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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by jack-r-abbit on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:32PM (#4451441)
well... most buffets I've been to have a reduced price for children since they are typically going to eat less. But it is hard to make good analogies between physical/virtual things.
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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by lowboy on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @08:15PM (#4452178)
True those analogies are very hard to make, as evidenced by the media piracy debate and "you wouldn't download a car, would you?"

I think the majority of my vitriol comes because it's an asinine way to split up service based on what we're assuming is bandwidth concerns. If they want a tiered service, then put in a tiered rate structure. The "laptop" rate gets you 300kbps, the "mobile" gets you 100kbps. Simple.

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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by jack-r-abbit on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:12AM (#4453269)
Agreed. It is totally asinine.
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