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the internet would be better if we knew you were a real person rather than a dog or a fake person. Some people are just evil and we should be able to ID them an
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
the internet would be better if we knew you were a real person rather than a dog or a fake person. Some people are just evil and we should be able to ID them and rank them downward.
This is a ridiculous argument. How often have you wondered, "Is this person I'm talking to really a dog?" Of course it's a real person, even if he goes by a stupid name like me.
If Google is really trying to build an identity service rather than a social network, they need to come up with better arguments than this as to why that's a good idea.
- a3_nm 15y agoHe should have replaced "dog" by "bot". Think about spam. CAPTCHAs are a poor substitute to an identity provider saying "this person already passed a Turing test". (However, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to adopt the trivial trust network with Google as the root node.)
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoI was actualy wondering if Eliza* could get a G+ account. Honestly, I await the day bots can fool me. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
- w01fe 15y agoIt's probably a reference to this famous comic: http://bit.ly/jb485V http://bit.ly/jb485V (Wikipedia, shortened because HN breaks the real URL by stripping out the apostrophe).
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoOh, yeah, I bet you are right. Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about that one.
- pistoriusp 15y agoI got a laugh out of that. I honestly don't think it was meant to be taken as a solid example, but rather an exaggeration.