Thu Feb 26 2009
ripoffs Vonage Silently Adds "Optional" Feature, Refuses To Refund Your Money 
We're having a hard time figuring out how Vonage can justify pulling their "Visual Voicemail" scam on customers without even offering the option of a refund, but that's exactly what they're doing to Daniel. They quietly turned on the feature over a year ago. You'd think in a year of logging onto the website, an observant customer would catch that sort of thing—only Vonage makes it actually look like it's not enabled on your control panel, all the better to sneak it past you. Here's how they pulled it off with Daniel's account. MORE >>
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 18:31
ryanair RyanAir Employee Calls Blogger "Idiot," And Their Spokesperson Publicly Agrees 
So blogger Jason Roe finds what he thinks is an error on the RyanAir site that would let you buy airfare from the zero-frills a-la-carte Irish airline for free. An employee decided t make nasty comments in Jason's comments section, calling him "idiot and a liar!" and saying that he probably can't get a date. Which was not that surprising. Nor was it surprising that a RyanAir PR rep responded to the situation. What was surprising was that the PR rep sided with the commenter and heaped further abuse on the blogger! MORE >>
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 14:19
math Here's The Math Formula That Ruined Our Economy 
Now if your kids ask you why they have to learn math, you can tell them, "Because if you don't, you could ruin the global economy, you little beast." Wired has just published an article that traces the entire clusterfrak back to a formula published in 2000 by a mathemetician working for JPMorgan Chase. Bankers loved its simplicity but completely misused it—despite warnings from academics that it was flawed—to turn pretty much every security into a triple-A, no-risk fabrication. MORE >>
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 13:53
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 13:13
blight What Should We Do With All These #@$@& Empty WaMu Branches? 
WaMu went on an insane building spree in Chicago a few years ago, and when combined with Chase, already a huge player in the Chicago market, it became obvious that there are just too many damn bank branches. Chase recently announced that it would close almost 300 WaMu locations nationwide — 57 of them in the Chicago-area alone. The bank branches replaced local businesses during the boom, but will they come back during the bust? MORE >>
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 12:30
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 11:53
travel Air Travel Is Getting Cheaper Because No One Is Flying 
Prices are coming down as demand weakens, so if you were thinking of taking a flight — now might be a good time to start shopping for tickets.Southwest Airlines and AirTran have both announced fare cuts and the LA Times says that traffic is down 31% at LA/Ontario International Airport as ExpressJet, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways have eliminated or slashed service. With that in mind, here are three shopping tools we like... MORE >>
POSTED: Wed Feb 25 2009 11:13
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