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Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor 206

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 27, 2013 @04:25PM from the didn't-ask-for-her-license dept.

jones_supa writes "Another report from Apple regarding Chinese labor practices surfaces. After conducting its 2011 audits to 339 sites, the company found that cases of underage labor had jumped from 6 to 74 in one year. It was concentrated in a single circuit board manufacturer, which Apple says was willfully conspiring with families to forge age-verification documents. According to a new report, Apple didn't find any cases of underage workers at its final assembly suppliers in 2012, but it plans to continue going deeper into the supply chain to ferret out violators. We are talking about Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics Co., with which Apple has now terminated its relationship."

Comment Lego Mindstorms + NQC (Score 1) 962

by fantasticalmonkey on Thursday December 11, 2008 @04:20AM (#26072041) Attached to: Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds?

I currently run an afterschool club teaching robotics at a local school. Although this would require getting in some kit, NQC is a good language for them to get to grips with. It is a well defined and documented cut down version of C ("Not Quite C"). The bonus here being that once they have coded something, it can be downloaded onto a simple robot and run.

Watermarking to Replace DRM? 365

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 17, 2007 @07:24AM from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News.com has an article on the announcement of Microsoft and Universal to introduce watermarking technology into audio files. The technology could serve several purposes including tracking file sharing statistics and inserting advertisements into audio tracks. The article goes on to suggest that watermarking could possibly replace DRM in the near future."

Submission + - First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @06:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready to a while, but safety concerns kept 'em off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already.

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