Absolute Software makes such a product. It periodically polls the company's servers with location data (like the phone number you are calling out to the Internet with, or your IP settings). It will even stealthily call out by itself to the Absolute servers by a 1-800 number even if you are not connected! Call-blocking, etc, is all covered, the software will get your phone number.
So when your laptop is stolen, you just contact the company and it will monitor the location of the laptop the next time it is hooked up, contact the cops, etc. A lot of corporations have used this, with recovery success. And the kicker is, the software is installed such that even if you reformat the hard drive, it still works! I don't know how this works but it does.
Check it out.
Compaq's IPaq PocketPC and Casio's E-115 PocketPC
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Compaq is also 12 bit colour, although Casio's is 16-bit.
And Intel is probably going to record the digital serial numbers of the Pentium III PCs they give to employees, and maybe keep track of their employees habits....? Don't know it could happen. Yeah I know employees can disable it, but relying on the laziness factor, most won't.
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Absolute Software makes such a product. It periodically polls the company's servers with location data (like the phone number you are calling out to the Internet with, or your IP settings). It will even stealthily call out by itself to the Absolute servers by a 1-800 number even if you are not connected! Call-blocking, etc, is all covered, the software will get your phone number.
So when your laptop is stolen, you just contact the company and it will monitor the location of the laptop the next time it is hooked up, contact the cops, etc. A lot of corporations have used this, with recovery success. And the kicker is, the software is installed such that even if you reformat the hard drive, it still works! I don't know how this works but it does.
Check it out.
Compaq is also 12 bit colour, although Casio's is 16-bit.
And Intel is probably going to record the digital serial numbers of the Pentium III PCs they give to employees, and maybe keep track of their employees habits....? Don't know it could happen. Yeah I know employees can disable it, but relying on the laziness factor, most won't.
Ahh technically you are right, but *broadcasting* the MP3s will still be illegal (unless there is some licensing agreement with the artists/studios).