You weren't worried about privacy concerns when you were fetching the javascript file from whatever random host that the website was referencing it from before.... I can't imagine you were pre-fetching all of your web pages and scanning where the external resources were referenced from before visiting the page... but somehow when that referenced source is Google then everyone is freaking out.
the extra DNS queries necessary to download the file from a third-party server _reduce_ the responsiveness, often severely. Yeah, who is this google.com that I have to download this JS from? I've never been there before and that DNS lookup is really going to hurt.
No, seriously: as far as I can tell, nothing Google does is unrelated to data mining. What am I missing?
How about Sketch Up? It's a 3d modeling application they offer for free. You don't have to interact with Google at all to use it (apart from the actual download).
To get royalties and such he would have needed to ask for more money. As soon as he asked for money, the staffing manager for the game would have just said no and hired someone else to do it. He can complain after the fact, but he knows that he never would have gotten the job if he tried to negotiate terms like those.
Yes, compare a billboard with being strapped down to a table and electrocuted or drowned. Absolutely, compare a magazine advertisement to extreme physical abuse. You're a genius.
I think you mean "unethical advertisers." Yes, some of them are shady and tricksters, but some are legit. Ignoring the distinction isn't a good starting point.
If they're not going to try and make a judgement call about what is evil... Do you know if they didn't consider it? They took action A and because that is all you saw, you've now concluded that they didn't even consider option B or C.
That doesn't mean that Google has to actively support them in their human rights violations, however. Have you considered that "actively support" is not the same as "forced by local laws against their will?"
I'm really surprised by the number of people in this thread who just completely ignore the real world. We don't always agree with the laws, but we're still forced to submit to them. That's how the social contract works.
I can think of a lot of evil things Google is doing. Selling advertising would be the major one. Selling advertising is "evil" according to your definition? Are you serious?
I really don't know anything about the religion myself, but one of the other slashdotters posted a link which included the images and some of the user comments on that page which expressed outrage referred to insulting a "god."
Google, as an American company, should respect that. Google started in the US, but it is an international company. The majority of its traffic comes from outside the US. They want to be able to work in other countries and to do that you have to obey their laws. When you travel abroad, you have to obey the laws of your destination country, why should Google be any different?
The motto is not "do no evil," it is "don't be evil." I know it's a small distinction, but the motto actually is "Do good. Don't be evil." The idea isn't just a restriction, it gives the direction to actively benefit people and reinforces it with a restriction.
Obviously Google has been resisting doing this for a long, long time... but what are you really going to do when the police is knocking on your door saying they think this guy is hosting pedophilia pictures in a restricted Orkut Photo Album and it's incredibly easy for an admin just to open it up and check? What happens when the admin sees there ARE actually pedophilia pictures in there? Are you really not going to turn over this guy's information? He's hurting kids and what's worse is that you are helping him. What kind of financial disaster is Google going to undergo when it comes out that they were told they were hosting pedophiles and did nothing to stop it and more kids got hurt?
No.
There is no chair in the world that will undo the damage you do to your body by sitting in front of a computer 12-14 hours a day. Lack of movement hurts your body. Archery is cool, but it's not exercise. Exercise is excellent, but the best kinds of exercise you can do as a computer geek are the energy building kind (yoga, tai qi, etc) instead of the energy spending kind (running, swimming, etc).
Buy a soft chair with arm rests and try to be aware of your body. Keep your shoulder muscles as relaxed as you can. Get a http://www.kinesis.com/ Kinesis Keyboard. Get a soft chair... and once you have that soft chair, stop sitting in it so much and go outside. It's nice out there.
Why do you need them to work in the same script? Have your PHP generate an img tag that references the perl script in the src attribute. Then the web browser will fetch the image data directly from the perl script and you don't need a Frankensteinian monster.
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No one said they were hackerproof. However, how often do you hear about them getting hacked? They put a significant amount of energy into security.
You weren't worried about privacy concerns when you were fetching the javascript file from whatever random host that the website was referencing it from before.... I can't imagine you were pre-fetching all of your web pages and scanning where the external resources were referenced from before visiting the page... but somehow when that referenced source is Google then everyone is freaking out.
No, seriously: as far as I can tell, nothing Google does is unrelated to data mining. What am I missing?
How about Sketch Up? It's a 3d modeling application they offer for free. You don't have to interact with Google at all to use it (apart from the actual download).To get royalties and such he would have needed to ask for more money. As soon as he asked for money, the staffing manager for the game would have just said no and hired someone else to do it. He can complain after the fact, but he knows that he never would have gotten the job if he tried to negotiate terms like those.
Yes, compare a billboard with being strapped down to a table and electrocuted or drowned. Absolutely, compare a magazine advertisement to extreme physical abuse. You're a genius.
How about videos of Marines killing people? There are plenty of those on YouTube as well. Do you want those taken down?
I think you mean "unethical advertisers." Yes, some of them are shady and tricksters, but some are legit. Ignoring the distinction isn't a good starting point.
I really don't know anything about the religion myself, but one of the other slashdotters posted a link which included the images and some of the user comments on that page which expressed outrage referred to insulting a "god."
Obviously Google has been resisting doing this for a long, long time... but what are you really going to do when the police is knocking on your door saying they think this guy is hosting pedophilia pictures in a restricted Orkut Photo Album and it's incredibly easy for an admin just to open it up and check? What happens when the admin sees there ARE actually pedophilia pictures in there? Are you really not going to turn over this guy's information? He's hurting kids and what's worse is that you are helping him. What kind of financial disaster is Google going to undergo when it comes out that they were told they were hosting pedophiles and did nothing to stop it and more kids got hurt?
No. There is no chair in the world that will undo the damage you do to your body by sitting in front of a computer 12-14 hours a day. Lack of movement hurts your body. Archery is cool, but it's not exercise. Exercise is excellent, but the best kinds of exercise you can do as a computer geek are the energy building kind (yoga, tai qi, etc) instead of the energy spending kind (running, swimming, etc). Buy a soft chair with arm rests and try to be aware of your body. Keep your shoulder muscles as relaxed as you can. Get a http://www.kinesis.com/ Kinesis Keyboard. Get a soft chair... and once you have that soft chair, stop sitting in it so much and go outside. It's nice out there.
Why do you need them to work in the same script? Have your PHP generate an img tag that references the perl script in the src attribute. Then the web browser will fetch the image data directly from the perl script and you don't need a Frankensteinian monster.