Guillaume Cabanac wrote:
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I am a PhD student in Computer Science, studying human perception of
consensus in threaded discussions (like in Usenet and Web forums).
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I am currently looking for people to take part. If you are interested, feel
free to Java Web Start the experiment from
http://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/expe .
Normally I do not bother helping with survey's or research
(at least, not for free). Your project interests me in that it
is written in Swing and launched by JWS (two technologies
in which I have an interest and experience).
So.. I surf on over to the linked page, get the link for
the .JNLP and pull it up to look at it (which is something
I would do for any 'unknown' webstart project before
I even considering launching it.)
Then I see..
<all-permissions/>
..Uh-huh. Why does it need to all-permissions?
Note that most things such an interface might need to
do, can either occur in a sandbox, or can use the JNLP
API equivalent services (which again allows the app. to
be sandboxed).
I think that you will have more success if the user
does not have to make a decision about whether they
trust this 'all-permissions' code.
The bottom line is that since I don't know you, or your level
of either competence or trustworthyness, I am not prepared
to let this code run on my system unless it is sandboxed.