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Text Messages are a Rip Off...DUH

The New York Times: Text messages cost carriers virtually nothing

No shit....I think we new that. But thanks for reminding us.
From John Brownlee and BB Gadgets... Click here for his full post and NYT story.

The New York Times has a good piece up on the heavy curtain of secrecy that surrounds mobile carriers' profit margins on text messaging. In short, they're bilking you... but you already knew that. But here's a pretty simple explanation of why the text messages you pay twenty cents each to send costs the carrier basically nothing:

A text message initially travels wirelessly from a handset to the closest base-station tower and is then transferred through wired links to the digital pipes of the telephone network, and then, near its destination, converted back into a wireless signal to traverse the final leg, from tower to handset. In the wired portion of its journey, a file of such infinitesimal size is inconsequential. Srinivasan Keshav, a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, said: “Messages are small. Even though a trillion seems like a lot to carry, it isn’t.”

Perhaps the costs for the wireless portion at either end are high — spectrum is finite, after all, and carriers pay dearly for the rights to use it. But text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network.

That’s why a message is so limited in length: it must not exceed the length of the message used for internal communication between tower and handset to set up a call. The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted.

Thanks John for your read on the whole deal. Visit BB Gadgets for more gadget news.

Stanley's Christmas List - Man found in PA Attic

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A family didn't realize it had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said.

Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog to search the home in Plains Township, a suburb of Wilkes-Barre about 100 miles north of Philadelphia. He was charged with several counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.

"When he came down from the attic, he was wearing my daughter's pants and my sweat shirt and sneakers," homeowner Stacy Ferrance said. "From what I gather, he was helping himself to my home, eating my food and stealing my clothes."

-snip-

"When we were going through the inventory of what he did take, we found a note labeled 'Stanley's Christmas List' of all the items he had removed from the residence and donated to himself," Smith said.

Link to full craziness

Tee Hee Hee - DemocraticUnderground...Jumped the Shark

DU, what a blazing crash into the abyss. A Liberal political message board with promise has fallen to the depths with no chance of return.

I'm cracking up. DU fell apart during the 2008 primary season. The boards administrators allowed long time DUers, DEMOCRATS...LIBERALS who were Hillary supporters to be systematically targeted and ousted.

What are they left with.

Loudmouth homophobic hypocrites with IQs lower than a gnat fetus.

Peep this bullshit here...LINK

Bush Wants Death of World Wide Economy as His Legacy

I HATE BUSH and the ENTIRE BUSH FAMILY

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is seriously considering "orderly" bankruptcy as a way of dealing with the desperately ailing U.S. auto industry.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday, "There's an orderly way to do bankruptcies that provides for more of a soft landing. I think that's what we would be talking about."

President George W. Bush, asked about an auto rescue plan during an appearance before a private group, said he hadn't decided what he would do.

But he, like Perino, spoke of the idea of bankruptcies organized by the federal government as a possible way to go.

Link to sorry shit here.

The fucker never planned to do anything. May GOD strike him down for what he has done to this planet.

Japanese Foot Massager Kills Three

Say what? Read the rest of the story @ Engadget. They only have specifics about the death of a woman who used it on her neck.

Pomeranian in a Kimono

I just had to post this image I saw @ Cute Overload. If you don't surf this site at least once a day you're a loser. Just sayin.