maestro64

It will be interesting to see how this eventually plays out. As it has been discussed many times over. Developer get a lot of value for their 30% they pay to have their apps in the App Store, there is many things Apple handles on behalf of the developers which they do not need to worry about. Then add in all the free developers tools and support they get, I know developers pay a licensing fee, but it is not much. 

If Apple is now forced by law to allow developer to process their own payments and not give Apple a cut. Then also allow developer to have their own store, Apple need to start charging developer for all the tool and support. I think Developer will find out real fast what the real cost are, Not only will they have to pay apple for all their developer resources they will still have to pay payment processor as well as some sort of web hosing service to maintain their downloads.

This is like tell every store in the country they can not bar someone from placing their product on your store shelves, and letting the consumer pay the seller directly.

Yep we never shut down our Mac desk top, it only goes to sleep at the end of the day, it can be months before a restart happens. I do from time to time run maintenance utilities to clean up logs files and such and make sure everything is working fine. I have done this for years with no ill effects. We run a 2012 Imac 27" to give you and idea and only had to replace the HDD because it start to die, replaced it with a 2TB SSD and now the computer is like new. Thinking about replacing it with the new OSX 12 coming out which will render the compute obsolete from a software upgrade stand point. 


I can tell you PC can not deal with being left on, my work PC has to be shut down all the time otherwise it get laggy or just begins to misbehave

Japhey said:

mike1 said:

Is he suing his parents as well. They undoubtedly signed all the required releases.

If he didn't pose with the album cover, not a soul in the world would know it was him as a baby.

As usual, AI avoids several pertinent facts of this story. Like, his parents supposedly never signed a release for the photo and they were not compensated for its use. And you’re right, nobody would know, or even care, that he was the baby in the photo if not for him self-promoting the fact since he was 17. Plus, for someone that suffered “lifelong damage”, $150k per defendant (17 of them) seems sort of low considering his attorneys will end up banking a nice chunk of it. 

correction: upon further reading, I found that his father actually received $200 for the photo, the same amount Elden himself was paid when he posed again to mark the 2016 25th anniversary of the album. 

Actually the law suit claims that "his guardian at the time" did not consent for him to be photograph in his birthday suit. It does not say anything about the parents being involved, does that mean someone at the time was taking care of his which were not his parents. I suspect they do not want to lay blame at the feet of the parents. The law suit also claim in the "agreement" to use the image it would not show any private parts and they went ahead and show them anyway. This claim goes against the claim there was no consent given. You can not claim you had some sort of agreement then turn around and say they did not have consent to use the image. The fact he is claiming there was an agreement imply their was consent. 

Also this article is about the fact this image would not be flag with apple image scanning algorithm, it was not about what this kid may or may not have been paid or agreed too. As the article point out images like this are totally legal, artistic nude images are allowed, the problem is who gets to decide what is artistic or what has gone beyond art. Do you want Apple to make that decision or some group of people who believe it their job to rid the world of any images they think child abuse. 

I think this law suite is timely to this discussion about whether Apple should be scanning phone, your computer or file stored on their website looking for objectional materials. Apple it claiming the high road and by saying the only comparing to a known CSAM image data base. How do we know what is in that Database, what good is the database if the real evil people are creating new images not in the database.

Face it this is about getting is name back into the news cycle and some how take advantage of this situate to make money, whether from the law suit or he has something else planned. It like the nipple slip of Janet Jackson at the superbowl, that paid big dividends over the years even those the NFL and others were sued by the FCC for her actions.

OctoMonkey said:

DAalseth said:

I can’t believe how badly Apple has bungled this. They used to be masters of controlling the message, but this has been pure amateur hour. They should have foreseen the worries, the criticism, the accusations. Heck people here saw the possible ramifications within minutes of the first article being posted. But no they dropped it, and let the narrative get away from them. Now I won’t comment on if these organizations worries are correct, but Apple has put themselves in a no win situation. If they go ahead with it they will be the company that works with dictators to spy on dissent and activists. If they kill the project they will be the company that supports predators. 

Apple has screwed themselves utterly on this one. 

Perhaps the problem with Apple's apparent inability to see the issue here is due to a lack of diversity.  Not the irrelevant view of diversity where we categorize people based upon skin color, gender, religion and the like.  But true diversity...  diversity of thought.  Denise Young Smith was right on target with her comments on diversity, so Apple ousted her.  Could this be an example of what happens when you fail to have diversity of thought and perspective?  When senior management is working in lock step rather than asking questions?  Having seen Cook's response to share holder questions on his leadership, would an employee dare to rock the boat?

Perhaps?

Again right on, diversity of though is the most important things, and you get this by having people from diverse backgrounds. Apple is working on finding people of diverse backgrounds but they maybe focusing on people ideas being the same verse bring different ideas. In Steve's book it talk about how Steve looked for people who challenge the status quo, who looked at thing from a completely different view point. I wondering if this is really happening at Apple anymore. I hear all the time in the recruitment world that companies HR and hiring Managers looking into people social media accounts to see where they stand on various issue and if it does align with their ideas they do not hire them.

The problem today we have everyone tell everyone else how they should think on lots of various topics to the point if you ask a question or challenge the view point they want to cancel you from existence or make sure you never talk about your views. We have lots of people with bad ideas who do not want anyone knowing their ideas are bad.

jungmark said:

“isolating the 1,400 technical roles and grouping them by job level, gender, and race“

Odd nothing on years experience and education?

That's because when you talk to these people who think there is wage gap only consider what the job is they do not care about years of experience or education. As far as they're concern of two people are doing the same work they both should be paid the same. I found that programmers are the ones who believe this the most, they all write code so they all should be paid the same.