Just punch up clear laddie

I use LibTerm on my iPhone to get a shell, I recall at one point my uptime was something fairly crazy (for a phone), like 120 days.

I agree, iPhones and iOS are pretty solid. My current iPhone is a 6S bought in early 2016, my last Android phone was 2013 ... based on what I've experienced with friends' Android phones I won't be headed back at my upcoming upgrade.

You're fortunate to have options...

I can have gigabit Comast with no data cap for $90/mo

1Mbps DSL for $55/mo

Various LTE options in the 3-30Mbps range depending on tower loading, and with different tiers of speed or usage caps for $40-hundreds per month, all behind carrier grade NAT

Comcast is my only real option.

"It's just a one time fee... that you pay annually"

"That's not one time."

I'm going to switch to Fred's Cellular

"It's one time in that you just pay it one time per year"

People donâ(TM)t use voicemail any more.

You're correct about that, and so I'm wondering if what we have here is a situation where AT&T's VM servers being so chock full of half started robo telemarketing scams, happy birthday songs from grandma, and debt collection attempts that they can't function...

Maybe they're overflowing a 64 bit counter value with the number of unheard messages for too many customers...

The future of all big ticket sales is 0% -- phones, cars, and furniture are already dominating it... they build your interest into the price and make everyone pay it.

Having cash up front is longer a bargain point, and being a 'dead beat' just means you "don't qualify" but instead pay the up front AND over-time interest...

Creating artificial scarcity should be jail worthy for all those involved at decision making levels

High savings payout generally means they need cash on balance sheet, or a new crop of suckers to dupe into other product or milk with hidden fees

The ideal customer of all credit cards exists at the intersection of big spending and big (but inconsistent) earnings -- often describes successful creative types working projects, commissions, and contracts.

They spend (earning the banks transaction fees), carry balances (earning the banks interest), but most importantly they eventually pay.

Fiscally conservative folks may be a sure bet for payments, but won't owe interest and also tend to be lower spenders. Banks can survive on a diet of those of us like that, but the pot of gold are the ones carrying balances.

Learned a new term/concept today... and you're correct.

"Cash cows"

Profit and income often have nothing to do with budgets unless those budgets are ones management believes are amplified back as new cash later (such as sales and occasionally research).

It's a no-win scenario for many admins: Issue warnings that more resources to guard against this and get called a pessimist, incompetent, or just a liar... then if the worst happens you're called incompetent anyway...

Like CBS, they won't see a dime of my stream dollars as they try to hold their favorite media hostage.

I'm waiting for the home media shoe to drop -- when giants like Disney stop releasing media on DVD/Blu-ray and any future physical media. The future is licensed media only, pay us in perpetuity.

The Honda system uses radar to avoid collisions so I doubt it was a matter of recognizing person vs barrel -- it would stop for either.

The test is invalid, the anti collision braking isn't going to stop for a moron throwing the car into a right hand turn at 20-30mph where anything is in the typical sidewalk location. Same situation with a kid running out between cars, the system can only react to literally what is in front of it, not to the sides.

The test scenarios don't sound realistic for what the systems are intended to do.

It's akin to someone yelling that old style cruise control is dangerous because they set it for 65 and then ran into the back of a car doing 55... it's not a substitute for driving, it's an aid.

20-30mph right hand turn? Kid rubbing out between cars?

These systems aren't meant to replace experienced and attentive drivers who also know when they intend to turn and can observe sidewalks and anticipate.

They're intended to reduce damage by applying full stopping force after the collision is all but inevitable.

If these systems were tuned to prevent vs reduce damage then they'd be self-slamming on brakes all over the place as most drivers tend to operate extremely unsafely.

I suppose if Apple and iPhones existed in 1942 they would similarly ban an app warning Jews, minorities, and other targets of the Nazi government about movement of those "legal" authorities too?

How about banning Waze too, which reveals "Police Activity"?

Bad show Apple.