Matthew

Member since: Aug 9th, 2005

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Reverse engineering confirms Apple iPad is 'a really big iPod Touch' (Download Squad)

Apr 6th 2010 10:11AM I've been waiting for a larger ipod touch for ages. I found the screen on my sister's iphone to small for my eyes to focus on without getting migrain in 10 mins. I reckon lot of people are buying this just for a larger screen.

We fair humans of Earth believe Internet access to be a fundamental human right (Download Squad)

Mar 9th 2010 3:35PM free speech for all is a now considered a human right thats developed over the centuries, but what use is talking if no can hear you. You had to travel speak to people in person to spread your ideas, then letters, to telegrams, followed by phones and now the internet. All of them communication tools faster than before, all of them once a preserve for the rich and now considered so important for talking, it is now a right, that should be available everywhere. Look at phones once only the rich could afford them, now there on street corners. Remember how much the internet use to cost? Now its a freebie handed out by phone companies if you get line rental.

The internet is going in the same direction as every other communication tool in history, just a hell of a lot faster.

We fair humans of Earth believe Internet access to be a fundamental human right (Download Squad)

Mar 9th 2010 11:32AM Its the same rights as posting a letter; before the invention of the penny black stamp you would be charged by distance and number of pages making the cost out of reach of rural or working class folk. The universal penny black and the guarantee to deliver anywhere in the country, regardless of economic cost, meant that people in rural areas are not financially discriminated against because they do not live in the city to comunicate.

The same goes for the internet, in the UK a bill just been passed that garuntees a minimum 2meg download speed for everyone no matter how far out in the sticks you live for the same cost as in the city