The reverse is the problem. Disney spends a WHOLE lot more ad dollars than little goto.com makes in a year probably. (I could be overexaggerating, but you get the point)
If people see the go.com logo more than the goto.com, they associate the symbol and design with them, not with goto.com. They're doing the right thing by fighting for it.
Every domain registrar has policies that denote how something has to be contested... If you register with NSI, you agree that all disputes must be argued in Virginia. (This to keep the registrar itself from having to have counsel everywhere at a massive expense)
I suspect that the other registrars have equivalent language.
The cite is wrong... The AOL member needs to do a lot more than just open the email. He has to open it, download the executable, either attached, or often to a remote link on some free website like fortunecity or angelfire. Then he has to run the executable. It's not quite as easy as it's implied to be. Not only that, but we toss up a warning window on suspiciously suffixed files telling the member what it might be, and asking a yes/no if they really want to download it.
The domain dispute policies in almost every case require that any action take place in the state of the registrar. They caveat this to keep their expenses down if someone involves them in it. The new ICANN policy requires a run through arbitration instead. That's easily doable over the phone, if need be. You don't show/call in, you default.
I work for AOL Technologies... the people who actually run all the stuff. This guy sure seems to be talking a lot of crap.
A) NO ISP has enough modems to have all their users on at the same time. (or if they do, they're going broke fast).
b) 1.8 million? Where does this guy get these figures. We currently peak somewhere around 1.2 million SIMULTANEOUS users. And we've got more capacity on top of that.
c) If we're always busy, then why are we rated A+ from Inverse for reliability and availability? Sure, some areas will overload from time to time. You can't call up and have phone lines installed the next day, you know.
The simple fact is that AOL can provide better and more content over a bigger pipe. It's common sense.
It's about time that someone with a company big enough to back him, finally sticks it to Antionline. My only hope is that JP pulls some crap with AOL sometime, so that I can prod our landsharks to do their hungry circle dance of death around him.
Course, now that he's finally been publicly discredited, like all good net kooks, he'll get even shriller and more annoying.
I'd have had 3 more years experience when I hit the job market! =)
But really... Cool. What better place to use thin clients, where you don't want the kids installing/messing with configurations and/or playing too much Quake 2 in Study Hall.
Sun's showing these 'Sun Rays' off at work this week... mebbe I should go look now. (Well... and they're bringing free pizza too)
Disclaimer: I work for AOL, but not for AOL Legal. I just help keep the email moving.
The AT&T Suit was over different wordings, 'You Have Mail' (which is what the AOL UI reads, though the voice is different), 'Buddy List', and 'Instant Message'.
This one is regarding 'You've Got Mail (Male)', and has to be decided separately, because of the different wordings involved. Trademark law is the killer here, because it forces AOL to aggressively defend all possible dilutive references in order to retain the trademark's validity.
With the massive jump in processing power and fill rate they've been hyping for this thing, it really doesn't surprise me that it's slipped. It's not easy to design and manufacture a new chip of this kind of architecture and power with a short design cycle.
I think Sony overestimated their ability to produce the thing in a timely fashion, but I also have no doubt that they'll actually ship this beast sometime soon.
Maybe NOW we won't have to wait 9 months - 1 year after the Japanese get it to get our greedy American (and European and whatever) hands on it.
This seems a pretty harmless version of what is essentially a motion sensor, from the way the article reads. There's already a large amount of research into making millimeter-wave radar available for airports and other security checkpoints.
Remember the tunnel that Arnold walked through, and the gun he was hiding showed up in detail on the screen? It's in the works. Not only guns, but the change in your pocket, anything radar-reflective you have on you.
(I can see the people with genital piercings complaining already)
Replacement mice aren't hard to find... I had a Kensington Thinking Mouse before I converted over the Mac that I'm posting this from to LinuxPPC. It's a 4-button mouse with chording. I don't know for sure if Kensington still sells them, but it's just great for X.
On Yellow Dog Linux's site, they're talking about a deal with someone who makes the 'Unimouse'. A 3-button USB mouse for Linux that comes in those cute iMac colors. (Be honest. You know you want an orange transparent mouse)
It's not law yet. Like the article says, the individual state governments must pass it in order for it to become law. The whole thing is preliminary. The article does say that most of the stuff these people approve does end up being approved by state legislatures, however. Watch for it to come up in your state's legislative schedule, and make sure your state representatives and senators (and US ones, as well... they have a lot of pull in state issues) know what your opinion is.
Well... it's a little expansive to say that "AOL" told the EFnet admins that. One staffer at AOL told them that (He's no longer at AOL). I was one of the people who dealt with the complaints about AOL members that people sent in, most of which were total crap. The few that weren't 'X called me a ho' and 'Y took over my channel' were normally dealt with pretty efficiently. I don't really touch that stuff anymore, since my job relates mostly to email now, and making sure I can keep as much spam from getting in or out that I can.
As for AOL Watch... biased journalism is only worth reading if you only want to believe the side you read. David Cassel doesn't impress me (And it seems e's given up... he certainly hasn't written anything in awhile)
That list is about 5 years old, and was a list of words that could get you in trouble in chatrooms. Now, AOL's never officially acknowledged that it existed, and it's even possible that it spread out of the Guide (AOL's remote staff that does a lot of the overseeing in chat and on message boards) program without specific approval.
There's definitely no 'bad word' filtering in mail.
Every ISP keeps *logs* of what goes on. AOL doesn't keep read email that long, and contrary to your statements, email is not stored on the member's drive when read unless they specifically set that up in their configuration of the AOL client. See my post further down the page with more details on the time we retain stuff.
Really. I didn't know I bugged RR for days. Considering the head of security is a friend, and another of the abuse/security staff is a pretty good contact of mine, I find this rather amusing.
Ask Harris or Mark about Scott Crain. =) They'll set'cha straight.
Well, since I'm on AOL's mailstaff, I spose I can answer this one.
Unread mail is kept for 28-30 days (Depending on when that database is reaped). This gives people a decent amount of time to get online and read their stuff. I think you'd be pretty mad if you went away for a few days and your ISP wiped your mail spool cause it was 'too old'.
Read mail is kept available to be re-read/kept as new mail for about 48 hours. (again, dependent on the reaping schedule). I know this has saved MY butt a couple times when I forgot to save something.
Deleted mail (read or unread) is deleted after about 24 hours. (That reaping stuff again). Currently AOL members can't retrieve this mail (Much to some people's dismay), but this is changing in the forthcoming 5.0 client, which allows members to access the 'Previously Deleted' folder of their mailbox (What we here on staff call the Recycle folder)
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The reverse is the problem. Disney spends a WHOLE lot more ad dollars than little goto.com makes in a year probably. (I could be overexaggerating, but you get the point)
If people see the go.com logo more than the goto.com, they associate the symbol and design with them, not with goto.com. They're doing the right thing by fighting for it.
Every domain registrar has policies that denote how something has to be contested... If you register with NSI, you agree that all disputes must be argued in Virginia. (This to keep the registrar itself from having to have counsel everywhere at a massive expense)
I suspect that the other registrars have equivalent language.
Yeah... but the blue and white one gives him the whole 'iceberg in a pool' feel... just right for your favorite penguin.
Which of course means that you will once again be unable to escape the cavalcade of disks with your name on it.
Muhuhahaha
Uh. I terminate people's accounts all the time for spamming and the like. What does the size of the service have to do with ease of finding exploits?
The cite is wrong... The AOL member needs to do a lot more than just open the email. He has to open it, download the executable, either attached, or often to a remote link on some free website like fortunecity or angelfire. Then he has to run the executable. It's not quite as easy as it's implied to be. Not only that, but we toss up a warning window on suspiciously suffixed files telling the member what it might be, and asking a yes/no if they really want to download it.
(Darn... now I can't moderate this topic =)
The domain dispute policies in almost every case require that any action take place in the state of the registrar. They caveat this to keep their expenses down if someone involves them in it. The new ICANN policy requires a run through arbitration instead. That's easily doable over the phone, if need be. You don't show/call in, you default.
scott
I work for AOL Technologies... the people who actually run all the stuff. This guy sure seems to be talking a lot of crap.
A) NO ISP has enough modems to have all their users on at the same time. (or if they do, they're going broke fast).
b) 1.8 million? Where does this guy get these figures. We currently peak somewhere around 1.2 million SIMULTANEOUS users. And we've got more capacity on top of that.
c) If we're always busy, then why are we rated A+ from Inverse for reliability and availability? Sure, some areas will overload from time to time. You can't call up and have phone lines installed the next day, you know.
The simple fact is that AOL can provide better and more content over a bigger pipe. It's common sense.
It's about time that someone with a company big enough to back him, finally sticks it to Antionline. My only hope is that JP pulls some crap with AOL sometime, so that I can prod our landsharks to do their hungry circle dance of death around him.
Course, now that he's finally been publicly discredited, like all good net kooks, he'll get even shriller and more annoying.
I'd have had 3 more years experience when I hit the job market! =)
But really... Cool. What better place to use thin clients, where you don't want the kids installing/messing with configurations and/or playing too much Quake 2 in Study Hall.
Sun's showing these 'Sun Rays' off at work this week... mebbe I should go look now. (Well... and they're bringing free pizza too)
Disclaimer: I work for AOL, but not for AOL Legal. I just help keep the email moving.
The AT&T Suit was over different wordings, 'You Have Mail' (which is what the AOL UI reads, though the voice is different), 'Buddy List', and 'Instant Message'.
This one is regarding 'You've Got Mail (Male)', and has to be decided separately, because of the different wordings involved. Trademark law is the killer here, because it forces AOL to aggressively defend all possible dilutive references in order to retain the trademark's validity.
Scott
Actually, the AT&T case was over 'You Have Mail', 'Buddy List', and 'Instant Message'.
'You've Got Mail'(Male) is a different usage, and must be protected sseparately.
(Yes. I work at AOL, but I don't work in the legal department. I just make email work)
Nope... 4.0 and up.
What you're thinking of is internet access that comes via a tunneled IP protocol atop AOL's proprietary internal communication protocol.
PPP dialup is in beta testing for the newer clients (and what better test platform than all them Dreamcast users -(
With the massive jump in processing power and fill rate they've been hyping for this thing, it really doesn't surprise me that it's slipped. It's not easy to design and manufacture a new chip of this kind of architecture and power with a short design cycle.
I think Sony overestimated their ability to produce the thing in a timely fashion, but I also have no doubt that they'll actually ship this beast sometime soon.
Maybe NOW we won't have to wait 9 months - 1 year after the Japanese get it to get our greedy American (and European and whatever) hands on it.
This seems a pretty harmless version of what is essentially a motion sensor, from the way the article reads. There's already a large amount of research into making millimeter-wave radar available for airports and other security checkpoints.
Remember the tunnel that Arnold walked through, and the gun he was hiding showed up in detail on the screen? It's in the works. Not only guns, but the change in your pocket, anything radar-reflective you have on you.
(I can see the people with genital piercings complaining already)
Replacement mice aren't hard to find... I had a Kensington Thinking Mouse before I converted over the Mac that I'm posting this from to LinuxPPC. It's a 4-button mouse with chording. I don't know for sure if Kensington still sells them, but it's just great for X.
On Yellow Dog Linux's site, they're talking about a deal with someone who makes the 'Unimouse'. A 3-button USB mouse for Linux that comes in those cute iMac colors. (Be honest. You know you want an orange transparent mouse)
It's not law yet. Like the article says, the individual state governments must pass it in order for it to become law. The whole thing is preliminary. The article does say that most of the stuff these people approve does end up being approved by state legislatures, however. Watch for it to come up in your state's legislative schedule, and make sure your state representatives and senators (and US ones, as well... they have a lot of pull in state issues) know what your opinion is.
Well... it's a little expansive to say that "AOL" told the EFnet admins that. One staffer at AOL told them that (He's no longer at AOL). I was one of the people who dealt with the complaints about AOL members that people sent in, most of which were total crap. The few that weren't 'X called me a ho' and 'Y took over my channel' were normally dealt with pretty efficiently. I don't really touch that stuff anymore, since my job relates mostly to email now, and making sure I can keep as much spam from getting in or out that I can.
As for AOL Watch... biased journalism is only worth reading if you only want to believe the side you read. David Cassel doesn't impress me (And it seems e's given up... he certainly hasn't written anything in awhile)
Scott
AOL Spamdinista
That list is about 5 years old, and was a list of words that could get you in trouble in chatrooms. Now, AOL's never officially acknowledged that it existed, and it's even possible that it spread out of the Guide (AOL's remote staff that does a lot of the overseeing in chat and on message boards) program without specific approval.
There's definitely no 'bad word' filtering in mail.
Every ISP keeps *logs* of what goes on. AOL doesn't keep read email that long, and contrary to your statements, email is not stored on the member's drive when read unless they specifically set that up in their configuration of the AOL client. See my post further down the page with more details on the time we retain stuff.
Scott
AOL Spamdinista
Hrm... I work at AOL, and as far as I know, we don't have ANY cable access nationwide. We have DSL and Satellite deals, but no cable.
I begin to wonder about this one...
Scott
AOL Spamdinista
Really. I didn't know I bugged RR for days. Considering the head of security is a friend, and another of the abuse/security staff is a pretty good contact of mine, I find this rather amusing.
Ask Harris or Mark about Scott Crain. =) They'll set'cha straight.
Scott
AOL Spamdinista
Well, since I'm on AOL's mailstaff, I spose I can answer this one.
Unread mail is kept for 28-30 days (Depending on when that database is reaped). This gives people a decent amount of time to get online and read their stuff. I think you'd be pretty mad if you went away for a few days and your ISP wiped your mail spool cause it was 'too old'.
Read mail is kept available to be re-read/kept as new mail for about 48 hours. (again, dependent on the reaping schedule). I know this has saved MY butt a couple times when I forgot to save something.
Deleted mail (read or unread) is deleted after about 24 hours. (That reaping stuff again). Currently AOL members can't retrieve this mail (Much to some people's dismay), but this is changing in the forthcoming 5.0 client, which allows members to access the 'Previously Deleted' folder of their mailbox (What we here on staff call the Recycle folder)
Scott
AOL Spamdinista
The DNS was on hold at the time of the first posting. The site that you saw was said to be the original site, hosted at a different URL.