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Comment Speaking of Apple... (Score 4, Interesting) 107

One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone's screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing more than 10,000 iPhones a day.

"The speed and flexibility is breathtaking," the executive said. "There's no American plant that can match that."

Comment No one likes a smart ass but... (Score -1, Offtopic) 63

by sharkbiter (#59811334) Attached to: The Word from Wuhan

Is this what the current crop of Bernie supporters wants for our society? This fascinating article describes life under communism in wonderful detail."Oh, but this is communism, not our soon to be implemented perfect version of socialism!" I hear the young brown-shirts say... "The reeducation camps and high taxes will create a perfect society interspersed among rainbow farting unicorns!"

(Okay, I'm ready to be modded down now.)

Comment A wake up call for the twitted crowd. (Score 1) 202

by sharkbiter (#59147460) Attached to: Here's What Would Happen If You Tried to Storm Area 51

You don't have any organizers, just a Facebook post saying "be there".
You don't have any idea what it's like to traverse a desert but you'll find out the hard way.
You don't understand logistics (food, toilet, water, first aid, materiel).
You don't know what the availability of the above logistics will be.

You're just going to pilgrimage to a stinkin' desert and hope everything turns out okay. I hope there's millions of you!

You have my blessings! Welcome to Darwinism 101.

Comment What I see going on here. (Score 1) 24

When the Internet started out, it was a place for everyone. Now we see what's happening when an "It's for the children" campaign is run on an unscrupulous advertiser who probably got more than the fine back by collecting data on future citizens and selling it.

What I see is that the Internet isn't for everyone and that the "precious" children should be banned from it until they reach an age where they can understand what it is they're getting into.

Unless a separate Internet can be put into place with a small cadre of gatekeepers to ensure that the kiddies aren't abusing it, I really don't see a solution.

How to enforce it? I don't know. Look at how Fecesbook started out: You had to be an adult to sign up, but as time went on, the age of joining decreased. At the height of its celebrity, a large portion of children lied about their age in order to get into the hype.

"I'm finished!" - Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

Submission + - How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: In May 2017, dozens of Americans came forward with claims that their identities had been used, without their consent, in a campaign to inundate the Federal Communications Commission with public comments critical of the Obama-era policy. Some told reporters that they’d never heard of net neutrality

The logs, obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, document in exhaustive detail each time an organization such as CQ—the advocacy side of the company—submitted a comment using the FCC’s API system. What’s more, they include the IP addresses of the uploaders themselves, as well as timestamps that record, down to the millisecond, precisely when floods of comments came pouring in from any given source.

Comment When your business model is going down the tubes.. (Score 1) 203

by sharkbiter (#57716888) Attached to: Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking

Find a big target and litigate. Lose that case and have it reopened at a higher level. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find a backer for a cash injection, find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find another backer for another cash injection. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hopefully, after much litigation, the result will be that they go out of business permanently.

Just think of the wonderful people behind all those SCO lawsuits and how they tenaciously pursued their "Intellectual Property".

Submission + - Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: The Federal Communications Commission chairman slammed wireless carriers on Tuesday for failing to quickly restore phone service in Florida after Hurricane Michael, calling the delay "completely unacceptable."

But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's statement ignored his agency's deregulatory blitz that left consumers without protections designed to ensure restoration of service after disasters, according to longtime telecom attorney and consumer advocate Harold Feld.

Submission + - They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu (space.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: The suspense is over: Two tiny hopping robots have successfully landed on an asteroid called Ryugu — and they've even sent back some wild postcards from their new home.

The tiny rovers are part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return mission. Engineers with the agency deployed the robots early Friday (Sept. 21), but JAXA waited until today (Sept. 22) to confirm the operation was successful and both rovers made the landing safely.

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