They claim it was the franchisee that did it, and it wasn't SOP for the company. Sounds like a branch manager and tech department is going to take the fall.
Ok already, I'll go look... just did a backup here at work and extracted the consolidated.db file (AT&T 3Gs iPhone).
There are 28862 rows of data for me.
I'm on a PC so I found this nice little tool that plots google map coordinates.
The majority coordinates are clustered around my work and my home, but scattered around a 1/2 mile radios or so.
You can clearly see when I took a road trip around the western US last year (the path I took and when I was where in Oregon, California, Nevada, etc...).
More interestingly, you can see where in France I was last September, so this is not limited to US borders or AT&T.
The data comes in bursts, and even has a bunch of clustered coordinates with the exact same time code. I'm surprised they don't store the averaged weighting of them by HorizontalAccuracy to get a more exact location. I wonder if each data point is somehow significant for future processing of location.
It basically says that Hotz (and associates) can't mess with Sony's stuff any more (distribute a 'circumvention device') or encourage other to do so unless congress or an other court rules that Sony's terms of service aren't legal or enforceable. If he breaks this agreement then he has to pay 10k each time, up to a cap of 250k. It also says that if there are further disputes about this from Sony they will be in a California court, and from Hotz they will be in a New Jersey court.
It basically says that Hotz (ans associates) can't mess with Sony's shit (distribute a 'circumvention device') or encourage other to do so any more unless congress or an other court rules that Sony's terms of service aren't legal or enforceable. If he does then he has to pay 10k each time, up to a cap of 250k. It also says that if there are further disputes about this from they will be California, and from Hotz they will be in New Jersey.
From BlogSpot comments...
"George Hotz said... I will address the donations in a forthcoming post, and I think people will be happy"
If google could patent "a system and method for searching the web" that would ensure their monopoly for years to come i imagine they would change their tune...
It would be nice to get free things, and I hate the MPAA and RIAA as much as the next/.er, but rewarding a company for illegally copying books from the library seems lame to me. Digitizing the data is to make a reproduction of the work by definition. It doesn't even have to be distributed by google, the fact that they have kept scanned master copies of all the books they could get their hands on is illegal. I don't understand why they have been able to keep this dataset at all...
Well, on second look it's all a bit pixely... Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there. It sure looks as though it could have been composited, but I shouldn't have been so quick to judge.
No way, it's edited for sure. I don't know why they even bothered laying the blurry foreground stuff over it if they were going to do such an obvious job on the paint. The bullet holes are blatant, but the color of all the paint is way too consistent. It's done with a brush stroke in Photoshop, not a spray can in real life. Where was this image linked from? The blog prefix makes me wonder if it was just one person, and not the news org that posted it.
I liked GeoHot's rap about getting sued by Sony (here).
There is a big difference between hacking to cheat (steal games/cheat with online games) and when someone hacks to allow you to use the hardware you own. Admittedly it's hard to keep them separate, but that's what must be done if we as consumers want the right to use the hardware we paid for as we see fit.
Deep packet inspection has been around for several (technology) generations. I don't fault the software company for selling it to anyone, if they didn't some other software vendor would have (or the Egyptian authorities would have rolled their own). The demand was there, and it was going to be filled one way or the other. The real problem I see is that the base communication protocols haven't been encrypted, even after many years of evidence that it's needed. 100% of traffic should go over SSL, or something stringer with a distributed authentication scheme, rather than having a centralized authority like Verisign holding all the root keys.
That is hit and miss, the 5th amendment is not respected for this by some people in the judicial branch (as has been noted on/. several times before)... first google result for 5th amendment password
IANADoctor, but after reading his letter it looks like a terminal case of badassitude to me...
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as a long time tivo customer, i feel comfortable saying go microsoft!
tivo cares nothing for it's users, and the sooner they go out of business the better.
once upon a time they had a great product, and they made it terrible by forcing annoying advertisements in all their menus, as soon as you pause anything, over live tv when a product is featured, and they don't provide digital over the air programming info for non-cable subscribers. 100% of customer contact goes through a call center which is powerless to perform all but the most basic tasks.
Been using the beta. No real complaints, seems a bit snappier, but on the whole no big whoop. If anyone knows how to get the status bar back that would be nice. And for some reason they always put find at the bottom of the page, which is totally not intuitive since users enter info at the top with the search and address bars...
It'd be nice if Julian could WikiLeak his own sexual assault information. As far as I've seen he's said it's a frame job but admits having sex with two women. Why not just have this out in the open and not leave people worried that backing WikiLeaks is backing a rapist?
Not to mention that all classified documents will now have a copyright clause in the footer, so they can justify pulling the plug on wiki-leaks and others that speak out of turn.
yeah, should be some laws regarding how your image and actions are used for sure... seems like that's in direct conflict with your right to privacy. Playing a video game you would not know, as a lay-person, that your image was being transmitted out to third parties.
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I think we already have the answer to that... the giveaway is the mute button on the Lulz website -> "Volume increased by 100%!"
They claim it was the franchisee that did it, and it wasn't SOP for the company. Sounds like a branch manager and tech department is going to take the fall.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Aarons-Inc-Responds-to-prnews-1949739725.html?x=0&.v=1
Oh god, not Chris Hansen! [shoots self in head]
Yep. Old wifi cards can't do new crypto. Go get a new wifi card for $10 and use WPA2 with a strong password.
Ok already, I'll go look... just did a backup here at work and extracted the consolidated.db file (AT&T 3Gs iPhone).
There are 28862 rows of data for me.
I'm on a PC so I found this nice little tool that plots google map coordinates.
The majority coordinates are clustered around my work and my home, but scattered around a 1/2 mile radios or so.
You can clearly see when I took a road trip around the western US last year (the path I took and when I was where in Oregon, California, Nevada, etc...).
More interestingly, you can see where in France I was last September, so this is not limited to US borders or AT&T.
The data comes in bursts, and even has a bunch of clustered coordinates with the exact same time code. I'm surprised they don't store the averaged weighting of them by HorizontalAccuracy to get a more exact location. I wonder if each data point is somehow significant for future processing of location.
The actual settlement was posted here
It basically says that Hotz (and associates) can't mess with Sony's stuff any more (distribute a 'circumvention device') or encourage other to do so unless congress or an other court rules that Sony's terms of service aren't legal or enforceable. If he breaks this agreement then he has to pay 10k each time, up to a cap of 250k. It also says that if there are further disputes about this from Sony they will be in a California court, and from Hotz they will be in a New Jersey court.
The settlement was posted here
It basically says that Hotz (ans associates) can't mess with Sony's shit (distribute a 'circumvention device') or encourage other to do so any more unless congress or an other court rules that Sony's terms of service aren't legal or enforceable. If he does then he has to pay 10k each time, up to a cap of 250k. It also says that if there are further disputes about this from they will be California, and from Hotz they will be in New Jersey.
From BlogSpot comments...
"George Hotz said... I will address the donations in a forthcoming post, and I think people will be happy"
If google could patent "a system and method for searching the web" that would ensure their monopoly for years to come i imagine they would change their tune...
Neat-o, the associated icon got updated to show it's a slash-vertisement.
It would be nice to get free things, and I hate the MPAA and RIAA as much as the next /.er, but rewarding a company for illegally copying books from the library seems lame to me. Digitizing the data is to make a reproduction of the work by definition. It doesn't even have to be distributed by google, the fact that they have kept scanned master copies of all the books they could get their hands on is illegal. I don't understand why they have been able to keep this dataset at all...
Too bad that this technology already exists, and is likely out driving past pregnant mothers right now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ
Well, on second look it's all a bit pixely... Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there. It sure looks as though it could have been composited, but I shouldn't have been so quick to judge.
No way, it's edited for sure. I don't know why they even bothered laying the blurry foreground stuff over it if they were going to do such an obvious job on the paint. The bullet holes are blatant, but the color of all the paint is way too consistent. It's done with a brush stroke in Photoshop, not a spray can in real life. Where was this image linked from? The blog prefix makes me wonder if it was just one person, and not the news org that posted it.
I liked GeoHot's rap about getting sued by Sony (here).
There is a big difference between hacking to cheat (steal games/cheat with online games) and when someone hacks to allow you to use the hardware you own. Admittedly it's hard to keep them separate, but that's what must be done if we as consumers want the right to use the hardware we paid for as we see fit.
How can you have a "World's Largest" article without ever actually writing down the size of the thing anywhere?!?!?!!?!?
Deep packet inspection has been around for several (technology) generations. I don't fault the software company for selling it to anyone, if they didn't some other software vendor would have (or the Egyptian authorities would have rolled their own). The demand was there, and it was going to be filled one way or the other. The real problem I see is that the base communication protocols haven't been encrypted, even after many years of evidence that it's needed. 100% of traffic should go over SSL, or something stringer with a distributed authentication scheme, rather than having a centralized authority like Verisign holding all the root keys.
That is hit and miss, the 5th amendment is not respected for this by some people in the judicial branch (as has been noted on /. several times before)... first google result for 5th amendment password
IANADoctor, but after reading his letter it looks like a terminal case of badassitude to me...
tivo cares nothing for it's users, and the sooner they go out of business the better.
once upon a time they had a great product, and they made it terrible by forcing annoying advertisements in all their menus, as soon as you pause anything, over live tv when a product is featured, and they don't provide digital over the air programming info for non-cable subscribers. 100% of customer contact goes through a call center which is powerless to perform all but the most basic tasks.
Been using the beta. No real complaints, seems a bit snappier, but on the whole no big whoop. If anyone knows how to get the status bar back that would be nice. And for some reason they always put find at the bottom of the page, which is totally not intuitive since users enter info at the top with the search and address bars...
Cite your sources, mortal.
Isn't that why he links to the 2006 SalesForce press release? Apple's trademark application was in 2008...
one can only hope the next iteration empowers the individual and gives them ownership and true control of their information.
It'd be nice if Julian could WikiLeak his own sexual assault information. As far as I've seen he's said it's a frame job but admits having sex with two women. Why not just have this out in the open and not leave people worried that backing WikiLeaks is backing a rapist?
Not to mention that all classified documents will now have a copyright clause in the footer, so they can justify pulling the plug on wiki-leaks and others that speak out of turn.
yeah, should be some laws regarding how your image and actions are used for sure... seems like that's in direct conflict with your right to privacy. Playing a video game you would not know, as a lay-person, that your image was being transmitted out to third parties.
as for examples of what the kinect can do, i thought this was more interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A