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Tesla Is Suing An Oil-Company Executive For Impersonating Elon Musk (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Tesla is suing an oil executive under suspicion of impersonating Elon Musk to dig up confidential financial information from the company, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The lawsuit, reportedly filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, claimed that Todd Katz, the chief financial officer for Quest Integrity Group, emailed Tesla's chief financial officer using a similar email address as Musk's looking to gain information that wasn't disclosed in an earnings call with investors. Quest Integrity Group has partnerships with BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil, the Forbes report said. According to the lawsuit, Katz used "elontesla@yahoo.com" to send an email to Tesla CFO Jason Wheeler asking about the company's sales and financial projections. The email named in the suit reads: "why you so cautious w Q3/4 gm guidance on call? also what are your thoughts on disclosing M3 res#? Pros/cons from ir pov? what is your best guess as to where we actually come in on q3/4 deliverables. honest guess? no bs. thx 4 hard work prepping 4 today. em." Tesla is seeking "undisclosed financial compensation," as well as compensation for the cost of the investigation and legal fees, according to Forbes.
When people proclaim their good qualities so publicly, it's because they want to con you.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
This is standard practice nowadays. There are AstroTurfing campaigns and attacks like this going on all the time these days. There is no such thing as playing fair and letting the market decide. Ever since Tesla started plans to produce a mass consumer electric vehicle that's not handicapped and a piece of shit the oil industry has been working against them. This is why every single Model S crash is a massive public affair with news stories all over the wire. Oil companies are funding these types of articles and paying journalists to write them, probably in some cases writing them for them.
I'm glad Musk pursued the investigation and determined the person that made the call so they can get them on the stand. Expect nothing less at this point than the astroturf nonprofit that employs the guy to try to keep him from talking to anyone and when he does they will throw him under the bus and ruin his career to make it look like "one bad apple".
Like I said, standard practice these days. You can't really believe anything you see these days because of how corrupt journalism is, and the internet has only made it worse.
If I got an email with such shit, I would reply with a demand to try again with correct spelling and grammar. And of course I would expect this to be some kind of attack, and report it to others in my company.
A dingo ate my sig...
I know you're only trying to be funny but Elon builds fast cars and rockets, while Steve built a telephone that was slightly better than the existing telephones of the day (until the competition caught up and made even better telephones).
I'll leave it the reader to decide which is cooler.
I know you're only trying to be funny but Elon builds fast cars and rockets, while Steve built a telephone that was slightly better than the existing telephones of the day (until the competition caught up and made even better telephones).
I'll leave it the reader to decide which is cooler.
I'm no Apple fan, but the iPhone was far beyond the other phones of its day (the Blackberry and Treo were state of the art at the time), the first Android wasn't released until a year later and was not nearly as usable. Nokia's Symbian line and Psion had some good phones at the time, but lacked the broad appeal of the iPhone (and a few years later, the broad appeal of Android)
While the iPhone may have lost the edge that make it better than all competitors, when it launched it was much more than "slightly better" that existing phones.
It's okay if an FBI agent impersonates a journalist but it's not okay for an oil company exec to impersonate Elon Musk?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The closest to an iPhone that was released before the iPhone was probably the HTC Touch, which didn't have 3G either. It was running Windows Mobile 6.0 with a an overlay for finger-based input on the screen (TouchFlo). It even had copy/paste a year before the iOS featured it.
What made the first iPhone a revolution was the use of a capacitive touchscreen when just about every body else used a resistive touchscreen, and even more importantly, iOS which brought finger-based input to a whole new level.
Maybe to some people, but to me the first iPhone was even inferior to even the first Windows Mobile phone I have bought in 2002 and lightyears behind my then current HTC universal. I mean, ridiculously low display resolution, lack of such basic concepts like running third party applications, copy&paste or multitasking. IPhone has been a feature phone with a touch screen at the release time, not a smartphone.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I don't really know Silicon Valley Corporate culture.... Is it really acceptable to:
Send a business email from a YAHOO email account?
Send an email that looks like a 16 year old girl's text to her BFF?
I would have thought that a big company like Tesla would have its own internal email server, and I also would have thought that there would be some sort of decorum in the workplace.
Are you sure it's a step ABOVE ? I think it's actually a step BELOW.
With that one, chances are it would get spam flagged and forgotten, with the one he DID send it got traced and he is now being sued. Arguably a worse outcome.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
far beyond? it was at least two years behind.
christmas of 2005 i got an htc wizard
it was incomparably better than the iphone
and it came about two years earlier
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I'm no Apple fan, but the iPhone was far beyond the other phones of its day (the Blackberry and Treo were state of the art at the time)
Seriously? Aren't you forgetting about a Finnish company that completely dominated the smartphone scene at the time?
The first iPhone was a very slick feature phone, but it was by no means a smartphone. It did not have apps and it lacked a lot of functionality that was common even in cheap phones at the time. Moreover, it was the first phone ever to be tied to one specific mobile network. In the beginning, it was impossible to buy it without an extremely expensive bundled subscription to one particular network. There was really no reason to want it. However, the excellent marketing, the years of rumours and secrecy and the way the media treated Jobs and Apple at the time made it popular. It is a marketing success story, but there is nothing particularly good about the product as such. It did popularise the touch screen, however.