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Devices of the Soul: Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?
White Papers If, along the passage to a tolerable, technology-permeated future, there lies a single narrow stretch where one will have to sweat drops of blood in order to stay the course, surely it will be that stretch peopled by "The handicapped.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Let's be clear about it
Talkback And yet, in today's news we read about the mother of a handicapped child, at the end of her tether, committing suicide because she could get no help from the police or council to deal with youths out of control in her road, menacing her on account...
[September 29, 2009, 10:23]
Oracle's free software foray scorned
News Most users are looking for complete, full-featured database products like the new MySQL 5.0, not handicapped, trial versions,” said a MySQL spokesman. Four major open source database projects have scoffed at Oracle’s attempt this week to tackle the...
[November 2, 2005, 14:00]
Word Processors under British employment law
Talkback Need to be available for use by the handicapped. Companies are expected to use reasonable means to enable their work place to be disabled friendly and reasonable means would include using MS Office instead of geek ware.
[November 19, 2007, 10:40]
More professionals to be allowed .pro domains
Talkback We are allowed to apply for a license plate, which indicates the driver is handicapped, to allow us to park in designated spaces, close to the entrance. Putting .pro on your domain would give you bragging rights and little else.
[May 15, 2008, 14:47]
Model Driven Approach for the Design and the Development of Non Visual Components
White Papers This paper describes reusable components that can be used by developers to implement applications for visually handicapped users. The non visual components are widgets adapted from graphical ones and they use specific input/output devices and...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Medicalodges Expands Healthcare Network Capacity With Accelerators
White Papers Medicalodges' Wide Area Network (WAN) connects 23 skilled nursing facilities, 11 assisted living centers, two facilities for the developmentally disabled, three home health agencies and one skilled facility for the mentally handicapped.
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Can we measure digital mood?
Blog Comment Handicapped is not OK. Hi Adrian. Disabled" is the correct term to use in the eyes of our government. I didn't know that about the mac. Good for apple on that one. Now that I listen to mac break weekly on TWiT I do look forward to digging deeper...
[November 4, 2008, 21:31]
BT suspends business broadband rollout
Talkback Most small businesses, my own included, find that a 2Mb down speed is next to useless when coupled with (handicapped by? BT would spend it's time and money better rolling out SLADSL ("slightly less asynchronous.
[August 22, 2005, 11:43]
Sudden reversal: Experts say Microsoft could win
News Until the hearing, many legal experts had handicapped in favour of the government, but concluded Microsoft would punch some holes in the government's victory. Microsoft, for the first time, may be in a position to completely overturn the government...
[February 28, 2001, 14:50]
Yes but
Talkback Wild accusations of the damage done and costs have been has published here, hence our lack of trust in a fair outcome for a rather foolish individual, who it turns out might be handicapped. Gary McKinnon has not only not admitted to the scale of...
[July 25, 2009, 23:37]
Woolly-Bully Patent
Talkback A handicapped friend of mine, (his handicap is that he's an attorney) tells me that he calls those patents "Woolly-Bullies" since its hard to tell from all the fuzz around the meat whether you have beef or sheep.
[September 7, 2009, 11:32]
Trust
Talkback Vista being a point in fact developers could show off their skill but no one really wanted a system that handicapped their hardware nor do they want to have to ditch underpowered systems just because developers on their state of the art desktop...
[December 15, 2008, 7:09]
Patent directive faces fishy future
Talkback Small and medium businesses will be seriously handicapped and inovation will surely suffer. I've commented so many time about the errors of this proposed legislation, the apparent lack of common sense, the perceived lack of a democratic voice...
[December 14, 2004, 6:07]
Activists wring four DMCA concessions
News E-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats from functioning The US Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but was criticised by free-speech activists, who had...
[October 29, 2003, 9:30]
Mentally disabled ffs!
Talkback The key fact is that the guy is 'handicapped', as you guys in the US still refer to mental disability as. You DO know what Aspergers is, I take it? The man is chronically fixated on fantasies and lives in his own world, no disrespect to sufferers.
[August 22, 2009, 15:42]
Sun working on StarOffice update
News The new version of StarOffice includes expanded support for handicapped users and new business configuration tools that allow information technology managers to oversee multiple StarOffice desktops from a single location.
[March 10, 2003, 8:35]
Does not give him a free pass
Talkback The key fact is that the guy is 'handicapped', as you guys in the US still refer to mental disability as. "You DO know what Aspergers is, I take it? The man is chronically fixated on fantasies and lives in his own world, no disrespect to sufferers.
[September 7, 2009, 17:08]
US Report: Fugitive hacker surfaces on the Web
News Finding work with a criminal record is no easy task, being handicapped (Petersen has a prosthetic leg) doesn't help either. Late yesterday, a Web site purporting to belong to the former hacker posted a statement in which Petersen implied that he...
[November 13, 1998, 8:49]
Apple's MPEG-4 snub may halt QuickTime
News Casanova said the company did not feel it would be handicapped in negotiations by having announced products that are dependent on the MPEG-4 technology. Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard...
[February 13, 2002, 12:03]
