We have dozens of them where I work... most of them are using IMAP to access Google Apps Enterprise accounts. At least half of them have other email accounts set up as well.
Perhaps you found them so restrictive because of the policies IT had in place. Because at least half the stuff you are complaining about they do in fact do.
As for the iphone vs bb... i have an iphone, and for me its the right device. But the bb keyboard is FAR better for composing anything of any length than the touch only iphone.
I don't give a crap about 'apps' or 'games', but i do like the iphones contact manager and web browser better.
Media support I find irrelevant; I use my phone too much for productivity to waste battery listening to music on it... but I do find the iphone camera pretty dismal compared to most other phones.
Several friends tried to help him too and it took them somewhere around 15 minutes to open the hood.
Basically, cars don't need to come with the hood locked by the dealer. Whether or not you're able to open the hood yourself sets the benchmark.
Lol, good story. I'll one-up you one though:
My 996 has a 'design' where the battery is under the hood, but the hood is on an electronic release.... so if the battery dies... your SOL.
Well almost... there is a way to do it manually that basically requires your car be at a service center on a lift. (ie.. the release mechanism has actually failed).
But for a mere dead battery... one can use booster cables to power the car (attaching jumper cables to a positive post in the accessible fuse box, and using the door striker as a ground point to power the car enough to pop the hood (front*)... and trunk.(rear*), so you can access the correct points to actually boost the vehicle.
I challenge anyone to "figure it out" by looking at it.
However, here's the thing. Its designed to do that, and it not a secret. The owners manual explains the process.
I'd be happy with Apple if unlocking my phone required reading the owners manual for the trick to it.
Running somebody else's jailbreaking tool at least means you understand that stuff that goes wrong is probably caused by something you did.
You know, if jailbreaking it required running a tool you downloaded from apple, while your phone was plugged into your computer, and you had to type a code displayed on the screen to complete the process... I'd be fine with that.
Its no different then the current difficulty. But its -supported- by apple, and that's important. Unlocking should be a supported action, not one that requires you subvert design and protection mechanisms.
I RTFA, and I still don't get how those colored balls could influence people to take the stairs.
There's a feedback in that the red and grey balls are used to score stairs and elevator usage. If more people use the stairs the 'red' balls score better, and the 'healthy choice' "wins".
Turns out people were willing to make a small lifestyle change towards a healthy choice just for that little bit of feedback.
Then add some peer pressure... few wanted to be the guy that lowered the healthy choices score.
ALL porn sites work on the iPad, they would be insane not to support it.
Porn sites != porn apps.
It's your eyes that are covered with the dark matter my friend, because you refuse to realize just how much works today on an iPad.
I know about as well as anyone can know what works and doesn't work on idevices. But you can keep making baseless smug claims if it makes you feel better.
Well that's a huge market.
Sarcasm backfire.
Its bigger than you want to admit. Lots of developers are in apples appstore because that's where they have to be to get any access to customers.
No they aren't.
"As weâ(TM)ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty..."
- Apple spokeswoman
What message exactly do you think they are trying to send?
There are alternatives, you can buy an Android phone.
Irrelevant.
. If IOS devices made it easy to use another store, then non-technical users would be at more risk.
I guess cars should come with the hood locked, and only the dealer has the keys?
They would get an email that said, "Hey try out this fun app" which would take them to the non-curated store, they would blindly click-through all warnings from the OS and voila
So the user who was happy with his safe one-store walled garden model clamors to a non-curated store through warnings and settings panels because of an email that said he could have a fun app...? I guess he wasn't as happy with what he had as you claim.
and you've just destroyed Apple's value proposition and their $100B market cap.
Really? Wow. How does the koolaid taste? Your turning purple you drank so much.
Apple fundamentally disagrees on both points so you aren't going to sway them.
Once upon a time, car manfucturers said that only they knew best and that having your oil changed away from the dealer or using a 3rd party oil filter or seat cover would destroy your car and turn it into a deathrap, bankrupt the company, and kill innocent drivers.
It was a stupid argument when they made it. And its a stupid argument now.
Jailbreaking was ruled legal, 3rd party app stores are thriving despite being driven almost underground, people still want iphones and apple hasn't collapsed yet.
Apple's model for iOS has worked out fantastically. Yet somehow, according to slashdot nerds, this model doesn't work well for consumers, and they are clamoring for alternative app stores.
Go on, let people choose alternate app stores freely... if nobody wants them, then the market will take care of them quickly enough, right?
Hell, even despite being driven almost underground the alternative app stores are thriving? How exactly does that reconcile with your claim that people aren't clamoring for them?
Developers who disagree with apple's app store pricing policies, who want to build apps that do things apple forbids...etc.
You can stick your head in the sand or somewhere darker as long as you want, but it won't make these people cease to exist, no matter how much you choose to ignore them because it goes against preconceptions you refuse to let go of... sound familiar?
Why should 99% of the population have to suffer through significantly greater security risks because YOU want side loading?
Sideloading can be turned off by default. The population that doesn't want it, won't have to be exposed to it.
Why should jailbreaking be a violation of the EULA?
Did you read the EULA? I did.
It is, jail breaking was declared explicitly legal.
I'm well aware of that. But Apple is protesting it will violate the warranty etc. There is a law the protects people who have the audacity to install a 3rd party oil filter in their car, that's what's needed here. So manufacturers are told unequivocally that consumers can do what they want, and they can't punish or threaten them for it.
Well then there are no complaints to be had because the technical people that actually want alternate stores, can jailbreak and use Cydia.
What about non-technical people who want alternate stores?
Why should people have to jailbreak their phone?
Why should jailbreaking be a violation of the EULA?
Why should we have to put up with Apple imposing any barriers whatsoever to using a non-Apple store?
As I see it, there are still lots of complaints about the status quo. The fact that I can hack my way to a semblance of what I want, by violating my EULA, and defeating Apple's software to get it to do what I want isn't a solution.
...but there's something to be said for iOS being a "closed" platform with a (mostly) strict approval process
Nobody has ever really said otherwise.
The complaints about the apple store are not that its closed. The complaint is that its the only store you are allowed to use. (both as a consumer and as a developer)
While Microsoft's licensing costs may not have been great in the past they have made massive changes in recent years to make things affordable for home users.
The trouble is that it rarely actually works out.
Windows 7 Family pack is great... but one of our laptops came with Vista Business. And my main desktop had Vista Ultimate. And even if we'd wanted to downgrade to Home Premium with 7 the family pack won't do that.
And we don't want really want home premium, we want at least win 7 professional, and there is no family pack for that.
And office home and student is a great deal, but not letting users have outlook is a dick move. (Not that I'm a fan of outlook, but a lot of people want to use the same thing at home and at work, or have 3rd party software that only integrates with outlook... hell even itunes/iphone/ipod contact/calendar sync only works with outlook last time i checked.
If you have 10 macs on you account, then all 10 macs can get the Appstore Software. This is a really attractive feature of Apple software, and I am glad that all Appstore software is going to follow this model. One of my biggest issues with MS is having to buy MS WIndows at $200 a pop for every machine I own.
Is there a limit to how many macs you can have on your account. I distinctly remember running into problems with itunes purchases due to the number of 'authorized computers' on my account, and it wasn't a lot... well under 10. I haven't used the app store yet so I'm genuinely curious.
One of my biggest issues with MS is having to buy MS WIndows at $200 a pop for every machine I own.
I agree completely... to a point. I think MS really needs to get on the family pack upgrades platform. A household with 4 or 5 computers running vista really shouldn't have to drop $1000 to get Windows 7.
However, seeing as you aren't buying the original pc from microsoft, and microsoft is discounting the OS to almsot nothing with major OEMs... its not likely you've paid Microsoft all that much for Windows in the first place. Apple raked in large margins on your original overpriced mac purchase so the inexpensive upgrades at least rebalances that scale a bit.
Lack of installation media is a concern for some, but I put all my OS on HD partitions and install from the harddisk anyway.
Lack of an installation media isn't a big deal, I'm a fan of digital distribution too... but OS installers should still be in bootable disc image formats (ISO or DMG) even if they don't give you a phsyical disk.
Seeing as the app store version of Lion is an in place upgrade from a previous version... you might have to install the previous version and then upgrade... which sucks if you ever want to clean reinstall.
That aside, this also bans a news channel from saying something like, "Follow us on Twitter at @newschannelname for the latest news updates direct to your phone." How does it benefit anyone to forbid that?
In the same way that it benefits us that the anchor doesn't follow every sentence with "brought to you by Carls Jr."
Now maybe you don't see a benefit to that but I sure do. I don't want to get my news from a 3rd party ad company that has nothing to do with anything, and to be honest, I'm genuinely sick of being told sign up to twitter and facebook 30 times a day to follow some bullshit but that's life in 2011.
But I don't have a facebook account, I don't want a facebook account and I'm particularly offended by government subsized entities endorsing either.
(And that may well be the case with the French News organizations, although I don't know offhand.)
"Many of us users understand every aspect of your network as well or better than you do, we just have better things to do."
Many of you think you do. Most of you don't have a fucking clue about the big picture.
Part of our job is to provide you the tools you need to be as productive as possible as conveniently as possible.
The other part is to secure data, and ensure reliability.
Naturally like any interesting job, these two objectives are at cross purposes. Lean too far either way and the business is sunk.
"Hey, this is your turf, and I understand that change is hard, and that you need to grumble, bitch, rant, whatever. get it all out. It won't change anything though."
And after the company loses a few million in lawsuits due to letting staff do X on an infected unmanaged computer at home because some "Gen-Z" XO thought it was more convenient... if the business is still standing maybe you'll let us do our job... no... you'll beg us to. You write shiny memos proclaiming how important it is...
Really... this reminds me of companies who have some twit in marketing who said... I need to be able to communicate immediately to be productive... delays putting things past legal are a waste of time and money.
A few lawsuits later and suddenly everyone remembers why they used to run everything by legal first.
So, hey, go have your fun, we'll tell you its stupid, you'll do it anyway, and sooner or later you'll figure out we were doing it right all along.
Actually, by that logic (and case law saying that you can't sue gun manufacturers for crimes committed by people who bought their guns) LimeWire shouldn't have been liable to begin with,
Limewire wouldn't have been liable, except that the judge found them to be actively encouraging infringement.
Merely making and distributing p2p software wasn't the issue. Actively marketing the software as a way to get music from all your favorite bands...
It'd be like walking into a gun store and them having signs up not just about self-defense, and target shooting, and hunting (all legal)... but also displaying big banners declaring how it you can use them to boost your income robbing 7-11s, get even with your co-workers by putting a cap in their knees, and then round out your day shooting at street signs from your car while driving home from work.
If they did that then the gun venders might well find themselves liable...
people will talk about you on the internet even if you choose to not be on the internet yourself. that's just how the world works, you don't get protection from telephone organized mobs by just being the only guy in town without one.
Yes of course.
But all those random comments and conversations aren't all linked to gether to a profile with you at its epicenter.
Its like shopping with cash... sure all these individual store clerks you interacted with know what you bought, and with herculean effort someone might be able to follow up with each of them, show them pictures of you and talk about what they recall of your buying habits and figure out what kind of person you are from that.
Or if you use your visa everywhere every purchase you make is linked back to one account, and its trivial to pull up everything associated with it.
That's FB... everything people are saying about you is all linked together and all linked to you. Everything people say about you on random blogs is just that... random bits on random blogs.
Meaning that you are in violation of the terms of service. A minor point in the big scheme of things, but its one of the reasons I refuse to use facebook.
Nobody knows who I really am, except for my few friends, all of whom *are* actual friends.
So your at best an outlier on the chart. After all for a lot of people the point of FB is to be found.
Most people are linked into their family and friends well enough that even without a real name it wouldn't take much effort to figure it out.
This is a almost universal in subscription service contracts. For you, a non-lawyer, to stand up and state that it is universally non-binding flies in the face of the facts that it is used everywhere, enforced everywhere, and any time you challenge it, they simply terminate the contract and send you packing.
Precisely. Each time they change the contract, you have the option to accept the terms or decline them. Should you decline them, you can no longer use the service... but you are no longer in a binding contract with them either.
They can't force you to accept the terms or be in breach of contract. You have the option to decline and end the contract.
someone who blew up two U.S. embassies in Africa killing hundreds, blew up the basement of a World Trade Center building, masterminded a plot that ended up killing more than three-thousand innocent civilians who were going about their day-to-day life
Would it be any different if I had used a sadistic serial killer pedophile rapist instead of a music downloader?
It would -still- be a criminal police matter not an "act of war" justifying an invasion.
Slashdot Mirror
no support for imap/caldav/carddav/etc...
We have dozens of them where I work... most of them are using IMAP to access Google Apps Enterprise accounts. At least half of them have other email accounts set up as well.
Perhaps you found them so restrictive because of the policies IT had in place. Because at least half the stuff you are complaining about they do in fact do.
As for the iphone vs bb... i have an iphone, and for me its the right device. But the bb keyboard is FAR better for composing anything of any length than the touch only iphone.
I don't give a crap about 'apps' or 'games', but i do like the iphones contact manager and web browser better.
Media support I find irrelevant; I use my phone too much for productivity to waste battery listening to music on it... but I do find the iphone camera pretty dismal compared to most other phones.
Several friends tried to help him too and it took them somewhere around 15 minutes to open the hood.
Basically, cars don't need to come with the hood locked by the dealer. Whether or not you're able to open the hood yourself sets the benchmark.
Lol, good story. I'll one-up you one though:
My 996 has a 'design' where the battery is under the hood, but the hood is on an electronic release.... so if the battery dies... your SOL.
Well almost... there is a way to do it manually that basically requires your car be at a service center on a lift. (ie.. the release mechanism has actually failed).
But for a mere dead battery... one can use booster cables to power the car (attaching jumper cables to a positive post in the accessible fuse box, and using the door striker as a ground point to power the car enough to pop the hood (front*)... and trunk.(rear*), so you can access the correct points to actually boost the vehicle.
I challenge anyone to "figure it out" by looking at it.
However, here's the thing. Its designed to do that, and it not a secret. The owners manual explains the process.
I'd be happy with Apple if unlocking my phone required reading the owners manual for the trick to it.
Running somebody else's jailbreaking tool at least means you understand that stuff that goes wrong is probably caused by something you did.
You know, if jailbreaking it required running a tool you downloaded from apple, while your phone was plugged into your computer, and you had to type a code displayed on the screen to complete the process... I'd be fine with that.
Its no different then the current difficulty. But its -supported- by apple, and that's important. Unlocking should be a supported action, not one that requires you subvert design and protection mechanisms.
I RTFA, and I still don't get how those colored balls could influence people to take the stairs.
There's a feedback in that the red and grey balls are used to score stairs and elevator usage. If more people use the stairs the 'red' balls score better, and the 'healthy choice' "wins".
Turns out people were willing to make a small lifestyle change towards a healthy choice just for that little bit of feedback.
Then add some peer pressure... few wanted to be the guy that lowered the healthy choices score.
ALL porn sites work on the iPad, they would be insane not to support it.
Porn sites != porn apps.
It's your eyes that are covered with the dark matter my friend, because you refuse to realize just how much works today on an iPad.
I know about as well as anyone can know what works and doesn't work on idevices. But you can keep making baseless smug claims if it makes you feel better.
Well that's a huge market.
Sarcasm backfire.
Its bigger than you want to admit. Lots of developers are in apples appstore because that's where they have to be to get any access to customers.
No they aren't.
"As weâ(TM)ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty..."
- Apple spokeswoman
What message exactly do you think they are trying to send?
Assume $50 per month per Blackberry
Odds are the government gets better rates than that.
There are alternatives, you can buy an Android phone.
Irrelevant.
. If IOS devices made it easy to use another store, then non-technical users would be at more risk.
I guess cars should come with the hood locked, and only the dealer has the keys?
They would get an email that said, "Hey try out this fun app" which would take them to the non-curated store, they would blindly click-through all warnings from the OS and voila
So the user who was happy with his safe one-store walled garden model clamors to a non-curated store through warnings and settings panels because of an email that said he could have a fun app...? I guess he wasn't as happy with what he had as you claim.
and you've just destroyed Apple's value proposition and their $100B market cap.
Really? Wow. How does the koolaid taste? Your turning purple you drank so much.
Apple fundamentally disagrees on both points so you aren't going to sway them.
Once upon a time, car manfucturers said that only they knew best and that having your oil changed away from the dealer or using a 3rd party oil filter or seat cover would destroy your car and turn it into a deathrap, bankrupt the company, and kill innocent drivers.
It was a stupid argument when they made it. And its a stupid argument now.
Jailbreaking was ruled legal, 3rd party app stores are thriving despite being driven almost underground, people still want iphones and apple hasn't collapsed yet.
Apple's model for iOS has worked out fantastically. Yet somehow, according to slashdot nerds, this model doesn't work well for consumers, and they are clamoring for alternative app stores.
Go on, let people choose alternate app stores freely... if nobody wants them, then the market will take care of them quickly enough, right?
Hell, even despite being driven almost underground the alternative app stores are thriving? How exactly does that reconcile with your claim that people aren't clamoring for them?
Who are they? Seriously?
People who want porn?
Developers who disagree with apple's app store pricing policies, who want to build apps that do things apple forbids...etc.
You can stick your head in the sand or somewhere darker as long as you want, but it won't make these people cease to exist, no matter how much you choose to ignore them because it goes against preconceptions you refuse to let go of... sound familiar?
Why should 99% of the population have to suffer through significantly greater security risks because YOU want side loading?
Sideloading can be turned off by default. The population that doesn't want it, won't have to be exposed to it.
Why should jailbreaking be a violation of the EULA?
Did you read the EULA? I did.
It is, jail breaking was declared explicitly legal.
I'm well aware of that. But Apple is protesting it will violate the warranty etc. There is a law the protects people who have the audacity to install a 3rd party oil filter in their car, that's what's needed here. So manufacturers are told unequivocally that consumers can do what they want, and they can't punish or threaten them for it.
Non-technical people don't want alternate stores. Your premise is flawed right from the start.
ROFLMAOWTFBBQ!!11
Since when do non-technical people not want, for example, porn? What planet do you live on?
Well then there are no complaints to be had because the technical people that actually want alternate stores, can jailbreak and use Cydia.
What about non-technical people who want alternate stores?
Why should people have to jailbreak their phone?
Why should jailbreaking be a violation of the EULA?
Why should we have to put up with Apple imposing any barriers whatsoever to using a non-Apple store?
As I see it, there are still lots of complaints about the status quo. The fact that I can hack my way to a semblance of what I want, by violating my EULA, and defeating Apple's software to get it to do what I want isn't a solution.
I want the law on my side.
...but there's something to be said for iOS being a "closed" platform with a (mostly) strict approval process
Nobody has ever really said otherwise.
The complaints about the apple store are not that its closed. The complaint is that its the only store you are allowed to use. (both as a consumer and as a developer)
I was replying to the AC, not you.
I agree completely that no one wants to use Office on their phone.
(Although the demand for office on tablets is a whole different ballgame, but that's a separate conversation entirely.)
How is that fixed? Almost everyone wants to use Microsoft office and they will piss and moan if they are offered anything different.
That said, if you replaced the openoffice logo with a Microsoft one on startup and told people it was MS Office 3 out 4 would use it happily.
While Microsoft's licensing costs may not have been great in the past they have made massive changes in recent years to make things affordable for home users.
The trouble is that it rarely actually works out.
Windows 7 Family pack is great... but one of our laptops came with Vista Business. And my main desktop had Vista Ultimate. And even if we'd wanted to downgrade to Home Premium with 7 the family pack won't do that.
And we don't want really want home premium, we want at least win 7 professional, and there is no family pack for that.
And office home and student is a great deal, but not letting users have outlook is a dick move. (Not that I'm a fan of outlook, but a lot of people want to use the same thing at home and at work, or have 3rd party software that only integrates with outlook... hell even itunes/iphone/ipod contact/calendar sync only works with outlook last time i checked.
That got their attention and the robo calls stopped, but if they'd used one of the domain registration anonymity services I'd have have been SOL.
No. Your telco should be able to identify where the robo calls are coming from, especially once you've involved the legal system...
It fired one ray along each pixel of the horizontal axis (ie 320 rays) to get the relevant rendering information for the entire vertical column.
If you have 10 macs on you account, then all 10 macs can get the Appstore Software. This is a really attractive feature of Apple software, and I am glad that all Appstore software is going to follow this model. One of my biggest issues with MS is having to buy MS WIndows at $200 a pop for every machine I own.
Is there a limit to how many macs you can have on your account. I distinctly remember running into problems with itunes purchases due to the number of 'authorized computers' on my account, and it wasn't a lot... well under 10. I haven't used the app store yet so I'm genuinely curious.
One of my biggest issues with MS is having to buy MS WIndows at $200 a pop for every machine I own.
I agree completely... to a point. I think MS really needs to get on the family pack upgrades platform. A household with 4 or 5 computers running vista really shouldn't have to drop $1000 to get Windows 7.
However, seeing as you aren't buying the original pc from microsoft, and microsoft is discounting the OS to almsot nothing with major OEMs... its not likely you've paid Microsoft all that much for Windows in the first place. Apple raked in large margins on your original overpriced mac purchase so the inexpensive upgrades at least rebalances that scale a bit.
Lack of installation media is a concern for some, but I put all my OS on HD partitions and install from the harddisk anyway.
Lack of an installation media isn't a big deal, I'm a fan of digital distribution too... but OS installers should still be in bootable disc image formats (ISO or DMG) even if they don't give you a phsyical disk.
Seeing as the app store version of Lion is an in place upgrade from a previous version... you might have to install the previous version and then upgrade... which sucks if you ever want to clean reinstall.
That aside, this also bans a news channel from saying something like, "Follow us on Twitter at @newschannelname for the latest news updates direct to your phone." How does it benefit anyone to forbid that?
In the same way that it benefits us that the anchor doesn't follow every sentence with "brought to you by Carls Jr."
Now maybe you don't see a benefit to that but I sure do. I don't want to get my news from a 3rd party ad company that has nothing to do with anything, and to be honest, I'm genuinely sick of being told sign up to twitter and facebook 30 times a day to follow some bullshit but that's life in 2011.
But I don't have a facebook account, I don't want a facebook account and I'm particularly offended by government subsized entities endorsing either.
(And that may well be the case with the French News organizations, although I don't know offhand.)
"Many of us users understand every aspect of your network as well or better than you do,
we just have better things to do."
Many of you think you do. Most of you don't have a fucking clue about the big picture.
Part of our job is to provide you the tools you need to be as productive as possible as conveniently as possible.
The other part is to secure data, and ensure reliability.
Naturally like any interesting job, these two objectives are at cross purposes. Lean too far either way and the business is sunk.
"Hey, this is your turf, and I understand that change is hard, and that you need to grumble, bitch, rant, whatever. get it all out. It won't change anything though."
And after the company loses a few million in lawsuits due to letting staff do X on an infected unmanaged computer at home because some "Gen-Z" XO thought it was more convenient... if the business is still standing maybe you'll let us do our job... no ... you'll beg us to. You write shiny memos proclaiming how important it is...
Really... this reminds me of companies who have some twit in marketing who said... I need to be able to communicate immediately to be productive... delays putting things past legal are a waste of time and money.
A few lawsuits later and suddenly everyone remembers why they used to run everything by legal first.
So, hey, go have your fun, we'll tell you its stupid, you'll do it anyway, and sooner or later you'll figure out we were doing it right all along.
Actually, by that logic (and case law saying that you can't sue gun manufacturers for crimes committed by people who bought their guns) LimeWire shouldn't have been liable to begin with,
Limewire wouldn't have been liable, except that the judge found them to be actively encouraging infringement.
Merely making and distributing p2p software wasn't the issue. Actively marketing the software as a way to get music from all your favorite bands...
It'd be like walking into a gun store and them having signs up not just about self-defense, and target shooting, and hunting (all legal)... but also displaying big banners declaring how it you can use them to boost your income robbing 7-11s, get even with your co-workers by putting a cap in their knees, and then round out your day shooting at street signs from your car while driving home from work.
If they did that then the gun venders might well find themselves liable...
oblig...
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
people will talk about you on the internet even if you choose to not be on the internet yourself. that's just how the world works, you don't get protection from telephone organized mobs by just being the only guy in town without one.
Yes of course.
But all those random comments and conversations aren't all linked to gether to a profile with you at its epicenter.
Its like shopping with cash ... sure all these individual store clerks you interacted with know what you bought, and with herculean effort someone might be able to follow up with each of them, show them pictures of you and talk about what they recall of your buying habits and figure out what kind of person you are from that.
Or if you use your visa everywhere every purchase you make is linked back to one account, and its trivial to pull up everything associated with it.
That's FB... everything people are saying about you is all linked together and all linked to you. Everything people say about you on random blogs is just that... random bits on random blogs.
I use a pseudonym on FB.
Meaning that you are in violation of the terms of service. A minor point in the big scheme of things, but its one of the reasons I refuse to use facebook.
Nobody knows who I really am, except for my few friends, all of whom *are* actual friends.
So your at best an outlier on the chart. After all for a lot of people the point of FB is to be found.
Most people are linked into their family and friends well enough that even without a real name it wouldn't take much effort to figure it out.
This is a almost universal in subscription service contracts. For you, a non-lawyer, to stand up and state that it is universally non-binding flies in the face of the facts that it is used everywhere, enforced everywhere, and any time you challenge it, they simply terminate the contract and send you packing.
Precisely. Each time they change the contract, you have the option to accept the terms or decline them. Should you decline them, you can no longer use the service... but you are no longer in a binding contract with them either.
They can't force you to accept the terms or be in breach of contract. You have the option to decline and end the contract.
someone who blew up two U.S. embassies in Africa killing hundreds, blew up the basement of a World Trade Center building, masterminded a plot that ended up killing more than three-thousand innocent civilians who were going about their day-to-day life
Would it be any different if I had used a sadistic serial killer pedophile rapist instead of a music downloader?
It would -still- be a criminal police matter not an "act of war" justifying an invasion.