While I'd probably still recommend RHEL/CentOS/Rocks/whatever, to answer this specific question...
Ubuntu is an easy-to-use polished layer on top of Debian's unbeatable history of Doing Shit Right. Yes, there are some mistakes in their history like everyone else, so skip the "but in 1996 Debian did some obscure thing wrong" and "one time some boob screwed up the random number generator in ssh" - but overall, Debian is an incredible base for just about everything. Ubuntu takes Debian's inherent coolness and then makes releases more than once a decade.:) With the Ubuntu route, you get a number of different kernels which would benefit HPC applications - like a 32 bit kernel with the large memory support enabled, a kernel with RTC support, etc. You get the ability to install the ubuntu-minimal version (use the alternate installer) which is smaller than the minimal version offered by the other popular distros, and then install the packages you want. You get the QA benefits of using a distribution that has a *lot* of eyes upon it. And you get apt-build so you can recompile and fairly easily package things up.
Someone supporting HPC clusters shouldn't just pop the graphical install disk in and take what's installed; there is a fair amount of cutomization which should be done (ideally through Cfengine). So, while Ubuntu does have a nice, really easy install process for Grandma, there's an incredibly powerful and configurable architecture underneath that unassuming front end. If you have the deep knowledge required to understand why one distro really is better than others, it's actually worth taking the time to read through the documentation in the Ubuntu wiki, learning how all the different Debian things work together, and generally spending the time it takes to seriously use and inspect Ubuntu behind-the-scenes. It's nicely architected because the Debian people - weird as they may be - have spent decades building a very well designed platform that people like Canonical can extend.
It's really not as bad a choice as one might think if all they know about Ubuntu is that it's easy to install and use out of the box.:)
I don't build or support HPC clusters in my current job, but in my previous job working for the people who probably made the CPU in your cluster, I did.:) We specifically did performance testing on the hardware before it was released to the public. We did the testing with RHEL and SLES because that's what pretty much everyone who built clusters does. Now, "everyone does it" doesn't mean it's the best, but just like nukem996 said below me, it does mean it'll be best supported. If you have a problem and search teh intarwebs, you'll probably ifnd a solution geared towards RHEL. Ubuntu is getting pretty popular, and you're also apt to find solutions for problems you run into on a Debian-derived platform as well. IMHO, it's easier to rebuild components on Ubuntu that RHEL, but that's mostly because apt > rpm.:) But really, pretty much everyone uses RHEL, so CentOS FTW.
Or just stay on Fedora, since it works and is pretty much the same as RHEL except for being more current.:)
The problem with that suggestion is that the people maintaining the code don't have a clue what QA means. And before people whine - I used Gentoo as my primary distro for around three years. The emerge system is great - but the data inside is crap.
If you want to build your stuff from source and actually have a working system, look at the Debian-based distros. There's this nifty "apt-build" thing that lets you build software with whatever compile options you want (so you can still do -O3 -funroll-loops on everything if you really hate memory), just like Gentoo does. And there are packages for just about everything; partially because Debian's been around forever, and partially because "just about everyone" uses Ubuntu now. Gentoo does have a few "hacking" apps which are hard to find on other systems, but that's irrelevant to this discussion (and BackTrack is the way to go for that stuff anyway, IMHO). The primary difference is that you can build with source code that will actually work, and probably won't blow your system up when you just do a routine update. Wheras with Gentoo, some random kid who's too 'leet for testing might just promote to stable a new version of Xorg or Apache (both real examples from experience) which works fine on his system but breaks everyone else's in the world. And by "might" I mean "will".:)
I'm posting that mostly because quite a few Gentoo users think that only Gentoo (and maybe some of the BSDs) can easily rebuild a system from source, so they put up with atrocious quality assurance (which is admittedly extremely difficult given the Gentoo user base, and supposedly has gotten better) because they don't know that there are quite usable alternatives that are also more mainstream.
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is still using old grub instead of grub2. I just don't feel like manually editing the grub2 config, so I'll be glad when they finally get this version of grub2 into Ubuntu.:) I'm using btrfs not for all the cool features, but because it was the fastest on this system with a SSD. I did several bonnie++ / iozone / hdparm (ok, that doesn't count) benchmarks, and btrfs is by a pretty decent margin the best performing with my workload on my system with my solid state drive.
Well, since you took the time to write a serious response, I'll go ahead and seriously note that I have no idea how photographers make any money. Everything costs you a fortune, and your customers are convinced that they can do pretty much the same thing with a point-n-shoot if they only had the fancy background.
That, and I'm curious why you're reporting to the Dept. of Corrections - is this a work-release job?:)
Yeah, I'd imagine that insurance is pretty expensive in a high-risk industry like photography. And the computer is only a monthly cost if you're renting it from Aarons; but if you were doing that, they'd already be taking the pictures for you.;)
I own my cars, but it'll be a couple of years before my house is paid for. So, as that disqualifies me from making fun of people's math skills, I'll just make fun of your inability to differentiate between "there" and "their" instead.:)
While I'm here - some advice on emergencies: Never sell your house / otherwise get into a stupid bad situation over medical bills (which are about the only probable surprise cost big enough to matter). You can almost always get a hospital to work out an acceptable payment plan, eat the cost, or just find a way out of paying for medical bills -- but living in a box is not a good trade-off for avoiding the occasional annoying bill collector phone call. As long as you're making your house payment, you're generally not going to get your house taken away by some other unpaid debt. So (ignoring annoying government bailouts) always make the house payment first, and then other stuff later. If you have to, send some money to a lawyer rather than letting someone convince you that they'll take your house. I *hate* seeing stories about someone who sold their house to pay off part of some surgery or something, and ending up still in some insurmountable amount of debt with the added inconvenience of not having a house. It's almost as bad as seeing someone pay $4K for a $300 computer.:)
If you can make a $200 payment, you can buy a pretty decent laptop on eBay for around $200. And then next month, you can sell that laptop for pretty close to what you paid (because used hardware that's a few years old doesn't lose a lot of value in a month or two), and buy a $400 laptop.
Then again, I guess we've already established that these are not exactly the sharpest knives we're dealing with here.
iptables? You go to the "wireless" tab and fill in the "add" information. Then you have a new network interface showing up, and you can go over to "services" and set up another dhcp server, and maybe go to the QOS section to change the priority of stuff on that second network. It's about as simple as it can be while still retaining an acceptable level of control. Under wireless security you can control whether the guest network is set up differently.
On a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, I've got three wireless networks (one secure, one less secure for my video game system / etc, and one open running chill spot), a second router with a wired connection hosting two of those networks, and a couple more distributed around (one in the garage and one at a neighbor's house a few houses down) redistributing the two main networks with WDS. The chillispot network lets neighbors use my connection for a token fee (through a proxy that logs everything and provides adequate identification of the originating user if they still want to do questionable stuff after authenticating), the neighbor hosting the relay gets reduced-cost access, and the non-trusted networks are QOS'd way down so that my known stuff takes absolute priority. Then there's an OpenVPN tunnel on top of the WPA wireless required to get into the internal wired network, and the Internet-facing stuff is additionally behind a Cisco PIX which is behind an iptables firewall.
Some of that's a tad complicated to configure, but the multiple SSIDs thing was near-trivial to set up.:)
A decent antenna or two costs what, $10-$20? Still not justifying the Cisco WAP.:)
I've got Cisco equipment in my home (the switches and PIX), but my wireless routers are not overpriced Cisco eqiupment. Your impressive range is due more to 802.11n than to the high price. I can see my dd-wrt Buffalo WRT-HP-54G about 1/4 mile away, and that's just 802.11g.;)
Seconded. I'm successful because I enjoy my job and my life; and my salary has very little to do with that statement (aside from being above a minimal threshold)....And I plan to try to use "moral retard" more often now.:)
...preemptively - I don't know if there are grammar errors in there or not, but the point was to make a joke, not to be the grammar nazi. Smart also != infallible.;)
You know, you can find several IQ tests free online, including the Mensa "pre-qualification" test. You can take those, average your score, and not have to guess...
Don't worry, there's no grammar section, so the misuse of "premises" when you meant "premise" (or possibly "conclusion when you meant "conclusions") won't count against you.:D
But seriously, I agree with the premise;) that people can either tell you're smart or they can't. And if you're not in a situation where people can tell, who cares? Personally, I score in the top 1% of Mensa applicants, but WTF does that mean[1]? Nothing, aside from my ability to do better on that particular test than most other people. The thing that makes someone "smart", in my eyes, is the ability to relate and apply knowledge. For example, a good programmer isn't the one who knows all of the keywords from a language, or who knows the names for fifty different sorting algorithms - it's the one who can most efficiently solve an actual problem. Being good at trivia doesn't make someone smart, even though sometimes people seem to confuse the two. Similarly, scoring well on an IQ test doesn't make someone "smart."
BTW, I only mention my score range (not the actual score) because a lot of times it seems like people who have little respect for IQ tests do poorly on IQ tests. So it seemed relevant to note that I do well on them and also don't respect them as a useful measure. Anyone impressed by an IQ score is, IMHO, too easily impressed.
[1] I suppose it does mean that I'm smart enough to realize that it's nuts to pay $50 or whatever per year to be a member of Mensa just for the privilege of hanging out with other people who were gullible enough to pay the membership fee. I can make friends / find a decent job just fine myself; I don't need to pay to have "smart people" be my friend.:) Besides, the whole concept behind Mensa just bugs me; I dislike the idea of being part of a group of people who get together just because they all scored similarly on a test. I'd rather go to a car show and talk to people who can actually make stuff, and car shows are usually free.:)
There's a ton of information out there, and it all says something slightly different. The differences seem to vary based on how enamored with Apple the reporting source is.:)
Personally, I don't care what happens to people with iPhones. However, it does somewhat irritate me that any dumbass with an iPhone walking past my house is assisting Apple in tying my wireless access point's MAC with the GPS coordinates where it's located. Well, not so much my house, since my MAC address changes periodically. But the idea bugs me.
Yeah, it's a bug. "Whoops., we accidentally stored a complete history of everywhere you've ever been, because designing a cache is *soo hard* and we obviously don't have talented programmers or anyone who tests code who'd notice that this file gets f'in huge if you drive around".;) Bah. I wrote some code to delete files older than 60 days in a directory just a few days ago; it took about 5 minutes, most of which was testing that it actually worked.:D
Anyway... Regarding where the data lives, I'll start with a quote from The Fine Article:
While the security researchers Allan and Warden did not confirm whether the devices were actively sending data back to Apple, Sewall said that it was within Apple's right to do so.
"By using any location-based services on your iPhone, you agree and consent to Apple's and its partners' and licensees' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing and use of your location data to provide such products and services," Sewall's letter reads, citing Apple's End User Agreement.
But he added that the information is collected anonymously and the devices give users controls for disabling the features.
So, while some people are saying it's not sent back to Apple, the fine fella from Apple in the interview sure seems to indicate that it "might" be. Then there's this AP article:
At a technology conference in San Francisco this past week, security researchers disclosed that iPhones and iPads keep a small file of location data on their users. That file — which is not encrypted and thus vulnerable to hacking — is transferred when you sync your phone to your computer to back up information. Security firm F-Secure Corp. said the iPhone sends users' location data to Apple twice a day to improve its database of known Wi-Fi networks.
So, umm, I'm pretty sure it does send data back, as that's what caused most of the uproar to begin with. It's unclear to me whether the whole data file is sent back, or whether it's just "here's a list of WAPs and where they are". Which, as an aside, is why my WAP gets a different MAC address periodically. This week, it's the ever-popular 00deadbeef00.
Speaking of this stuff, I wonder what my HP WebOS device does (probably sniffs my bank account information and sends my balance to HP hourly).:)
Where's the preference which says "please don't store my information forever, and don't send it to Apple so that they can store it forever + give it to any other business partner (including the police for a profiling database) who they decide would like to know where I've been."? Besides, there's no way to disable all location information, as a cell phone will be connected to a tower pretty much all the time, which identifies your location down to within a couple of miles. And this database, if you've read the articles, is a list of cell phone towers and relative signal strengths - which the new app demonstrates can be used for mapping where you've been.
Yes, the cell company has this information. I agreed to that when I bought my phone (which isn't an iPhone, BTW, but let's pretend it is for this). I even agreed to let apps access real-time location information. I did not, however, agree to have my phone store historical location data in a way that any other app can access, nor did I agree to send that information to the phone's manufacturer who has *no* legitimate use for that data.
So, when you respond to a message - and quote the original text text - which says "I know this is different", you think the best response is to say "you idiot, it's different!"?
Tonight's homework for you is to read and learn the definition of irony. Hint, it doesn't have anything to do with rain on your wedding day.
$4000? The cheapest one I found is $11 with free Prime shipping on Amazon. Heck, a Sony Bloggie is like $250, and it shoots 3D *video*. I'd wager that the quality is at least on-par with some craptacular software for a fanboy cellphone.:)
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While I'd probably still recommend RHEL/CentOS/Rocks/whatever, to answer this specific question...
Ubuntu is an easy-to-use polished layer on top of Debian's unbeatable history of Doing Shit Right. Yes, there are some mistakes in their history like everyone else, so skip the "but in 1996 Debian did some obscure thing wrong" and "one time some boob screwed up the random number generator in ssh" - but overall, Debian is an incredible base for just about everything. Ubuntu takes Debian's inherent coolness and then makes releases more than once a decade. :) With the Ubuntu route, you get a number of different kernels which would benefit HPC applications - like a 32 bit kernel with the large memory support enabled, a kernel with RTC support, etc. You get the ability to install the ubuntu-minimal version (use the alternate installer) which is smaller than the minimal version offered by the other popular distros, and then install the packages you want. You get the QA benefits of using a distribution that has a *lot* of eyes upon it. And you get apt-build so you can recompile and fairly easily package things up.
Someone supporting HPC clusters shouldn't just pop the graphical install disk in and take what's installed; there is a fair amount of cutomization which should be done (ideally through Cfengine). So, while Ubuntu does have a nice, really easy install process for Grandma, there's an incredibly powerful and configurable architecture underneath that unassuming front end. If you have the deep knowledge required to understand why one distro really is better than others, it's actually worth taking the time to read through the documentation in the Ubuntu wiki, learning how all the different Debian things work together, and generally spending the time it takes to seriously use and inspect Ubuntu behind-the-scenes. It's nicely architected because the Debian people - weird as they may be - have spent decades building a very well designed platform that people like Canonical can extend.
It's really not as bad a choice as one might think if all they know about Ubuntu is that it's easy to install and use out of the box. :)
I don't build or support HPC clusters in my current job, but in my previous job working for the people who probably made the CPU in your cluster, I did. :) We specifically did performance testing on the hardware before it was released to the public. We did the testing with RHEL and SLES because that's what pretty much everyone who built clusters does. Now, "everyone does it" doesn't mean it's the best, but just like nukem996 said below me, it does mean it'll be best supported. If you have a problem and search teh intarwebs, you'll probably ifnd a solution geared towards RHEL. Ubuntu is getting pretty popular, and you're also apt to find solutions for problems you run into on a Debian-derived platform as well. IMHO, it's easier to rebuild components on Ubuntu that RHEL, but that's mostly because apt > rpm. :) But really, pretty much everyone uses RHEL, so CentOS FTW.
Or just stay on Fedora, since it works and is pretty much the same as RHEL except for being more current. :)
The problem with that suggestion is that the people maintaining the code don't have a clue what QA means. And before people whine - I used Gentoo as my primary distro for around three years. The emerge system is great - but the data inside is crap.
If you want to build your stuff from source and actually have a working system, look at the Debian-based distros. There's this nifty "apt-build" thing that lets you build software with whatever compile options you want (so you can still do -O3 -funroll-loops on everything if you really hate memory), just like Gentoo does. And there are packages for just about everything; partially because Debian's been around forever, and partially because "just about everyone" uses Ubuntu now. Gentoo does have a few "hacking" apps which are hard to find on other systems, but that's irrelevant to this discussion (and BackTrack is the way to go for that stuff anyway, IMHO). The primary difference is that you can build with source code that will actually work, and probably won't blow your system up when you just do a routine update. Wheras with Gentoo, some random kid who's too 'leet for testing might just promote to stable a new version of Xorg or Apache (both real examples from experience) which works fine on his system but breaks everyone else's in the world. And by "might" I mean "will". :)
I'm posting that mostly because quite a few Gentoo users think that only Gentoo (and maybe some of the BSDs) can easily rebuild a system from source, so they put up with atrocious quality assurance (which is admittedly extremely difficult given the Gentoo user base, and supposedly has gotten better) because they don't know that there are quite usable alternatives that are also more mainstream.
He's just irritated because every time anyone says "hedge" it sounds like "edge",
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There's no reason to start calling people "old" here unless they have 4 digit id. :) Now get off my lawn.
But the lack of grub-probe is the only reason this system:
sauer@hotrod:~$ awk '$1!~"#"&&$2~"/(boot)?$"' /etc/fstab /boot xfs noatime,nodiratime,sync 0 2
UUID=e332a6e4-9e5f-420c-a86e-f376d70e0fdb / btrfs noatime,nodiratime,compress,ssd 0 1
UUID=0c39bf26-ffb4-4eed-ac2c-2114b8681a12
is still using old grub instead of grub2. I just don't feel like manually editing the grub2 config, so I'll be glad when they finally get this version of grub2 into Ubuntu. :) I'm using btrfs not for all the cool features, but because it was the fastest on this system with a SSD. I did several bonnie++ / iozone / hdparm (ok, that doesn't count) benchmarks, and btrfs is by a pretty decent margin the best performing with my workload on my system with my solid state drive.
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Well, since you took the time to write a serious response, I'll go ahead and seriously note that I have no idea how photographers make any money. Everything costs you a fortune, and your customers are convinced that they can do pretty much the same thing with a point-n-shoot if they only had the fancy background.
That, and I'm curious why you're reporting to the Dept. of Corrections - is this a work-release job? :)
Yeah, I'd imagine that insurance is pretty expensive in a high-risk industry like photography. And the computer is only a monthly cost if you're renting it from Aarons; but if you were doing that, they'd already be taking the pictures for you. ;)
I own my cars, but it'll be a couple of years before my house is paid for. So, as that disqualifies me from making fun of people's math skills, I'll just make fun of your inability to differentiate between "there" and "their" instead. :)
While I'm here - some advice on emergencies: Never sell your house / otherwise get into a stupid bad situation over medical bills (which are about the only probable surprise cost big enough to matter). You can almost always get a hospital to work out an acceptable payment plan, eat the cost, or just find a way out of paying for medical bills -- but living in a box is not a good trade-off for avoiding the occasional annoying bill collector phone call. As long as you're making your house payment, you're generally not going to get your house taken away by some other unpaid debt. So (ignoring annoying government bailouts) always make the house payment first, and then other stuff later. If you have to, send some money to a lawyer rather than letting someone convince you that they'll take your house. I *hate* seeing stories about someone who sold their house to pay off part of some surgery or something, and ending up still in some insurmountable amount of debt with the added inconvenience of not having a house. It's almost as bad as seeing someone pay $4K for a $300 computer. :)
If you can make a $200 payment, you can buy a pretty decent laptop on eBay for around $200. And then next month, you can sell that laptop for pretty close to what you paid (because used hardware that's a few years old doesn't lose a lot of value in a month or two), and buy a $400 laptop.
Then again, I guess we've already established that these are not exactly the sharpest knives we're dealing with here.
Source:
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apartment+hidden+camera+illegal
Why not:
They can put it in the contract, but it's not enforceable.
iptables? You go to the "wireless" tab and fill in the "add" information. Then you have a new network interface showing up, and you can go over to "services" and set up another dhcp server, and maybe go to the QOS section to change the priority of stuff on that second network. It's about as simple as it can be while still retaining an acceptable level of control. Under wireless security you can control whether the guest network is set up differently.
On a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, I've got three wireless networks (one secure, one less secure for my video game system / etc, and one open running chill spot), a second router with a wired connection hosting two of those networks, and a couple more distributed around (one in the garage and one at a neighbor's house a few houses down) redistributing the two main networks with WDS. The chillispot network lets neighbors use my connection for a token fee (through a proxy that logs everything and provides adequate identification of the originating user if they still want to do questionable stuff after authenticating), the neighbor hosting the relay gets reduced-cost access, and the non-trusted networks are QOS'd way down so that my known stuff takes absolute priority. Then there's an OpenVPN tunnel on top of the WPA wireless required to get into the internal wired network, and the Internet-facing stuff is additionally behind a Cisco PIX which is behind an iptables firewall.
Some of that's a tad complicated to configure, but the multiple SSIDs thing was near-trivial to set up. :)
A decent antenna or two costs what, $10-$20? Still not justifying the Cisco WAP. :)
I've got Cisco equipment in my home (the switches and PIX), but my wireless routers are not overpriced Cisco eqiupment. Your impressive range is due more to 802.11n than to the high price. I can see my dd-wrt Buffalo WRT-HP-54G about 1/4 mile away, and that's just 802.11g. ;)
Whaa! I should be able to do whatever I want with the computer I don't own, because productivity business critical empower sysnergy!
Seconded. I'm successful because I enjoy my job and my life; and my salary has very little to do with that statement (aside from being above a minimal threshold). ...And I plan to try to use "moral retard" more often now. :)
...preemptively - I don't know if there are grammar errors in there or not, but the point was to make a joke, not to be the grammar nazi. Smart also != infallible. ;)
You know, you can find several IQ tests free online, including the Mensa "pre-qualification" test. You can take those, average your score, and not have to guess...
Don't worry, there's no grammar section, so the misuse of "premises" when you meant "premise" (or possibly "conclusion when you meant "conclusions") won't count against you. :D
But seriously, I agree with the premise ;) that people can either tell you're smart or they can't. And if you're not in a situation where people can tell, who cares? Personally, I score in the top 1% of Mensa applicants, but WTF does that mean[1]? Nothing, aside from my ability to do better on that particular test than most other people. The thing that makes someone "smart", in my eyes, is the ability to relate and apply knowledge. For example, a good programmer isn't the one who knows all of the keywords from a language, or who knows the names for fifty different sorting algorithms - it's the one who can most efficiently solve an actual problem. Being good at trivia doesn't make someone smart, even though sometimes people seem to confuse the two. Similarly, scoring well on an IQ test doesn't make someone "smart."
BTW, I only mention my score range (not the actual score) because a lot of times it seems like people who have little respect for IQ tests do poorly on IQ tests. So it seemed relevant to note that I do well on them and also don't respect them as a useful measure. Anyone impressed by an IQ score is, IMHO, too easily impressed.
[1] I suppose it does mean that I'm smart enough to realize that it's nuts to pay $50 or whatever per year to be a member of Mensa just for the privilege of hanging out with other people who were gullible enough to pay the membership fee. I can make friends / find a decent job just fine myself; I don't need to pay to have "smart people" be my friend. :) Besides, the whole concept behind Mensa just bugs me; I dislike the idea of being part of a group of people who get together just because they all scored similarly on a test. I'd rather go to a car show and talk to people who can actually make stuff, and car shows are usually free. :)
There's a ton of information out there, and it all says something slightly different. The differences seem to vary based on how enamored with Apple the reporting source is. :)
Personally, I don't care what happens to people with iPhones. However, it does somewhat irritate me that any dumbass with an iPhone walking past my house is assisting Apple in tying my wireless access point's MAC with the GPS coordinates where it's located. Well, not so much my house, since my MAC address changes periodically. But the idea bugs me.
Yeah, it's a bug. "Whoops., we accidentally stored a complete history of everywhere you've ever been, because designing a cache is *soo hard* and we obviously don't have talented programmers or anyone who tests code who'd notice that this file gets f'in huge if you drive around". ;) Bah. I wrote some code to delete files older than 60 days in a directory just a few days ago; it took about 5 minutes, most of which was testing that it actually worked. :D
Anyway...
Regarding where the data lives, I'll start with a quote from The Fine Article:
So, while some people are saying it's not sent back to Apple, the fine fella from Apple in the interview sure seems to indicate that it "might" be. Then there's this AP article:
So, umm, I'm pretty sure it does send data back, as that's what caused most of the uproar to begin with. It's unclear to me whether the whole data file is sent back, or whether it's just "here's a list of WAPs and where they are". Which, as an aside, is why my WAP gets a different MAC address periodically. This week, it's the ever-popular 00deadbeef00.
Speaking of this stuff, I wonder what my HP WebOS device does (probably sniffs my bank account information and sends my balance to HP hourly). :)
Where's the preference which says "please don't store my information forever, and don't send it to Apple so that they can store it forever + give it to any other business partner (including the police for a profiling database) who they decide would like to know where I've been."? Besides, there's no way to disable all location information, as a cell phone will be connected to a tower pretty much all the time, which identifies your location down to within a couple of miles. And this database, if you've read the articles, is a list of cell phone towers and relative signal strengths - which the new app demonstrates can be used for mapping where you've been.
Yes, the cell company has this information. I agreed to that when I bought my phone (which isn't an iPhone, BTW, but let's pretend it is for this). I even agreed to let apps access real-time location information. I did not, however, agree to have my phone store historical location data in a way that any other app can access, nor did I agree to send that information to the phone's manufacturer who has *no* legitimate use for that data.
No, he can't - because it was a joke, you thickheaded moron.
So, when you respond to a message - and quote the original text text - which says "I know this is different", you think the best response is to say "you idiot, it's different!"?
Tonight's homework for you is to read and learn the definition of irony. Hint, it doesn't have anything to do with rain on your wedding day.
$4000? The cheapest one I found is $11 with free Prime shipping on Amazon. Heck, a Sony Bloggie is like $250, and it shoots 3D *video*. I'd wager that the quality is at least on-par with some craptacular software for a fanboy cellphone. :)
Yes, I know this is different. I don't care.