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Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print
Much ink and many electrons are being spilled over Google's Chrome browser (discussed here twice in recent days): from deep backgrounders to performance benchmarks to its vulnerability to a carpet-bombing flaw. The latest angle to be explored is Chrome's end-user license agreement. It does not look consumer-friendly. "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
Google lawyers may need to learn a new word that ATT was just taught... Unconscionable
I think... I think he's trying to communicate with us, but I can't quite make out what he's saying.
It's really strange stuff. Someone might think that even transfers/deposits one makes while accessing own bank account also belong to Google. Or stuff someone buys on Ebay. Once on-line voting and Chrome become prevalent, Google will also become The President.
Replace the g with a $ and show them how you really feel!
I'm all for syntactic sugar, but isn't badsummary completely redundant when it follows the 'kdawson' tag?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Google: "We can coexist, but only on my terms. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die."
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.[Harry Truman]
All your (data)base are belong to us.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
This is totally awesome and fair! This is the best thing to happen on the internet! GOOGLE IS THE BEST COMPANY EVER!
"Posted with Chrome, edited for content by Google"
Or just press "cancel" at the EULA and get the download anyway, like I did.
c++;
Apparently kids are not allowed to use chrome.
In Soviet America, Google Chrome surfs you!
Damn them for not making their codebase absolutely perfect from day one! Software should spring into life fully formed, like Athena from Zeus' forehead!
Congratulations - you just set the Slashdot record for the least comprehensible post ever.
It blocks Slashdot? It is a bigger success than I thought!
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Gosh, you would think this was beta software or something.
I want my money back.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Once on-line voting and Chrome become prevalent, Google will also become The President.
Depends how many votes Diebold keeps for themselves.
Don't take it personally, but I can't have any respect for people (or their opinion) who use the phrase "epic fail"...makes one sound like those immature "cool" kids on the web.
Epic fail.
You mean that's *not* what happens when I run "svn checkout" ? Lies! Damn lies!
Congratulations - you just set the Slashdot record for the least comprehensible post ever.
Here, I'll translate that for you:
(1.000 times 10^100, swap position of o/l, o -> e) has machine language instructions encoded by a compiler which first ran through a preprocessor from some characters saved in a file in physical memory that a lot for the (opposite of hard) + ware on faster than walking on an operating system that has a penguin as a mascot (not technically because Linux is just the kernel, but I will let that slide). It seems [to the GP poster] like half their (not the penguins) stuff they (result of incontinence) through alcoholic beverage.
look up 'semantic' in a dictionary
se*man*tic
-adjective
of or pertaining to semantics.
You'll change your mind when Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
lol: You see no door there!
Whew, thank you for the translation. Now I understand.
-BrianWGray
Yes, they found out slashdot was one of the worst malicious sites out there, as it periodically issued random DDOS attacks to other sites hosting content of scientific import. Once the shlashdot-reading chrome developers discover this, they'll take it off the blacklist (as they too need a daily helping of slashdot) but it'll be layered in warnings and throttled to all-hell. Unfortunately, this will cause paradox leading to the Apocalypse as google will slashdot slashdot just to make the internet work and Chrome function normally. The lucky few will be raptured to Apple, where they will spend the rest eternity amidst pretty, hermetically sealed plastic and user friendly software.
Are you trying to say that it doesn't mean "bloated, ineffectual, resource hogging security software"? Maybe I have just been spelling it wrong.
They stay in beta until they have a 50%+ market share at which point they decide they are probably doing half decent and throw an official release party.
actually, i think Southwest uses shareware.
the aircraft takes off just fine. but instead of the landing gears deploying you just get a scrolling message asking you to register the software.
Impossible. Obviously, spam is unsigned.