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Comment Re:What can be done? (Score 1) 333

Developers need to further promote current and future web browser standards so we can have all the fancy functionality of the apps in a web page.

As a developer, why would I want to do that? Lots of people will pay for an app. Almost no one will pay for a web page.

As a user, why do I want to buy an app to mostly work like a browser bookmark?

Comment Re:Professional Email Address (Score 0) 149

When I see someone with a personalized domain name for their e-mail address, I tend to think they are either a narcissist, or they are over-compensating.

There's nothing special about registering a domain, and the idea that this conveys that the person is technically competent is utter nonsense.

I've known many idiots with their own domains, and brilliant folks with GMail accounts. In fact, I've only ever personally known one brilliant and competent guy who had his own domain (and has had it for about 20 years).

Comment Re:"educational" is not "fair use" (Score 1) 268

Fair Use is a good idea too, spoiled.

Being education doesn't automatically allow Fair Use, but it is one of multiple factors (along with the nature of the use, amount used and substantiality, and the effect that the use can have on the value or marketability of the work).

Comment Re:It's about time. (Score 4, Insightful) 731

I was about to write this as well. We have been using pins for credit cards in Switzerland for the last 10 years...

Yeah, why hasn't the US got on board yet with implementing technology that allows banks and issuers to absolve themselves of responsibility and push the blame onto the consumers?

If fraud happens on these new cards, it becomes up to the consumers to prove that it was fraud and that they did not compromise their PIN.

As a bonus, the consumers get to be forced to memorize a new PIN!

It's Win WIn.

Comment Re:Picasso (Score 1) 360

I don't think copyright law actually helps increase, arts literature, and even has a detrimental effect, people who create do so because the want to.

Duh?

That's why so many people are arguing that Copyright is too long. Copyright was originally "for a limited duration". That limited duration has constantly been extended because of powerful companies and interests.

Pirates aren't the thieves of intellectual property in this country. The thieves are the corporations that have stolen huge amounts of culture from the people, and locked ideas away in a Disney vault.

Works of cultural and historical significance are literally rotting away, often without a clear chain of ownership, because copyright extensions have made them off-limits.

The net effect is not far from the systematic burning down of libraries.

Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 342

I said "Republican Core" because I'm not so naive to think that every sheep following the Republican Party is in favour of throwing all poor and minorities under the bus, and all the other ridiculousness that we see from the far right.

The problem with "Republicans" is that many of them actually see themselves as very moral, ethical, and compassionate people. In my experience, many of them are!

However, it's a moot point if the average "Republicans" is still backing this "Republican Core" that loudly proclaims that they are the party of "Christian values", while enacting policies that more closely reflect Ayn Rand.

Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 342

no matter if it were a republican (low tax, low spend)

Ha, you're funny. As this article demonstrates, Republicans can spend (and/or waste) just as much, if not more than, Democrats. They just don't want to spend any of it on poor people or minorities.

Yeah, you were correct, right there until the last sentence, and then you had to go all MSNBC on it. It's funny to see people stereotype while pointing the finger at others.

I don't follow MSNBC. I don't consider myself a "Democrat". I dislike things done by both parties and I think that both parties play politics and work more towards sustaining themselves and their party than they are to working for the people. For me, it literally comes down to the lesser evil.

However, If you honestly believe that the Republicans core isn't actively trying to promote policies that will undermine the poor and minorities in this country, and that this is only a stereotype that comes from liberal media, then you have your head up your ass.

Both sides are hurting the poor and the minorities, but one of them actively is trying to do it.

Comment Re:Erm, the 3DS (Score 1) 559

Right. Children.

Or people that are too damn old to care about proving how "mature" they are by insisting on playing M-Rated games...

Nintendo's games may have cartoony aesthetics that appeal to kids, but they are also well-designed games that are meant to be played by the entire family.

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