If they get enough to get a search warrant, you're screwed, because even if you're masking you're MAC they'll be able to figure that out once they have access to your machine and make a positive link to the IP address.
What would they link to which IP address? In a typical home NAT setup your MAC is only associated with your internal non-routable IP, and it never leaves your network. So again, they track your external IP to the router, but beyond that they're SOL without (a) very detailed router logs or (b) some very sophisticated packet analysis (which often doesn't work anyway).
Agreed, it's semantics. But for me, if it allows me to choose the best solution for my needs it's diversity. If it hampers me and makes it hard to run what I want, it's fragmentation:) The problem is people who bought devices expecting (and in some cases being promised) upgrades who aren't getting them, and hence can't run specific apps. Say what you want about Apple, but at least an iPhone can run any app it has the appropriate hardware for - a consumer doesn't (yet!) have to worry about the OS version.
HTC is hedging their bets (a smart move), but will this lead to disparate Android UI's between platforms?
We already have that: between the multiple different versions of Android itself and things like Motoblur or Sense - Android is a totally fragmented platform.
And the incremental cost to continue providing the service is what? I'd like to think it's very small, especially if no one is playing the game anymore. What, you just have to keep a VM running? Big deal
No, it's not about individual game servers. It's about the consoles connecting to Live itself. To oversimplify - original Xbox consoles expect the Live API to look a specific way, which is limiting the featureset that can be supported on the 360. What they're doing is breaking backwards compatibility so that new stuff can be added to Live. The problem isn't that they're soing anything to Halo 2 servers specifically, it's that the console (and netcode embedded in the game) won't be able to speak to Live at all anymore.
Breaking backwards compatibility is always painful, but as I think many of us will agree is often the best option (look at Apple, Intel, Windows, etc).
The reality is, its incredible Microsoft pursued such a very small operational advantage for themselves over the interests of their customers
No, they decided that being able to offer better features to the vast majority of their customers was worth inconveniencing a minority of their customers. Supporting Live1 was preventing the implementation of a number of oft-requested features and upgrades - such as expanded friends lists.
Leaving aside Apple - what's wrong with buying things from Ikea? Compared to the typical approach to buying furniture it's easy, quick and customer friendly. Ikea lets me browse the store, choose what I want and actually _physically_ pick it up and take it home. Most furniture stores don't even carry stock and make you wait weeks to have the item you've already paid for delivered. I'm utterly baffled by your complaint!
I completely agree that the obvious thing to do as the innocent finder is to assume it's a normal phone and that it's owned by the person carrying it (an aside: I carry a blackberry every day which is owned by my employer). However it's also obvious that the finder in this case at some point realized what it really was, and moreover, he claims he had no way of contacting the tester. Under those circumstances, trying to return it to Apple actually seems very reasonable to me.
If I were to find someone's briefcase and inside there were lots of documents marked "confidential" from a particular company, but nothing to identify the owner, I don't think it would be crazy for me to contact the company and try to return their information to them. I could, of course, also hand it in to the police - and it's certainly worth asking why the iPhone guy didn't do that.
Of course this is all based on what he _says_ he did, and that's all I can judge.
How about the EFF? As has been explained on a whole host of articles about this, if you want evidence from a journalist covered under shield laws you use a subpoena - NOT a search warrant. That allows the proper process to be followed to ensure that sources aren't improperly identified and journalistic freedom, public interest, etc are protected. While it may not matter in this case, journalistic freedom IS important to help protect society and that's why the law is different for them.
The state started a criminal trial
Totally false. Do you even know what a trial is? Charges have to be brought before a trial, and none have.
Warrants are step 2.. charges being pressed are step 1, and if you think that hasn't happened yet, then you are very very behind the facts on this story.
No charges have been brought. Please point to any evidence whatsoever that they have.
I'm ignoring the link to the criminals website
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"? Figures...
How on earth is it "somewhat stretched"? He is employed as a full time journalist by a multi-outlet publishing organization, and California law clearly recognizes that internet journalists/bloggers are covered under shield laws. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of their handling of the phone itself, it's pretty obvious that the police royally screwed up this part of the investigation.
He tried returning it to Apple, but it is not Apples phone anyway, it's Gray Powell's phone.
No, it's Apple's phone. When companies allow (or ask) people to test pre-release units for them they do not become property of the tester - particularly when the tester in question is an employee. I regularly beta test hardware for several companies and it's always very clear that I don't own it (otherwise I could simply sell it to Gizmodo myself), but usually on completion of the testing they will give me one of the final product as compensation.
Sensors are usually self cleaning. If it gets really dirty, switch on mirror lockup, take off the lens and go to town. Your better off taking it to a service center for a real cleaning though, many people have damaged things trying to clean the sensor.
On a Canon, if you have it in shutter priority (Tv), you can typically use the wheel right next to the shutter release to adjust the shutter up or down (and it will compensate with the aperture). Or put it in full manual and adjust the aperture independently with the wheel on the back panel. So it takes a split second, and what's more you don't even have to take your eye away from the viewfinder as it's shown on the display in there.
No, it isn't. You don't need to carry a license or any other documentation when driving in the UK. You do, however, have to produce it within a certain amount of time (I think it's 7 days) if required.
Agreed - I'm using a pair of 1600x1200 20" LCDs and as much as I'd like to upgrade, there's just nothing out there which really feels like an upgrade for sensible money. Oh well!
Activision made a profit in their last fiscal year, according to the annual report I just looked at, EA didn't. Maybe that difference has something to do with why Kotick is paid so well?
I don't know about brown, but a number of games back in the 80's came with black-on-purple code sheets which (it was said) would confuse photocopiers. Personal scanners didn't really exist at the time, these were 8-bit games distributed on tape.
They did keep their source safe. Unless you know the name of their source, because I sure don't. I only know the name of a guy at Apple, who didn't give anything to Gizmodo.
Supposing the phone is bricked he *still* has the facebook option
No, he doesn't. You can't just send messages to random people on facebook, you have to be a Friend - which he obviously wouldn't be. And if the phone's bricked he wouldn't have access to any of the owner's details anymore.
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What would they link to which IP address? In a typical home NAT setup your MAC is only associated with your internal non-routable IP, and it never leaves your network. So again, they track your external IP to the router, but beyond that they're SOL without (a) very detailed router logs or (b) some very sophisticated packet analysis (which often doesn't work anyway).
Agreed, it's semantics. But for me, if it allows me to choose the best solution for my needs it's diversity. If it hampers me and makes it hard to run what I want, it's fragmentation :) The problem is people who bought devices expecting (and in some cases being promised) upgrades who aren't getting them, and hence can't run specific apps. Say what you want about Apple, but at least an iPhone can run any app it has the appropriate hardware for - a consumer doesn't (yet!) have to worry about the OS version.
We already have that: between the multiple different versions of Android itself and things like Motoblur or Sense - Android is a totally fragmented platform.
Google don't make hardware. The Nexus One is made by ... wait for it ... HTC.
WTF has Bill Gates go to do with it? He doesn't even work there anymore.
No, it's not about individual game servers. It's about the consoles connecting to Live itself. To oversimplify - original Xbox consoles expect the Live API to look a specific way, which is limiting the featureset that can be supported on the 360. What they're doing is breaking backwards compatibility so that new stuff can be added to Live. The problem isn't that they're soing anything to Halo 2 servers specifically, it's that the console (and netcode embedded in the game) won't be able to speak to Live at all anymore.
Breaking backwards compatibility is always painful, but as I think many of us will agree is often the best option (look at Apple, Intel, Windows, etc).
No, they decided that being able to offer better features to the vast majority of their customers was worth inconveniencing a minority of their customers. Supporting Live1 was preventing the implementation of a number of oft-requested features and upgrades - such as expanded friends lists.
Leaving aside Apple - what's wrong with buying things from Ikea? Compared to the typical approach to buying furniture it's easy, quick and customer friendly. Ikea lets me browse the store, choose what I want and actually _physically_ pick it up and take it home. Most furniture stores don't even carry stock and make you wait weeks to have the item you've already paid for delivered. I'm utterly baffled by your complaint!
I completely agree that the obvious thing to do as the innocent finder is to assume it's a normal phone and that it's owned by the person carrying it (an aside: I carry a blackberry every day which is owned by my employer). However it's also obvious that the finder in this case at some point realized what it really was, and moreover, he claims he had no way of contacting the tester. Under those circumstances, trying to return it to Apple actually seems very reasonable to me.
If I were to find someone's briefcase and inside there were lots of documents marked "confidential" from a particular company, but nothing to identify the owner, I don't think it would be crazy for me to contact the company and try to return their information to them. I could, of course, also hand it in to the police - and it's certainly worth asking why the iPhone guy didn't do that.
Of course this is all based on what he _says_ he did, and that's all I can judge.
How about the EFF? As has been explained on a whole host of articles about this, if you want evidence from a journalist covered under shield laws you use a subpoena - NOT a search warrant. That allows the proper process to be followed to ensure that sources aren't improperly identified and journalistic freedom, public interest, etc are protected. While it may not matter in this case, journalistic freedom IS important to help protect society and that's why the law is different for them.
Totally false. Do you even know what a trial is? Charges have to be brought before a trial, and none have.
No charges have been brought. Please point to any evidence whatsoever that they have.
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"? Figures...
How on earth is it "somewhat stretched"? He is employed as a full time journalist by a multi-outlet publishing organization, and California law clearly recognizes that internet journalists/bloggers are covered under shield laws. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of their handling of the phone itself, it's pretty obvious that the police royally screwed up this part of the investigation.
No, it's Apple's phone. When companies allow (or ask) people to test pre-release units for them they do not become property of the tester - particularly when the tester in question is an employee. I regularly beta test hardware for several companies and it's always very clear that I don't own it (otherwise I could simply sell it to Gizmodo myself), but usually on completion of the testing they will give me one of the final product as compensation.
You know there's nothing stopping you using manual lenses on a DSLR if you prefer them so much.
Sensors are usually self cleaning. If it gets really dirty, switch on mirror lockup, take off the lens and go to town. Your better off taking it to a service center for a real cleaning though, many people have damaged things trying to clean the sensor.
On a Canon, if you have it in shutter priority (Tv), you can typically use the wheel right next to the shutter release to adjust the shutter up or down (and it will compensate with the aperture). Or put it in full manual and adjust the aperture independently with the wheel on the back panel. So it takes a split second, and what's more you don't even have to take your eye away from the viewfinder as it's shown on the display in there.
Sure they have a way of generating revenue - they have all their user's CC and bank login details!
No, it isn't. You don't need to carry a license or any other documentation when driving in the UK. You do, however, have to produce it within a certain amount of time (I think it's 7 days) if required.
oooh nice - what size is the center screen, 30"? That's an interesting idea - thanks!
Agreed - I'm using a pair of 1600x1200 20" LCDs and as much as I'd like to upgrade, there's just nothing out there which really feels like an upgrade for sensible money. Oh well!
Why can't I have both? Seriously? Are the same people responsible for story writing and engine design? Well maybe they shouldn't be.
Activision made a profit in their last fiscal year, according to the annual report I just looked at, EA didn't. Maybe that difference has something to do with why Kotick is paid so well?
I don't know about brown, but a number of games back in the 80's came with black-on-purple code sheets which (it was said) would confuse photocopiers. Personal scanners didn't really exist at the time, these were 8-bit games distributed on tape.
They did keep their source safe. Unless you know the name of their source, because I sure don't. I only know the name of a guy at Apple, who didn't give anything to Gizmodo.
No he didn't. Where is there any reference to the identity of the finder of the phone? He was gizmodo's source, not the idiot who lost it.
No, he doesn't. You can't just send messages to random people on facebook, you have to be a Friend - which he obviously wouldn't be. And if the phone's bricked he wouldn't have access to any of the owner's details anymore.