Why is this a police matter? Seems to me that the Cafe was not taking any measure to prevent his use... Did they even have a "Click through" page where he had to agree to "Terms of Service", i wonder?
This would be like me putting a bench in a public park and calling the police if anybody sat on it.
The ones being arrested should be the business owners... for wasting the Police's time, and for making false 911 calls.
Actually, the device being referred to here was the IBM "Portable Terminal", it was literally the size of a brick, hence the nickname. It consisted of a 2-line 40 character screen, and a full querty keyboard. It definitely supported messages being "pushed" to the device, though I am pretty sure it used standard radio/wireless rather than cellular networks. I left IBM in 1994, and they were phased out shortly after that... to be replaced by the early RIM device. (not called blackberry yet at that time.)
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Why is this a police matter? Seems to me that the Cafe was not taking any measure to prevent his use... Did they even have a "Click through" page where he had to agree to "Terms of Service", i wonder? This would be like me putting a bench in a public park and calling the police if anybody sat on it. The ones being arrested should be the business owners... for wasting the Police's time, and for making false 911 calls.
Actually, the device being referred to here was the IBM "Portable Terminal", it was literally the size of a brick, hence the nickname. It consisted of a 2-line 40 character screen, and a full querty keyboard. It definitely supported messages being "pushed" to the device, though I am pretty sure it used standard radio/wireless rather than cellular networks. I left IBM in 1994, and they were phased out shortly after that... to be replaced by the early RIM device. (not called blackberry yet at that time.)
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