Nice day today. Hope more to come.
Brad,
Maybe that Bill story leaked out.(nice post by the way) IDXs' product is costing less and less all the time, and the Gov is going to help out too boot... Maybe some people are finally connecting the dots. 49,600 shares just might be a shortie in trouble, if so, who would help him out? If no one is willing to sell their shares to this troubled shortie, what will happen to the other 1,208,413 shares out there that his friends don't own? Especially if those tax sellers are coming back into IDX... If that is true then just how high is high? The Dec., numbers say 6.96 days to cover, how many days has IDX been going up now, humm? Five days of increasing price and volume... Looking at the chart, selling pressure increased around Dec., 15th or so... Thirty how many days before you can buy back? Does that include holidays?
Don't know if anyone noticed but, more dots to be looking for. Verisign just could be introducing IDX to many, many, many people... Not just customers... maybe investors???
January 15, 2001 CableLabs® Selects VeriSign to Operate Sole Root Certificate Authority to Safeguard Cable Modem Industry
January 9, 2001 VeriSign and i-DNS.net International Announce Strategic Technology Relationship for Multilingual Domain Name Support
January 9, 2001 Rackspace Adds VeriSign's Secure Solutions for Robust E-Commerce to its Managed Hosting Offering
January 3, 2001 Identix to Integrate VeriSign's Digital Certificate Services Into Identix's itrust(TM) Secure Transaction Management Security Offering
December 20, 2000 VeriSign And Telcordia Announce Opening of the First Public ENUM Trial
December 19, 2000 VeriSign Multilingual Domain Names Registration Testbed Tops 700,000 Domain Names Registered in First 30 Days
December 18, 2000 Grant Thornton LLP and VeriSign Team to Deliver Digital Certificate Services to Financial Institutions
December 18, 2000 Procter & Gamble Selects GreatDomains.com to "Sell" Flu.com and List Other Valuable Generic Domain Names
December 13, 2000 VeriSign Paves the Way for New Top-Level Domains
December 12, 2000 HiTRUST.COM (HK) Partners with VeriSign To Offer Secure Authentication and E-commerce Infrastructure Services in Asia
December 11, 2000 VerticalNet and VeriSign Sign Strategic Agreement to Deliver Trusted Environment for Online B2B Transactions
corporate.verisign.com
And one last thing, IDX hasn't "missed" earnings for a couple of quarters now. I saw a whisper number for -.13, expected -.14. I'm out on the limb again and say -.09... comon', could happen. <g>
Another Voting story. Seems IBM is "actively discussing" something with someone too...
Electronic voting systems face obstacles to
adoption
From...
January 15, 2001
Web posted at: 9:57 a.m. EST (1457 GMT)
by Patrick Thibodeau
(IDG) -- The Florida presidential voting
fiasco is turning into an opportunity for
some big technology vendors to bring
electronic voting systems to market. But
election officials say a solution to the
problems highlighted by last fall's election is much more than a point-and-click
away, with major obstacles confronting such efforts.
Last Thursday, Microsoft, Dell and Unisys said they plan to develop electronic
voting technology that would cover every aspect of the electoral process,
including registration, identification, voting and tabulation. That followed IBM's
confirmation last week that it's "actively discussing" the idea of developing
similar systems.
Many election officials said they would like to retire the antiquated technology
they now rely on, such as punch-card ballots and mechanical voting machines.
However, budget considerations are a big issue.
New York City, for example, has estimated that it would cost $100 million to
replace its lever-based voting machines with touchpad-equipped electronic
systems, said Lee Daghlian, a spokesman for the New York State Board of
Elections. "If money weren't an issue, New York City would have [made the
change] a long time ago," he added.
Legislation that would make federal funds
available for election reforms such as the
installation of new technology is starting to be
filed in Congress, and hearings are expected
to take place this year. But for now, much
remains up in the air - forcing vendors and
election officials alike to sit tight and wait.
Kevin Curry, a Unisys vice president,
acknowledged that it, Microsoft and Dell
won't be able to deploy any new electronic
voting systems until they see what kind of
election standards Congress and federal
officials set. Those standards will determine
what kinds of systems are actually possible,
he said.
For example, one unknown is whether the use
of smart cards by voters will be allowed. Until
that and other open issues are sorted out, "it
would be ridiculous to build something,"
Curry said.
Several election officials said they're looking
at the upcoming changes and new voting
technology efforts with wary eyes, partly
because of security issues.
Julie Pearson, the auditor and elections
supervisor for Pennington County, S.D., said
she wants to see diversity in any new systems
that are installed. Having a mix of electronic
systems would help the electoral process by
providing better security, she asserted. To be
able to fix an election, Pearson said, someone
would have to know "the details of every state
law [and] of every system that's being used."
Any new electronic system needs to have an open technology architecture that
lets it interoperate with other systems, said Deborah Phillips of the Voting
Integrity Project, an Arlington, Va.-based group that studies voting rights and
technology issues. "If all you're doing is plugging in new equipment, then all
you're doing is changing the set of problems," Phillips said.
cnn.com
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