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Updated 5/27/2008: It has now been a month since I wrote this post, and Pepco still HAS NOT fixed the electrical panel. This makes it 7 months, which is simply unacceptable. I am going to write to Chris Van Hollen, our Congressman, to see if he’d like to get involved in the matter.
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I got a letter from my insurance company over the weekend, telling me that my insurance rates would go up because of a ticket I received in 2005. I called them to verify, and it turns out they’ll stay at this increased rate for the next three years.
Let me explain. I was driving back home [...]
Updated 11/4/2008: See FOX News expose GISOL for the crooks they really are, and watch the two people behind the scam literally run from the camera. Watch the video on YouTube or below, and read the post, as well as the numerous comments here or on this post (over 300 comments in total). [...]
» Go to this postCNN has the details on this. My take is simple: I think the guy’s being used as a scapegoat after proving how easy it is to hack into supposedly “secret” databases/servers. The poor guy wasn’t even trying to cause damage, he was “looking for UFOs”. Not sure what he was thinking (or not thinking) when [...]
» Go to this postFrom Techdirt: “Yahoo has again turned over information to the Chinese government that lead to a user being jailed, a human rights group says, for the third time. What makes this case a little different from earlier cases of Yahoo acceding to the Chinese is that Yahoo turned over a draft email to the authorities, [...]
» Go to this postFrom Boing Boing: “Xeni Jardin: New York City’s police department is placing 500 surveillance cameras throughout the city, at a cost of $9 million, in an effort to prevent crime and terrorism. Hundreds more cams will follow if $81.5 million in requested federal grants comes through…”
Also in that same post, details about how the [...]
This is interesting. The EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) discovered that AT&T has been sharing wholesale internet traffic information with the NSA, and filed a brief, under seal, to get documents out into the open, so people could see what’s going on. Well, the Justice Department has now ruffled its feathers at the request, and AT&T [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been hearing a lot about the abuse of the prisoners in Iraq by American troops, and I wasn’t sure what to think of it. Did it happen because these troops weren’t trained properly? Or perhaps because they were frustrated, worn out? Was it because they couldn’t take it anymore themselves? Was it because they [...]
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The seller was going to send it by priority mail but I requested...