One possible argument would be 'unfairly changing promotion criteria to include irrelevant behaviors'. The plaintiff would have to prove to the jury that 'forced commuting to the office' is 'irrelevant', and that this change/new policy is "arbitrary and capricious".

I wonder if this could be challenged in state courts, particularly by an employee living in a state with strong labor protection laws.

I've argued for the last 10-15 years that ACM and IEEE should lead the way and go to open access models for their publications. They need to ween themselves from the addiction of publications as a revenue source. (Disclosure: I was an ACM SIG Officer for several years in the '80s and '90s, so I have an understanding of at least one SIG's finances.) Certainly there are costs that need to be accounted for, but I thought those could be managed through membership fees, sponsorship, possibly 'publication charges' for authors and their institutions, and efforts at cost avoidance through the publication program.

If you hold vendors legally liable for vulnerabilities in their software, no one will be willing to make software.
Why risk jail or financial ruin if something goes wrong?

That hasn't stopped people from making cars, airplanes, medical devices, prescription or non-prescription drugs, to name Just A Few industries... And to pick on Boeing, do you think it's A Good Thing that Boeing NOT be held liable for the safety problems in their aircraft? The MCAS problem was in large part a software problem.

You think other palces are immune?

No. I think the US system has MANY MORE POINTS OF FAILURE.

Why vendors should not be held legally liable for vulnerabilities in their software that enable such attacks?

And, of course, the US medical system once again shows the implicit problems with the complexity of the network of middlemen that "manage" heath care by adding overhead to the system to line their own pockets.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines... Note the discussion on how they handle recursive structures, adopting an approach from Rust.

The guy Boeing fired as CEO, Dennis Muilenberg, had an engineering degree. That doesn't help if you're then trained to become a cost manager.

Designated Engineering Representatives had legal obligations to the FAA, so this was not just 'employees signing off'. I don't know why FAA abandoned this system, which worked well for a long time. (I'm sure Boeing told the FAA all kinds of "costs too much" stories.)

Until Boeing does a top-to-bottom reset of its culture, shuffling executives who came up and were successful in the "financial focused" Boeing of the last 20 years will just result in a new set of people to blame for a new set of failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A long resume as a lawyer, much of it in technology, but it's not clear to me he learned to code.

I commented previously, so I can't use my moderator points to rate this as "Troll" which it so richly deserves. I really don't understand the blatant bias of so many posters here. It's one thing to say "Apple put forward a misleading error message, and Apple users seem to accept that." It's a whole 'nuther thing to say "Most Apple users arent [sic] equipped to deal with that truth." Are so many of you so insecure that anyone who doesn't agree with your world outlook must automatically be labeled as idiots?

It's interesting that most of my friends with whom I spent 40 years in the software industry use Macs. But I guess we're just the exception.

I used my card 3 times around noon EST. In one case, it was declined. I tried it again, and it worked. No problems the other two times. (ApplePay linked to a Chase credit card.)

And the cooling for that many chips doing AI? Would AI/cloud companies look to relocate to countries with the cheapest power sources? (And what would that do to efforts to control carbon emissions?)

And then Capitalism will be replaced by what, exactly? "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat?" (I'd rather fly on a 737 MAX than an Ilyushin any day....)