This isn't anything new. Time Warner (now Spectrum) has offered this for many years - https://www.spectrum.net/suppo...

I don't think they can spare to have spares. They need every delivery vehicle they can put on the road it seems. I can see 4-5 Amazon vans daily (on Saturday or Sunday) in our neighborhood and our neighborhood is small. We're on the main street in so any deliveries made to the other 3 streets has to go past our house.

I remember when these started becoming popular in the US. The intent of them was one thing - looking for stolen vehicles. That sure didn't last long though !

There are stores (in the US) who buy pallets of returned goods from Amazon (and Walmart, Best Buy, etc) and sell in stores. As I understand it, all they know is they're buying "household goods" or "clothing" or whatever and they pay as little as possible in hopes there is enough good stuff in there to make profit.

And he'll be one of the first to complain when they have outages ! See how well your A/C works with NO electricity !

In all seriousness, I don't like the idea that others can control smart t-stats (our utility can't, at least to my knowledge), in this case, it's only being done in conditions that may warrant the need to do this. They presumably weren't doing this 2 months ago when electric demand was manageable.

"Weight" is not a protected class. Besides, there are other countries than the United States...

Yes, the monthly cost is higher than typical (for internet service in the US) and the up-front costs are almost unheard of for residential service ($499 vs $49 or similar that used to be not uncommon). That said, many folks in rural areas will jump on this option. I know people outside of our little city that are already on the waiting list and they know the costs involved.

Haha ! I remember the "free long-distance after 7pm" too when we had our first mobile plans. Similar thing with who was local vs long-distance happened with my mother-in-law and my wife's sister. They lived across the street from each other but that street divided who covered which area (Carrier A vs Carrier B). It was long-distance for them to call each other !

macOS and Safari has done this for a very long time, no matter what browser you use if it's not Safari obviously.

They do here as well but after a bit, what does the bitchin' accomplish ? We live a looonggg way from the Gulf of Mexico but we got remnants of Hurricane Ike one year. We lost power for a few hours while neighbors around the block had no power for 14 days ! Why ? The 'individual' feeder power line for their homes ran to just 10 homes. If his was out for 6 days, he must live in a pretty rural location or a similar scenario to our neighbors... Those are the lowest priority for getting repaired.

Not sure what's going on but if this guy's address didn't qualify for fiber-type service, I don't think ATT can put everything in place in a week's time to get him this new service. I have to wonder if his address qualified (i.e. fiber was on his street, remote-terminals were in place, etc) but it was something as simple as a database error/mistake in ATT's system that indicated he could not get service.

That was my main takeaway about this too !

No they don't. You probably are thinking of 5th-gen iPod touch devices. I have an iPod "Classic" 5th-generation myself with 60gb storage just like the ones discussed in the story.

The EPA charges a fee for their review process. I'm not sure that "make money" is accurate though. Any company can have their product(s) reviewed and/or approved too. You can bet there is a backlog of products in the queue and Lysol is simply the first to be completed. How did they get done first ? No idea if there were strings pulled or not but it's entirely possible.