Except for the tens of thousands of mostly black, mostly Democrat voters who were disenfranchised prior to the election simply because they had the misfortune of sharing a last name with a convicted felon. That's how the election was really stolen and the only decent coverage of it that I ever saw was by the BBC.
Okay, that part was off-topic but this part isn't.
The real problem is two-fold. Making sure every voter is permitted to vote and making sure the ballot is understandable.
If you don't accomplish these things first, it doesn't matter how/where/when you hold the vote. Fix what's broken first!
You might argue that the Florida 'butterfly' ballot was understandable but the mere fact that people are arguing about it (to my mind) proves it wasn't clear enough. It should be undisputably easy.
Given the current state of the web, I don't see how they could hold an election over it. I can see the complaints now - "I pressed the VOTE button and...".
Well, I'm not paying to keep an email address - AOL hasn't been my primary ISP for 6 or 7 years. As I said, I keep it to find other sun loving hedonists like us.
It isn't always about the money. I work so I can have the bucks to do what I want and not stress the small stuff.
A lot, if not most of them are in fact "on line". My wife had an AOL account when I met her and years later still uses it for email. She has so many AOL buddies that the path of least resistance is to keep it. We have a cable modem so dialing up to thier modems isn't an issue.
But at the same time she uses IE, Netscape, Eudora, ICUII, CU-SeeMe, and an bunch of pure internet applications to do the things AOL doesn't do so well.
I've had an AOL account since '89 and while I don't use it very often, it definately has uses. The searchable member database is unmatched for finding people who share certain interests with us in our area (in fact, that's how I met my wife).
AOL accompanies our internet experience but in no way rules it.
I want TiVo to succeed because I own their equipment and give them money each month to provide service. They seem to be fairly in touch with their customers also - I like them.
The data available now via the internet and the software available to interact with it is a long, long way from providing TiVo like service. I guess that could change someday but I don't see it happening soon.
Maybe - want to trade for this fine bit of swamp I have in Florida?
So, you don't believe them. Do you have some specific reason or is it simply a generic mistrust of business? Seems to me they have far too much to lose by clearly stating one thing and then doing the exact opposite. We aren't talking about Microsoft here.
If you're going to the fridge or the bathroom you hit the 'pause' button... The fast forward on TiVo is so fast that you can do this then fast forward through the crap in no time at all when you return.
I've gotten to where I pause even on commercials when I leave the room so I don't have to back up if I'm gone too long.
You are most welcome to opt-out of this data gathering.
I leave it on because 1)I believe them when they say they only aggragate the data and 2)It's an important part of their business model and I want them to succeed.
SnapStream is far from offering the capabilities of TiVo. Just being able to tell the computer what channel to record and when isn't enough. Call me when I can tell it to record "X" no matter what time and what channel it comes on.
It seems that TiVo-like is becomming a generic term for any new recording gizmo produced.
True enough. Lucky for us disk space is pretty cheap these days and TiVo's are easily expandible. With a pair of 80 meg drives replacing the 30 meg that came with it, my TiVo has plenty of space.
I usually use the next-to-highest quality setting and find that quite acceptable.
I went for the monthly fee because the lifetime service is attached to the box, not the user. I figure 25 months after I began paying for service (last June) I would be more than ready for a new PVR. I have first generation - by then it'll be 3rd or better.
heh - in fact a common complaint in TiVo fringe user land is that there is no way to set the clock manually. This severely limits the usability of unsubscribed units.
The Register had a short story about this today ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23891.html )that indicated it was the 128 bit encryption capability between Trillian clients. One bit I didn't understand was their comment that AOL might "daren't" implement this kind of encryption in their IM client.
It's intended to enlighten those who don't even know there are such things as IE-only sites. I provide an email link so that they may write me and when they ask, I give them a direct link around the main page to whatever they are looking for. I've had a couple of people write that they didn't even know there were other browsers available to them. I taught them something that I believe is important to know.
Now, virtually everybody who's reading my post here would defeat my punky javascript in about 2 seconds but you aren't my audience with this trick.
It boils down to this. The people visiting my site want something that I have (mostly pictures of women wearing bodypaint). I have something I want them to learn. I only do it on Sunday - the slowest day of the week for my very obscure site. I'm not obnoxious with my message. All in all, I don't think I'm being a jerk. I think I'm doing a tiny bit to make the internet a better place.
You should hang out in eBay's online community for a while, especially the 'Trust & Safety' group. eBay tries hard to keep these people down but they are very active hunting down shill bidders, scammers, etc.
But Microsoft's primary security failings don't come from bad programming. Rather they come from bad marketing decisions.
Decisions such as hiding known file type extensions from users. Like executing scripts attached to emails, even in a preview pane. Like enabling services (UPnP) that nobody currently has a use for.
These are what has caused MS the most embarassement, the most publicity, even if they aren't the most serious security issues.
My take is these are also the issues MS aims to 'fix', because they are easy, visible, and promotable.
Bill even hinted at this direction in his email to all the MS employees. The only thing he specifically mentioned (that I recall) as an example was their recent security enhancement to Outlook (tightening the security by default).
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Except for the tens of thousands of mostly black, mostly Democrat voters who were disenfranchised prior to the election simply because they had the misfortune of sharing a last name with a convicted felon. That's how the election was really stolen and the only decent coverage of it that I ever saw was by the BBC.
Okay, that part was off-topic but this part isn't.
The real problem is two-fold. Making sure every voter is permitted to vote and making sure the ballot is understandable.
If you don't accomplish these things first, it doesn't matter how/where/when you hold the vote. Fix what's broken first!
You might argue that the Florida 'butterfly' ballot was understandable but the mere fact that people are arguing about it (to my mind) proves it wasn't clear enough. It should be undisputably easy.
Given the current state of the web, I don't see how they could hold an election over it. I can see the complaints now - "I pressed the VOTE button and...".
Well, I'm not paying to keep an email address - AOL hasn't been my primary ISP for 6 or 7 years. As I said, I keep it to find other sun loving hedonists like us.
It isn't always about the money. I work so I can have the bucks to do what I want and not stress the small stuff.
A lot, if not most of them are in fact "on line". My wife had an AOL account when I met her and years later still uses it for email. She has so many AOL buddies that the path of least resistance is to keep it. We have a cable modem so dialing up to thier modems isn't an issue.
But at the same time she uses IE, Netscape, Eudora, ICUII, CU-SeeMe, and an bunch of pure internet applications to do the things AOL doesn't do so well.
I've had an AOL account since '89 and while I don't use it very often, it definately has uses. The searchable member database is unmatched for finding people who share certain interests with us in our area (in fact, that's how I met my wife).
AOL accompanies our internet experience but in no way rules it.
I want TiVo to succeed because I own their equipment and give them money each month to provide service. They seem to be fairly in touch with their customers also - I like them.
The data available now via the internet and the software available to interact with it is a long, long way from providing TiVo like service. I guess that could change someday but I don't see it happening soon.
Maybe - want to trade for this fine bit of swamp I have in Florida?
So, you don't believe them. Do you have some specific reason or is it simply a generic mistrust of business? Seems to me they have far too much to lose by clearly stating one thing and then doing the exact opposite. We aren't talking about Microsoft here.
If you're going to the fridge or the bathroom you hit the 'pause' button... The fast forward on TiVo is so fast that you can do this then fast forward through the crap in no time at all when you return.
I've gotten to where I pause even on commercials when I leave the room so I don't have to back up if I'm gone too long.
You are most welcome to opt-out of this data gathering.
I leave it on because 1)I believe them when they say they only aggragate the data and 2)It's an important part of their business model and I want them to succeed.
The only thing I replayed the whole game was the battlebots Bud commercial.
Oh! Do it again in slo-mo!
SnapStream is far from offering the capabilities of TiVo. Just being able to tell the computer what channel to record and when isn't enough. Call me when I can tell it to record "X" no matter what time and what channel it comes on.
It seems that TiVo-like is becomming a generic term for any new recording gizmo produced.
You can do this with TiVo also as long as one of the feeds is an antenna.
True enough. Lucky for us disk space is pretty cheap these days and TiVo's are easily expandible. With a pair of 80 meg drives replacing the 30 meg that came with it, my TiVo has plenty of space.
I usually use the next-to-highest quality setting and find that quite acceptable.
I went for the monthly fee because the lifetime service is attached to the box, not the user. I figure 25 months after I began paying for service (last June) I would be more than ready for a new PVR. I have first generation - by then it'll be 3rd or better.
It's a gamble but I think I did the right thing.
heh - in fact a common complaint in TiVo fringe user land is that there is no way to set the clock manually. This severely limits the usability of unsubscribed units.
I seriously doubt that. However, there may be (probably are) more people using Trillian than are using Fire.
They've left Fire (the OS X all-in-one client) alone for quite a while now. Seems to me Trillian has done something else to get under AOL's skin.
Why doesn't AOL want strong encryption in their IM product???
The Register had a short story about this today ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23891.html )that indicated it was the 128 bit encryption capability between Trillian clients. One bit I didn't understand was their comment that AOL might "daren't" implement this kind of encryption in their IM client.
Anyone care to speculate why?
It's intended to enlighten those who don't even know there are such things as IE-only sites. I provide an email link so that they may write me and when they ask, I give them a direct link around the main page to whatever they are looking for. I've had a couple of people write that they didn't even know there were other browsers available to them. I taught them something that I believe is important to know.
Now, virtually everybody who's reading my post here would defeat my punky javascript in about 2 seconds but you aren't my audience with this trick.
It boils down to this. The people visiting my site want something that I have (mostly pictures of women wearing bodypaint). I have something I want them to learn. I only do it on Sunday - the slowest day of the week for my very obscure site. I'm not obnoxious with my message. All in all, I don't think I'm being a jerk. I think I'm doing a tiny bit to make the internet a better place.
You can like it or not.
Yup - this is exactly why my personal site features "IE-Free Sundays".
Come in on Sunday and you get redirected to a (polite) rant about how the internet should be platform-agnostic.
It won't stop anyone with much browser savy, but those aren't the people that need to be enlightened.
You should hang out in eBay's online community for a while, especially the 'Trust & Safety' group. eBay tries hard to keep these people down but they are very active hunting down shill bidders, scammers, etc.
All their boards are here:
http://pages.ebay.com/community/chat/index.html
But Microsoft's primary security failings don't come from bad programming. Rather they come from bad marketing decisions.
Decisions such as hiding known file type extensions from users. Like executing scripts attached to emails, even in a preview pane. Like enabling services (UPnP) that nobody currently has a use for.
These are what has caused MS the most embarassement, the most publicity, even if they aren't the most serious security issues.
My take is these are also the issues MS aims to 'fix', because they are easy, visible, and promotable.
Bill even hinted at this direction in his email to all the MS employees. The only thing he specifically mentioned (that I recall) as an example was their recent security enhancement to Outlook (tightening the security by default).
Bingo! I keep everything that might possibly ever be useful to cover my narrow white ass.
they charge 35 bucks a year for a domain
.tv which is $50 per year.
Except for
Can someone please clue me into why people do this?
Because they can.
Sad, but true - that is the long and short of it. DoS attacks are modern vandilism.
Actually, I should prefer an explaination from someone who is not in marketing.
AOL users can retrieve their email via web interface using any browser. They don't have to use the AOL client.
Sounds different to me.