Try this the next time you want to try an online dating site: Create two profiles, a "real" one and a fake perfect match to your real profile and see how long it takes for the site to claim that your fake perfect match has attempted to contact you and for only $4.95 you can sign on to the paid service and reply.

I'm curious as to why you use the term 'streaming' for local network storage ? I too have copies of videos and music on a local NFS server, locally mounted on the various laptops. I don't call this 'streaming'. Am I missing something ?

I had the same problem, after rooting it I noticed plenty of Gb of log files, which I deleted. But the phone kept getting slower after each update so I installed CyanogenMod and it got a 2nd lease on life.

Oh, no. That would be great. And I would only be using 5% of the 300mbps LTE link. I would like that a lot. Maybe I can buy one of those plans on EBay or Craigslist. Will have to look into that.

Read the next paragraph. I've quoted it below for you.

In terms of market cap Netflix is not that much s!aller than TWC. They could probably handle it.

Netflix in HD is 2.3 GB/hr. If I had one of these grandfathered plans I might be racking up to 12GB/hr and 50 GB/day just for this.

In the US about half of Internet traffic in prime time is Netflix. It would behoove a company that sells Internet service to provision sufficient bandwidth to the part of the Internet their customers are paying so much to access. Maybe Netflix should just get into the fiber business and start collecting that $100/month instead of a measly $12 since they are already providing half the service anyway.

It's cool, but not really news.

I was doing some work in Royal Perth Hospital sometime around 2008, and saw a small, beautifully detailed metal skull on one of the managers' desks. I asked him about it and was told he'd taken an MRI of his own skull and had it printed quarter-sized in sintered titanium. It was the best paperweight I've ever seen.

Cool factor aside, they've been scanning patients' actual bones, optimising them in software and printing titanium replacements (mostly hip joints) there for almost a decade now. There's even a few commercial madical 3d printing companies around AU (Anatomics is one).

It's great that SA is making jaws for people now though.

The Netflix boxes are adapted from Backblaze 4U 45 drive storage pods. It is called the Open Connect Hardware Appliance. They are not insignificant and I hear each one is designed to support up to 50,000 end users.

If you have 50,000 people paying you $80 a month and 50% of what they use it for is Netflix, you can afford the power and rack space for one 4U box.

I wonder why Level 3 doesn't just route most of the Netflix data though another backbone peer. Might as well saturate all of Verizon's peers.

The bandwidth is already 10x what it needs to be. Netflix gives free CDN boxes to ISPs that virtually eliminate this backbone traffic. That is the right way to solve this problem technically. It is cheap and eliminates redundant backbone traffic. Google Fiber takes the boxes even though they have ample backbone transit because that is the best solution for their customer, providing higher resolutions and lower latency to the video fan.

You are right. Why isn't there a customary retirement age for politicians ?!? WHY ?
It's there for ALL other professions, at least in my country.

They'd have to shoot me in order to do that... As someone who's in pain when an eyelash touches my eye but won't even notice a broken ankle for 3 days...