Creepy?
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#2I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent analysis, yet unbelievably is still well respected in most circles. I weep for the loss of independent reasoning.
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#3I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent…
Exactly. He is willing to interject his own responses, but unwilling to entertain comments to his own posts.
Aside from that, your phone (whether you opt-out or not) being able to update its manufacturer (not your carrier) on your whereabouts at any given time IS creepy.
Apple asks now, and Steve Jobs says that Apple asks now, but is it illegal for them to change that policy? The only thing forcing them to include an opt-out is user backlash against the TOS change. Further down the road, when iOS disables opt-out because location-aware ads make Apple way too much money, I'm sure there'll be more justification from Gruber and other Apple evangelists.
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#4I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent…
Here we are in 2010, in a world replete with democratized media, where any person with access to a computer — even without owning one — can sign up for a free email address at any number of free providers, and then sign up for a free blog service from an even more impressive array of providers, and speak their mind and refer to other such pages using the magic of Uniform Resource Locators. And, in this world, we have such an overgrown sense of entitlement that we get upset when someone chooses to reserve their blog as their own and doesn't allow us to take a piss in their pages.
Absolutely incredible that this is called an "inability to respond". Exactly how low does the bar need to be set before one is willing to lift one's leg to step over it?
Gruber links to people who have chosen to respond to him in their own blogs on a regular basis, and this has allowed me to discover blogs I may never have discovered before. It also drives traffic to them that they may never have seen before. What's so wrong with him expecting you to engage him as a peer?
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#5I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent…
Here we are in 2010, in a world replete with democratized media, where any person with access to a computer — even without owning one — can sign up for a free email address at any number of free providers, and then sign up for a free blog service from an even more impressive array of providers, and speak their mind and refer to other such pages using the magic of Uniform Resource Locators. And, in this world, we have…
Hypothetical answer: I'm not a blogger, nor do I want to be one. Gruber is free to do as he wants, of course - he is perfectly free to only respond to emails encoded with EBCDIC, if he really feels like it - but that doesn't somehow remove any legitimacy from complaints against him.
Secondly, I suspect the desire to comment on his blog arises more from a wish to engage (read: inform) other readers, rather than Gruber himself.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here we are in 2010, in a world replete with democratized media, where any person with access to a computer — even without owning one — can sign up for a free email address at any number of free providers, and then sign up for a free blog service from an even more impressive array of providers, and speak their mind and refer to other such pages using the magic of Uniform Resource Locators. And, in this world, we have…
Hypothetical answer: I'm not a blogger, nor do I want to be one. Gruber is free to do as he wants, of course - he is perfectly free to only respond to emails encoded with EBCDIC, if he really feels like it - but that doesn't somehow remove any legitimacy from complaints against him. Secondly, I suspect the desire to comment on his blog arises more from a wish to engage (read: inform) other readers, rather than Gruber…
And your point is? Nobody is entitled to comment on someone else's site. "Lack of comments" is simply a bullshit criticism.
Re: Creepy?
#7I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent…
Exactly. He is willing to interject his own responses, but unwilling to entertain comments to his own posts. Aside from that, your phone (whether you opt-out or not) being able to update its manufacturer (not your carrier) on your whereabouts at any given time IS creepy. Apple asks now, and Steve Jobs says that Apple asks now, but is it illegal for them to change that policy? The only thing forcing them to include an…
In the future, Apple could install a small packet of poisonous gas that would be triggered on the first received phone call 10 hours after jailbreaking the device. I mean, they haven't, but they could do that. And that is creepy.
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#8I can't read Gruber's posts anymore. The inability to respond to his specious claims is infuriating. For example in this post, the policy does not explicitly state the ability to opt out. Also he ignores the studies showing that with large enough data sets, individuals can be identified by their behavioral patterns, nullifying Apple's claim to the contrary. Gruber constantly passes off pejorative arguments as cogent…
It's fitting though, that someone as uncritically admiring of Apple and its culture of control and secrecy would take this approach with his own blog.
I don't click on DF links anymore. His tap-dancing apologia are predictable and tiresome and disingenuous and I don't use Apple stuff anymore so I don't need his take on the iFoo of the moment.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hypothetical answer: I'm not a blogger, nor do I want to be one. Gruber is free to do as he wants, of course - he is perfectly free to only respond to emails encoded with EBCDIC, if he really feels like it - but that doesn't somehow remove any legitimacy from complaints against him. Secondly, I suspect the desire to comment on his blog arises more from a wish to engage (read: inform) other readers, rather than Gruber…
And your point is? Nobody is entitled to comment on someone else's site. "Lack of comments" is simply a bullshit criticism.
No-one is entitled to have a window manager on Linux either, but I'd probably still be using a Mac if there weren't any. The OP of this thread is not, to my understanding, making a moral claim about how Gruber should or shouldn't have comments - he's saying that the inability to comment, combined with Gruber's factual inaccuracies, frustrates him sufficiently that he no longer pays much attention to the blog. Is he allowed to make that decision? Or is Gruber entitled to his attention?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
And your point is? Nobody is entitled to comment on someone else's site. "Lack of comments" is simply a bullshit criticism.
No-one is entitled to have a window manager on Linux either, but I'd probably still be using a Mac if there weren't any. The OP of this thread is not, to my understanding, making a moral claim about how Gruber should or shouldn't have comments - he's saying that the inability to comment, combined with Gruber's factual inaccuracies, frustrates him sufficiently that he no longer pays much attention to the blog. Is he a…
he no longer pays much attention to the blog
He pays attention enough to start comment threads about it.