It's nonsense to call this is "a 50 cent item".

A skein of a good quality yarn is gonna set you back several bucks.

I remember, back in the day, buying (or being gifted) some iPod Socks. At $30 for a set of six, they seemed a bit overpriced... but they were occasionally handy to have.

I can't imagine why anyone would spend 6-8 times as much for a single sock - even one with a strap.

OH! FINALLY!

Sheesh, it's taken me two freakin' days (and a dupe) to get your joke!

This.

Why have phone numbers not devolved into something similar to IP addresses? Then one could use an 'enhanced' DNS service to map real names (and aliases) to an actual number.

THIS will end well...

At least unsold cars might be moved to somewhere else if there's a perceived demand somewhere else. They might even be exported depending on the sorts of trade deals that the country has internationally.

Real estate by its very nature is fixed into place. If there's no value in it in-place, then the only real value is the proceeds from dismantling and carting-off whatever's there. If there are environmental regulations involved in that process, or if the materials have no reusable or recyclable value, then the real estate can have a negative value, ie, it's a liability exceeding its benefit.

China seems to be speed-running three centuries' worth of social and economic problems in under a hundred years, and without shaking-out or solving prior problems as thoroughly as other societies have done before the next set of problems come along. Prior unresolved problems may well contribute additional aggravation to new problems too. China's GDP per-capita is somewhere between 1/5 and 1/2 of American GDP per-capita, but I seriously doubt that it's proportionally less expensive to produce electric cars there versus anywhere else. Sure, it will be somewhat cheaper due to reduced wages, but not so much cheaper that the average Chinese could afford at the same rates as the average American could. That poses a real problem when there's the sort of overproduction that a centrally-managed economy enables.

... directed Sam to scrape 4Chan instead. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

Well, see, in Russia they always end Rocky IV right after Ivan Drago kills Apollo Creed.

The cited article says two in five claim to have been hacked. Sounds like a reasonably credible allegation.

Today, the robot fell.

Tomorrow, I imagine its main developers are likely to fall out of some windows.

Why would anyone store their primary banking credit card info on a hackable electronic device? I have a low limit card through a bank that I do no other business with. Hack it and charge maybe $1K before it limits or you get caught. Not attached to an account with a balance, so nothing to drain.

Heck, why stop there?!

Any self-respecting Slashdotter would DESIGN AND BUILD THEIR OWN TABLET! And fork their own custom Linux distro to run on it!