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In a clarification of the company’s previous approach, AT&T is now throttling throughput speeds for users of unlimited data plans as soon as they exceed 3 GB of usage, exactly the same amount of data included in the similarly priced tiered plan. Mad about it? Consider taking AT&T to small claims court, as one iPhone user did successfully.

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En polispatrull i Linköping försökte i kväll stoppa en bil med flera säkerhetsbrister.

Åtta hjullastare och en lastbil förstördes vid en brand i en verkstadslokal i Kiruna i dag.

MBtronics writes "I work at an embedded hardware/software company and we are currently moving all our products for Windows CE to Linux. Our core development team already uses their favorite distro for development, but the rest of the developers are still working on Windows. We are going to give a series of Linux lessons (from 'what is Linux' to installing, using and developing) for everybody in the company who is interested (including non-developers). They will be allowed to choose their own distro, but we will certainly get requests for recommendations. My question to the Slashdot crowd: what distro (and window manager) do you think is the best to teach Linux to the generic public? We are currently thinking of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mint."

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Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu avvisar idén om att genom diplomati hindra Iran från att skaffa kärnvapen.

Algeriets största oppositionsparti, Socialistiska fronten, ska ställa upp i parlamentsvalet den 10 maj.

Aktivister från gruppen Anarchopride samlades på i dag i Socialstyrelsens huvudkontor i Stockholm för att protestera mot diagnostisering av transpersoner.

Misstänks ha knivskurit en tioårig flicka svårt vid en skola i Göteborg.

A few countries, like Estonia, have gone for internet-based voting in national elections in a big way, and many others (like Ireland and Canada) have experimented with it. For Americans, with a presidential election approaching later this year, it's a timely issue: already, some states have come to allow at least certain forms of voting by internet. Proponents say online elections have compelling upsides, chief among them ease of participation. People who might not otherwise vote — in particular military personnel stationed abroad, but many others besides — are more and more reached by internet access. Online voting offers a way to keep the electoral process open to them. With online voting, too, there's no worry about conventional absentee ballots being lost or delayed in the postal system, either before reaching the voter or on the way back to be counted. The downsides, though, are daunting. According to RSA panelists David Jefferson and J. Alex Halderman, in fact, they're overwhelming. Speaking Thursday afternoon, the two laid out their case against e-voting. (Read more for more, and look for a video interview with Halderman soon).