I modded it off-topic because the story has fuck all to do with Dr Who...
Bullshit. Look, I'm all for nipping memes in the bud, but if there's one time we can get away with it, this is it. This is the first time we've seen something in our own technology that can explain the magic of how it works. Not bad considering it has been disguised as a 'tractor beam'.
Ask yourself this question: Why is there fame to be had here? Are people calling to hand them their money because they read their name on Slashdot, or are they calling because they feel they'll be treated better by a well paid employee?
If it's the latter, then even if they go bankrupt next year, that means there's a market out there that doesn't rely on soundly screwing employees.
I stopped reading at your question about streaming video on phones. Net Neutrality would have done nothing to affect those services. Well, I take that back, you would have gotten slower speeds from Netflix because lack of regulation would cause your carrier to extort them.
You clearly don't understand what Net Neutrality is. You history of phone company innovation is amusing as well, but that's a separate discussion.
Hey, the descendants of the descendants of a creator worked hard to be born into a family that had someone come up with a good idea once 2 or 3 generations ago and they deserve to get paid for it!
You'd prefer Warner Brothers make out like bandits instead of the family of JK Rowling?
Oh it did exist, I did explain the reasoning, and the "pop culture references" were explained as well. I think you're well aware of all that, at least it explains the humorous amount of energy you've expended trying to come up with ways of explaining how I hallucinated a portion of internet history that the rest of the world seems to be aware of.
As for my motivation, I'm just curious how you could be an internet historian of sorts and be completely unaware of something that has had such a huge impact on how we use the internet today. I don't think you're being terribly serious about it, so you could say my motivation is curiosity about your motivation.
Ooo now we've switched gears into projecting and establishing comedy as my motive! I brought up porn for a single, legit, on-topic reason. You've brought it up on several different occasions using skilled creative writing to re-dress it each time. You're absolutely right, comedicly I can't compete with that! The Old Internet Warrior who went missing from time, insisting he was here the whole time. Heh. Ah, I just don't have your flair for it.
Apple's mistake is not implementing something to allow users to know how much cellular bandwidth they've consumed and to prevent these device from going over preset limits.
That wasn't a mistake, it was Apple doing it right. They knew their customers didn't want to deal with this shit. What happened was they arm-twisted AT&T to only offer unlimited plans so that the customers didn't need to worry about data usage. When Apple's contract with AT&T ended they were like "Oh look, now we can abuse our customers!"
The problem isn't that the phones don't make it glaringly obvious how much data you're using (actually they do provide several tools to manage that, although you'd be correct if you assumed they weren't there from day one...), the problem is that the carriers don't provide the option to cut off data until you give permission to purchase another bundle of it. They just let you roll over and charge you with little fanfare. Apple has no control over that. In fact you cannot even get AT&T to tell you how much data you've used without a 4 hour lag that basically guarantees that you cannot actually use all the data you've paid for.
He's not complaining that the data is metered, he's complaining about how the phone companies actually do it. For example: My wife's AT&T phone has the bare-minimum $15 plan. 200 megs a month. She's under wifi 99% of the time so we go as cheap as possible. We had to stay in a hotel one night and their wifi failed, meaning her phone flipped over into using LTE data. She got a text saying she had used three-quarters of her monthly allotment. Since it takes them some time to send that message, I used the AT&T app to see where she landed. It said 190/megs. She turned data off on her phone. Several hours later I got a text that she had gone over 200 megs and $10 had been added to my bill to give her another 200 megs, 40 of which had already been used.
I called AT&T and asked how she could have used data when it was off. They said that it takes them four hours for them (and the app I used) to reflect our actual data usage. I asked them to set it up so that when her data goes over to just stop sending data when it's out. They said they cannot, their system was not set up that way. I told them that was bunk. When I had an iPad with a data plan through them. as soon as I ran out of data I got a message asking for permission to be charged for another allotment, clicking no cut me off. AT&T most certainly can do this but they choose not to. As a 'courtesy' they took off the charge which, and this is my favorite part, is the same amount it would cost me to get two gigs instead of 200 megs. Their approach is predatory and intended to trick their customers into going over.
Oh, remember how I told you they mysteriously cannot turn off data when you run out? I asked why I would ever go through them to provide a cell phone to a misbehaving teenager if he or she could carelessly run up my bill? She was happy to tell me that for five dollars a month I could add parental controls to the line that included capping data usage. You know, the very service I was just told they cannot provide.
I'm willing to bet that the original poster has a similar story to tell. American phone companies don't use metered data, they use tiered data, and if you had that sort of plan for power or water you'd be very upset the moment your routine changed.
No, I didn't mean that. It takes longer for him to post, it's impossible to tell if someone else is speaking for him, and his insight is indistinguishable from trollishness, thus reducing his credibility.
All that and he's only anonymous to those he's debating with. Non-ignorant, indeed.
Try keeping the scrutiny off you after heaps of complaints supported by growing evidence that your people are abusing their position. How do you gain their respect after you have lost it?
I have to admit, I really do enjoy your creativity. First it's a made-up porn addiction. Actually, the 'see of porn' thing was funny! In a parallel universe, that would have been a great Freudian slip that would have worked in your favor! Next we have myself making up a decade's worth of history that, as you've yet to discover, is shared by so many people that it's part of American culture all the way to movies and TV. I can't wait until you research this missing decade because I bet you've got a really amusing explanation behind it cooking.
I'd make a Titanic reference, but you wouldn't get it.
Trayvon Martin also owned an illegal pistol, and had pictures of himself posing all "gangsta" with it on Facebook. They sure took *that* picture down a hury.
Mainly because it's irrelevant to all except those that mistakenly think that justifies Martin's death.
Climate change is just something the SJW scientists made up to take away our masculinity and now Star Wars is all about a black person. Not a coincidence.
This is a confirmed fact.
The 'Troll' moderation of this comment suggests that it more 'Insightful' than it is 'Funny'.
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I modded it off-topic because the story has fuck all to do with Dr Who...
Bullshit. Look, I'm all for nipping memes in the bud, but if there's one time we can get away with it, this is it. This is the first time we've seen something in our own technology that can explain the magic of how it works. Not bad considering it has been disguised as a 'tractor beam'.
Ask yourself this question: Why is there fame to be had here? Are people calling to hand them their money because they read their name on Slashdot, or are they calling because they feel they'll be treated better by a well paid employee?
If it's the latter, then even if they go bankrupt next year, that means there's a market out there that doesn't rely on soundly screwing employees.
Whoever modded this 'troll' needs to have their geek privledges suspended.
I stopped reading at your question about streaming video on phones. Net Neutrality would have done nothing to affect those services. Well, I take that back, you would have gotten slower speeds from Netflix because lack of regulation would cause your carrier to extort them.
You clearly don't understand what Net Neutrality is. You history of phone company innovation is amusing as well, but that's a separate discussion.
Hey, the descendants of the descendants of a creator worked hard to be born into a family that had someone come up with a good idea once 2 or 3 generations ago and they deserve to get paid for it!
You'd prefer Warner Brothers make out like bandits instead of the family of JK Rowling?
Ah, I guess we're done. Have a good week man, was fun chatting with you.
It works the other way, too. If you define harrassment as a disagreement...
lol. You leftists are such idiots its funny.
Right now they're laughing at you, you're holding up your end of the stereotype quite well. . You should change the channel once in a while. ;)
You do realize that's from 2013, right?
Heh. Remember the olden days, before we knew what we know now, when this post would have been insightful?
Oh it did exist, I did explain the reasoning, and the "pop culture references" were explained as well. I think you're well aware of all that, at least it explains the humorous amount of energy you've expended trying to come up with ways of explaining how I hallucinated a portion of internet history that the rest of the world seems to be aware of.
As for my motivation, I'm just curious how you could be an internet historian of sorts and be completely unaware of something that has had such a huge impact on how we use the internet today. I don't think you're being terribly serious about it, so you could say my motivation is curiosity about your motivation.
Ooo now we've switched gears into projecting and establishing comedy as my motive! I brought up porn for a single, legit, on-topic reason. You've brought it up on several different occasions using skilled creative writing to re-dress it each time. You're absolutely right, comedicly I can't compete with that! The Old Internet Warrior who went missing from time, insisting he was here the whole time. Heh. Ah, I just don't have your flair for it.
Apple's mistake is not implementing something to allow users to know how much cellular bandwidth they've consumed and to prevent these device from going over preset limits.
That wasn't a mistake, it was Apple doing it right. They knew their customers didn't want to deal with this shit. What happened was they arm-twisted AT&T to only offer unlimited plans so that the customers didn't need to worry about data usage. When Apple's contract with AT&T ended they were like "Oh look, now we can abuse our customers!"
The problem isn't that the phones don't make it glaringly obvious how much data you're using (actually they do provide several tools to manage that, although you'd be correct if you assumed they weren't there from day one...), the problem is that the carriers don't provide the option to cut off data until you give permission to purchase another bundle of it. They just let you roll over and charge you with little fanfare. Apple has no control over that. In fact you cannot even get AT&T to tell you how much data you've used without a 4 hour lag that basically guarantees that you cannot actually use all the data you've paid for.
He's not complaining that the data is metered, he's complaining about how the phone companies actually do it. For example: My wife's AT&T phone has the bare-minimum $15 plan. 200 megs a month. She's under wifi 99% of the time so we go as cheap as possible. We had to stay in a hotel one night and their wifi failed, meaning her phone flipped over into using LTE data. She got a text saying she had used three-quarters of her monthly allotment. Since it takes them some time to send that message, I used the AT&T app to see where she landed. It said 190/megs. She turned data off on her phone. Several hours later I got a text that she had gone over 200 megs and $10 had been added to my bill to give her another 200 megs, 40 of which had already been used. I called AT&T and asked how she could have used data when it was off. They said that it takes them four hours for them (and the app I used) to reflect our actual data usage. I asked them to set it up so that when her data goes over to just stop sending data when it's out. They said they cannot, their system was not set up that way. I told them that was bunk. When I had an iPad with a data plan through them. as soon as I ran out of data I got a message asking for permission to be charged for another allotment, clicking no cut me off. AT&T most certainly can do this but they choose not to. As a 'courtesy' they took off the charge which, and this is my favorite part, is the same amount it would cost me to get two gigs instead of 200 megs. Their approach is predatory and intended to trick their customers into going over. Oh, remember how I told you they mysteriously cannot turn off data when you run out? I asked why I would ever go through them to provide a cell phone to a misbehaving teenager if he or she could carelessly run up my bill? She was happy to tell me that for five dollars a month I could add parental controls to the line that included capping data usage. You know, the very service I was just told they cannot provide. I'm willing to bet that the original poster has a similar story to tell. American phone companies don't use metered data, they use tiered data, and if you had that sort of plan for power or water you'd be very upset the moment your routine changed.
No, I didn't mean that. It takes longer for him to post, it's impossible to tell if someone else is speaking for him, and his insight is indistinguishable from trollishness, thus reducing his credibility.
All that and he's only anonymous to those he's debating with. Non-ignorant, indeed.
Satoru Iwata, professor of mathematical informatics at the University of Tokyo, said, "This is indeed an astonishing paper.
I'm assuming this isn't the same Satoru Iwata of Nintendo fame... who sadly passed away earlier this year. :/
Try keeping the scrutiny off you after heaps of complaints supported by growing evidence that your people are abusing their position. How do you gain their respect after you have lost it?
To be fair, he is smart enough to log in. ;)
I have to admit, I really do enjoy your creativity. First it's a made-up porn addiction. Actually, the 'see of porn' thing was funny! In a parallel universe, that would have been a great Freudian slip that would have worked in your favor! Next we have myself making up a decade's worth of history that, as you've yet to discover, is shared by so many people that it's part of American culture all the way to movies and TV. I can't wait until you research this missing decade because I bet you've got a really amusing explanation behind it cooking.
I'd make a Titanic reference, but you wouldn't get it.
Trayvon Martin also owned an illegal pistol, and had pictures of himself posing all "gangsta" with it on Facebook. They sure took *that* picture down a hury.
Mainly because it's irrelevant to all except those that mistakenly think that justifies Martin's death.
Why don't you go in and correct it? Afterall, that's the beauty of Open Source!
She's an obscure hero/villain, of course this story belongs on Slashdot. The question is whether you do.
I wonder if those that signed the agreement already are being offered an updated one to sign.
Climate change is just something the SJW scientists made up to take away our masculinity and now Star Wars is all about a black person. Not a coincidence.
This is a confirmed fact.
The 'Troll' moderation of this comment suggests that it more 'Insightful' than it is 'Funny'.
Ever seen? Based on what.
I wish I was so smart that I would be confused by that commonly used phrase.