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Comment: Re:Good luck getting the protestors to support tha (Score 2) 744

Please mod parent up, this is the most relevant information: Chinese manufacturing represents 2% of the cost of an Ipad. i.e 10$ for the $500 Ipad, whereas Apple profits represent 30% !

It would be fairly trivial for Apple to improve working conditions in China.

Comment: Re:Okay this may get me modded down to infinity, b (Score 1) 589

by HuguesT (#38735880) Attached to: Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues

Do you have a reference for a serious study of this ?

To "support" your argument, my mother-in-law was a university professor in biology. She was for a while giving genetics tutorials where students would determine their blood group and comparing it to their parents. Sure enough she had to stop doing this because several students found out that way that their blood group was not compatible with being an actual offspring of their parents, which led to some trouble. However I do not have any statistics regarding how many students were involved.

Comment: Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... (Score 2) 463

by HuguesT (#38735792) Attached to: June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps

From memory early IP adopters like many Ivy League universities have a A domain. E.g MIT owns the 18.x.x.x domain. I doubt MIT requires 16 millions of IP addresses.

On the other hand, they probably would have to reengineer their network architecture if they had to free a good chunk of their 18.x subnets. Which would be cheaper? Converting to ipv6 or hang on to part of their old A domain ?

Also there is work to do in the DNS servers code so that A block can be cut up. This is not a simple as it seems.

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