Do they sell a mobile/wireless plan that doesn't have the phrase "xBytes Per Month" in it?

Cause if they do... lemme know - I'd love to see it.

The cap is advertised in the mobile data plan - you get a 250 MB plan, a 5 gig plan, etc...they're just planning on enforcing it now.

And what does FIOS have to do with mobile data plans, which is what the CEO is talking about?

I mean... whats the big deal here that NASA would care?

It has its own high altitide balloon program - where they do real science - for weeks at a time - not just cool pictures for a few hours...

http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/balloon/
http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/

I've been spending a lot of time with lots 2-3 year olds lately. With that day-to-day experience fresh in my mind, I can report they aren't usually a bunch of drooling morons. They're just little uneducated and irrational people. They may not comprehend death, but they definitely comprehend "this could hurt me or break something".

I saw a class full of 2 year olds see what happens when you drop a glass cup in a sink. Now they all use plastic or paper cups in the sink, and I never see them taking a glass one over. I figure a gun going off would make an impression equal to a glass breaking.

If you tell them something is dangerous, demonstrate the fact such that it sinks in, they usually don't do it again. Usually.

A 3 year old knows the difference between a real gun, and a lightweight plastic controller. According to the parents, the gun was sitting on the table for a whole day. In a little trailer.

Apparently, loaded, cocked, and with the safety off. And then the little girl pointed it at herself and pulled the trigger? Sounds dubious to me that someone who has spent years with guns doesn't know that you don't point it at yourself.

But even if thats the case it was negligent homicide - you don't forget to keep a loaded, cocked, and ready to fire weapon out for an entire day, in plain view.

I wouldn't be shocked if the autopsy shows no signs of gun powder residue on her hands/arms, and it turns out that the father shot her, and they made up a BS story to cover.

IE did best or near best in the web browsing events most users will care about - page load time sfor popular sites like yahoo, facebook, or youtube.

So how does a web browser that apparently sucks at so many theoretical benchmarks, crush the competition in real world load times? Apparently it doesn't matter what you do, if major websites tailor themselves to you.

In the NY area at least, all the Verizon DSL Modems are at factory defaults.

So maybe the problem is only with certain ISPs.

I have yet to see a router or dsl modem distributed by an ISP in the US that DIDN'T use the default user/password. First thing I did when I got mine was find the (undocumented) way to change the password.

So pretty much the entire US is vulnerable to this...

The advice I gave was the same advice given to the public by Toyota and Car & Driver - aimed at the general populace as the safest general advice to follow in an emergency stuck accelerator situation with a generic car.

The safest thing to do is hitting the brake once - not trying to pump the brake repeatedly.

If that isn't enough (it should be), switching the car to neutral/park should be tried.

Turning off the car should be the final thing you try - its easy to turn the key too much in a panic - assuming you even have a key and not a button you must press for multiple seconds...