JWSC

Bosa said:

JWSC said:

In case some people missed it, Ms. Gjovik is studying law at Santa Clara University School of Law.  I would hazard a guess that she has no plans to return to the tech field as a manager of any kind, and really never did.  The legal actions she is undertaking or about to undertake are more likely resume builders for future employment at law firms focused on employee advocacy and employee rights.  She may believe in what she is doing.  But it is also a self-serving move that could catapult her to prominence in the legal profession, should any of her legal actions prove victorious.

Yes , “I was harassed when my manager complimented me saying I did better in a presentation “ yeah that will work everywhere!

Apple is paying for her law school as well as her 386k salary. That is very nice but given her history, no law firm will hire her  and will pay her close to 386k lol

If she wins any of her legal actions, what is your logical argument to say that no law firm will hire her?  Are you suggesting she is foolish enough to sue a law firm?  Well, who knows.  Maybe she is.  But I doubt those doing the hiring at law firms will see it that way.  They’ll be far more focused on how much they might earn engaging in similar lawsuits across the country.

mknelson said:

mike1 said:

I am not familiar with the internals of Time Capsule, but would a preemptive replacement of the Seagate HD prevent or delay the problem???

Delay at best - every hard drive fails eventually.

"Spinning rust" is how some of my colleagues refer to them.

SSDs- potentially a much longer life, but the failure modes they have tend to be unrecoverable.

Enterprise SSDs probably need to go the route of space electronics.  In space ionizing radiation has a nasty habit of turning zeros into ones, so they make redundant logic gates in processors that can vote.  Two out of three beats the ionized minority report.  In SSDs redundant NAND gate architectures could vote on data integrity, which would significantly reduce the probability of corrupting data over time.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Requiring workers to come into the office is not about productivity or communications. It's about power. Managers need to see their minions toiling away to feed their fragile egos. All other reasons are just window dressing.

If that’s what you believe then perhaps it’s best that you continue to work alone on your own projects.  I’m sure you will do well.  But you would be a poor fit in a collaborative environment.

splif said:

It's happening throughout the world. Businesses are moving in that direction. Try to make some kind of argument backed up by facts rather then the usual “BS argument” about the free market & progressives. I guess Ford just rammed their free market electric pick up down your throat. Ford, a bunch of BS progressive socialists.

Don’t fool yourself.  Ford and other automakers are moving toward EVs out of political expediency, not out of a desire from the larger auto market.  But time will tell.  In a few short years we will see just how popular an EV version of the Ford F-150 is with its target market, which is kinda-sorta red state.

StrangeDays said:

Pure nonsense that will fail. The 1A prevents government from forcing private platforms to publish what they don't want to publish. Just like a billboard company isn't compelled to publish your wonk manifesto if they don't want to, neither does Twitter. 

Thankfully, Twitter & Apple & etc have clear rules -- advocate harm and you get booted. It's not a "But muh free speech!" issue in the slightest.

Handy chart:

That’s a nice thought diagram in theory. But in the real world of an Internet full of massive online gate keepers I’m not sure that holds up very well.

The terrible irony here is that these companies, with Apple being a notable exception, did not want to act as gatekeepers, at least initially.  It was politicians who pushed them into it - politicians who knew that they could not legislate such action but could browbeat companies into doing their bidding for them.  I see very little good that can come out of this.

With regard to Apple, they made it very clear that their walled garden had certain functions, some of which were to keep it clean and protect people from vulgar or dangerous content.  As one person famously put it when talking about sexual content, “I know it when I see it.”  Apple appears to be applying that same standard, which guarantees inconsistencies.