MTV Networks Partner Offers spam

My Gmail occasionally catches spam from MTV. They have an unsubscribe button, but they never follow through on my request. I got this today:

from MTV Networks
reply-to postmaster@mms.mtv.com
subject Paranormal Activity 2 - Be the first to see it. Demand it!
mailed-by mms.mtv.com
signed-by mms.mtv.com

To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add mtvoffers@mms.mtv.com to your address book.
You are receiving this message because you asked for occasional updates and special offers from the Viacom family of companies.





All of the MTV spam have URLs composed like http://strongmail-5.west.mtvi.com/track?type=xxx

Clicking those images leads to http://movies.eventful.com/competitions/paranormalactivity2010?utm_source=email&utm_medium=competition&utm_campaign=mtv_announcement_email.

The unsubscribe at the bottom says,"MTV Networks Partner Offers Thank You. Your email address is scheduled to be unsubscribed from all MTV Networks Partner Offer emails. Please allow up to 10 days for completion." This can't be, as I've been unsubscribing for months... The privacy policy isn't better, nor are the terms of use.

I'll be filing a complaint pretty soon. I guess I should also save these spam.

.NET Framework to fix Chrome "unknown installer error"

I've downloaded Google Chrome several times today with Firefox to no avail. I kept getting an "unknown installer error" when I clicked on the Chrome setup icon. I thought it was because of old remnants of Chrome.

I tried to download it with Internet Explorer 8, and voila! I got a prompt informing me that the file I was downloading required Microsoft .NET Framework or something. And now I've got Chrome... Not cool, Google.

Drive-ads scam

Just got a spam for http://www.drive-ads.com/. There is an identical site at http://www.adtype.net/.

Get a Free Car with an Advertisement on it

Or Get Paid to put an Advertisement on your Car

Are there other fees to pay after joining?

No, the one time membership fee is a one time only fee.

Yes, you may send a check/money order to:

Energy Field Unlimited

PO box 19562

Redford, Michigan 48219

Copyright © 2010 DriveMobileAds.com All rights reserved.

Right...

Deflation of television, 19- inch edition

I found a receipt in the house dated 12/23/2007 for the purchase of a nineteen-inch LCD TV, specifically the Polaroid TLA-01901C, for $298. Polaroid ought to be ashamed of this piece of junk. The sound is tinny, the channels change slowly, but at least I can hook up my Nintendo GameCube up to it. The screen is small, though that comes with the portability.

33 months later, the popular 19-inch Sharp LC19SB27UT is selling for about $200. The decent 32-inch Toshiba 32C100U and LG 32LD350 are selling for about $340 today, so in 33 months, for 13% more, I could get about 2.8x the screen area. Wow!

BTW, here's a cool chart of the average price of a 32-inch LCD TV.

12-28-10: That rate has been in the 19% to 20% annual range for twenty years on a display area basis. That means the price per square inch of AMLCD falls 50% every three years.

The implication is that the price of a 42” LCD TV in 2010 should be about one-half its price in 2007.

1-23-11: Just caught this story, which implies 42 inch screens will hit $399 this year, at least the Insignia brand will. I just caught a flyer from BrandsMart for a 42" Panasonic at $399 model, so the estimate sounds realistic.

A new story out 2-2-11, "With 2011 TV models set to come to market later this month, some leftover 2010s will have their prices axed to the max by the beginning of March."

It's accompanied by this chart

, showing the 32 inch TV dropping 14.7% from 2010 to 2011, not quite as much as the 26.8$ drop from 2009 to 2010.

9-12-11: Found this