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Comment Re:Why do I not trust their numbers? (Score 1) 272

by Chroniton (#32551760) Attached to: O2 Scraps Unlimited Data Usage For Smartphones

Actually, IMO, most of the caps ARE carefully calculated to be unfair. Look at the plans for data and txt usage. They almost ALWAYS break down to these options: 1. cheap plan with a limit lower than what 95% of people need, with insane overage charges 2. expensive plan with a limit way higher than what 95% of people need, with insane overage charges

This does not describe AT&T's plan, and the other providers are sure to provide caps that are *at least* as fair as them.

1. cheap plan: 200 MB for $15. Enough data to cover 2/3 of customers. Overage charges actually *match* the base plan - $15 for another 200 MB. Not insane.
2. top plan: 2 GB for $25. Not expensive. Enough data to cover 98% of customers. Overage charges are *cheaper* than the base - $10 for another 1 GB. Not insane.

What these plans do is *save* money for 98% of customers. And anything that gets the heavy users to cut back on abusing the unlimited plans means better/faster service for the rest of us.

Comment Re:One more thing... (Score 2, Informative) 1184

by Chroniton (#32489086) Attached to: Apple Announces iPhone 4

Wifi only because AT&T will never allow it. It would be nice if there was a standard for video calls on phones.

Of course, there IS a standard, called Video Share and AT&T has had it for years.
Maybe you're thinking of the other carriers, which still don't support it?

Why does everybody on this site bitch when Microsoft spreads FUD about linux, and then they turn around and do the same of AT&T ?

There are legitimate issues with AT&T, but this ain't one of them. Neither is signal quality in 2010. Enough is enough.
Earth

Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice 237

Posted by timothy from the planted-by-von-braun-in-1967 dept.
Chroniton writes "NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only an 8-inch-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"
Science

Submission + - Complex life found under 600 feet of Antarctic ice (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Chroniton
Chroniton writes: NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish "frolicking" beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling an only 8-inch-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere like Europa?
Power

Submission + - China to Tap Combustible Ice as New Energy Source (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by lilbridge
lilbridge writes: Huge reserves of "combustible ice" — frozen methane and water, have been discovered in the tundra undra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Estimates show that there is enough combustible ice to provide 90 years worth of energy for China. Burning the combustible ice may be a far better alternative than letting it just melt, releasing tons of methane into the air.
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Submission + - Scientists Use LEDs to Broadcast Wireless Internet (inhabitat.com) 2

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: A group of scientists from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency wi-fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you’ve ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides.
Power

A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion 404

Posted by kdawson from the you-may-feel-a-slight-pinch dept.
ewsnow writes "The Focus Fusion Society reports that the scientists and engineers at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics have finally built an operational Dense Plasma Focus device. While still at less than half power, they were able to achieve a pinch on their device. The small company that Eric Lerner started recently gathered enough funding to start a two-year study on the validity of his theory regarding fusion-inducing plasmoids. If the theory holds, the device will produce more electricity than it consumes. In contrast to the billions of dollars spent on Tokamak fusion (think ITER), LPP is conducting their research on a budget around a million dollars. Yet, if it works, it will provide nuclear fusion with much simpler equipment and much less cost. Eric Lerner and Focus Fusion have been discussed on Slashdot before."

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