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Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor 565

Posted by Soulskill from the wishful-thinking dept.
theodp writes "Intel co-founder and ex-CEO Andy Grove calls BS on the truism that moving production offshore to locations with much lower wages is a sound idea. 'Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs,' says Grove, 'we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's "commodity" manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.' To rebuild its industrial commons, Grove says the US should develop a system of financial incentives, including an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. 'If the result is a trade war,' Grove advises, 'treat it like other wars — fight to win.'"

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An anonymous reader writes: A perfect 10 videos to start the 4th of July weekend off. Awesome top ten of guys failing miserabley at shooting bottle rockets from butt cracks.
Cellphones

Submission + - iPhone 4's LCD Compared Against Other Smartphones

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adeelarshad82 writes: If there was one thing Apple has tried to focus on with iPhone 4, it's the display. And this probably begs the question that exactly how good is the display compared to other top smartphones. To test this out, PCMag teamed up with Dr. Raymond Soneira to compare iPhone 4's LCD against Motorola Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC EVO in terms of brightness, contrast, color depth, and color accuracy. One important thing noted before the test was that the four smartphones use three different types of screen technologies. The Droid X and HTC EVO use traditional TFT LCDs. The iPhone's screen is an IPS LCD, a variant on TFT LCD, where as Droid Incredible is AMOLED. Even though the overall winner here might be predictable, there were a couple interesting results. For instance when it came down to contrast, iPhone 4 and Motorola Droid X were neck in neck, 1097 and 1071 respectively, where as HTC Droid Incredible measured a staggering 39,373. Moreover Motorola Droid X has the most accurate colors out of the bunch; it offers 94 percent of the sRGB color gamut. On the other hand the iPhone 4 falls extremely short in color accuracy, with colors undersaturated by 36 percent, similar to iPhone 3GS. iPhone 4 did kill the competition when it came down to full blown 24-bit color experience and brightness measuring up to 536 cd/m.

Submission + - US manufacturers can't find skilled workers (nytimes.com) 1

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andy1307 writes: The New York Times has an article in the business section about the inability of US manufacturers to find workers with the right skills. During the recession, domestic manufacturers appear to have accelerated the long-term move toward greater automation, laying off more of their lowest-skilled workers and replacing them with cheaper labor abroad. Now they are looking to hire people who can operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate higher math proficiency than was previously required of the typical assembly line worker.

Makers of innovative products like advanced medical devices and wind turbines are among those growing quickly and looking to hire, and they too need higher skills.

Supervisors at Ben Venue Laboratories, a contract drug maker for pharmaceutical companies, have reviewed 3,600 job applications this year and found only 47 people to hire at $13 to $15 an hour, or about $31,000 a year. All candidates at Ben Venue must pass a basic skills test showing they can read and understand math at a ninth-grade level. A significant portion of recent applicants failed. In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.

Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

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rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Research Day: pick of the projects (pcpro.co.uk)

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nk497 writes: At a research open day, Intel has shown off a host of futuristic tech projects it's working on. Aside from Light Peak and a dispute finder system, Intel demoed a location awareness system for cars that uses headlights to instantly work out if you're too close to the car ahead of you — or the car behind you is following too closely. It also unveiled Oasis, which uses a 3D camera and projector to turn any surface into a smart touchscreen. Researchers also showed their progress in making domestic wireless energy a reality, and showed off tech like single-chip cloud computing and energy efficient scalable I/O.

Submission + - Pirate Party to host The Pirate Bay in parliament (piratpartiet.se) 1

Submitted by m94mni
m94mni writes: The Swedish Pirate Party has announced today that they will host The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish parliament, should they gain enough votes (4%) in the elections on September 19. The party plans to take advantage of parliamentary immunity to protect information freedom from being abused be the entertainment industry.
Security

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Businesses

Submission + - Intel Co-Founder Calls for Tax on Offshored Labor

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Intel co-founder and ex-CEO Andy Grove calls BS on the truism that moving production offshore to locations with much lower wages is a sound idea. 'Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs,' says Grove, 'we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's 'commodity' manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.' To rebuild its industrial commons, Grove says the U.S. should develop a system of financial incentives, including an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. 'If the result is a trade war,' Grove advises, 'treat it like other wars — fight to win.'

Comment Re:In other words (Score 1) 604

by JBdH (#32429974) Attached to: 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time

with wars. If you lose, you get exterminated.

Genocide is almost never the conclusion of a war. If genocide is involved war is mostly a pretext for the Powers That Be to able to start genocide. There was no extermination of Germans, Japanese or Italians at the end of WWII, nor was there at the end of WWI. German (and other) war mongerers had a good shot at exterminating all jews in Europe, but they did not wage a war against them. The genocide was possible because of the 'fog of war' that made it hard for moderate forces in and outside Germany to see what was going on, exactly, and - when they found out - had their hands full on with other business, i.e. fighting a war.

Comment Re:The List (Score 1) 469

by JBdH (#31143758) Attached to: The Worst Apple Products of All Time
The father of a friend of mine had an Apple /// and it never overheated. I doubt any Apple /// would ever overheat. We opened it once, the case was filled around 20 percent. Yes, he also had the vcr-sized harddisk 8Mb in size. This was expensive shit BTW. Also, how hot can a 3Mhz CPu run?

Comment Re:What GM food for hundreds of years? (Score 4, Informative) 766

by JBdH (#30750988) Attached to: Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn
No, it's not. With selective breeding you can never go outside of the scope of the accumulation of genetical variety available in the species your breeding with. You cannot breed dogs that produce poisonous bites by just interbreeding different type of dogs, the genetical material needed to be able to allow for a poisonous bite just isn't there. Theoretically dogs could in the long run, through spontaneous genetical mutation acquire such features, but that's outside the scope of breeding of dogs.
If you would start genetically modifying dogs with genetical material alien to dogs, say poisonous snakes, you actually could produce such poisonous dogs, given enough perseverence and research. Genetically modifying creatures is in essence engineering, working from the specfications of features of the creature up to a design. Selective Breeding is bricolage, using whatever is at hand to meet a goal that's changing along with the process.

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