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Comment What they're trying to do (Score 1) 341

is force residential customers to pay for business service. Complain about the cap, and they'll try to sell you on it.

And as people "in the know", I think we can all call bullshit on them when they say streaming video uses too much bandwidth. Netflix streams H.264, TV streams are uncompressed MPEG-2. If you watch Netflix, you're using less bandwidth than if you were watching Fox.

Comment Comcast is (Score 1) 341

bastards.

I signed up with them, asking directly if there was a cap. They said, "no". Five months later, I got an email announcing the good news that the cap would be raised to 300gigs/month from 250. (I doubled that the first week I had service)

So I called them. They said the cap had always been there, but they hadn't been enforcing it. I made several suggestions involving the rectal insertion of a chainsaw. Something I have done again several times.

Comment Atlanta traffic (Score 2) 406

is why I feel secure in saying that we absolutely need self-driving cars. Stupid Humans make traffic a nightmare. Self driving cars won't stop three lanes of traffic trying to cut ahead of everyone at an exit, block the passing lane, weave all over because they're too busy on the phone, or make congestion worse by constantly trying to change lanes.

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