People are bandying about that 83% approval as if it means something.
a) That's 83% of the 15,000 who logged in while the poll was up. There are 200,000 active accounts.
b) The poll was up during the day. That means they were polling children; the adults were all at work. It's pretty safe to say that most of those polled have no real appreciation of the implications of their ''yes'' answer.
c) The poll did not even include the proposed EULA modification; it asked if people ''were comfortable with Verant scanning users' machines to find hacking programs'' That sounds a whole lot less objectionable than what the mod proposed.
The very fact that they even considered such a move indicates that they have Lost It Completely. The fortress mentality has taken over.
Slashdot Mirror
a) That's 83% of the 15,000 who logged in while the poll was up. There are 200,000 active accounts.
b) The poll was up during the day. That means they were polling children; the adults were all at work. It's pretty safe to say that most of those polled have no real appreciation of the implications of their ''yes'' answer.
c) The poll did not even include the proposed EULA modification; it asked if people ''were comfortable with Verant scanning users' machines to find hacking programs'' That sounds a whole lot less objectionable than what the mod proposed.
The very fact that they even considered such a move indicates that they have Lost It Completely. The fortress mentality has taken over.