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Apple is tentatively stepping into more manufacturing in the US
I agree with the first part but I expect other factors will make this diversification necessary before global warming. What do you think will be a problem first? Sea level rise or Chinese invasion of Taiwan?tht said:Apple really needs to have independent supply chains and manufacturing bases in at least 2 places, preferably 3. They need to race, not ease into it, though I imagine the politics of it makes it untenable.
Global warming is making a lot of places unstable and will be even worse in the future.
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If you want to work for Apple, Tim Cook says you need four traits
That must be a really new requirement since Apple has people working all over the world. Perhaps Apple just expects people to show up for work to the office where they were hired?hmlongco said:There's a fifth trait in that, unfortunately, one must also be willing to relocate to the Bay Area...
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Facebook sued over illegal collection of user data
You raise a good point about the state of US privacy law, particularly in comparison to the EU's GDPR. US privacy law is sector based and offers very specific protections (like HIPAA covering medical information in many contexts) as opposed to the broad and general protection of GDPR that is focused on the private information.ihatescreennames said:I have no line for Facebook and all of the plaintiffs claims may be true but are they illegal? I have no idea. Is there a law that says companies must abide by user preferences or something similar?
In the US, the Federal Trade Commission can go after a company for violating their own posted policies as "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" even if the privacy information didn't have other specific legal protection.
The law is the FTC Act, see Section 5. federal-trade-commission-act
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Apple Store is down ahead of iPhone 14, AirPods Pro 2 preorders
Apple's self-inflicted DDOS starts in one minute. I'm excited. Upgrading an IP11. -
Apple's China iCloud data center hit by 'dire' COVID lockdown
Use the Farce, Luke! To this day, I see people alone in their cars wearing masks. Clearly they're saving everyone.Starkoman said:Anyone who says “Keep the fear going as long as possible”, in regard to the rapid spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus, clearly hasn’t lost anyone in their family to the horrors of Covid.
Sadly, some people — particularly those anti-mask/anti-vax/anti-safe distancing dimbos (particularly over in America) — are both ignorant and insensitive to the legitimate medical need to protect their loved ones (should they still have any who aren’t estranged or already disowned them), from the appalling misery of their unwarranted suffering or of those left behind in grief.
Had the Covid-19 deniers — in any country (but particularly in America) — been less irresponsible and therefore dangerous in the face of a viral contagion, they would not have lost one million four hundred thousand plus (1,400,000+ US), of their own fellow citizens.
As the rest of the world knows, China endured some of the worst of the novel Coronavirus when it first hit their country so badly in early 2020. It’s logical that the Chinese are extremely keen to introduce compulsory lockdowns early — and hard — to prevent a fresh outbreak spreading to the rest of the provinces.
It’s regrettable that some people, even today, prove themselves incapable of understanding the basic epidemiology of lethal viruses and have learned absolutely nothing about virology or spread prevention from the past two years.
Harder still to see them recklessly politicising a public health emergency on the ︎AppleInsider site where idiots rarely intrude.
To use an old Liverpool adage: “Sort yer head out, mate”.
