I was "invited" to join a gaming site called PlayFire.com. During the sign-up process, their site asked me for my Windows Live ID and password, so they could invite my friends to the site. That's how I got the invite in the first place -- someone created an account on their site, in the process giving them their username and password, with which PlayFire logged in as my friend and sent messages to all her friends.
I saw that form and closed my browser. Giving your username and password to some third party is a very basic "NO" when it comes to security.
LinkedIn lets you "find friends" on a variety of networks. If you use Hotmail or Yahoo, their app takes you to that provider's site to log in and explicitly grant access to LinkedIn. (I think one of them lets you select specific contacts to share, and the other lets you set a time limit on the access; both of them send you a link you can use to immediately revoke LinkedIn's access to your address book.)
If you choose Gmail, however, LinkedIn asks for your Google login and password in a form on LinkedIn's site, so it can log in as you to get your contacts.
I presume this is because Hotmail and Yahoo provide an API for this, and Google does not (or LinkedIn hasn't implemented it yet). [Note this is based on my trying it out a year or so ago; things may have changed since then.]
No site should ever directly ask for your login credentials to another site. That's just asking for trouble.
I think he was replying to AC's assertion that CD stores are out of business due to piracy -- although admittedly it's not *that* easy to tell when your only reference is how far a comment is indented once there are a half dozen comments to another reply above it.
Of course, it seems worth pointing out that a sewing kit is not a dangerous object…
The sewing kit was just what he bought to supply his "nefarious plot", what he used to sew the extra pocket to the side of this shirt. The "dangerous object" was the metal box he smuggled through security.
Although I had much the same reaction: let him try sneaking a gun, knife, or cupcake in his side pocket and see how far he gets.
T-Mobile's contract family plans do not include texting, so I don't pay for it. They used to give you a dozen or so messages a month for free, then they threw those away and started charging a nickle, then a dime, and now twenty cents to send or receive every message. If I send a message to my wife, it costs me nearly as much as it would to write a letter and send it through the USPS. How does that make any sense?
What would be really amusing is, if, as a result of all these links that we're posting, the top result in Google for Lowes returns this page showing how clueless Lowes is.
I don't know; it doesn't make a whole lot less sense than our Congressmen trying to legislate how the internet should work, without any real clue how the internet does work.
Which, I guess, doesn't exactly invalidate your argument...
Depends. If Google identifies your IP as Australian, it may 304 you from whatever.blogspot.com.uk back to whatever.blogspot.com.au. I would expect them to do this.
Of course, there will always be ways around that to mask your IP's location (proxies and VPNs).
A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader’s current location.
So you can publish whatever you want, but the reader may not be able to see it depending on where they are. It's still censorship, but it's not as bad as I first thought (that content is actually removed from ever being seen).
I wonder if/how this will work with custom domains (like my own). Surely they won't try to take all custom domains pointing to Blogger and register the ccTLD version...?
So, basically what you're saying is, they already have the tools (lie, deceive, make up facts, get the right people to believe them -- tools they've proven and continue to demonstrate they're very adept at wielding) to take down any site they want.
I'm sure they could get the RIAA to jump in with some lawyers, an amicus brief, and a load of cash. Rejecting a court case because of some "fair use" hogwash is something up with which they will not put.
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Yeah, because if anyone can sense and reject nonsense, it's a congressman.
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The way some do it could count as a TOS violation
I saw that form and closed my browser. Giving your username and password to some third party is a very basic "NO" when it comes to security.
LinkedIn lets you "find friends" on a variety of networks. If you use Hotmail or Yahoo, their app takes you to that provider's site to log in and explicitly grant access to LinkedIn. (I think one of them lets you select specific contacts to share, and the other lets you set a time limit on the access; both of them send you a link you can use to immediately revoke LinkedIn's access to your address book.)
If you choose Gmail, however, LinkedIn asks for your Google login and password in a form on LinkedIn's site, so it can log in as you to get your contacts.
I presume this is because Hotmail and Yahoo provide an API for this, and Google does not (or LinkedIn hasn't implemented it yet). [Note this is based on my trying it out a year or so ago; things may have changed since then.]
No site should ever directly ask for your login credentials to another site. That's just asking for trouble.
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On the post: Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'
Other uses for that question
If the answer is "not in a million years" perhaps it's time to move on to filming movies that consumers actually want.
On the post: Slow Down TSA Lynch Mob: That Naked Scanner Expose Video Is Exaggerated & Old News
It wasn't the sewing kit...
The sewing kit was just what he bought to supply his "nefarious plot", what he used to sew the extra pocket to the side of this shirt. The "dangerous object" was the metal box he smuggled through security.
Although I had much the same reaction: let him try sneaking a gun, knife, or cupcake in his side pocket and see how far he gets.
On the post: Mobile Carriers Don't Want To Give Up SMS Without A Fight
I don't have texting
On the post: WaPo's Kaplan Scolded For Demanding $300 From Student Trying To Sell One Of Its Books On eBay
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They're just trying to make the web 'armless for their clients.
On the post: Can We Count The Ways In Which Lowe's 'License Agreement' For Linking To Its Site Is Insane?
Did someone say Google Bomb?
On the post: Can We Count The Ways In Which Lowe's 'License Agreement' For Linking To Its Site Is Insane?
Re: Somebody at Lowes came up with this?
Which, I guess, doesn't exactly invalidate your argument...
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Re: Re: Publishing is global, viewing is local?
Of course, there will always be ways around that to mask your IP's location (proxies and VPNs).
On the post: The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
Publishing is global, viewing is local?
So you can publish whatever you want, but the reader may not be able to see it depending on where they are. It's still censorship, but it's not as bad as I first thought (that content is actually removed from ever being seen).
I wonder if/how this will work with custom domains (like my own). Surely they won't try to take all custom domains pointing to Blogger and register the ccTLD version...?
On the post: New Righthaven To Offer 'Hosting With A Backbone'; Will Avoid Unnecessary Takedowns
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On the post: Hollywood Astroturf Group Releases Ad Saying It Needs SOPA To Shut Down Megaupload... Five Days After Megaupload Is Shut Down
Re: Bizarre
Conclusion: no law needed.
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On the post: Musician Peter Gabriel Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA; Website Will Go Dark
Peter Gabriel's all about free stuff.
On the post: Paul Christoforo Doesn't Seem To Know How To Stop Digging A Deeper Hole Of Internet Infamy
Re: Re: Dead business?
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If Brownmark needs funding...
On the post: Appeals Court Reject's Tenenbaum's Request To Rehear Arguments For Rejecting $675,000 Award For File Sharing
This whole thing is suspicious.
On the post: Copyright Trolling For Dummies; Publisher John Wiley Sues 27 For Sharing 'For Dummies' Books
What is the proper recourse?
Is the person legally wrong? If so, what is the correct legal recourse for pursuing redress?
If not, why? (Maybe I don't understand the law clearly, but it seems copying and redistributing is not exactly legal...)
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