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Unlimited everything??? I don't even know where to begin! Should I start with puppies or Chocodiles?
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this looks very similar to the deal offered in every supermarket in l.a. What's special here?
This is kinda of like Simple Mobile in that it uses T-Mobile service. So if you have a T-Mobile phone you're good to go.
@videowallart usually the sim alone goes for $10 retail (net10 in dollar general). you get them on ebay for $1. But the plan is not always half off, as it is here. Just saying
Just an important note: The "unlimited" web isn't actually unlimited. In fact it's specifically limited to 250mb :). I'm not sure what happens after the first 250mb, it says after that it's "not highspeed." Just not sure what that means..
(first 250 MB highspeed)"
I still find my virgin mobile grandfathered $25 plan (now $35) a better value.
I love that you can use almost any gsm phone with this deal.
@rileyper: Depending on the plan you choose of course (although no matter which one you pick you're right about it not being truly unlimited). The $40 unlimited it 250 MB High Speed and the $50 Unlimited is 2 GB High Speed.
@drchops: It's not really all that complicated. On the $40/month plan, the first 250MB is 4G speed and all data after that is slower than 4G speed. It's still an unlimited data plan, in that there is no limit at which your data service will stop functioning completely.
If you are a heavy data user, the $50/month plan gets you the first 2GB of data at 4G speed.
2 GB is plenty for me. I'm a heavy data user but I'm almost always around wifi (current usage of 350-400 MB / month). I do know that 2GB doesn't work for some people, which is understandable. Not sure if we'll see a prepaid company offer unlimited data at highspeed all the time any time soon
Can I use the 40 dollars in pay go?
Hmm, this looks pretty dang good. I just ported my # to Virgin Mobile and I really like it, but the 3g speed is pretty lackluster. Meanwhile, T-Mobile has had 4g in my city for 9 months now... choices...
I just switched from virgin mobile to t mobile due to the drop signal in my area... Can't receive any calls in the house and messages were mostly delay for 10~30 mins. T-mob Walmart plan is cheaper as for my personal option.
@neallee: someone asked this on facebook and they said yes
@cleverett: My point was: What is "slower than 4G?"
That's a purrrrrdy broad range :)
@garygary52: Had same problem with ATT in my house terrible signal! Then I called them and they "tuned" my phone.Also had me take out sim card and rub it on Tee shirt.It got 75% better for several months.Just FYI
@drchops: If it's done the same way Tmo does it, EDGE-sque speeds in the 3-5 dialup modem range.
Which, it's worth noting, is the speed you'll be getting in many outlying areas if you use a GSM phone without a 1700Mhz band, or just about anywhere if it doesn't support HSPA+/AWS.
if it's a free sim card, with free shipping and the first month is free what the heck is the 20 dollars for?
@markleydr2008: It doesn't say anywhere that the first month is free.
I did a bit of research in the wee hours of the morning and found the only real downside to Platinumtel's service to be that their coverage is only native for the moment. I can deal with that, and will probably be signing up for this to throw in an old 3GS that we've been thinking about using as a business phone for a few days now.
@ascurlock: What do you mean when you say the downside is that their coverage is only native?
I think this is a Great Deal! I have "ptel" for my 14 year old...the "real paygo" or whatever they call it and it is the BEST DEAL EVER! he's not a heavy cellphone user so $10 ever other month has been plenty for him. I had already decided to get their unlimited GSM plan for myself when they rolled it out so this makes it even better.
Now, I'm trying to figure out if or how I can get the $40 card with the sim to switch my son over to GSM AND get the deal for myself, too, for when I get my new phone. When does this deal expire or am I overlooking something? back to read through the post and comments again...
thank you so much for posting this!
@bunfun: Native means that their coverage is limited to the network that they are an MVNO for, which in this case seems to be T-Mo. This limits you to only the towers that they own whereas with a T-Mo contract phone they roam on AT&T towers. MVNO's don't include roaming which gives them the ability to offer cheaper plans.
Great deal!!!About to order and give it as a X-mas gift, they have free shipping. Can't wait!! $40 bucks a month, cant beat that.
Ive done a little research and read trough all the posts above. You guys mention they are a Tmobile MVNO, however wiki says they are on sprint, which I know cant be true, because they only support GSM phones.
I have a few questions
1. Is there any way I can get some clarification as to what carrier they use, as I would like switch two AT&T phones to their service (iPhone 4s, and a Motorola Atrix, bot AT&T)
2.I would also like to retain 4g data service. can anyone confirm 4g coverage with an AT&T unlocked device?
3. is it possible to transfer a number to ptel?
If yes, can I transfer the number after establishing purchsing and trying this "trial card" or do I need to port the number at the very beginning.
the CDMA runs on Sprint. they are switching to GSM, so they are switching to Tmobile. For about the next 6 months, the CDMA phones will still work and then be phased out to straight GSM. Hope that helps.
Depending on how frequently you use cell minutes, T-Mobile has a $30 a month plan that has Unlimited Text/Data (5GB soft cap) with 100 minutes a month. In my case, I use around 200 a month, so I'd pick up a 1000 minute card that would last me almost a year and after that, you get a 15% bonus on minutes. Toss in liberal wifi calling with an Obhai Obi202 using Google Voice and I've got a plan that will cost me on average around $40 a month with more than twice the data and save me $120 a year over this plan offer.
@markmc27: that's retarded.
ok, so confirmed T mobile For GSM?
no 4g speeds with my AT&T phones.
no good for me :-/
@unashamed: tmobile is refarming their 1900MHz spectrum to get highspeed on that band. They have 20+ markets or so done, so that would work for you, if you're in said markets
@juvenall: Are you saying that you can buy a refill card loaded with minutes and use that on the $30 Monthly 4G plan? I didn't know that was possible. I've only purchased the $30 Monthly 4G refill card. I know with the $30 plan, once you use up the 100 minutes, you're charged $0.10 per minute up to however much money you have left in the account. Are you saying you can add a 1000 minute refill card and it's shown on your account separately from the cash balance and carried forward for a year? I guess it comes out to the same thing (1000 minutes is $100 at $0.10 a minute), but if you get some bonus minutes, it'd make it a better deal, assuming you use up the minutes before they expire.
@unashamed: @unashamed: Platinumtel is the Sprint division with the CDMA phones and Ptel is the T-Mobile division with gsm phones.
As far as I know you won't retain 4G speeds with an AT&T phone however you can use Red Pocket Mobile http://goredpocket.com as they use AT&T. However their pricing/plans aren't as good if I remember right .


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It seems like the status quo in the games industry is to write most software in-house, maybe excluding the engine if you use one of the dozen or so big ones. Before working here I was mostly an open-source developer, so this mindset seems downright crazy to me. Is there any good way we can all stop building things like log viewers, network diagnostics, and patching systems?
We can stop reinventing the wheel by... ceasing to reinvent the wheel. Use external libraries, game engines, etc.
I get the sense that people do reinvent the wheel to:
It depends. I think there is actually a fair amount of middle-ware out there, that gets used, ... if you are willing to pay of it.
At the same time sometimes it is easy to hack something to get really fast without that many external dependencies, if the scope is small.
I think on the highend, you have to compare companies like EA and Ubisoft to other large software companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, what have you.
They all write a very large amount of custom code, when there are existing alternatives, because they want to get a competitive advantage.
As @Sean James said there are legal reasons and host of other reasons, but I think even if there were no road blocks, inventive software companies would still develop custom alternatives to common existing software components if they thought they could make them better.
However I also agree that there is always room to start some projects we all could benefit from. For instance, I think we need to replace COLLADA with something much simpler that is JSON based. Maybe something that only handles arbitrary meshes, but nothing else. I think we really need a better mesh format.
In my experience, these things are treated as simple extras that can be bolted on alongside your 'real' programming. Of course, they turn out to be far from simple and far from 'extra', being complex and important parts of the system, but by then there's already too much investment in the bespoke version.
Are there good open-source or commercial libraries that provide this type of functionality? I am not sure there are, and until someone steps up and provides one, it'll stay this way. The business developers often aren't able to produce libraries that are suitable for games ("what, you mean you can't completely remove all the calls in a Release build?!") and game developers are often uninterested in making this sort of thing as a standalone package when they have a game to be getting on with.

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#3. Flexible Phones
Cell phones have come a long way from those hilariously clunky models that 90s era action movie villains carried around, but they've pretty much hit a plateau as far as how small they can be made without the constant threat of accidentally eating them. And current alternatives like Bluetooth earpieces don't do anything to make the user look less like a douchebag.
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The solution appears to be to throw that "traditional design" crap to the wind and go with futuristic, flexible materials. Nokia, for example, has a pair of concept phones that embrace this idea. One, the 888, can be rolled or folded up so you can wrap it around your wrist, clip it to your belt, and in all likelihood break it right the fuck in half.
It's like a snap bracelet, only way more impractical and expensive.
The Morph concept takes it a step further. The idea behind this one is to not only be flexible but stretchable as well, so you can fold your phone up to put in your pocket but then stretch it out to take a call or use its touch keyboard. We'd like to think you can keep stretching it to make a hat or a Frisbee or something, but the details are vague.
Also, the phones of the future will be lime green for some reason.
These designs are mostly theoretical at the moment, but it gives us a good idea of where cell phone design might be heading. The concept videos (here and here) also imply that only hip 20-somethings will be able to use the phones of the future, but that's how Apple markets the iPhone so in many ways the future is already upon us.
#2. Medical Scanner
Imagine feeling your left arm go all tingly and your chest start cramping up, but rather than having to drive all the way to the hospital, you can just whip out your cell phone and do a quick self diagnosis, ignoring the fact that your unwillingness to actually get up and go anywhere is probably what got you into this situation in the first place.
There are already dozens of medical apps available that can help you do just that, although they're generally intended for studying purposes rather than researching "tracheotomy" while your sister is choking on a peanut. But there are some practical ones as well, such as apps that monitor your blood pressure, give basic eye exams and analyze symptoms to determine what you could be suffering from. There are even apps to track your menstrual and ovulation cycles, though we kind of doubt those ones will be featured in any iPhone commercials.
Then we have prototype phones from Japanese companies like Nokia and NTT that can monitor your heart rate, calculate your body fat, test you to see if you're stressed and keep an eye on CO2 gas and UV ray levels. Plus, all of this information could be sent back to a hospital or clinic, so your doctor can call and tell you you're about to have a heart attack.
"Gee, still no answer at Mr. Johnson's. Guess I'll just leave another message about his imminent heart failure."
And if you want to get a little fancier you can turn your cell phone into a fairly sophisticated medical scanner. Just plug a portable unit into your phone and its data will be sent to a remote computer that will return images of whatever grotesque tumor you have to your screen. It's designed for doctors in low income and rural areas, but as the technology becomes cheaper it may not be long before you can give yourself an ultrasound.
#1. All in One ID
Another standard of science fiction that now seems inevitable is that everybody's personal information from--birth certificate to bank account--is stored on a single card, so if it gets stolen it's like you never existed. Well your cell phone might be fulfilling that prophecy pretty soon, hopefully without the "never existing" part unless everyone you know is an idiot.
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It's been suggested that in about five years your cell phone will be able to make payments, function as a door key, serve as a transit pass and be used for identification, among other things. Some of these services are already available in Japan, where you can use your phone to make purchases at stores sort of like an oversized credit card, which suddenly makes passing the waitress at Max and Erma's your phone number a way more personally damaging faux pas.
Some hotels have experimented with a technology that lets guests use their phone as a room key. And that's just the start, because there's not much stopping your cell phone from replacing everything you keep in your wallet, saving you from the hassle of counting out cash or fumbling for your keys while simultaneously providing you with the convenience of being completely fucked if you accidentally drop your phone in a urinal.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Literary activist, poet and short-story writer Kadija Sesay, also known as Kadija George, will read from her works March 28 at 4:30 p.m. in SUNY Geneseo's Sturges Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Kadija is the founder and publisher of SABLE LitMag and SABLE LitFest and is the editor of several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent. She also has published her own poetry, short stories, essays and articles in magazines, journals and anthologies in the United Kingdom, the United States and Africa. In addition, her work has been featured on the BBC. Her first full poetry collection, "Irki," which means "Homeland" in the Nubian language, was recently published.
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On October 2, the sky was a clear blue, the air brisk but pleasant, and the aspens a dazzling yellow with the occasional patch of crimson. For an autumn day on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park, it doesn't get much better.
But the Kawuneeche Visitor Center was unusually quiet. Just west of the center, on Highway 34, barricades and gates blocked the Park entrance, hung with signs reading "road closed." Every so often, a car cruised by, stopped at the barricade and paused. It then flipped a U-turn, either returning down the highway toward the town of Grand Lake or taking a moment to park at Kawuneeche. But the visitor center, too, had closure signs. Even its public restrooms were locked.
Among the visitors stopping at the center were Amy Kelly and Robert Thornton from Atlanta.
"I was born and raised in Denver, and I've been coming up here since I was 3," Kelly said. "I'm disappointed, because it's my park. It's our park."
The couple had planned on traveling along Trail Ridge Road to Estes Park, which Kelly calls her other "beloved town." They made reservations for four days in Grand Lake with the sole purpose of visiting Rocky Mountain National Park, hiking among the fall colors and observing the elk rut.
"I have a lot of mixed emotions about this shutdown … you can't keep letting the debt go out of the world," Thornton said. "But to do this to people is really said, especially when we've traveled so far."
The couple decided to make the most of their trip by taking advantage of other hikes in the area, mostly on forest service land. They did enjoy sightings of colorful foliage and elk.
"You're still able to enjoy it, but not all of it," Thornton said.
A little later, Lyle and Joanne Groome returned to their car parked at the visitor center. The two knew the federal shutdown had also forced a closure of the Park, but they decided to drive up from their home in the Denver area to see how close they could get and enjoy the changing leaves.
"It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous," Joanne said, expressing frustration with the U.S. Congress.
The couple visited Grand County and the Park last fall, calling it a "revelation." It inspired them to purchase a National Parks pass. Although the Park closed, the couple said they might stop in Grand Lake for lunch to at least help the local economy.
"We just hope (the closure) isn't going to last very long," Lyle said. "I just wish our government would get it together and act like adults."
The town of Grand Lake's economy depends heavily on tourists flocking to the area to visit the Park. In particular, it booms during the summer months once Trail Ridge Road opens, linking Grand County to Estes Park. Brilliant autumn weekends offer businesses a last chance to capitalize on Park travelers' dollars before cold weather sets in and closes the throughway.
Andrea Barnett and her husband Rodney manage Colorado Cabin Adventures, a scenic property of tourist cabins along the north fork of the Colorado River. While it's still early in the week, the two are planning for a slow weekend.
While the summer brings international and out-of-state tourists to the area, the fall season brings more last-minute visitors from the Front Range looking to get out of town and enjoy the color.
"The Park's a big draw," Rodney said.
The Barnetts don't own Colorado Cabin Adventures, but as the resident managers, they receive a bonus each month based on bookings. That bonus represents a big supplement to their salaries.
While the September floods brought some displaced tourists from Estes Park to their rental cabins, the Park's closure during the torrential rains still caused an economic burden.
"Things start to slow down this time of year, but we expected the first two weeks in October to make up for the rest of it because of the fall and elk," Andrea said.
After the Park's September closure, Andrea researched other popular hikes in forest service land. When people called to cancel, she tried to highlight other experiences visitors could enjoy in the area.
"But it's the Park, that's the draw," she said. "It's the name – to say you went hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park."
Last weekend, Colorado Cabin Adventures was full. So far, they only have two reservations for the weekend.
"Is it because of the Park closing? Probably, but you don't know," Rodney said. "Nobody calls us and says 'we were going to book, but the Park's closed.' They just don't call."
Caught In a rut
In downtown Grand Lake, the American flags lining the town's iconic boardwalk waved in the fall breeze. The town was quiet, which was not unusual for a Wednesday in October. But business owners, too, were preparing for an usually slow weekend.
"I would say this is somewhat slower than it might be during a normal week with nice weather, as we are having," said Bob Scott of Bob Scott's Authentic Indian Jewelry.
Scott's shop operates in the late spring and summer, closing in mid-October through the winter. He acknowledged that given the seasonal nature of his business, he's less likely to feel impacts from the Park's closure.
"Though I'm hearing a lot of disgruntled people wanting to come and see the leaves, and it's a big inconvenience," he said.
Scott said the most common sentiment is disappointment. That frustration is directed less at the Park and National Park Service employees, and more at the U.S. Congress.
"We do feel the national economy should take precedence over their personal wishes and over their personal agendas," Scott said. "That's the common thing I'm hearing from people coming through my door."
Tim Randall's business, Never Summer Mountain Products, particularly benefits from recreationists visiting the Park. He said he felt an impact during the flood closures.
"This is the second time the Park's closed, and this time around it's just ludicrous," he said.
At the Grand Lake Chamber of Commerce along Highway 34, Bob King, owner of Pancho and Lefty's restaurant and a chamber board member, was chatting with Chamber Director Kacey Beres. By that afternoon, Beres already had 30 visitors come by and complain about the Park closure. She worries about its impact on the small business owners she serves.
"I think the trickle down will happen," she said. "We're going to see a decline in numbers because the Park's closed."
King said his business always feels a hit when Trail Ridge Road closes. And after the issues caused during last month's flooding, the government's forced shutdown is causing businesses already hurting to take a bigger blow.
"I just don't know what to expect," King said. "We're right in the middle of the rut, and that always attracts a lot of visitors. I feel sorry for the people in Estes."
Still, the restaurants, retail shops and hotels on either side of Rocky Mountain National Park are doing their best to persevere. Unlike the barricades on at the Park entrance, businesses have worked to keep their doors inviting and unobstructed.
"Grand Lake is still open for business," Beres said. "With the fall leaves, it's a beautiful time to come up."
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Can we seriously get real about Valentine's Day? I mean, the concept of the day is great - show the people you love how special they are to you. And, I know, girls are supposed to love all the hearts and flowers and sparkly things. But it just seems Cupid needs to shoot us with an arrow-ful of reality check.
Bam Bam is at an age where he likes me to sit with him more in the mornings, so I've been hearing a lot of relationship experts on the daytime shows. According to them, sorry, guys, but you will never meet the expectations we women have of you. We want you to give us some fairy tale experience with red roses, rare wine and exclusive dinner, with sparkly jewels as the main course. What is required of women? Your guy will love a handmade card because it's so thoughtful or maybe a new tie so he looks fantastic (cue the sweetly blinking eyelashes). Oh, and guys - if a woman says you don't need to get her anything for Valentine's Day, SHE IS LYING!
So, what I've learned is that Valentine's Day turns women into needy, demanding, shallow beings and puts guys under more intense pressure than MacGyver trying to cut the right wire.
Sorry, experts, but I'm not buying what you're selling. Truthfully, I don't think most people do - at least I hope they don't! After nearly 14 years of marriage, I don't need to be impressed, just reminded that I'm valued. I love roses, but I'm serious when I say there's no need to send them on the one day of the year when demand is peaked so the price is highest. Instead, how about on, say April 23rd, just because I worked hard the day before? Dinner? I'm cool with a good pizza or burger because you know I like to eat real food! A gift? You know how much I love a good cup of coffee so took me to my favorite coffee shop for breakfast. Finding how to show your sweetie your love should make you smile, not sweat!
Please note the heavy dose of sarcasm in what I wrote above, but the point is that it's the little things. Much like the commercialization that surrounds Christmas, I think we need to take the same step back when it comes to Valentine's Day and realize what's important. Okay, I admit I like a big surprise as much as the next person, but it shouldn't come out of obligation or demand or some manufactured societal pressure. It should come from love. Often, the greatest of gifts come in the smallest of gestures.


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I have a laptop with debian. Networking is configured with NetworkManager. Now occasionally I want to connect a device to its wired ethernet port and then bridge wireless to it. That all works in so far: I need to terminate NetworkManager first manually to ignore the ethernet port or else it is going to try to configure it which interferes with the static address required. My question now is: how can I, using a dbus command, say to NetworkManager that it should ignore eth0 for a while? And later to manage it again?
From the Debian wiki:
So you should maybe put the static Ethernet configuration in the
I'm afraid that that is not possible. The D-Bus API allows you to disable all kinds of wireless devices, but not the wired ones. The only way to disable wired connections is to disable all devices, including your wireless device.
Maybe it helps to untick the "Connect automatically" box for your wired device. That way NetworkManager won't automatically connect to it.
This is what I found from
This will mark device to disconnect state so it's outside network-manager control
This is fine as long as I don't disconnect the cable.
You can check device status with:
And currently active connections with:
I created this helper script


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Spring Turnip Frittata
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Coffee-Streusel Bundt Cake
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Lemon-Cranberry Muffins
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I have installed new firefox, however flash doesn't work. When I visit for example YouTube.com instead of vids I see info: please update Your flash player. I am trying to use apturl package for Ubuntu but it gets me a message that: this file cannot be opened because "apt" is not recognized by any program.
How to solve this issue?
Thanks and regards, Misery
PS.: ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64 flashplugin-nonfree or any other flash package don't solve the problem
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San Diego lawmakers part of push in Congress seeking reconsideration of ranking
More than 50 members of Congress — including Duncan Hunter of Alpine, Susan Davis of San Diego and Darrell Issa of Vista — want to demote the Pentagon's new medal for drone pilots and cyber warriors so it ranks beneath medals awarded for traditional blood-and-sweat fighting.
This week, 49 House of Representatives members dispatched a letter to new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who himself earned two Purple Hearts during the Vietnam War. The group, which included Davis and Issa, asked Hagel to reconsider the position of the Distinguished Warfare Medal.
The medal, announced Feb. 13 by outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, recognizes "extraordinary achievement" related to a combat operation. But it does not require risking one's life or being in proximity to the battlefield.
Pentagon officials said the medal, tailored to drone pilots and cyber warfare operators, reflects the changing nature of combat. Bloggers are calling it the "Joystick Medal" and the "Golden Xbox Award."
Panetta's announcement is causing a furor among many combat veterans because the new medal is positioned above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
The Bronze Star is given for merit and, when carrying a V device, acknowledges valor in combat. The Purple Heart, which ranks below the Bronze Star, is awarded to service members wounded or killed in action.
Richard Gilbert, a medically retired Marine Corps sniper who was injured in Iraq, said everyone who performs beyond the call of duty deserves a medal, just not one of this stature.
"I don't think these drone pilots have earned a medal of such a high caliber because their lives, at no time during their duty, were at risk," said Gilbert, a student at UC San Diego.
Another combat veteran, Jeffrey Leigh, served three tours in Iraq as a Marine and said he saw friends doing superhuman things that were recognized with combat medals.
"You are talking about giving someone this medal who flies an unmanned plane? They are not in harm's way," said Leigh, now an engineering student at Palomar College. "I think it should be changed, not erased, but maybe just lowered in the medal rankings."
On Feb. 26, Hunter and two other military veterans in Congress proposed legislation that would downgrade the Distinguished Warfare Medal below the Purple Heart.
On Wednesday, he wrote an opinion column for USA Today about the issue. Hunter said it's possible the Pentagon erred in judgment when ranking the new medal. Or, he argued, it may be part of what he described as an ongoing Defense Department sentiment that today's troops face fewer personal dangers because of high-tech hardware.
"What the Distinguished Warfare Medal implies, by elevating the award above other combat valor decorations, is that the operators of unmanned systems, most of whom are far removed from the battlefield, face the same risk and imminent danger presented by ground combat. No matter how these respective mission-sets are compared, they are not the same — not even close," wrote Hunter, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee.
Davis, a member of the same committee, acknowledged in a statement that "the look of combat has forever changed." But she also said that placing the new medal above the Bronze Star "lessens the sacrifices of so many of our veterans, not only of the current conflicts but of wars past."
The letter from the bipartisan congressional group, issued Monday, called the award's current status a "disservice to our service members and veterans who have, or who currently are, serving overseas in hostile or austere conditions."
The Pentagon hasn't budged on the issue. Officials at the agency have promised that the medal will not be awarded often or lightly.
Leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars recently raised the issue with President Barack Obama and reportedly got a promise from the commander-in-chief that he would review the issue.
In other medal news, the Pentagon announced recently that it has expanded its online valor database to include Medals of Honor bestowed before Sept. 11, 2001.
Previously, the online listing only included medals awarded since 9/11. The database, at
valor.defense.gov, provides the names of service members awarded the Medal of Honor, service crosses or Silver Star.
The Pentagon said it intends by March 31 to add pre-9/11 recipients of the Navy Cross, Air Force Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross.
That leaves the Silver Star, which ranks below the others but above the Bronze Star. Adding pre-9/11 recipients of the Silver Star will be more difficult, the Pentagon said.
Many more Silver Stars have been awarded than the higher-ranking medals, and historians have done less research on those recipients. Also, the authority to award the medal was delegated below a service's headquarters, and award documents didn't always reach the higher headquarters or make it into a service member's personnel record.