Comment in the other news... (Score 3, Insightful) 88
Slashdot editors' memory is getting really short. This is essentially the same story already post just two days ago! And nothing new in this one.
Submission + - Chinese Moon Probe Flies by Asteroid Toutatis (shanghaidaily.com)
hackingbear writes: Chinese moon probe Chang'e-2 made a flyby of the near-earth asteroid Toutatis on December 13 at 16:30:09 Beijing Time (08:30"09 GMT), the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced today. The flyby was the first time an unmanned spacecraft launched from Earth has taken such a close viewing of the asteroid, named after a Celtic god, making China the fourth country after the US, the EU and Japan to be able to examine an asteroid by spacecraft. Chang'e-2 came as close as 3.2 km from Toutatis, which is about 7 million km away from the Earth, and took pictures of the asteroid at a relative velocity of 10.73 km per second, the SASTIND said in a statement. Chang'e-2, originally designated as the backup of Chang'e-1, left its lunar orbit for an extended mission to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrangian point on June 9, 2011, after finishing its lunar objectives, and then again began its mission to Toutatis this year. "The success of the extended missions also embodies that China now possesses spacecraft capable of interplanetary flight," said Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar probe program.
Submission + - China Quietly Unblocks Names of Its Leaders (washingtonpost.com)
hackingbear writes: One of the Chinese Web censorship’s central features has long been blocking searches for the names of top leaders to maintain their public images. Sina Weibo, China’s largest microblog service, unblocked searches for the names of many top political leaders in a possible sign of looser controls a month after new senior officials were named to head the ruling party, though a number of other senior leaders are still blocked on Weibo, including Premier Web Jiabao. That (President) Xi might be leading by example on softening Web censorship could be a promising sign for future reforms. It isn’t on a major shift, but it could portend one.
Comment Easy, follow setion 3 of the manual (Score 1) 62
which says:
1. put the device in your pant
2. setup wi-fi password
3. open your favorite browser
4. type www.xvideo.com
5. ???
6. more happiness!
Comment No, pay subscription instead (Score 1) 150
The subscription bundled with your computer has expired. You just need to pay up the subscription, download an update and all new virus will be detected and removed.
- Customer Support
Comment Re:Quarantined (Score 4, Funny) 148
Do you want to fix or erase him?
Submission + - 7 jailed in 'kidney for iPad' case in China (shanghaidaily.com)
hackingbear writes: In China, the whole team of medical staff and their brokers were sentenced to jail yesterday over their involvement in the case of a teenager who sold a kidney to buy an iPhone and iPad. He Wei, who organized the illegal transaction in April 2011, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Beihu District People's Court in Chenzhou City. The court added that the defendants had paid compensation worth more than 1.47 million yuan (~ US $237,000) to Wang. Ministry of Health statistics show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only 10,000 operations are performed each year.
Comment Simple solution (Score 1) 604
Register the car under an LLC, rent the car's time at $0.1/hour, and knock off the other, then hire a computerized lawyer to file for bankruptcy of the LLC. And then form another LLC
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 303
The stuff were handed out but not fulfilled. You need to eat 1 pound of wheat a day to feel full and not hungry, the government gave you 1 oz for next to free and nothing else. That was exactly what happened in China before opening. See the distinction?
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 303
Nobody said the necessities were ever fulfilled in China. Where did you learn your reading skill?
Comment Re:Eh? (Score 1) 150
Millions won't agree with you calling iPhone "crap". For the smuggling, the reason is that these products are made primarily from imported components; China makes the least valuable parts and does the assembling of the final products. The values added by Chinese companies are very low, like 10%. The imported components are not taxed because the products are for export. (This is also why China insists the trade deficit with the US is not that high since it is really the trade deficit between US and the rest of Asian countries. A point we have rarely heard in the US.) When the final products are sold within China, tariff have to be paid back for the imported values. So there are large incentive for smuggling.
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 303
In a world where artificial scarcity is created, one where you "must work in order to earn a living", there will be a huge unemployed and poor minority, or even majority.
That's because you haven't lived in a world where essential necessities and everything else were handed out (i.e. re-distributed). China used to be such a place; and they learned it wouldn't work. In such a society, very soon, nobody would want to work. Human beings are either too greedy to too lazy, unfortunately.
Submission + - Foxconn Sees New Source Of Cheap Labor: The United States (forbes.com) 1
hackingbear writes: Foxconn is planning to build manufacturing plants in the U.S., probably in cites such as Detroit and Los Angeles. “Since the manufacturing of Apple’s products is rather complicated, the market watchers expect the rumored plants to focus on LCD TV production, which can be highly automated and easier.” Nice to think they will be hiring herebut still a fascinating insult to U.S. manufacturing prowess, dontcha think – the idea that actually making Apple products is a little too complicated for Americans to handle (Or maybe they won't be able to hire enough workers sitting 8 hours a day screwing really tiny screws into iPhone 5; despite of the higher unemployment rate, laborers here may not be as desperate as the millions of migrant workers looking for work in China.) Foxconn chairman Terry Guo, at a recent public event, noted that the company is planning a training program for US-based engineers, bringing them to Taiwan or China to learn the processes of product design and manufacturing.
Comment In the other news (Score 1) 88
Thousands of cats ran away during Hurricane Sandy
Submission + - China Plans End to One-Child Family Planning Policy (wsj.com)
hackingbear writes: Pointing to China’s plummeting birth rate and numerous impending demographic imbalances in arguing that the one-child policy has outlived its usefulness, a think tank affiliated with China’s State Council issued a report saying the country should start loosening one-child restrictions in areas where controls have been strictest as a prelude to eventually doing away with child limits altogether by 2020. Chinese family planning authorities credit the one-child policy with preventing around 400 million births, but concerns over the economic implications of China’s rapidly aging population, a widening gender imbalance and growing rights consciousness have led increasing numbers of academics and regular citizens to openly question the policy, which is sometimes enforced in brutal ways. Citizens, however, express split views on this plan through online forums (in Chinese); some calling for faster termination of the policy while others argue the country still have too many people.
