Any customers who may happen to enroll, who do not recognize value, or do not wish to take advantage of this new security, will continue to be allowed to opt out of the program. More importantly, as one of the world’s largest domain registrars and global Internet leaders, we believe that we have a responsibility to “push” our customers—to help inform, educate, and protect them against would-be threats. [emphasis mine]
Could someone please explain how anyone could "happen" to enroll? At least they "allow" opt out. How wonderfully generous.
aims to operate at a record-breaking 223 miles per hour
Record-breaking?! I rode the maglev train from Shanghai http://www.shairport.com/en/airline02_d.jsp to the airport. It accelerates for an awe-inspiring 3 minutes, to 432 km/hhttp://flickr.com/photos/25577117@N00/21992900/ then after about 1 minute it decelerates for the final 3 minutes. Less than 8 minutes for what is nearly an hour drive in traffic (30 km).
Of course there are no tunnels, it's brand new maglev track, etc, so not comparable to trains on traditional track. Still, an unbeatable experience.
Try to imagine 10 years from now: almost everyone will pull the Web out of their pocket, anytime, anywhere.
The challenge is how to get there. I work on mobile browser development, and we're working to make it possible to read all Web content on a smartphone. But mobile-friendly content is important. We realize that most sites will ignore that until a significant fraction of their users demand it, so we're trying to bring mobile users to the Web (even though many pages will still be a pain to view), instead of assuming the Web will come to mobile.
Also, not everyone lives in the US where most of one's time is either near broadband or in the car (where you probably shouldn't be surfing anyway!:)
If you use an email viewer that displays HTML email, then messages sent via didtheyreadit.com will record that you've read them when your viewer fetches the invisible image.
They embed a transparent 1x1 image in the HTML email, coded with an ID that tells their Web server that the message was read.
This is the same method used by many spammers to verify that an email address is real--if you even open a spam message in an HTML-capable mail reader they know yours is a real address.
On yahoo mail you can turn off display of HTML graphics for this very reason. My test of didtheyreadit.com didn't register my reading the message at yahoo until I clicked "show HTML Images".
Hmmmmm... it's sneaky. It's using a spammer trick for personal monitoring of one's own email. But is it ethical?
Why do you say Finland has cheap hydro? It is very flat here, so they recently voted to build a 5th nuclear plant. And the cities have big coal-fired plants.
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Any customers who may happen to enroll, who do not recognize value, or do not wish to take advantage of this new security, will continue to be allowed to opt out of the program. More importantly, as one of the world’s largest domain registrars and global Internet leaders, we believe that we have a responsibility to “push” our customers—to help inform, educate, and protect them against would-be threats. [emphasis mine]
Could someone please explain how anyone could "happen" to enroll? At least they "allow" opt out. How wonderfully generous.
Record-breaking?! I rode the maglev train from Shanghai http://www.shairport.com/en/airline02_d.jsp to the airport. It accelerates for an awe-inspiring 3 minutes, to 432 km/h http://flickr.com/photos/25577117@N00/21992900/ then after about 1 minute it decelerates for the final 3 minutes. Less than 8 minutes for what is nearly an hour drive in traffic (30 km).
Of course there are no tunnels, it's brand new maglev track, etc, so not comparable to trains on traditional track. Still, an unbeatable experience.
Try to imagine 10 years from now: almost everyone will pull the Web out of their pocket, anytime, anywhere.
The challenge is how to get there. I work on mobile browser development, and we're working to make it possible to read all Web content on a smartphone. But mobile-friendly content is important. We realize that most sites will ignore that until a significant fraction of their users demand it, so we're trying to bring mobile users to the Web (even though many pages will still be a pain to view), instead of assuming the Web will come to mobile.
Also, not everyone lives in the US where most of one's time is either near broadband or in the car (where you probably shouldn't be surfing anyway! :)
If you use an email viewer that displays HTML email, then messages sent via didtheyreadit.com will record that you've read them when your viewer fetches the invisible image. They embed a transparent 1x1 image in the HTML email, coded with an ID that tells their Web server that the message was read. This is the same method used by many spammers to verify that an email address is real--if you even open a spam message in an HTML-capable mail reader they know yours is a real address. On yahoo mail you can turn off display of HTML graphics for this very reason. My test of didtheyreadit.com didn't register my reading the message at yahoo until I clicked "show HTML Images". Hmmmmm... it's sneaky. It's using a spammer trick for personal monitoring of one's own email. But is it ethical?
Why do you say Finland has cheap hydro? It is very flat here, so they recently voted to build a 5th nuclear plant. And the cities have big coal-fired plants.