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Comment Just pay for unlimited.. it's worth it (Score 1) 227

I typically rack up about 50GB/month on t-mo. I opted out of binge so I get full hd across the board.

I get unlimited data, a flagship phone, insurance, 5 GB hotspot, upgrade every 6 months to a new phone for $50 and after taxes and fees my bill is like $87 bucks a month.

If do I think it should be opt in or out via a text message or something and t-mo could do better here but ultimately for people on a strict budget this is probably a win for them. For those who it's not, it's a mild nuisance to go log onto the website and opt out. Also, you can opt in and out as much as you want so you could binge watch Making a Murderer on your phone and then opt out and start watching video in HD against your 2 or 5 or 10GB cap.. then opt back in and binge watch Jessica Jones.
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New Snail Species Discovered In Croatia's Deepest Cave 34

minty3 writes "The new snail species, Zospeum tholussum, has no eyes or pigmentation on its shell and is considered to be a true eutroglobiont or cave-dweller. It was found by a team of cavers and biologists from the Croatian Biospeleological Society. While on an expedition to determine the cave’s depth, they collected animal specimens including one of the previously unidentified snails along with eight of its empty shells."

Comment Re:Get someone else to report this (Score 0) 627

Since you used the word whinging I will assume you are British and have no idea how broken our political system is and are used to a parliamentary system which represents people in a weighted way. The US has a winner take all system that only allows 2 people to compete and they only get to compete if they are what the media and the corporations say is ok.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 355

| For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?

I think you mean, "For all intents and purposes". Also, that is not the definition of begging the question. I do agree that no one cares about whom anymore.

Comment Here is why... (Score 1) 487

I put Ubuntu on my girlfriends laptop and she loves it. I downloaded the latest iso. Easily had it partition the drive, set up the boot loader, install the os and the video, network and audio drivers were all installed. Since she wants to watch tv shows online and check email and facebook she has a great environment (I did put in Gnome and let her pick between that and Unity and she picked Gnome) to mess around in and the effort level on a scale of 1 to 10 was a 2. What would BSD have done for me that U11.10 didn't?

Comment Khan is great but... (Score 1) 496

Khan is great but the problem is motivation. I love to learn and they have all kinds of topics there that I don't know anything about. In general, most people aren't motivated to learn new things when surfing the web. They would rather look at lolcats or check their farmville plants. I don't think any of my friends or family even know Khan Academy exists let alone visit the site.

The US is full of apathy. Sure there are exceptions but there are too many people who are happy being average or are oblivious to the fact that they are.

Comment Re:That's easy. (Score 1) 122

I love to watch (grid-iron) football and I love to play. Getting 22 people for an 11 on 11 game of football is hard to do so any version of football I play is incomplete and a pale representation of the game itself. Being able to watch the game the way it was meant to be played by the best players in the world is great entertainment. Playing 3 on 3 or 5 on 5 is a great activity. There is no line that divides playing and watching into 2 sections where you must only choose one.

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