Register.com domains are costly because of the support given.
That's funny. I have found Register.Com's support to be very poor, back when I used them. I get better support from GoDaddy.Com, which charges far less for its domain registrations.
It would have been better (in my opinion) to just write them that you don't want to have this "service" than to suing them.
Perhaps it would be better if THEY offered this 'service' as a option and allowed their customers to choose to opt-out. However, it is not a standard practice for customers to have to write to an online service to ask to not be abused.
So does this mean that once a house is sold, the realtor must immediately take down their sign rather than leaving it up for a week advertising their name with the "SOLD" sticker across it?
I did it for them on my new house. Nobody gets to advertise on my property. I wouldn't let my barber carve his logo into my scalp, either.
Register.Com's 'coming soon' page is a garish, crowded, visual assault. Nobody would want that thing on a web site that they paid for.
If the economic incentive is there, you can guarantee that someone will take advantage of it. This poorly conceived concept is a perfect source of income for world terrorism. They control the very thing for which they are placing bets. The people who are pushing this self-destructive idea should think a bit more.
Re: Too bad half the updates I've ever install make my copy of windows worse.
Thats a good point. Will the money we pay for updates gain us any better quality updates? If not, could we demand refunds if Bill screws up our servers... again?
You're right on the money with the "maturity" comments, Jack. The way technology has been running, we have been in a constant state of trying to learn something new. We've never really had a chance to get "really good" at some of our technologies, before the next version or replacement technology arrived.
The Cisco situation is not due to bleeding edge issues though. They should have found this problem sooner.
I saw a documentary on how crime labs can recover burned-but-intact paper, but they said that they can not yet recover burned paper that has been crushed and mangled afterward. Shredding and then burning should do the job effectively. Feeding the ashes to a goat might take away all of your worries.
That understatement of what happened with Intuit seems consistent with Intuit's own claims of a limited effect on their sales by the outcry.
However, the end of this article's comment about how Intuit will eliminate the things that people complained about is a good sign.
Previously, Intuit had taken a hard stance and claimed that some form of DRM was here to stay, whether their customers liked it or not.
As this "online reputation" concept is realized by big business, more postings will be made by online employees of these businesses. We are spoiled right now by the relatively low number of paid commentators on the Internet.
The future will probably include various companies' paid posters battling each other on a scale to rival the spam phenomenon.
The more that companies think we can influence their sales... the more they will try to influence the postings on the Internet.
Contactless credit cards seem to be merely the next insecure step in a series of steps that make our financial transactions more vulnerable to fraud. The legalization of digital signatures, and even the implementation of direct charges to checking accounts were earlier parts of this vulnerability process.
The fraud that results from this perpetual weakening of our financial transactions will eventually be so common that people will demand a solution to the problem.
The final result is the mandatory use of biometrics for general identification. The mark of the Beast would be required to buy a Big Mac.
Barcodes on your forehead, anyone?
With all of the domain owners running away from Verisign, I thought they were intentionally driving us out. Even though they are still the biggest, registrarstats.com has reported that Verisign was losing registered domains at the rate of more than a million domains per quarter.
Their customer service for me was so bad that I thought for sure they were doing it intentionally.
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Register.com domains are costly because of the support given.
That's funny. I have found Register.Com's support to be very poor, back when I used them. I get better support from GoDaddy.Com, which charges far less for its domain registrations.
BN
It would have been better (in my opinion) to just write them that you don't want to have this "service" than to suing them.
Perhaps it would be better if THEY offered this 'service' as a option and allowed their customers to choose to opt-out. However, it is not a standard practice for customers to have to write to an online service to ask to not be abused.
BN
So does this mean that once a house is sold, the realtor must immediately take down their sign rather than leaving it up for a week advertising their name with the "SOLD" sticker across it?
I did it for them on my new house. Nobody gets to advertise on my property. I wouldn't let my barber carve his logo into my scalp, either.
Register.Com's 'coming soon' page is a garish, crowded, visual assault. Nobody would want that thing on a web site that they paid for.
BN
If the economic incentive is there, you can guarantee that someone will take advantage of it. This poorly conceived concept is a perfect source of income for world terrorism. They control the very thing for which they are placing bets. The people who are pushing this self-destructive idea should think a bit more.
I think the value difference between a more buggy unpatched system and a fixed more secure system is bleeding obvious
...and WHO exactly MADE the system buggy? I rest my case.
Re: Too bad half the updates I've ever install make my copy of windows worse.
Thats a good point. Will the money we pay for updates gain us any better quality updates? If not, could we demand refunds if Bill screws up our servers... again?
Bill is becoming the world expert on increasing revenue without providing value to his customers.
What an excellent way for a rotten, rebellious brat to get his parents in trouble for spanking him!
You're right on the money with the "maturity" comments, Jack. The way technology has been running, we have been in a constant state of trying to learn something new. We've never really had a chance to get "really good" at some of our technologies, before the next version or replacement technology arrived.
The Cisco situation is not due to bleeding edge issues though. They should have found this problem sooner.
I saw a documentary on how crime labs can recover burned-but-intact paper, but they said that they can not yet recover burned paper that has been crushed and mangled afterward. Shredding and then burning should do the job effectively. Feeding the ashes to a goat might take away all of your worries.
That understatement of what happened with Intuit seems consistent with Intuit's own claims of a limited effect on their sales by the outcry. However, the end of this article's comment about how Intuit will eliminate the things that people complained about is a good sign. Previously, Intuit had taken a hard stance and claimed that some form of DRM was here to stay, whether their customers liked it or not.
As this "online reputation" concept is realized by big business, more postings will be made by online employees of these businesses. We are spoiled right now by the relatively low number of paid commentators on the Internet. The future will probably include various companies' paid posters battling each other on a scale to rival the spam phenomenon. The more that companies think we can influence their sales... the more they will try to influence the postings on the Internet.
Contactless credit cards seem to be merely the next insecure step in a series of steps that make our financial transactions more vulnerable to fraud. The legalization of digital signatures, and even the implementation of direct charges to checking accounts were earlier parts of this vulnerability process. The fraud that results from this perpetual weakening of our financial transactions will eventually be so common that people will demand a solution to the problem. The final result is the mandatory use of biometrics for general identification. The mark of the Beast would be required to buy a Big Mac. Barcodes on your forehead, anyone?
With all of the domain owners running away from Verisign, I thought they were intentionally driving us out. Even though they are still the biggest, registrarstats.com has reported that Verisign was losing registered domains at the rate of more than a million domains per quarter. Their customer service for me was so bad that I thought for sure they were doing it intentionally.