What the hell are you downloading? Raw uncompressed blu-ray images? According to Netflix's usage page, the highest quality streams use HD: 3 GB per hour, 3D: 4.7 GB per hour, Ultra HD 4K: 7 GB per hour.

For a HD stream, it would take you over 80 hours to reach 250GB. 40, 2hr HD movies. Wow. Just Wow. The average American watches 2.8hrs of TV per day. If you download 100% of only HD content from Amazon/Netflix every month you'll be about at the 80+hrs / month of usage. Still a lot of downloading, given that you can't watch live events (sports/news broadcasts). Btw, even the World Cup isn't broadcast in 1080p like on broadcast/cable TV.

The current caps are from 250GB to 350GB depending on your service area. In fact, if you look at your data usage, you'll notice that they've suspended the 250GB cap enforcement.

You do realize that you fall into the .000001% of consumers who should be on a business plan if they want to download 50TB/month.

Remember no business caters to the .0000001% of consumers regardless of their business. You should vote with your dollars, find a provider that will give you unlimited usage with higher bandwidth. I'm sure there's plenty of ISPs that would be willing to drop an OC48 (2.4Gb) into your house for a quite a few grand a month. Or a Comcast business solution that has no cap.

Surely a 150Mbdown 20Mb up with no caps for $250/month is enough for you and your entire family to watch HDs every minute of every day until your eyeballs rot. Just think, with 150Mb/s down you could consume about 65GB/hr, or 20 HD movies per hour 24hrs per day, 7 days per week...

Right tool for the right job. Obviously you want Commercial Services at Residential Pricing and you don't meet the requirements of the typical Residential user, so switch to Commercial Services and be happy.

The new STB which replaces the big grey monstrosity cannot be turned off via the remote control. You can only turn it off by pushing the button on the front.

From what I understand the new X1 box is just a micro PC with a PCcard in it.

So with the two riders so close to each other, if you hit a bump or have to stop suddenly, the rear rider's head may hit the back of the front rider's helmet.

If you're in the back, you might want to wear a mouth guard...

FTFY.

But I guess internet access is more important.

Ever heard of Rolling Blackouts? Back in 2003 in California, many parts of California suffered these. However, I live close to a hospital and for hospitals and other specific facilities power could not be shut off.

Because I haven't figured out what platform to migrate my mother to.

Guess you never worked with Banyan Vines... you couldn't do anything without a hardware dongle attached to the parallel port on the back. If you wanted to enable multiple features, you daisy chained multiple dongles off each other. I recall seeing servers with 5-6 dongles hanging off the same parallel port like some sort of unicorn horn.

The R3 is just an "instance". Sure it's a memory optimized instance, but it's not even their relational instances or mapreduce databases.

Don't feed the trolls.
Don't feed the trolls.

I used AWS for a few projects for my research. I would upload a data set to AWS run the MapReduce jobs and then analyze the output in AWS. Once complete, I'd download the results and shutdown the whole environment. I could programatically spin up the whole environment in about an hour or so.

Whole thing cost me about $350.

Now if this device could tell me what my wife is saying....

...It's Blizzard and their lack of willingness to properly balance the game.

Protoss has no repercussions for doing any of a dozen types of proxy or "all-in" openings.

So would this require every Police/Emergency Vehicle to be equipped with such a car to car communications system.

Also, often when there's an accident on the highway, and cars are stopped, people will get out of the way for a tow truck to get through to move the disabled vehicle.

No Siren and tow truck lights aren't red/white/blue. Typically they are orange.

Would it pull over if it sees the blinking lights / siren behind it?

Could you spoof it with a bunch of blinking xmas lights on the side of the road?

is the Right to be Tracked.

If I want to call up $company and tell them "delete everything you know about me from your index." This implies that without asking them, I've granted them the ability to track me.

This also puts quite a burden on me to call them up and say, "Hey, I just joined BowlingLeague.com as user StrikesAPlenty, please delete me from your index.

Also, how do you prove that a given user really is you? Your name probably isn't that unique. Which "Bob Smith" are you?