I'm with AT&T, I have an iPhone 4 (bought used), and I don't have a data plan. I switched my voice plan to a GoPhone account. I add money to my account whenever I want and then I'm charged $0.10/min. for voice calls and $5/month/200 text messages. They won't let me use pay-as-you-go data on an iPhone even if I want to. I haven't worked it out exactly, but my bill went from ~$65/month to more like $25/month at most.

Charter does it in Missouri too. You can "opt-out", but in that case it redirects you to a Charter server that serves up a copy of IE's DNS error page -- no matter which browser you're using. It even references the local images that IE would use so the images on the error page are broken when using Firefox.

There's no drawing. The first entry received after the 999,999,999th - whether by purchase or the non-purchase entry form - is the winner. For serious. It's in the rules.

Do you happen to run Portal? I'm considering getting a Mini to hook to my 1080p TV and I'm trying to figure out if it would do an acceptable job running Portal at 1920x1080 as that's the most resource intensive game I play.

You cannot expect people to authenticate to view them, as the best you could hope for is some wonky one-time password sent along with the message there was an MMS they could look at, and which users would not stand for.

This is exactly what ATT does with MMS messages I've received. I guess it could be seen as annoying, but it seems better than the alternatives. You could even argue that they want it to be annoying. I would imagine that people who complain are told it's for security purposes and to make things more convenient, you just need to add this MMS plan for $X/month.