This! AGREED.

Some mechanics will tell you a laundry list of things that are wrong with your car so you'll pick the one item that he says "you really need to get this fixed". Just get what you brought it in for.

This isn't just fraud, it is flat out THEFT. Next up from Adam Douchebag: How to print fake checks to pay for things.

@cc it doesnt hurt to ASK. if they wont budge on price see if they will throw in something extra even like the upgraded floormats or the truck kit etc. worst they can says is "sorry no".

My mother would have just said "I want my DVD player back." The flight will probably be shorter than the ripping process.

[lifehacker.com]

I use KeePass + Dropbox. I use a very strong password to protect my KeePass .kdbx file and keep that in a private Dropbox folder. I can also store info such as credit card info, phone numbers, account info, etc.

Download just about any popular show via BitTorrent. Anything you can get OTA you should be allowed to torrent. I don't see much of a difference. Torrenting HBO, AMC, and other pay channels, well that's a little murkier.

Sending tracking and other data back home in the background — especially without warning.

Vote: Priceline.com

From the description, it sounds as if Manilla becomes the "owner" of my accounts and the bills are then sent to them?

Coincidentally, I used Unetbootin today before reading this article and it was extremely painless. Download, run, pick your distro and a few minutes later your booting up in your OS of choice from your USB. Nice article Whitson!

@Luis Levy: I still get annoyed Win7 forces you to install Telnet manually.

I find that the Microsoft Windows 7 Themes online have some fantastic wallpapers:

I usually go with Priceline.com unless my work is footing the bill. I have yet to be let down by them.

I work with someone who's sig looks like this:

my bad. thanks for the corrections to my assumptions. :D

@RenRen: or it will get done by someone else who can be on time.

Let me make a (crude) example of what converting a mp3 to a VBR mp3 does:

"The best part is, since you're not re-encoding your music, it's a lossless conversion—the quality stays the same while the space used goes down."