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In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (nyti->

Submitted by cpotoso
cpotoso writes "In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems."
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Comment: Re:Heavy Metal Solid Gear? (Score 1) 195

by fondacio (#31780962) Attached to: Kojima Predicts the End of the Console

For such a short summary, it sure contains a lot of errors. Kojima is not even a founder of Konami - the company was established in 1969, and Kojima was born in 1963. He only joined Konami's MSX division in 1986, when the company had already been making video games for a while. He did go on to become a VP for a while. And this error isn't even in the original article.

Comment: Re:The issue has been resolved. (Score 1) 94

by fondacio (#27965791) Attached to: New York Times Wipes Journalist's Online Corpus

Apologies for the reply to self, but I tried a few more links which did not resolve, but the current IHT landing page says it all: "The most recent IHT articles can now be found by searching NYTimes.com. We are in the process of moving IHT articles dating back to 1991 over to NYTimes.com. Thanks for your patience as we complete this transition."

Comment: The issue has been resolved. (Score 1) 94

by fondacio (#27965657) Attached to: New York Times Wipes Journalist's Online Corpus

Interesting. I got quite upset with the IHT-NYT change a while ago for exactly this reason: many bookmarks and links to news articles that I had made throughout the years evaporated overnight, making me regret not printing or saving the text of those articles when I had the chance. But apparently the NYT has fixed it now. Crampton links to two articles of a scoop he had a few years ago, and they resolve to a new page. And a bookmark that I have on the computer I'm working on now has the same thing, suggesting that they must have transferred their news archive to the new site.

The original bookmark: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/24/opinion/edcardenas.php now resolves to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/opinion/24iht-edcardenas.1.20395821.html

I'll try it later with my other bookmarks, but it seems like they have responded to the criticism well.

Comment: Re:wifi drivers, atheros and ralink (Score 1) 466

by fondacio (#26977451) Attached to: Which Distro For an Eee PC?
Thank you for this and obviously for the work you put into the EEE PC kernel, which I am using on my 901 in the unfortunately named Easy Peasy. I'd just like to add for information that even though my wireless card works fine on WPA and other networks, I have not been able to get LEAP or PEAP working, and therefore assume that something is still not working properly even with 1.7.1.1. People who need this kind of authentication may be better off getting a netbook with a different chipset.
Bug

U.S. cellphones can disable car keys, Nissan warns

Submitted by dosboss
dosboss writes "This article from Reuters warns not to keep your Nissan I-Key near your cell phone. From the article: 'The automaker is asking customers driving new models of two of its flagship sedans to keep their car keys and cellphones at least an inch apart to avoid disabling the "intelligent keys."' There is no description of which cellphone technology they are warning about."
AMD

AMD Phenom Announced, Single Chip Quad Core

Submitted by Antidigg
Antidigg writes "AMD has taken the wraps off their next generation quad-core CPU formerly code-named Barcelona, now known as the Phenom FX, Phenom X4 and Phenox X2 family of processors. Interesting notables are that the chip will have up to 4 HT links and 512KB of L2 cache per core, along with 2MB of shared L3 cache. In addition, word is that the memory controller has been tweaked for higher performance and support for 128-bit SSE instructions has been added as well. With a pair of Phenom quad cores, coupled with the just launched ATI 2000 series graphics, octa-core systems can be configured as well in what AMD is calling their FASN8 platform for enthusiasts."
Power

Hybrid Cars to Get More Realistic Mileage Ratings

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Skidge
Skidge writes "Wired is running a piece showing the drastically reduced mileage ratings for hybrids after the upcoming changes in gas mileage calculations by the EPA. While the cars themselves aren't changing, plugging these new numbers in to the equation makes a hybrid much less cost effective: "The two top-selling hybrid vehicles, the Prius and Honda's Civic Hybrid, will lose 12 and 11 miles per gallon respectively from their city driving estimates." The new values come from more realistic testing; the old, over-inflated ratings were higher in part because the cars idled a lot, allowing the hybrids to completely turn off their engines. The new ratings should be more in line with what hybrid drivers are actually seeing."

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