Stormbringer
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Comment · 14 years ago
"I've been a Google fanboi for years and defended them in the public square when they've been accused of nefariousness. But these revelations of intentionally ignoring users' privacy settings have shaken me. Maybe it's time to put them into the Facebook category, where I removed my account years ago."
Okay, wait. There's multiple problems here.
The first one is this: that you are only now objecting, and not upset at all about Google handing over dissidents to the Chinese govt to torture and/or kill.
Human fucking life fucking has no fucking value to you? Priorities???
Secondly, they haven't been accussed of nefariousness, they have been caught red-handed, bald faced lied about it in public, only back-pedalled when presented with irrefutable evidence, and then convicted in court. Now, you can try to spin that as "accused", but you're going to need to set the spin cycle longer than normal, because that doesn't wash (sic) with the rest of the world.
Lastly, the problem with replacing Google is finding a good replacement. Bing is useless. The only thing close to gmail for free email (and it's barely in the same ballpark) is yahoo.
Comment · 14 years ago
Is "Google does evil shit and violates users privacy" even news-worthy anymore? Isn't that the default?
Yeah you heard me Google-tards. Down-vote me like you always do, I got karma to burn baby burn.
Comment · 14 years ago
Waiting for the inevitable DuckDuckBro spin-off
Comment · 14 years ago
Frankly I think that spending half the intro talking about how sexy they are and then essentially giving an update on what the person in question has been doing lately with their genitalia is just wrong.
Are they in the pr0n industry? No? Well then, sit down and shut the %%%% up.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's okay, the risk of being massacred by the horrible Australian wildlife probably exceeds the reward anyway.
Comment · 14 years ago
Well, the good news is that even if you're a big company, the Apple App approval process is just as annoying for you as for everyone else.
The bad news? That's where the herpes comes into the picture...
Comment · 14 years ago
Quick! Alert the people selling software that it's just pixels! It's pixels all the way down!
Comment · 14 years ago
I have a new favourite word
Comment · 14 years ago
he suffers from Gruber-syndrome.
Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant...
...right up until Apple gets a market share lead in something, when he will whip out the megaphone and start screaming about how "we" are winning now.
He's almost as bad as the people who - in complete disregard of the facts, keep slamming Apple no matter what they do.
Comment · 14 years ago
Man up, move to Australia, and sue the bastards.
Comment · 14 years ago
If you think Google wouldn't spend some considerable time with a lawyer in preparation alone, then I have a contract to sell you..
Comment · 14 years ago
Technically it mioght not be theft, but Google certainly has a clear fiduciary repsonsibility in this case, and violating that is generally a lot more serious than mere theft.
Comment · 14 years ago
It seems like the equivalent would be to go to small claims court.
In any case, the likely legal fees involved in Google fighting it vastly outweigh the actual benefit of screwing him over.
Of course, if more people start taking Google to court in order to enforce their motto, it could get ugly fast.
Comment · 14 years ago
You did read the bit about how Google was arbitrarily with-holding the advertising revenue his site had generated?
Sounds illegal to me.
If my bank decided they didn't want me as a customer anymore I'm pretty sure I'd want my deposits back (!!!). If I did some work for a customer and then they decided to keep the work, but not pay me, and wouldn't say why, I'm pretty sure they'd end up in court ASAP.
It was so easy it was embarrassing.
I contrast that with some work I did with a startup last year. I bought one of their own Windows laptops into their HQ, and trying to get onto their own wireless network was a nightmare, even though I had a room full of techies to help. I strongly suspect that in the end the tech support guy just turned off the wireless router and left it off because it was too much trouble.
I'll do Apple support for love (ie free support for friends and family) , but you couldn't pay me enough to do Windows support. I fully appreciate the guys that do take on that thankless task, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Does that make me an incoherent raving Mac fanboy? You be the judge. But consider at the same $non_profit I stood and patiently nodded while one of the 70 year old blokes told me about his Windows experiences. At the end I fully commended him (he's running anti-virus, anti-spam and does regular backups) for his efforts, and I assured him that he was doing the right thing with the backups, to keep doing exactly what he is doing. I didn't preach to him about Apple at all, I don't see the need. If he's happy, let him be happy. If he is doing everything right but has some nagging feeling that he should be doing something else, I will reassure him that he's miles ahead of the rest of the pack.