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  1. "You can't manufacture and assemble in the USA without it being automated" There HAS to be some automation in manfacturing. I don't want to buy purely hand made goods! Do you?

    Its nearly 100% automated, you can't feed an American family on the wage that barely feeds a 7 year old chienese girl. The minimum wage in the USA is an order of magnitude more than what you can do overseas.

    Someone is paying incoming tax on that effort. Your assessment of how automated it is is from silence.

    no one pays tax on robotic assembly that displaces workers. The company actually pays the government less when it has fewer workers. Further, large companies pay virtually no tax like Apple and google. Have no idea what you even mean.

    "The manufacturing jobs aren't coming back." Although you appeal to raw cynicism the jobs have been coming back since Jan 17'. Your attempt to re-write the news here will fail.

    We are down 7 MILLION manufacturing jobs since the 70s and 6.5 million since the late 90s. Yes we have had a tiny uptick but just look at the trend - by 2050 we will probably be down 15 million.

  2. Of course!!! on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhone X - overpriced? Maybe so. But it has blazing fast multithread processing, some pretty damn good cameras, a miniature lidar scanner, a 5.8" oled screen, 6-axis accelerometer/gyroscope, great microphones, and three different modems to connect you to devices and the sum total of human knowledge.

    Alan probably wants to use the lidar, cameras, and 6-axis motion sensor to autonomously stitch together accurate 3-d models for insertion into virtual environments or hit "print" and it duplicates a real object on a 3-d printer in minutes.

    Meanwhile the feature released with this advanced device is to literally transform your face into a talking poop. The problem isn't in the capabilities, it's in what the average person wants.

  3. Not exactly the same but almost

  4. many of the companies he met with on the trip were already "every interested in how they could come to Wisconsin and partner for that new ecosystem."

    many of the companies he met with on the trip were already "very interested in how they could come to Wisconsin and be given so much free money that it broke previous handout records."

    FTFHim

    FTFY

  5. Re: Does Trump do everything? on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And here I thought I read something about trump making a competent decision. I guess he didn't override on this one at least.

  6. Re: In other words on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    And the democratic people's republic of North Korea is a democracy run by the people. Fascism used the guise of socialism to entrench and expand its power all while moving farther and farther away from its principles. People were too uninformed, comfortable and stupid to do anything before it was too late. just like America is supposed to be capitalist and a democracy but it's moving toward fascism.

  7. Temporary jobs on Wisconsin State Legislature Signs Off On $3 Billion Foxconn Incentive Package (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is for building a factory, and much like pipeline deals, after it's built the number of jobs will be much less. You can't manufacture and assemble in the USA without it being automated, these are mostly robot jobs. I doubt they will reach thier full subsidy long term, it's more likely they will employ management, a handful of engineers and some machine/assembly robot techs and that's it. The manufacturing jobs aren't coming back.

  8. Re:Completely misleading on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    On the moon there is no warranty. This is about an American lawsuit over a particular design flaw. Yes, in Europe it is two years. Yes I have repaired probably 30 or so iPhones and no, they are no worse from a hardware reliability side than a typical android phone. Lines in the screen are most often caused by water damage or someone half assed the surface mount connectors on the flex ribbon for the screen. It's the same on android phones actually. There is nothing wrong with the internals of Apple products except you overpay for old technology.

  9. Re:Are you shitting me ? on Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I refuse to believe in this timeline. This is a special abstract kind of hell. How much do you think the people that came up with this system were paid?

    You are right to disbelieve. The world actually ended in 2012, just like the Mayan prophecy said. We have been living in a post apocalyptic nightmare inside the minds of the old ones ever since.

  10. Completely misleading on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The suit is regarding a specific defect present only in 6 and 6s models where the touch screen controller chips become desoldered. It affects the logic board, which is why it's not repairable and it happens from repeated slight flexing of the phone, such as being in a tight pants pocket. Apple offers a refurbished phone for $150 to replace the damaged one in this case, they are not legally required to do this. Overall iPhones don't have a hardware reliability issue, they took a bit of a hit in the last year but are comprable to android phones. Software wise they see frequent updates and have good security compared to android phones.

  11. Re: How about bringing AI forward instead of ADs on IBM To Invest $240 Million To Develop AI Research Lab With MIT (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    yea, but they have no idea and keep getting elected.

  12. Re:"See if you're affected" on Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    IMO, Congress should start an investigation into this. It's just WRONG!

    The way things are now the investigation would probably be why people didn't waive thier right to sue and what can be done to fix it so you don't have that right in the first place.

  13. Re:Credit Freeze Pin's not random on Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The one equifax gave me was the same one I use on my luggage!

  14. Good thing we have consumer protections on Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad we are imposing a $300 per person whose info leaked fine as well as free coverage of any resulting charges that result directly from this theft of information. Not to mention jail the people who sold stock on inside information. That outta teach them a lesson! /s

  15. Re:How about bringing AI forward instead of ADs on IBM To Invest $240 Million To Develop AI Research Lab With MIT (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with many learning systems is once they are capable of making decisions like that, going back and trying to see how they reasoned is nearly impossible.

  16. If only there were hell to pay. If they lost all that the punishment would be nothing at all.

  17. The problems are billion dollar companies are first class citizens with rights. Plebs don't get any rights above them. Hell we plebs are lucky to have any rights, they only exist at the pleasure of these giants among men.

  18. Reminds me of when Experian basically let all thier data be stolen too. The purchased a company that then stole the data. Or when all 3 credit agencies had a breach. But they sure got thier due when the hundred billion dollar fines rolled in!!! Just kidding of course, barely a slap on the Wrist. Nothing is going to happen and Equifax will promise not to do it again - until it happens again in about 18 months.

  19. That's mostly a latency issue, not the reason my comcast connection sucks in download and upload speeds. Havent had any connectivity issues with it either. Had the same issues on multiple modems.

  20. Reminds me of this guy who found out T-Mobile gave priority access to any site with speedtest in the name, even if you weren't paying for service.

  21. I wonder how selective this is, or how a few good connections can raise a low of mediocre ones. I have Comcast that claims 25Mbps down but I routinely get 8-12, and use a Arris surfboard 6190 3.0 with 32 downsream channel bonding. Precisely 8 down are actually offered and they do not support 3.1. Not only that but I had problems with my cable to my house and it took 5 years to get it fixed properly because they had to run a line under the street (during which time I got as low as 0.32 Mbps. I seriously lost track of the calls (over 50) and every time it was a 15 minute exercise to show it wasn't me being a dumbass. Only positive thing was of the 9 techs they sent out, each one kept saying "What the hell is going on here, this is so screwed up. I'll fix everything and do it right. Believe me." Every FKN time.

  22. Totally agree, it's so clean it's making the frogs gay.

  23. Re:the European model on Intel's $1.3 Billion Fine In Europe Requires Review, Court Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't complain, at least you have fines. Here in America it typically works out to 12 cents per person involved, or 0.012% of profits, whichever is less. That is, if a fine is even happens.

  24. Re:Bull plops on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Who owns the rights to the machine? Are you making your monthly subscription payments? Are you in violation of patents and licensing? Because the way things are going makers will be locked away in autonomous prisons if they attempt to circumvent the protections of the few.

  25. Re:That's not how productivity gains work on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you miss the point. We will have a few people whose automated manufacturing, robotic servants, and autonomous armies will make them gods on earth while the billions of people locked out will simply die. We will hit the state where money will be not very relevant, but nothing like the Star Trek utopia people imagine.