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Comment Re:i'm not paying $250 to buy books (Score 1) 542

- Obsolesence - in 15, or 50 years I can give my books to my daughter or grandkids, and they'll be able to read them all or sell them to someone else to read [hopefully not :) ]. There's a good chance that the ebook I buy today won't be readable in 5 years let alone 50.

-Granpaa my neural interface won't connect to this book, it's broken
-No honey, this is one of the old books, you have to read it with your eyes
-What? Really? How do I know how each letter looks like?

Comment Re:Doesn't make sense (Score 1) 684

The reason is, on a PC you use up more bandwidth: you play MMOs , download movies, use p2p. So while you pay for 5g of data, you only use a fraction of it on the iphone and that's big money to them.

Plan: Make an app thet eats up all your allowed bandwidth (you input it) at the end of the month (it can add a calendar entry to remind you to run it that day) just by sending random data to places. We can set it up to find a legal torrent, store random chunks of it and then serve them. Open up as many connections as it can too and put the pinch on the ciscos at the other end. That way, you tethering prohibition ceases to be of an advantage to the carrier. If enough people use it.. Though I think it wins the "most likely to be blocked by AppStore" award.

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