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@lodixmods: I'm a network administrator with 15 years of experience in the education and local government industries, so I'm sorry to disappoint your assertion that I am obviously a shill for the cellular industry to even suggest that what AT&T is doing here is reasonable.

I remembered that I'm not actually using the Antec case fans. I ordered some parts from [www.endpcnoise.com] including some quiet case fans and a quiet CPU cooler.

"ANYWAY, the bottom line for me is who is monitoring who they throttle and how?"

I agree with you that the analogy isn't perfect...I was using knittingfit's analogy to make a counterpoint. I agree that AT&T has a responsibility to beef up the network in order to handle demand, but as someone who has seen this issue from the other side (as a network administrator on a college campus where we had to…

But imagine this: BillyBob's kitchen can only make so much food so quickly, and you are having to wait for things on the buffet to be replenished because 5% of the customers are piling 25% of the available food onto their plates and eating it so quickly that they are back in line before you've even made it through the…

Right. I can understand why people are concerned about this. Anytime a company changes the terms of your contract, especially cell phone providers or cable companies, it usually means you're losing value on a service that you pay for. At the same time I do not think this is an unreasonable change, it won't affect 95%…

That is a thin wallet! I still like my Franklin though. I guess Kramer would say they are both too bulky and went out with powdered wigs :D

Unlimited Data Plan = You can download/upload as much data as you want. It does not mean you get unlimited bandwidth. That's not even possible to provide. Bandwidth is always a finite resource.

I knew this would be coming, but I'm not too concerned. Bandwidth is never unlimited, and whether throttling is done or not everyone's performance suffers once utilization stays pegged at the upper limits because of too many people using too much bandwidth.

Definitely good to avoid chains, and also to avoid gigantic portions or at least leave something on the plate to take home. Many restaurants these days have appetizers that are entree sized, so there have been times my wife and I have shared a single appetizer and a single entree. One of our local Italian restaurants…

A lot of folks would be surprised at how easy it is to build a computer these days. I've been building them since the mid 1990s, and I used to build my own because it was so cost effective. I could get a high end machine for significantly less than what it would cost to buy a comparable one off the shelf. These days I…

I agree, and personally I would avoid the cheap PSU's that ship with some cheap cases. A cheap case can actually be just fine, but I'd buy the PSU myself. I've seen some cheap PSUs that didn't have enough connectors, were noisy, horribly inefficiency in terms of power, and a bad one can even cause stability problems.

Very cool... except for the fake book binding on the outside. I could do without that. I do like the look of the leather though, and I like the red tab for easily pulling out your iPhone. I'm not sure i would keep it in my back pocket, but certainly in a jacket pocket or in my man-purse (it's a camera bag!).

I LOVE xkcd, but I must have missed that one. Thanks for the link... hilarious!

I'm pretty sure that shaving with peanut butter is a fetish, and on some dark corner of the Internet is a website dedicated to its practitioners.

At least it's sterile shit, and not necessarily... you're just covering up the wound unless you use something like Neosporin.

This tip definitely serves as a good reminder: I need to make sure our home/kitchen first aid kit is stocked up so I never actually need to use this tip.

Definitely an interesting approach. My problem is that the things I put on my To Stop list are things I don't really have a choice on. They are chores and urgent needs that are not related to my primary goals or projects, but they still have to get done. Maybe before I was a parent I wasted more time, but with an…

Cute, but too simple for my needs. I like the 2Do app for iPhone for my personal list, and Wunderlist for one I share with my wife. If I tried to cram everything in my 2Do list into one list for today and one list for tomorrow, the tomorrow list would be depressingly long. It would be demoralizing just to look at it.…