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		eropple on May 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Woman removes SIM card from smart energy meter, us... Then you learn a painful lesson about fixing your systems. But in that case, you're at fault, and are on the hook yourself. Here? Not so much.

pyre on May 4, 2011 [–]

To me the lesson would be that things break, and deals like this should probably include some sort of cushion. I'd be cautious of just banking on the fact that we'd never have to pick up a huge bandwidth bill because nothing would ever go wrong.

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