Verizon Wireless Crediting Customers $90 Million for Mistaken Internet Charges
Verizon phones have a habit of making it all too easy to connect to their admittedly widely available data network, including the "$2 for pressing the 'Up' button charges that the New York Times' David Pogue skewered. Now the wireless firm is giving 15 million customers up to $90 million for those kinds of inadvertent access charges, along with compensating for applications that access the data network without notifying the user. Look for a $2 or $4 credit on your next Verizon bill, and if you believe you're owed the credit, ring them up.
Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.
Skit Ideas Not Even Good Enough for Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Guterman (website, blog, twitter) writes, edits, and produces things.
Thanks for the welcome, Mark. It's good to be back. I hope to deliver posts with substance. This, though, won't be one of them.
The Internet loves lists and it loves witnessing people get embarrassed. So let me start my stint with a list about a failure of mine.
I recently got a new Mac at work, and since I'm one of those losers who needs to have everything he has on a local hard disk (you never know when you're going to have to watch a scene from This Is Spinal Tap right now), I ported everything over from my Mac (now my son's) to the new one. But the new one has a slightly smaller hard disk than the old one, so I had to go through some directories to purge some files. A few big files were easy to get rid of (I am never going to listen to Metal Machine Music again), but I wound up looking at some directories I hadn't seen in a long, long time. How long ago? Before Axl Rose started recording Chinese Democracy long ago. In one such directory, there was a file called SNL.DOC. What could that be? I double-clicked.
In the mid-90s, I worked for Delphi, an early proprietary online service. We were Rent-a-Wreck to AOL's Hertz. We had some significant firsts (one day I'll tell the story of how we talked the Rolling Stones' reps into making us the band's official online service for free) and we were briefly overfunded (News Corp. bought us during one of its intermittent sessions of new-media panic), but the venture failed. For a brief time, before I went solo, I was living in Massachusetts (where I still am) while my job had migrated to Manhattan, so I went back and forth from home to job a few times each week. This went on for only a few months, but it felt like a long time at the time. Hey, that is a long time to be away from your family.
Anyway, from my hotel I could see the NBC building, and one gets bored sitting alone in a hotel room at night, so I started writing ideas for NBC shows. (Then as now, I didn't watch much TV, so I got most of my story notions from the ads for the shows I saw around Times Square.) One night, after a session of Coca-Cola and sushi, I scribbled several dozen ideas for Saturday Night Live. Fueled by insomnia, homesickness, caffeine, sugar, and probably mercury, I thought so much of my ideas that the next day I snuck into the floor at 30 Rockefeller Plaza where the show's offices were and dropped off a package. I returned to the Delphi office, certain that the phone would ring ... right ... now.
The file SNL.DOC contained my proposal to Saturday Night Live. It sketched out 36 skits. Most of them were sub-mediocre at best. The worst involved the viewers' knowing what McHale's Navy was, a dubious proposition. Here are the least bad of the pitches:
Much like a driving test, a teen couple that wants to become sexually active has to pass a test with a tester in the bed with them, grading and commenting on their every move.Hollywood executives convene a pitch meeting for the Speed sequel, with ridiculous concepts, such as Sloth, in which the bus must stay under 10 mph.
Folks sit in a movie audience and their entertainment is not the film itself, but trying to guess who on the screen is gay.
Chris Farley is a Mary Kay salesman. (Hey, this was a long time ago.)
A couple eats lunch at a McDonald's set up like a high-end eatery; they ask the waiter questions like "How is the root beer today?"
A Schindler's List parody called Schneider's List, based on the character from the sitcom One Day at a Time
An ATM dispenses items other than money, such as taxis, advice, and photos with NBC celebrities
Folks watch absurdly interactive TV, where viewers can do wild things with a remote.
A bona-fide emergency happens on the set of ER and disasters ensue.
The joke, if there was one, was on me. I hadn't watched SNL regularly since Emily Litella was a recurrent character, so I had no idea whether these ideas for skits would have made any sense for the show. I was surprised the day after I dropped off the package when I didn't hear back. I was disappointed the second day. By the third day, I was on to the next scheme.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Verizon Wireless Crediting Customers $90 Million for Mistaken Internet Charges
Verizon phones have a habit of making it all too easy to connect to their admittedly widely available data network, including the "$2 for pressing the 'Up' button charges that the New York Times' David Pogue skewered. Now the wireless firm is giving 15 million customers up to $90 million for those kinds of inadvertent access charges, along with compensating for applications that access the data network without notifying the user. Look for a $2 or $4 credit on your next Verizon bill, and if you believe you're owed the credit, ring them up.
Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.
Skit Ideas Not Even Good Enough for Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Guterman (website, blog, twitter) writes, edits, and produces things.
Thanks for the welcome, Mark. It's good to be back. I hope to deliver posts with substance. This, though, won't be one of them.
The Internet loves lists and it loves witnessing people get embarrassed. So let me start my stint with a list about a failure of mine.
I recently got a new Mac at work, and since I'm one of those losers who needs to have everything he has on a local hard disk (you never know when you're going to have to watch a scene from This Is Spinal Tap right now), I ported everything over from my Mac (now my son's) to the new one. But the new one has a slightly smaller hard disk than the old one, so I had to go through some directories to purge some files. A few big files were easy to get rid of (I am never going to listen to Metal Machine Music again), but I wound up looking at some directories I hadn't seen in a long, long time. How long ago? Before Axl Rose started recording Chinese Democracy long ago. In one such directory, there was a file called SNL.DOC. What could that be? I double-clicked.
In the mid-90s, I worked for Delphi, an early proprietary online service. We were Rent-a-Wreck to AOL's Hertz. We had some significant firsts (one day I'll tell the story of how we talked the Rolling Stones' reps into making us the band's official online service for free) and we were briefly overfunded (News Corp. bought us during one of its intermittent sessions of new-media panic), but the venture failed. For a brief time, before I went solo, I was living in Massachusetts (where I still am) while my job had migrated to Manhattan, so I went back and forth from home to job a few times each week. This went on for only a few months, but it felt like a long time at the time. Hey, that is a long time to be away from your family.
Anyway, from my hotel I could see the NBC building, and one gets bored sitting alone in a hotel room at night, so I started writing ideas for NBC shows. (Then as now, I didn't watch much TV, so I got most of my story notions from the ads for the shows I saw around Times Square.) One night, after a session of Coca-Cola and sushi, I scribbled several dozen ideas for Saturday Night Live. Fueled by insomnia, homesickness, caffeine, sugar, and probably mercury, I thought so much of my ideas that the next day I snuck into the floor at 30 Rockefeller Plaza where the show's offices were and dropped off a package. I returned to the Delphi office, certain that the phone would ring ... right ... now.
The file SNL.DOC contained my proposal to Saturday Night Live. It sketched out 36 skits. Most of them were sub-mediocre at best. The worst involved the viewers' knowing what McHale's Navy was, a dubious proposition. Here are the least bad of the pitches:
Much like a driving test, a teen couple that wants to become sexually active has to pass a test with a tester in the bed with them, grading and commenting on their every move.Hollywood executives convene a pitch meeting for the Speed sequel, with ridiculous concepts, such as Sloth, in which the bus must stay under 10 mph.
Folks sit in a movie audience and their entertainment is not the film itself, but trying to guess who on the screen is gay.
Chris Farley is a Mary Kay salesman. (Hey, this was a long time ago.)
A couple eats lunch at a McDonald's set up like a high-end eatery; they ask the waiter questions like "How is the root beer today?"
A Schindler's List parody called Schneider's List, based on the character from the sitcom One Day at a Time
An ATM dispenses items other than money, such as taxis, advice, and photos with NBC celebrities
Folks watch absurdly interactive TV, where viewers can do wild things with a remote.
A bona-fide emergency happens on the set of ER and disasters ensue.
The joke, if there was one, was on me. I hadn't watched SNL regularly since Emily Litella was a recurrent character, so I had no idea whether these ideas for skits would have made any sense for the show. I was surprised the day after I dropped off the package when I didn't hear back. I was disappointed the second day. By the third day, I was on to the next scheme.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Verizon Wireless Crediting Customers $90 Million for Mistaken Internet Charges
Verizon phones have a habit of making it all too easy to connect to their admittedly widely available data network, including the "$2 for pressing the 'Up' button charges that the New York Times' David Pogue skewered. Now the wireless firm is giving 15 million customers up to $90 million for those kinds of inadvertent access charges, along with compensating for applications that access the data network without notifying the user. Look for a $2 or $4 credit on your next Verizon bill, and if you believe you're owed the credit, ring them up.
Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.
Skit Ideas Not Even Good Enough for Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Guterman (website, blog, twitter) writes, edits, and produces things.
Thanks for the welcome, Mark. It's good to be back. I hope to deliver posts with substance. This, though, won't be one of them.
The Internet loves lists and it loves witnessing people get embarrassed. So let me start my stint with a list about a failure of mine.
I recently got a new Mac at work, and since I'm one of those losers who needs to have everything he has on a local hard disk (you never know when you're going to have to watch a scene from This Is Spinal Tap right now), I ported everything over from my Mac (now my son's) to the new one. But the new one has a slightly smaller hard disk than the old one, so I had to go through some directories to purge some files. A few big files were easy to get rid of (I am never going to listen to Metal Machine Music again), but I wound up looking at some directories I hadn't seen in a long, long time. How long ago? Before Axl Rose started recording Chinese Democracy long ago. In one such directory, there was a file called SNL.DOC. What could that be? I double-clicked.
In the mid-90s, I worked for Delphi, an early proprietary online service. We were Rent-a-Wreck to AOL's Hertz. We had some significant firsts (one day I'll tell the story of how we talked the Rolling Stones' reps into making us the band's official online service for free) and we were briefly overfunded (News Corp. bought us during one of its intermittent sessions of new-media panic), but the venture failed. For a brief time, before I went solo, I was living in Massachusetts (where I still am) while my job had migrated to Manhattan, so I went back and forth from home to job a few times each week. This went on for only a few months, but it felt like a long time at the time. Hey, that is a long time to be away from your family.
Anyway, from my hotel I could see the NBC building, and one gets bored sitting alone in a hotel room at night, so I started writing ideas for NBC shows. (Then as now, I didn't watch much TV, so I got most of my story notions from the ads for the shows I saw around Times Square.) One night, after a session of Coca-Cola and sushi, I scribbled several dozen ideas for Saturday Night Live. Fueled by insomnia, homesickness, caffeine, sugar, and probably mercury, I thought so much of my ideas that the next day I snuck into the floor at 30 Rockefeller Plaza where the show's offices were and dropped off a package. I returned to the Delphi office, certain that the phone would ring ... right ... now.
The file SNL.DOC contained my proposal to Saturday Night Live. It sketched out 36 skits. Most of them were sub-mediocre at best. The worst involved the viewers' knowing what McHale's Navy was, a dubious proposition. Here are the least bad of the pitches:
Much like a driving test, a teen couple that wants to become sexually active has to pass a test with a tester in the bed with them, grading and commenting on their every move.Hollywood executives convene a pitch meeting for the Speed sequel, with ridiculous concepts, such as Sloth, in which the bus must stay under 10 mph.
Folks sit in a movie audience and their entertainment is not the film itself, but trying to guess who on the screen is gay.
Chris Farley is a Mary Kay salesman. (Hey, this was a long time ago.)
A couple eats lunch at a McDonald's set up like a high-end eatery; they ask the waiter questions like "How is the root beer today?"
A Schindler's List parody called Schneider's List, based on the character from the sitcom One Day at a Time
An ATM dispenses items other than money, such as taxis, advice, and photos with NBC celebrities
Folks watch absurdly interactive TV, where viewers can do wild things with a remote.
A bona-fide emergency happens on the set of ER and disasters ensue.
The joke, if there was one, was on me. I hadn't watched SNL regularly since Emily Litella was a recurrent character, so I had no idea whether these ideas for skits would have made any sense for the show. I was surprised the day after I dropped off the package when I didn't hear back. I was disappointed the second day. By the third day, I was on to the next scheme.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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If you are looking to make money on the internet, guess what? You haven't found it if you're clicking on fifty 2-cent emails per day. You're not even close if you are solely writing ten articles a day. What you really need to make money on the internet is a clenched left hand and an open right hand. The clenched fist gets violent, and the open hand does the taking. Why is this the real way to make money online? Let me explain.
The amount of research you have to do on the internet to find the best money-making technique is overwhelming.
Not only that, it's also very time consuming. It can take a person months and months to discover that gpt programs might not be worth the trouble and writing articles might take too much time. It could take a year or two to find out both of these things if you're working a full time job while trying to make money on the side. If you are a stay-at-home mom, things will be a bit easier for you, however.
Making money on the internet isn't easy, and failure can be very saddening.
Many people lose a lot of money while trying to make money on the internet. It's one thing to fail at something, but it's a completely different thing to lose the little money you have to your name while doing it. Also, there is a popular saying that goes like this: Time equals money. So if you've wasted a lot of time trying out ways of making money on the internet that don't work for you, you might also feel as though you've wasted a lot of money. Usually, people looking to make money on the intternet don't have money to spend in the first place so it can be very disheartening for them to lose so much while gaining nothing.
Making money on the internet takes a lot of work, and it takes time and mistakes to figure that out.
"We'll pay you top dollar for simple data entry!" Does that sound familiar? It's a common ad that can be found on reputable classified sites like Craigslist, and even sometimes Careerbuilder. They ask for a simple fee for materials, and you think to yourself, "Well, it's only ten dollars. " But you just don't how many ten-dollar suckers are born every minute. And it may take you a while to learn than truth. You may lose some money. You may lose some time, and you could even lose your courage to get up and try to make money on the internet once again, the real way which includes doing some actual work.
So here's what you must steal to make money on the internet and why you have to do it.
Steal the wisdom of others. Steal their mistakes, and their wasted-money stories. Steal their, "Oh nos." and their " I really blew its." You can find these things on blogs and in forums. When you steal the research and mistakes of others, remember to take it by force until you figure out what plan worked for someone else and is now going to work for you.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/14 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning, AP! The theme continues today with respect for everything Chiefs (except anything remotely associated with the passing game). Oh, and Pollard seems miffed. Here's your Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
CDMA iPhone <b>news</b>: Verizon's network is ready and India wants <b>...</b>
Oct. 13, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they've.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Good <b>News</b> x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind. Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10. U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030. U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4000 ...
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