As other posters have pointed out, the Chrome privacy policy seems to make section 11 moot as it implies that Google will not collect information other than what is required to actually run the browser.
Google has the right to collect and distribute displayed content using the service. (Section 11, and definition of service which includes the software.)
Suppose... They collect your banking information. However, they are only permitted (by privacy policy) to use the information to help make the browser run.
They are also permitted to update the browser without informing you. (In the ToS.) Now consider this plan:
An update to the browser makes a license fee applicable for the "service". To help your browser run better, they will automatically deduct from the bank account that you gave them the information for.
Oooh, yes, that's beautifully evil. Far-fetched, but valid in their terms of service nonetheless.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned much, is the clause in the ToS where I assert that I have the right to grant my rights (reproduction, distribution, etc.) to Google. This means that if they use stuff from me, but it wasn't mine, they can sue me for fallaciously asserting that I did have such rights.
Google may not be evil, but they have the castle, moat, army and infrastructure in place. Now they're trying to install the pincers; and I'm getting uncomfortable.
It was arranged so that PG&E will never have to pay you money.
There is also a $5 "connection fee" each month, so your smallest possible annual bill will be about $50. I used to hit that with a 4kW array (minute-by-minute stats are available).
The SMS gateways are very useful from the command line:
echo "Where am I?"|mail -s "Please tell me" 14085551212@txt.att.net
But by and large, the browser on my phone is too slow for me to bother to look up the address and log in to email. So, the phone company gets another 10c for my laziness....
A cubic nanometer of water weighs 2.2*10^-24 lbs. I'm guessing that's the approximate weight of the 110 lb satellite (in freefall).
That or NASA doesn't consider 26 orders of magnitude anything to worry about.
Imagine if C let you hook into the tokenizer and the parser! Why, you could invent your own language for solving your problem, and then solve your problem in that language! One of the joys of C is that it doesn't do this. You can normally tell from looking at a block of code what the compiler will spit out. Key words, arithmetic, function calls and dereferencing all pretty much do what you think they'll do! (And, with the exception of function calls, don't require looking it up in the documentation.)
Rox would be a great (lightweight) alternative to Gnome/KDE except...
it relies on 0install, which is horrible. The Rox filer works fine as standalone, but I wish they'd get their act together and make a decent installer. Not everyone has continuous Internet access! (Especially the machines that actually need memory conservation.)
Xara Xtreme still clocks in at just over 6MB---not too bad. (Plus another 6 in DLLs.)
This gives me an idea. Make the bag/receipt-checker sign a waiver before allowing them to search your bags*. Might be wise to mention the exploding dye packs on the form too.
* If the company does their accounting on the accrual method, then the property is probably yours at the time of the sale. Possibly, they could only make it yours at the end of the business day, or when you leave the property. I suppose they could also argue that you are "borrowing" the plastic bag from them---it's still theirs.
A back-of-the-napkin calculation shows that a ballistic object traveling at 70mph (102ft/s) can stay airborne for 4.5s (if that 70mph is directed at 45 degrees from horizontal), during which time it covers 325 feet. Then it smashes to bits (having just fallen from about 80 feet in the air).
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I guess the Advil advertising works on you then.
One of the curious things about find is that
find >/dev/null & find
runs faster than
find
(Thanks to disk queuing of course, but still a curiousity.)
More likely it's because a used one still has the carpool stickers attached (you can't get them on a new Prius).
As other posters have pointed out, the Chrome privacy policy seems to make section 11 moot as it implies that Google will not collect information other than what is required to actually run the browser.
Google has the right to collect and distribute displayed content using the service. (Section 11, and definition of service which includes the software.)
Suppose... They collect your banking information. However, they are only permitted (by privacy policy) to use the information to help make the browser run.
They are also permitted to update the browser without informing you. (In the ToS.) Now consider this plan:
An update to the browser makes a license fee applicable for the "service". To help your browser run better, they will automatically deduct from the bank account that you gave them the information for.
Oooh, yes, that's beautifully evil. Far-fetched, but valid in their terms of service nonetheless.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned much, is the clause in the ToS where I assert that I have the right to grant my rights (reproduction, distribution, etc.) to Google. This means that if they use stuff from me, but it wasn't mine, they can sue me for fallaciously asserting that I did have such rights.
Google may not be evil, but they have the castle, moat, army and infrastructure in place. Now they're trying to install the pincers; and I'm getting uncomfortable.
Seems ironic, given that Websters defines "icon" as "a religious image painted on a small wood panel".
The moment you can show me an F1 engine that runs at 20kRPM for 5 years and costs less than $500 I'll get back to you.
Ugh! What a horrible, low quality video. Was it made on a cellphone or something?
It was arranged so that PG&E will never have to pay you money.
There is also a $5 "connection fee" each month, so your smallest possible annual bill will be about $50. I used to hit that with a 4kW array (minute-by-minute stats are available).
The SMS gateways are very useful from the command line:
echo "Where am I?"|mail -s "Please tell me" 14085551212@txt.att.net
But by and large, the browser on my phone is too slow for me to bother to look up the address and log in to email. So, the phone company gets another 10c for my laziness....
Consider: would you rather spend $10M on a platform that may flop and not make a dime
OR
Spend $1B on a platform that has made multi-billions.
A cubic nanometer of water weighs 2.2*10^-24 lbs. I'm guessing that's the approximate weight of the 110 lb satellite (in freefall). That or NASA doesn't consider 26 orders of magnitude anything to worry about.
One of the joys of C is that it doesn't do this. You can normally tell from looking at a block of code what the compiler will spit out. Key words, arithmetic, function calls and dereferencing all pretty much do what you think they'll do! (And, with the exception of function calls, don't require looking it up in the documentation.)
Did you try yelling "PINEAPPLE!"?
Anyone else notice that 0x53 == 83. Maybe the price only dropped $3 and they're taking no chances now that G no longer means "giga".
...will embody a set of defacto addenda to the standard, and no one will Did anyone else read that as "de-fecto addenda to the standard"?Rox would be a great (lightweight) alternative to Gnome/KDE except...
it relies on 0install, which is horrible. The Rox filer works fine as standalone, but I wish they'd get their act together and make a decent installer. Not everyone has continuous Internet access! (Especially the machines that actually need memory conservation.)
Xara Xtreme still clocks in at just over 6MB---not too bad. (Plus another 6 in DLLs.)
This gives me an idea. Make the bag/receipt-checker sign a waiver before allowing them to search your bags*. Might be wise to mention the exploding dye packs on the form too.
* If the company does their accounting on the accrual method, then the property is probably yours at the time of the sale. Possibly, they could only make it yours at the end of the business day, or when you leave the property. I suppose they could also argue that you are "borrowing" the plastic bag from them---it's still theirs.
... but a few days later I received a letter in the mail that showed that the EXACT SAME THING had been copyrighted on the same day. Boy was I bummed.
Good grief, you want me to WATCH the movie? Again!?
Hey, if the wheels are turning fast enough, it should aid the jump!
And wind resistance can be made negligible if the bus is heavy enough. How do you know what its mass was? Eh? Eh?
A back-of-the-napkin calculation shows that a ballistic object traveling at 70mph (102ft/s) can stay airborne for 4.5s (if that 70mph is directed at 45 degrees from horizontal), during which time it covers 325 feet. Then it smashes to bits (having just fallen from about 80 feet in the air).
A 50ft gap? Totally unrealistic.
(Usual disclaimers for napkin-arithmetic.)
Is that regular hours or sidereal hours?
...as a "mobile phone" or as a "personal computing device" for the purpose of this question?
Ah! Rights discovered: one two three four.
...or these. (But maybe they don't have the rights to republish them.)