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Posted by Hemos on from the l33t-walking dept.

asv108 writes "It seems that people are finding new uses for their iPod. According to this story in Wired, a Dallas area CompUsa employee caught a teenager transferring a fresh copy of Office for OSX to his iPod from a store demo machine."

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  1. Texan Gun Owner? by MattRog · · Score: 2, Troll

    "I thought there's no point in getting any more involved in this imbroglio," Webb said. "Besides, this is Texas. You never know what he might have been carrying."

    What a maroon. Way to stereotype both Texans and gunowners. Sure, like some kid is going to shoot you for ratting him out. Grow up, turn off the TV once in a while, maybe even read a book, and shut the hell up.

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    1. Re:Texan Gun Owner? by SamBeckett · · Score: 0, Troll

      How the fuck is this a troll?? I hate you left-wing ultra liberal morons on slashdot.

  2. Re:Same trick, different decade by CaptainZapp · · Score: 0, Troll
    Glad to see some things haven't changed...

    er, not quite. 5 Gig capacity is a helluva lot more then you can store on those pesky diskettes.

    On the other hand: Software also tends to be a tad more bloated nowadays. Mind you, not better, just more bloated...

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  3. Total misue of the word "Thief" by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tell ya, criminals of the world should form a union and crack down on this watered down version of the word thief. He didn't steal shit. He copied display software onto his iPod. Big fucking deal. The store still has their copy, which they probably didn't pay for anyways. He's a kid, he never would have bought Office anyways. It is totally inappropriate to associate this with shop lifting. The CompUSA dude was probably looking at this narq blankly because he didn't give a shit. Why should he care? It's not like CompUSA has lost anything. They still have the same amount of stock as they did 5 minutes ago. /rant.

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  4. If Comp USA is that DUMB.... by Newer+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then they deserve this....

  5. Stores are the problem... by Monthenor · · Score: 1, Troll
    Reminds of the local Media Play, a year ago. They actually had the good sense to have a demo computer running Linux. Caldera something-or-other. (Sorry, I'm not a big Linux guy. I prefer games ;)

    Of course, in this Win-centric world none of the Media Play employees thought to put a root password on it...

    My friend gave it an rm -rf * and we left the store VERY QUICKLY.

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  6. Re:Yeah, with chewing gum by ryantate · · Score: 1, Troll


    It's already done. I saw the I/O ports on some computers at Fry's Electronic blocked with chewing gum. Obviously, Fry's is more clued than CompUSA.

    Yeah, obviously. Ruining a $500+ CPU to save the installed software from piracy. Those Fry's people are real geniuses.

  7. Like this is a suprise?? by mcdade · · Score: 0, Troll

    Come on, Mac users are the biggest Pirate users I know.. they have this "share" mentality, which I think stems from the fact that they are so excited they have found another mac user that they will share any software they have.

    I guess the software companies don't bother going after the pirates there cause there are too few of them. Also when all of us using PC's were stuggling with usenet to get warez (remember getting 62 of 66 parts of a file and not finding the couple missing files??) they had advanced P2P file sharing systems like Hotline.