Consumer Thoughts

A Massachusetts high school is going to charge kids who ride the school bus $1 per day. Great, charge them money to come to school - that’ll improve their attitudes.
Story on Eagle Tribune

Okay, it’s nice that you can take some pictures of your favorite actor or cartoon character, and set the pictures to music using Windows Movie Maker. What you are doing is A. creating a slideshow, not a video, B. copyright infringement, both to the song and the subject of the picture, and C. just [...]

Apparently, many freeware sites give out 5-star ratings indiscriminately to junkware. Check out this article at Successful Software about the awards scam.

Check out Ads We Hate at Slate.

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