Great for us.. Great for Pandora... makes learning what we (the audience) like to listen to and buy impossible without getting the tainted groups of fanatics who seek the artist out on their own..
" One of the new T-Mobile plan's flaws, though, is that it cannot be used for tethering "
Verizon & AT&T do not either.. not a huge flaw there as T-Mobile gets a one-up on their higher market share competitors.. on top of being GSM like AT&T, you get a bit more phone freedom (minus the #g band differences, which seem to be more of a moot point nowadays anyways for international travelers... since 3g band frequencies change by country)
I don't mind sites showing advertisements
I mind when sites use ad servers that slow down my computer and/or mobile device because it tries to make a dozen calls to different servers to try and load in some complex advertisement..
Then I go to try and zoom in on the website's content and the advertisement shows up 1/2 cut off.. and the little "Close" button gets stuck off-screen.. So I lose not only the ability to read a content on a website, but am forced to see half of an advertisement without the ability to get past it....
Unless I block/avoid the advertisement.
I Love google ads, most of the other ads use obnoxious strategies to annoy me into reading their message
I hold a theory that seems to have worked well for me (9 times out of 10)...
The more they advertise a movie (other then trailers before ) just before and as it is released, the less confident the studios are in the movie..
For SciFi/Action/etc, it seems to work well for me.. I got really worried about Promethus with the trailers every 10 minutes
Would your grandmother/parents/other non-techie friends pay $9/month for internet if it was a 3 year agreement paid up front from a fairly reputable (as in not likely going under) company?
My grandfather paid $15/month for dial up, I'll wager Google is giving these $300 customers more then 56Kbps even if they throttle them..
I pay over $50 a month for FiOS and I don't even get over 30 Mbps.. If i wanted gigabit speeds I could not even request it from FiOS... and their plans hit $300/month without hitting *half* this service... I'd say the pricing is great
I think right now servers & computers will be the bottleneck... Unless you're writing your download to a SSD or RAID array... you barely can handle a 1 Gbps write (quick math, 1Gbps = ~125MB/s)
Are we looking at the same article?
They would have to lose another 50% to fall below ASUS.. and ASUS is still listed above "Others"
Unfortunately ST is acting like old carriers still...
They proclaim avidly they are unlimited and hide behind their TOS whenever you ask them about data limits... or dodge the question entirely on their support forums...
as an AT&T MVNO they probably have a 2GB limit per billing cycle
didn't google desktop also do searches for both ?