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North Korean Flash Games For Export

Posted by timothy on from the everyone-needs-an-appstore dept.

linzeal writes: "Despite it being pretty-much closed off to the world, North Korea is the next boom place for IT and tech outsourcing, PC World has reported. Flash games are being developed there for outside publishers, largely thanks to the home-grown talent. Does this mean that the the cartoon company that makes The Simpsons might use North Korea as well? Well it looks like they already have started."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. So... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What does it tell us about the business of software development when one of the world's foremost autocratic hellholes is seen as a good place to do it?

    1. Re:So... by capt.Hij · · Score: 5, Insightful
      From the article:

      "I understood that the North Korean IT industry had good potential because of their skilled software engineers, but due to the lack of communication it was almost impossible to work with them productively from outside," said Volker Eloesser, president of Nosotek. "So I took the next logical step and started a company here."

      To answer your question, it says that amoral managers are willing to get in bed with the most evil of monsters if it means they can make money. If this is the next "logical step" then something is seriously wrong with this person's decision making process.

  3. Re:Pyongyang by seven+of+five · · Score: 4, Informative

    For bonus points, try to find a copy of Pulgarasi [wikipedia.org], a giant-monster film directed by a man who was by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, the director of said film.

    Here ya go, for free, at google.

  4. It's official by sznupi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Flash games are EVIL!!!

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    One that hath name thou can not otter
  5. agreed by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    communist ideology is incompatible with reality, much as libertarian ideology is incompatible with reality

    attempting to make communism work in reality results in domination of society by cult of personalities. individuals who can do no wrong (while they do plenty wrong). attempting to make libertarianism work in reality results in domination of society by corporations. corporations who can do no wrong (while they do plenty wrong)

    balance in all things. unfortunately, we must pay a mighty price in this world for the ideolgoical fools who go to the extremes of libertarianism and communism, when the middle way, the moderate way: capitalism with socialist safety nets, socialism with capitalist engines, the only really valid real world solutions to the paradox that is human selfishness and altruism

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  6. yup by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the threat all of us faces is fundamentalism

    not just the usual fundamentalism of religions: muslim fundamentalists, christian fundamentalist, jewish fundamentalists, although they of course continue doing the damage they have done for centuries

    also, fundamentalisms of politics and commerce: free market fundamentalists, constitutional fundamentalists, brain dead partisans: a sort of fundamentalism of political party, etc

    even other bogeymen can be recast as fundamentalism: racism, for example, is a form of racial fundamentalism

    whenever you adhere to one aspect of human reality, and make it your only concern, to say that is solves all problems, you yourself, you have become the source of the problems in this world. because the truth is, the world is complex, and simplistic teachings about who and what we are always fail

    unfortunately, this truth never stops certain assholes from continuing to tell us that simplistic teachings are the solutions to our problems (and thereby become the source of our problems)

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  7. Re:A hellhole is not a tax dodge or investment opp by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Informative

    China might not be as free/open as some places, but comparing it to North Korea is a bit of a stretch.

    China is authoritarian; some of the laws are strict by our standards, but if you obey them and mind your own business, you'll probably be left alone.

    Westerners can visit China and go about on their own there without being chaperoned or harrassed. Chinese people can leave there if they want (and some do).

    North Korea, on the other hand, is totalitarian -- it's basically a giant prison camp, almost impossible to get into or out of without making very special arrangements, and where you can be executed for making an overseas telephone call.

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    Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  8. Retarded Summary by BlueBoxSW.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    The connection is this: An animation company that works on the simpsons is located in south korea. They have been working on a korean folk tale translated into a full length movie, and have been working with north korean animators for the feature.

    There is nothing in the article that states (as the summary implies) that any of the simpsons is done in north korea, nor that there are any plans to do so.

    Anyone know a better "news for nerds" site that doesn't have all the misleading headlines SlashDot has taken to lately?

    I'm kind of sick of this sh!t.