Actually come to think of it, it's the CARRIERS that benefit from this data, not Apple. It's not storing your GPS location... just the location of the cell towers you've hit
The carriers already have a log of this anyway, no matter which phone you use.
The most surprising part is that this'll ship by the end of the month...
If you subscribed to some of the official mailing lists like I do (server ones mostly because I'm a Sysadmin) then you'd realise how incredibly quickly they work.
These are a busy bunch of people, and most don't even work for Canonical.
Not always, I'm betting that the majority of searches are actually performed while at work. No doubt they are relevant to your profession, but how many are in a shopping mood while Googling for "Outlook error E3298112"?
The throwaway culture like this really pisses me off when you have people in developing countries who would have their lives greatly improved by having access to a computer, even without an internet connection. Unfortunately, it would cost them about 2 years of wages to even afford a basic one.
They do, at least, have a genuine advantage here because they already know what you are interested in.
If you list your hobbies as action movies, rock concerts and computer books then you can expect to see adverts for Netflix, Ticketmaster and Waterstones etc.
Business-wise, it's a brilliant idea and if I ran a business I would be all over this. But it's slightly creepy, I find. I'll be opting out or outright blocking Facebook (yes, you can bet money on it being opt-out only).
Governments should not be able to use Cellphone data unless first obtaining a warrant, and informing the person that the search has taken place. The EU has such a "law" codified in its Fundamental Rights document, and the US needs something similar but with stronger effect.
Even a 1Gbit Ethernet link will degrade severely over these kinds of distances (remember even regular 100Mb Ethernet is not recommended for distances over 100 metres using regular Cat5 cable.
No idea how much by, but I'm betting the extreme temperature differences between day and night in a diurnal region like this could cause the internal copper to become damaged pretty quickly with tiny fractures leading to a break.
And besides, do you really think they'll have 200KM of Cat5 to lay to the border?
This isn't a country where many people can even afford computers.
Never thought I'd say this but compared to Apple, Microsoft looks like a beacon of light for freedom and understanding what their userbase really means to them.
Apple, on the other hand, say "You like the Beatles, remember to download the new albums from iTunes because we said you should. You like everything we tell you to like, OK?"
On the contrary, I would say that making the first user on a system an Administrator is Microsoft's biggest mistake.
On a modern Windows 7 machine, it works similarly to Ubuntu or OSX where it will prompt you for for a root/admin password if it needs it.
If most Windows users were running as a restricted account, the most damage they would do is to their profile.
Apple computers come with tons of crap I'll never use so they aren't immune either.
Examples would be: Garageband, iTunes, iMovie and ten other iNoun applications when I use it for work.
My first computer (a Sinclair ZX81), came with all kinds of neat stuff like port diagrams and information about how the CPU works IIRC.
You'd never catch someone like Apple doing that these days, which is a bit sad really.
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The carriers already have a log of this anyway, no matter which phone you use.
If you subscribed to some of the official mailing lists like I do (server ones mostly because I'm a Sysadmin) then you'd realise how incredibly quickly they work.
These are a busy bunch of people, and most don't even work for Canonical.
Not always, I'm betting that the majority of searches are actually performed while at work.
No doubt they are relevant to your profession, but how many are in a shopping mood while Googling for "Outlook error E3298112"?
The throwaway culture like this really pisses me off when you have people in developing countries who would have their lives greatly improved by having access to a computer, even without an internet connection.
Unfortunately, it would cost them about 2 years of wages to even afford a basic one.
They do, at least, have a genuine advantage here because they already know what you are interested in.
If you list your hobbies as action movies, rock concerts and computer books then you can expect to see adverts for Netflix, Ticketmaster and Waterstones etc.
Business-wise, it's a brilliant idea and if I ran a business I would be all over this.
But it's slightly creepy, I find.
I'll be opting out or outright blocking Facebook (yes, you can bet money on it being opt-out only).
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Or possibly stealing everything from your WoW account...
Didn't stop the News of The World though, did it?
Which (and stating the obvious here), is exactly what has happened.
They wouldn't touch this with a bargepole until there is significant security in place. And by then, this story would be irrelevant.
Doesn't stop them though, does it?
It's completely infeasible.
Even a 1Gbit Ethernet link will degrade severely over these kinds of distances (remember even regular 100Mb Ethernet is not recommended for distances over 100 metres using regular Cat5 cable.
No idea how much by, but I'm betting the extreme temperature differences between day and night in a diurnal region like this could cause the internal copper to become damaged pretty quickly with tiny fractures leading to a break.
And besides, do you really think they'll have 200KM of Cat5 to lay to the border?
This isn't a country where many people can even afford computers.
Yeah, I'm sure that a couple of thousand dollars will be no problem for the residents of war-torn Libya.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1732232/Libyan-Internet-Flatlined
Upgrading to IE9 also breaks launching GTA4 in Steam on Windows 7, just FYI.
They are a British company and in the UK a company's accounts are public information - you get them from Companies House.
http://www.companies-house.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/WCInfo.shtml
Yeah, but it will only be switched off for the US population.
The root servers exist everywhere these days.
For both businesses, the decision to partner was one of brilliance.
I have no doubts that it will be successful.
Never thought I'd say this but compared to Apple, Microsoft looks like a beacon of light for freedom and understanding what their userbase really means to them.
Apple, on the other hand, say "You like the Beatles, remember to download the new albums from iTunes because we said you should. You like everything we tell you to like, OK?"
This is not America.
And how is email, video and reading Slashdot not "consuming content"?
On the contrary, I would say that making the first user on a system an Administrator is Microsoft's biggest mistake.
On a modern Windows 7 machine, it works similarly to Ubuntu or OSX where it will prompt you for for a root/admin password if it needs it.
If most Windows users were running as a restricted account, the most damage they would do is to their profile.
Apple computers come with tons of crap I'll never use so they aren't immune either.
Examples would be: Garageband, iTunes, iMovie and ten other iNoun applications when I use it for work.
My first computer (a Sinclair ZX81), came with all kinds of neat stuff like port diagrams and information about how the CPU works IIRC.
You'd never catch someone like Apple doing that these days, which is a bit sad really.
Canonical licenses H.264, which means Ubuntu has or can have it.