Oct 27
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 company disrupts traffic between customers using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol:
All,
You may get customers who are contacting us with regard to several articles which were published recently, accusing Comcast of blocking or otherwise filtering customers’ Internet traffic. An in-depth AP story suggests Comcast is hindering our customers’ ability to use BitTorrent, a peer to peer file sharing program. If a customer contacts us to inquire about this, please use the following talking points.Comcast does not block access to any applications, including BitTorrent
We respect our customers’ privacy and we don’t monitor specific customer activities on the Internet or track individual online behavior, such as which websites they visit. Therefore, we do not know whether any individual user is visiting BitTorrent or any other site…
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When are ISP’s just going to suck it up and admit they simply can’t handle the traffic? ah yeah NEVER because they are such “great” providers…let me make a suggestion to everyone reading this Speakeasy.net
Oct 27
As I went through the final security check point at the Pittsburgh International Airport I had to practically get naked (remove belts, watches, shoes, rings, sunglasses, etc. etc.) and not only that, but I had to unpack my laptop and all of it’s goods. Well, I did all of this like normal, and after I passed through the x-ray machines, everything was great. No alarms. I start heading over to my laptop and belongings, and the TSA security guard was pushing my stuff to the end of the line. I approached the end of the line to collect my stuff as the TSA guard perhaps “lost control” of the tray my laptop was in … it CRASHED to the floor — cracking the bottom of my laptop, breaking the battery tray door, and damaging the hings to my screen.
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Another paid to fail job listing, nice to know this before I start hitting up airports for my world tour 
Oct 12
(Fortune) — Even in a relatively strong job market, it can be tough to make yourself stand out from the competition. So it seems some job hunters these days are resorting to, um, innovative (or is that desperate?) ways of making sure their interviews are unique and memorable.
In a poll of hiring managers a few weeks ago, Accountemps (www.accountemps.com), a worldwide accounting-and-finance staffing firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., asked them, “What is the wackiest or most unusual pitch you’ve heard from a job seeker about why he or she should get the job?”
Here are the top ten:
The job hunter…
1. “…told me to hire him because he was allergic to unemployment.”
2. “… said that we should hire him because he would make a great addition to our softball team.”
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Oct 12
A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk.
Obviously not all of Natalie Shea’s 10th Street neighbors thought her blue chalk splotch was her best work — a neighbor called 311 to report the “graffiti,” and the Department of Sanitation quickly sent a standard letter to Natalie’s mom, Jen Pepperman.
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Seriously? Chalk…wtf mate
