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Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone'
An anonymous reader wrote in to say "A friend of mine who just got an iPhone 3GS and has Mobile Me just used the "Find my iPhone" feature to track down his lost and subsequently stolen iPhone. This story involves three nerds wandering sketchy streets with a MacBook, and ends with a confrontation at a bus stop."
In other related news, the number of deaths among tech nerds increased this month, some officials believe as a direct result of iPhone owners attempting to retrieve their stolen phones from violent thugs.
Yeah, the tech works alright, until you find out it's in the hands of a drug lord in the ghetto. Go get it tiger!!
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That wouldn't be a problem, he's got an app to track his MacBook on his iPhone. Oh, wait...
I'd prefer to lose my phone and shell out another $500 then receive a violent beat down at the hands of some street thug.
Why would you want to receive a violent beat down at the hands of some street thug?
I'd prefer to just lose my phone and shell out another $500 than receive a violent beat down at the hands of some street thug.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
I would have been somewhat amused if their laptop got stolen as well. Yes, I know I'm a terrible person.
Exactly, to put it differently, "steal an iPhone one day and have a free laptop delivered to you the next."
How much juice does one of these things consume??
I've poured a whole gallon of orange juice on my iPhone and it still won't turn on. I've got to run to the store to get more- I think I'll try grapefruit this time. I wish they would warn me about this when I bought the phone- juice is way too expensive these days.
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What's a hokey?
A hotkey that opens one's favorite porn site...?
Being dead, he clearly could not.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I would use it to purposely lose my phone somewhere where a thief would take it, then track him down and webcam the whole thing, then do a "dog the bounty hunter" session on the guy, come in with guns waving in the air, that would be so cool....I might just youtube this!
'Cause this blog post wasn't written by JRR Tolkien?
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At least you can verify that it still is in the evidence locker, using MobileMe.
If you had an Android phone, you could have used V-8 juice to power its browser, at least.
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This is the type of pedantry that keeps me coming back to Slashdot.
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I'm sure that "Nerd videotapes own knees being broken" would be a big hit on YouTube.
Good luck with that.
Unless that phone contains their next clue!
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Obviously you should be using Apple juice...
Nope, he'd use Skynet...
That doesn't make you any tougher either.
Hey, let's play a game. I'll flip a coin and if it comes up heads you get a dollar. If it's tails I get to smash you in the face with a lead pipe.
Do you think this is a good game to play? How about if I roll a die instead, and if I roll a one I stick you with a knife. But if the roll is anything else, you get _five_ dollars.
Would you encourage all of your friends to play this wonderful game?