These would go great on electric cars. They wouldn't be enough to charge the batteries for putting the car in motion, but they would be enough to power sensors, displays, entertainment systems.

And cars stay out in the sun a whole lot of time.

Yeah, imagine pie in the sky social systems that treat people with respect like they are educated and well meaning. Reality check, in Europe we are now invaded by illiterate muslim barbarians that come here for the free money, want Sharia and reproduce as fast as nature allows. Political correctness made us incapable of defending ourselves, we don't stop them at the border, we just submit like sheeple to be slaughtered by Allahu Akbar yelling jihadists. Our civilization is going extinct, a new dark age begins now and who knows how much is going to last.

Yes, I'm a fucking idiot, thanks. Aside from that, interesting example you gave. So this muslim asshole has a history of crime, is sentenced to prison, yet, he is released by the groveling weaklings so he can actually kill a few innocents. Typical for the self defeating attitude in the Western Europe, right now.

If this were in Europe, it would be: "30 people shot by 2 gunmen for religious reasons. Police is negotiating with them". I'm European. Most of us are groveling weaklings. We will go extinct. Barbarians will destroy our civilization. Too much socialism will kill us. USA, you must keep your guns, you must defend yourselves! I like Texas, people carry some balls over there.

The World lives in peace until it suddenly doesn't. Before 9/11 the possibility that some weird psychos that nobody knows about would fly jets into WTC was un-conceivable to most people. Maybe the same way that an EMP attack is now... Think how pleased the islamic beardos would be if they could brick all the UK civilization in a second. Then, without any cars, any TV, any interwebs and Facebook, with medical services turned to shit, there will be a lot of time in the day to pray, Allah likes.

Are you a Westerner? Are you Chinese paid by the Communist party or Foxconn to make China/Foxconn look good on the internet? (if you're actually genuine, sorry for saying this, but it's a real possibility) I believe all Foxconn workers that will talk to the Western investigators will be required to say that everything is great. Else, worse things than just being fired will happen to them. Do you think this will happen? I live in an ex-Communist country, so I have experienced party propaganda first hand.

Oracle is worse than CentOS as far as I'm concerned. Oracle leeches Red Hat and charges for it! You do know that Oracle Linux is Red Hat with another label, just like CentOS is Red Hat with no label.

Tell the CIO that if you use CentOS, you cannot be fully responsible for the security and eventual problems on the systems. Ask him to sign a piece of paper where he assumes responsibility in case support is needed. Tell him also that any major application (like Oracle) is not certified on CentOS. Again, ask him to assume responsibility for running applications on an OS that is not certified. Say that you'll be happy do it and let him collect the laurels _if all goes well_ but if not, you just can't be hold accountable because your professional opinion is that you need support.

They have announced recently that they will double the salaries for workers in Foxconn factories in China. Ok, so that got everybody to calm down, Apple and the Chinese workers as well. They actually don't intend to double those salaries. They launch this rumor (let's call it a Smoke Grenade) that they will close factories in China. After they let it simmer for a while they'll say that to keep factories open, they can't double the workers salaries but give only a 10% increase at most. Nobody will say anything else than "thank you for letting us keep our jobs".

What if they would open source the software and offered rewards for bug discoveries? That would reveal bugs quite fast, but boo hoo they would lose the "competitive edge". Couldn't they differentiate from competition with something else than software?

Wait, you moved to China from US? How's the freedom there? Did you keep your US citizenship? If yes, fuck you. How about you don't have that protection, see if you enjoy China so much. I live in an ex-communist country. I know communism.

I resent the association between war and Open Source. It's bullshit.