If my neighbour took my lawnmower, I’d no longer have a lawnmower. Whatever secrets this guy took we can be pretty sure Apple still has. The two things are not in any sense equivalent.
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Former Apple Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Apple Car Secrets
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If the guy has them, then they are by definition no longer secrets.
It would be like your neighbour breaking into your home and damaging your lawnmower. You'd have a 'lawnmower' but it would be worth a lot less.
That's BS Waymo is way ahead in the autonomous driving space, atm their only real competitor is Tesla & they're a notch below IMO. What Uber did, with the former Waymo employee, was arguably much worse than this guy & they rightfully paid for it.
I would want the punishment to fit the crime. I would want him sentenced to cutting my lawn for life.
No lil tools there, that's when they'll release the iFixit impact drill and other branded automotive tools
Haha, isn’t that the truth. But not as entertaining as watching them tinker with little screwdrivers on a car.
Where is the MacRumours exclusive interview? Readers want to know what he can tell us about the upcoming Apple iCar.
Apple was also VERY late to the cell phone party as well (which started in 1983 with the first commercially available cell phone from Motorola) - how’d that turn out? What is the rush? Dodge has only recently announced its first EVs (which will require a driver) The car is a “side-gig” for the world’s most valued company (worth nearly 3 times the value of Tesla). Tesla has side-gigs that don’t accomplish much (yet) either; SolarCity - has had a lot of issues, and has been sued by investors AND the Boring Company, which has been more of a “money-hole” than anything and deemed a failure at CES this year, when it did anything BUT reduce congestion and required modified Teslas to work. Autonomous driving is literally in it’s infancy, with not a single vehicle having true Autonomous driving (Level 4) certified for global, national, or state-wide operation. Only a few vehicles have Level 4 in tightly fenced areas and roles. Audi has the only Level 3 vehicle (hands free but a driver present to override) for use in Germany, it will be Level 2 in the US, due to varying state and federal requirements. Tesla’s “Full-Autonomous” is anything but, and is only certified to Level 2, as is GM’s “Super Cruise” or Ford’s “Blue Cruise”. It is naive to think Apple is behind in a Marathon, where the other runners are just making it to the one-mile marker. The level of technology, computation and automation, to operate at Level 4 (and ultimately Level 5 with no steering wheel, controls, required) is really the same distance away for any major tech company. This race has only begun - place your bets wisely.
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even if he gets the maximum of 10 years,
the Apple Car will still not be out by the time
he leaves prison in 2032.
(but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
about that)
the Apple Car will still not be out by the time
he leaves prison in 2032.
(but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
about that)
CCP actively encourages as much IP theft as possible amongst Chinese students and professionals in the United States. Happens every day. Better wise up!
That’s what I was thinking initially too. 10 years? $250K? That’s really not that steep of a penalty. The damage is irreversible if he really did steal trade secrets and leak them to that company.
I was thinking the same, I don't know whether it is greed or stupidity, but how can they believe they can get away with stealing company secrets at this time and age.
I am an Engineer, and I am always careful on what files I should transfer from a project to my personal drives, it is partly ethics but also common sense and respect for what you do.
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Not to be racist... but reminds me of Silicon Valley
The fact that you added "Not to be racist" shows that you knew this message could be interpreted as being racist.
"I'm not racist, BUT...." is a very typical way of being racist.
I can see from your profile picture that you're a visible minority as well. Is it really funny to stigmatise other minorities? Have you not suffered from racism and stigmatization in your life time? Or do you think it's ok as long as the joke is not at your expense?
Laughing at Jian Yang while watching Silicon Valley is not the same thing as what you have done here. You went a step further and connected the dots just because the IP thief mentioned in the article is alleged to be Chinese. So it's ok to easily generalize and imply that all Chinese people are copycats?
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The ultimate craziness is that Chinese or Russians that always steal trade secrets left and right don't need to receive an "export license" to work in big tech but people from countries such as Sudan needs one! US needs to grow balls and require export license for Chinese employees.
DW, RFA, VOA are not good source of unbiased reporting, they are funded by CIA and German equivalent.
Only if that student if publicly funded, not rich kids who just want to get out.
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Theft is theft - if you commit a crime - yes the government will put you in jail. So with your logic I guess I can rob and bank and what the "Bank of America" is suppose to file a lawsuit against me? Theft of company trade secrets (property) is exactly the same as going into the a bank and robbing it.