As a compromise, prison officials offered to download the already-purchased music to a CD, and then mail that CD to someone outside the prison. For a $25 fee.
Is Apple as accommodating when you chose to quit using iTunes?
Will your local cable company burn your 'legally purchased' movies to DVD when you switch to Sattelite TV?
For the 2018 mid-terms the Democrats are running on a platform that included rolling back the Trump Tax Cuts, because Americans desperately want to pay more taxes, but can't figure out how to give more money to the government without it being demanded.
China imposes tarrifs on US-made goods, the US imposes tarrifs on Chinese-made goods, but are the tarrifs even? Last I heard they were not, China's are much higher than the US and most of the threatened tarrif increases approach parity with China.
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to learn that Apple has to raise prices to maintain traditional profits on their devices. Apparently there is no room in the price of an iPhone.
You literally have no idea what this article is about, do you? Did you even read the very first sentence of the summary? Lord knows you couldn't read all the way down to the second paragraph...
This has nothing to do with anything involving firefighters doing their jobs, it's about a discount for their family's home broadband connection.
This isn't about first net, as noted in the summary:
"We're offering first responders and their family members a discount on the consumer plans available today for their personal use," a spokesperson said. "These lines and devices are separate than the FirstNet lines purchased and issued by the first responder agencies, which do not have a data limit."
No. You well-reasoned argument overlooks the simple fact in the first sentence of the summary:
AT&T is offering a new promotion for first responders and their families.
Reading a little further, we find this passage:
AT&T clarified that the promotional plans subject to throttling are for first responders' personal use and family plans. "We're offering first responders and their family members a discount on the consumer plans available today for their personal use," a spokesperson said. "These lines and devices are separate than the FirstNet lines purchased and issued by the first responder agencies, which do not have a data limit."
why don't they just have a plan where instead of "Up to X Gbps", you can get "At least X Mbps", where X is determined by what the units need to do their jobs?
FFS, read the first sentence of the summary again - it's a discount for first responders and their families - this has absolutely nothing to do with first responders and what they "need to do their job."
One again, this article is about discounts for first responders and their families - NOT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
It's literally the first sentence in the summary.
The editor decided to take two completely different offerings by two different ISPs and try and create a conversation that conflates first-responder family discounts offered by AT&T and a data plan sold to a fire company by Verizon.
So your 3 GB, $85/mo, $1,020/yr plan from Verizon is advertised as "unlimited"? No? Then be quiet. your "limited" plan has no bearingon a discussion of "unlimited" plans.
"Unlimited" means "without limit," which in this case means as many bytes of data, not the speed of the data bytes.
So stop calling it "Unlimited" and call it what it really is, "Extra charges will apply".
Throttling does not cause a consumer to incur any "extra charges" - you are simply making things up to justify your baseless anger. Is there a fee an "unlimited" subscriber can pay to remove the throttling? Not that I'm aware of.
It doesn't do any good for your laptop, tablet, handheld fingerprint scanner, wireless firefighting temperature sensors, etc. Oh, and good luck talking to anyone on the radio who doesn't have a compatible radio - like the doctors at the hospital, the mayor... so on and so forth.
This has nothing to do with actually fighting fires - couldn't you even be bothered to read the first sentence of the fine summary:
AT&T is offering a new promotion for first responders and their families.
Think this through - Putin & friends were able to thwart the election for abut $100K in ads, and Hillary with her $1BN budget couldn't overcome that influence/meddling?
Serious question - what was the last US presidential election the Russians *didn't* meddle in?
I suspect it is not a financial decision that has one pay a monthly fee for TiVo and not have broadband internet, and it likely has little to do with geography - it is most likely a combination of technical ability and convienience. They bought a dial-up TiVo years ago, it just works, why mess with it?
Comically, the company suggests two alternatives -- use Ethernet or buy a Wi-Fi adapter. Look, while those are technically accurate options, if someone is still using dial-up connectivity with their TiVo in 2018, they probably don't have broadband access.
I can easily imagine someone that has dial-up TiVo while also having a broadband internet connection... Once the TiVo was set up and working, they never thought about it again, and it just worked. What benefit does the TiVo use get for switching from dial-up to wifi/wired ethernet? Virtually none, I imagine - what, faster-running background updates are important enough to change something that already works fine?
Curious what exactly the trump admin has to with your lack of choice with regard to ISPs in your community? This is a problem that not only predates Trump, it likely predates Obama, Bush'43, and maybe even Clinton...
MSMASH, you fail to grasp the concept of "summary" - four substantial paragraphs? To meet the demands of faithful Slashdot readers, your summary needs it's own summary.
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As a compromise, prison officials offered to download the already-purchased music to a CD, and then mail that CD to someone outside the prison. For a $25 fee.
Is Apple as accommodating when you chose to quit using iTunes?
Will your local cable company burn your 'legally purchased' movies to DVD when you switch to Sattelite TV?
For the 2018 mid-terms the Democrats are running on a platform that included rolling back the Trump Tax Cuts, because Americans desperately want to pay more taxes, but can't figure out how to give more money to the government without it being demanded.
China imposes tarrifs on US-made goods, the US imposes tarrifs on Chinese-made goods, but are the tarrifs even? Last I heard they were not, China's are much higher than the US and most of the threatened tarrif increases approach parity with China.
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to learn that Apple has to raise prices to maintain traditional profits on their devices. Apparently there is no room in the price of an iPhone.
You literally have no idea what this article is about, do you? Did you even read the very first sentence of the summary? Lord knows you couldn't read all the way down to the second paragraph...
This has nothing to do with anything involving firefighters doing their jobs, it's about a discount for their family's home broadband connection.
This isn't about first net, as noted in the summary:
"We're offering first responders and their family members a discount on the consumer plans available today for their personal use," a spokesperson said. "These lines and devices are separate than the FirstNet lines purchased and issued by the first responder agencies, which do not have a data limit."
I very seriously doubt any major ISP has a 'lack of bandwidth' issue.
Right, because every internet link in every ISPs data network has infinite capacity, there are no limits on bandwidth at all - none.
Let me guess, you work in Network Capacity Planning for AT&T? Verizon?
No. You well-reasoned argument overlooks the simple fact in the first sentence of the summary:
AT&T is offering a new promotion for first responders and their families.
Reading a little further, we find this passage:
AT&T clarified that the promotional plans subject to throttling are for first responders' personal use and family plans. "We're offering first responders and their family members a discount on the consumer plans available today for their personal use," a spokesperson said. "These lines and devices are separate than the FirstNet lines purchased and issued by the first responder agencies, which do not have a data limit."
O M G - This has nothing to do with actual firefighting, it's a discount on home broadband service for firefighters and their families.
AT&T is offering a new promotion for first responders and their families.
That's enough to prevent me from bringing your promotion to our fire department.
AT&T is offering first-responders and their families a discount - this has nothing to do with service for your local fire department.
why don't they just have a plan where instead of "Up to X Gbps", you can get "At least X Mbps", where X is determined by what the units need to do their jobs?
FFS, read the first sentence of the summary again - it's a discount for first responders and their families - this has absolutely nothing to do with first responders and what they "need to do their job."
One again, this article is about discounts for first responders and their families - NOT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
It's literally the first sentence in the summary.
The editor decided to take two completely different offerings by two different ISPs and try and create a conversation that conflates first-responder family discounts offered by AT&T and a data plan sold to a fire company by Verizon.
So your 3 GB, $85/mo, $1,020/yr plan from Verizon is advertised as "unlimited"? No? Then be quiet. your "limited" plan has no bearingon a discussion of "unlimited" plans.
"Unlimited" means there is no arbitrary limit on the amount of data one can download, it says nothing about the speed of that data.
"Unlimited" means "without limit," which in this case means as many bytes of data, not the speed of the data bytes.
So stop calling it "Unlimited" and call it what it really is, "Extra charges will apply".
Throttling does not cause a consumer to incur any "extra charges" - you are simply making things up to justify your baseless anger. Is there a fee an "unlimited" subscriber can pay to remove the throttling? Not that I'm aware of.
It doesn't do any good for your laptop, tablet, handheld fingerprint scanner, wireless firefighting temperature sensors, etc. Oh, and good luck talking to anyone on the radio who doesn't have a compatible radio - like the doctors at the hospital, the mayor... so on and so forth.
This has nothing to do with actually fighting fires - couldn't you even be bothered to read the first sentence of the fine summary:
AT&T is offering a new promotion for first responders and their families.
Think this through - Putin & friends were able to thwart the election for abut $100K in ads, and Hillary with her $1BN budget couldn't overcome that influence/meddling?
Serious question - what was the last US presidential election the Russians *didn't* meddle in?
I suspect it is not a financial decision that has one pay a monthly fee for TiVo and not have broadband internet, and it likely has little to do with geography - it is most likely a combination of technical ability and convienience. They bought a dial-up TiVo years ago, it just works, why mess with it?
They are dropping POTS (copper pair) with IP phone service, you aren't losing your RJ11 jack, it just plugs into your router.
A TiVo owner can still use dial-up on their ip phone connection.
Comically, the company suggests two alternatives -- use Ethernet or buy a Wi-Fi adapter. Look, while those are technically accurate options, if someone is still using dial-up connectivity with their TiVo in 2018, they probably don't have broadband access.
I can easily imagine someone that has dial-up TiVo while also having a broadband internet connection... Once the TiVo was set up and working, they never thought about it again, and it just worked. What benefit does the TiVo use get for switching from dial-up to wifi/wired ethernet? Virtually none, I imagine - what, faster-running background updates are important enough to change something that already works fine?
But because they're not called a utility, they're not regulated by the PUCs.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but PUCs *do* regulate cable companies, telcos and their ISP arms - the PUCs approve rate increases, for example.
Curious what exactly the trump admin has to with your lack of choice with regard to ISPs in your community? This is a problem that not only predates Trump, it likely predates Obama, Bush'43, and maybe even Clinton...
MSMASH, you fail to grasp the concept of "summary" - four substantial paragraphs? To meet the demands of faithful Slashdot readers, your summary needs it's own summary.
India, a nation of street shitters [planetcustodian.com].
Kinda like San Francisco is becoming?
The regulations are about prices on e-commerce sites - think Amazon, Bangood, etc., not YouTube.