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Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser
Stoobalou writes "Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?"
It also came out that they paid $5K for the leaked prototype and that Apple wants it back.
How is that not stealing?
Because they abandoned it. At the time, they obviously didn't want it. They might have even left it there for you, and are simply changing their mind later. Either way, it isn't stealing because you never took it from them. In fact, you took it from nobody.
What if... the guy left the bar, so I took his phone. He got to his car, realized his mistake, and came back to get it, but it was gone? Did I 'find' it, or did I 'steal' it?
You found it. The decent thing to do would be to just give it back, but it's not uncommon to ask for a finder's fee before returning it (though it is uncommon if someone lost it for such a short period of time).
What if the guy left it for a few minutes to take a leak, and I took it then?
Seriously, what kind of dumbass is this guy? You still found it, you didn't steal it.
Sure, the engineer screwed up, but legal or not, it ain't right to keep the phone.
"Right" is subjective, but I'd agree that giving it back is the decent thing to do. It still isn't theft.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
Just because your beloved OS vendor isn't making very much news, you choose to grouse about one that does? Maybe you have chosen to follow the wrong crowd and you're whining because it makes you feel inferior? Open Source has done great things, true but has accomplished few innovations. Technology and news is lead by innovators, not copiers, or knock offs. You should be excited to see what you'll be copying next!
Flame bait, maybe, depending on who you are routing for. But I really think its just an observation back up with facts. At the very least it is am amusing zinger. It only hurts because its true! :-)
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I still think it was a dick move from Gizmodo and feel bad for the guy.
Why? You lie down with dogs, you get up with flees. He chose to work for Apple and he should have known what kind of company they were before he took the job.