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by Beren (#18603785) Attached to: To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB

Hmm... I think this applies to EVDO PC cards for my laptop. In which case, the only way to download things is by plugging it into my laptop "and download that way". This is just a ridiculous case of using fine print to redefine a services. In this case, the limited "unlimited" plan.



We wouldn't have a problem with it if they just came out and said "It's limited to 5GB a month". But they don't, and are selling it as "unlimited".



Some will say, "It is unlimited as long as you don't download movies or do p2p stuff!".

Wrong.

If I use 5GB of bandwidth, regardless of the actual traffic, VZ automatically assumes I'm doing the prohibited activities. So if I trade 5GB of email with my wife, or if I'm a physician looking at high resolution slide scans, it doesn't matter. VZ sees the 5GB mark hit, and I'm the bad guy downloading movies. End of discussion from their standpoint.

Windows

Has XP Suddenly Slowed Down?

Submitted by WhoaNotSoFast
WhoaNotSoFast writes "For the last few weeks, I've noticed XP boxes slowing down dramatically. Typically the screen freezes for 10-30 seconds — e.g. the Start menu won't come up — and there's lots of disk activity. It's happening on unrelated PCs at different locations. I notice it most on quitting IE or Firefox, but it occurs at other times also. Most of the PCs have 256MB of RAM and adequate free disk space. Most are running Windows Firewall, AVG Anti-Virus and either Windows Defender or Counterspy Enterprise. They're not loading much else at startup. The XP event logs don't show anything unusual. I've run Rootkit Revealer on some of the machines, and found nothing. Task Manager doesn't show any excess CPU utilization. Unplugging the network connection doesn't seem to make a difference. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is there an infection I haven't found? Is there a paging problem? Has XP grown so large that it needs more physical memory? Or could it be a ploy by MS to nudge us toward Vista? Is XP developing early dementia? Or am I?"
Microsoft

Windows 2.0 era talk by Bill Gates with 640k

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Back in 1989, Bill Gates came to talk to the students of the University of Waterloo on the early days of Microsoft, and the future of computing. It's an interesting blast to the past, as he touches on topics such as the VGA graphics, OS/2 and software piracy, as well as the now infamous 640K of memory. Lost for nearly two decades, the tape of the talk recently surfaced and is now available in a number of audio formats from the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club."
The Internet

U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA 466

Posted by Hemos
from the the-creeping-fingers-problem dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. copyright lobby brought out some heavy artillery last week as it continued to pressure Canada to introduce a Canadian DMCA. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins gave a public talk in which he described Canadian copyright law as the weakest in the G7, while Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge him to bring in movie piracy legislation."
The Courts

Broadcasters will be fined $12.5 million in payola

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/us/article/0,2 845,MCA_25346_5397222,00.html WASHINGTON — Radio listeners sick of hearing the same tunes again and again may soon encounter surprising new voices, thanks to a $12.5 million settlement pending against major broadcasters accused of taking record companies' bribes."
Microsoft

FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In what could be the start of a government wave away from Microsoft, last week's news that the U.S. Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7 is followed today by word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google's new online business applications running on Linux-based hardware. FAA chief information officer David Bowen told InformationWeek he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. "From a security and management standpoint that would have some advantages," he said. Do you think that Vista's cost could finally put a crimp in what's been an automatic upgrade cycle to Microsoft and spur Linux adoption? Is this the start of some kind of anti-Vista groundswell?"
User Journal

SPAM: Doesn't Matter If Hillary Apologizes for Her Iraq War Vote 9

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

Scott Ritter:

Let there be no doubt that Hillary Clinton is about as slippery a species of politician that exists, one who has demonstrated an ability to morph facts into a nebulous blob which blurs the record and distorts the truth. While she has demonstrated this less than flattering ability on a number of issues, nowhere is it so blatant as when dealing with the issue of the ongoing war in Iraq and Hillary C

Vista Gets Official Release Dates 394

Posted by samzenpus
from the this-weeks-dates dept.
SlinkySausage writes "Five years, three months and five days after Windows XP made its debut, Microsoft will usher its next-generation OS onto the stage. Microsoft has set November 30 as the release date for Vista (and Office 2007) to business customers and January 30, 2007 as the date for the official launch to consumers and The World At Large."

Never have so many understood so little about so much. -- James Burke