Recent content by hopiamani

@ allenpan Copying and improving upon is different from copying and selling under the same brand (aka counterfeiting). You are mixing and idea of patents and copyright with piracy.

Theoretically "sprinkling" can be done in any industry.... The Chinese should realize the poor enforcement of intellectual property right discourages innovation among their own citizens which therefore harms their own economy.

STravisManufacture not design. If the US and Japan pulled our manufacturing out of China and placed them in another country. The factories and equipment left behind in China would quickly become obsolete and so would the tech they would try to produce.We could probably debate this ad nauseam...

stingstangFunny thing, that claim that China will be behind us for several decades. I just read a book published in 2010 that they were catching up with us so quickly that by the end of THIS decade, we're going to be behind them in finances, computer technology, and robotics. They have twice the...

Maybe the reason they get "caught" or fingered as the source of attacks so often is because they are bad at it? Next headline: "Australian National University hacked by suspected Chinese hackers"

gekko668Looks like several states are trying to milk the e-retailer but in the end the retailer is going to pass it on to the consumers. And consumers can pass it on by not buying. How much in sales tax revenue are they really hoping to get? Do they really think that was the solution to the...

lol I'd love to pick up his $86,000 Gamestop giftcard

Whether they get good hackers or script kiddies will all depend on the pay whether it is "competitive" or not I pray that they realize this

Great glad I just bought their mouspad... unless...

I wonder if when the new price point hits another "shortage" would occur

My dad thinks it's bad fashion to wear a suit without a wrist watch, but I just use my cell phone as a time keeper when I go to work everyday. Even at a black tie function I went to recently I still didn't wear a watch.

terrible. I hope some of the defective human beings making those videos land in jail.

I support anything that lowers the price of my favorite hobby

Next up radioactive poisoning! (Yeah that's subtle) The new KGB is called the FSB

back_by_demandThere will likely always be physical media, but when you load it to the hard drive you register it with the Xbox Live service and if you tank your HDD your registered purchase can be re-downloaded.Exactly.Like.Steam.Even if not, removing physical media and not having packaging...