February 2012
10 posts
UPS My Choice - Features →
Holy CRAP! UPS has a paid service where I can pay to use features that I’m already paying for, as part of the shipping price?! AWESOME (actually, really fucking lame). The part where it’s $5 to have a shipment held at the UPS Store is really pathetic, and since FedEx does it for free I’ve switched to FedEx for all business shipping.
UPS has been crap ever since the employees...
Skype is dishonest →
I’m boycotting Skype from now on — like AT&T, their “unlimited” plan ISN’T unlimited, but they don’t mention that fact until you’ve gone over the limit and run up charges. It’s in the fine print, but putting “not really unlimited” in the fine print of something you’re advertising as “unlimited” is about as honest as...
This isn't like "freight included", because...
New AT&T service will let app makers pay for your smartphone data
The TSA is literally teaching kids to submit to... →
CLP’s Ken Wooden explains that telling children they are participating in a game “is one of the most common ways” for sexual predators to engage them in inappropriate contact. Likewise, because children “don’t have the sophistication” to differentiate between the pat-down at the airports and sexual assault, the TSA procedures are setting a dangerous precedent for those who experience the...
This bothers me. Cops have a lot of latitude but... →
$2.5M deal in Milford cruiser crash
Milford officials have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the family of one of two teenagers killed in a police cruiser crash in 2009.
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AT&T on data throttling: Blame yourselves →
Frack you, AT&T.
Mystery over £51m sale of Chinese vase - Telegraph →
When you get some basic human rights THEN I’ll respect you, China. Our way isn’t the only right way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a wrong way.
The carjacker might have technically been... →
Child taken in carjacking found safe
Police have recovered a three-year-old child that was left in a car seat of a vehicle that was carjacked Sunday morning.
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Pity they don't know how painful those injuries... →
No charges after death of released man
A Rhode Island grand jury has decided against bringing criminal charges against police officers involved in the arrest of a Connecticut man who died last year after being released from custody.
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