Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone' 424
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CmdrTaco
from the because-you-can dept.
from the because-you-can dept.
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."
LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Fiund my iPhone, Now Go Get It (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Memo to self (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Walking around "sketchy streets" a Macbook? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Beat down (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Walking around "sketchy streets" a Macbook? (Score:5, Funny)
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."
Re:LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazed ... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Hokey? (Score:5, Funny)
What's a hokey?
A hotkey that opens one's favorite porn site...?
Re:Please Drop the Us V Them Mentality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Single Best Story I have read on Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Please Drop the Us V Them Mentality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please Drop the Us V Them Mentality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is awesome. (Score:5, Funny)
At least you can verify that it still is in the evidence locker, using MobileMe.
Re:LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Weird. Most of the geeks I know are far from defenseless.
-Peter
Yes, but trebuchets and USB missile launchers aren't very good at short range defense.
Re:Amazed ... (Score:3, Funny)
If you had an Android phone, you could have used V-8 juice to power its browser, at least.
-dZ.
Re:Fiund my iPhone, Now Go Get It (Score:5, Funny)
(eating with chopsticks, to iPhone owner)
Grab a seat there, boy. Want some dinner? Grab yourself an egg roll. We got everything here from a diddle-eyed-Joe to a damned-if-I-know.
IPHONE OWNER
No thanks.
GHETTO DRUG LORD
No thanks? What does that mean? Means you ate before you came down here? All full. Is that it? Naw, I don't think so. I think you're too scared to be eatin'. Now, see we're sittin' down here, ready to negotiate, and you've already given up your shit. I'm still a mystery to you. But I know exactly where your ass is comin' from. See, if I asked you if you wanted some dinner and you grabbed an egg roll and started to chow down, I'd say to myself, "This motherfucker's carryin' on like he ain't got a care in the world. Who know? Maybe he don't. Maybe this fool's such a bad motherfucker, he don't got to worry about nothin', he just sit down, eat my Chinese, watch my TV." See? You ain't even sat down yet. On that TV there, since you been in the room, is a woman with her titties hangin' out, and you ain't even bothered to look. You just been starin' at me. Now, I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.
IPhone Owner takes out an envelope and throws it on the table.
IPHONE OWNER
I'm not eatin' 'cause I'm not hungry. I'm not sittin' 'cause I'm not stayin'. I'm not lookin' at the movie 'cause I saw it seven years ago. It's "The Mack" with Max Julian, Carol Speed, and Richard Pryor, written by Bobby Poole, directed by Michael Campus, and released by Cinerama Releasing Company in 1984. I'm not scared of you. I just don't like you. In that envelope is some payoff money. MyiPhone's moving on to some greener pastures. We're not negotiatin'. I don't like to barter. I don't like to dicker. I never have fun in Tijuana. That price is non-negotiable. What's in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth that much. Not one penny more, not one penny more.
(with NO APOLOGIES to Quentin Tarrantino)
Re:Beat down (Score:5, Funny)
This is the type of pedantry that keeps me coming back to Slashdot.
Re:Single Best Story I have read on Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure that "Nerd videotapes own knees being broken" would be a big hit on YouTube.
Good luck with that.
Re:Summary (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please Drop the Us V Them Mentality (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, when will man learn that all races are equally inferior to robots.
Re:Amazed ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Walking around "sketchy streets" a Macbook? (Score:3, Funny)
Nope, he'd use Skynet...
Re:Single Best Story I have read on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Aside from hookers and dope dealers soliciting me, I've had no problems despite my hazel eyes. Now, if I were to "go off" on one of these folks, I'd probably be in trouble.
I'm confused, what else are you supposed to do with hookers?
Re:LoJack for your iPhone? (Score:3, Funny)
Trebuchets are alright.. but if you really want to hurt use Lucida Bold or Impact. Boy, those hurt. And don't get me started on wingdings.