No, your old employer will demand that it be removed and destroyed because it contains some of their proprietary information, and they can't be sure it has all been removed just by 'erasing' it.

Except....Uber hasn't been told to sit at the back of the bus. They've been told to sit with the other cab companies, which they are, and they said "No".

FTFS "I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility. It is essential that we determine exactly where the breakdown in protocol occurred and whether similar activities could be ongoing at other federal facilities"

The first sentence [and much of the summary] indicate that possibly illegal drugs were being made, but they weren't sure.
The second sentence was "How did this happen and is it happening elsewhere" [ie, it definitely happened, and we must stop it from happening again].

So, you would only consider buying an Apple-branded PC if it was exactly the same as every other manufacturers boxes, but Apple charged 20-30% less than everybody else?

I'm pretty sure everyone would buy Apple PC's then.

  Apple would have 100% marketshare. Until they ran out of money selling these at a loss, given that the margins for pretty much every other manufacturer are sub-10%.

Sorry, for this story, it's "Eye'll be back!"

..and they owned their operating system. This made it very straightforward for Apple to stop them.

IBM also was very interested in suing cloners, but they couldn't stop Bill from selling the cloners licenses to MS-DOS, once [I think it was Phoenix?] the boot-rom was reverse engineered.

Uploading the data to your company's server so you can sell the data is entirely different from backing up the data to iCloud.

Hell, Fitbit doesn't work with HealthKit because...they demand that you pay them EXTRA to gain access to your raw data.

haha. You like getting backdoored!

Unless you work for Microsoft, you are using someone else's excrement.

Newbie. Chalk & rock!

You are an unconvicted criminal living in the community.

Thank god google images has a penis filter.

My understanding is that the best you can do is to find and cut off the antennae that OnStar uses.

1. Stop trying to grab every last scrap of information from your 'user'. Stick with only what you actually need to provide the service.
2. Stop routing all the data through your servers. Keep it on the user's cell phone.

Some francise-oriented work goes on for 14 years. Not a lot.

And they aren't going "well, this first one bombed, but we'll go ahead with the other 6 anyway".

The first one makes a jillion, then they go ahead with #2. And sometimes, if #1 is a really huge hit, they'll go ahead and film #2 & #3 at the same time, particularly to make the movies cheaper and retain the characters at the same age. If #1 bombs, the rest don't ever see the light of day.

The VAST majority of the money received for 99.99% of all movies are received in the first couple of years after the movie is released.

Past that, for movies, music and books, it's a lottery ticket. Every once in awhile, it winds up being popular for longer than that, or it comes back into vogue. Basically a fluke.

Nobody OK's a movie based on the financial returns of a 90 year copyright term. They go ahead if it projects to making a good profit inside a couple of years. After that, it's straightup gravy.