Comments on: At last, I understand the dangers of Google AutoLink!

By: Jeremy Dunck

Jeremy Dunck — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:36:43 +0000

Mark,
Would a greasemonkey user script do? 😉

By: Yoz

Yoz — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:14:23 +0000

I must confess, Carter, you’ve completely confused me. You appear to be agreeing with everything I’m saying, then the last line of your message bears absolutely no relevance to what you said previously. (You also seem to think that I say republishing is fine, whereas I said the exact opposite.)
It’s possible that you haven’t read my two blog posts after this one. Please do so.

By: Carter Rabasa

Carter Rabasa — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:05:24 +0000

In reference to your comment found here: http://cubanlinks.org/blog/post/2005/03/01/Hyper-Text--Dead-.html#comments I have only the following retort: technology giveth and technology taketh away. What I mean by that, is that people/geeks/users are being empowered by personal computers to manipulate content (like you did with your text editor) in ways that simply could not be (or could not be done easily) before. So, yes. You can also take a newspaper and cut out all the ads and replace them with leftover Christmas wrapping. You can record American Idol off of TV, transfer it to your PC and use iMovie to replace all the ads with screensaver clips. But if you do these things, and then republish them, uh oh. No sir. If you edit my page in vi, and then publish your new version, you've violated my copyrights as a publisher. Lucky for you, I'm using a Attribution-ShareAlike license, so you'd just have to give me some credit, but good luck with someone using a more restrictive license, or better yet, no license at all (just plain old copyright). You see, I'm not sure that it matters that the Google Toolbar is on your desktop. You could easily get the same effect if Google simply provided a public, external HTTP proxy that you could configure your browser to use. I feel that there is a different between modifying the presentation of information (fonts, divs, layout, images, etc) to increase its accessibility and modifying its content.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:31:56 +0000

Bwahahahaha. Thanks, Bob, that’s the best laugh I’ve had all day. There’s a long history here, one that touches on licensing, openness, standards, discrimination, and general sociopathology. But I guess that all went over your head.
Anyway, my offer still stands.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:17:35 +0000

“$100 to the first person to release a GPL-licensed Firefox plugin that transforms scripting.com into valid, accessible XHTML.”
It used to be that people who had nothing substantial to offer would simply correct the spelling/grammar of the original writer.
Today that person criticizes the validity of their code.
It’s pitiful.
Bob

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:42:54 +0000

You should be flattered that people try to read your page in another language. In case you didn’t know, not everybody speak english, yeah I know this planet is a scary place for people who find pride in speaking only english.

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:40:08 +0000

What people should really get upset about is that Google will translate your page into another language without your consent, and there’s no way to opt out of that. I didn’t spend forty-three seconds carefully wording the English on my page just to have Germans mock the mangled translation that Google provides. Why aren’t people outraged?

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:57:20 +0000

Thank for the idea, Nick. No canadian v1@gr@ spam, but... http://groovymother.com/archives/2005/02/28/dave_winers_wor.html

By: nick

nick — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:58:45 +0000

“$100 to the first person to release a GPL-licensed Firefox plugin that transforms scripting.com into valid, accessible XHTML.”
And a tenner to the first person to do likewise, except that it turns every instance of ‘Dave Winer’ into a link to a Canadian pharmacy that supplies Xanax.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:27:08 +0000

$100 to the first person to release a GPL-licensed Firefox plugin that transforms scripting.com into valid, accessible XHTML.