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  1. An increase in quality as well as price. on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    If that increase translates into a higher-quality product (and less suicides in Potemkin villages like Foxconn's), then it is indeed worth it.

  2. Re:Shoddy gadgets from another cheapish country? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    I'm not defending China by any means here. Just that South America isn't that much better(nothing that isn't more than a rounding error in amount).

    Right now, Chicago and DC are morally equivalent.

  3. Re:Honestly, I hope the US on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you've run out of hell-holes, and don't have enough robots or automated processes to cover?

  4. Re: on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    Not if the US military has their way. Not so much direct influence as much as it is pulling strings to get things done.

    But then it's not hard to move upward when you're a Third World country.

    (Yes, it's painful to hear, but modbombing is not a valid response.)

  5. Shoddy gadgets from another cheapish country? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No thanks.

    Never mind the corruption(making Chicago look saintly) and contempt for the US that still exists there.

  6. not sure of "out of the woods" vs. something else on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure it's so much "out of the woods" as much as it's beginning to be "sweep the undesirables (long-term unemployed) under the rug" to make things look better.

  7. In another hell-hole of a country? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's no longer efficient to do anything of substance unless it is required(and only to those requirements).

  8. Easy, just blog faster. on Gizmodo Not Welcome at 2010 WWDC · · Score: 1

    Blog about it in a way that publishes faster than Apple can act.
    Instant publicity either way.

    Apple's disinvitation becomes worthless, and Gizmodo still gets the story.

    Waiting for folks to irrationally modbomb in 3,2,1...

  9. By any chance do they specify the button details? on Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button · · Score: 2, Funny


    "The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has requested social networking site Facebook install a law enforcement representative in Australia and introduce some sort of button in which users can immediately report online crime

    Would they be specifying that it take on the form of an amber lamp? Would seem logical given the rest of Australia's wtf'ery.

  10. Given that it is Ohio on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    Given that it is Ohio, that is a valid question. Never mind locality-set speed limits.

  11. Re:Innovate too well, Apple kills it. on How To Get Rejected From the App Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    Those were ready examples of things that Apple put in later-generation revisions of their software and/or devices that they said were not important.

    Apple just wanted to gauge importance by seeing how much someone will protest about its non-presence.

  12. Innovate too well, Apple kills it. on How To Get Rejected From the App Store · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make something innovative enough, Apple will co-opt it (cut-paste, tethering) and forget what they said previously about it and then delete your app from the store.

    It probably would be better to have a plan to offer it to jailbroken iPhones to at least reduce losses.

  13. You'll get more multitouch than you asked for... on iPad Steering Wheel Mount · · Score: 1

    Never mind the multitouch screen interpreting the face milliseconds before it smashes into pieces.

  14. If HFT wasn't bad enough on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    It's like solving a problem by making it worse.

  15. You mean Hurd (ex Teradata), not Fiorina. on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worse thing is that Fiorina wants to be a part of government, and multiply her failure (as well as make use of her H1-b special interests).

  16. Collusion on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Brown says, adding that users concerned about cost per page can buy 'XL' ink cartridges from HP that last two to three times longer. (Competitors do the same).

    Collusion?

    The message: You get value for the money. No getting around it though: Ink is still expensive, particularly if you have to use that inkjet printer for black-and-white text pages."

    ...and no bullshit can explain it, even if your competitors do it.

  17. More marketing bullshit. on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    No real substance, much like HP's cartridges.

  18. Re:Snicker Snort on China Rejects US Piracy Claims As "Groundless" · · Score: 1

    I make the same point on piracy, but you don't get modbombed. Go figure.

  19. With all the knockoffs and piracy that does go on on China Rejects US Piracy Claims As "Groundless" · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Earlier this month, a United States piracy list fingered China, Russia and Canada as the first, second and third worst governments (respectively) for enforcing copyright policy in the world. China's Foreign Ministry has rejected these claims as 'groundless' just before meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday and Tuesday in Beijing to address copyright policy. The official Chinese statement read, 'The involved US Congress members should respect the fact and stop making groundless accusations against China.' The plan nevertheless remains to use the visit to pressure China into overhauling their failed attempts to curb piracy since software piracy in China appears to be a social norm with the Chinese government possibly even leading by example."

    Then what exactly is made during the third or "ghost" shift in China, not at the request of any outside company?
    Another thing of note, explain all the pirated movies and software that gets sold in that country (or is that always "Not from our family" or from someone out of favor?).

    The only thing that's groundless is China's posturing.

  20. Knowing the legendary plagiarism in China... on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...I'll call bullshit. When such deeds are performed in the US - then I'll believe it.

    I guess this means I get a ton of Chinese apologists to modbomb me.

    Of course, if I were in China, my organs would be gone by the end of the day.

  21. Lacking in a bit of detail on Any Open Source Solutions For DIY Auto Diagnostics? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it is a bit lacking in details.

  22. From an N900 user... on Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Nokia simply keeps things reasonably open, moreso than the repackaged HTC phones.

    The apps are out there, and you don't have to worry about stepping on someone's revenue stream(whether it be Google's or Apple's).

  23. Well, given the tons spam from that region on Russian Company Buys ICQ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I am not surprised by who would buy it.

  24. Re:What's the saying about hypocrisy? on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    Well, I have used Flash with the N900. Unless you're trying to use AIR, it seems to be nothing out of the ordinary. Flash doesn't seem to add any more load that would be unique to itself (and not the platform). Things just load as they're supposed to, with any battery concerns being part of the N900's design.

    Can't speak for the other platforms(can't put WebOS on a N900, haven't used the N900 Android image that's around).

    S60's Flash was usable but closer to your experiences.

  25. Re:I will guarantee...(Re:Pardon him) on Palin Email Snoop Found Guilty On 2 Charges · · Score: 1

    ...that Palin will ask the judge and the prosecutor to not give the guy any jail time, but maybe a few years probation and some community service.
    That presumes that the judge is willing to go through with that recommendation, and that they don't weasel word their way out of it. They can make that move publicly, but then pressure the judge through other channels not to do it.

    But if they have the conscience to do the Right Thing(tm) and can convince the judge, he still has the felony on him. He'd have to get clemency for that or have that somehow reduced below a felony. That, or move to the few states that don't penalize it at the voting booth.

    Either way, they get their scalp.