Don't ban imports, simply impose import duties on all manufactured items until it BECOMES competitive to build it in America. Either jobs return to America, or suddenly there is enough money to seriously fix the national debt. It's win win.

And to the people who say that it will ruin the economy, quite the opposite. The economy DOES NOT exist on Wall St, it exists when everyday people exchange the goods or service they produce for those of others. More people producing and then consuming in America simply makes the American economy better.

On top of that, on purchasing power terms, in most Asian countries the cost of an iPad is anywhere from 1-3 months salary for the average middle class person, yet it still sells like hot cakes. The argument that people won't buy an iDevice if the price goes up 3 fold if made in America is simply flawed.

Thank you. It actually occurred to me, but by then i had already hit submit.

To be fair, the Malaysian government is like that (Bigoted and racist). The general population are generally nice people.

The government is working overtime shoring up power and restricting freedoms because they lost their 2/3 majority in parliament for the first time in 50 years last election and they are close to being tossed out next election (which is soon).

The leaked draft bill is here:

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/75107593?access_key=key-22cz53lb62552asmdd43

The pertinent part is paragraph 18.

Well it really depends on the camera you buy. If you want one of those ultra slim compacts, that will fit in your pocket, a slim LiPo batt makes sense.

Buy for professional dSLRs where you depend on your camera for your work, the handgrip battery compartment comes with a magazine which will accept AAs.

The drawback is you need EIGHT AAs to do the same job of the regular battery, which is only slightly larger than a C cell.

How about using the physical card itself as the unique identifier?

- Using a laser, etch a unique 3D circular pattern on a predetermined area on the card.
- Upon use, the card is scanned by a rotating laser. This is sort of the same as reading data off a multilayered DVD, except the laser rotates, and the groves are not as fine as on a DVD, so it's more forgiving to abuse.

This makes it pretty much impossible to skim using any sort of swipe action scanner or 2D scanner/camera.

Come to think about it this is pretty much a punch card, except that the pattern is not apparent to the naked eye and 3 dimensional instead of 2...

Build an OTP function (Ala Google/Blizzard authenticator) into each iDevice that is ONLY eyeball readable into iTunes. The user only needs to read the field above and duplicate it in the field below as he confirms his purchase.