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  1. Re:Treat it like other wars... on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    If you don't let them play at capitalism they will never gain enough wealth to BE capitalists. In my lifetime I've seen 'our' jobs go to other countries. And those countries have grown and embraced capitalism and then their 'jobs' go to the next hungry mouth. Yet in this shedding of jobs we are not weaker we are stronger. Governments with more money improve and the workers lot improve. When everyone is able to do the job and they compete for them then you've made them equal as much as you can economically.

    There are countries where this will not work. Ones with erratic or irrational government or no government. Ones that are so poor they don't have and you cannot economically build the infrastructure to allow them to compete. For them allow open but temporary immigration until they can send enough money home to make a difference.

  2. Re:Hyperbole much? on The Ignominious Fall of Dell · · Score: 1

    Gigabyte is just as guilty of not owning up to having faulty capacitors. Hell they had them in units made in 2004! Sheer excrement.

  3. Re:obRetribution on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    Someday we will be able to kill a company utterly. Take it's assets, jail the top 10 percent and leave the rest out of work and off the dole. If murder is involved we get to watch a mass execution of the top ten percent of the company.

  4. Re:Still broken on Subscription-Based 'Hulu Plus' Is Now Official · · Score: 1

    They are actively blocking X86_64 Linux flash players.

  5. Re:I get only an advertisement from the NYT link on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    I would never buy a used EV unless it still had a transferable warranty that would repair the electrical system regardless of wear including the battery. The warranty would be based on the price I pay.

    I can get an engine and transmission rebuilt for reasonable cost. We don't have the infrastructure to get an electric motor or battery of these types rebuilt yet though that should change in 20 years.

  6. Re:Has anyone considered... on Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap · · Score: 1

    I can't play FPS or any game that requires a lot of repetitious movements and twitches. I have damage to my hands some peripheral neuropathy and carpel tunnel. In most cases I can't play even the 'thinking' type games as there will be some part of it that requires arcade level responses. I would welcome games I could solve over time that did not penalize the player for not being a 13 year old twitch master.

  7. Re:Looks like Flickr and Getty making out on Getty's Flickr Sales, Money Spinner Or Ripoff? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Grow or die. If the training you have does not allow you to work and live as a photographer you might go apply at one of those shovel ready welfare projects. Pros are pros regardless of tools and they will learn to integrate new tools into their repertoire.

  8. Mozilla should pull them on TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And perpetually ban that developer/team/company from every having access again.

  9. Re:Redbox is for new releases on Movie Studio Finally Sees the Light On Rentals · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check their website, you can have movies delivered to a redbox and they'll tell you when you can pick it up.

  10. Re:Cool on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    http://solar-aid.org/

    Solar Aid has several solutions that are better. They promote locally manufactured or at least assembled devices. They help with PV systems. They have an interesting light that provides more light for a longer time, it's far cheaper, it charges phones and other small gadgets and was designed by students at Leeds. Plus Minus Design was also able to address the need for local maintenance with a simply designed product assembled through snap-in parts and repairable with basic tools. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20001768-54.html?tag=mncol

    http://solar-aid.org/projects/health/lighting-malawian-homes.html We will train 120 young people orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS in Northern Malawi in solar skills to build these solar lanterns. We will help source and import solar and LED materials to Malawi.

  11. Re:A Better Target on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    Slavery was not abolished. You can still be enslaved if convicted of a crime.

  12. Re:Honestly, I hope the US on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We moved our manufacturing back to the US. Equipment is cheap and the high tech parts were not available in china legally. We no longer have 20 percent or more of the parts we shipped to the assembler end up swapped for fakes, we can tailor our manufacturing more tightly since travel time is minutes not a month. We can more easily fix problems by inspecting small lots rather than have 3000 units come in that need reworked. The tipping point for us was transportation costs including bribes which convince management to move production back to the US. We still buy the stuff you can't make here because of environmental regulations but the core technology items are coming back here.

  13. Re:Gee... on iRobot Demonstrates New Weaponized Robot · · Score: 1

    I want them everywhere with my attorney and a judge with an authorization button on standby 24/7. No-Knock this assholes.

  14. Re:They Don't Mean Format on Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format · · Score: 1

    For free content Slashdot and similar websites do fine. For paid content I'd prefer someone whose past choices I can review at no or reduced cost so I can judge whether I'll pay them for fresh new choices.

  15. Re:They Don't Mean Format on Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format · · Score: 1

    Professional critics are pond scum.

  16. Re:When has there ever been a good fundamentalism? on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    You added text that does not exist in what I wrote.

    If there is a one person or a few people who dispense wisdom then it's fungible. Any new proclamation must be rigidly obeyed. It tends to make the followers very strange to outsiders.

  17. Re:They Don't Mean Format on Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format · · Score: 1

    There are several thousand self published books. How do I wade through that sick spew looking for the one I want to read? A publisher is nothing more than a filter who has to paw through the filth I don't want to read to get to what I want to read. I choose publishers based on their output before I choose authors.

    I've read self published crap and for the most part it's garbage. No 'reviews' or 'scoring' systems don't really work as they can be gamed. A publisher that can't filter out crap goes out of business.

    I am defining publisher as "Pays for writing" not one that gets "Paid to spew some wannabe's crap".

  18. Re:An apt reminder... on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 1

    Pseudo science is just that a fake. If there is a result to an act but we cannot explain it so what? Why do you need to spew some garbage to 'explain' it. Just define what is happening and test it until you have defined it's actions so you can go about applying it to real world problems. Hell we've done that with the transistor and so many other things. Who argues about how a water wheel works when it works? Later and in some cases centuries later we figure it out.

    I pissed of a Ufer nut who claimed that a ship had crashed and he'd been a government scientist driven mad trying to figure out how a device inside worked. I asked what the device looked like and what it did. Well it was something nutty but it had an interesting mechanical effect. I proceeded to describe a power generation system that would have powered the United States at it's current usage for however long these devices would have held up. The system was based on the described effects. They had to be booted and banned from chat after that as they had some sort of psychotic snap.

  19. Re:When has there ever been a good fundamentalism? on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    And that is the worst sort of fundamentalism, fungible fundamentalism, it's not a fixed system but must be rigidly obeyed.

    It breeds the worst sort of psychotics. It tends to define cults of personality or any interpreted text the layperson does not have access to.

  20. Um what? on XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support · · Score: 1

    Embrace extend extinguish?

  21. They always have used phone data on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 1

    even if it was just your name and address and where you lived. I've had cable, phone and local utilities, government agencies, magazines, newspapers, grocery stores, clubs and a plethora of businesses you'd not suspect. People are out there who buy that and can merge it and have a lot of information on an individual.

    It will go on until it's legal for the abused to kill them without consequence.

  22. It reeks of desperation on Intel Targets AMD With Affordable Unlocked CPUs · · Score: 1

    AMD must really be worrying them.

  23. Give them a C64 and lock them in a room on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    They have write a program to talk to a lock on the door so they can get food.

    If they die nothing is lost.

  24. Re:Dialup networking off by default finally on Fedora 13 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Ok so it's broken by default. :)

  25. Re:Give me Laser Toner any day of the week on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Samsumg ML-2510 with a starter cartridge $59. It's USB and works well if you DO NOT use Samsung's broken installer. Incredibly fast and the toner is perfect for PCB masking to etch with ferric chloride or masking brass to make an electrolytic etch. The toner makes a damn tough coating once you get it transfered. I've had to use strong paint stripper to get it off. I've had good luck using a digital hot plate to make the transfer, not so good luck with a standard clothing iron.

    You can see a photo of brass etching here. The defects actually make it look better than a perfect reproduction of the image used. I made this for a friend who is a Disney employee.

    http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval/images/blogstuff/brassetch/brass-after-final/dsc00064.jpg