Anyway, if they assign my searches to my personal profile it's probably rather confusing: I'm a 72 year old man with possible Alzheimers's, Paget's disease,
They are not confused. But your credit score is around minus a gazillion
Apple fronted GT Technologies the money to build the facility in order to build displays for Apple products, and requred GT itself as collateral. Apple then chose not to buy GT-manfuactured Sapphire screens, and acquired GT when they could not pay back the money fronted. Tell me again how that's an honest business practice.
You forgot the part where GT didn't actually manage to produce the Sapphire Crystal displays that they had promised they could deliver. And you forgot the part where GT management lined their pockets with stock options, making sure that they made their money, no matter whether the company did well or not.
Its not protected by some EULA because the device is sold before the EULA can be read, which courts have already ruled invalidates the EULA.
Says who?
What is confusing you is that the sale isn't completed until you accept the EULA. It may be true that you can't read the EULA when you hand over the money, but in that case you can take the computer or software home, read the EULA, decide that you don't want to accept it, take the computer back to the store and get your money back.
That said, a computer which allows a third party to read for example a credit card number that I enter into my browser, is not "fit for purpose", and on these grounds you should be able to return it to the seller and get your money back if you live in the EU or some other places.
Why did Apple hire 5 whopping engineers from a single company instead of from the open market?
They hired on the open market. You can hire engineers who either are unemployed, or who are willing to quit their current job. So it seems that either A123 laid off these five engineers, or the company is so awful that five engineers are willing to leave at the same time. From what I hear, both is equally likely. And from what I hear, I wouldn't put it beyond these guys to first fire an engineer, and then preventing him from getting another job.
What about transferring company trade secrets to a competitor, like Apple?
Transferring trade secrets is illegal. But the fear that someone might transfer trade secrets (commit a crime) shouldn't stop them from getting employed, because most people do _not_ become criminals. Apart from that, _if_ Apple wanted trade secrets they could just pay the guys, they wouldn't have to employ them. Apart from that, no company including Apple would knowingly accept such trade secrets, because that would make someone at Apple criminal, and nobody wants to go to jail.
What this is about is that we have here a company which had massive layoffs, but wants to fuck its employees, and wants to grab money from Apple.
So ApplePay needs new card readers? the retailers have to upgrade and replace working old readers to use it?
As an example, Apple Pay would work just fine with the terminal in my company's canteen somewhere in the UK. Apple Pay needs the card terminals that everyone will have to buy anyway to replace their old ones.
Wait, does it not encrypt the magstripe data before transmission?
The card reader wouldn't be able to read it if it was encrypted.
Why do you think Apple Pay is remotely secure. Apple is good at keeping its users hemmed in and docile, not security.
Quite a pathetic comment. My Mac has unbreakable full-disc encryption. So does my backup drive. Built into the operating system. You can't get into my iPhone. Apple can't get into my iPhone anymore with iOS 8. Actually, nobody can get in. You can't even reset it and use it if I don't want you to. iMessage has end-to-end encryption that is unbreakable.
"Keeping users docile" is of course the common idiotic stupid geek prejudice of people who think they are smart because they use something that is hard to use. You are not smart, you are stupid!
Further, you DON'T WANT it to operate by NFC, or anything RF for that matter. RFID, NFC, and other RF technologies have all been broken for some years now. I can't imagine what Apple is thinking, with its Apple Pay, but maybe they think they've gotten around the security holes in NFC. Remains to be seen.
There is plenty of information around about how Apple Pay works. All the communication can be in clear text and recorded by a dozen hackers, it doesn't make a difference, because the actual data sent through the insecure channel is safely encrypted.
A drunk driver is dangerous because they are likely to lose control of their car.
The problem with alcohol is that it clouds your judgment. You are not afraid anymore to do stupid things.
You probably lose control of your car because you were driving to fast for the road, and you drove to fast because you weren't afraid of going through a curve at much to much speed. You probably would have lost control without being drunk, but you wouldn't have got yourself in the situation in the first place.
I don't know the details, but if a programmer can be charged for making a program that allows others to use it, among other things, for illegal activities, doesn't this mean that one can charge the workers at a knife factory as well?
His software didn't just allow, among other things, illegal activities. He created software for a company whose whole business was based on illegal activity.
Isn't a programmer an employee doing what he is requested to do - and anyway making programmes does not infringe copyright laws. It seems everyone has to pay a price in this megaupload story, in order to send a strong and threatening message.
"I only followed orders" hasn't worked as an excuse for quite a while. If you write software, you know what it is supposed to do. And if it is used to help with copyright infringement, and you knew it, or you would have known it if you hadn't closed your eyes to it as hard as you could, you are guilty.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
