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  1. Re:Who cares on Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program · · Score: 3, Informative

    Far as I know you are correct. In fact HTC started as a third party manufacturer for other companies before making their own products.

  2. Actually, the policies are fine (other then low tariffs). However they are not followed or enforced. For example, as part of the international trade agreements China is part of an eight hour work day is supposed to be the norm. But it's much closer to fourteen hours.

  3. Re:Forced internships? on Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program · · Score: 1

    Say what you will about the guy, his interns volunteered.

  4. Re:Import tariffs on Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program · · Score: 2

    PreviousPost.replace(/see/g,'sell');

  5. Re:Import tariffs on Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wont happen, too much money from corporations being used to loby against it. China on the other hand has massive import tariffs for US goods. So companies more or less have to make stuff over there if they want to see in China.

  6. Re:Bullshit on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 1

    How can they be expected to build infrastructure when we wont let them buy their competitors?

  7. Dont these keys change often? How would you match? on Factorable Keys: Twice As Many, But Half As Bad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So how do you go about matching one of the keys that you guessed and a specific users session? What's more, how do you do that before the key changes? I can guess a password is "fishmonkeywrinkles", but without a matching account that wont do much good.

  8. Occam's razor... on Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at the situation, I would say that the message about it being Apples fault is a canned response to people asking about playback on the iPad that got miss-routed as a response to this new issue with the PlayBook. I suspect that Amazon does not know why its not working on the PlayBook, or at least does not have a fix. I also would not be shocked if they did not fix it as the PlayBook seems like a dead platform from a development standpoint. Lets remember that a PlayBook native player would require dedicated development time since the whole Android apps on PlayBook thing never really panned out. Coupled with the out of date flash player, there's not a lot Amazon can do.

  9. They give me pills to stop me thinking about them...

  10. Someone start following him around with a camera. on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    If he protests, its proof that he's a child pornographer.

  11. Re:Now selling anti-cyber attack amulets! on "Cyberwar" As a Carrot For Those Selling the Stick · · Score: 1

    No, I'm OTFH (overcharge them for hammers) Darpa.

  12. Now selling anti-cyber attack amulets! on "Cyberwar" As a Carrot For Those Selling the Stick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guarantied to prevent cyber and leopard attacks.

  13. Re:Still no auto-update. on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    And actually, looks like they DID add version checking at long last. They just didn't tell anyone about it. Nifty.

  14. Re:Still no auto-update. on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do. And adding a simple HTTP client to check status of an XML file on the web is dead simple in most cases. Why do you ask?

  15. Still no auto-update. on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 2

    How hard can it be to add update notifications and downloads to the app?

  16. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 2

    You used large pool rates compared to a specific location. That's not "straight up facts", that's skewed data. And how do you respond to the mass suicide protest this year? I guess because they where fired and forced off the property they dont count. But it still doesn't sound like a happy work force to me.

  17. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because it was a problem. No one said "ah well, this is normal and there's nothing to look into". Workers threatening mass suicide in protest over working conditions is a problem. Anyone who claims otherwise must have a really bad job. Like mop boy at the porn theater bad.

  18. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can skew the number all you want. Facts are facts, and the fact is that the conditions at Foxconn are bad. So bad that this year 150 workers threatened mass suicide in protest. They where all fired and forcibly removed. To me, that does not sound like a content work force.

  19. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    You could adjust that American "benefit" by treating China like they do us. Its what, 5% import tax on stuff from China while they charge closer to 30% for stuff from America? Of course US companies move their factories there, they want to sell in China and the US and the only way to do that is to build in China.

  20. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    The Xinhua News Agency says otherwise. And for some reason they dont have to put up nets around said US city to stop people from jumping like they did at Foxconn.

  21. Re:corporate responsibility on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 0
  22. Re: Collateral damage on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Part of the problem is that Apple is the semi-official brand of hipster douchebags buying free trade coffe and wearing hemp pants. So its the hypocrisy of it that strikes a corde with Apple more then with Sony etc. If the idiot yelling at me for not owning a hybrid car was shaking a Zune in my face I'd feel different I think. If Apple wants to market themselves as a progressive "think different" company, then they should act like it.

  23. Re:Thoughts from someone who lives in China on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 0, Troll

    So things are so good that they had to put up nets to stop people jumping off the buildings for joy?

    You can argue social differences all you want, but as soon as people would rather kill themselves there is an issue that you shouldn't ignore.

  24. Re:How about zero? on Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research · · Score: 1

    No research means no advances means buying more from other countries means lower GDP means less taxes means decrease in currency value means increase in debt.

  25. Re:why do we care about shape? on What the iPad 3 Looks Like · · Score: 2

    If it didn't change significantly, people wouldn't throw out there perfectly good iPad 2 and buy the new one.