SEAGATE Disk Drive Fraud

I would guess this is already known, certainly by the suppliers of Seagate and other brands of disk drives.
Significant amounts of scrap drives , and re-furbished drives are being sold in China as new product.

The fraud goes like this, serial numbers are removed from drives that are scrapped off, or returned for re-furbishment.
The scrap drives still inside warranty are returned back to Seagate, who provide a cleaned and refurbished product from stock.
These are then shipped back into China where the labels are removed , and new "fake" labels are applied in their place, why use a dirty drive when you can get a clean one for free, Right?

Seagate are partly responsible for this, by not having a secure way of marking the drives, that are re-furbished.

Today I saw an operation in China with a barcode scanner linked to the serial number validation page at the seagate website.
In fact you can take any seagate model number , and serial number , and as long as the serial number is valid it will validate many seagate part numbers.
so for example i can take a drive ST318406LW manufactured in 2001, and as long as i have a valid serial number from 2007 for say "ST3146855LC" seagates latest 15k.5 146GB drive, I can pass off the 36Gb drive as a 146GB 15k

These are NOT small distribution operations , but groups feeding back massive mounts of fake inventory back into the Seagate Supply Chain as new product.

How is Seagate protecting their customers?, they are not.
I am now the proud owner of "new" scrap seagate drives sold from the supply chain.

Quality Assurance WTF!!!!(1)

O.K , I decided that I need to get back to the Quality Assurance nature of the blog and stick to things that are really funny.
Here is a picture of a worker in a China lighting factory.




It appears that the Q.A department decided that the tooth washers, should be flat, the same as all the other washers in the Factory.
After all there is no point in have a toothwasher that has the teeth sticking up, it could be very problematic

(for the non-engineers amongst the readers , a toothwasher MUST have the teeth sticking up, so that the teeth bite into the surfaces that need to be locked together, hence a normal washer will not do as it is NOT a locking device ), so this worker flattening the teeth is actually a major problem.

PORN FILMS FOR PANDAS

Well here's something new:
The panda research centre, which actually does some sterling work with pandas trying to keep them off the endangered list.
Has a problem...
The female panda is only fertile once a Year for 24 hours, any other time she can be quite bad tempered if approached.
This creates other problems ,such as frustrated male pandas, and as one Chinese research scientist put it " poor sexual technique by the male pandas"
The human solution to such a problem is obvious, loads of porn and counseling sessions.
Finding solutions as only they can , the Chinese have produced a range of "educational videos" for the male pandas.

Each of the male pandas gets an LCD monitor by their cage, where they can watch other pandas engaging in the things pandas do when the lights are out.
All this is of course conducted under adult supervision to ensure that the panda fully understands the complexities of what they have been doing as a species for tens of thousands of years.

The Scientist goes on to say " That after watching the videos, most of the male pandas Sexual technique improves, and they have seen a marked improvement in the number of female pandas being fertilized"

Well there you go then, it has been scientifically proved watching loads of porn improves your technique. Well for pandas anyway.


Remember you saw it here first.

NO!!, You Cannot Sleep Under My Truck

Well, these 3 will not be having a happy Christmas.
Here we have a double homicide.
But What is really frightening about this is the fact that the driver is standing (next to 1 body), whilst he is calmly making a phone call.
Now That's a complete bastard for you. Personally If it were me , I would be throwing up what with the thought of just killing 2 people.
(Yes they were both dead as the wheels of the truck managed to pass over both of them.)
Just a handy tip if you happen to think you want to drive in China.

If you see an accident PAY ATTENTION, normally the police leave the victim, Dead or Alive In Exactly the place they found them.

Recently there was a hit & run I a major city, nothing uncommon, apart from the fact that the police & the TV crew left the body in the road (at night , with no street lights), the body was them promptly run over by a number of other Vehicles. Whilst the police sat in their car & watched and the film crew filmed it for broadcast on the nights news.
The police then did the drivers of the said Vehicles for reckless driving. It would be frightning to think that perhaps the person was not dead the first time, but Just unconscious.

Quality Assurance in China

We really must get round to doing some Q.A posts.
The problem is , trying to show shit without actually showing those Major brand names that are 'supposed' to be selling you Quality goods.
and I really must dig out the picture of the Inspection staff of a major Inspection house , getting a blow job which was kindly paid for by the factory he was supposed to be inspecting goods at.

What's on Telle, In China(1)

Believe it or not there are some really good educational programs on.
This one is about Elementary "switch mode power supply design."



Basically the Chinese text is stating that the voltage is about 380Volts, which is why the guy is wearing gloves.
(good job he's only using metal tweezers as a pointer then!!!!)



and a better look at the tweezers.


Well I think it's time to get some exercise.




now this is what i'm talking about.



I'm sure I recognise that program location.

you could ask what is funny about this:
Well this is supposed to be a communist country with very strict censorship.
The funny thing is that people are stupid enough to believe that is the case!!.

Now where is that damned mountain.

A Touch Of Class

A friend , well actually a factory owner that I know, has decided to go into the bathroom business.
He has is of the opinion that there is a big market for stylishly done bathrooms.


Well based on this I think he is right.




I remember a very funny scene in the film "war of the roses" , about a couple fighting for divorce.
where the husband , goes into the kitchen to piss on the fish that his wife is cooking for her friends.

Well In China you can.....



Unfortunately you cannot see the fish too well swimming about under the glass of the mens latrine, I was always told not to tap on the glass of a fish tank because the fish do not like it.
I wonder how they feel in this situation.