Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

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by peregrine • 16 years ago

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peregrine4• 16 years ago

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/kmobs/status/13787573671432192 (kmobs is an android hacker)

davewiner2• 16 years ago

Great. There are two headed to my zip code. I think about a million people live in my zip code. Seriously.

peregrine4• 16 years ago

The guy who discovered this list actually called up UPS and confirmed his name and address. Might want to try that in the morning.

davewiner2• 16 years ago

Wow. 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• 16 years ago

From 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?

peregrine4• 16 years ago

Heard a rumor of 60k. But I cannot back it up with any data or the source.

mynameisraj• 16 years ago

Heard the same thing, but yeah, it's a rumor, of course. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/08/report-60k-chrome-os-no...

alphaoverlord• 16 years ago

it looks like half of a list. Pretty uniform distribution for zipcodes from 00000-50000, very few 50000+?

cmelbye• 16 years ago

Yeah, unfortunately for me as someone who lives in a 55xxx zipcode.

jff2• 16 years ago

Yeah, you'd expect more being sent to the 90000 range, which includes S.F.

jey• 16 years ago

Maybe 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>

liuhenry3• 16 years ago

I 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• 16 years ago

one to centercity philly, dont like those odds

philuhhh• 16 years ago

one to 19103 as well. many thousands of IT professionals in the city. we're sol brotha

waterlesscloud• 16 years ago

None 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?

KleinmanB• 16 years ago

Me too, may the best man win.

tajddin• 16 years ago

Same here. I was looking to see if anyone had noticed that there was no zip code (I'm in '0028' in HW) specified for Hollywood.

...Wondering if there was anything specific that you guys specified on your app?

wesgarrison• 16 years ago

Two to my zip code, but we do have lots of Garmin employees here in town.

zmonkeyz• 16 years ago

I'm heartbroken... :/

cxy7z• 16 years ago

Two sent to my zipcode, neither of them mine. I feel like a kid who just found out there is no santa.

liuhenry3• 16 years ago

3 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/

callahad• 16 years ago

Any idea what the source of Addicted-Gamer's data is?

liuhenry3• 16 years ago

I 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) would be mostly correct.

juiceandjuice2• 16 years ago

One 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• 16 years ago

One 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• 16 years ago

Bah.

Just from I'm from Canada they think I'm slow, eh.

ljegou• 16 years ago

Yes, what a pity it's reserved to US citizens :/

sbierwagen• 16 years ago

Yet another reason why you should move to SF. :)

paradox95• 16 years ago

1 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.

gergles• 16 years ago

Zero to my part of SoMA in SF? Highly dubious, even if this is just one batch.

GrandMasterBirt• 16 years ago

I 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• 16 years ago

I 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).

lhnn2• 16 years ago

Despite 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.

blocke2• 16 years ago

I'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...

lhnn2• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

What 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.

blocke2• 16 years ago

Blah. 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• 16 years ago

I 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• 16 years ago

Where are these packages being shipped from ?

juiceandjuice2• 16 years ago

Seems like they are all being shipped from LOUISVILLE, KY, US, according to some tracking numbers I looked up coming to Menlo Park.

jadedoto• 16 years ago

That would be cool, seeing as one is headed to my ZIP and I'm a 45 minute drive from the louisville ups hub...

kunjaan• 16 years ago

My Zipcode is in there but I live near a University.

loganlinn• 16 years ago

Hopefully not the same university as me

simonsarris• 16 years ago

Two into my town (Nashua, NH). I have one.

I wish I could find out who the other is somehow.

hrabago• 16 years ago

One'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).

dotBen3• 16 years ago

I'm curious how a list of tracking numbers was obtained/derived. Anyone care to guess (or know)?

tlordon• 16 years ago

easy. 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

dotBen3• 16 years ago

How 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• 16 years ago

If 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.

yesimnathan2• 16 years ago

I 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.

yesimnathan2• 16 years ago

Are 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• 16 years ago

Confirmed, this works. Sadly I'm not the one getting it. :(

iphoneedbot• 16 years ago

Yes, just tried it.. and the operator was nicely tight lipped (so kudos to UPS) * but it did confirm that Im not getting one either :(

dotBen3• 16 years ago

I'm kinda concerned about the security angle on all of this.

You have people phoning up UPS finding out the addresses of where packages are going, and potentially writing down the address if it turns out not to be theirs.

You can see from the tracking results on UPS that UPS are leaving a lot of these on the steps of residences and thus if you setup the correct monitoring you now have the possibility of people running around to the houses of freshly delivered laptops to take them from the door step.

Additionally, where people have signed for them, their last name is listed and with the addition of the zip code from the original source this creates further concern. I've already been able to find out the identity of someone who received one who lives in my zipcode because he has an unusual last name. I just searched for their last name + zipcode on Google and could confirm he is a developer at Engine Yard.

The weak points in the chain are that UPS assumes you must be one of the authorized parties if you have a valid tracking number in hand, and so when you call up to enquire they take that as validation.

What this really comes down to is how these tracking numbers + zipcodes became public in the first place (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996623)

vikramhaer2• 16 years ago

I don't think they say the address right away when you ask for it. Fairly certain they ask you to confirm your name and the address that's meant to be on the package and mention if it is the same or not. Regardless, this certainly raises a concern.

RtodaAV2• 16 years ago

GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RtodaAV2• 16 years ago

Sorry I mean it will be delivered on the 15th.

sks• 16 years ago

Two comming to Stanford ... but I am sure 100s must have applied :(

progtick2• 16 years ago

My girlfriend is worried about how google is going to own her soul (with all the tracking) if she ends up getting one. Lol.

LordLandon• 16 years ago

It seems it's the slickdeals people that are behind these: 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&pos...

teoruiz• 16 years ago

Sadly no international shipments. Yet?

Anybody from outside the US got a CR-48?

skbohra123• 16 years ago

anyone from India getting one? or they even shipping outside US ?

jasiek• 16 years ago

I just checked the list and found out I'm not getting one. Does anyone know how many are being shipped out in total?

geluso• 16 years ago

There 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• 16 years ago

Dumb 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.

threejay• 16 years ago

Called 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• 16 years ago

while 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.

Anman• 16 years ago

I 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.

rman6662• 16 years ago

Not 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 :-(

rman6662• 16 years ago

I now see there are several in Wisconsin. My mistake.

joelesler• 16 years ago

No one in my zip code is getting one. Hope the DB is wrong ;)

Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

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