That would be Texas.

Precisely what happens when this thing hits somebody that isn't the intended target?

They become the intended target. Next question.

Take the money. Hopefully a lot but anything. Just take it. After a decade of bad mergers at least HP can shed itself of Palm. Maybe it will pay for the Meg Whitman exit package.

Nope. It isn't a question of credit; it's a question of payment and price. If the unwashed poor have bad credit and they pay up front with their Go Phone account then they should pay the same rate as anyone else since ATT is incurring no risk by taking their money ahead of time. Or perhaps given the fact that they are prepaying and in fact extending credit to ATT maybe they should pay a little less. Or you could just rip off the poor. You could do that.

This sort of reminds me of that Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon (I think) where they speed up the car by moving the speedometer. Alternatively, Google could just concentrate on building a platform that doesn't suck.

You can't name a single example so you suppose that this example exists but that it's a secret. Ya got nuthin.

have you scored a -1 on Slashdot for someone else?

Let's hope the Republicans and other ne'er-do-wells get the message that we're tired of paying for this.

Sorry, but this just stinks of a payola article.