Category Archives: Recreation

Recreation :p

外電翻譯機

前幾天用 Skype 跟 ijliao 聊天的時候,就被 ijliao 笑說我的 blog 是外電翻譯機…

其實只是生活苦悶,用 bloglines 跑去看 Slashdot、Boing Boing (這個有時候會出現好玩的 link)、The Register、Engadget (偏 3C 的報導,通訊產業的居多) 看文章…

喔,我之前訂過 Yahoo!奇摩新聞 RSS,不過後來發現看國內的新聞太傷身而且沒營養,於是就取消訂閱了…

相當爆笑的 EULA

在 Kingsley Idehen’s Blog 看到「Proof That (Almost) No One Reads End User License Agreements」,而證明沒有人看的方法是:

anti-spyware firm PC Pitstop buried a note in its own EULA, saying they would give $1,000 to the first person who emailed them at a certain address.

而這個 $1000 用了多久才送出去呢?

It only took four months and over 3,000 downloads before someone noticed it and sent an email (and got the $1,000).

由於在某些國家對消費者的保護比較嚴格,如果某套軟體讓使用者同意 EULA 用的方法被證明會使得使用者「幾乎不會看」,這可能會使得 EULA 無效:

While this is an amusing story, it should also serve to show that EULAs shouldn’t be valid at all.