Sue a Big Company In Small Claims Court
The Consumerist has an article about a reader who has taken big companies to small claims court several times to get resolution to his problem. His average cost is about $24 and 45 minutes of time.
See, in all cases, he hasn't even had to go to court: the company calls him up the day before .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]MySpace Protections Meaningless if Teens Don’t Use them
Consumeraffairs.com did a study of whether they could locate teen girls on MySpace and the results aren't surprising.
By doing simple searches with no special tools or gimmicks, they were easily able to find profiles of girls that were set to public (meaning anyone could read them) that contained more than enough information to find and contact them or .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Families, MySpaceReminder: DO NOT Use Tax Refund Anticipation Loans
These guys are scum sucking thieves. Don't give them your money. And I'm not talking just about no-name place, I mean ALL of them. Do not use payday loans, tax refund anticipation loans, or anything similar.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Tax RefundSuper Black Material Absorbs 99% of All Light
I've always thought this could be done though I figured it would have to involve a light electric field and a fabric of some kind. Either way, it's going to make it pretty easy for military types to sneak around at night.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: VantablackTennessee School to Force “Financial Literacy” on Students
Good. Avoiding credit, reading the fine print, and how not to fall for scams would be a good start.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Finances, Kids, SchoolsTrick Automated Callers Into Never Calling You Again
From the, "that's freaking brilliant!" department, someone figured out that there's a phone tone that means "vacant circuit", or in layman's terms, there's no phone here. When an automated dialer gets that, they erase the phone number from their records so they don't waste their valuable time and money (as if ours wasn't). So what he did was .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Auto Dialers, Do Not Call, Phones, RobocallsUSB 3.0 Coming
Information about the coming USB 3 format is now available. Of course it's far faster than the previous version (about 10 times as fast), but the important nugget is that the connector is backwards compatible with USB1 and 2. That means that you can plug USB 3 devices into older systems and you can plug your old devices into .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: USB2009 Federal Budget to Be Posted Online
I can't remember the last time I heard of a good decision being made in relation to Bush's name, but here's one. The budget will be posted online to save money and ease access by people wanting to browse through the monolithic document.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Budget, George Bush, Good StuffHow to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine – Picture
I found this picture on Digg.com that has an easy 5 step process to hacking the voting machines to do your bidding. Remember when you go to vote soon, to thank your state's voting commission if they are using these well known, hackable, substandard, and completely worthless machines. Better yet sue them for incompetence or corruption (or both).
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Diebold, Evoting, Your RightsNext Generation DVD Format War Nearly Over
Historically, Sony has been on the losing end of format wars, but in this case, they appear to have won. Two of the major movie studios have decided to go with the Blu-Ray DVD format over the HD-DVD.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Blu-Ray, Sony