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500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop
Komawi writes "Greetings,
On the night of march 11th my car was stolen (Mercedes Benz, I'm realy fond of that car!), but also my laptop with in it a wireless networkcard with the following MAC address:
00:30:BD:9C:BD:B2
Also a mobile phone was stolen, with IMEI number 351083531088913.
If anyone has a way to locate these goods and by this I get back my car, a reward of 500 euros will be given!
The goods were taken from Alkmaar, The Netherlands somewhere between 2004-03-11 23:00 and 2004-03-12 07:30.
May the force be with you!"
Sorry to hear about the theft. I can only imagine how awful it feels.
...I got your car too
First fool!
(I actually believed it)
Did you try slashdot.ru? I think sooner or later your laptop and your Mercedes-Benz will be seen somewhere around the Red Square.
Found it.
Oh, right, you wanted that stuff back. Sorry, I made way more than 500 euros just by parting it out.
I am a filthy pirate.
For sale:
Second hand Mercedes, second hand laptop and second hand mobile phone.
Total price: 501
Hate me!
I'm usually the first to bemoan non-news postings, but the fact is that slashdot is also a community (see "Ask Slashdot"). While posting every single theft report doesn't make sense, you have to admit that it would be cool, in this case, if the slashdot community came up with a way to track this auto down using technology, yes?
so he might be telling the truth....
Strangely enough my car was stolen too, yeah that's the ticket. So, I'm offering $500US to anyone who retrieves my Mercedes Benz with a wireless capable laptop and a cell phone in it... just send me the car, the laptop, and the phone and I will send you your $500. Thank you for your support during this trying time.
Devil Ducky
MY peers would get out of jury duty.
The thought that it's April Fool's Day immediately leads one to question the validity of any story on Slashdot or any other news outlet. Although I doubt this is an April Fool's Day joke, how do we know that it's real? How do we know that this person isn't actually looking for someone else by searching for their MAC address? OR something more sinister?
The other thing about April Fool's Day is that noone ever believes me when I say it's my birthday. Which is kind of depressing.
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That's nothing. I once read an ad in the Via Via that went something like: "Laptop for sale. 500 euros. I don't know anything about it, I'm a cab driver and somebody left it in my car. 06-12345678 etc..."
No, civilized countries write dates either as DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD, you don't just juggle the digits around.
Nobody would write time like HH:SS:MM ? Of course not, it would be just as ridiculous as writing a date like YYYYDDMM it doesn't make any sense.
Or you could write dates like most airlines do 01APR04 or in this case 11MAR04..
I so sorry about your loss.
I cannot help with your laptop theft, but oh Holy Day! I have been the pleasure of telling you that there is most definitely good news for you today sir!
I am Abdul Shakalakabangbang, from New Timur. Our Prime Minister, may his soul flatulate freely in heaven, was tragically killed in a mushroom stuffing contest. Since I his trusted most aide, he leave me lots of money. Due to political unrest, and a bad case of hemorroids, I am needing to remove this money from the country. This is where you can help me, my new friend.
If you feel most strongly you can help this poor man, please contact me and let us know.
thanks,
Dr Shakalakadangdang
Sent from your iPad.
I think this is a bit of a twist on the April Foolery. Notice the department for this article: "real-submissions-unedited dept." I'm sure people submit inane "stories" like this all the time, and they're usually promptly deleted. I think somebody actually did submit this story in all sincerity, and the joke is that /. actually published it...
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
You'd think the license plate number would be a better clue than the MAC address and IMEI code of the electronics, but what the hell, this is slashdot!
Martin
Note the department: real-submissions-unedited
Becha someone really thought we would be ready/willing/able/inclined enough to help, and michael saved it, since truth is stranger than fiction.
Is this your Mercedes
I metamoderate, therefore I am
IMEI number analysis results
Manufacturer Siemens
Model type S55 S30880-S5720
Reference S30880-S5720
Production date N/A
Phone version N/A
Phone GSM phase GSM Phase 2 or higher
IMEI number break-down
Type Approval / Allocation Code (TAC) 351083
Final Assembly Code (FAC) 53
Serial Number (SNR) 108891
Check Digit (CD) 3
Full IMEI presentation 351083-53-108891-3
DDMMYYYY is some Euro thing that makes no sense. You don't speak dates like this: "Meet me 17 April 2004." It's not natural.
Well, actually you'll find that alot of people in the UK will say "Meet me on the 17th of April, 2004". There is a world outside the US, you know.
I thought this was Slashdot. Oh well--
... and you live nearby I'll be happy to give you a ride down to the local coffee shop.
If anyone can help me find my car keys (mis-placed them, probably not stolen as the car *is* in the driveway)
Now, where did I put those keys?
I am going to hell and I am going to take all of you with me.
You realise that not everyone in europe speaks english? 17 April 2004 makes sense in many languages, including french.
besides, how cool would a story be:
today, a notorious car thief was caught by a mob of computer nerds...
YYYY-MM-DD. He's in Europe, so he's using sensible date formats ;)
no taxation without representation!
It was in the conservatory, stolen by Professor Plum, using the lead pipe. Where do I collect my (insert fancy Euro symbol here)500 Reward?
You don't speak dates like this: "Meet me 17 April 2004." It's not natural.
Not in English it isn't, but in most European languages it is:
French, Dutch, Spanish, German,
However, I'm not sure 500 Euros is worth the effort.
Are you kidding? That's, what, $1,000,000 USD?
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
Well, actually you'll find that alot of people in the UK will say "Meet me on the 17th of April, 2004". There is a world outside the US, you know.
.... oh wait, you weren't joking.
Hahahahaha! April Fool's!! Good one!
Bummer, you're probably right about the Merc, and I'm sorry to hear about how the burglars/phone co./cops treated you.
However, a friend's GSM phone was stolen in Italy (out of her car, along with a lot of other stuff.) TIM helped them find it after they called the phone. The police located a bunch of Romanian illegals living in an apartment in Milan, showed up with a couple of burly cops, got most of the goods back, and beat the living unholy shit out of the guys, several times, threw them in a cell for a couple of days and deported them, with a very clear message that if they ever ran into them again in Italy, they'd wish they'd never laid eyes on the country.
So there is always the off chance...
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
Shhhhhhhhhhh.
I told you to not tell anyone about this stuff I sold you.
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You gotta hand it to the slashdot crowd, they certainly don't let something minor like understanding the meaning of a post get in the way of their rabid anti-Americanism. The guy parses the date correctly, mentions the absurd possibility that it might be "the American way" (and in the future), and gets jumped on by half a dozen people saying, "no you idiot, in the rest of the world we write dates properly. To the sibling posters: your rants are more interesting if they actually make sense in context.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
Here are some tips and tricks for Theft and Loss Protection for Linux Laptops and Notebooks. Some of these tricks are useful for other operating systems, too.
I have a cron job that runs every few hours and grabs a web page from my web server. This is already a good start, because my logs will show the IP that grabbed the page, and nothing else even knows the page exists. But I went one better, and wrote a small program to parse the page for commands. So for now, the page is blank, and nothing happens. If I should need to, I can change the contents of the page to have my computer e-mail me the output of 'ifconfig' (which would also give me juicy headers to look through), open an ssh connection to my web server with a tunnel allowing me to connect back the other way, or just run an arbitrary command on the shell. I have no idea how useful it might be, but it was a fun little project.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
Slashdot will probably post a dupe 365 days from now.
Like we say "come and spend your holiday in Russia, your car is already here!".
Most Mercedes stolen in western Europe get a second chance in eastern Europe.
realkiwi
This story brings the question : Is there a way to scan (the internet) for MACs addresses like scanning ip's. I mean is there a software that does it ?
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
Quite standard? You can't get more standard then ISO-standard! :)
I'm not aware of any language where "June" and "6" are the same word.
Japanese?
6th of June is literally "6 month 6 day".
Having fooled at least five people today by claiming to be engaged, my aim for next year is to get engaged on the 31st of March.
(In a recent example, a case about French musicians going after Apple for iPod royalties: someone started going on about the DMCA. I pointed out the poster was being US-centric and that the DMCA didn't apply in this case. That poster was not modded Offtopic, but I was modded Flamebait. Atrocious.)
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
with the following MAC address: 00:30:BD:9C:BD:B2 Also a mobile phone was stolen, with IMEI number 351083531088913
Next story will be "I tried ringing the stolen phone, did anyone hear a phone ringing?"
What I'm really worried about is the poor thief. After all, he's just unleashed an unemployed geek army, ready to do battle.
"Cornelius! Look! I saw that MAC address! Hit the gas! Rev up that little Honda Civic! Think of all the anime posters we can buy when we get the reward!"
"Eugene! I was playing with my scanner and I found that IMEI, so I triangulated its location! We can buy t-shirts on Thinkgeek with the reward money! Go Away Or I Will Replace You With A Very Small Shell Script!" [snorting laughter]
And pretty soon, there are 2,500 unemployed virgins with masking tape holding together their glasses converging on the thief's doorstep.
Dude, wherever you are, turn yourself in before it's too late.
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