I only recall reading about one anecdotal example of this actually happening, and IIRC, the employer backed down when it was exposed in the press.

TFA doesn't provide any actual examples of where it actually happened.

TFA didn't say anything about the suit being over chip design. Apple claimed that "Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 copied the design of the Apple iPad in a way intended to confuse customers." I guess that means Samsung slapped an Apple logo on the back. That's the only thing I can think of that would confuse customers.

Samsung manufactures the A4 and A5 processor for iPads and iPhones, and Apple sues them over their own mobile consumer products.

Shouldn't the posting have the Apple graphic instead of Microsoft?

The best way to get hired is to have skills that are in high demand. I just searched drupal on monster.com and got 210 hits for the entire market served by Monster. I got no hits for the medium-size city where I live. That makes it a relatively small niche in my view. But if Drupal is the way you want to go, I would advise you to develop guru-level Drupal skills, so you can nail every question in a technical interview.

And regarding your lack of a degree, I don't hold it against a candidate when I'm looking to hire someone. The fact that someone is self-taught I see as a fairly reliable indicator of certain traits I look for in a developer. You can't thrive in this business long-term if you're not capable of learning and mastering new technologies on your own. People that can't do that end up working in the same cubicle at the same large company for 25 years maintaining some legacy system built with technologies that happened to be fashionable when they were hired right out of college.

However, few hardware manufacturers are as pious and self-righteous as Apple is.

Why aren't they using union workers in US plants, and complying with US environmental laws rather than China's much more lax laws?

If they did that, they could employ some of the poor 99%ers at the OWS encampments, who can't make payments on the student loans they took out to get degrees in filmmaking or women's studies.

What part of Europe are you from? The part whose ass we kicked, or the part whose ass we saved?

You must not be old enough to remember how popular George H.W. Bush was after leading the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait in early 1991. That was a far bigger deal than this, and unemployment never went above 7.8 percent during his entire term. But go ahead and count those chickens if you want.

FFS, just say "price". That's what you're talking about. That's all you need to say.

Or an adam's apple, for that matter.

Thanks for the link, but I can't look at it now. I'm out of pocket for a few days. But for all intensive purposes, I think you're correct.

Remember Ike's warning about the Military-Industrial Complex? In that same speech, he also said:

the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

(http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html)

Think about that the next time someone tries to discredit research because it was funded by an oil company.

Ike's warning has been borne out. Public policy has become the captive of a scientific-technological elite, who, unsurprisingly, are a bunch of dishonest frauds.

I've been part of two large, high-profile projects that cratered spectacularly (as I knew they would) and I consider it some of the most valuable experience of my career as a software developer. I've told that to interviewers a number of times. If they don't get it, then I don't want to work for them.

That should be tattooed on your forehead.