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Comment Re:Sony, you know North Koreans did this (Score 2) 250

Lol! A country that can't even feed its own people, let alone provide them with a computer, managed to hack a glorious, capitalist multinational corporation? You've exceeded your daily quota of cheeseburger consumption, Billy.

Hiring a handful of skilled Russian or Chinese hackers is easily doable for even the poorest nation-state.

Building your own nuclear weapons and ICBMs is much harder. Putting a satellite in orbit also. Wait, North Korea has managed to do all of the above.

Comment nah it's a dead cat bounce (Score 4, Insightful) 269

nostalgia only goes so far; you can't make a mass market product on nostalgia alone. They sell what, 50 million iphones every 3 months? A few thousand nostalgia seekers wouldn't even be pocket change inside the pants of a rounding error.

Plus the people seeking the mini hard drive storage capacity will be mollified in a couple years when iphone flash memory capacity reaches 256 - 500 GB.

Comment Re:Watson is a scientist (Score 1) 235

I will agree that western designed tests show that westerners do well at western institutions. Nearly any time someone creates a metric of something as difficult to define as intelligence, they create it in such a way that they're the top scorers. I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.

Except for some weird reason, those eastern orientals seem to do very well on these western tests of intelligence, even though they learn English as a second language! So much so that western universities are flooded with them and the administrators of the western universities are restricting oriental student numbers while handing out affirmative action slots to blacks.

Doesn't it strike you as odd that first generation immigrant oriental children score higher on the English (verbal) portion of the SATs than African-American children, whose families have been speaking English natively for umpteen generations? Or were these tests created specifically to favor western AND eastern students while somehow excluding blacks? (that would be quite a trick)

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