[sldev] Autotranslation build to try out

[Tateru Nino]

Lawson English wrote:
> Jo Grant wrote:
>   
>> By what mechanism is the translation done? If it's not local, what is 
>> the transport mechanism to and from the translation service?
>> I've done a lot of work on chat translation and you can't forget the 
>> privacy concerns. Not that Second Life chat is secure anyway, but 
>> people are going to want to know who their chats are being sent to. If 
>> it's going up and down the line via https, or some other secured 
>> transfer protocol, that's one step. However, a picky person would say 
>> that if the service logs the text submitted for translation (which 
>> Google does, to build up it's dictionaries) than it is a violation of 
>> the terms of service.
>> Just saying...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jo /Jaymin Carthage
>>
>>     
>
> Gack my suggestion for "any" url merely compounds the issue you bring 
> up. Because it would let someone forward all private/group IM to some 
> arbitrary URL as part of the built-in GUI of the viewer. This violates 
> the obvious rule of thumb that you cite to not provide a GUI that 
> directly violates the TOS.
>   
Even if it isn't an _arbitrary_ URL, hasn't this feature crossed that
line already?

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