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Protection From Online Eviction? 296

AOL has been shutting down its free Web services, in some cases with little or no notice to users, and they are not the only ones. This blog post on the coming "datapocalypse" makes the case that those who host Web content should be required to provide notice and access to data for a year, and be held strictly accountable the way landlords are before they can evict a tenant. Some commenters on the post argue that you get what you pay for with free Web services, and that users should be backing up their data anyway. What do you think, should there be required notice and access before online hosts take user data offline for good?

Comment unclear review selection criteria (Score 1) 235

is it just me, or google seems to aggregate only the positive-thinking sites? And no honest (according to Stephen King) reviews of Filty Critic are in sight?

For instance, Crash gets two fingers (out of five) on Filthy's scale, and Google gives it four stars (out of five). Million Dollar Baby is 3 on Critic and 4.5 on Google.

There is no explanation on how movie review pool was selected. OK, it mentions that the list was "determined automatically by a computer program", but what was the reasoning behind programming the program to look in some places (i.e. rec.arts.movies.reviews) but not others.

Google really needs to increase transparency of the service before I start trusting it.

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