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    Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It

    It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones

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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Gizmodo, you really need to check your facts before you go off on an atrocious tangent. THIS IS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY! Even your precious iPhone does it!
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    Image of Modano Modano
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Care to back that up? I've never seen that mentioned anywhere before.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    @Modano: It doesn't. As I noted in my response to Dcoaster down below, he has comprehension problems. He's essentially comparing apples to oranges.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Comprehension problems is one thing, but when you can't read terms of service, you have a bigger issue to deal with.
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    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Each time an app tries to locate my iPod Touch (yes, it's locatable through wi-fi because of skyhook) it asks me if i want to disclose it.
    Seems much better to me.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Palm: Creepy practices to match our
    creepy advertising girl. Is anyone really surprised?
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    Image of newgalactic newgalactic
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I'm surprised that Apple didn't beat them to it.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @newgalactic: Too bad they did. [tinyurl.com]
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Comprehension FAIL! We're talking about how creepy their commercials are and how creepy it is that the Pre sends info back about where you are and you're tryna hit us up with a practice whereby Apple (long ago) admitted to a kill switch for malicious iPhone apps (which they still have not ever used). If Palm admitted that, there'd be no problem. They'd simply be added to the list of companies who have a kill switch for their App Store apps (Android, Apple, etc.) This is different. The phone friggin sends back your friggin location periodically without your knowledge. That is fucking untenable.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE!? Wow. Someone needs to learn to read when they accept terms that they are bound to.
    And you think this is malicious by Palm?! Get a clue!
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    Image of macmanwa macmanwa
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: From my reading of the Giz article, it isn't saying that it sends anonymous information only when you are using a location-aware application (like Google Maps or the like). It says it periodically sends the data back--meaning not in the context of using an application, but just when it is idle. If that isn't the case and it just does it when in an application that uses GPS then whatever--you agreed to it. But if it is just "whenever", like when the phone is just idle then that is the problem.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @macmanwa: Close but not quite. When you initially TURN ON the phone, you are asked to accept Palm's Terms of Service and set up your Palm Profile. In those terms, you agree to this same thing. They will be gathering usage information from your device. HOWEVER, location-wise, you have to GRANT them access by turning on Location Services and agreeing to those *additional* terms.
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    Image of One Banana, Two Banana One Banana, Two Banana
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    It measures its velocity? What is the terminal velocity of a palm pre?
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    08/12/09

    @Brian: The Sad Panda: It's actually reasonably high. I think with a drag coefficient somewhere in the range of .11, if you can keep it from tumbling, it would go about 141 m/s or 315 mph sideways.
    It's programmed to send the police to the base of the tall building the coordinates indicate once the velocity crosses the 90 m/s mark.
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    Image of rockmanx9 rockmanx9
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    latitude": 36.594108, "longitude": -82.183260,
    Bristol, TN??
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Well, that's not disconcerting or anything. EXCEPT THAT IT FUCKING IS. Jeez, talk about tinfoil hat stuff.
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    Image of Zombie Peach Zombie Peach
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    I for one welcome our new creepy girl overlords
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    Image of Monty Monty
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    It really seems unacceptable that applications like Latitude run on the phone without asking the thief whether they are okay with sharing their current location. Google needs to answer for this atrocity.

    [/sarcasm]
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    If you're going to steal, might as well go big time.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    @ripfire: read that article. it was awesome.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    as long as their is opportunity you will find criminals being criminals being dumb. most theft detterents only keep honest people honest. lock on a door -- use a window. window locked -- throw a brick. some woman walking around with a purse not secured to their person -- grab and go. vault door open at the bank as you walk past to use the restroom with the guard sleeping and no videotape to capture the crime with three bags full of cash sittin on the floor -- politely wake the guard and tell him to put a tape in and move the bags out of sight.
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    04/15/09

    @Nick: deterrents**
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    I have a confession to make...


    I purposely leave my phone on the table at the student center when I go to the washroom, in hopes of someone stealing it and being tracked down my my phone's GPS...

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    Image of behrens behrens
    04/15/09

    @SJRNWT: uhhhh what school was that again?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    Also, theft of any device, be they tantamount to a homing beacon or otherwise, will never go out of "style". Any and every personal gadget is subject to theft. The decrease in cell phone theft largely depends on the increased mental capacity of the scum-sucking lowlife that meander about and prey on innocent passers-by. I for one, don't have that amount of faith.
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    Image of glenno86 glenno86
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    How much money do people plan on selling these things? Just get a real job and the ~$200 you made selling this seems like petty cash.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    @glenno86: We're talking about people who are either desperate fools who don't know what else they can do with their lives, or dumb kids who can thrive happily on chump change while they sit at home rent-free with mommy.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    Robbing one of their personal properly is always dumb, even if the person is mentally proficient enough to know about what it is he or she is stealing. If the person had an ounce of wisdom, that person would be able to go out and get his or her own fucking cell phone with his or her own money.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: personal property. Sorry. OCD attack.
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    Image of onewiththewurlitzer onewiththewurlitzer
    04/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: What about stealing an iphone, to sell to buy bread, for your starving family and meds for your sick grandmother?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: you had it right the first time. criminals should be proper in their attacks. please and thank yous and what nots
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Weird. I actually read "property" the first time.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    @onewiththewurlitzer: Nonsense. Just steal those things directly :P
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    Image of None None
    04/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: In general, thievery defies simple categorization - I once worked with a senior scientist who routinely stole the change out of the office coffee pool. The guy was brilliant, and made a lot of money, but committed petty theft nonetheless.
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    04/15/09

    @Auld_Lang_Ziety: Technically, a funding pool is public property :P
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    Image of UofITom UofITom
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    Just pop that battery out at your first convenient opportunity, and laugh your way to the bank.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/15/09

    @UofITom: Unless it's an iPhone, which doesn't have such a user-replaceable battery.
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    04/15/09

    In reply to It's Become Really Dumb to Steal Cellphones
    Now is just the perfect time to steal cheaper phones. Then trade those suckers in for an iPhone and you're solid.
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