"so do a surprising number of Steam games" If you're surprised they work, the platform isn't there yet. One should expect reliability and consistency. Consumers don't want to fiddle or guess, they want things to work.

I'm currently enrolled there along with my wife, father-in-law, a close friend, and her parents. They've gotten a LOT more responsive to students, I had a serious problem with an instructor and it was resolved within a few days. It's still all online but they have added some remote desktop to use the various tools. Are my classes boring? I've been in IT 20 years and Web development for 14 so there's not much that I don't understand. Is it as great as getting a degree from a big name school? Nope, but fitting into my schedule and the price I'm getting what I'm paying for.

How come you didn't notice your website and email were down?

I used to work at a registrar and it's not like one day you wake up and BOOM the domain is gone. All give warnings weeks if not months ahead of time. Most give a couple days of leeway before turning off the domain. After they turn it off (i.e. no email, web or anything can use the domain) you have about 30 days before it goes into redemption, once in redemption it's a crap shoot if you can get it back but you still can.

If it was your business, then the domain is a valuable asset and should be treated as such. Much like a brick and mortar office. If you don't pay the rent, leave valuable customer information in file cabinets and are kicked out (after getting an eviction notice), don't complain if someone comes in and uses the space for a crack den and the customer info for their own nefarious purposes.

A few recommendations,

• Use a reliable third party email account(i.e. yahoo, msn,gmail) for your contact info and NOT the domain in question
• Make sure you check it all the time!!!!
• Don't think your registrar is ALWAYS spamming you.
• Renew domains for Christmas or another holiday, if you renew early the time just gets tacked on the end you don't looks anything
• Renew domains for multiple years

So the 70 people last year were kids and seniors? Of the 70 deaths there were quite a few cardiac issues. HOWEVER just a quick sampling * Fleeing the police and pulling a knife on cops * Tazed AFTER pepper spray did not work * Man was wielding a sword * Bit the officer * Driver rammed 2 police cars * Drug dealer trying eat crack * Died because the bag of meth swallowed burst * Autopsy showed toxic levels of PCP * Mugging suspect * Individual had grabbed the officers gun * Dragged a cop downstairs injuring her 11 of the 70 were people being aggressive or stupid (i.e. eating drugs) with 5 of those where the officers safety and life were in jeopardy. ARE there incidents where tazers kill people who could have been dealt with in other ways? YES and these issues are handled. However, in regards to the deaths, 1 was directly related to meth overdose, 1 the suspect had a gun, 2 the suspect had a knife or sword. Thats well over 3% of those deaths, HOWEVER how many tazerings ended in death 1 of 4, 1 of 10, 1 of 100 or 1 of 1000? There are honest mistakes on both the cop and suspect part and vindictive cops. Both are reported and dealt with. However, as we only hear "man tazed and died" in the news rather than "suspect was agressive, tazed and taken into custody without further incident goes on to live for 20 years" which situation do you think happens more often? Tazers are NOT a "Last Resort" like some will say, the officers sidearm is. (Deaths from Tazer, 70, gun much greater)