A guy here in Victoria, Australia realized that the law defines a speed limit sign as rectangular, so he hired a mathematician to go to court and show that nothing is a perfect rectangle so the speed limit was invalid. He got off but the law was changed with the insertion of the word approximately.
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If it hadn’t been porn Amazon could have used it in their ads.
“Yes, we really mean unlimited! Look at this guy!”
When I was first getting my license many many years ago, I discovered that the official wording for speed limits was “maximum recommended safe speed limit”. I always wondered if anyone ever tested that in court.
Surely they should have had some kind of ‘reasonable use’ text in their terms and conditions…
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They honored the offer until a jackass decided to make their business model untenable for no good reason.
This is like repeatedly filling your plate with the most expensive items from the “unlimited” salad bar just to scrape it all into the trash over and over again until the restaurant is forced to change their policy.
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Nope, they never cut him off. He got bored.
Holy crap, one guy alone made enough of an impact to make a commercial offering from a $70Bn company untenable? Can we package him and drop him on unsuspecting countries as a weapon?
In 2012 AWS was estimated to host 900 petabytes of data. [1] That was in 2012. Today Amazon offers to move 100PB of data from the client’s facility to AWS in a single tractor trailer [2]. Amazon, unsurprisingly, isn’t saying how much data it’s hosting (a no-longer-accessible Gartner report in 2016 put it at having as much data hosted as the seven next largest cloud providers), but it’s likely around 10-20 exabytes. For a sense of scale, when Dropbox moved off of AWS in early 2016, it took 500PB of data with it, and the AWS business – miracle of miracles! – didn’t collapse.
Did a single customer chewing up 2PB of data contribute to Amazon phasing out its offer? Quite likely, since that sort of outlier draws attention and brings out all the feels (as evident from your comment). Was he solely responsible for the cancellation of the “unlimited” offer? I’ll just wait here patiently while you produce some actual evidence to back that extraordinary claim.
[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/129183-how-big-is-the-cloud
[2] Offline Data Transfer Device, Petabyte - AWS Snowball - AWS
I think you meant to reply to someone else. I never said a word about him getting booted or not.
I was just pointing out that it wasn’t a false claim. No one ever reached a limit, so it was unlimited.
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Fair point.
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