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Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
- threejay 16y agoCalled to check on the one listed in my zipcode. It's going to the house directly next door. Now I'm seeing the security issue with this...
- gregory80 16y agowhile i agree that this tracking method isn't the best of ideas, I hardly think this merits a decree of a security issue. Any person could steal a package off a doorstep. Stealing mail and other packages not intended for you in a serious federal offense. Besides all of that is the xmas season here in the U.S., and packages arrive to my apartment building in such quantities everyday, this time of year, that you could argue that XMAS itself is a 'security issue'... All these people, getting packages at close to the same day - all over the country! Imagine... /smugness (oh and for those that down vote me for being smug, you should be down voting all the folks on this thread that keep calling this a security issue in the first place). It's not like you can subvert the package destination, and if you steal a physical object - you are definitely going to jail.
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- peregrine 16y agoSource: http://twitter.com/#!/kmobs/status/13787573671432192 http://twitter.com/#!/kmobs/status/13787573671432192 (kmobs is an android hacker)
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- davewiner 16y agoGreat. There are two headed to my zip code. I think about a million people live in my zip code. Seriously.
- peregrine 16y agoThe guy who discovered this list actually called up UPS and confirmed his name and address. Might want to try that in the morning.
- davewiner 16y agoWow. He really wants to know. But all the pundits got theirs last week. I already know the scoop. It's a browser. It scrolls too slow. Google Docs. Nice rubber feel to the package. It has an SD drive. Be curious to see how you access it, and if you can copy data off the web with it, or is it really just a terminal. The whole fun of it was to create a wave. Not as much fun to be in the second or third wave.
- jeremyf 16y agoFrom the back and forth on Twitter, this list is only from the 3rd batch of 2000 shipped out (on 12/10). Another batch of 2000 will go out Monday. Has anybody heard a total number yet?
- peregrine 16y agoHeard a rumor of 60k. But I cannot back it up with any data or the source.
- mynameisraj 16y agoHeard the same thing, but yeah, it's a rumor, of course. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/08/report-60k-chrome-os-notebooks-on-their-way-to-google-from-inventec http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/08/report-60k-chrome-os-no...
- alphaoverlord 16y agoit looks like half of a list. Pretty uniform distribution for zipcodes from 00000-50000, very few 50000+?
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- jey 16y agoMaybe the first column contains the sender's reference number for the Cr48 packages? I.e., maybe someone generated this list by querying UPS using Google's UPS account number combined with knowledge of the format of the reference numbers (by looking at labels of delivered Cr48s)? </random guess>
- liuhenry 16y agoI played around with the reference numbers, and it seems like Google sent out 3 batches: AAC1XXXXXX (up to AAC1001982) AAC2XXXXXX (up to AAC2002127) AAC3XXXXXX (up to AAC3002115) All of these turn up 6 pound packages sent within the past few days, with the earliest being the 9th.
- jasonz 16y agoone to centercity philly, dont like those odds
- philuhhh 16y agoone to 19103 as well. many thousands of IT professionals in the city. we're sol brotha
- waterlesscloud 16y agoNone explicitly for my zipcode, but one to Hollywood CA with no zip listed, which is my zipcode. Well, we'll wait and see, won't we?
- wesgarrison 16y agoTwo to my zip code, but we do have lots of Garmin employees here in town.
- zmonkeyz 16y agoI'm heartbroken... :/
- cxy7z 16y agoTwo sent to my zipcode, neither of them mine. I feel like a kid who just found out there is no santa.
- liuhenry 16y ago3 shipped, and 6 already delivered... My town only has 30,000 people, so hopefully one will show up on my doorstep. Does anyone know why some were shipped Overnight and some by Ground? More comprehensive tracker here (but w/o tracking numbers): http://addicted-gamer.com/cr48-tracker/ http://addicted-gamer.com/cr48-tracker/
- callahad 16y agoAny idea what the source of Addicted-Gamer's data is?
- liuhenry 16y agoI can't be exactly sure, but it should be querying the UPS tracking API for reference numbers. These are assigned by the shipper (can be a description, customer name, or in this case sequential SKU blocks of 2000) so knowing the pattern would get you all of them. Jey's guess (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996388 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996388) would be mostly correct.
- juiceandjuice 16y agoOne interesting thing to note, the numbers on pastie.org seem to be mostly shipped via ground, whereas the numbers on addicted-gamer are shipped mostly by next day. According to the pastie.org info, there is only one coming to Menlo Park (where I live), but according to addicted gamer, there's two in transit (one next day, one ground, which is common with the pastie.org data) and more than 20 already delivered.
- wtallis 16y agoOne heading to my zip code, population ~45k, so my odds are probably better than 1:1000, particularly if signing up earlier helps your chances.
- ConceptDog 16y agoBah. Just from I'm from Canada they think I'm slow, eh.
- ljegou 16y agoYes, what a pity it's reserved to US citizens :/
- sbierwagen 16y agoYet another reason why you should move to SF. :)
- paradox95 16y ago1 to my zip - 3 to my city. Unfortunately that city is Santa Clara, CA so I am sure I am not the only one who requested one. Hopefully I'll find out early next week.
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- gergles 16y agoZero to my part of SoMA in SF? Highly dubious, even if this is just one batch.
- GrandMasterBirt 16y agoI have to say, Im really waiting for that laptop to be useful. At the moment is a tiny step up in performance from my shitty non-ssd ubuntu netbook.
- jdp 16y agoI received mine, but my zipcode is not on this list. Is this list for a different batch than the one mine arrived in? Mine was delivered early Friday morning (GMT-5).
- lhnn 16y agoDespite the prerequisite of caring about the web on this site, I wish someone had explained what the Hell any of this meant. -I didn't know what a "Cr-48" (note the lowercase "r") was. It's apparently the Chrome netbook Google is putting out. And it seems they're giving away 5,000 for free to random addresses? This should be a news story, not a guessing game.
- blocke 16y agoI'd guess far more than 5,000 at the rate they are going. I wonder how much they have spent so for what is basically an alpha test...
- lhnn 16y ago-1, Smart aleck? So what if you don't like how I said it? Tell me I'm wrong about the original post, then tell me you're not lying to yourself. The link is cryptic, and to assume prerequisite knowledge of a non-headline event of the day is absurd.
- Toucan 16y agoWhat degree of knowledge should be assumed? There's plenty on HN that I don't understand but I'm yet to come across anything that 30 seconds with Google couldn't explain. The only knowledge that is a pre-requisite is how to find information on the internet.
- blocke 16y agoBlah. Just as I convinced myself my app was lost in the flood and I wasn't getting one and your post keeps the painful hope alive. :P Is Google sending warning emails yet that people have a package incoming or are they still going the surprise route? I'd imagine not everyone lives in an area where a package is safe on their doorstep. shrug
- itrekkie 16y agoI was wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, the first day there was no email and it was sitting in an unmarked brown box all day. I hope that changes. I've had packages taken before, and I have to wonder if Google is keeping tabs on them, just in case.
- eerpini 16y agoWhere are these packages being shipped from ?
- juiceandjuice 16y agoSeems like they are all being shipped from LOUISVILLE, KY, US, according to some tracking numbers I looked up coming to Menlo Park.
- jadedoto 16y agoThat would be cool, seeing as one is headed to my ZIP and I'm a 45 minute drive from the louisville ups hub...
- kunjaan 16y agoMy Zipcode is in there but I live near a University.
- loganlinn 16y agoHopefully not the same university as me
- simonsarris 16y agoTwo into my town (Nashua, NH). I have one. I wish I could find out who the other is somehow.
- hrabago 16y agoOne's headed to my zipcode. That's interesting because ours is a smallish town. However, there are quite a few IT people around (where both me and my wife works).
- dotBen 16y agoI'm curious how a list of tracking numbers was obtained/derived. Anyone care to guess (or know)?
- tlordon 16y agoeasy. with ups you can track zip/city to zip/city. thus they know what city and zip they are coming from thus they add your zip or city and wahlaa you have your results
- dotBen 16y agoHow do you do that? I've just looked again on UPS customer tracking pages and their developer API pages and can't find any such search functionality. Thanks
- MJR 16y agoIf you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
- yesimnathan 16y agoI called them a moment ago and did the same thing. Unfortunately she said that their system is down for maintenance or something but it should be back up sometime in the next few hours.
- yesimnathan 16y agoAre these being shipped directly from Google? Spoke with UPS about the two going to my ZIP (neither are to me) but the lady said that it was from "Insight"
- Osmose 16y agoConfirmed, this works. Sadly I'm not the one getting it. :(
- iphoneedbot 16y agoYes, just tried it.. and the operator was nicely tight lipped (so kudos to UPS) * but it did confirm that Im not getting one either :(
- RoyceFullerton 16y agoSame, she didn't tell me the address...but I found out I'm not getting one either.
- tibbon 16y agoThey told me the name of the person that the one in my area code is shipping to. Sadly not me.
- RtodaAV 16y agoGOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- RtodaAV 16y agoSorry I mean it will be delivered on the 15th.
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- sks 16y agoTwo comming to Stanford ... but I am sure 100s must have applied :(
- progtick 16y agoMy girlfriend is worried about how google is going to own her soul (with all the tracking) if she ends up getting one. Lol.
- LordLandon 16y agoIt seems it's the slickdeals people that are behind these: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2459200 http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2459200 The OP is just the last of the three batches sent out so far. The guy who made the addicted-gamer tracker hangs out there too http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=35270219&postcount=1773 http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=35270219&pos...
- teoruiz 16y agoSadly no international shipments. Yet? Anybody from outside the US got a CR-48?
- skbohra123 16y agoanyone from India getting one? or they even shipping outside US ?
- jasiek 16y agoI just checked the list and found out I'm not getting one. Does anyone know how many are being shipped out in total?
- geluso 16y agoThere is one coming to my house! I found two orders listed under my zipcode. I called UPS and asked to verify the address on each one. The customer service representative uncandidly gave up my (own!) address. Excited, I asked if the package is being delivered under my name or the name of my room mate. It is sufficient to say that now I'm jealous. I'm excited to tell him, "Dude, you're getting a Cr-48!" The one thing that worries me is how easy it was to obtain the address information. Hopefully no one nearby tries to poach the package as it arrives.
- pmorici 16y agoDumb question, would Google not send an email to the people they are sending these too? I filled out that form when I saw it posted here days ago and promptly forgot about it.
- Anman 16y agoI called. I didn't get it but they did give out the address and name of the person it's going to. That's worrying.
- rman666 16y agoNot one person from WISCONSIN? What's with that? I'm a CISSP and CISM and I applied to evaluate the CR-48 from a security and usability perspective. So far, I'm not on the list :-(
- rman666 16y agoI now see there are several in Wisconsin. My mistake.
- joelesler 16y agoNo one in my zip code is getting one. Hope the DB is wrong ;)