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"That sounds like a best-practice. That's what I would want any app to do -- check with me first. Maybe I want to do it, maybe I don't. That's the problem I have with what Bijan Sabet wrote. He's a VC who backs a lot of these companies. He basically says any info he has is any app's for the taking. But what if I don't see it that way. What if I, naively, put some sensitive info in my contact database. Like who to call if I get sick. Maybe I don't want everyone to have that info. I understand if he doesn't care. But I do. http://bijansabet.com/post/176... Maybe I keep passwords in those files (I don't). Maybe some people do, mistakenly thinking that it's safe as long as they don't lose the phone. All the time they're thinking that, the data is being spread all over the servers of Bijan's companies." - Dave Winer

"I know! I installed some of those servers, and my chin dropped when I found out how they were shipped. Could. Not. Believe." - Dave Winer

"Thanks for posting that out. The thing to do is to insert that sentence into the discussion thread where ever the conversation drifts over to personalities. Help things stay focused on what matters. I just did that on Mike Arrington's latest post. http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/..." - Dave Winer

"Please post that on scobleizer.com. That's the most important post you've ever written. BTW, I don't know that there's no poison in the Tylenol when I take a couple to get rid of some aches and pains. Imagine how far we'd get if we had to keep such a close eye on everyone we do any business with." - Dave Winer

"Amen." - Dave Winer

"You're doing the same thing. I don't care about fixing the journalists and bloggers problems. I want to know what happened with the address books in the past, and what's happening with them in the future. Stay focused." - Dave Winer

"No." - Dave Winer

"I delete comments that are off-topic. All the time. All of these comments about your comments are off-topic. Please stop posting them. Thanks." - Dave Winer

"I don't know anything about your comment, sorry." - Dave Winer

"Not getting hammered at all. Mostly interesting people sharing perspectives." - Dave Winer

"Got it. Not a bug -- that's by design. Maybe questionable design, but not a bug." - Dave Winer

"I don't see what you're seeing. Perhaps provide a screen shot?" - Dave Winer

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U..." - Dave Winer

"Not if you have to use different browsers with the icons in different places. Having one machine with non-standard scrollbars, a Lion computer that came with it, and every other computer I use have it work the normal way, gives me no chance to catch up. In the real world people don't adjust so easy. And that's where your software (and mine) runs. Not in your mind, on people's computers. This is exactly the patrician attitude that the tech industry has 100 percent wrong." - Dave Winer

"That's what happens when you fuck someone up th ass Donny. They will be in a world of pain. It really tied the room together." - Dave Winer

"And the last thing I want to explain to users is Why Did They Change That? I usually just say that they're idiots but we have to do what they force us to do." - Dave Winer

"This is what every Dilbert-like manager in Microsoft says to justify their sorry jobs. Are you imitating one or are you one for real? This is amazingly mediocre." - Dave Winer

"I was afraid of that, that's why I haven't looked at it yet. Stan, thanks for being our eyes and ears into UserVille! :-)" - Dave Winer

"That's what I think. :-)" - Dave Winer

"Wow that is freaky and totally virus like. If that really happened the way you say -- zuck should be in jail." - Dave Winer

"I obviously don't agree with him on that." - Dave Winer

"That's right Chuck. We're supposed to stay silent and take it like a man. Even when we're just boys. :-)" - Dave Winer

"What language doesn't allow you to pass the address of a function? It really is a very small feature for the language developer. An address is an address. :-)" - Dave Winer

"What's so hard -- stop groveling. Fuck em if they can't take a joke. It's not like anyone gets out of this alive! :-)" - Dave Winer

"Isn't it a relief to find out you weren't actually holding up the whole world! :-)" - Dave Winer

"Our syntax for that is on doh (arg1=arg1default, arg2=arg2default) { //blah blah blah } doh ()" - Dave Winer

"Well it works, and I love the feature, so I'm happy. When you make the software, I'll use it and I promise not to nitpick." - Dave Winer

"I don't understand the question." - Dave Winer

"I'm sayin you will have a big chunk of it soon." - Dave Winer

"Thanks David. I bought a copy of the Kindle version of the book and started reading it. Some of the ideas that I thought were unique to Frontier are in JavaScript. And there are definitely some weird things going on here that I haven't grokked yet. And they have some features I wish we had thought of like object literals (i.e. JSON)." - Dave Winer