The Sap Cap isn’t just a logo-less baseball cap. It’s also a blackjack, one of those weighted leather weapons private eyes used to get socked with all the time back in the 1940s.

The bill is meant to be held like a handle, and the crown of the cap is heavily weighted, in case you want to bust some skulls but don’t have any pocket space for a normal blackjack. It’s not really clear what’s actually providing the weight; apparently it’s a “unique material that is 110% the density of lead and will not rust,” which is thoughtful, because a rusty baseball cap is a dead giveaway that something weird is going on. [Product Page via Fashionably Geek]

Austin, San Antonio, Rochester, NY, and Greensboro, North Carolina are the next cities to suffer Time Warner’s comparatively draconian 40GB caps at the high-end—Comcast’s is 250GB, AT&T’s is 150GB, and all of them suck.

Every gig you overshoot your cap costs a dollar, meaning an HD movie download from iTunes could end up costing another $US5 on top the $US20 you’re paying for the movie. Just four HD movies (assuming a conservative 5GB per flick) would swallow half of your allowed data for the month. You might wanna lay off the high def YouTube and Hulu too. Oh yes, the squeeze on high def video that doesn’t come direct from your cable box is here. Actually, can I just say the internet is dead? OK. The internet is dead. [BusinessWeek - Thanks Joshua!]

The good: The new cap is 10GB, a fairly reasonably amount for mobile data (really, that’s like over 300MB a day). After you hit 10GB, your connection will be throttled down to 50kbps, just like T-Mobile’s original cap plan. The bad: It will cover every phone, including the SideKick. Worse for SideKick users, their monthly data is going up to match the G1’s. The supposed T-Mobile employee revealing this info also mentions “$US34.99 for all you can eat (cough 10GB cap)” though it’s not quite clear what he’s referring to specifically.

Really, G1 users are most likely to be affected, since it’s the only phone T-Mobile’s got conducive to really moving that kind of data. How much data are you guys using a month on average, anyway? [Android Community Forums via Android Community]

Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G network. At the same time, we have a responsibility to provide the best network experience for all of our customers so we reserve the right to temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network performance or our ability to provide quality service to all of our customers.

We removed the 1GB soft limit from our policy statement, and we are confident that T-Mobile G1 customers will enjoy the high speed of data access over our 3G network. The specific terms for our new data plans are still being reviewed and once they are final we will be certain to share this broadly with current customers and potential new customers.

In order to provide a consistently high-quality video service, AT&T Uverse High Speed Internet throughput speeds may be temporarily reduced when a customer is using other U-verse services in a manner that requires high bandwidth. This could occur more often with higher speed Internet access products. It may be necessary, for some AT&T High Speed Internet users, for AT&T to set a maximum downstream speed on a customer line to enhance the reliability and consistency of performance.

There’s a bunch of other changes in the updated terms of service that you should read too if you’re an AT&T customer, like regarding the settling of disputes. There are some clauses about not distributing copyrighted content, but I don’t know if those are new, I’m still checking on that. Either way, it’s another step toward crappier internet for all, and it’s not like you’re going to get anything out of it, either. [AT&T]

The point is to rollback the FCC’s power: Comcast, and the rest of the ISPs and telcos, don’t want the FCC to be able to tell them how to manage their networks. That order is previously uncharted territory for the FCC, and if it stands, it’ll set a precedent that grants them fairly broad powers to look over the shoulder of ISPs, and effectively, a strong hand in the shaping the future of the internet.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has already responded to the suit, saying that the FCC had “put Comcast on notice” back in 2006 that it’d look into complaints about Comcast gumming up their network without properly notifying users, yet “Comcast nonetheless chose to close on that deal.” For Martin, as usual, the mantra is about informing users, not so much about rules and regulations—whether or not that’s just his public strategy to get the rules in place is debatable, but it is his standard script.

Who do you trust more? [Ars, Ars]

“Effective in 30 days, Sprint reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred and to deny, terminate, modify, or suspend service if usage exceeds 5 GB/month in total or 300 MB/month while roaming off network.”

[Thanks Brett!]

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