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Comment Re:Theft (Score 1) 368

There are legal remedies available if they send a bogus charge to collections. Several of them can be exercised without engaging a lawyer. It usually never gets that far, anytime I've had to call about a billing error it has been fixed over the phone.

The point of my original comment to say that one should not blindly pay bills with auto pay systems, the bill should be examined and errors corrected before sending payment. It doesn't take much effort to verify the bill is correct once a month.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 406

It is likely that if that is the case one of two things will happen. You'll be required to indemnify the manufacturer when you buy the car, individuals would then cover their risk with insurance policies, or you'll be required maintain an insurance policy on behalf of the manufacturer as a condition of using the vehicle, (or the cost of the policy for the life of the vehicle may be priced-in some how). Both of these have a nice feature that underwriting should provide a corrective market force (unsafe cars or autonomous driving systems cost more than safe ones to insure).

Comment Re:Radicalization (Score 1) 868

Yes and not long ago all US citizens had the right to be married to one person of the opposite gender of the same race. The Commonwealth of Virginia use the same argument that you are using now defending it, that the law was equally applied to all citizens. The supreme court said that that was incompatible with the 14th amendment.

No doubt eventually we will knock the gender caveat off of marriage too. While we are at it, lets just get the state out of marriage and just allow exclusive legal partnerships between any two consenting adults.

Comment Re:Alternative explanation (Score 1) 398

I'm not against charging Netflix-FIOS mutual customers more than non-mutual FIOS customers. As long as it isn't because they are Netflix customers and instead because they are using more bandwidth I see no reason that it would run afoul of net neutrality. People should pay for what they use, If Verizon isn't charging enough for bandwidth that is a Verizon problem not a Netflix problem.

Comment Re:1 or 1 million (Score 1) 274

Unless the contract specified a service level agreement for speed, Verizon is free give you unlimited data at whatever speed is reasonable. I'm not sure I've ever seen a clause for "Unlimited bandwidth means no limits above physical layer" spelled out anywhere. There is probably wiggle room on "reasonable" you'd likely have to take them to arbitration over it if you don't like it.

Comment Re:Forcing a $5/mo router on you, too. (Score 1) 234

Current FIOS customer, everything I've seen the router is free* with the install. That being said, the stuff ISPs give to customers is generally junk so I only use it as a MoCA bridge for the STBs. I use an Edge Router Lite as my actual gateway connected to the ONT. (ERLs rock)

*Free meaning they recoup the cost elsewhere

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