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Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker
The Hobo writes "CNet is carrying a story about Apple reaching a settlement with one of the Tiger leakers, 22-year-old Doug Steigerwald. The terms of the settlement were not released, but it was said that money will be paid to Apple. To quote Doug, 'As a member of Apple's Developer Connection program I received a pre-release version of Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' software, which I promised to keep confidential, instead, I disseminated it over the Internet, and thousands of unauthorized copies of Apple's software were illegally distributed to the public'"
like $50,000 a year to Apple from him not working there anymore?
If you had even read the slashdot blurb of TFA, you'd know that he wasn't an apple employee, but rather a developer's connection member.
As these comprehensive databases like ChoicePoint record more civil an criminal judgements, it gets harder to obtain a job at a mainstream company. Article in Wired about this issue yesterday.
WTF is a "thowsand"?
It's a "thousand" typed by someone who types faster than you :) Beginning typists tend to make errors based on the proximity of keys (pwned) or transposition (teh). Experienced typists tend to make homophonic mistakes (there/their), prob. because typing is more nearly akin to talking for them.
To bring this back to topic: The kid had it coming.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.