I work for an ISP. The way it works is, the 2 isp's have a free peering agreement... Every month or 3 they compare traffic and true up. You ate up 100gig more than we did? You party us X. And vice versa.

What happened with Netflix is they colluded with level3 to try and force the ISPs to not charge them for that disparity or otherwise set that peering agreement up in such a way that made it favorable to Netflix. Level3 tried to charge insane rates to connect to them. Generally the isp's would trade trunks... Let's say ATT and Sprint... Each would have the same number of trunks from each other. In the end, those agreements come out as a 'wash' for both sides
  No one makes or losses money. Netflix bet that their traffic was so important that the isp's would start to lose customers over Netflix access and would give in. What Netflix didn't count on was the fact that residential broadband isn't very profitable to begin with, and the customers that uses Netflix are like the fat guy that shows up at the all you can eat buffet... The owners don't want him there anyway. The isp's then, likely colluded, to muscle Netflix out. Netflix played their card too soon. If they waited 10yrs or so they might have been successful.

The privatization of the herds has been well documented and is a very interesting success story. I've seen at least 2 documentaries on it.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

Basically, if you're a big game hunter, there's not much left to hunt. So people raise the Rhinos on farms and then sell them for hunting or whatever... They sell for tens of thousands of dollars, far more than their horns are worth, so you can rest assured the farmers protect them ferociously.

The problem with this approach is that a lot of endangered species aren't something someone would want to "Buy" so it only works for animals that look good in a trophy room. In the U.S. for example, most of the surviving large animals are ones that hunters protect because they like to hunt them. Around me, hunters have reintroduced wild turkeys, black bears, cougars, bobcats, etc... none of those species lived around here when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago my father hit a black bear that was big enough to total his F150. They're so plentiful they're a nuisance now. Hunters are some of the most involved conservationists there are.

Make the Rhinos more valuable alive than dead, and the problem solves itself.

You're in a bad situation where you carrier is billing you, and you have to pay. You don't get to question the data.
That said... use the Android data limits, have it warn you at a certain level, and turn off data when you reach your limit.
Uninstall Facebook, their app is disgusting in the way it consumes data. Auto-playing videos, messaging app on all the time in the background, refreshing itself with no option to disable it. It was by far and above the worst offending app, even with most options disabled, that I've ever had installed on my phone.

A lot of apps have options like "Only download big files over wifi" turn as many of those on as possible. Most google apps have features like that, like Picasa can be set to only backup while in wifi. Do everything you can over wifi.

One thing I'd like android to do more of is give more options for wifi usage. It seems to treat all open wifi the same, which is certainly not the case now that a lot of wifi requires login. I don't want my phone just using my work wifi willy nilly for example.

As far as Apple goes... if you've got an iPhone, you clearly don't value money anyway, so your question is moot in those cases. :-P

Is there a difference?

Right... the one thing I've learned as I've grown to be an adult is: There is a God
Without a God, the fact that the earth isn't a smoke cinder yet would make no sense at all.

1. It's illegal to keep a endangered animal captive.
2. They don't breed well in captivity.
3. Keeping them alive costs a fortune.
4. Selling their horns is, again, illegal.
5. They don't want to create a market for the thing they don't want people to use.
6. If selling farmed horn is legal, distinguishing between it, and illegal horn, would be impossible.

I've been wondering why someone hasn't done this yet. They are 95% the way there... the only part they are missing is LYING. Tell them it's REAL black Rhino horn. Flood the market with FAKE horn and call it real. Bring the price down to pennies... i.e. killing a Rhino would not make you more than the price of the bullet. Then the poaching will stop.

Um... no you don't

So the NSA is clearly useless, and making the situation worse. They are not, and cannot protect us electronically. Instead, they are collecting all of our information and storing it for the inevitable hack that will give it to the rest of the world. The first question I ask when I'm asked to secure data is: "Do we actually need this data?" You can't steel what doesn't exist. Why the hell did this agency have data on people going back to the 1980s? Why is the NSA collecting data on all of us? It's a pointless endeavor that's putting us all at risk.

That's the first problem when you have an agency like the NSA. There's absolutely nothing to stop them from doing something like this and arguing later that it was for national security.

This is the second problem when you have an agency like the NSA. You believe, like in the movies, all the top talent is there and nothing like this could happen. But in reality, all the talent that's willing to do what their told without question is what's there. Quality may not be their strong suit, and again, this is the feds. They invented the term "Fubar"

They are going to torture and murder your employees. How exactly are you supposed to react?

I agree with you on this point. I'm assuming they moved whatever they could out of harms way before we even heard of this attack. They might have even discovered the attack because they lost a few people and figured out there was a leak.

...and here I thought I couldn't dread going into an MRI machine any more than I already did...

I believe the most likely way we'll actually have any impact on Mars is via genetically engineered microbes, as we've recently seen Darpa has mentioned.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
This, at first blush, seems harmless, Mars is already dead. But given the increasing evidence that Mars and likely many other celestial bodies have in the past and maybe even at the present microbial life on them, and that it's extremely likely all of the planets in the solar system routinely trade biological materials via asteroid impacts. It seems that logical to assume that Biological Tera-forming of Mars is also Biological Tera-forming of Earth.

In short, the Bugs we design here, and send there, will eventually come back to haunt us.

Do you have opinion on this? I love science, and want us to use it to our benefit. But I'm not ignorant to the fact that nature has the uncanny knack of turning our best intentions to ashes in our mouths.

Mars One is a pyramid scheme. They aren't shipping anyone anywhere.

This is just another example of why 3D printing isn't "There" yet...
The concept is cool, but the material it's made out of isn't strong enough to make this a high torque device. That leaves precision, but 3D printing isn't nearly precise enough either... by the time this has made enough turns to make the output even do one revolution, the sketchiness of the printers output makes even the idea of labeling it 3,000,000/1 kind of a joke.

Maybe you could use the parts as cast forms to make metal parts out of? But even then, why not just mill it?

I'm a libertarian and hate subsidies, but having many farmers as relatives, feel I have to correct your misinformation.

Lets say the price of corn hits something insanely high like $10/per bushel.
You might think to yourself "I should get into this corn farming thing" and invest money in starting up a farm.
As you do that starting a farm is expensive. Equipment for farming corn is unique and can't be used for something like Peas. But the price of corn is so high, it's worth it.
After you harvest you get your money... whew! What a good investment! But by the 2nd year you realize a lot of other people had the same idea you did and they started corn farms as well. The market is glutted with corn, the price crashes to $1/bushel
But you notice Peas are selling really high so you switch to farming peas. It costs you a fortune for new equipment but you get your peas planted...
and 2 years later, you run into the same problem, everyone switched crops at the same time you did, Pea prices fall through the floor and you're trying to buy back your corn equipment.

This happened at the turn of the century a LOT. No individual farmer can be expected to accurately predict the price of corn the following season. So the feds do it for them. They offer a floor on the price of their crops, and they pay farmers not to plant. This stabilizes the market, prevents over-saturation and allows farmers to be more efficient. The cost to the government is actually a net profit because those wild swings in the market price cost them a lot of tax revenue.