I'll only buy a book if it's DRM free. If it isn't, I'll usually buy the paperback and acquire the proper file from the usual haunts. I have a Kindle (early adopter) and my girlfriend has a Nook. It's nice to be able to go back and forth without having to worry about encryption. I also make it a point to donate to Calibre once per year. The program has quietly made the lives better for people who still choose to read.
I work for a state government as a developer. There are a number of projects that I've been involved with where the mere mention of using open source software is met with derision. The cost/benefit analysis I typically give is that a few weeks of my salary is far less than a commercial purpose, but even then we still shop around and get quotes from contractors (where the real money is!).
My personal theory is that no government agency wants to save money since it means they'll have to do without the difference for the next budget cycle. I've heard stories of tens of thousands of dollars being spent on useless software just to ensure that the agency in question would be able to maintain their budget.
This sounds an awful like an actual conversation. Man, I hope you're behind a lot of proxies because the NSA is coming after you to find out how you bugged a politician's office!
I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove Fox News articles from Google News results. It may be censoring, but when it's done by an individual to weed out twits, it's worth it.
Let's get all of those Yakov Smirnoff jokes out of our systems. I'll start...in America you can abuse power, in "democratic" Russia, power abuses you! Wait...I may have that backwards.
But...if you design your site correctly and do NOT use Flash then it should already be completely compliant. I work for the government and a fair chunk of my time is spent making sure my sites are in compliance, problem is that I'm a developer and not a designer...anyway if other people want I can link to some of the tools that I use, including the ones that I wrote myself.
With that said, I am adamantly against legislation like this.
I've been looking into New Zealand or Australia. I understand that they've been looking for techno-geeks. I hate to leave a sinking ship, but I didn't sign up for fascism.
Oh noes! I'm a liberal, but have a lot of black friends...who are also liberals! My God! I didn't even think they made people as stupid as you any more. I mean, this is like finding an old Ford Pinto.
I'm so glad this happened! For you see, thinking is hard. And by Apple using the legal system like a blunt instrument I'll have far fewer choices in the future.
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I get this a lot
My personal theory is that no government agency wants to save money since it means they'll have to do without the difference for the next budget cycle. I've heard stories of tens of thousands of dollars being spent on useless software just to ensure that the agency in question would be able to maintain their budget.
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I hate this too
With that said, I am adamantly against legislation like this.
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I'm going to go ahead and punish myself for that one.
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Thank Goodness!
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