[OpenID] OpenID, P2P and decentralization

Richard Lynch ceo at l-i-e.com
Sat Mar 3 04:50:58 UTC 2007


A slider is "nifty" for grandma, maybe, but I want to know EXACTLY
what the meaning of any setting is.

I HATE that slider thing or the "levels" of security in the browsers.

It may be good for touchy-feely people, but not us nuts-n-bolts types...

Maybe I'm the only user that thinks this way. [shrug]

On Fri, March 2, 2007 10:38 am, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> It seems that reasonable people -- which you all are -- are
> disagreeing on this one.
>
> So as a matter of principle, I think whatever technology is thrown at
> this problem should have a built-in gradient of supporting both
> opinions, and everything in between (say, my friends can see it but
> not the general public). It may be that the slider=0 is what all
> users will do, or slider=100% is what all users do, or -- what is
> more likely -- different users choose different comfort zones. Which
> is why the slider idea (that others have brought up before on similar
> questions) is a good mental model methinks if put into technology
> properly.
>
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> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
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>  http://netmesh.info/jernst
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