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Comment Licensing deals ... (Score 2) 63

The licensing deals provide Chinese automakers additional revenue amid domestic price wars. Ready-made Chinese EV chassis and software can save billions of dollars and years of development time, industry experts told the publication.

As long as they are license manufacturing chassis, plan to replace the software with domestic products and not buying knock down kits from China that should work out well for everybody ... except Americans, they'll be stuck with gigantic pickup trucks that start at 80.000 USD and underwhelming and overpriced ICE powered passenger cars due to protectionist import restrictions.

Comment Re:Compliance risks? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Not even remotely true. I work for a software company that has both a global SaaS and software business. We don't sell any data, private or not, about our customers or their software usage to anyone whatsoever. That's just not our business model. We make money selling software and services, not selling your data or data about you.

Despite this, we spend an extraordinary amount of time and energy on GDPR compliance. GDPR is about much more than how you can or can't sell data. It's also about how you manage and store that data even if only ever the owning customer (and us as the vendor) have access to it.

Unfortunately for every one of you there are at least ten others that behave the exact opposite way.

Comment Recycling? (Score 5, Funny) 85

If the U.S. recovered less than 1% of the germanium currently mined and processed but not recovered from U.S. mines, it would not have to import any germanium to meet industry needs.

Unfortunately this is not an option for the US because 'recovering' Germanium is just another way of saying 'recycling' and that is both 'woke' and equivalent to practicing communism. Plus, Trump doesn't like Germany much so there's that too.

Comment Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations ... (Score 1) 48

Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

If it's a free to use product the they can knock themselves out, they have to fund it somehow. If it's on a product I paid good money for they can expect two things (1) a class action lawsuit, (2) a whole lot of people will never buy another Amazon product again.

Comment Re:iPhone's dominance? (Score 1) 82

Also, not aware of or don't care how fat they are.
Not all Americans. Just about the same percentage that own iPhones. No correlation there.

Cool, I've found another angry embittered Android user ...

Not exactly much of a challenge.

True, but I'm collecting the full set, one specimen of each subspecies.

Comment Re:iPhone's dominance? (Score 4, Funny) 82

Its an American bank asking an American company in an American newspaper about their market position in America, which last checked was around 62%.

It wasn't talking about global market share, which is what you quoted.

Oh, right I forgot that Americans are mostly unaware of the existence of the rest of the universe.

Comment AI searches (Score 1) 65

60% of Americans Use AI for Search, Only 37% for Workplace Tasks, New Poll Finds

AI searches are generally better than the normal Google searches but the AI answers are still pretty full of shit for less mainstream topics. If you are searching for anything niche like medieval history, latin inscriptions, details on WWII aircraft engines, rare diseases ... the AI will very confidently serve you up a big steaming pile of complete bullsiht. If they ever fix that problem Google had better watch out because their AI sucks balls.

Comment Re:Espionage (Score 1) 29

the Chinese will eventually solve their launcher issue

It's been 15 years since the first Falcon 9 launch, and 10 years since the first Falcon 9 came back to earth and landed. When you say "eventually" just how long are we talking about here? As another commenter said, just wait until Starship is launching stuff into orbit. That will be even more disruptive than Falcon 9.

About 25 years ago the Chinese were flying re-hashes of reverse engineered Soviet fighter designs from the 1960s. They then license produced the Su-27 and developed it through several variants until today where the J-16 is the best Su-27 derivative flying with its AESA radar (the Su-35 has a PESA) and much better missiles than any the Russians have. From there they went to building 5 gen and 5.5 gen fighters and now they are building 6th gen fighters that have the US seriously worried. How long will it take the Chinese to overtake you in reusable launch vehicle technology? Dunno, but I'm pretty sure it that if they put their mind to it it will take them far less time to catch up with the US in reusable launch technology than the 25 years it took them to catch up with you in bleeding edge fighter design because the Chinese state will put it's entire portfolio of resources into the effort. China also is in a very different place today technologically than it was in 2000 and so is the USA. The US graduates 700.000 stem graduates per year, China graduates 4.000.000 stem graduate per annum and the Trump administration is currently taking an axe to the H-1B visa system and is hard at work demolishing the US university system which is the beating heart of any US ambitions to dominate high tech. I'm absolutely certain China will do nothing benefit from their manpower advantage, the commitment of the Chinese state to make these things happen and the utter idiocy of the Trump administration. Now go home, nurse your hurt fee fees and mod me down to 'Flaimbait', I genuinely do not care.

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