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  1. Comment - Mozilla updates its Fennec mobile browser alpha

    (Dec 29, 2008 - 4:55 PM)

    Right-click can be simply "clicking" and holding down your finger or stylus on a link or object - similar to that of Windows mobile 6.x (maybe 5 and earlier, but I only have 6.1)...
    And remember, it is still alpha .... alphas are just enough to be running and get an "idea" of how the software could work. Betas are distributed en mass (or announced specifically) for "product testing" purposes. Once feedback is obtained from said betas, then final code is announced after bugs are hammered out, etc.
    So you really can't judge an alpha just yet. I think they are making tremendous headway so far, especially w/ touch screen support.

  2. Comment - Snip, snip, snip: Three undersea cables cut

    (Dec 22, 2008 - 1:19 PM)

    Um.... I hate to actually bring the topic ... um ... well BACK TO TOPIC, but how do you spin off from cut cables in the Mediterranean to the Health Care System in Canada vs US vs anywhere else?
    Way to spin off topic there, guys!

  3. Comment - Snip, snip, snip: Three undersea cables cut

    (Dec 22, 2008 - 1:17 PM)

    Um ... wasn't the original article about accidentally (or whatever the cause) cut cables? How do cut cables spawn Health Care??? Wow... way to get fired up over nothing about the article...

  4. Comment - Where does Joe Biden stand on technology issues?

    (Aug 28, 2008 - 2:20 PM)

    It doesn't really matter if he is Anti-piracy anyway.
    Bills still have to go through a process of voting and hashing and rehashing and restating and more to get passed.
    By the time the proposed bill is "complete", the original idea is so boiled down that loopholes are created and another bill has to be proposed and passed to cover THOSE holes... it's an ongoing process.
    Heck, by the time the original idea DOES get passed, 4 years would have come and gone and he may not even be in office anyway.
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    Now, for the record, this is not showing favortism to one party or the other. But rather, to calm the masses explaining that they don't have to freak out about it.
    You can't kill piracy, and no one ever will (tough luck, RI**).
    I buy software, but I also "borrow for an extended period of time" on titles that are way too overpriced to buy (things like OS's, graphic design software, etc.). Not to mention, I am always looking for freeware, or open-source, alternatives to the over-priced titles.
    But I stray from my original point.
    No one has to worry about new "laws". Piracy will continue to thrive and it won't stop.

  5. Comment - German ruling may clear victims of legal liability for Wi-Fi theft

    (Jul 11, 2008 - 12:39 PM)

    This just proves that the RIAA is just spinning their wheels. The idea of "pirating" so way too broad to cover and it is VERY difficult, and in some cases impossible, to pinpoint direct sources of the offender(s).
    There are way too many minor instances that prove the RIAA is really getting nowhere.
    Wifi "theft" is so widespread that you cannot punish the unknowing "host".
    Someday, hopefully, the RIAA will dissolve or soon realize that they are getting nowhere.