He's been hosting Real Time since 2003 and had on dozens or hundreds of Senators, Representatives, influential thinkers, and authors who take their subjects very seriously. It seems far fetched to me to assume in all that time he hasn't learned quite a lot from the back and forth debate on his panel and talking with…

Thanks for the link. I can't say I'm surprised. For better or worse that article is now over five years old. China has been changing so fast that successfully concealing the truth from auditors could now range anywhere between nearly universal or considerably reduced as auditors have gotten wise and skilled to…

I read the link and the comments that follow and I it seems far more gray than black and white. At any rate, everyone has faults, just like Steve Jobs' abusive outbursts. Stanley McChrystal was a good general who was too candid for the tight-assed suits back home.

Foxconn increased wages last year after the wave of suicides. The problem isn't wages, because that's what keeps the workers from leaving the life-crushing factory. The problem is they work twelve hours a day six days a week, have to stand on the assembly line because it's considered more productive, can't talk while…

He doesn't describe himself as a journalist and he didn't go there as one. Have you listened to his story? [www.thisamericanlife.org]

He did and nobody he talked to in Hong Kong thought it would work either. You can listen to his story on NPR. His is the first forty minutes. The rest of the hour continues the discussion: [www.thisamericanlife.org]

There is a third option. Pressure Apple the way Americans pressured Nike to stop using sweatshop labor. Nike began doing meaningful oversight of factory conditions and practices. That caused reforms throughout the garment industry.

He's acknowledged he and we all use those devices. He wants to talk about what we should do to improve labor conditions there.

Please consider doing an article comparing the Apple and Foxconn situation today to the pressure Nike got over its sweatshops back in the 90s and how that public pressure caused reforms to spread to other fashion brands and suppliers.

China has done in 35 years what took the Unites States 100 years. So there's no reason their labor laws and enforcement can't catch up equally fast. We should apply pressure now and help so by 2030 their workers get eight hour shifts and are paid the overtime they deserve when doing twelve hours a day.

Foxconn isn't the sole problem. Nike wasn't the sole problem with sweatshops producing their clothes. But Nike is very profitable and well known. By protesting Nike, they reformed the conditions at their factories and other clothing brands joined them. Clothing factory conditions as a whole got much better as a…

Are you sure the video said 60 hours? Most reports say the workers do at least twelve hours a day six days a week. 72 hours. Consider how much you value your two day weekend, then imagine you only get half of that.

There are many articles based on interviews with multiple employees and sources. Gizmodo posted about the New York Times one a few weeks ago. A simple google search will find them for you.

I wish I could promote this ten times over.

Some parts of the model are in all likelyhood "right". Science can only give evidence that those parts are the closest approximation of reality, but that doesn't mean those parts are wrong. Some of them may in fact be right.

According to the FAA ultralights can only be used for personal, non-business or organization-related activities. Helping the birds was in coordination with an organization.

The first method seems like a good start. Then in my head it shouldn't be a pain to roughly apply motion tracking to an object or are of the frame by selecting it with a Photoshop Magic Wand-like tool and comparing it with the frame before and after. In the tracked area or object a script calculates from…

HP solved that with a slider hinge that brings it down to a drafting-table angle.

True but with a cell phone the alternative in a dim room is a fuzzy, detail-less picture.

A question for you. How selectively can the software correct color nowadays? Rather than changing the color for the entire frame, can you correct for example only pixels that have a green value between 92 and 140, red between 30 and 100, and not blue between 128 and 255?