• Reporter buys a cheap Dell and opens every spam and suspicious file to see how much malware and viruses he can get before Geek Squad declares it a total loss. [Wired]
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The Cableman Strikes Thrice!
We think we’ve discovered the Rosetta Stone of cable company installation stories.

DirecTV Loses Customer Over Hi-Def, Doesn’t Care
Chuck from Brooklyn, “one of the lemmings who bought a HD TV recently” writes that he’s “puzzled by the nonchalance with which [DirectTV] let me switch over to their mortal enemy [TimeWarner].”