I think it's more about corps not wanting to pay for security. If you just drop the hammer and drop it hard people get the message. Sure, they'll still be attacks (lots of desperate ppl in today's economy), but they'll be fewer. Mean time to failure is important. People are already forgetting about Target, but if those sorts of attacks were monthly companies would have to do something about them.

Also, the nice thing about using brutal sentencing to slow the pace of attacks is the cost shifting. The Taxpayer foots the bill to put that guy away for life. If you let them do it Businesses will always shift costs onto the commons and profits onto themselves.

just hire the guys that did the post production on the moon landing. I couldn't even see the wires much less the boom mics when those guys were done.

It's only a matter of time. Give it 5, maybe 10 years. Immigration reform means 300,000 new H1-Bs, and most studies show that for every H1-B officially given away there are 3 to 4 of those guys actually working. You didn't think they were sent home, did you?

So, what are you going to do in a few years when 1 million new tech workers (all younger than you, cheaper, and who work more hours) hit the market? You'll do absolutely nothing. You'll be too busy keeping your head above water to. Which is exactly what they want.

One last thing. Doctors have Unions (AMA). Lawyers too (it's called the Bar). If your having trouble understanding why a skilled worker would want a Union ask yourself why Doctors and Lawyers have them :).

the workers are too spread out. It's tough to organize them. You'd need money, and after 40 years of outsourcing and declining wages nobody has that. Also with how bad the economy is people are scared to stand up for their rights. There's a reason they call it "Wage Slavery"...

at least they're _trying_.

And fyi, you owe everything you have today to Unions (that and the Cold War putting a halt on outsourcing). For God's sake man, read about what pre-Union life was like for all but the very, very rich. Just go read "A People's History of the United States" and go from there.

when I can pretty easily get a dual core i5 for $400? Or if I care about battery life a single core i3 for $299?

I can't help but wonder if these products are just HPs way of saying to Microsoft that they have alternatives to Windows.

to anyone that didn't already know, but Comcast doesn't spend a dime on it's network. Like all major telecoms they get massive subsidies in the form of tax breaks. Basically they don't pay taxes on their profit from the monthly subscriber fees they collect. Verizon does this too. In fact the just got caught in New Jersey impersonating voters to push through a bill that exonerated them from building out the network they promised to build in exchange for 6 billion worth of tax subsidies. It worked out to something like $10k per resident paid to them for nothing. Oh, and that bill? It passed.

In the states and around the world guns are pretty easy to trace. A lot of crimes are solved on ballistic evidence. 3D Printed guns do away with that.

How does making the handsets in China reduce the cost to ship them to American customers? Seriously. Are there some odd shenanigans or something here? otoh, I can't imagine how any company can compete with the kind of wages you can get in the Philippines and China. The time to market thing woulda been nice since they could beat Apple or Samsung to the punch, but then Motorola's engineers and marketing didn't really have the punch they needed :(.

The Steam Machine was just a shot across the bow at Microsoft. The Windows 8 Store threatened to squeeze Valve out of the software sales market. Gabe Newel's Ex-Microsoft and he knows as well as anybody how they operate.

When Win8 flopped harder than a beached whale and the Store flopped harder still they almost immediately laid off the engineers they hired to build the darn thing. These days it's mostly just a curiosity.

if you ignore the Math then "Computer Science" is writing if-elses and for loops. As near as I can tell this is just a bunch of rich people tired of paying programmers 6 figures. Points to Ms Clinton for asking that money be put to fundamental development and the general betterment. The cynic in me wonders if she means it (who watch half his career go overseas and the other half eroded by cheap 'n easy work visas) hopes she means it...

or will be. She's a member of the American Ruling Class. The working class is hoping she's turn on her own and help us out....

another way is to say that automakers are shifting their costs. Dirty air and smog lead to lung disease and cancer, ergo higher medical costs. The health problems also lower worker productivity.

Why should I have to pay for the damage done by cheap cars?

Toyota & Honda, heck even GM, can all make zero emission cars. I do like what California did though. They set _sales_ qoutas_ instead of manufacturing qoutas, so they companies couldn't weasel out of getting real zero emission cars on the road. It's rare to see regulations that have teeth in them. I suppose with the amount of Smog California has (insert South Park Smug jokes here) that's pretty important though. But I wish Arizona would do it. We have days when you're not suppose to go outside because the smog is so bad...

it's almost like having a company with a virtual monopoly on online sales is a bad thing. But hey, you don't _have_ to shop at Amazon, right? Not yet anyway... And they certainly wouldn't use their massive size to undercut all competition while making razor thin profits that no mom and pop could possibly sustain. And besides... Americans don't shop only on price, right? Boy, there are so many good reasons not to regulate here I can't pick just one.