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target

Why Does Target Need ALL Of Your Driver's License Data To Sell You Wine?

Thruhike98 tried to buy some wine at Target a couple of weekends ago, and they were surprised at how invasive the ID check turned out to be:

My wife showed the cashier her license, which was behind a clear window in her wallet. He said, “No, please hand it to me.” We both assumed he just wanted a closer look. Once he had it, he immediately picked up a barcode scanner and scanned the back of her drivers license. I asked him what that was all about, as I had never seen anyone do that before. Almost bragging that Target now knows, for example, exactly where we live, he explained that the scan “gets all the information off of the license.”

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12:24 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Chris Walters
16,596 views, 162 comments

backlash

Creative Backs Down, Reinstates Spurned Developer

Creative Labs heard your chest-beating across the internet and decided to reinstate spurned developer Daniel_K less than a week after booting him from their forums. Unlike Creative, Daniel_K issued drivers that allowed Creative sound cards to work properly under Vista, and even enabled previously crippled features. The drivers were downloaded over 100,000 times. The company thanked the developer by accusing him of "enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, [in] effect, stealing our goods." Even though he has been reinstated, Daniel_K is still pissed. More »

11:39 AM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Carey
7,006 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: I bought a copy of Vista premium and installed it as a dual boot with win XP on my PC. I had massive amounts of static and audio corruption on my SB Audigy 2. So I switched over more »

backlash

Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer

Creative's executive team will be coming in to quite a mess Monday morning, thanks to its VP of Screw Ups, Phil O'Shaughnessy. Friday morning, he posted a warning on the Creative customer forums that told programmer Daniel_K to stop writing his own drivers for their X-Fi sound cards. The cards still won't work on Vista over a year after the OS was released, because Creative hasn't released drivers for them—but by Mr. O'Shaughnessy's account, Daniel_K is "stealing" from Creative by making the cards work. Then the weekend happened. More »

2:07 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Chris Walters
103,328 views, 140 comments

Latest by Kevin V: creative: jerks. more »

planned obsolescence

HP Won't Issue New Drivers For Leopard, Tells You To Buy A New Printer

Matt's Officejet 6110 scans perfectly under Ubuntu, but won't play nice with Leopard. When Matt called HP for support, he was told that the company has no plans to issue new drivers so he should just buy a new printer. To soften the blow, the tech mentioned HP's trade-in program, which would give Matt a whopping $16 for his printer. More »

10:50 AM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Carey
14,740 views, 148 comments

privacy

RFID Confuses The US Government

Despite a report by Homeland security, the US is going ahead with plans to put RFID tags in everything from passports to drivers licenses. More »

1:50 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Meg Marco
1,753 views, 5 comments

cabbies

Minneapolis Solves Anti-Alcohol Cabbie Problem

Over the last few-years, Minneapolis' St. Paul International Airport has had a problem: the cabbies waiting to shuttle off passengers outside have invoked the Koran whenever they spotted a bottle of wine or Duty-Free booze, refusing to carry the passengers. More »

4:33 AM on Mon Oct 23 2006
By consumerist.com
161 views, 32 comments

motorola

Verizon Sells Customer Impossible KRZR

A base assumption of consumerism is that the product you buy will actually work. This, as we all know, is rank naivete. But it is also apparently naive to believe that the product you just purchased actually exists: it doesn't. More »

7:38 AM on Mon Oct 9 2006
By consumerist.com
3,593 views, 13 comments

volvo

Volvo Knows What Women Want: To Be Patronized.

Everyone knows that women are a menace to our automotive society. When they aren't swerving at 100mph through school crossing zones, their eyes firmly rooted to the vanity mirror which they are using to apply a smear of pink bubble gum lipstick, they are driving down the highway with both hands off the wheel, using one to hold a cell phone to the side of their ditzy heads and scream "You go, girlfriend!" while the other makes air snaps. More »

6:38 AM on Mon Jul 17 2006
By consumerist.com
121 views, 9 comments

Latest by ModerateSnark: Or woman. more »