I dunno if Stalin did said the following or not, nevertheless, it does sound valid for this case
Stalin once said: "A Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with."
The creation of spyware and the selling that spyware to governments will only end up with all people in all countries being denied their basic human rights - including England, where the maker of the spyware, the Gamma Group, originated from
All these viruses (virii??), like Hanta Virus, Ebola Virus, Nipah Virus, and so on... are they new?
If they are not new - that is, they already existed for a long time, it's just that they have been accurately been identified recently - then I'll imagine that hundreds of years ago, or even thousands of years ago human populations must had had "contacts" with them and were infected as well...
My question is: If humans did suffered past epidemics of those viruses, how come there wasn't any record on it?
Or is it a case of human evolution - or recent changes to human environments (much more hygienic) - that resulted in a decline of human immunological response to many types of viruses?
The parent has a point, start with a basic electronics kit and teach him about LOGIC...
This !
But in my case, I first taught my kids LOGIC without having to resort to electronics - I use everyday life occasions to ease them into understanding LOGIC - the simpler ones at first, and gradually mixing with increasing complexity
After I feel that they are able to grasp basic tenet of LOGIC then I expose them to electronics kit (of course, the safe type, using batteries, I won't want my kids to be crispy fried)
Only after that I get them to play with LOGO
It's a step by step approach, but I start my kids very early - in their tender age of 2 and 3
It's a reprise of what happened 50 years earlier when farms became mechanized. It is an inexorable inevitable trend that machines will replace humans in routine tasks.
The fact is that manufacturing as an economic sector in the US is doing fine. To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of demise are much exaggerated.
The US is easily the world's most productive manufacturing nation in terms of output value per hour, and also has the largest manufacturing economy in the world.
The United States of America achieved the highest Output Value Per Hour of all countries in the world by doing one thing - making super high valued items - like Stealth Fighter planes, Nuclear Submarines, Super-computers, and CPUs.
Except for the last item, which is produced by the millions, the rest of those super-high-valued items are not mass-produced - at least not mass produced to achieve the economy of scale.
That lies the problem.
The USA may be the biggest exporters of the world because there is still a great demand for those super-high-valued items - especially the weapons
And others are catching up.
Take the CPUs - Intel has been raking in truckloads of $$$ by producing CPUs that are worth much more than their weight in gold, since the 1980's.
Nowadays, however, Intel is increasing feeling the heat - competition is heating up. No, not from AMD, but from other companies which made ARM chips, and there are a lot of them - From TI of USA to Samsung of Korea to Nvidia of Taiwan to Allwinner of China
There _are_ competitors to other super-high-value items produced by USA, but fortunately, for the time being, the competitors aren't very well financed or don't have the required technology yet.
But that doesn't mean the competitors don't play catch up. They do, and they are catching up, fast.
Nowadays USA is not the only one capable of producing stealth fighters. Russia, Japan, Europe and China all have their own versions of stealth fighters.
What does that leave USA, then?
To innovate? Or to destroy their competitors, before they can play catch up?
If USA were to be run by those who is running Apple, Inc., no doubt the choice would be the latter.
Fortunately, the USA government hasn't yet completely relinquished its sovereignty to Cupertino.
That guy doesn't even qualified as an "economist" -
Shrimp - China does _NOT_ export shrimps
The amount of shrimps China produces (from shrimp farms and caught from the sea) is not sufficient for China's own consumption
In fact, China IMPORTS shrimps from many South East Asian countries, from Australia, and even from Africa !!
Flat Screen TV - Many LCD TeeVee sold in the USA may have been assembled in China, but the crucial parts - the LCD panels, the electronics, - are made in Korea, Japan and Taiwan
China does made their own LCD panels, but the internal consumption of LCD TVs in China is so large that China actually imports LCD panels, rather than exports them
Shirt on your back - There exists a quota limit on clothing import from any one country, including China
Even if you bought your shirt in Walmart - the traditional "made in China supermarket" - the shirts most probably have "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Pakistan" or even "Made in Romania" / "Made in Ethiopia" labels on them, because the unskilled labor in Bangladesh and Pakistan are much cheaper than those from China
... A driver must not use any electronic communication device...
I am not from New York, but I had been to New York (and NYC) many times, and have lost count of the times I took NYC cabs
I remember that in the NY cabs that I were in, even during pre-cellphone era, there was already an "electronic communication device" - a CB-radio
And the cabbies were using it to communicate with their HQ and to others, even while they were zig-zagging in and out of the city traffic!!
It's totally ridiculous to place a ban on the use of "electronic communication device" while they were already using "electronic communication devices" !
Unless of course, the CB radio they were using were not electronics - maybe they are still using vacuum tubes in their CeeBees
That said, it's questionable how effective it would be, since participation would be voluntary
That "voluntary" part is inserted to throw off people so that they can't object to this executive order
After a while, the word "voluntary" would disappear, and participation would no longer be "voluntary" and the whole thing would be run by the Homeland Security or one of the many 3-alphabet-agencies
Count on it !
Cyber-security or whatever -security it might be, they are all designed to do one thing - to take away the freedom of the ordinary people and to concentrate all the power at the top
If cloned drugs are killing people, it is up to the authorities to deal with it... Not some company who's primary goal is removing cheaper competition via any means available.
I am not familiar with this bickering, but if what you allege is true, then it does spell doom for this and similar project
I am not a fan of patent holders turning into patent trolls - and I am talking as one who owns 3 patents and never use my patents to threaten anyone - unless they sue me first:)
Allwinner Tech is one of the very rare China-based SoC companies willing to collaborate with Software (Libre) developers without an enforced (GPL-violating) NDA in place
Allwinner Tech is the company behind the ARM-based SoC that have powered many many tablets and smartphones
We are talking about a helicopter - something that flies
It's important that whatever that gets played on board does not interfere with the RF sensitive equipment on board of the chopper
Nowadays airplanes from Boeing and Airbus have re-designed their planes to better shield themselves from whatever interfering RF that may emit from consumer electronics - from cellphones to laptops to tablets
I do not know if the choppers are similarly shielded from RF interference, though
Actually, it's starting to look like quality of products is always inversely proportional to quality of directors/management.
Actually, it's the way the Japanese run their business.
If business is good, the Japanese model can go on forever, but when the market turns south, or when competition turns fierce, the Japanese business almost always jerks to a halt
It happens to many Japanese businesses, not only Sharp.
For example, Toyota
It makes good car, but the way they made their car is akin to a "family business" where one make the spoke, the other the hub, the other the shaft, the other the belt, and someone in the family owns the bank, someone owns the metal stamper, and in that way, they got the car made
It's fine when there's a market, and the market is booming
But when there is a kink - like Toyota's faulty cars that made the news last year - that's where the whole thing bogged down, and often they can't stop the downward spiral
In Sharp's case, they over-invested in LCD panel plants - and when Korea and Taiwan and China all shifted into high gear churning out LCD panels, Sharp suddenly see their cashflow dwindled
This phenomena is not limited to Sharp. Panasonic (Matsushita) is also cash squeezed for it invested heavily in Plasma TV (yes, Plasma TV, you read it right) and when LCD overtook Plasma, Matsushita got into a big bind
I am familiar with the Japanese business because I do have businesses there
Why can't police solve this case, without having more than 8,000 men to give their dna samples?
This and similar cases, - including the recent case in France where a 4 year old kid had to hide under her mother's dead body for over 8 hours while the French police was guarding the car which the kid's family members were murdered - give us a clear indication that there are too many incompetent cops
Question: where do you find a phone that is made in the USA? AIUI, pretty much any smartphone you want to buy is made in China, in large part.
Samsung made their phones in China, Vietnam, India
Honhai, the one who makes phones for many smartphone companies made their phones in China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and soon, Africa
If any of the released stuff actually works, it'll put the lie to both of them, which is as embarassing as it is funny.
It is not only embarrassing / funny, but also EXTREMELY WORRYING !!
It's entirely possible that the anonymous has somehow caught both Apple and FBI red handed, and accidentally revealed the secret relationship between FBI and Apple.
This time around they (Apple / FBI) can deny anything and everything - but what makes you think they won't do it again ?
What makes you think that Apple won't give FBI millions and millions more new UDIDs to enable FBI to snoop on iPhone / iPAD users?
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I dunno if Stalin did said the following or not, nevertheless, it does sound valid for this case
Stalin once said: " A Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. "
The creation of spyware and the selling that spyware to governments will only end up with all people in all countries being denied their basic human rights - including England, where the maker of the spyware, the Gamma Group, originated from
100th space mission
With 37 rockets?
More like "100th spaced mission"
"The most radical idea I'm going to propose is that we get rid of the idea of criminal responsibility."
It's called mens rea, try to understand criminal law before you go about fixing it.
I beg to differ !
Mens Rea - "The act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty"
That alone does not proof anything, until the prosecutor can proof the validity of Actus Reus
All these viruses (virii??), like Hanta Virus, Ebola Virus, Nipah Virus, and so on ... are they new?
If they are not new - that is, they already existed for a long time, it's just that they have been accurately been identified recently - then I'll imagine that hundreds of years ago, or even thousands of years ago human populations must had had "contacts" with them and were infected as well ...
My question is: If humans did suffered past epidemics of those viruses, how come there wasn't any record on it?
Or is it a case of human evolution - or recent changes to human environments (much more hygienic) - that resulted in a decline of human immunological response to many types of viruses?
The parent has a point, start with a basic electronics kit and teach him about LOGIC...
This !
But in my case, I first taught my kids LOGIC without having to resort to electronics - I use everyday life occasions to ease them into understanding LOGIC - the simpler ones at first, and gradually mixing with increasing complexity
After I feel that they are able to grasp basic tenet of LOGIC then I expose them to electronics kit (of course, the safe type, using batteries, I won't want my kids to be crispy fried)
Only after that I get them to play with LOGO
It's a step by step approach, but I start my kids very early - in their tender age of 2 and 3
Manufacturing in general is losing jobs. Not only in the US but in third world countries like China and Mexico because of efficiency increases.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRI4bAft7Xw4
It's a reprise of what happened 50 years earlier when farms became mechanized. It is an inexorable inevitable trend that machines will replace humans in routine tasks.
The fact is that manufacturing as an economic sector in the US is doing fine. To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of demise are much exaggerated.
The US is easily the world's most productive manufacturing nation in terms of output value per hour, and also has the largest manufacturing economy in the world.
http://www.nam.org/Statistics-And-Data/Facts-About-Manufacturing/Landing.aspx
http://www.seeitmarket.com/u-s-still-in-the-business-of-making-things/
http://business.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-american-manufacturing/
The United States of America achieved the highest Output Value Per Hour of all countries in the world by doing one thing - making super high valued items - like Stealth Fighter planes, Nuclear Submarines, Super-computers, and CPUs.
Except for the last item, which is produced by the millions, the rest of those super-high-valued items are not mass-produced - at least not mass produced to achieve the economy of scale.
That lies the problem.
The USA may be the biggest exporters of the world because there is still a great demand for those super-high-valued items - especially the weapons
And others are catching up.
Take the CPUs - Intel has been raking in truckloads of $$$ by producing CPUs that are worth much more than their weight in gold, since the 1980's.
Nowadays, however, Intel is increasing feeling the heat - competition is heating up. No, not from AMD, but from other companies which made ARM chips, and there are a lot of them - From TI of USA to Samsung of Korea to Nvidia of Taiwan to Allwinner of China
There _are_ competitors to other super-high-value items produced by USA, but fortunately, for the time being, the competitors aren't very well financed or don't have the required technology yet.
But that doesn't mean the competitors don't play catch up. They do, and they are catching up, fast.
Nowadays USA is not the only one capable of producing stealth fighters. Russia, Japan, Europe and China all have their own versions of stealth fighters.
What does that leave USA, then?
To innovate? Or to destroy their competitors, before they can play catch up?
If USA were to be run by those who is running Apple, Inc., no doubt the choice would be the latter.
Fortunately, the USA government hasn't yet completely relinquished its sovereignty to Cupertino.
I see your comments
Like the previous guy, I do read comments that are being modded down to "-1"
I may not agree with what they say, but I do read them
That guy doesn't even qualified as an "economist" -
Shrimp - China does _NOT_ export shrimps
The amount of shrimps China produces (from shrimp farms and caught from the sea) is not sufficient for China's own consumption
In fact, China IMPORTS shrimps from many South East Asian countries, from Australia, and even from Africa !!
Flat Screen TV - Many LCD TeeVee sold in the USA may have been assembled in China, but the crucial parts - the LCD panels, the electronics, - are made in Korea, Japan and Taiwan
China does made their own LCD panels, but the internal consumption of LCD TVs in China is so large that China actually imports LCD panels, rather than exports them
Shirt on your back - There exists a quota limit on clothing import from any one country, including China
Even if you bought your shirt in Walmart - the traditional "made in China supermarket" - the shirts most probably have "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Pakistan" or even "Made in Romania" / "Made in Ethiopia" labels on them, because the unskilled labor in Bangladesh and Pakistan are much cheaper than those from China
I got it all the time, my friend.
In fact, if you scroll up, you'd see that the brownshirts had already modded my comment down
Now Slashdot is crawling with many brownshirts, and some of them are said to have unlimited mod points.
... A driver must not use any electronic communication device ...
I am not from New York, but I had been to New York (and NYC) many times, and have lost count of the times I took NYC cabs
I remember that in the NY cabs that I were in, even during pre-cellphone era, there was already an "electronic communication device" - a CB-radio
And the cabbies were using it to communicate with their HQ and to others, even while they were zig-zagging in and out of the city traffic!!
It's totally ridiculous to place a ban on the use of "electronic communication device" while they were already using "electronic communication devices" !
Unless of course, the CB radio they were using were not electronics - maybe they are still using vacuum tubes in their CeeBees
That said, it's questionable how effective it would be, since participation would be voluntary
That "voluntary" part is inserted to throw off people so that they can't object to this executive order
After a while, the word "voluntary" would disappear, and participation would no longer be "voluntary" and the whole thing would be run by the Homeland Security or one of the many 3-alphabet-agencies
Count on it !
Cyber-security or whatever -security it might be, they are all designed to do one thing - to take away the freedom of the ordinary people and to concentrate all the power at the top
TL;DW
It's your loss
I am no medical doctor, but I did saw a photo online of a person's brain crawling with worms, resulted from eating sushi
Since then I never ever touch sushi no more
This SoC is not only produced but also designed in China. Most competitors are designed in Korea (Samsung) or the US (TI, Qualcomm?, Nvidia?)
Quite a number of SoC (among others) are designed in Israel, Japan and Germany as well
India had, at one time, the potential to become a very strong player in the field. But for some reason, that never came true
imagine how many slashdotters heads would have melted if i'd done all their work for them by putting in some extra backstory links? :)
Don't worry, just list them all out here
I've been here for a long while, and my brain has yet been melted
List them here, so at least you'll provide us with melt-proof brains a trip to the search engines
Thanks in advance !!
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OK, Joe?
What the eff is that?
I know slashdot doesn't support anything else but ASCII, but the above is absolutely, totally lame !!
If cloned drugs are killing people, it is up to the authorities to deal with it... Not some company who's primary goal is removing cheaper competition via any means available.
I am not familiar with this bickering, but if what you allege is true, then it does spell doom for this and similar project
:)
I am not a fan of patent holders turning into patent trolls - and I am talking as one who owns 3 patents and never use my patents to threaten anyone - unless they sue me first
Allwinner Tech is one of the very rare China-based SoC companies willing to collaborate with Software (Libre) developers without an enforced (GPL-violating) NDA in place
Allwinner Tech is the company behind the ARM-based SoC that have powered many many tablets and smartphones
And they only charge $7 per Cortex A8-SoC
We are talking about a helicopter - something that flies
It's important that whatever that gets played on board does not interfere with the RF sensitive equipment on board of the chopper
Nowadays airplanes from Boeing and Airbus have re-designed their planes to better shield themselves from whatever interfering RF that may emit from consumer electronics - from cellphones to laptops to tablets
I do not know if the choppers are similarly shielded from RF interference, though
Nissan - now owned by Renault from France
Olympus - now still embroiled in bitter internal strife
Sharp - cash squeeze and facing bankruptcy
Elpida - bankrupted and bought by Micron
Actually, it's starting to look like quality of products is always inversely proportional to quality of directors/management.
Actually, it's the way the Japanese run their business.
If business is good, the Japanese model can go on forever, but when the market turns south, or when competition turns fierce, the Japanese business almost always jerks to a halt
It happens to many Japanese businesses, not only Sharp.
For example, Toyota
It makes good car, but the way they made their car is akin to a "family business" where one make the spoke, the other the hub, the other the shaft, the other the belt, and someone in the family owns the bank, someone owns the metal stamper, and in that way, they got the car made
It's fine when there's a market, and the market is booming
But when there is a kink - like Toyota's faulty cars that made the news last year - that's where the whole thing bogged down, and often they can't stop the downward spiral
In Sharp's case, they over-invested in LCD panel plants - and when Korea and Taiwan and China all shifted into high gear churning out LCD panels, Sharp suddenly see their cashflow dwindled
This phenomena is not limited to Sharp. Panasonic (Matsushita) is also cash squeezed for it invested heavily in Plasma TV (yes, Plasma TV, you read it right) and when LCD overtook Plasma, Matsushita got into a big bind
I am familiar with the Japanese business because I do have businesses there
Why did this case turn cold?
Why can't police solve this case, without having more than 8,000 men to give their dna samples?
This and similar cases, - including the recent case in France where a 4 year old kid had to hide under her mother's dead body for over 8 hours while the French police was guarding the car which the kid's family members were murdered - give us a clear indication that there are too many incompetent cops
Question: where do you find a phone that is made in the USA? AIUI, pretty much any smartphone you want to buy is made in China, in large part.
Samsung made their phones in China, Vietnam, India
Honhai, the one who makes phones for many smartphone companies made their phones in China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and soon, Africa
It would be very interesting to have Intel running a 450mm wafer FAB when there is no one supplying the FAB machines !!
If any of the released stuff actually works, it'll put the lie to both of them, which is as embarassing as it is funny.
It is not only embarrassing / funny, but also EXTREMELY WORRYING !!
It's entirely possible that the anonymous has somehow caught both Apple and FBI red handed, and accidentally revealed the secret relationship between FBI and Apple.
This time around they (Apple / FBI) can deny anything and everything - but what makes you think they won't do it again ?
What makes you think that Apple won't give FBI millions and millions more new UDIDs to enable FBI to snoop on iPhone / iPAD users?