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21Mar/083

Comcast employee cancels my internet after receiving complaint

I’ve never been too big a fan of Comcast. At the begining they were nice, but after a months their services just tanked. There would be packet loss at random times of the day, usually during around lunch till dinner time. The web would suddenly grind to agonizing speeds, leaving some [...]

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14Feb/080

Comcast Admits Bandwidth Throttling Under FCC Pressure

For months now Comcast has been under scrutiny on how they ran their network and treat their customers. From their P2P throttling, to the invisible bandwidth cut off mark, there have been thousands of dissatisfied customers. Comcast, now under pressure from the FCC is being a little more open about how their [...]

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1May/070

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Can hex be copyrighted? This is the HD-DVD processing key for a large majority of the movies produced thus far. With software, you can watch the DVDs on linux; successfully decrypted.
“The AACS is investigating the claims right regarding of the hack,” said AACS spokesporson Jacqueline Price. “It is going to take a [...]

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27Apr/070

AOL Blatantly Copies Yahoo’s Portal

AOL has done some pretty low things in their miserable existence, but this has got to be the worst. In what seems like a pathetic attempt at a web portal, they totally copied Yahoo.com’s design. It’s so blatant, it seems as if it were done to get attention to themselves. Almost [...]

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21Apr/070

TurboTax Refunding Customers That Filed Late

In a press release, Intuit says it will be refunding customers that paid Turbo tax to file their taxes online from April 17 and 18. Apparently during peak hours, which is around a day before they’re due, their servers experienced a critical database failure. Oops. They’re offering to pay for any [...]

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