Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Apr 2010 23:11 UTC, submitted by UglyKidBill
Well, this is unexpected. The iPhone 4G saga just got a whole lot crazier - dare I say it, a whole lot more ridiculous. Have you ever reported anything like a phone or something similarly small stolen to the police? What was their reaction? Did you ever get the device back? Did they send an army of officers to get your device back? No? Odd. They raided Jason Chen's house, and took four computers and two servers. Update: And thus our true colours reveal. "The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last week on the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came at the behest of a special multi-agency task force that was commissioned to work with the computer industry to tackle high-tech crimes. And Apple Inc. sits on the task force's steering committee." Update II: According to TechCrunch, the investigation has been put on hold while the DA ponders Gizmodo's shield defence. Update III: Some legal insight from a constitutional law and first amendment expert and a law professor. The gist? The DA has said no one has been charged with anything here, making this just an investigation - however, this makes the search and seizing of material worse. "If the police are literally just gathering information, with no suspect targeted yet, then a subpoena against a journalist would have probably been smarter than a search warranted that resulted in the front door of Chen's home being bashed in."
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Member since:2005-06-29
I've already stated more than once in this discussion that I hold Gizmodo equally at fault along with Apple. I never said I thought Gizmodo did the right thing. My comment was strictly regarding whether Apple is being consistent with their policies, and when they cease to be consistent they resort to intimidating anyone involved. It's disgusting.
Just so you are clear on my position: Gizmodo is in the wrong for buying the phone and if found criminally liable they should pay. Apple is in the wrong for using local police to intimidate Mr. Chen when he was merely breaking the story. The police and the judge were wrong for allowing Apple to seek a search warrant with no charges filed, instead of a subpoena which would be more logical (not to mention saving a lot of face with the public). Should criminal charges be filed, I would expect the outcome to be in Apple's favor given what little info we have to go by.
Member since:2007-02-17
I've already stated more than once in this discussion that I hold Gizmodo equally at fault along with Apple. I never said I thought Gizmodo did the right thing. My comment was strictly regarding whether Apple is being consistent with their policies, and when they cease to be consistent they resort to intimidating anyone involved. It's disgusting.
Just so you are clear on my position: Gizmodo is in the wrong for buying the phone and if found criminally liable they should pay. Apple is in the wrong for using local police to intimidate Mr. Chen when he was merely breaking the story. The police and the judge were wrong for allowing Apple to seek a search warrant with no charges filed, instead of a subpoena which would be more logical (not to mention saving a lot of face with the public). Should criminal charges be filed, I would expect the outcome to be in Apple's favor given what little info we have to go by.
Just so you are clear on my position: Gizmodo is in the wrong for buying the phone and if found criminally liable they should pay. Apple is in the wrong for using local police to intimidate Mr. Chen when he was merely breaking the story. The police and the judge were wrong for allowing Apple to seek a search warrant with no charges filed, instead of a subpoena which would be more logical (not to mention saving a lot of face with the public). Should criminal charges be filed, I would expect the outcome to be in Apple's favor given what little info we have to go by.
Who is to say it wasn't he DA of the area who went overboard. Due to the number of tech companies in that area a DA can't be lax on issues like these or he will find himself not being the DA for long or any future prospects in government. With the deep pockets that these companies have any government official may be a bit overzealous to please. Doesn't necessarily mean that Apple told them to go hunt down Chen. I highly doubt hat Apple told the local police to make good on a sketchy warrant that even the judge who issued it wasn't sure about. The main point is that maybe shit like this don't fly in Silicon Valley. If it did these companies will move elsewhere and that can affect a lot of people and lot of money could then be channeled elsewhere. That's a lot of pressure for a DA and he may tend to get heavy handed if he though his job was in jeopardy.
Member since:2010-02-14
How Apple handles this internally is irrelevant. This was an internal prototype that Gizmodo purchased under dubious circumstances. If you're looking for a reason to hate Apple then look elsewhere and you can find plenty of reasons. In this case Gizmodo is the guilty party, they shouldn't have bought property that they knew belonged to Apple.
Apple had every right to contact the authorities. Gizmodo not only illegally purchased Apple property but also profited from it through increased ad revenue. They wanted a breaking story and were willing to step outside the law to get it. The shocking thing is how they made no attempt to cover their trail.
Hey guys look at this Apple prototype we purchased from some random guy for 5000 dollars! Neat-o! Here's my picture with it!!!
Oh but we shouldn't be arrested cuz they guy we bought it from says Apple doesn't care.
So freaking stupid, I just can't believe it. [/q]
Exactly. This isn't about the guy who found the phone anymore.
This is now about Gizmodo knowingly violating local,state and quite possibly federal laws dealing with stolen property
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
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Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 12:06 UTC
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Last I read, Apple still had not fired or otherwise disciplined the employee who lost it.
So what is your point? Does this in any way negate the fact that this phone contained trade secrets? Was this a product purchased at an at&t store? No, it was a secret prototype that they were keeping from their competitors.
How Apple handles this internally is irrelevant. This was an internal prototype that Gizmodo purchased under dubious circumstances. If you're looking for a reason to hate Apple then look elsewhere and you can find plenty of reasons. In this case Gizmodo is the guilty party, they shouldn't have bought property that they knew belonged to Apple.
Apple had every right to contact the authorities. Gizmodo not only illegally purchased Apple property but also profited from it through increased ad revenue. They wanted a breaking story and were willing to step outside the law to get it. The shocking thing is how they made no attempt to cover their trail.
Hey guys look at this Apple prototype we purchased from some random guy for 5000 dollars! Neat-o! Here's my picture with it!!!
Oh but we shouldn't be arrested cuz they guy we bought it from says Apple doesn't care.
So freaking stupid, I just can't believe it.