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- pimpinainteasy, on 10/10/2007, -23/+133The good news is that you can't eat a hard-drive and kids don't play with them, but knowing China, they'll find a way to make them toxic and harmful to Americans.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+85There's more to it than just the technology transfer. Much more.
The thing is, like the article points out, harddisks now are pretty complex beasts, with firmware and custom circuitry. Harddisks are used in US military applications. See where I'm going with this? This is an opening for the Chinese to get an item complex enough that it can't be fully checked, and have it distributed throughout all high-technology applications in the US military. It's a golden opportunity for spyware, intentional bugs, and trojans. Paranoia? Yes, maybe, but then again...
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=829
...the US already did it to the Russians. - easy4lif, on 10/10/2007, -11/+63don't they already have most of our jobs. Pretty soon they gonna want to buy the white house . . . oh wait
- KingCook, on 10/10/2007, -9/+57You guys should be worried about china though ... you know how much money the USA owes China ...
- vault, on 10/10/2007, -9/+51If they do buy Seagate, I hope they don't ruin a great drive manufacturer. Watch them end up just like their Chery cars.
- shiftt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+42They can't buy the White House, that job is reserved for Saudi Arabia.
- enzomedici, on 10/10/2007, -7/+36The joke is on them. You think we're going to pay? lol.
- uberdesigner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
- pimpinainteasy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25For lucky best grammar....
- uberdesigner, on 10/10/2007, -6/+27I wish China didn't have an evil totalitarian government.
- zweben, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23No no, lead only kills Americans.
- cognizance8, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17so, the government is finally worried about the problem...
During Reagan's years, we lost all of our electronics industry to Japan, something you can never regain once you have lost it because the cost for research and development would make it impossible to catch back up. Now that the government sees that it might be a problem for them, they get worried. - flessa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Seagate owns Maxtor, fyi.
- Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I'll pass on the hard drives that are coated in lead and made by child labor
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13They can't buy it either. They already bought it years ago!
- deadlift, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I, for one, Digg you down for using an overused line.
- SoulDesigner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11that was a really interesting read, thanks.
- Duncan3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11The Chinese have over 1.3 Trillion in cash they need to spend VERY quickly before the dollar tanks. Maybe the US government should have thought ahead before they let corporations gut the school systems and manufacturing base?
- V1ncent, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15I don't want to see the demise of a good US drive maker like Seagate.
- Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Lead Is Like Our Kryptonite.
- insomnislacker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9They took 'er jobs!
- 4UIDigg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9aren't Seagate drives made in China already?
- smartalecks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I wholeheartedly agree; the Chinese really can't entirely be blamed for a lot of their problems. Sure, many of the problems are solely domestic (overcrowding) but even more are caused by other nations, especially the United States.
A lot of the corruption and abuse of the Chinese people is caused by economic exploitation by American companies such as Nike and Gap, who almost solely use sweatshop labour to manufacture their goods. If America wants to help change things in China, they should start by making such practices illegal instead of simply lightly taxing them (and the taxing is light, in comparison to what they save on manufacturing). Corruption in the Chinese government and present economic dependence and foreign pressure has made it nigh impossible for them to shut down such companies by themselves. - shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13New lead hard drives from Seagate, because I think everything in China is made of lead. Toothpaste, dog food, toys...Hard drives?
- uberdesigner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8China protects their economy/companies so much that a little of the same on our part wouldn't hurt much.
- chrisc262, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7the military could just buy from an american company, but it could just as easily be "sabotaged" - there are american spies too
- jonr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Great story, Junkyarddawg. The Cold War is stranger than any fiction.
- ThinkRad, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Um, Lenovo. That is all.
- demlog, on 10/10/2007, -9/+15The sneaky chinese. They steal US technology. They pirate everything. They are totalitarian. They are evil. They are enabling us to put ourselves into debt. They harvest organs. They are trying to poison our kids with toys. They kill thousands of tibetans every month. They oppress their people! They are like any evil empire and want only world domination, They are going to single handledly kill the ozone layer. Oh, and they unfairly displace millions of people whenever they want.
Look, they want one thing - they want to bring prosperity and stability to their people. They've lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in decades - they're gonna make mistakes. I've lived in China for a couple of years, there is certainly bad and good but one thing I have to say is that if the US had 4 times the number of people with 1/4 the arable land things would be different. Come on, give them a break, thought digg had a more worldly audience? Fear mongering is really unproductive.
When Bush first came into power there was all this fear mongering with the military plane collision and the spy scandals. Did they ever put that bastard behind bars? The US complains that they can't buy enough Chinese banks, who cares about harddrives? Worth reading about CIA+Tibet or Falung Gong.on Wikipedia. - overlord11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6shift you forgot Israel as well
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8yes, I know i misspelled, I accidentally refreshed the page and wasn't able to edit due to the comment system sucking balls.
- rarson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7No, enzomedici, the joke is on you and the rest of Americans who are completely blind to what will happen when these countries decide to cash out from America and our money is worthless. The Federal Reserve just recently printed and released $300 billion into the economy, more money from nowhere, which is going to drive prices up more and again increase the cost of living for Americans. And we wonder why Americans are working harder for less wages now than 25 years ago!
Somewhere along the line, America decided to ignore it's debt and just completely forget about it, and all this time it's just been delaying the inevitable, and making the eventual outcome (a recession) even worse when it finally happens (a depression). I give ourselves two more years, tops, before we're in our second Great Depression. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Most are made in Singapore. The rest are "technically" Chinese since they're from Taiwan.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8no.. it's usually taiwan and other asain countries.
- Arctirus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Please no, anyone but seagate! Why can't they screw up some already ***** manufacturer like maxtor?
- TheNik, on 10/10/2007, -8/+13China knows technology fairly well. Lenovo purchased IBM's ThinkPad division and they are still the same great products, honestly.
- fortressgame, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6should have thought of that before we decimated our school system
- forkqueue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Even if the US govt wanted to block the sale, the WTO wouldn't allow them to.
Honestly, I don't know what America is complaining about - America is built on free trade, but now suddenly they're against it because it seems to be working for everyone, not just them?
A world where everyone is trading instead of fighting sounds like a much better place to me.. - 16777216, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Shhhhhh, don't give 'em any ideas.
- LordSlashstab55, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8we need to stop selling businesses to foreign companies, but what can I do?
- subversive1, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Like this is a new worry? Just give it time they will steal the technology from some spineless,backstabbing prick that works for some U.S. conglomerate.
- dasunst3r, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9My bigger concern is watching Seagate's quality go down the drain because of this sort of sale.
- smartalecks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They didn't take our jobs, we exploited them financially and gave them our jobs.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Why worry about China when pollution will take care of it in a 10 year timeframe?
- command-tab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Just give them back Jack Bauer...
- flaterates, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Too late, we're powned. China owns our loans.
- dcsr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Kinda odd how the chinese company which wants to buy seagate isn't identified. Depending on the company, seagate maymay not be ruined if a purchase is made. I hope seagate doesn't get bought though.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5buy stuff made in America. Start making stuff right here in America.
- LoveWidescreen, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8If China buys Seagate, I'm switching to Western Digital or Hitachi. Period. Thankfully, Mr. Watkins said that "Seagate is not for sale", but he also admitted that if China makes a large enough offer the shareholders in their greed (face facts, that's what it is at its core) can still force a sale. Then, only the government could put a stop to it, which I don't expect to happen. Hopefully, we can create enough outrage to make this Chinese company back down.
- NateDiggle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6The U.S. Govt thinking ahead? Ridiculous!
Especially the ***** we have installed now. -
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