Which is why a court order/subpoena/warrant is necessary, which is exactly what happened here. No one can just grab that info without the say so of a judge, and that judge must have a justifiable cause. Where the hell is anyone saying that you cannot ever be anonymous in any way on the internet? We're specifically talking about the legal system here.
Please point out where the court getting your IP from a website and then getting your information from the ISP constitutes self-incrimination. I'd just LOVE to see the justification here.
Right, because serious threats of bodily harm aren't illegal or anything. So being anonymous on a website automatically makes you exempt from the law? Utter horseshit. A subpoena/warrant/court order for records isn't "bullying", and you do NOT have the right to make death threats against people in ANY medium. Did you actually trying thinking before typing or are you just another/.er that kneejerks like hell whenever anything that could be remotely construed as eroding "privacy" shows up? This is a simple extension of existing law into a new realm of communication. That's it.
Hell, the unabomber sent bombs through the mail anonymously. I guess the cops had to right to bust him. By the same token, if I post a hijack link in a forum anonymously that installs malware on the users' machines, am I exempt from the law because I did so anonymously?
Right! Courts shouldn't be able to gather any evidence against anyone for anything!
Are you really this fucking stupid? Yes, there could be abuse. There is the possibility of abuse with ANY law. The court can issue a warrant for your phone records or to toss your place, but dammit, websites should never have to turn over IP addresses! They only want to stifle free speech! After all , if some kid posts that he's going to shoot up his school on some forum, the cops have no right to get a warrant for any info on him! He's just exercising free speech!
Already happened. Moot got subpoenaed and showed up to present IP logs and such on the Palin email skiddie. The court also had him define "newfag" and "rickroll".
1080p is only for mirroring the display. The iPad can only play up to 720p. What's even niftier is that HDMI adapter will work with ALL current iOS devices (albeit only for video playback up to 720p, mirroring is for iPad 2 only), which is something I've been waiting for. I'd love to toss some 720p video on my iPhone and plug it into a TV with one cable at full quality. None of the other cable kits come close. It also has a dock passthrough, which is very nice.
Under false pretenses as the person on the other end had hijacked an employee email account. Not to say the sysadmin wasn't an idiot, but the hacker still did some very, VERY illegal things.
And if the antics of Anonymous were 100% legal, you'd have a point. As many of their antics are clearly illegal (like hacking into a security firm), you really have no damned point and just look like an idiot. You are not free to break the law.
Okay retard, how much power does the i7 960, a DESKTOP CPU, eat? 130w at peak. Now try cramming that into a portable, a portable which probably wouldn't balk at a very high end video card and other components. You will EASILY have a portable that eats over 200w. It will need a lot of cooling hardware. It will be thick. It will be heavy. The power brick will be bulky as it has to push a lot of juice.
Claiming exaggeration when you clearly haven't even bothered thinking about it doesn't make you look like you know what you're talking about. It just makes it obvious why you post as an AC.
When your "laptop" has a desktop CPU in it, weights 10+ pounds, takes a massive, hot, 200+w power brick, and is over an inch thick, it's hard to call it a "laptop" anymore.
I'd hardly say it's a downgrade across the board. The HD 3000 is about on par with the 320M they were using in the 13". The 6490M is indeed a downgrade, but the 6750M is a significant upgrade over the 330M. I wouldn't buy one unless I had money to burn, though.
However, Thunderbolt is reason to get excited. Apple's the first to carry it, but Intel is backing it and I expect to see it proliferate further. One Port to Rule Them All. Want USB3? eSATA? Hell, probably even legacy ports like SCSI? Get an adapter and you have it. Just about anything you can stick on a PCIe bus can be made to work with Thunderbolt. Hell, we may even see half-decent external video cards for laptops.
This. The Voodoo5 wasn't as popular as earlier cards by 3dfx and was released as they fell behind, but it wasn't a bad card and still ran fine. It just wasn't enough to save them. Very sad. Oh 3dfx...
Nah. Zip was quite popular for a while. Zip750 would fit the bill, but not Zip in general. We're looking at things that were fails right from the start, and not just little indie products, but stuff from pretty big names at the time.
Right, because the cops can bust you for thinking about it.
Oh, wait, it's only if you have made tangible preparations for it, ie, you try to hire a hitman to kill someone (like that retard did on Facebook not long ago) or search around for people to help you rob a bank.
The $1799 MBP has a quad in it too, you know, and I'd say that the quads have definitely boosted the bang for the buck. It's kinda disappointing that the $1799 MBP has a lesser video card in it than the previous one (6490M vs GT 330M), though.
You do realize that the new interconnect can be adapted to eSATA, USB3, Firewire, or just about any other port, right? It's pretty damned nifty, and like every other cable Apple makes, people will sell them dirt cheap on eBay, Amazon, Monoprice, etc. And while the Macbook Pros will always be more expensive than PC laptop counterparts, I think this is going to close the gap a bit, especially with quads on the 15/17". It'll take a little time to find out as Apple is among the first to start selling Sandy Bridge laptops.
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Um...Sony BMG? You know, the huge label that's one of the big four in the RIAA?
Which is why a court order/subpoena/warrant is necessary, which is exactly what happened here. No one can just grab that info without the say so of a judge, and that judge must have a justifiable cause. Where the hell is anyone saying that you cannot ever be anonymous in any way on the internet? We're specifically talking about the legal system here.
Please point out where the court getting your IP from a website and then getting your information from the ISP constitutes self-incrimination. I'd just LOVE to see the justification here.
Right, because serious threats of bodily harm aren't illegal or anything. So being anonymous on a website automatically makes you exempt from the law? Utter horseshit. A subpoena/warrant/court order for records isn't "bullying", and you do NOT have the right to make death threats against people in ANY medium. Did you actually trying thinking before typing or are you just another /.er that kneejerks like hell whenever anything that could be remotely construed as eroding "privacy" shows up? This is a simple extension of existing law into a new realm of communication. That's it.
Hell, the unabomber sent bombs through the mail anonymously. I guess the cops had to right to bust him. By the same token, if I post a hijack link in a forum anonymously that installs malware on the users' machines, am I exempt from the law because I did so anonymously?
They're available. I can't remember where I got them, but a quick Google search should bring them up.
Right! Courts shouldn't be able to gather any evidence against anyone for anything!
Are you really this fucking stupid? Yes, there could be abuse. There is the possibility of abuse with ANY law. The court can issue a warrant for your phone records or to toss your place, but dammit, websites should never have to turn over IP addresses! They only want to stifle free speech! After all , if some kid posts that he's going to shoot up his school on some forum, the cops have no right to get a warrant for any info on him! He's just exercising free speech!
Already happened. Moot got subpoenaed and showed up to present IP logs and such on the Palin email skiddie. The court also had him define "newfag" and "rickroll".
1080p is only for mirroring the display. The iPad can only play up to 720p. What's even niftier is that HDMI adapter will work with ALL current iOS devices (albeit only for video playback up to 720p, mirroring is for iPad 2 only), which is something I've been waiting for. I'd love to toss some 720p video on my iPhone and plug it into a TV with one cable at full quality. None of the other cable kits come close. It also has a dock passthrough, which is very nice.
Under false pretenses as the person on the other end had hijacked an employee email account. Not to say the sysadmin wasn't an idiot, but the hacker still did some very, VERY illegal things.
And if the antics of Anonymous were 100% legal, you'd have a point. As many of their antics are clearly illegal (like hacking into a security firm), you really have no damned point and just look like an idiot. You are not free to break the law.
Okay retard, how much power does the i7 960, a DESKTOP CPU, eat? 130w at peak. Now try cramming that into a portable, a portable which probably wouldn't balk at a very high end video card and other components. You will EASILY have a portable that eats over 200w. It will need a lot of cooling hardware. It will be thick. It will be heavy. The power brick will be bulky as it has to push a lot of juice.
Claiming exaggeration when you clearly haven't even bothered thinking about it doesn't make you look like you know what you're talking about. It just makes it obvious why you post as an AC.
Someone is a retard who can't tell the difference between a first and second-gen i7...
When your "laptop" has a desktop CPU in it, weights 10+ pounds, takes a massive, hot, 200+w power brick, and is over an inch thick, it's hard to call it a "laptop" anymore.
Except that Thunderbolt -> USB3 and eSATA 6GB/s (and just about everything else under the sun) will be showing up shortly.
I'd hardly say it's a downgrade across the board. The HD 3000 is about on par with the 320M they were using in the 13". The 6490M is indeed a downgrade, but the 6750M is a significant upgrade over the 330M. I wouldn't buy one unless I had money to burn, though.
However, Thunderbolt is reason to get excited. Apple's the first to carry it, but Intel is backing it and I expect to see it proliferate further. One Port to Rule Them All. Want USB3? eSATA? Hell, probably even legacy ports like SCSI? Get an adapter and you have it. Just about anything you can stick on a PCIe bus can be made to work with Thunderbolt. Hell, we may even see half-decent external video cards for laptops.
Insulting a graphics company? It is what it is. The AMD 6490M is slower than the Nvidia GT 330M. That's all there is to it.
This. The Voodoo5 wasn't as popular as earlier cards by 3dfx and was released as they fell behind, but it wasn't a bad card and still ran fine. It just wasn't enough to save them. Very sad. Oh 3dfx...
Nah. Zip was quite popular for a while. Zip750 would fit the bill, but not Zip in general. We're looking at things that were fails right from the start, and not just little indie products, but stuff from pretty big names at the time.
Right, because the cops can bust you for thinking about it.
Oh, wait, it's only if you have made tangible preparations for it, ie, you try to hire a hitman to kill someone (like that retard did on Facebook not long ago) or search around for people to help you rob a bank.
So we have less than 500 crimes out of hundreds of thousands (possibly MILLIONS) of posts on US Craigslist pages alone?
My, what a cesspool of crime! That ratio is horrible!
The Air uses a Sandforce controller in its SSDs.
I think the name could have a major negative connotation, too. Remember Duck Tales? Didn't Launchpad crash all the time?
The $1799 MBP has a quad in it too, you know, and I'd say that the quads have definitely boosted the bang for the buck. It's kinda disappointing that the $1799 MBP has a lesser video card in it than the previous one (6490M vs GT 330M), though.
You do realize that the new interconnect can be adapted to eSATA, USB3, Firewire, or just about any other port, right? It's pretty damned nifty, and like every other cable Apple makes, people will sell them dirt cheap on eBay, Amazon, Monoprice, etc. And while the Macbook Pros will always be more expensive than PC laptop counterparts, I think this is going to close the gap a bit, especially with quads on the 15/17". It'll take a little time to find out as Apple is among the first to start selling Sandy Bridge laptops.
Um...Jobs is the very reason you are using that Unix-under-the-bonnet OS.