Wikileaks Proves Useful In Exposing Scientology “Secrets”
Hopefully we'll see more material like this.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Money Cult, ScientologyA More Clever Way to Get Customer Satisfaction
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Here's a new book on my list: "Unscrewed. The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid For".
The Consumerist has a great interview with the author that describes some of the techniques in the book. Check this one out:
BURLEY: As you know, none of the techniques require anyone to .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Online Password Checker
My first thought is to be very cautious about using an online password checker to test the strength of your passwords because you might inadvertantly give away your password to a rogue site. However, this Microsoft sponsored password checker requires no logins or personal information and being that it's a fairly well-known company, chances are smaller that they .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Microsoft, PasswordsFight Unauthorized Charges
It's worth repeating that if you get charged for something you didn't ask for, you should challenge it. One point this article makes that I want to stress, sometimes you get signed up for something because you didn't notice and uncheck a box during a transaction with some other company or you had a free trial and it .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Credit Cards, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksWide-spread Drinking Water Contamination
Just another example for why we need federal monitoring and regulation of certain industries and services. Stuff like this would go on all the time if there wasn't oversight and corresponding accountability. Just look at the presidential administration for an example.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Accountability, Courts, Regulation, Water ContaminationBittorrent For Legitimate Purposes
Lest one think of torrents and illegal downloads at the same time, it's worth reminding the public that torrents are just a file distribution system and one that has many legitimate uses. For example, one IT department used torrent technology to distribute a set of system patches and upgrades in just four hours. The same patch would have previously .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: BIttorent, P2PComcast Must Die
Comcastmustdie.com is a blog where people are invited to post their customer numbers so Comcast can get in touch with them to resolve issues. Given that people sometimes have vast difficulties that never seem to get resolved over the phone, this is a pretty good idea.
And according to the blog's comments, people have been getting results. It's .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Comcast, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksScience vs Scientology Timeline
A timeline comparing the beliefs of Scientology versus actual science. And also this:
Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's most notorious space opera is the religion of Scientology, which is packed with aliens and space battles and waves of invaders to our solar system. Bush Says America Should Thank Telecoms
[Bush] Now the question is, should these lawsuits be allowed to proceed, or should any company that may have helped save American lives be thanked for performing a patriotic service; should those who stepped forward to say we’re going to help defend America have to go to the courthouse to defend themselves, or should the Congress .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference of 2008
The CFP2008 conference is coming up in late May. They're not taking registrations yet, but their information page is up at least. I wasn't able to attend last year, but the 2006 session was very cool.
The conference is the perfect place for paranoid anti-government/business privacy invasion types to congregate and complain as a group. Besides that, there are .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: ACM, CFP, Conferences, Spychips