August 1st, 2007
Dateline did a story on stolen iPods. Problem I am seeing is the iPods in their investigation are not stolen. They were found. There is a difference.
If they were taken out of the car or a person’s handbag then they are stolen. But if you place it on a bench and walk away and are nowhere around that is found not stolen.
I find this bait and trap program a bit disturbing. Especially since it is targeting minors. But come on they weren’t really stealing well at least malicious stealing.
And maybe my biggest beef with Dateline is the fact that they see nothing wrong with bending their morality to lie to people to get their stories and violate copyright laws to mess with the software for the devices to track their lost iPods [yes lost not stolen]. If I redistributed the Apple software better believe I would be nailed with fines or jail time. Here they are airing it to the world and what legal action will befall them? Nada.
Dateline, Dateline. Next time try to catch people breaking into lockers, stealing handbags or out of handbags, or out of cars. Not in unwatched bags lying around with no id or receipts in the bag. Just like the guy in the show says…how is this any different than finding money on the street?
Now when and if Apple ever gets on the ball and helps people track down their iPods then maybe simply finding one becomes a different situation. But not when it is a brand spanky new one still in the box just when it is an already registered one [those taken out of lockers and handbags etc.]
iTunes U. Click. Sync. Learn. Download on iTunes. Load your “stolen” iPod with tunes.
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August 1st, 2007
I knew it wasn’t going to be a very good day when I got up this morning. Guess I am still feeling the affects of the full moon on Monday. My car’s odometer was 66601. I passed 3 trucks hauling burial vaults on my morning commute.
Then everything at work seemed to go awry. Slow computer, having to reboot, missing paperwork, just to name a few things.
Then my tooth that I had a root canal in starts to ache making my commute home horrible. I get cut off by an aggressive driver, twice.
I tried to place an order online at LandsEnd.com and first the jeans I wanted couldn’t be found [found them finally]. Then when I added them to the cart they were the wrong ones and something else was in the cart too. Not sure how it got there but I cleared everything out and started over. So got the right jeans total plush shipping was 78.95 but for some reason the check out kept showing 83 something. What gives? Then when I back up to check the price my giftcard gets added to the check out again [would have been nice if it had stayed in there but when I completed the sale it showed the right amount off].
When I get home there’s a message on the machine telling me they did not get the giftcard number and I have to call them back. Guess what? I will have to dig that darned thing out of the trash when I get back to work tomorrow. So here goes another lunch spent with LandsEnd.com. Yeah.
Oh, and the lady at the toll booth short changed me. Okay, so it was only five cents but if she did that all day long she wouldn’t be able to walk with all her nickels shoved down her pants!
I am glad to be home. Maybe.
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