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302 Phone Numbers To Reach A Human At Paypal

Paypal is not known for being friendly or easy to reach, so we’ll help you out with a whole bunch of unpublished internal phone numbers. Tons of people trying to scam them probably turned them off the...

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Comcast's "We Don't Throttle BitTorrent" Internal Talking Points Memo

A Comcast employee supplied The Consumerist with the following internal email sent out to all the customer service staff at the Maryland call center. It’s regarding recent reports that the cable...

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Damning Proof Comcast Contracted To Sandvine

Comcast told its employees to not comment when customers ask about recent reports in an AP article that it contracted BitTorrent sabotaging to a company called Sandvine, or to even discuss that a...

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Domino's Announces Online Pizza Tracking That's Accurate To 40 Seconds

This is science! Domino’s has announced an online pizza tracking system that will allow you to keep an eye on your pizza as it’s being delivered—and it’s accurate to 40 seconds. We are living in the...

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Overstock.com CEO: Wikipedia Has Become An Instrument Of Mass Mind-Control

Reader Adam forwarded us this bizarre email from Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com. After announcing deals on watches and exercise equipment, the email invites readers “Take 5 with Patrick, ” which...

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Craiglist Sex Ads Were ID Theft Trap

A Minneapolis area crime duo have been arrested for luring people on Craigslist to sexual encounters, then stealing their wallets. Amy Ruth Bergquist and Eric Thorsen are accused of then using the...

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Viacom Fraudulently Claims Ownership Of Indie Filmmakers' YouTube Clips

Viacom is sending bogus copyright ownership claims and illegal posting notices to independent filmmakers posting their own movies on YouTube. These films contain not one iota of Viacom content. Take,...

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iPod Nano Explodes While Charging

Reader D’s first-gen iPod Nano was chugging power from his PC’s USB port when suddenly he saw it “explode open and start shooting sparks and spewing smoke.” Pictures inside, along with Apple’s...

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Steve Jobs's Flamewar With A College Student

Usually we praise a CEO for responding directly to customers but Apple’s Steve Jobs has made a hobby of talking tough to those who email him at sjobs@apple.com. In the latest case, because she couldn’t...

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How A 12-Mile Car Ride Can Cost $357.08

Is it price-gouging, or just supply and demand in action? One person’s “supply and demand” is another person’s “price gouging.” Uber, a smartphone app that matches up professional drivers who want to...

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