Dave, I'm not saying consumer be damned. I'm saying a wise user is better than dumb, ala this 'ucd' thinking... http://en.scientificcommons.org/30004846
Try to protect users from the pitfalls of not taking care online and the will never learn of the potential hazards. Along the lines of these 5 dangerous things you let your kids do: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202 People are waking up to new rules of living online, from that drunken frat photo your potential employer found to the Facebook Beacon experiment. There will always people who respond to the Nigerian banker.. less so now than before.. see?!? And there will always be providers who try to scam us. A list of rules wont fix that. My argument is that by collectively learning these new rules that hard way, in the long run consumers build up very effective defense mechanisms and become savvy... savvy? If Google did start stealing our ideas... that fact would get out and people's trust in their services would be lost. They cant afford that. The Realplayer is a good example of a once dominant product that abused our privacy and is now an also-ran. /pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35669 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
