How do you know that the person you would allegedly swap with would actually vote the way you agreed upon?? There is no way to guarantee that they will vote the "right" way. I personally think it would be foolish to swap your vote, you might as well give it away.
What happens when the spammers get a hold of the list? Obviously there is no way to enforce international spammers. Adding your emails to a list like this could actually *increase* the ammount of spam you recieve, after all you would be providing them with a valid email address.
Spammers will simply move offshore, where I would bet a large portion of them are now anyways. Good idea, totally useless in practice.
was a bit ahead of its time.
Tivo is a great idea in concept. However, it really does not have much of a market share, and probably never will. Us geeks need to get over it.
As far as the spamming goes, it seems like a great way to increase market share and try to drive up ratings. Believe me, it works, just like that enlarge your pen** spam did for me too. It seems like this being done is shooting Tivo in the foot.
Technically isnt a no-opt out, a backdoor? I would be for opt-in rather than opt out. Alas in the age of spam, htat would never work, after all, marketers have the "right" to market to you, and shove their big advertising d***... well you know where, regardless of your permission or not.
just my 2cents.
So the simple Solution is to run box with 2 NICs (one to a broadband connection, one to a hub/switch) and have it run a proxy server. All the traffic will originate from one machine and be routed to each box via the proxy, eliminating this lovely tracking scheme.
Hoooray!
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... will pack up and leave if this goes through. No more downloading Hank williams CDs.
How do you know that the person you would allegedly swap with would actually vote the way you agreed upon?? There is no way to guarantee that they will vote the "right" way. I personally think it would be foolish to swap your vote, you might as well give it away.
Anyone else?
I wonder what you could do with a swimming pool.........
What happens when the spammers get a hold of the list? Obviously there is no way to enforce international spammers. Adding your emails to a list like this could actually *increase* the ammount of spam you recieve, after all you would be providing them with a valid email address.
Spammers will simply move offshore, where I would bet a large portion of them are now anyways. Good idea, totally useless in practice.
was a bit ahead of its time. Tivo is a great idea in concept. However, it really does not have much of a market share, and probably never will. Us geeks need to get over it. As far as the spamming goes, it seems like a great way to increase market share and try to drive up ratings. Believe me, it works, just like that enlarge your pen** spam did for me too. It seems like this being done is shooting Tivo in the foot. Technically isnt a no-opt out, a backdoor? I would be for opt-in rather than opt out. Alas in the age of spam, htat would never work, after all, marketers have the "right" to market to you, and shove their big advertising d***... well you know where, regardless of your permission or not. just my 2cents.
So the simple Solution is to run box with 2 NICs (one to a broadband connection, one to a hub/switch) and have it run a proxy server. All the traffic will originate from one machine and be routed to each box via the proxy, eliminating this lovely tracking scheme. Hoooray!