That time of year again...

I heard about this on the news but they didn't do it justice. I had no idea it's so cool and elegant.

 

I heard about this on the news but they didn't do it justice. I had no idea it's so cool and elegant.

And begging for a lawsuit.

 

And begging for a lawsuit.

A lawsuit? How can anyone ever have the nerve to sue someone else because they didn't like what they stole from their victim?.

 

A lawsuit? How can anyone ever have the nerve to sue someone else because they didn't like what they stole from their victim?.

Remember, we are speaking of modern-day resistors.

 

A lawsuit? How can anyone ever have the nerve to sue someone else because they didn't like what they stole from their victim?.

A glitter spec in the eye and it is all over.

 

 

That time of year again...

Classic YouTube.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...f-viral-homepod-glitter-bomb-video-were-faked

"I'm especially gutted because so much thought, time, money, and effort went into building the device and I hope this doesn't just taint the entire effort as 'fake,'" writes Rober in text placed underneath the video. "It genuinely works (like all the other things I've built on my channel) and we've made all the code and build info public."

 

Classic YouTube.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...f-viral-homepod-glitter-bomb-video-were-faked

Next, you're going to tell me there is no Santa Claus.

 

Classic YouTube.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...f-viral-homepod-glitter-bomb-video-were-faked

That's like saying "Gone with the Wind" was faked because it was staged. So what?

 

That's like saying "Gone with the Wind" was faked because it was staged. So what?

And the world suddenly gets smaller again.

kv

 

That's like saying "Gone with the Wind" was faked because it was staged. So what?

I agree it was pretty good acting that also screwed the engineers of the actual device but funny low-life thief reactions, yes, real low-life thief reactions, no. They would have crushed the package with the car while doing a burnout.

 

I agree it was pretty good acting that also screwed the engineers of the actual device but funny low-life thief reactions, yes, real low-life thief reactions, no. They would have crushed the package with the car while doing a burnout.

I suspected a fake right off with the one shot of the "thief" picking up the package (package was in shot)in the "thief's" home. So how would you get that shot when the camera is inside the package?

And someone is going to risk loosing 3 smart phones? I know they are cheap. But still.

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-committing-theft-trade-secrets

Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident, was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with theft of trade secrets. Tan is alleged to have stolen the trade secrets from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.

The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Trent Shores for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and Special Agent in Charge Kathryn Peterson of the FBI Oklahoma City Field Office.

From LinkedIn his expertise is described in the profile as “materials and systems development for renewable energy storage”. Most likely new battery technology being stolen.

Research Assistant
Dates EmployedSep 2006 – Nov 2011
Employment Duration5 yrs 3 mos
LocationPasadena, CA
• Ph.D. thesis: “A study of the thermodynamics and kinetics of LixFePO4 as a cathodematerial for lithium batteries”. Thesis advisor: Prof. Brent Fultz
• Built a Mössbauer spectrometer and studied the polaron dynamics in LixFePO4, alsoanalyzed its structural phase transition, electrical conductivity, and phonon... See more

 

a ... Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident

Maybe that's not such a great idea.

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-committing-theft-trade-secrets


From LinkedIn his expertise is described in the profile as “materials and systems development for renewable energy storage”. Most likely new battery technology being stolen.

The Chinese directive to all companies and individuals is to provide all available intelligence to its government:

...Huawei is much more than an innocent manufacturer of smartphones.
It is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party.
How do we know?
Because the party has repeatedly said so.
First in 2015 and then again in June 2017, the party declared that all Chinese companies must collaborate in gathering intelligence.

 

Maybe that's not such a great idea.

Good thing his trade craft was non-existent. Any idiot with two seconds training would have grabbed the data and left the country without notice. They really need to train their people better in the future.

Per the criminal complain he communicated about the theft with his own company laptop and gave them two weeks' notice he was headed to China.

This is a Position Hiring Agreement It states Mister TAN Hongjin will be the Energy New Material Engineering Center Director [LT] in Xiamen. The letter includes his responsibilities in the management portion as well as his expertise area. TAN's annual salary will be 800,000 RMB. A soon as he starts, he will be compensated 400,000 RMB for introducing the talent. While you [TAN] are signing the contract, you must guarantee that the information you have already provided and will provide is real and effective; there is no false [information][verbatim translation]." TAN must promise the confidentiality that he has not [released] to a third party of the company technology and operational related information. TAN must sign the agreement before 10/20/2018, and the agreement becomes valid [on] 1/1/2019.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1122851/download

 

https://www.kptv.com/officer-s-mess...cle_ed61e6f8-cbe5-544a-87e7-f8222daac1d9.html

You were scared when I stopped you. You were visibly shaking and breathing hard. Unfortunately, you were scared one minute too late and for the wrong reason. You should have been scared that you were trying to kill yourself. I know you’re invincible. I know that you can’t even fathom your own death.

I can tell you dozens of stories of dead and broken 18 year old bodies that I’ve pulled from cars. Broken bodies that I’ve found in front yards after crashes. Unrecognizable bodies. They thought they were invincible too. They weren’t. They were gone so they missed the part where I had to tell their parents that they were dead. Part of your soul disappears every time you have to tell parents that their kid is dead.

 

Someone that drives at 100 MPH isn't going to care and look at this as preaching. They will likely be angry rather than learn from it. Sad to say.

 

Someone that drives at 100 MPH isn't going to care and look at this as preaching. They will likely be angry rather than learn from it. Sad to say.

Which begs the question of why my speedometer on my Subaru Forester goes from 0 to 150MPH with 20 mile major tick marks. I will never , ever exceed 80mph let alone drive at 150MPH. All that wasted gauge real estate makes it difficult to read.

 

Which begs the question of why my speedometer on my Subaru Forester goes from 0 to 150MPH with 20 mile major tick marks. I will never , ever exceed 80mph let alone drive at 150MPH. All that wasted gauge real estate makes it difficult to read.

Marketing gimmick.

I doubt your Forester would hit 150 going downhill.