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Apple Accuses Worker of Leaks
booboothefoo writes "A former Apple Computer contract worker in Sacramento has been slapped with both civil and criminal charges for allegedly
leaking Apple's trade secrets on the Internet." I think the real message here is "don't trust contractors." Or maybe "rumor sites are evil." Or maybe "Setec Astronomy."
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
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I have been asked to sign a few NDAs, I just said "I'm taking them home to review them." I then never spoke of them again, and was never asked for them back.
Information is immuteable, if someone needs to know, someone else needs to know too.
I donno think that word means what you think it means.
"Immutable" means not changeable, or "carved in stone." The past is immutable. CDROMs are immutable. Stone tablets are immutable.
Given that definition, your comment makes basically no sense, so I have to think that you meant something else.
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+2 Interesting?
Some guy likes some movie and y'all thinks it needs to be modded up?
how about -1 Redundant - anyone who saw the movie gets the reference, anyone who didn't doesnt care.
I like Ghostbusters. +5 Insightful for me!
Maybe the real story here is how people feel a moral and emotional "ownership" of Apple that has them react with revulsion when Apple behaves like the for-profit company that they are!
Hm. In light of the absolutely insane emotional reactions that Slashdotters have to Microsoft, HP, and Red Hat, I'd say that that's not a particularly interesting story either.
If there's one at all, it's that Slashdotters, as a group, tend to take everything way too seriously.
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This is why I do my own plumbing. Anyone who puts their toilet main in the hands of other is surley misguided at best.
So... the guy broke an NDA concerning the DNA and now faces a DA because he didn't CYA!
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Microsoft doesn't sue people, they whack them.
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Immutable CD-ROMS? Not mine. They change in a real cool way when I expose them to a propane torch.
Just for fun, my favorite anagram: "electrical engineering" to "rectilinear negligence".
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
NDAs are nothing more than an illegal restriction on free speech, and it's noble that this person stood up for his rights.
For my last co-op position I was asked to sign a NDA as usual. Only in this case they decided to give me the NDA two months into my four-month work term, and it was not retroactive. Oh, and aside from that little blunder, it did not have a date on it!
As in, nowhere to put a date. Just a sig, no date! I asked if it was written by a lawyer and they said it was, but I am very doubtful. IANAL but I would think that a NDA without a date on it would be worthless in court. I would like to see what they could pull in court if I simply released some info before I had signed the NDA, or after I had signed the non-dated NDA.
So let this serve as a note to companies out there, having a NDA doesn't mean shit if it's not written correctly by a competent lawyer!
The reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows where all the bad girls live.
Yes. Liking a movie gets you +1 if it was referenced and idiots like me might not get the reference. Bitching about that +1 gets a -1. Now instead of 1 mod point being destroyed on this silliness, we get 2.
Oh, and don't bother modding this as OT...i'm taking -1 already.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Something must have gone wrong with your post then, as Slashdot seems to have left out the humorous part.