Re: How Hard Can It Be To Cancel An AOL Account?

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> 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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