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Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
I think we're all in agreement that Steven Landsburg sucks at making analogies. Honestly, I think using "Albanian" instead of what he clearly means, "black", muddies rather than clarifies the issue. He's like a mint-flavored hippo trying to regurgitate a...
Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
My first argument is that Mary never had any moral obligation to rent to anyone in the first place—and if she has no general obligation to rent to anyone, then she can have no specific obligation to rent to Albanians....
Commented on Big sale on vinyl Obama Hope Rebel flag
Well, don't take our words for it. Let's see what the seceding states said about themselves . Here is an excerpt from the declaration of secession from Missouri: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest...
Commented on Zeitoun Book Giveaway Haiku Contest
The lotus blossom Tumbles from the highest branch Send me a book please....
Commented on Time lapse of snails slithering amok
It's the curse of fast snails! http://www.angryflower.com/worsec.gif...
Commented on Hardest-to-understand EULA *ever* when you install WoW on GNU/Linux
So.... what server are you on? What's your character name? Don't leave us wondering!...
Commented on That Violet Blue thing
Maybe this comment is going to be immediately discounted because I don't leave a lot of comments, and maybe there are more than enough people speaking their minds in this thread already, but I am mildly upset by this action...
Commented on Magnetic money clip made from a dollar bill
I had some friends back in college who had some giant hard drive magnets. They usually were stuck to the metal of the circuit breaker box on the wall, and took a couple minutes of hard wrestling to pull off....
Commented on Good comments: Adam Rice and Phillip Lamb, on their technical problems
I think you should implement a filter such that if any statement in a comment is false, then it gives the "text entered was wrong" error. If they are all true, then it lets the comment through. Just think about...
Commented on Iron man battles Linux and open source in new comic book
This is notably less stupid in the actual interview than in the blog-commentary-on-the-interview to which this blog-commentary-on-a-blog-commentary links....
Commented on Second Skin, and the lives of Massively Multiplayer Online gamers
I keep hearing about this movie here on Boing Boing, but I never see a release date or any other information about when or how it will be possible to view, which makes it hard to get too excited about...
Commented on 1960s kid game commercial: Pie Face
And here's the page on BoardGameGeek: http://boardgamegeek.com/game/18755...
Commented on The Secret Museum of Mankind website, the "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs"
This link seems broken. I'm getting a 403 error....

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daev commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
So, if we're going to use the fair housing example and apply it to gaming, this would mean that Sony does not have to make their games more accessible, but they WOULD have to allow the use of third party applications that could allow the USER to make the game more accessible, at his/her own cost. Ya know, I could get behind that idea just to make software in general open enough to allow some real 3rd party action. Besides, it would benefit them with long shelf-life titles. Good games that allow mods stay in print longer, and spawn sequels...
cymk commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
Sony isn't legal required to make anything. If Sony execs decide that the 20 million Americans who are blind, are a untapped market, then they can make games, peripherals, TVs, etc.. anything they want to make to tap said market. Its not economically viable for sony or any other major game publisher/ manufacturer to develop and produce an interface or game(s) specifically for those who suffer from a specific disability, be it blindness, or being paralyzed, deafness, muteness, etc......
octopod commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
> specifically for those who suffer from a specific disability, be it blindness, or being paralyzed, deafness, muteness, etc... I dunno, most games do have an easy setting for lame ppl....
coderunner commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
Actually, with the release of the iPod Touch, VoiceOver is included, allowing blind people to use it. Same with the iPhone 3GS. I have a friend who has the new iPod Touch, a friend who has the iPhone, and both of them love them. I've thought about getting an iPod Touch myself....
delt664 commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
Landsburg's analogy of an apartment discriminating based on an ethnicity is truly a bad one. Without getting into the legality or morality of this, the landlord is actively denying someone access to a commodity. Sony is not actively refusing to sell a commodity to anyone. The root question here is this : Should every commercial product meet every need for every person with any type of disability? Achieving this on a practical level a great many commodities would be impossible, and have a chilling effect on the market. After the basic human rights of work, shelter, education, and information have...

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