Apple doesn't do SecureBoot, they just make their devices a PITA to maintain.
Between pentalobes, glue-fastened glass, components in hard-to-reach locations, and active hostility towards self-maintenance, Apple could claim prior art on the concept of SecureBoot.
Various motherboard vendors already cater to the BYO crowd
Portable devices from traditionally locked down platforms don't really have that option. For those that do exist, they're usually built with older/low-end parts.
Plus that young student could run Linux in a VM on the locked down Windows box
That doesn't help when the issue requires direct hardware access.
Or they could hack around on some non-PC device like a Raspberry Pi.
See my first point. The Raspberry Pi is a 2nd-tier device that has still-unresolved USB issues.
While it could be a coincidence, but it seems that these policies seem to share too many similarities in timing and direction.
Perhaps he can figure out why Toyotas end up going places like brick walls, or going forward when you don't want to
I think if he had that in the hands of 3 to 8 trusted individuals the CIA would have agents surrounding him ready to take a bullet. He'd be safer than the president.
The more realistic scenario is that the individuals tasked with bringing him in or taking him (or any misguided "journalists") out would receive that kind of protection and more.
Perhaps some good citizens would be more than happy to call his bluff and ensure that national security gets taken seriously.
Staffing agencies and other forms of contingent employment operate in a manner not unlike labor unions. Unfortunately, it is still possible for a job to require you to sign with one instead of going direct, which RTW prevents with labor unions. With that in mind, applying labor laws to contingent employment, especially RTW, would replace the benefit-dodging incentive with a benefit-providing one.
I've only had good experience with staffing agencies.
That's a rarer bird than a good full-time job. Realistically, the only enitity that has any good experience is the agency itself.
Because it's easy for them to let you go, that means they're also more willing to take risks in hiring you. I was able to get a job really fast right out of college with one, which helped establish my new skill set. Few people want to permanently hire somebody with a degree and no experience because it's too easy to find somebody who is a dud, even if they have a 4.0 GPA like I did.
This is a bigger reason why staffing agencies should be subject to the same laws as labor unions - even if it means that joining a staffing agency isn't a condition for accepting work at a given organization. If it really is about "flexibility" and not benefit-dodging "disposability", then they would welcome the challenge of competing with better forms of work.
The IT/tech world doesn't take well to third party representation, whether it is a staffing agency or a labor union - for the same reasons.
It seems like it's a preventative measure against legislation that would affect staffing agencies.
If they bring in those individuals, they can effectively immunize against the others that aren't brought in from the cold.
Luck, and pumping information to the FSB are the only things keeping him alive, trophy status being a side effect. Illegal disclosures from beyond the grave would only hurt the people doing them.
Do not expect that these deeds will go unpunished by subsequent administrations or that the odds will be in his unending favor.
You want quality? Pay for it, but don't pretend that it comes from old gurus hands instead of robotic assisted manufacture.
I do and still end up seeing the same things. Once something gets hit by the ugly stick of globalization, it doesn't matter what you pay - the result is a lesser product.
One would have to throw out the entire case for him to win. That is not going to happen.
He will have to accept some US-side loss in the long run; it is better that it is delivered judicially than extrajudicially by the US or Russia.
Modding would be replaced with DLC packs, none of which would be free.
Any attempts to mod the client or server would be construed as cheating.
The Xbox would be the primary platform and the PC would be considered as second-tier.
Russia's not the country of freedom that some think it would be, as freedom is conditional to having a large amount of assets and/or not showing any opposition whatsoever to the current leader. In the US, the thresholds for such activity are much higher.
Of course, a fair and impartial trial will also require him to accept a very high likeliness of losing the case, based on the current evidence against him.
As an industry, they don't need monopoly power. Their main competitor, labor unions, has less market share due to regulations that only apply to labor unions.
In addition, the staffing industry lives off the idea of regulatory evasion, which has a favorable side effect of increased disposability. Both of these negate the need to pursue specific monopoly power.
If there's freedom in RTW, it can be found by applying it to all forms of third-party/indirect representation.
That kind of action is how labor unions ended up gaining power in the early 20th Century. If similar happens in the 21st, expect a similar swing.
It is also why Northern companies figured out that being reasonable to their own would get rid of 90% of such threats. By "winning the hearts and minds" of the population, it inoculates the company from many threats, without the financial or PR expenses of litigative hit-teams. Unfortunately, the lesson has been lost on the South.
The day that Google or Apple tries that stuff is when their competitors start winning significant market share from both.
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
