That's wrong, because nobody with an unlimited plan has a contract any more...they are all month-to-month, as their contracts have expired.

If you had an unlimited plan and wanted to do something that forced you into a contract (subsidized phone, etc.), then you were told that you had to sign up for a new plan. For a while now, Verizon doesn't have an phone subsidies, so people with unlimited who stuck it out this long now had no incentive to switch off the plan...they would pay full price for any new device. So, Verizon is raising their rates to try to convince them to switch. It's not very nice, but it is unfortunately legal.

Nope, there's nothing better in the 9-10" e-ink category.

I have the same reader and have been looking for something new because the poor HTML support on the reader app means I have to manually edit every book so it looks correct, because they all use the features (drop caps, embedded fonts, etc.) available on the Kindle.

Good KVMs show up as a composite HID device and always present that to the OS, even if a different computer is now active. One of the things this means is that most gaming mice and some keyboard keys aren't passed through.

Really good KVMs have an option to disable this feature and allow straight pass through of the devices to allow all functionality.

The mechanics of how to keep a man from being turned to jelly when the suit gets tossed into a nearby building by the Hulk have been solved?

Seriously, though, there will never be an exoskeleton as maneuverable and fast as the Iron Man suit, since there is no way to protect the occupant from mistakes that cause sudden deceleration. Even a fast turn could be deadly.

I always thought that Mitsubishi should start using the tagline "From the company that brought you Pearl Harbor".

I pay about $120/month for 35/35 business service...it would be about $150 for 50/50, with as much "guarantee" as any provider will give you. As with all things broadband, it's all about competition. If there's a lot, it's priced as it should be...otherwise, $1000/month for 50Mbps is what you get.

But, that's nowhere near normal use case. I download torrents like that for my work, and 500GB is just a starting point. My current project has 245 files larger than 500GB, going up to 917GB (total data about 2.6PB).

I wouldn't expect anybody to download this stuff to their home connection...I use about 2-3Gbps for the download, and we only had a 10Gbps connection total for over 4000 users...luckily that's now 100Gbps.

I only allocate 10Mbps to my Steam downloads, and it's not unusual for a game to take 10 hours to download (40GB games aren't unusual, as you say). Even with 100Mbps, it would take an hour and saturate the link.

If you want to play now, you're going to need at least 1Gbps...that 100Mbps isn't going to cut it.

First, I run a 10Gbps backbone that my SAN and ESX hosts are connected to, and 1Gbps to all other locations. So, you're nothing special.

I have FiOS up to 500/500 available where I live, but only pay for 35/35 because other than the occasional game download, nothing takes so long that I even notice. I can play games, stream movies, remote desktop, etc., and it's hard to tell which sessions are local and which go out over the Internet.

Only with many, many popular torrents, and then you run into the problem that you need very fast disks to keep up with the 600MB/sec read+write. I work with a lot of systems that transfer a lot of data, and the trick is balancing all the hardware so it can all keep up with the speeds.

At my work, we're just installing a 100Gbps connection to the Internet, and all that means is that we now have to upgrade everything else to be able to take advantage of it.

300 GB per month is 1 megabit per second average. So, even hitting 1200GB/month, you're not getting anywhere near "100% utilized" on a 10Mbps line.

I strongly suspect this very low number was picked because there will be quite a few people who will just bite the bullet and pay the extra $30/month, regardless of their actual usage.

The other huge difference in your example is that DoD would merely be paying for something already built and functional.

TFA is about three companies building a system from scratch. Even if they use something that mostly already exists, it will be highly customized for DoD, to the point that it will be different from anything they have already done, and nowhere near "proven" or "tested". Since the history of those three companies shows they want nothing more than keeping their clients locked in as long as possible, it's not a recipe for long-term success.

Every employee of the US government already has two-factor authentication in the form of a smart card. The problem is that there are many programs that don't have the hooks for two-factor authentication built in.

For example, a web app that queries Active Directory almost always asks for username and password, when Windows Authentication can use either username/password or smart card/PIN. This is because smart card/PIN requires trusted code to run on the client computer, and we all know that isn't really possible.

Modern FORTRAN won't be that big a deal for anyone familiar with C and bash. Same looping structures, free-form code (indent however you want), etc., but just no braces to mark blocks.

A publisher can donate 10,000 eBooks to a library with a few thousand square feet of floor space, but couldn't do that if the books were physical, as there would be no room.