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Re: An apology...

#131

Post by cwisecarver »

I can't believe how many of you are so wrong about this. Gizmodo is in business to make money. They just made a lot of it and their article revealing the hardware, which i'm waiting for, will make more.

The engineer is newsworthy. He contributes to the facts of the story. If you want to be angry with someone how about the person who found the phone?

The person who knew the name of the owner and still sold the phone to the tabloid. The person who had to click two virtual buttons to be talking to someone who knew the owner and and could get the phone back to him. The person who could have Facebook messaged the owner and returned the phone. But he didn't. He sold a piece of obviously lost property to a tabloid.

He probably could have gotten a much nicer reward from apple anyway considering their market cap these days.

Re: An apology...

#132

Post by enjo »

cwisecarver wrote: post #131

I can't believe how many of you are so wrong about this. Gizmodo is in business to make money. They just made a lot of it and their article revealing the hardware, which i'm waiting for, will make more. The engineer is newsworthy. He contributes to the facts of the story. If you want to be angry with someone how about the person who found the phone? The person who knew the name of the owner and still sold the phone t…

He's also going to be going to jail.

Watch.

Re: An apology...

#133

Post by enjo »

I completely feel for the guy. I've been trusted with a few prototype phones in my life, in most cases prototypes from companies I didn't directly work for. I once left one behind in a bar in Idaho Springs Colorado (a Sony Ericsson P910 I think)... this at a time that a phone like that was an absolute marvel (particularly in the U.S.).

Thankfully in my case whoever found it was a saint. I called, the bar had it and I picked it up. End of story. I'm a pretty responsible guy, I just screwed up that one time.

I wish this had all ended the same way for this guy.

Re: An apology...

#134

Post by flatline »

razerbeans wrote: post #14

Seeing the name-drop of the Apple engineer on Gizmodo made my jaw drop. I couldn't believe that they would do such a thing. This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life. It's a reckless attempt by what appears to be a subpar site to make itself somewhat legitimate. In this respect, they've failed miserably.

> This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life.

It's no doubt going to suck for him until this blows over, but it will blow over, and I doubt that his career and life will suffer too much in the long run if he just rides it out. Any rational person looking at this will think it an honest mistake that they could easily have made, as Gizmodo points out tirelessly. Apple would be crazy to fire him.

Re: An apology...

#135

Post by jamesbressi »

I am embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? (regarding this from the link)

"Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control:

127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 www.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 m.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 gawker.com 127.0.0.1 www.gawker.com 127.0.0.1 m.gawker.com "

Re: An apology...

#136

Post by dazmax »

jamesbressi wrote: post #135

I am embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? (regarding this from the link) "Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control: 127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 www.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 m.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 gawker.com 127.0.0.1 www.gawker.com 127.0.0.1 m.gawker.com "

It redirects those urls so you can't access them from your computer. It's the simplest way to block a site.

Re: An apology...

#137

Post by CWuestefeld »

confuzatron wrote: post #111
reitzensteinm wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but you're completely wrong about this. Anyone searching his name for the next 50 years will find this amongst the top 10 unless he ends up with the web presence of someone like Leo Laporte or Joel Spolsky (or someone with the same name does). The question is not whether hiring managers will find out about this - they will - it's whether they'll care.

All the chap did was accidentally leave his phone in a bar. Presumably he had it out for dog-fooding style testing. Gray Whoever (I've forgotten already) is hardly a name that will live in infamy. Unless the next time we see him is in a grainy beheading video featuring Steve Jobs wielding a large machete. All this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top - I think some people are just looking for an angle at which…

All this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top

+1 for that.

I haven't even looked at the Gizmodo page in question. That's not for any moral outrage, but because I just don't care. A new Apple product is not going to change my life by one iota. Hearing about an Apple product under development makes even less difference to me.

I have to say: Apple's marketing -- and this is part of it, make no mistake, even if it was precipitated by accident -- are the masters. That they can get the press into such a tizzy, and have such a legion of fanboys, for nothing but a handful of tech products, is what's truly remarkable -- and makes me kind of sad.

Re: An apology...

#138

Post by jamesbressi »

dazmax wrote: post #136
jamesbressi wrote: post #135

I am embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? (regarding this from the link) "Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control: 127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 www.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 m.gizmodo.com 127.0.0.1 gawker.com 127.0.0.1 www.gawker.com 127.0.0.1 m.gawker.com "

It redirects those urls so you can't access them from your computer. It's the simplest way to block a site.

Duh! Thank you for wasting your time to answer me. I have no idea why that didn't register. So now anything on his network will fail to load those URL's; rather I was thinking there was something larger at play that was going to be disruptive beyond his local. Don't ask why I was assuming this.

Re: An apology...

#139

Post by njharman »

confuzatron wrote: post #111
reitzensteinm wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but you're completely wrong about this. Anyone searching his name for the next 50 years will find this amongst the top 10 unless he ends up with the web presence of someone like Leo Laporte or Joel Spolsky (or someone with the same name does). The question is not whether hiring managers will find out about this - they will - it's whether they'll care.

All the chap did was accidentally leave his phone in a bar. Presumably he had it out for dog-fooding style testing. Gray Whoever (I've forgotten already) is hardly a name that will live in infamy. Unless the next time we see him is in a grainy beheading video featuring Steve Jobs wielding a large machete. All this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top - I think some people are just looking for an angle at which…

> 'OMG STOLEN' drama is over the top

Unless it is happening to you. Empathy, geeks are known to lack it, you should at least learn to fake it.

Re: An apology...

#140

Post by confuzatron »

njharman wrote: post #139
confuzatron wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the chap did was accidentally leave his phone in a bar. Presumably he had it out for dog-fooding style testing. Gray Whoever (I've forgotten already) is hardly a name that will live in infamy. Unless the next time we see him is in a grainy beheading video featuring Steve Jobs wielding a large machete. All this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top - I think some people are just looking for an angle at which…

> 'OMG STOLEN' drama is over the top Unless it is happening to you. Empathy, geeks are known to lack it, you should at least learn to fake it.

Okay, but empathy towards a /corporation/ for something secret being leaked? Not so much.

Maybe you're talking about Gary Wotsit being outed - I wasn't referring to that.

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