I was able to have Verizon remove the monthly charge for the modem, basically because the tech registered the modem I purchased as requested and took the other modem with him. Since they had no serial number that matched my online purchased one, funny enough from a frontier customer I believe, there was no way they could say I had their modem. It took some nice words, and never cursing so they had no reason to hang up, to convince them of this but it happened. If it didn't I would have lost and ultimately they can charge you whatever they want and call it pretty much whatever they want.

Legal action is probably not worth it, unless you want to spend more to recover at least in time in the end. Spend some time negotiating with people even the lowest level people have a lot of power and can sympathize with you if you give them reason to.

I probably said "What a f****** $random_bad_word_for_different_cars_stickers_plates_etc" a lot more than normal last summer for a few weeks. I saw people driving the wrong way on the road, stopping in the middle of the road, lots of swerving by oncoming traffic, some people walking in the road as if the it wasn't there, and people generally not paying attention more than normal. They had the town ticketing crew blocking one of the lake side train parking lots, and I had to move the cones to get out leading to a conversation with one of them, but I needed to get home it was Friday and I resisted driving my truck over the curb to get out opting to move the cones. Was all good though and laughs and then some complaining about the crowds and how dangerous it was becoming and how some people were robbed.

It only lasted a few weeks but I would love to see something like this drive people out more often, it really got a lot of people in to parks regardless of the increased dangers of lots of people out and about. Better lightning would solve a lot of the danger problems on the road and in parks. LED's are so much more efficient they should put them all over walk-able parks.

Apple has a "secret list" too it seems, I had one case of this with one domain. When I called I explained to normal tech support the issue, they had me escalated where I explained the issue in a bit more detail. Within an hour or two I had a call back from Apple support telling me that the domain had been removed, I didn't pry any more I just figured since they have the right to deny email for whatever reason then have the right to do this. This came after looking over logs, and some packet captures, to make sure it was being delivered to their servers before making the call to Apple. Nothing indicated any type of failure/deferred/blocked from looking at those logs/captures.

Please don't bring the "cloud" into it, it has "clouded" enough minds already. A bunch of computers on various kinds of networks....it is really amazing how they can re-invent and convince so many. I love real new technology, I wish we would invest in that as an industry a bit more.

ConnectBot has worked well for me...and never had any issues with it.

http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/

or charge you and try to make a profit for a service that isn't free. I bet you get paid for what you do right?

Covering up the signs for a bit isn't in my opinion that bad...akin to protesting in front of the building. But doing something else detrimental to the business...that would become dangerous to more than the specific parties mentioned and I would regard it as a form of terrorism for profit or not. I think Anonymous wouldn't take it much further than organizing a bigger group to run whatever code they need.