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1. Comment - FTC May Shame Adware Advertisers

   (Feb 10, 2006 - 12:47 PM)

   This is the same as the sweatshop situation. What should be done is if a company employs sweatshop workers, the government should expose them and let the public choose not to purchase from them. Same thing here. Let the FTC tell the public who employs unethical advertising techniques and let the consumer have the right to say "I don't wish to do business with people who function in this manner."
   
   Not that complicated.

2. Comment - Google Zooms In Satellite Map Imagery

   (Jan 25, 2006 - 2:46 PM)

   I live in Manhattan, NYC and judging by the status of some construction projects, there are a lot of areas (particularly downtown) that are still showing photos over 3-4 years old.
   
   Did they update the actual images, or just the zoom levels? I would've thought Manhattan of all places would've been updated a bit more frequently.

3. Comment - Want a Windows Live Messenger Invite?

   (Jan 11, 2006 - 3:30 PM)

   I'd like to see a more easily updated OS this time around because we all know it ends up being years between operating systems with MS.
   
   I'm quite tired of asking for features and always hearing "Oh that will first happen in the next version of Windows" because the next version is always years away. If the OS were updated more frequently I think there would be a lot less problems coming down on MS.

4. Comment - AOL Takes on Rivals with Free Web Mail

   (Dec 24, 2004 - 2:38 PM)

   Yes, I assume that's why they have more paying subscribers than the population of most countries. Because after all... who cares, right?
   
   AOL catching up to compete with hotmail yahoo and gmail is a great idea that will get them out to a new audience. Good plan in any (knowledgable) person's opinion when you consider the marketing and economic aspects of it.

5. Comment - AOL Cans IM Spam, aka 'Spim'

   (Nov 1, 2004 - 3:25 PM)

   I think some clarification is needed for the second to last paragraph of this article. Yes, the method nowadays is bots. However, it needs to be made clear that these bots are not connecting using AOL clients. There exist a myriad of tiny programs that are capable of signing on a dozen screen names at a time to the AIM service. Registering names for the AIM service takes seconds. A single person can sign 12 names for free onto AIM and using a small program send those names in and out of chat rooms to acquire screen names. The names land in a big list and the bots begin sending them the spam (spim) messages.
   
   Tech tricks aren't going to do anything here. What will they do? Kill multiple connections? The company that just publicized linking AIM names will no dump it? I don't think so. The point is AOL owns the service and can track open connections. Legal action is the only way to do this. Of course it is a free service so it's not quite as easy as if this were on AOL itself. Obviously loading 100 names onto Paid AOL is a costly and inefficient way (who wants to get busted for credit card fraud) of doing this so the AIM service is the target of choice.
   
   Other services have the same problems. Sadly it will likely end up with AOL services only being accessible by AOL created clients permanently. Goodnight GAIM etc.