> No, but in Western Australia if I break certain hoon laws the cops can > confiscate my car for a period, > and if I perform the same offence several times I will lose it > permanently, > > I would have to say the analogy is between google and the police/ > government not the public.
Luckily, in Western Australia, you can find out what the hoon laws are that could result in the confiscation of your car. On GAE, it is like the cops being able to confiscate your car whenever they feel like it, citing the 'behaving badly' clause. In fact the terms equate to being able to do do without citing any clause - they don't even have to tell you they do it - the equivalent would be the WA cops nicking your car from the driveway in the middle of the night. It would be a horror living in any state that had laws as draconian as GAE's concerning your property. Believe it or not, business aren't too keen on these terms. On Apr 4, 1:46 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On Apr 4, 7:20 pm, Portos <[email protected]> wrote:> And your car is on a > public road, but it doesn't mean it 's public > > property, does it? The fact that google offers a hosting / cluster > > service don't give them authoring rights in any country I know. > > No, but in Western Australia if I break certain hoon laws the cops can > confiscate my car for a period, > and if I perform the same offence several times I will lose it > permanently, > > I would have to say the analogy is between google and the police/ > government not the public. > > The public have no access to my code on app engine unless I make it > available. > > If I where google I would reserve the right to access the code if the > need arose to ensure the > service runs correctly, and investigate problems that can arise if > something in code does > something strange. The same goes with the cops, they can seize my car > or lock me up, if I do something > inappropriate which ensures the roads (in theory ) remain safe ;-) > > There is an inherent acceptance on my part of the road rules when I > use the car on the road. > > You are accepting googles rules when you use their service. (I am > not saying privacy etc isn't important at all) > but the terms the service are made available under is really up to the > service provider (unless it is breaking some other law) and that > everyone planning to use google or any other cloud type service needs > to think carefully about whether > it is appropriate to use it, laws can differ signficantly between > countries. (I believe these differences are one of the reasons why > Amazon introduced availability zones in europe, so that the laws there > can cover the data held in europe rather than us law. > > T --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
