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Disturbing, yes, but it has probably been happening all over the country for decades.
Oh, in that case it's OK then."
I certainly understand your sentiment, but it's not that it's "OK", it's that we live in a very different world that is reacting very differently from the way we did in the past. This is an excellent example of how the Internet has radiaclly changed the face of politics. Historically, these kinds of news stories would not have been heard for many hours or even days. The immediate delivery of news now paints a very different picture because it causes an "urgency" which rarely existed in the past. I'm not saying the "urgency" is false, on the contrary, sometimes it is very real. It's just that we need to learn to prioritize the "events" and react to those that are truely urgent.
When we moved to South Carolina, I downloaded the latest county maps from Mapopolis for my Palm Tungsten T3, and thought "Cool, I can find anything now!" Yes, it was useful, but over time, it turns out that the absolute best resource we ever found was a paper map that we obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce. That map was our "lifeline" for the first several months while we learned the town. Yes, the Palm version was decent, and it had all the bells and whistles, but for absolute convenience and ease of use, the paper map wins out every time.
".COM" was supposed to be for commercial companies and businesses. ".ORG" was supposed to be for non-profit organizations. ".NET" was supposed to be for networks and ISP's.
Like this will be controlled any better?
Man, I'm beginning to feel so old.
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Not too long ago, I could just drive to my designated polling place, have them check off my name, vote, and a day or so later, I would read the results in the local paper or watch the results on some "breaking" TV special. Simple and easy.
Now, I have to read countless Geek and non-geek election and voting guides so that I can come to the realization that the candidate I had chosen long ago is still the one I am actually going to vote for. Then, I'll have to file appropriate paperwork for a "conditional ballot" should I decide that my designated polling place is "not convenient" for me. Then, once at the polling place, I'll have to dodge international election monitors, and dodge partisan bullies just to get into the polling place. Then, I have to hope that my votor registration has been logged properly so that I can vote. Once on the voting booth, I then will have to thoroughly discriminate the voting process to ensure that the new e-voting machine actually works and make sure a paper copy prints so that the inevitable recounts can be handled properly. Then, when I get home, I have to monitor the countless state-by-state and county-by-county real-time returns, monitor countless voting fraud sites, all the while filtering out sincere, yet consistently contradictory election commentary on main-stream media outlets.
Oh wait. I forgot. I live in South Carolina where President Bush is already locked in as the winner, so would I be better off just staying at home? Besides, some county in Florida will be deciding the election outcome anyway, right?
Time to shut off the PC and go Outside(TM) for a nice walk.
To reduce functionality after you've bought a unit sounds like fraud. Bait & switch. Like buying a fast sports car, and then having them download a patch into your engine computer that speed limits it to 85MPH so that the car company won't be sued for selling fast cars. I'd be looking for a class action lawyer to sue the pants off of TiVo if my box suddenly stopped doing something it used to do -- regardless of any license agreement that may have come with it.
OK, I just don't get it. This is so typical of/. mentality--embrace the technology forsaking all rules, regulations, and agreements. You purchase a product that has specific licensing agreements to which you agree. The agreement states that the included software is maintained remotely by TiVo and that at their discression and under their control, they can update it by adding or removing features. Yet you complain when they remove a feature? Were you complaining when they provided a fix to a problem? Were you complaining when they added a new feature or function? How is it "fraud" or "bait & switch" when you agree let them do exactly what they are proposing to do?
The problem is that Joe Tech-head typically doesn't bother to read the agreements, and is only concerned with embracing the latest and greatest. It's the price we pay for permitting a company access to freely manage and update the operations of what we purchase.
It's interesting to see how new technology tends to promote "waves" of use that often gets forgotten. We get excited about a technology or new gadget, use the hell out of it, and then our use or interest just peters out. For example, specific to TV technology, I remember when we first had DirecTV installed back in 1998. With all the Premium movie channels and PPV, we recorded TONS of movies to tape with our VCR. Never had we had a larger tape library! The result? Tons of never-watched movies and countless recorded-over or discarded tapes.
But wait! Here comes the DVR! After using a ReplayTV model 2020 for several years, I ran out and got a new ReplayTV model 5040! Now I could offload recorded movies to my PC for "archival" to DVD. Oh, how cool! I recorded, downloaded, and burned countless DVD-R's! The result? Lots of never-watched DVD'R's.
All this time, I have purchased close to 100 DVD's, ready to play in my home theater system! Now I have at my fingertips, many of my favorite movies and TV series at my beck and call. The result? More stuff for my wife to dust and a bunch of seldom-watched DVD's.
Maybe I'm not the typical tech-head, but you see, it turns out that we are more and more appreciating simplicity. And what do we watch the most? Oh, probably about 6-8 channels out of the couple hundred channels that Charter Cable provides. We rarely watch "live" TV, watching most content through a ReplayTV. And we watch the occasional VOD movie or special. PPV? Haven't bought one in years.
We are now trying out a newly-deployed Digeo Moxi DVR provided by Charter Cable, and so far, it is giving us the simplicity we want. Can I "offload" shows for burning to DVD? No. Can I record VOD? No. Am I limited to only the content that the Cable Company provides? Yes. So why is it so great? Well, I get sleek-looking box that integrates a DVR and a Digital Cable box. It provides both SD and HD viewing and recording capability, it provides full DVR functions, it requires only one remote, and it's pleasing to use. Of course it has its idiosyncracies, but most importantly, my wife and I are now much happier for the simplicity--and believe me, that's worth it.
And yes, when then next "latest and greatest" thing comes out, I'll probably jump on it, but at least I'm starting to understand that simplicity typically outweighs technical complexity in most cases.
I know this diatribe doesn't even address the NFL/HBO/TiVo issue, but hopefully, it will get you thinking about simplicity...
So he has relatives who don't agree with him. So what? Don't we all? The problem with these types of stories is that they make an issue out of a non-issue. Imagine if a story was run that stated that EVERY relative backed Bush: there would then be whining of collusion and conspiracy.
Obviously, this situation sucks, but it does give the son a dose of reality. Move into a new neighborhood? Contend with interference. Move into a new apartment? Contend with interference. Sounds like a great opportunity to test out his technical and negotiation skills that he'll need once he enters the post-college real world.
The reality is that though 20/20 hindsight can provide a clear future direction, it cannot erase the fact that many people in both parties and around the world made many mutual and consensual decisions based on the same intelligence.
A major defining difference between the two parties is that one is standing behind its decisions while the other is trying to dismiss its responsibility in its involvement in those decisions.
Whether the original decision was right or wrong is really not the issue--everyone agreed to it, and it is in the past. The real issue is how each party plans on addressing its responsibility for the future.
Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a straight popular vote is a bad thing because it eliminates the representation from small populations. The Founding Fathers were not stupid. They devised a solution to a problem that still exists today: Ensuring that large populations do not dicate law to smaller populations.
What I WOULD recommend is working on a better way to handle multi-party elections such as runoffs, etc.
In addition, Congress should instead be working harder to develop better solutions to validate voters, better solutions to develop more secure, reliable voting methods, and to develop legislation that eliminates the current loopholes in campaign funding laws.
Remember that the United States is NOT a Democracy, but a Federal Republic. To change that is to change the fundamental foundations of this country.
First off, after using it for several days, I realized that I do NOT want GDS caching my Web activity. I certainly don't have anything to hide in my surfing at work, but to me, GDS's incredible usefulness comes in being able to VERY EASILY AND QUICKLY search for data WITHIN documents currently stored on my PC. This is proving to be an invaluable tool at work.
Anyway, as for being installed on public PC's, the problem is not Google's, but those who permit the application to be installed on a public PC in the first place. Any PC administrator who permits user-installable applications in a public environment is asking for problems, headaches, and potential litigation.
Let's just hope this news doesn't get spun wrong and opens people's eyes to security...
While you are correct that your search wouldn't be exclusivly local anymore, Google has already integrated the Desktop search results into the Web search results (See the Google Desktop Preferences.) If you installed Google Desktop and you let it include Desktop search results in your "normal" Google Web searches, they show up in a section near the top of the search results. I really don't see why Gmail search results couldn't be included in a similar section. That would be very useful!
Having dealt with Wal-Mart as a supplier, I can say that they definitely DO have leverage that seemingly can't be fought. Basically, they are the 800 pound gorilla that calls the shots. Don't like it? Then they won't carry the product.
From a CD-purchasing-consumer's perspective, this may sound great, but my problem with this is that it is easy to get caught up in anti-music industry sentiments while overlooking the fact that Wal-Mart can do this in just about any other industry too. Don't like the price of tires? Just threaten to drop the product. Don't like the price of milk? Just threaten to drop the product. Never mind that the price is already competitive with other, smaller businesses that don't have the leverage to "force" lower prices.
No, not like you can when you're watching Survivor or an NFL game. Remember that's what people want... Monday Night Football commentary with tickers. Flashing lights and shiny metal. Oooh.
I want to know who these "people" are. Personally, I would give up all of those bells & whistles for a system that is reliable, accurate, and fraud-resistent. Certainly, the integrity of the election process is more important than marketing fluff.
"And what multiple languages do you need? They see the names of the people running -- if they don't know "George W. Bush" is running the President and not the local Assembly seat that's their problem."
You have negated any credibility you might have had with that statement.
I disagree with your dismissal of his credibility. There are four years between national elections, and people have ample time to become informed. We need to develop a voting process that strikes a balance between reasonable accessibility and over-accommodation. Removing personal responsibility is definitely not the answer.
The most important thing in my eyes is to develop an election system that is reliable, effective, and virtually unchallengable (ie: the results are reliable enough that a challenge of fraud becomes virtually unnecessary.) Our current system is so screwed up, so in flux, so susceptible to lawsuits, so prone to varied interpretation that it invites challenge and fraud. One huge problem is that people in general are unwilling to accept a registration and validation process that would provide accurate votor validation. We can come up with all the latest and greatest systems, but unless we can accurately and reliably validate votors, the system WILL break down.
I agree 100%. It seems that most of the responses to your post deal with nothing more than convenience in the form of quicker tabulation, quicker stats, etc. Where is it written that we have to have results instantly? Who is mandating that the results must be available within minutes or hours? We have become so reliant on instant feedback that anything less seems absurd. Maybe it's time to step back from the wiz-bang world of high-technology and develop a voting system that really works. So what if "the best" solution ends up taking some extra time to validate and tabulate the results. I would certainly embrace the extra time it would take for sake of secure, reliable, accurate results.
What about the devastating effect that the 9/11 attacks had on the Airlines and Travel industry (and thus related industries)?? Is that Bush's fault? The job numbers were certainly affected by that.
Also remember that it takes time to recover. For some irrational reason, people expect the economy to stabalize and grow overnight. It just doesn't happen that way. I'm certainly no economist, but to believe that our economy can be turned around in an instant in the wake of events like 9/11 and our current involvement in war, is simply wishful thinking. And let's not ignore that unemployment figures are at a 20-year low...
OK, that may not seem like a popular idea, but in the long run, it may be the best path to follow. While it could certainly be argued that there are too many "standards", the important thing is to become proficient with follow the "accepted" ones. You say you are reviewing different standards to help guide your career path. My best advice is to learn the basics, and learn them very well. Learn not only how they work, but how they work together. Yes, you will become more of a generalist, but you will also become proficient at determining how you can develop a solution by applying your knowledge that can best fit the given situation.
Focusing on a specific standard IS a crap shoot. Yes, you could make big bucks by jumping on the latest bandwagon, but it will no doubt be short-lived. Over the long haul, a broader knowledge base is more useful and marketable thatn a highly-focused one.
So they have decided this year to fight legal skirmishes across the country, hoping to change state election rules that make it more difficult for voters to cast ballots. In New Mexico, for instance, the Democrats argued against a rule that would have required new voters to show IDs at the polls, which they said would disproportionately affect minority voters. The state Supreme Court ruled last week in favor of the Democrats.
This is a great example of the contradiction and hypocracy where people want each vote to be counted, verified, and validated, but they are unwilling to put into place a mechanism that properly validates the voter. There are plenty of ways to legally identify yourself, and if you don't take the time to obtain and provide the proper identification, you deserve the consequenses for your lack of responsibility. This is not rocket science.
Much of the Democratic litigation centers on how various states are interpreting a new provision in the federal voting law that gives voters who believe they are registered -- but whose names don't appear on voter rolls -- the right to cast so-called provisional ballots.
WTF. You have had four years since the last election to register. You have had four years of multiple state and local elections and primaries to go and verify that you are properly registered. If you decide not to be involved in the process, then don't expect the process to involve you.
The real problem is gradual the removal of personal responsibility from the process through poltically correct and partisan legislation that is killing a process that should not be rocket science.
In all cases, including "wardriving", there is no legitimate reason to collect the information or listen in. It's none of your goddamn business. That has always been the case, and always will be, no matter what a bunch of pimply faced kids in a car with a pringles can think; the law is not based on whether or not they think their little "hobby" should be legal or not- it's based on decades of case law
Um, there certainly are perfectly legitimate reasons to collect the information. For example, when I set up my home wireless 802.11g network, I wanted to do it in such a way that it would maximize performance while minimizing interference to other neighboring wireless networks. (I guess my Amateur Radio ethics have stuck with me.) I took the time to "wardrive" around the surrounding area to "map out" what other access points were being used and what channels were being used so that I could choose a channel that was not being used. The result is that my network does not interfere with my neighbors' networks, and my network's performance is top-notch.
It's one thing to try to scam free access off of networks set up by ignorant people, but it's certainly another to use available information to make informed and considerate network planning decisions.
Forwarding is actually quite flexible!
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The forwarding feature is also more extended than I expected. In the "Settings", click on the "Forward" tab and you can enable a "Global" forwarding where EVERY received message gets forwarded to another email address. You can also further configure what to do with the received message. But did you know that "Filters" now have a Forwarding option? You can optionally have a Filter forward a message to any email address based on the filtering criteria. This gives you a lot more flexibility
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I certainly understand your sentiment, but it's not that it's "OK", it's that we live in a very different world that is reacting very differently from the way we did in the past. This is an excellent example of how the Internet has radiaclly changed the face of politics. Historically, these kinds of news stories would not have been heard for many hours or even days. The immediate delivery of news now paints a very different picture because it causes an "urgency" which rarely existed in the past. I'm not saying the "urgency" is false, on the contrary, sometimes it is very real. It's just that we need to learn to prioritize the "events" and react to those that are truely urgent.
I have to agree with you 100%.
When we moved to South Carolina, I downloaded the latest county maps from Mapopolis for my Palm Tungsten T3, and thought "Cool, I can find anything now!" Yes, it was useful, but over time, it turns out that the absolute best resource we ever found was a paper map that we obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce. That map was our "lifeline" for the first several months while we learned the town. Yes, the Palm version was decent, and it had all the bells and whistles, but for absolute convenience and ease of use, the paper map wins out every time.
...how "y'alls's" can be considered a usable word!
You are correct. Googling "Bush flip-flops" returns 12,800 hits...compared to 24,900 returns for ""Kerry flip-flops"...
".COM" was supposed to be for commercial companies and businesses. ".ORG" was supposed to be for non-profit organizations. ".NET" was supposed to be for networks and ISP's.
Like this will be controlled any better?
Not too long ago, I could just drive to my designated polling place, have them check off my name, vote, and a day or so later, I would read the results in the local paper or watch the results on some "breaking" TV special. Simple and easy.
Now, I have to read countless Geek and non-geek election and voting guides so that I can come to the realization that the candidate I had chosen long ago is still the one I am actually going to vote for. Then, I'll have to file appropriate paperwork for a "conditional ballot" should I decide that my designated polling place is "not convenient" for me. Then, once at the polling place, I'll have to dodge international election monitors, and dodge partisan bullies just to get into the polling place. Then, I have to hope that my votor registration has been logged properly so that I can vote. Once on the voting booth, I then will have to thoroughly discriminate the voting process to ensure that the new e-voting machine actually works and make sure a paper copy prints so that the inevitable recounts can be handled properly. Then, when I get home, I have to monitor the countless state-by-state and county-by-county real-time returns, monitor countless voting fraud sites, all the while filtering out sincere, yet consistently contradictory election commentary on main-stream media outlets.
Oh wait. I forgot. I live in South Carolina where President Bush is already locked in as the winner, so would I be better off just staying at home? Besides, some county in Florida will be deciding the election outcome anyway, right?
Time to shut off the PC and go Outside(TM) for a nice walk.
The problem is that Joe Tech-head typically doesn't bother to read the agreements, and is only concerned with embracing the latest and greatest. It's the price we pay for permitting a company access to freely manage and update the operations of what we purchase.
It's interesting to see how new technology tends to promote "waves" of use that often gets forgotten. We get excited about a technology or new gadget, use the hell out of it, and then our use or interest just peters out. For example, specific to TV technology, I remember when we first had DirecTV installed back in 1998. With all the Premium movie channels and PPV, we recorded TONS of movies to tape with our VCR. Never had we had a larger tape library! The result? Tons of never-watched movies and countless recorded-over or discarded tapes.
But wait! Here comes the DVR! After using a ReplayTV model 2020 for several years, I ran out and got a new ReplayTV model 5040! Now I could offload recorded movies to my PC for "archival" to DVD. Oh, how cool! I recorded, downloaded, and burned countless DVD-R's! The result? Lots of never-watched DVD'R's.
All this time, I have purchased close to 100 DVD's, ready to play in my home theater system! Now I have at my fingertips, many of my favorite movies and TV series at my beck and call. The result? More stuff for my wife to dust and a bunch of seldom-watched DVD's.
Maybe I'm not the typical tech-head, but you see, it turns out that we are more and more appreciating simplicity. And what do we watch the most? Oh, probably about 6-8 channels out of the couple hundred channels that Charter Cable provides. We rarely watch "live" TV, watching most content through a ReplayTV. And we watch the occasional VOD movie or special. PPV? Haven't bought one in years.
We are now trying out a newly-deployed Digeo Moxi DVR provided by Charter Cable, and so far, it is giving us the simplicity we want. Can I "offload" shows for burning to DVD? No. Can I record VOD? No. Am I limited to only the content that the Cable Company provides? Yes. So why is it so great? Well, I get sleek-looking box that integrates a DVR and a Digital Cable box. It provides both SD and HD viewing and recording capability, it provides full DVR functions, it requires only one remote, and it's pleasing to use. Of course it has its idiosyncracies, but most importantly, my wife and I are now much happier for the simplicity--and believe me, that's worth it.
And yes, when then next "latest and greatest" thing comes out, I'll probably jump on it, but at least I'm starting to understand that simplicity typically outweighs technical complexity in most cases.
I know this diatribe doesn't even address the NFL/HBO/TiVo issue, but hopefully, it will get you thinking about simplicity...
...after reading the title...whew!
So he has relatives who don't agree with him. So what? Don't we all? The problem with these types of stories is that they make an issue out of a non-issue. Imagine if a story was run that stated that EVERY relative backed Bush: there would then be whining of collusion and conspiracy.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
Obviously, this situation sucks, but it does give the son a dose of reality. Move into a new neighborhood? Contend with interference. Move into a new apartment? Contend with interference. Sounds like a great opportunity to test out his technical and negotiation skills that he'll need once he enters the post-college real world.
The reality is that though 20/20 hindsight can provide a clear future direction, it cannot erase the fact that many people in both parties and around the world made many mutual and consensual decisions based on the same intelligence.
A major defining difference between the two parties is that one is standing behind its decisions while the other is trying to dismiss its responsibility in its involvement in those decisions.
Whether the original decision was right or wrong is really not the issue--everyone agreed to it, and it is in the past. The real issue is how each party plans on addressing its responsibility for the future.
Abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a straight popular vote is a bad thing because it eliminates the representation from small populations. The Founding Fathers were not stupid. They devised a solution to a problem that still exists today: Ensuring that large populations do not dicate law to smaller populations.
What I WOULD recommend is working on a better way to handle multi-party elections such as runoffs, etc.
In addition, Congress should instead be working harder to develop better solutions to validate voters, better solutions to develop more secure, reliable voting methods, and to develop legislation that eliminates the current loopholes in campaign funding laws.
Remember that the United States is NOT a Democracy, but a Federal Republic. To change that is to change the fundamental foundations of this country.
First off, after using it for several days, I realized that I do NOT want GDS caching my Web activity. I certainly don't have anything to hide in my surfing at work, but to me, GDS's incredible usefulness comes in being able to VERY EASILY AND QUICKLY search for data WITHIN documents currently stored on my PC. This is proving to be an invaluable tool at work.
Anyway, as for being installed on public PC's, the problem is not Google's, but those who permit the application to be installed on a public PC in the first place. Any PC administrator who permits user-installable applications in a public environment is asking for problems, headaches, and potential litigation.
Let's just hope this news doesn't get spun wrong and opens people's eyes to security...
...you can understand...oh, never mind...
While you are correct that your search wouldn't be exclusivly local anymore, Google has already integrated the Desktop search results into the Web search results (See the Google Desktop Preferences.) If you installed Google Desktop and you let it include Desktop search results in your "normal" Google Web searches, they show up in a section near the top of the search results. I really don't see why Gmail search results couldn't be included in a similar section. That would be very useful!
Having dealt with Wal-Mart as a supplier, I can say that they definitely DO have leverage that seemingly can't be fought. Basically, they are the 800 pound gorilla that calls the shots. Don't like it? Then they won't carry the product.
From a CD-purchasing-consumer's perspective, this may sound great, but my problem with this is that it is easy to get caught up in anti-music industry sentiments while overlooking the fact that Wal-Mart can do this in just about any other industry too. Don't like the price of tires? Just threaten to drop the product. Don't like the price of milk? Just threaten to drop the product. Never mind that the price is already competitive with other, smaller businesses that don't have the leverage to "force" lower prices.
I disagree with your dismissal of his credibility. There are four years between national elections, and people have ample time to become informed. We need to develop a voting process that strikes a balance between reasonable accessibility and over-accommodation. Removing personal responsibility is definitely not the answer.
The most important thing in my eyes is to develop an election system that is reliable, effective, and virtually unchallengable (ie: the results are reliable enough that a challenge of fraud becomes virtually unnecessary.) Our current system is so screwed up, so in flux, so susceptible to lawsuits, so prone to varied interpretation that it invites challenge and fraud. One huge problem is that people in general are unwilling to accept a registration and validation process that would provide accurate votor validation. We can come up with all the latest and greatest systems, but unless we can accurately and reliably validate votors, the system WILL break down.
I agree 100%. It seems that most of the responses to your post deal with nothing more than convenience in the form of quicker tabulation, quicker stats, etc. Where is it written that we have to have results instantly? Who is mandating that the results must be available within minutes or hours? We have become so reliant on instant feedback that anything less seems absurd. Maybe it's time to step back from the wiz-bang world of high-technology and develop a voting system that really works. So what if "the best" solution ends up taking some extra time to validate and tabulate the results. I would certainly embrace the extra time it would take for sake of secure, reliable, accurate results.
What about the devastating effect that the 9/11 attacks had on the Airlines and Travel industry (and thus related industries)?? Is that Bush's fault? The job numbers were certainly affected by that.
Also remember that it takes time to recover. For some irrational reason, people expect the economy to stabalize and grow overnight. It just doesn't happen that way. I'm certainly no economist, but to believe that our economy can be turned around in an instant in the wake of events like 9/11 and our current involvement in war, is simply wishful thinking. And let's not ignore that unemployment figures are at a 20-year low...
OK, that may not seem like a popular idea, but in the long run, it may be the best path to follow. While it could certainly be argued that there are too many "standards", the important thing is to become proficient with follow the "accepted" ones. You say you are reviewing different standards to help guide your career path. My best advice is to learn the basics, and learn them very well. Learn not only how they work, but how they work together. Yes, you will become more of a generalist, but you will also become proficient at determining how you can develop a solution by applying your knowledge that can best fit the given situation.
Focusing on a specific standard IS a crap shoot. Yes, you could make big bucks by jumping on the latest bandwagon, but it will no doubt be short-lived. Over the long haul, a broader knowledge base is more useful and marketable thatn a highly-focused one.
This is a great example of the contradiction and hypocracy where people want each vote to be counted, verified, and validated, but they are unwilling to put into place a mechanism that properly validates the voter. There are plenty of ways to legally identify yourself, and if you don't take the time to obtain and provide the proper identification, you deserve the consequenses for your lack of responsibility. This is not rocket science.
WTF. You have had four years since the last election to register. You have had four years of multiple state and local elections and primaries to go and verify that you are properly registered. If you decide not to be involved in the process, then don't expect the process to involve you.
The real problem is gradual the removal of personal responsibility from the process through poltically correct and partisan legislation that is killing a process that should not be rocket science.
It's one thing to try to scam free access off of networks set up by ignorant people, but it's certainly another to use available information to make informed and considerate network planning decisions.
The forwarding feature is also more extended than I expected. In the "Settings", click on the "Forward" tab and you can enable a "Global" forwarding where EVERY received message gets forwarded to another email address. You can also further configure what to do with the received message. But did you know that "Filters" now have a Forwarding option? You can optionally have a Filter forward a message to any email address based on the filtering criteria. This gives you a lot more flexibility