Schools Taking Kickbacks From Student Loan Companies
Students who expected impartial advice from financial aid offices on campus were getting the shaft. Now that they've been caught, loan companies have promised to stop bribing schools.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Families, Kickbacks, Loans, SchoolsBest Buy Tries to Snuff Coverage of News By Bloggers
In a colossally stupid move, Best Buy triggers the Streisand Effect by issuing a take-down notice to a blogger who wrote about something they didn't like.
It turns out that this group called Improve Anywhere did a funny prank where they got about 80 people to dress in khakis and blue shirts and had them all enter a .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Best Buy, BloggingBush Countdown Clock
Ok, so there’s a bunch out there already, but they don’t give you the code, they want you to point your browser to their code. I don’t want to do that. So here’s my own counter that you can freely use and modify. Please keep the link back to this site though (or at least credit me somewhere nearby). Enjoy 😀
Western Digital Puts Restrictions On Types of Files You Can Copy
Here's a western Digital Hard drive has Digital Rights Management (DRM) built in. It's an external hard drive which is advertised as making it easy to store and share your files, as long as those files aren't music or movies.
Don't buy these. If you did buy them, return them.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: DRM, Total Failure, Western DigitalUse ResellerRatings.com To prevent Yourself from Getting Scammed
My poor wife went to a website that I directed her to to buy something for me for Christmas. It turns out that website is a front where they take your money and give no product. If we had known about resellerratings.com, we'd have saved ourselves the hassle, but now we have to cancel the order and possibly get a new .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: ResellerRatings.com, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksScientific Misinformation Spread Through Youtube
A study recently reported that Youtube contains many videos that contradict mainstream science, but get better ratings than the ones that are scientifically correct. We all love a conspiracy, but try to remember not to believe everything you see on the Internet.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Science, YoutubeFacebook NOT Sorry for Beacon Disaster – Offers Full Opt-Out
Embarrassed that they got caught, Facebook is now offering a worthless Opt-out policy that will help only the users who know about the problem and manage to find out about the policy and then take the trouble to do it.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Data Brokering, Facebook, Families, Opt Out, PoliceWhite House Illegally Deleted Over 10 Million E-mails
Over 10 Million e-mails were deleted during historically important time periods (also periods where corruption and incompetence have been alleged). How convenient that they're "missing".
Either way, count another law broken by the Bush administration.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Accountability, Congress, Corruption, George BushTimeline of Bush’s Attack on American Freedom and Liberty
So Bush wants to leave a legacy? Here it is.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: George BushPhishing Attacks Trick You To Calling A Phone Number
To make a phishing e-mail seem more legitimate, scammers are now using common language from banks such as:
Please remember that we will never ask for personal account information via email or web pages. This gets you to lower your guard. Instead of having a web address to click on, they set up a .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Phishing, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks