I hope that if they produce a full scale Android device, that they actually produce a quality app!

I've been using the Kindle app on Android for about a year now.. or at least, since whenever it came out. It has *tons* of failings, including the ability to navigate it, backlight annoyances, and so on.

Even the Amazon store through the app, for some bizarre reason, is less function than the full web.

Heck, there are probably about 20 e-book reader apps, for free on the market, that actually provide more functionality than the Kindle app. *Far* more functionality. Heck, I can't even choose what precise colour, or font I want with this app!

The most annoying part of it all, is that I emailed the Kindle team about this. *No* response. Thanks guys, I actually spent time thinking about how this annoyed me, and provided something that companies sometimes pay millions for.. customer feedback!

NO!

NO NO NO!

That is *not* a way to fix the problem!

For christ sake, it took me *7 minutes* to vote last time. SEVEN MINUTES. If people aren't showing up to vote, when (even in the very worst situation) it takes an hour every FEW YEARS, then the problem is NOT LACK OF EASY VOTING!

Frankly, the people that can't take that little time out of their lives, to vote, are NOT VOTES I WANT TO SEE ANYHOW!

How much apathy, how much lack of concern over that vote, do those people have? Clearly, anyone that does NOT vote, does not CARE enough to vote. It isn't an access issue. It isn't hard to get somewhere to vote.

Hell, you can vote by mail if it is a PITA for you.

ONLINE VOTING WILL NOT HELP VOTER TURNOUT!

After I heard this, I had a horrible dream!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGchg4mbLs

There are many things that my ISP can not do. They can not, for example, terminate my service because I am a minority. They can not engage in anti-competitive behaviour. They can not slander me, without repercussions. They can not lie about the services they offer. I could go on and on, about the things one person can not do to another person in a business capacity.

The problem with this system is... well, let's compare it.

You're in a restaurant. Someone approaches the restaurant owner, and informs them that you, and the person you are dining in, are currently breaking civil law. Without verifying that information, the restaurant owner then approaches you, and informs you that this is the 6th time someone has said such things about you, and therefore you are on longer allowed in the restaurant.

I assure you I can bring suit against people for such things. Just watch me.

A TOS is *not* a contract. Further, I've never once -- not once, signed anything to receive service from an ISP.

All a TOS says is "I'm giving you service, and if I see these things happening, I will cut you off". That's all fine and good, but many companies in the past have gotten in legal trouble over the wrong condition for their TOS.

Frankly, I'm not sure what country you live in, but it seems like a place where all the legal strength is on the side of corporations! The USA perhaps?

At least in Canada, the court system isn't that broken yet...

There are court cases that back up the concept of 'abuse of service'. One I recall has to do with the use of water, as it is not metered in many cities.

Regardless, this has no comparison with a stranger approaching my ISP, and saying I am stealing from them -- and my ISP cutting me off without required sufficient proof first.

Or, do you believe that the ISP is going to personally spend *hours* investigating every incident? Validating that it really is copyright infringement? Investigating your torrent traffic?

If they don't, they open themselves to legal issues. Further, if the person that slander/libeled you is wrong (the copyright holder), then they open themselves to lawsuit as well...

No. They can't refuse service if I'm a minority. They can't discriminate against me. They can't take part in anti-competitive behaviour. They can't break about 100 other laws, either.

They certainly can't bar me from service, based upon insufficient proof either... that opens them to suit. In a free society, I have rights too, you see... not just mega-corp.

I've never, in my entire life, signed a contract with an ISP. TOS is *not* a contract, but 'terms of service'. It's one sided, and basically a document that tells you what the ISP expects, and says it will tolerate. It certainly is not binding for you, legally.

Further, if the TOS contains illegal elements (and they act on them), they can find themselves in legal trouble. Imagine a clause that said "If you have negro ancestry, and do not disclose it to us, your service is terminated".

Private industry has absolutely NO place as judge, jury and executioner. NONE. Zero. Zilch.

If one is to be found guilty of anything, a court should be involved. Perhaps there should be changes to the law, to make small claim's court responsible for minor copyright infractions by users.

Regardless, in no way should one private company provide proof to another private company, which results in any sort of detrimental action being taken against a citizen of a free country! In fact, if that information is wrong, the copyright holder could be sued for slander/libel, along with the ISP being sued for various other things.

This is a big problem for me. Every time I travel, I get interference when I sleep.

Here's what happened last time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGchg4mbLs

No kidding .. look at what java has done to my dreams!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGchg4mbLs

This sort of tracking, still feels better than this....!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqPQPhsuX4

How about the end of an era for a father?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqPQPhsuX4

For an idea of what it is like to experience this bug, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqPQPhsuX4

I bet there is another angle for this too.

An aircraft that a semi-well off person can keep, in the same line as a bomb shelter.

Tons of survival nuts would love to have a vehicle that, during a disaster of any sort, only needs a long enough stretch of space nearby to get them airborne. If WWIII, zombies, aliens, or whatever might scare the paranoid is coming, few people are going to care whether they take off from a well mowed lawn, or a straight stretch of nearby road. Regulations be damned, they'll be airborne.

Many of these events don't leave enough time for someone to even get to an airport. However, a plane in your garage?

I'm Canadian, but I pay attention to US politics from time to time.

I don't think it's quite fair to state that Obama didn't take action. He did. However, the first *big* change he advocated during the election, Health Care Reform, was quite effectively blocked. He's spent years on that, and years fighting to prevent a reversal for the meager changes he could push through.

It isn't like Obama can wave a magic wand, and make change. It isn't like any president can. He did what he could, he brought forward the idea of change. He spearheaded change. Many attempted to block that change, including many Democrats.

I'm all for pointing out flaws, but at least point at the right flaws.

An alternative example, was during first few weeks of a Conservative government up here. They canceled the national day care program. Many people were upset by this, which is fine, but people claimed Harper was a 'bad leader' for doing so.

Ur, bad leader? He *campaigned" on abolishment of that program, and was democratically elected. If he *hadn't* canceled that program, he'd have been a bad leader! He'd have *lied*.

So, I guess what I'm saying is -- is sounds to me like health care reform was an attempt at massive change -- that failed through no fault of Obama's. So, what are you blaming him for, exactly?