posted by dsk on November 26th, 2011 at 10:47PM
>GMail, on the other end, is a specific company's application, that only they control...let's ignore that they "generously" offer an IMAP interface as well
THIS right here is why you are total, and utter retard. Not half-retard. A full-blown retard. No, let's NOT fuckin ignore that Gmail provies IMAP and POP3 interface. IT'S THE TOTAL FUCKIN SERVICE. If I there was no POP3 and IMAP, I would not use Gmail. I use the web interface 95% of the time. I use Gmail HTML5 offline features. But I still sync my email.
It's like you live in this world of extremes where you have to choose one or the other. You're the only retard in that world. I don't see a contradiction. I use web interface for the convenience and security, but I take care to have my data backed up just in case google bankrupts.
This is true of any other web-based service that handles really important data.
>They can, at a whim, install any backdoor they want
So can your ISP. So can ICANN. So can every other centralized service you defendant on to provide you internet access.
>This is why JS (aka. programs) do NOT belong in webpages, no matter how much they sparkle and glitter. It is a fundamental flaw inherent in the very nature of JS.
No. This is why you're a retard, completely at odds with anyone remotely rational.
>"those who sacrifice freedom for comfort deserve neither, and will lose both.""
Dumbshit - he's not even remotely talking about your bullshit legacy "bring-back-1998-and-best-years-of-my-life" crusade.
THIS right here is why you are total, and utter retard. Not half-retard. A full-blown retard. No, let's NOT fuckin ignore that Gmail provies IMAP and POP3 interface. IT'S THE TOTAL FUCKIN SERVICE. If I there was no POP3 and IMAP, I would not use Gmail. I use the web interface 95% of the time. I use Gmail HTML5 offline features. But I still sync my email.
It's like you live in this world of extremes where you have to choose one or the other. You're the only retard in that world. I don't see a contradiction. I use web interface for the convenience and security, but I take care to have my data backed up just in case google bankrupts.
This is true of any other web-based service that handles really important data.
>They can, at a whim, install any backdoor they want
So can your ISP. So can ICANN. So can every other centralized service you defendant on to provide you internet access.
>This is why JS (aka. programs) do NOT belong in webpages, no matter how much they sparkle and glitter. It is a fundamental flaw inherent in the very nature of JS.
No. This is why you're a retard, completely at odds with anyone remotely rational.
>"those who sacrifice freedom for comfort deserve neither, and will lose both.""
Dumbshit - he's not even remotely talking about your bullshit legacy "bring-back-1998-and-best-years-of-my-life" crusade.
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posted by dennisn on November 27th, 2011 at 7:53AM
The main reason Google so "generously" offers IMAP (and also why I put it in quotation marks), is for them to be able to read your emails and send you advertising. This is yet another example of my point -- the company can do whatever it wants -- you have absolutely no say or oversight in the matter. The odd thing is you voluntarily choose to sacrifice control and oversight in exchange for their convenience. That's your choice. I would never make it so lightly.
You STILL utterly fail to acknowledge the massive and fundamental fail of JS that I mentioned (again) -- about full community/individual control of the code and it's distribution. That's frightening, but kindof impressive. Good job! Instead you parrot your retarded comment that you made earlier -- that just because the chain of security can be broken (with greater effort) at other links in the chain, we shouldn't have to worry about the client-link in the chain. Retard. |
