What is the point of using all caps? For me it makes legal texts like these really annoying to read. I'm not a native English speaker, is that really correct English writing? Aren't there clear rules when to use capitalization? Like, at the beginning of sentences. Feels like they are abusing the language.
Can they just lower case the paragraphs, to make things more convenient to read? Or does that change the legal meaning? For me it would feel like they would stop screaming :-)
I agree so much! It is baffling to me that so many companies/schools/individuals are actively using it. It is _so_ _bad_. Messages are lost, it reboots spontaneously, it crashes, one cannot turn off emoticons (I think (the UI doesn't help)), etc. It does not even take security seriously. What is good about that software?
And then when I talk about this with colleagues, they seem to be just fine with it...
Anyway, sorry about the rant. But it is just so nice to see that there are other people also dissatisfied with it, and that is not just me.
Thanks for this comment. While it is a no-brainer for me to support this, I initially felt that this is hopeless and very few people care. But after seeing your comment, it pushed me to also sign :-) We shouldn't give up.
Fair enough. I agree, that last part wasn't really necessary. You don't need to be productive and it's okay to passively consume content. If you can control that balance, that's great. I would guess though many of us can get caught in consuming a little too much, which is nice to avoid, but that's outside the point.
Good time to reconsider if you really should continue subscribing, I'd say. Money to them means money to the copyright holders, and they are destroying our equipment with their DRM. Perhaps better to do something else with that money and time and do something productive instead of being passively fed content for consumption.
Actually I wasn't joking. But you're right of course. It's on me, just as it's on me whether or not I will execute a proprietary executable on my computer. And if I don't want to, the solution is to just not do it.
It is still my opinion though, that if you let your browser request the resource, you should have complete control of what code should be permitted to be executed or not. Or if you want to, you should be able to mess with it freely. Because it is your computer, and you should be in control what it executes or not executes.
But the law is not with me on that in many places in the world I believe. And therefore I am happy we have free software :-)
> Erm, no? You've visited my site that I have built, you can either use it as is, or not use it - your choice - but don't start trying to mess about with it and sending stuff, I might be terrible at writing backend side and sending things wrong blows up a server.
Just because it's your site, you shouldn't assume that you have the exclusive rights to decide what executable code that should run on my computer. If you don't want uses to mess with that, the code should be kept on the backend, because that's "your" computer and you can decide what to run there.
EDIT: Perhaps there should be a required banner for every JS-using site, telling the user that it sends you executable code, and you need to press a button to confirm that you indeed want to let the browser do that.
(joke)
What is the point of using all caps? For me it makes legal texts like these really annoying to read. I'm not a native English speaker, is that really correct English writing? Aren't there clear rules when to use capitalization? Like, at the beginning of sentences. Feels like they are abusing the language.
Can they just lower case the paragraphs, to make things more convenient to read? Or does that change the legal meaning? For me it would feel like they would stop screaming :-)