Joking or not, he crossed a line there.

You are either a trollfag or retarded. It was meant as a joke and if you can't get the joke and it's you who should end up "naked, homeless, and eating out of garbage cans to survive"

"no one in China can afford a Mac"
You dopey bastard I hope your whole family ends up naked, homeless, and eating out of garbage cans to survive.

To Sun Wu-King and the fellow who claimed to agree with him:

The statement is OBVIOUSLY meant as a generalization and OBVIOUSLY meant to be sarcastic. GENERALLY speaking, based on a statistic like the average income in China a lower percentage of the populace can most likely afford a Mac. OBVIOUSLY the author wasn't being literal when he posted "no-one can afford one". So please, put your knee jerk political correctness back where it belongs. This site also had an article claiming that the USA bans foreign online gambling sites due to it's puritan roots. I am a US citizen. Was I offended? No. I did disagree with that assumption and thus replied that I disagreed, but I wasn't offended, just amused. If I can be amused by a slight jab at my nation simply meant to be sarcastic and/or humorous, I'd hope that SOMEONE in China can be also.

Or write something interesting, like Nick does.

Have you seen the Chinese made "not-a-real-BMW" X5? Its like an X5, but it's 1/2 the price. Available now.

i agree with Sun Wu-Kung

Whats this article about again?

I'm not the biggest Nick Farrell fan in the world, but come on - if you didn't recognize that as sarcasm, you wouldn't know humor if it walked up behind you and bit you on the ass.

He's specifically taking the piss out of stupid stereotypes, not perpetuating them!

It's not really a security risk. It was designed that way so the government hackers will have sufficient testing before they try it on the western world.

Why am I not surprised?
As usual this is what happens when the government takes control of things. In this case a totalitarian comunist one.

If you inquirer don't publish this...
You know what you are.

Feel free to delete the last 4 lines.

"A canny hacker could potentially recruit every computer in China into a botnet. "

Skynet comes to mind... or was it "the borg"? So ... Maybe he just found the real aim of the software.. setting up a "spying@home" network by the Chinese secret service..

The average salary in China is about US $2025 which is about the cost of a Mac. Apple have been unable to enter the market either there, or in Russia because it will not drop its prices. I can't see how saying that people in China are too poor to buy one is racist.

"No one in China can afford a Mac"? What a patronising racist prat.