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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.
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I don't think anyone here thinks he's in any trouble.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
If not, he's probably going to be promoted from an engineering minion to mid-management at marketing dept.
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
i feel like taking leaks on apple products....
If you let one of these Apple engineers off the hook for their crimes against humanity, then you've got to make exception for them all. It's a slippery slope. First, Apple engineers today; tomorrow, lawyers and political figures. That's a social travesty we can not allow.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Come on now, it wasn't that bad. He didn't kill anybody.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...
Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...
Wow you went from rational skeptic to tin-foil-hat loony in less than 2 sentences! My hat is off to you, sir.
It's probably true. He posts on slashdot so we know he has at least never once lost his virginity.
Killing someone would qualify him for upper management.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I stopped visiting /. at the end of March due to all of the Apple crap that was being posted. This is my first visit back in 3 weeks, and it still hasn't changed.
I had been going to reddit instead, but their site is so fucking slow now that they're using Amazon EC2, and I get server errors 10% of the time.
Digg is just plain fucked. It has gone even more Apple-stupid than /. has.
Hacker News has become nothing but "entrepreneurs" spouting out buzzwords and their latest bullshit theories.
OSNews? Oh, geeze, it's gone totally downhill since that Thom guy took over as editor. At least Eugenia had some computing background and knowledge.
Where can a man go to get some quality, non-Apple tech news and discussion these days? WHERE?!?!
No. We just found some really good shrooms.
(there goes a troll mod (vs a frosty-pisser))
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I "find" stuff all the time. It's like... recycling. Just the other week, I "found" a sweet bike in the park, just leaning against a tree near some total douches playing with a frisbee. Bonus, the seat was still totally warm when I jumped on and pedalled hell for leather away. And talk about the great price that I got when I sold my newly "found" bike down at the local pawn shop!
Heck, I bet if I could get inside Gizmondo's office by "finding" an open window late at night, I could "find" a truck load of great stuff just lying around unattended, free for anyone to take!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
the Giz hitting the fan
Nice one there, eww.
It was his birthday.
I like the Apple stories because they inform me of technology I can either live without or obtain elsewhere cheaper. It's the app for that.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
According to John Gruber, this photo of Jobs's office was taken early yesterday.