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Comment Re: Why? (Score 2) 46

There's an easy fix for that. If someone distributes a free app and that app receives more than a certain (high) number of downloads per month, then charge them a fair fee for hosting the download, where that fee reflects the actual costs of hosting that app plus a small markup for Apple to get some profit.

This is defensible because Apple is recovering actual costs here. Not just piggybacking on someone's subscription service.

False. It is still indefensible, because it is a problem of Apple's own creation. If Apple wants to charge for it, that's fine, but only if they also allow their devices to download apps from somewhere other than Apple.

For in-app purchases of content, it already works that way, of course, but I'm assuming this isn't what is being discussed here, because it would be particularly heinous of Apple to want to charge up to a 15% tax on content that it had no involvement either in payment for or distribution of.

Comment Re:"Potentially" is doing a lot of work here (Score 3, Interesting) 36

by AmiMoJo (#66289263) Attached to: Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

Russia has a history there. In the 70s they had missiles that could prioritise targets based on size (for attacking ships), and share target info with other missiles.

Ukrainian forests are now criss crossed by kilometres and kilometres of fibre optic cable. RF control of drones is dead due to all the jamming.

Comment Re: Idiots, all of them (Score 2) 74

Lolol of course they can. The data doesn't actually belong to the intermediary and it certainly doesn't belong to iron mountain. It's good that they required a court order, because the party requesting the data is not the party that provided it, but it's still the PBS station's data and they still have a right to it.

Submission + - Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent (mashable.com)

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AmiMoJo writes: Microsoft Japan has announced the results of its 4-day work week trial, and it will shock no-one to know the experiment was hugely popular with the company's employees. What may surprise people is that the shortened week increased productivity by almost 40 percent — thanks in part to shorter, more efficient meetings.

This August, Microsoft Japan trialed a 4-day work week for its entire workforce, calling the project the "Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019". Approximately 2300 employees were given 5 Fridays off, with no reduction in salary and no days taken out of their annual leave.

Further, The Mainichi reported that Microsoft Japan also planned to subsidise employees' family vacations or further education by up to ¥100,000.

"Work a short time, rest well and learn a lot. It's necessary to have an environment that allows you to feel your purpose in life and make a greater impact at work," said Microsoft Japan president and CEO Takuya Hirano. "I want employees to think about and experience how they can achieve the same results with 20 percent less working time."

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