Fry's image server is apparently down... Haven't seen this in about 13 years, since I was an Internet bagillionaire, but it used to happen frequently in the early days of the Web. 

Memories...

I gain no pleasure in seeing this happen (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386033,00.asp), but it appears as though the Google reign of evil is continuing to grow (http://nicholasschoonover.com/Home/tabid/39/EntryId/13/Google-has-become-evil.aspx). Google apparently hired a key guy from PayPal... NOTHING wrong with that and it's a really small valley. While we (tech vendors) compete with each other in the market place, we're always looking for the next great job/business opportunity, that's simply ingrained in our culture.

However, the PayPal suit says that he swiped code prior to leaving. Long-story short. They had to sue, because otherwise their shareholders would be suing them for violating their fiduciary duty to protect the shareholder's investment in eBay (owns PayPal). The real questions on my mind is, why is Google hiring someone...

So, as I so painfully found out today. Google decided to change their market place refund policy from 24 hours to 15 minutes. Ya, 15 minutes and no that wasn't an exageration (http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=134336). I bought an app today and downloaded, grabbed a cup of coffe, hit the restroom, returned and started the app. Then it had me send an email to the author to request an activation key (WTF?), I waited, waited a little more, then received the email and input the code. The app refused to work. I give it a couple more tries to no avail, just a blank screen. No worries right? WRONG! The time from purchase till then was longer than 15 minutes so Google Market refused to refund my money!

Now I have to call Visa to stop payment and start arguing with Google to get it back, but this could all have been alleviated without their ludicrous 15-minute return policy. I refuse to do business with anyone that...