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Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the allright-that's-just-plain-scary dept.

wmoyes writes "Back in September I ran into a Best Buy store to buy a Samsung BD-P2550 Blu-ray player. I didn't give the clerk my name, telephone number, or address, just my debit card. The player has sat happily in my living room without ever being networked or registered. Today I was shocked to find a package waiting for me at home from Best Buy — inside was a firmware update CD for the player. I used to think Windows Update was scary, but Samsung's update service tracked me to my house using the mag stripe from my bank card. Has this happened to any other Blu-ray owners?" Or is there a simpler explanation?

9 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. 1/14/04 NEVER FORGET!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh how we miss you our brother in arms

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOATSE

  2. Sixth Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    s1xt4 p0st...

  3. Re:We know where you are. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you need to replace that printer cartridge in the computer room on the first floor, and we have photographs of your youngest daughter going to school

    You should not use a comma before the word "and".

    Sincerely,

    The Grammar Nazi

  4. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    test

  5. Re:We know where you are. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you need to replace that printer cartridge in the computer room on the first floor, and we have photographs of your youngest daughter going to school.

    You should not use a comma before the word "and".

    Huh? "you need [...] floor" is an independent clause, and so is "we have [...] school". Joining two independent clauses with "and" requires a comma.

  6. Re:We know where you are. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes he should have a comma.

    "you need to replace that printer cartridge in the computer room on the first floor"

    and

    "we have photographs of your youngest daughter going to school"

    ...are standalone sentences. Both have subjects and verbs, making them complete thoughts. "You" and "need" are the necessary components of the first sentence. "We" and "have" are the components of the second sentence. The author would only omit the comma if the sentence referred to a grouping of two objects.

    e.g. "You need to replace that printer cartridge in the computer room on the first floor and the photographs of your youngest daughter going to school."

    As you can see, this changes the meaning entirely.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_sentence_(linguistics)

    --The Grammar Communist

  7. Re:We know where you are. by elrous0 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We concur. -The Grammar Oligarchists

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  8. Re:We know where you are. by OolimPhon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aaaaand you believe everything Wikipedia says, right?

  9. Re:Customer information sharing by C_L_Lk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know about you but I still buy almost everything with cash - I don't carry it for long - I head to the bank or ATM and get my money for the day's purchases - and make them quite happily. I've yet to run into a store that wasn't happy to take my $20's in return for whatever I was buying - that has included a $2500 56" LCD TV, my PS3 (from Best Buy - they can't find me hehe!), many movies and games, an HP Laptop, a Lenovo desktop, the majority of the furniture in my house, and my wife's car ($21,000 in cash).