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  1. Re:Sigh on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 0

    Protip: You might find it easier to navigate the world if you did not use so many acronyms and so much shorthand that many folks have never heard of.

  2. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope, you can pay someone to work on it in that case.

  3. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 2

    I would imagine if this advocacy group bought licenses for all its members that would cover it.

  4. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    No, it is a government granted monopoly to encourage the creation of works. That is all. I highly suggest you read up on the subject and its history.

  5. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google docs can surely be used with a browser designed for the blind. Calendar uses caldav, that again surely has client software that is blind friendly.

  6. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or maybe your an astroturfer, since these are you only two comments.

    Gmail supports imap, and their other products support many other standards. All of these standards are inter-operable with normal software the disabled use.

  7. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 1

    This proprietary software is free, or do you pay for it?

    Have you considered offering the same amount of money to the open source people to add these features?

  8. Re:First Invent AI on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    Generally when I disagree with someone I do not condemn them to eternal torment. Which is surely worse than you finding where I live and attacking me physically, if you really believe such a thing will happen.

    Damning someone to hell is not generally thought of as a peaceful act. Sure you might not be hitting them over the head with a stick, but you sure are not behaving in a manner conducive to peaceful coexistence.

  9. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    This is not a natural right, it is no different than claiming that you owe GM money everytime you sell your used car. What part of that is so hard for you to grasp?
    This is a granted monopoly. There is no right to choose how to do business. If there was I could pay with dollars that the MPAA can only spend in my store or on things I approve of.

  10. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Says who? Since when is offering anyone a monopoly the right thing to do?

    Copyright is morally offensive as it imposes on my rights by limiting to give someone else a monopoly. I actually do support a limited copyright under the original terms used in the USA. Copyright only exists to encourage works to be created, to impose it for any other reason is as offensive as any other oppressive law.

  11. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    No you are reading far too much into it.

    We have copyright to encourage works. As we have no shortage of works we have no need to really enforce it anymore than we currently do, if that much. If that means you should not share or even create ideas as you could not stand someone else have the same idea then do not do it.

  12. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    This is not a right. This is a government granted monopoly that can be revoked at any time.

  13. Re:Technicalities on IsoHunt To Court: Google Is the Bigger Problem · · Score: 1

    Google has such a feature to make finding torrents easy, filetype:torrent.

  14. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    No, we have copyright law to encourage works to be created. Not to let someone else control what I do with something in my possession. If you do not want your precious IP out in the world, then don't ever show it to anyone.

  15. Re:First Invent AI on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    Christianity states that the only way to heaven is through jesus and all others burn in hell. How exactly does that not seem unjust? How is that not a hindrance to peaceful coexistence?

  16. Re:They tried. They failed. Here's what's left... on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    Which is not rebroadcasting at all. That is a ban on public performance, which is quite different. I thought that had to do with the size of the screen anyway.

  17. Re:They tried. They failed. Here's what's left... on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    They can say anything they like that does not make it true. How is watching it while it is playing rebroadcasting?

    Do they plan on coming after everyone with a tivo as well?

  18. Re:They tried. They failed. Here's what's left... on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    No, but they are on OTA tv. That is even cheaper than netflix, it is free!

  19. Re:Limited much? on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 0

    No they are not free. I just canceled my service with them and they were charging a couple bucks a month for the rental of the modem. I now have FIOS for internet and no pay for tv. Much faster and way more reliable. I can actually get HD streams from netflix now. Verizon does block port 25 outbound and does not disclose that ahead of time.

  20. Re:They tried. They failed. Here's what's left... on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    Bars and restaurants have not heard of netflix?

  21. Live TV? on Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV · · Score: 1

    You mean that dumb thing that requires you to be around when they air the program? This is 2011, that crap has to go. I would rather not watch a program that deal with that garbage.

  22. Re:Why many turn to piracy on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 1

    Oh noes surely this is the end of my life. I break that law all the time, is ripping dvds and blurays legal yet?

  23. Re:Why many turn to piracy on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with amazon?

  24. Re:Cheap Free on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 1

    Why worry about stopping piracy?
    The point is too make as much money as you can, don't worry about something you can't change and only end up wasting money on.

    I have no pirated any software since I was a child. I do not buy much either though, but I do buy some. I paid above the Linux average for both HIBs.

  25. Re:Why many turn to piracy on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 1

    I have one in the USA. Got it at target, it is actually a portable unit. Made by philips, I did have to type in a really simple code on the remote to disable region protection though.

    Amazon also carries them.