Are you kidding me?
The USA started all of this with their illegal invasion of IRAQ.
Those dispossessed Baathists eventually became ISIS, with lots of funding from the Saudis and training from the CIA.
The USA are the thug arm of the financial elite.

Sorry, but you have no clue.
These level of failure rates are a nightmare, as they are next to impossible for engineering to detect.
What do think is a reasonable amount of battery/charger circuit combos to test. 100, 1000, 10000. Even at 10000, it was unlikely to be detected.

How on earth will anyone tell they have a fixed phone? Will it have a big S on it for safe. Or be a different colour? Or will you have to find some tiny serial number and look it up?
I do feel sorry for Samsung, as you can test hundreds of samples and not see a problem, but when you sell millions it only takes a low failure rate with a big consequence to have major repercussions.

Yep. BGAs are difficult to rework, but perhaps the real blame for this can be aimed at the EU when they forced the electronics industry to transition to lead free solder 15 years ago, while not touching other industries, like car batteries.
Solder used to be 60%tin 40% lead. Lead was a great modifier to give ductility to solder joints. By going to almost 100% tin, solder joints are now more brittle, thus micro BGAs suffer more from thermal expansion fractures and shear fractures from physical drops.
The crazy thing, is the transition, which cost the industry Billions, was based on unproven science that tin/lead solder leached in ground fill rubbish dumps. It doesn't unless you have acid. But here we are today, stuck with a EU mandated change that increases energy to manufacturer and decreases reliability (see tin asker problem as well).

American Culture seems to be strongly influenced by 'every man for himself'; or more subtly, your destiny is made by you and the effort you put into life. If you happen to be lazy, then suffer you.

I think there are three levels of maturity in a people and society:
1- Dependency (Child Stage)
2- Independence (Late Teen Stage). ie I can do it without anyone's help
3- Interdependence (Mature Stage) we all need to work together.

The USA seems to have gotten stuck between 2 & 3, while Europe/Canada/Australia went on to stage 3.
ie, We have strong social support systems such as good basic free medical care, good basic social security services, humane prisons with some attempt to reform.
While I as a tax payer don't like supporting lazy people, I think it is the lesser of two evils. ie having destitute people resort to crime with all the associated costs.
So I think the article is right, but culturally I don't see the USA ever changing within my lifetime.

Maybe the DNC can add Assange to that list soon.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Fine, don't floss:
but when you have a conversation with me, and you a piece of rotting meat stuck in your mouth for days on end, I'm taking 10 paces back.

Have made a shielded room, and done plenty of EMC in others; it is super hard to keep cell signals out. The article looks like he has glass windows and is not underground. With an EMC room, you need conductive foam braid on the the door seals, and soon as you crack the door, you get cell coverage. Even the wiring has to have filters, as the radio waves can get in and out via wiring, plumbing etc. glass windows would need fine copper mesh. More likely he has a jammer installed, and and just told everyone it's done by mesh.

As an Australian, we did away with mag stripe many years ago.
For transactions under $100, most cards/retailers use contactless 'pay wave' transaction using RFID.
A pin is required for larger transactions.
Signatures are not used anymore
For larger retails, the transaction takes about 2 seconds; for smaller retailers still using dial up, it takes 10 seconds.

I drive around sunrise and dusk, so it had trouble with lighting from low sun angles.
It also would get confused with lane merging / diverging markings and also if there were weathered patches of line markings.

Thanks for the informative reply.
A lot more diversity than I would have guessed other wise.

I hear that in America, if you try to sell unpasteurised milk, they send a SWAT team. USA, USA.
In Australia we have to buy it as bath milk... And as you say, it doesn't go off like pasteurised milk, but starts naturally fermenting and taking on yogurt like flavours.

I have to agree with you.
As Hylandr says below.

The trouble is, disagreement is now seen as hate?

*this*
I've driven a tesla with autopilot for a week, and thought it was an undercooked dangerous feature. The number of times it gave up auto steering because it got confused and the only warning you get is a subtle bong with sometimes sub second reaction times to stop an indecent made turn it off altogether.
I agree with consumer reports. It should be disabled.