Well said!! End free trade with non-free countries.... or try communism, it's great! Please choose while you still can.

--edfardos

This sounds to me more like savvy business wheeling and dealing. It's no different than what the Indians, Japanese or Koreans would do.

Killing the cpu just means they have to transfer the drive to a new laptop in order to steal all your information? That's one whole extra step! That's innovation. --edfardos

SciFi is circling the corporate toilet bowl by cost cutting. Normally I'd be bummed, but this thread shows an overwhelming amount of good content which is freely available. I think I'm done paying the corporate no-talent-ass-clowns money for a bad signal with worse programming.

To the no-talent-corporate-ass-clowns reading this, you might want to put this year's cost-cutting bonus in the bank, because I'm pretty sure it'll be your last.

--edfardos

All you need is an 8-digit number to "claim" your support agreement! that's it! Just start making up random numbers if you need support for anything, or more importantly lists of customers, their locations, what they have. It's a marketing goldmine! What an epic failure. Does Oracle do business with the government? Thanks but no thanks. --edfardos

Why do we play this economic game and abide by all the free trade rules when our opponents openly cheat and manipulate the market to their own advantage? Simply end free trade with non-free countries. India is obviously in a grey area with widespread corruption, but their people and market forces are somewhat in charge. Communist China? forget it, why even play the game if you know they're going to cheat (manipulate currency, embargo, subsidies, etc)? Yes, the cost of a toaster will go from $10 to $15, but if you don't have a job, you can't even afford the $10 blender.

--edfardos

I've been trying to think of ways to describe how capitalism in the United States has degraded to Corporate Fascism. This is a fantastic example of corporate fascism -- something citizens can relate to; and these are just the corporations which got caught....

-edfardos

HP is incorporated in Delaware, not California.

Don't forget most smoke-detectors have a status LED, so for everyone who selected "none", you're probably in danger! --edfardos

Since it's legal, what's the cheapest gps transmitter you can make that would attach to a police car. Knowing the location of your law enforcement officers at all times could be a huge public benefit - and now it's totally legal.
Law enforcement tracking - there's an app for that!
--edfardos

Learn Mandarin or the native language of communist totalitarian countries in which the United States has free trade agreements. It's the new slavery, we'll need people to manage it in our IT environments of the future.

--edfardos

Cool, it sounds like the administration offices are done, are the rows of portable buildings in place yet for the students and educators? --edfardos

Carly used to preach "character and capability" dogma BS during her tenure. It's interesting how that CEO list is sorted in order starting with the most character and capability. --edfardos

The flow of money is mostly one way also. Things wont change until that is disrupted, and I assure you they are monitoring that flow. That being said, I don't think any of this is relevant while Dell circles the corporate toilet bowl. Thanks for posting the chat - great stuff! --edfardos

They were warned by their own antenna engineer that this was an issue.

http://gizmodo.com/5587815/top-apple-engineer-warned-jobs-about-antenna-problems