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  1. Re:Good news...? on Dept. of Justice Considers Web For ADA · · Score: 1

    Both people have other disabilities. The only guy was in London England which is scary enough to drive in... but when you see he has limited control over his hands you really wonder how on earth he can drive.

    The other guy lives beside me. He appears to be deaf(ish... not totally). He also doesn't appear to move too quick.

    So, I am freaked out because of what I perceive is their slow reaction time. Having never driven with either of them I cannot say for certain that it is a problem or not though...

  2. Re:Good news...? on Dept. of Justice Considers Web For ADA · · Score: 1

    I have met two people in my life that drive and use wheel chairs. They whole idea freaks me out... but they can drive and they need wheel chairs to move around.

  3. Re:Good news...? on Dept. of Justice Considers Web For ADA · · Score: 1

    *** for this think wheel chair ramps and the like ***

    I can understand that they have to make PUBLIC buildings and locations (state, federal, etc) accessible, but, this almost implies they are going to require that private business (eg the note about small business exceptions) HAVE to put their places up to some form of handicapped accessible standards?!?!

    WTF?

    If a business doesn't cater to anyone handicapped (I guess it could happen), or just is ignorant enough to not do so and lose that business, that should be up to them.

    No one is holding a gun to the person accessing a building, nor should they be holding a gun to a private business to cater to any specific crowd.

    There is a reason why such things exist. It is to ensure that all persons have free access to things. For example black people and the front of a bus etc...

  4. Re:Both hands?? on Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors · · Score: 1

    I bet if I shoved a smart phone up my a**, it would lose a lot of signal too...

    Be sure to set it to vibrate first...

  5. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    Well that isn't true: if I can download content at speed X and I do it at 100% capacity 24/7 for a year and you can download content at speed X/2 and you do it 100% capacity 24/7 for a year you will have downloaded half as much as I have.

  6. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    The "unlimited" one would either be slower or more costly. Bandwidth is a limited resource... to keep speeds up they need to purchase more of it, and thus raise their rates, or not purchase more and let the speed suffer.

  7. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Net neutrality doesn't prevent charging based on usage (which is what they should be doing). Note that that is different than charging based on sites accessed or protocols used. ISPs should not be degrading P2P traffic, or restricting access to sites, what they should be doing is charging users based on their consumption.

  8. Re:What's so liberal about it? on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ell given that everything in a header file is public if you want source compatibility they have to have the same names.

    I, admittedly, didn't read 100% of all of the links, but the slightly more then skimming I did do did not show me anything that was the same that couldn't have been for achieving source compatibility.

    It would be like complaining that glibc defines EXIT_SUCCESS...

  9. Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    To make it more like reading a physical book... isn't that... "obvious"?!

  10. Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    It is still mimicking the real world, and is thus obvious.

  11. Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    You can see through to the other side in many cases, so not transparent but translucent depending on the lighting.

  12. Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the physical books on my bookshelf. Making a computer mimic the real world is 100% obvious.

  13. Re:Wow. Just... WOW! on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1

    2000-9000hz per second - 2000-9000 cycles per second per second.... (hz is cycles per second already)

  14. No company should be allowed to drill... on Louisiana Federal Judge Blocks Drilling Moratorium · · Score: 1

    ... if they cannot demonstrate that they have a way of stopping such a leak. I say let all of the oil companies have a crack at fixing the current leak. The one that manages to stop it can drill. Any company that fails to stop the leak can no longer drill.

  15. Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    Trades, such as auto mechanics, and elevator technicians always (always as far as I know, those are the two areas that I know people who work/have worked in) provide their own tools.

  16. Re:Stupid, of course it is! on Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D · · Score: 1

    I use free software all the time. If there is a free alternative to something that is for profit I use it (usually). However if I want to use something that is being charged for I pay for it. Nintendo is not talking about free software - they are talking about software that is for profit that people do not pay for. Intentionally missing their point doesn't help your argument.

  17. Re:WTF are they thinking? on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    "You paid to see it once, but you found the pay-to-buy price too high, and found a different channel to acquire it." At that point you are just flat out stealing it. If you want it pay the price. If you don't think it is worth the price then don't acquire it. That being said I am getting annoyed enough at media companies to just boycott everything. I cannot remember the last time I bought a CD (I have several hundred purchased over the years that I am content to listen to) after I accidentally bought one that had DRM on it.

  18. Canada had this years ago... on Canadian Libraries Want $300,000 To Buy Games · · Score: 1

    I guess big cities are catching up with the small town I grew up in (in Canada). Our library had Commodore 64 games to borrow, as well as a reading incentive program: read a book, get a block of time to program in Logo on their computer. I read a book a day for a time.

  19. Re:Doesn't appear to be a moral judgement on Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store · · Score: 1

    So, according to your logic, Apple pulled the applications not because of their function but because they did not implement it using public frameworks, however Apple have not sanctioned this function in the official framework? Presumably this was done because Apple does not agree with/want the function.

    or... link any non-public API in any system it is for internal use and could be modified. If people call undocumented APIs on any system then apps will break if the API changes in the future. What would be best is if Apple would disallow apps from entering the store if they use undocumented APIs directly rather than pulling them after the fact. It should be relatively simple for Apple to write a tool to check that no undocumented APIs are directly called. On the other hand, if developers paid attention and didn't call undocumented APIs in things they submit to the App store this also would not be an issue. Apple makes it very clear that the use of non-public APIs is verboten.

  20. Re:A few years to recoup the cost. on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    We have a facility near us that has 8 rinks. I'd guess on average the ice is resurfaced once every 90 minutes (minor hockey and "fun" games - just people playing in beer league and better type things). Say the rinks are open 6am to midnight. You would have: 18 rinks * 18 rinks / 90 minutes between resurfacing) or 8 * 12 = 96 resurfacings a day, or 33600 resurfacings in the year (assuming 350 days a year... which is actually a low estimate since they can probably be rented out on stat holidays). So such a facility would be able to pay it off in less than a year. In reality I think they would need 4 machines (one machine does 2 rinks, I am not sure if they move them between pairs of rinks though).