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Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account?
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:36:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:29:40 -0400 From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> To: "Jeff Kell" <jeff-kell () utc edu> Subject: Re: [funsec] How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Cc: funsec () linuxbox org On 6/21/06, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:Fergie wrote:Just as a follow-up to this, the NBC Today Show ran a pretty funny segment on this story this morning.The hilarity ensues here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13447232/Grrrr... the video link gives me (in FireFox): "This product requires Microsoft(c) Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft(c) Media
Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why would you need WMP _and_ Flash to view 1 video??
Microsoft wants to ensure that you have their COMPLETE virus-installer on hand. What would you expect from some company named "Microsoft NBC" dot MSN dot com ? For them to allow some other, competing, viewer? I don't think so...
-JP<the easily confused>
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Current thread:
- How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Fergie (Jun 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Fergie (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Dude VanWinkle (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
- RE: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Blanchard_Michael (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Brian Loe (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Dude VanWinkle (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Jeff Kell (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Dude VanWinkle (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
- Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account? Dude VanWinkle (Jun 21)