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more about #top more comments → madog: @mmmiles: How is there traffic abuse though? I think that's the point of this article. You can't use any more speed than what you pay for (of which on... more » ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD: Of course it doesn't exist. It's just a way for ISPs to cut off people who use what they pay for. more » MrEvil: Ashamed to admit being related to Joey Fatone? I'm sorry, but Joey Fatone has reclaimed some cool points in my book for his self satirizing performan... more » hbuzzell: The plans to charge the higher use customers unfortunately are usually written to catch a lot of users that are not downloading all day long, just nor... more » MrEvil: And what the ISP's keep doing is claiming that bandwidth is some finite resource, like ground water, or coal. Bandwidth is just the maximum amount of... more » Xagest: I was having this discussion with a friend the other day. He basically asked "Where did bandwidth come from, and how do people get it?" It was in ... more » MrEvil: The problem is, advertisers don't see the value in the 30 second spots on Hulu. The Networks are going to have to do a better job selling online adve... more » CaseyG: The problem isn't that some users use "too much" bandwidth. The problem is that ISPs sell bandwidth under the assumption that users will make sporadi... more » ninjagin: Google has a stripper pole in the swiss headquarters? Egad, I'm not sure if I'd want to see the Google employees that use it. Meh, I'll take #9, please. more » SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Tomorrow's headline. "Benoît Felten was found dead on his apartment, police suspect that the criminal used a telephone cable." more » MrBlahBlah: if viewership is growing, why aren't advertising rates following? more » Duckspwn: Gah. Not many things piss me off, but that picture is one of them. That kid makes me sick. I remember reading about it in the news and instantly losin... more » Gundem: i can only imagine how cold and damp number 2 would be. Not cool. more » OCEntertainment: This concept has really made me rethink how net neutrality would work. In a similar Ars article, they made the point that if a single user did all the... more » Monty: No question that all services have a bell curve of use, and there are those at the front (bandwidth hogs) and those at the end (bandwidth piglets) tha... more » -
#iphoneapps
The Week's Best iPhone Apps
In this week's Steve-approved app roundup: Your music library, converted into baddies! Twitter, visualized in 3D! Byplanes, flown! Xbox Live accounts, accessed! Cars, salvaged! Overprotective parents, abetted! Live video calls, called! And more... More » -
#unconfirmed
Apple Is Now in the Streaming Music Business
The New York Times is reporting that Apple's agreed to buy the music streaming service LaLa, according to "a person with knowledge of the deal." Apple's now in the streaming music business.
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#laautoshow
2009 LA Auto Show Round-Up: Let's Get Small
What made the 2009 LA Auto Show a big deal? Small cars. The onslaught of big SUVs and green marketing seems to have passed. The full wrap-up of the 2009 LA Auto Show is a click away. [Jalopnik] -
#tgif
10 Of The Best Spaces For Kicking Back and Relaxing
We've been focusing on gadget gift guides lately, so I thought I would mix up the lists a bit for TGIF and focus on architecture. Here are some of the best places to just kick back and relax.
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#netneutrality
Is the 'Bandwidth Hog' a Myth?
Every ISP's discussions of pricing plans, net neutrality or piracy invoke the same faceless villains: the bandwidth hogs. Benoît Felten, analyst and blogger, has been working in telecom for over a decade, and he wants proof these monsters even exist. More » -
#science
The Space Butterflies Stop Flying
The horrifying space butterflies have stopped flying, and now they are just walking around their cage, having a few space beers, and smoking a few astroturf joints. And man, they were really pissed off. More » -
#blockquote
Yeah, TV Executives Are Terrified of Streaming Video
The above quote comes from Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, whose daughter insisted her dorm room did not need a TV thanks to Hulu and other streaming sites. It's the sound of panic setting in. More » -
#netbooks
Netbooks: What You Need to Know About the Next 6 Months
A bunch of great netbook upgrades are on the way—next-gen Intel processors in January; smooth HD video playback—but to spare you the brain hemorrhage of keeping track, we've laid it all out. Here's what you need to know. More » -
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#piracy
Time Warner Hijacked My Browser Because of Piracy
Time Warner, perhaps hip to the fact that I haven't bothered to check my meat space snail mail mailbox in the last three weeks, took matters into their own hands and inserted this warning directly into my browser. More » -
#design
Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
What do The Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible 3, Mr & Mrs Smith, Children of Men, and Agent Cody Banks 2 have in common? Absurd, futuristic, and totally fake software interfaces, designed in part by one man: Mark Coleran. More » -
#review
Withings Wi-Fi Scale Review (A Scale For the Year 2010)
The Withings Wi-Fi would have been alien technology in the 1950s. "What do you mean, this scale posts your weight on the 'internet', and then graphs it on your 'iPhone'"? And yet, folks, this is our world today. More » -
#laautoshow
New Mercedes iPhone App: Hands On
Mercedes knows its drivers may lose their keys or even their cars but never their iPhones. Lose your giant luxury SUV at the mall? There's an app for that. Click through to see how it works. [Jalopnik] -
#digitaldownloads
My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads
Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he's an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers. More » -
#retromodo
Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007
I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don't worry Steve, here's the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave: More » -
#rant
Where Is My iPhone Videochat, Apple?
Dear Apple and AT&T: I have had enough of this. Tell me, why don't we have videochat on the iPhone, you assclowns? Whatever excuse you may have, I'm here to destroy it. More » -
#review
HP Envy (15-inch) Review
I've been avoiding this review for the better part of a month because, with all the hype the Envy line has gotten (some deserved), I took the Envy 15 out of the box and had one thought: "Cheap." More » -
#topsecret
Secret CIA Manual Shows Magic Tricks Used By Spies
During the Cold War, the CIA hired a master magician to teach them deceptive maneuvers. Here are a handful of tricks, recovered from a super secret manual the government thought it had destroyed over 30 years ago.
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#creative
Zii Lives: First Look at the 1080p Android-Powered Trinity Phone
Remember the Creative/ZiiLabs StemCell system-on-a-chip from a while back? The one that spawned that Android PMP design? Well, the Zii project is marching on, which means new hardware, including the dual OS Trinity phone, 360º HD webcam and more. More » -
#iphoneapps
Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: November '09 Edition
Each month, the best new iPhone apps—and some older ones—are considered for admission into Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? More »
