save/print/whatever functionality was never Google's to offer or revoke.
Would you be making this same complaint if the content were served in a Java applet or Flash? Your browser offers a number of ways to prevent content from being used in a way the creators don't approve of.
If you don't like these restrictions, you can choose a browser that allows those kind of restrictions. Of course, I think you'll find that such a browser will also have *very* limited functionality, since entire content types will be excluded because they don't meet your standards for open usage.
Your computer is a physical piece of hardware. Unless somebody has locked the case and/or tied your hands behind your back, you retain full control over it... including the decision of which software to install, and which services you choose to use.
If Google Print doesn't offer the save/print/whatever functionality you desire, then don't use it.
There, you just exercised your control over your computer.
I'm sure you're right that he's feeling the pressure from O&A.
However, I don't recall him referring to himself as an "innovator". He talked about being frustrated with the censorship of conventional radio, and having the star power to build up a communications medium that's still in its infancy. Whatever other hidden motives he might have, those seem like legitimate statements.
Will fans pony up the big bucks for a Sirius satellite radio receiver and pay the monthly fee just to hear Stern?
No, but they might pony up the big bucks to hear Stern, the other jocks he hopes to bring with him, and the music and premium programming he talked about on his show.
In total, Sirrus is giving him three channels to program. That's a lot more than "just Stern".
But you don't own the postal service mailboxes. So in that case, you don't mind if they rip open your envelope (don't worry, they'll tape it back up), to see what's inside? Maybe photocopy it and store it in their records? Share it with a few people?
I can see the utility of "wire tapping" email, but I can also see how people have an expectation of privacy when they send an email. They expect those "To" and "From" fields to mean something.
I've yet to meet a site that *forces* me to use IE, but there are certainly some sites that make more sense with IE.
The USPS ZIP Code Lookup, for example. If you accidentally enter the city on the 2nd line rather than the 3rd line and try to submit, in IE you get red text informing you that you must enter a city. In Firefox (0.9, at least), you get nothing. You have to guess what you did wrong.
That's one small example; other pages get even weirder in non-IE browsers, to the point of not being usable. There's a reason Firefox has a "View this page in IE" plugin.
Before people say the obvious -- that the page designers are using non-standard HTML, CSS, whatever -- please consider this: most users don't know CSS from shinola, and don't care. They just want their pages to work.
Do you really think that it's comparable to stealing, killing, and raping, though? Those crimes involve unsuspecting victims. Drugs and GMail involve users willfully engaging in a transaction with known risks.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your argument, but this comparison seems similar to the "if we allow homosexuality we might as well allow pedophilia" argument... apples and oranges, IMO.
Stealing, killing, and raping are not comparable because the victim has not signed up to be robbed, killed, or raped.
This situation is more comparable to illegal drugs: you take them knowing that there are risks, and accepting the consequences of those risks. If you don't like the odds, you don't do the drugs, plain and simple.
Same deal with GMail. If you don't want Google to defile the sanctity of your email, then don't use it, and don't send sensitive information to anybody who does.
And of course you guys are jumping down my throat, assuming I don't know how to write HTML or am using a WYSIWYG editor. FYI, I use a plain text editor for all my HTML, and my code is 100% correct. But that's not always good enough. I had a problem recently where the bottom part of a form was being cropped by Netscape. I mean, the submit button just wasn't there. I had to size the table explicitly to get the form to appear in Netscape. Meanwhile, IE just chugged on its merry way from the get-go.
Plus, I don't know why you'd whine about IE trying the render incorrect HTML. So? It does try, and it does it pretty damn gracefully, IMO. And that's a BAD thing? Please... it's HTML, not C. It's not like there are going to be memory leaks if that TR tag doesn't get closed, LOL.
In my experience, Netscape is far more difficult to develop for than IE. Tables that render perfectly in IE become garbage or disappear entirely in Netscape. I know Netscape != Mozilla, but I felt like whining.
"...it's REALLY hard these days to get to actual porn wothout paying for it. Porn sites are businesses, and kids don't get in without paying..."
Utterly false. There are THOUSANDS of free sites out there, many of them neatly categorized by Yahoo. Consider all of the thumbnail galleries out there. If you don't consider that material porn, I shudder to think what you consider "actual porn".
That said, I favor free speech. I just think we should be honest with ourselves.
... insurance companies start charging more for people who were not prescreened. They could do this under the (admittedly reasonable) pretext that prescreened people are less likely to develop unexpected illnesses down the road.
Health care is already expensive, and this would most hurt exactly the same people who can't *afford* prescreening.
Also, it scares me to think that rich people will be weeding out bad genes while poor people continue to get sick. The social implications are frightening.
That said, I do think this sort of screening is a good idea. Any chance to reduce suffering in the world is a good thing. We just need to be *very* careful about how we apply it.
Anybody who's ever lived in Mendocino will not be surprised by this at all. Mendocino is truly a unique place, inhabited by a wide range of eclectic individuals.
It's also one of the more beautiful places I've ever been.
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Perhaps it would help if you explained how it *does* constitute a security vulnerability.
What is the risk? Not the abstract idea of "doing things without my consent", but the real, honest-to-god, danger-to-your-system risk?
Would you be making this same complaint if the content were served in a Java applet or Flash? Your browser offers a number of ways to prevent content from being used in a way the creators don't approve of.
If you don't like these restrictions, you can choose a browser that allows those kind of restrictions. Of course, I think you'll find that such a browser will also have *very* limited functionality, since entire content types will be excluded because they don't meet your standards for open usage.
Your computer is a physical piece of hardware. Unless somebody has locked the case and/or tied your hands behind your back, you retain full control over it... including the decision of which software to install, and which services you choose to use.
If Google Print doesn't offer the save/print/whatever functionality you desire, then don't use it.
There, you just exercised your control over your computer.
I'm sure you're right that he's feeling the pressure from O&A.
However, I don't recall him referring to himself as an "innovator". He talked about being frustrated with the censorship of conventional radio, and having the star power to build up a communications medium that's still in its infancy. Whatever other hidden motives he might have, those seem like legitimate statements.
And the millions who make Stern #1 in almost every market across the US, they must be stupid blue collar shitheads, right?
Not at all. However, they are *bleep!*ing *bleep!*heads.
Will fans pony up the big bucks for a Sirius satellite radio receiver and pay the monthly fee just to hear Stern?
No, but they might pony up the big bucks to hear Stern, the other jocks he hopes to bring with him, and the music and premium programming he talked about on his show.
In total, Sirrus is giving him three channels to program. That's a lot more than "just Stern".
But you don't own the postal service mailboxes. So in that case, you don't mind if they rip open your envelope (don't worry, they'll tape it back up), to see what's inside? Maybe photocopy it and store it in their records? Share it with a few people?
I can see the utility of "wire tapping" email, but I can also see how people have an expectation of privacy when they send an email. They expect those "To" and "From" fields to mean something.
Yeah, but if you're buying an airplane and ask them to buy peanuts, you really think they'll say no?
I've yet to meet a site that *forces* me to use IE, but there are certainly some sites that make more sense with IE.
The USPS ZIP Code Lookup, for example. If you accidentally enter the city on the 2nd line rather than the 3rd line and try to submit, in IE you get red text informing you that you must enter a city. In Firefox (0.9, at least), you get nothing. You have to guess what you did wrong.
That's one small example; other pages get even weirder in non-IE browsers, to the point of not being usable. There's a reason Firefox has a "View this page in IE" plugin.
Before people say the obvious -- that the page designers are using non-standard HTML, CSS, whatever -- please consider this: most users don't know CSS from shinola, and don't care. They just want their pages to work.
P.S. You, the person who modded me a troll. That's right, you!
:)
Go get some sunshine. Play with a puppy dog. Rent a comedy (hint: look for boxes with bright colors).
You can thank me later.
... we can still blame Bill Gates:
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Caller: Operator, help, I'm being chased! I'm at the corner of 7th and Broad!
Operator: Okay, I see you. Oh wait, hold on, the camera's stuck.
Caller: Forget the damn camera, I need help!
Operator: Maybe if I press this button... these stupid things always lock up right when you need them...
Caller: Help! He's gaining on me!
Operator: Hey Bob, can you come over and have a look at this? Camera 76 is stuck again.
Bob: Yup, we should have a tech out there some time tomorrow.
Caller: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuugggggh!
You can't fool me, Mr. Click!
Yes, you're right, it's absolutely illegal.
Do you really think that it's comparable to stealing, killing, and raping, though? Those crimes involve unsuspecting victims. Drugs and GMail involve users willfully engaging in a transaction with known risks.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your argument, but this comparison seems similar to the "if we allow homosexuality we might as well allow pedophilia" argument... apples and oranges, IMO.
Stealing, killing, and raping are not comparable because the victim has not signed up to be robbed, killed, or raped.
This situation is more comparable to illegal drugs: you take them knowing that there are risks, and accepting the consequences of those risks. If you don't like the odds, you don't do the drugs, plain and simple.
Same deal with GMail. If you don't want Google to defile the sanctity of your email, then don't use it, and don't send sensitive information to anybody who does.
Microsoft claimed that modular Windows was impossible. This has been reported on extensively.
Therefore, this service pack achieves the impossible. Makes sense to me .
And of course you guys are jumping down my throat, assuming I don't know how to write HTML or am using a WYSIWYG editor. FYI, I use a plain text editor for all my HTML, and my code is 100% correct. But that's not always good enough. I had a problem recently where the bottom part of a form was being cropped by Netscape. I mean, the submit button just wasn't there. I had to size the table explicitly to get the form to appear in Netscape. Meanwhile, IE just chugged on its merry way from the get-go.
Plus, I don't know why you'd whine about IE trying the render incorrect HTML. So? It does try, and it does it pretty damn gracefully, IMO. And that's a BAD thing? Please... it's HTML, not C. It's not like there are going to be memory leaks if that TR tag doesn't get closed, LOL.
In my experience, Netscape is far more difficult to develop for than IE. Tables that render perfectly in IE become garbage or disappear entirely in Netscape. I know Netscape != Mozilla, but I felt like whining.
"...it's REALLY hard these days to get to actual porn wothout paying for it. Porn sites are businesses, and kids don't get in without paying..."
Utterly false. There are THOUSANDS of free sites out there, many of them neatly categorized by Yahoo. Consider all of the thumbnail galleries out there. If you don't consider that material porn, I shudder to think what you consider "actual porn".
That said, I favor free speech. I just think we should be honest with ourselves.
Most of the researchers are male, yes?
And they're cloning women, yes?
I see where they're going -- I like!
Dude, lighten up.
... insurance companies start charging more for people who were not prescreened. They could do this under the (admittedly reasonable) pretext that prescreened people are less likely to develop unexpected illnesses down the road.
Health care is already expensive, and this would most hurt exactly the same people who can't *afford* prescreening.
Also, it scares me to think that rich people will be weeding out bad genes while poor people continue to get sick. The social implications are frightening.
That said, I do think this sort of screening is a good idea. Any chance to reduce suffering in the world is a good thing. We just need to be *very* careful about how we apply it.
Shades of Gattaca, indeed.
I really hope you know the answer to this...
Anybody who's ever lived in Mendocino will not be surprised by this at all. Mendocino is truly a unique place, inhabited by a wide range of eclectic individuals.
It's also one of the more beautiful places I've ever been.
... that the innocent cafe would become the modern-day pool hall?