Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser 853
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.
Slashdot: (Score:5, Funny)
News For Apple, Stuff That Apples
Yeah, right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
If not, he's probably going to be promoted from an engineering minion to mid-management at marketing dept.
usually after a few beers.... (Score:2, Funny)
if one, why not a dozen... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on now, it wasn't that bad. He didn't kill anybody.
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
First visit in 3 weeks... Nothing but Apple. (Score:0, Funny)
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?!?!
Re:What's the point? (Score:4, Funny)
No. We just found some really good shrooms.
(there goes a troll mod (vs a frosty-pisser))
Re:First visit in 3 weeks... Nothing but Apple. (Score:5, Funny)
Bliss would be Slashdot with the following sections turned off:
Idle
Main
Apple
AskSlashdot
Book Reviews
Developers
Games
Hardware
Idle (yes, this one should be turned off again)
IT
Index
Interviews
Linux
Mobile
Politics
Science
Technology
YRO
Idle (just in case we missed it the first two times)
THAT would be bliss... pure, unadulterated zen bliss.
What's all this noise about "ethics"? (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:Nothingtoseeheremovealong (Score:1, Funny)
the Giz hitting the fan
Nice one there, eww.
Re:First visit in 3 weeks... Nothing but Apple. (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot with the Apple section switched off. Bliss!
Yeah, I tried that but the 7 remaining articles were not that interesting.
Re:What's the point? (Score:1, Funny)
It was his birthday.
Re:Slashdot, Apple whoremongerer? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Photo of Steve Jobs's Office (Score:3, Funny)