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Comment Re: Well, they are "working" from home? (Score 1) 95

Depends, I work from home for a monster tech company, that uses Teleperformance. And I am fairly sure because of them we had some strict rules in place. That are a nuisance but there have been Teleperformance breaches in the past. So if one of our techs is working with a client on a case and any PII is access, you have to unmask it and the unmasking it is logged and you have note the reason why it is unmasked, because if it is audited you will be called to account. I work from home and have to be behind a closed door that is locked. And I have to wear pants.

Comment Re:Well, they are "working" from home? (Score 1) 95

Ok let me preface this. I am US Colombian/Citizen. Also, if you look at a prior post in my thread you can see I know a bit about the company. However, I know a ton about Colombians having lived on and off there for the last 30 years and being married to a Colombian gal, and well, also being a citizen. Teleperformance pay is terrible, but it is better than not having a job, but they treat their employees like utter shit. On the flip side when you pay people like shit and treat them like shit, they are gonna turn into shitty people. Colombians are the masters of getting over and pullinc scams. Honestly, i would not want to have to ride herd over a bunch of Colombian work at home employees because I have to deal with them on a weekly basis for escalations and it is pretty terrible. My company's requirements are that you have to have a room, be it a bedroom, study, or whatever, with a door that locks because you are looking at proprietary information, your eyes only. It also is to provide a quiet enviroment. The Colombian ones I talk to have kids screaming, radios playing, tv blaring, etc. Colombians are by default loud people who do not follow rules. This is not me dogging on Colombians, who can be some of the nicest people on earth, but culturally are very different from North America. What is happening with these places is they are having a high turn over off workers because of peer feedback big companies like mine give them so now they are cracking down. You could probably put a fake camera in and it would scare them into acting right. Is putting in a camera intrusive? It is. But you have a culture that is vastly different than what you are accustomed to.

Comment Re: Well, they are "working" from home? (Score 1) 95

CSB here bro. I am a US and Colombian citizen. First the median income in Colombia is about 4k USD a year. Which is about 1,500,000 pesos a month. Which people can live on but I do not know how. I made that much money in Colombia 20 years ago and it was an upper middle class salary then, but now it is hard scrabble poor. I worked as a consultant years ago for the company that eventually become Teleperformance in Colombia. They hired me because I was spoke both languages and pitched me that I would be on the operations side of the business. So one day they said they wanted me to take some test calls to record to use my native English American accent as an examples for when they began training. IT was about 8 hours of work. Then on one of the "test" calls the guy on the other end said "man your English is great, you even sound a bit like you are from my hometown, NOLA!" I am from NOLA. Turns out Teleperformance was using me as ringer to sell their services and I walked the hell out of there. Also, I work for a very large computer company as a senior tech and we use them, and I have to pick up the ball at least once a week where one of their reps has done something horrific.

Comment Re:US tax regime (Score 0) 122

You do not know how dual citizenship works. If you are born in one country with a parent from another country, your parents have to register your birth either in the other country or the embassy. Otherwise you are just a citizen of the country you are born in. You do not "find out" you are suddenly an American citizen. You might want to read this. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftravel.state.gov%2Fconte....

Comment Re:Nice, now if the boot is comprimised... (Score 1) 105

The recovery OS is on a hidden partition on the hard drive. If you boot into recovery mode you can see it as an image. And you can accidentally delete. If you replace a hard drive you cannot boot into recovery mode, because it is created on a partition. You then have to use a bootable installer. So yes boot media is required. It has been available for 10 years. At the point of replacing the drive you would have to use a bootable installer on a USB device.

Comment Re: In-app purchases, etc, are not "worth" anythin (Score 2) 156

Apple, Google, Amazon and other content providers give you the ability to download your movies, books, music and software when you purchase them. They are not obligated to keep a coy forever. They do as a courtesy but the expectation is that you keep a copy. Content providers can remove their content from those guys anytime. If Disney decides to remove a movie from any of them and there is proof you downloaded the movie years prior then they are in no way obligated to you. Now he might have a valid bitch for IOS apps but even with a canceled Apple ID apps still work. The lawsuit reads like an 8th grader wrote it.

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 202

Apple has been working on Arm since the late 1980s... No one said they invented it but they were damn near with it since the beginning. In the late 1980s, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.,[30][31][32] which became ARM Ltd. when its parent company, Arm Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.[33] The new Apple-ARM work would eventually evolve into the ARM6, first released in early 1992. Apple used the ARM6-based ARM610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.

Comment Re:âoeVeryâ difficult? (Score 1) 178

If you have a device from a deceased family member you call in and we have a special department that will ask you to provide a death cert and prove you are the executor or family member and you have the choice to have the activation lock removed and the device wiped or the Apple ID transferred to you and you can then unlock the device and the accounts and avail yourself of all the data, purchases, contained on their Apple account.

Comment Re:Download vs online (Score 1) 172

I was just coming to post this. If you buy your content from Apple, Google, Disney, they make it available for download. You then download and keep a copy archived for your personal use. All digital providers have to follow copyright law from country to country. The providers allow you to stream and download as a courtesy. Content owners also can choose to pull content from Apple/Google at any time they want. You purchasing and downloading the content once, they have met their obligation with you. This is not germane to Apple. No one remember regional restrictions on DVD's?

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