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deadfishon The US economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.9 percent in Q1

Whose economy?

deadfishon U.S. announces first criminal charges against foreign country for cyberspying

US Press Release - 'China are the bad guys and don't forget it!'

deadfishon Apple, Be Afraid: China's Xiaomi Going Global

When I lived in China I owned one of the first generation xiaomi phones. It was charging on my desk and suddenly it started smoking. I quickly unplugged it and found all the around the usb port was melted. I posted it on Chinese twitter and it went quite viral. Then they kept badgering me to take it down and gave me a refund.

So unless they have improved their product quality and their testing I don't think Apple have anything to worry about.

Having said that it seems people like disposable goods these days as long as they are cheap...

deadfishon Be first to get a Nexus 5

Nice! I will try it too.

deadfishon Why are Americans giving up their citizenship?

Guys over the pond... time for another tea party? 'taxation without representation'? ...'taxation without services'?

deadfishon Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux

I am keen to set up an emulation box to play MAME - Gamecube or greater. I am not very knowledgeable on hardware... do you think this or the ODROID-XU would be better suited to the job? My understanding is that most emulators rely predominately on the CPU rather then the GPU, unlike most PC games.

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph...

deadfishon ArkOS for the Raspberry Pi

Exciting project. Needs to have some more apps before it can be adopted by the masses. We need a platform that is as simple as an iPhone but designed simply to be 'the personal cloud platform'. It should offer the security the freedom box promises and still offer solutions to less serious problems like torrent downloading and music streaming.