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Google Chrome will take your rights.

Few Chrome browser downloader red the Terms of Use part 11. It provides that any text which the user of Google's browser writes, is freely available to Google.

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/0247205&from=rss

Fishy Fingers6449d ago

Well surely everyone reads the "user policy" dont they? I'm sure none of us simply click "next" do we? ;)

Well I sure as hell didnt read it, and thanks to this post I've learnt something new and in my opinion, rather important. I dont believe any other browsers do this (correct me if wrong) but this alone has put me off Chrome massively.

Not that I ever enter things I dont want others to see ;)

wrshredder6449d ago

Thanks =)
Yeah ,nobody reads the user policy thingies..
I liked the speed of chrome but it lacks some functionalities that firefox has. Im gonna stick it with the fox.. Not Mulder ,you two-minded sickos.. :D

EsbenPyrallis6449d ago

What this article doesn't point out.

9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Google acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Google, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Google has no obligation to do so on your behalf.

Yoma6449d ago

f**k you google! We will never trust you again!!!

Someone know a good search engine? :)

deeznuts6448d ago

Yoma. I've had good luck with webcrawler, lycos, and infoseek.

Lumbo6448d ago

Maybe you should put back these pitchforks and torches .. as EVERY search engine uses the exact same Terms it seems:

Lycos Terms of service:
LICENSE TO USER CONTENT

With respect to any Content posted by or in connection with the Products and Services, you grant Lycos a world-wide, royalty free, perpetual, license to use, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, create derivative works of, and distribute such Content to publish and promote such Content in connection with the particular Products and Services and to publish and promote such Content elsewhere within the Lycos Network. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.

Infoseek terms of use:
You hereby grant us and our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable (in whole or part) worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to use, reproduce, transmit, display, exhibit, distribute, index, comment on, modify (including removing lyrics and music from any Submission or substituting the lyrics and music in any Submission with music and lyrics selected by us), create derivative works based upon, perform and otherwise exploit such Submissions, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised (including on WDIG Sites, on third party web sites, on our broadcast and cable networks and stations, on our broadband and wireless platforms, products and services, on physical media, and in theatrical release) for any and all purposes including entertainment, news, advertising, promotional, marketing, publicity, trade or commercial purposes, all without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity (the "Submissions License").

deeznuts6448d ago

Holy Sheet, Lycos still exists? I was being facetious.

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wrshredder6449d ago

9.4 Other than..

Yep, other than. So the section 11 still stands..

EsbenPyrallis6449d ago

Yeah they get a limited license to use it. This is ridiculous. Google's terms of service is the same as their browsers, so if you have ever made a search on Google you have already accepted this. Youtube has the same thing. Myspace has the same thing. Facebook has the same thing. N4G has the same damn thing. Can it be made any clearer. It is legal crap they need to prevent bullcrap lawsuits. They are not screwing you out of your rights or stealing your crap.

Bladestar6449d ago

lol... they better fix this or I will never sign-into my bank account using their browser...

Testo6448d ago

I thought you were a web programmer? If so, how did you not realize that all browsers so the same thing.

Read any of Lumbo's posts, he speaks the truth.

Kratos Spartan6448d ago

What rights? Here in America, all of our rights were taken after 9/11

No more freedom here. Maybe I should try Japan. or Nippon.

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

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CrimsonWing6936d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger35d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard35d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer36d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee35d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger35d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33636d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee35d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k435d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33635d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher35d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3435d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger35d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!