Random Articles

• Minimum Purchases Violate Credit Card Merchant Agreements “Always honor valid Visa cards, in your acceptance category, regardless of the dollar amount of the purchase. Imposing minimum or maximum purchase amounts is a violation.” As always, thanks go to Consumerist.com. The excuse I hear for this behavior is the credit card’s transaction costs (~3-5% of the transaction + a few pennies per transaction + a
• Liberating Iraq for….China? “So, not surprisingly, [China] seeks to resurrect old oil-field deals it had with Saddam in Iraq. Did I not say this would happen? Our blood, their oil. When I was in Beijing in 2004, I told everyone I met with that China should have 50k peacekeepers in Iraq, because in the end, it would mostly be
• Ear Travel Tip This is a note to self: take a decongestant pill an hour before before take-off and landing. How Stuff Works says it’ll minimize earaches, nausea, and headache. The former has been the cause of some of my worst flying experiences. The latter 2 I’ve got right now. Unpleasant. Update: My mom said when I was a
• Unlock-in “The US copyright office will permit mobile phone subscribers to unlock their phones, allowing them to be used by rival network providers.” - Andrew Orlowski, The Register “The exemptions become effective on 27 November 2006 and will only remain in effect for three years.” - Tim Finn “This is really only applicable to Cingular and T-Mobile
• You are a Dynamic Inventor So says, My Personal DNA Report.