Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by dagw on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:58AM (#17817331)

If I claim my pizza is the best, and I never even ran it in a competition, aren't I just lying?

A (fairly mediocre) hamburger place back where I grew up heavily advertised themselves as "The award winning best burgers in town", reference (in tiny print) a test the local newspaper had done over 10 years ago. So basically it shouldn't be too hard to claim that your X is 'the best' according to some measure without having to outright lie.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by Retric on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:42AM (#17817710)

In the US some phrases like Best are considered devoid of meaning. The issue is you can develop an arbitrary scale defining Best such as closest to our restaurant or whatever.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by nkrisc on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:23AM (#17818487)

What really gets me is that words like 'unlimited' have a pretty unambiguous meaning. Is there any limit? Then it's not unlimited.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by dagw on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:38AM (#17818569)

You can download as much data as you want over the 32 kb/s connection we provide you :)

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by unnouinceput on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:19PM (#17821209)

I have 1Gbps (125MB) unlimited. I've never had any throttle. And down service is like max. 5 hours per year. Sometime I just put 100GB worth of torrents in queue, go eat lunch in kitchen and comeback and they are all finished. Welcome To Romania where unlimited is the norm here. Oh, and costs ~$15/month

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by nkrisc on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:48PM (#17830589)

But when you're not throttled at the start of the month and you are after reaching a certain amount of data usage (dare I say, a limit) then it is not unlimited.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by dagw on Friday August 24, 2018 @03:33AM (#17833396)

I suppose someone could argue that you're always 'throttled', by network congestion if nothing else, and all they're doing is changing the throttle.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by grasshopperpurp on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:17AM (#17818814)

Exactly - big difference between and quantifiable and unquantifiable claims.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by tripzilch on Friday August 24, 2018 @11:51AM (#17835688)

So do words like "best". Is there anything better than it? Then it's not the best.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by tripzilch on Friday August 24, 2018 @11:50AM (#17835678)

> In the US some phrases like Best are considered devoid of meaning.

What. Do you still have warranty on that language, because it appears to be broken.

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