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Here's a tunnel built by El Chapo's people instead. Hope it helps scratch that itch. https://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/viceblog/64645854tunnel...
Wow. That’s a lot more professional looking than I expected it to be.
Don't know what happened but the first time I clicked this link it brought me to unrendered HTML and obfuscated JS. Can't reproduce... but perhaps beware of malware.
https://gist.github.com/eugenekolo/81c1e7ff1c699cfbb584fdd6b...
I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? The temptations for the workers would be the same (big payoffs are a universal temptation), but there might be more of a cultural barrier to overcome. Also I'm fully willing to believe that US authorities would prosecute the crap out of someone stealing from Apple, whereas in C…
> I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? One of the huge economic benefits of standardized, lockable, shipping containers is that rates of products "walking away" on the dock dropped dramatically. Shipping companies used to just expect a certain % loss from outright theft from dockworkers. Indeed it was considered t…
Some are, some aren’t. Assembly line workers are far from being technicians, but factories have/need technicians as well. It’s the lower skilled assembly line workers who are migrants from the countryside and who will often switch jobs after CNY; the technicians can job hop as well, but being from the cities they aren’t as fixated around the new year to do it.
It's interesting that Apple is policing this. Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to have some sort of "if you leak you are liable for $X" clause in their contract with the factories, so that the factories themselves have an incentive to prevent this?
It's interesting that Apple is policing this. Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to have some sort of "if you leak you are liable for $X" clause in their contract with the factories, so that the factories themselves have an incentive to prevent this?
Don't know what happened but the first time I clicked this link it brought me to unrendered HTML and obfuscated JS. Can't reproduce... but perhaps beware of malware.
Reproduced. The error page contains malware. Appears to be some sort of keylogger, but I didn't actually analyze it. https://gist.github.com/eugenekolo/81c1e7ff1c699cfbb584fdd6b...
> Apple’s suppliers are forbidden from referring to Apple by name or its project code names anywhere in buildings. In which buildings? Surely (at least vendor specific) codenames are necessary for basic communication. I was affected when a partner team was sidelined by an Apple contract. It was a fireable offense to say was Apple or leak it, but you could use internally to indicate that you had mandated commitments a…
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> if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? Unless I wildly misunderstand something, I'm pretty sure Apple could not produce X amount of devices at Y quality + rate for Z dollars in the US or Europe.
They couldn't move the entire production to the US today no. It would have to be a gradual ramp up with suppliers coming online in tandem with the increase in production. There's no supply here because there is no market here, but if you build it they will come. It's not like it's impossible for an existing company to start up a specialized screw line, or for some startup to appear to fill the demand. It's a slow and…
I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? The temptations for the workers would be the same (big payoffs are a universal temptation), but there might be more of a cultural barrier to overcome. Also I'm fully willing to believe that US authorities would prosecute the crap out of someone stealing from Apple, whereas in C…
> cultural barrier to overcome What?? > in China the penalty seems to be that you lose your crappy sweatshop job What?? Have you been to China lately?