300GB might be plenty for people who are just browsing the web and checking their e-mail. But I just checked, and my average usage over the last 3 months is 700GB. That's for 3 people, streaming Twtich and Netflix and Pandora, and downloading games from Steam. I don't think this is an extreme use case, this strikes me as average. There is a helpful note on my usage page which states "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended". I think that, instead of up-charging people who go OVER 300GB, they should be offering a deal to people who stay UNDER 300GB.

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I'm amused that someone is still talking about the Samsung Stratosphere. The first model was obsolete nearly as soon as it came out, in the sense that Android 4.0 came out a week after the Stratosphere, but the phone never received an update past 2.3 (the two it did receive brought it up to 2.3.6). I've never used the Stratosphere 2, and it sounds like that's where most of Bennett's complaints are coming from. One the Strat 1, I've never experienced the calendar bug, and the screen always comes back on when I'm on a call and pull the phone away from my face.

I will commiserate about the fact that there are almost no phones coming out anymore with a slideout keyboard.

Just tried to sign up to give this a go for a month. Already, it tells me my credit card number is wrong, and it can't process my payment. Uhhh wtf Adobe. I've bought lots of stuff from you before. This doesn't bode well...

My last flight couldn't have been better - it left as soon as possible after I arrived, and landed precisely when I wanted. That kinda comes with being the pilot, though. (ok, in-training, but still stands :)

I have a feeling the same thing has happened to me. I noticed a week ago that I was no longer able to log into my router. I was planning on trying to reset the router to default settings just so I could get back into it to administer my network. If a notice was sent about the change, I'm sure it was sent to the verizon.net e-mail address attached to the account, which I don't have access to, and my roommate (whose name is on the bill) never checks.

This action by Verizon is very irritating, to say the least.

plists are xml. If you don't count those as human readable, you may as well not count *any* text files as human readable.

Same - recording data-only to the disk, and the error correction worked OK there.

And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.

Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.

The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.

30,000 songs at 5 to 6 MB each (high quality vbr mp3) adds up to about 160 GB.

250,000 pictures, at 2 MB each (that's about average for what comes out of my digital camera) adds up to about 480 GB.

13,000,000 e-mails at 50 KB each (averaging my inbox, with a few dozen attachments, and a few hundred html or plain text) adds up to about 620 GB

Averaging these out it comes to 420 GB. I'm pretty sure I've never reached that much in a month.

Of course all these numbers are arbitrary, and Comcast can see if you're downloading more than 99% of the other users on that segment (or whatever it's called), and either give you a warning, or shut you off, at their discretion. But you have to be doing some serious downloading to get those kinds of numbers...