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Carnegie Mellon student robbed, uses iPhone to track down culprits
- ilamont 17y agoIs there an app for easily tracking a lost or stolen iPhone?
- docmach 17y agoMobileMe will show you a map of where your iPhone is.
- mikeryan 17y agoThere's not an "app" per se. If you use Mobile Me and register your iphone with it you can track your iphone as well as make it play a noise for 2 minutes and show an alert. As someone who recently had to replace an iPhone at full price (unwilling to sign up for another two years on AT&T's horrible service in SF). I recommend looking into using this _before_ you lose/have stolen your iPhone.
- mrinterweb 17y agohttps://www.mobiledefense.com/ https://www.mobiledefense.com/ makes tracking a stolen Android phone trivial. I installed it last night and it is pretty cool.
- cloudkj 17y agoWhy are the culprits in the story referred to as "actors"?
- asmithmd1 17y agoIt is a student newspaper
- andrewljohnson 17y agoThat's what we would often call them in crime stories, and it's a common word in a lot of newspapers. It's nice because it doesn't imply guilt... it just states who is involved. I used to edit The Tartan.
- tokenadult 17y agoIs there a lot of that kind of crime near the campus?
- TheSOB88 17y agoHow is not implying guilt nice? I've seen the same concept in calling criminals 'suspects', but when you've just seen someone shoot someone else (for example), not implying guilt shouldn't be taken into consideration.
- csbrooks 17y agoPresumably the reporter didn't just see the crime in question.
- electromagnetic 17y agoNot implying guilt should be taken into consideration. People have a legal right to a fair trial, if they don't get one you lose the ability to prosecute as the verdict can easily be thrown out in the face of infallible evidence due to a tainted jury pool. Many times, the law isn't concerned with what you did but why you did it. I could shoot someone in the middle of the street in front of 200 people, however he might have just tried to sink me with a knife to get my wallet. It's the jury's job to decide whether I'm guilty on all the evidence, not on what a newspaper publishes. This is why in Crown countries the government frequently has the ability to put a press-embargo on a case until after conviction.
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- crux_ 17y agoThen you say you saw A shoot B. What you don't say is that A is a murderer. (Note: I really despise the use of the word "actors" in the article, though. It's less wordy than "alleged theives" or whatever, but it could also have been omitted entirely. "The two actors" ---> "The two" etc.)
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- cduruk 17y agoThat's what cops called them when this whole thing happened and that's why I used that specific word.
- jpwagner 17y agoa baby car seat?
- mtomczak 17y agoFor his baby-momma to keep the baby in, of course.
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- TheSOB88 17y agoI use a tracking program like this for my laptop - it's called Adeona. But apparently the network it uses got taken down. :\ It only worked when connected to an interweb, of course.
- anApple 17y agoA friend just told me today that he got his iphone stolen by a class mate. He went to the police, gave them the UID of the phone, and he got it back 3 days later. Apperantly, as he told me, the police contacted apple which gave them the exact position of the mobile phone through the build in gps device, so the police could just pick it up.
- mhb 17y agoIs that a good trade? Potentially being able to recover a lost phone versus Apple (and whomever can subpoena it) knowing where you are all the time?
- cduruk 17y agoHey. This is me. Weird that this came up again; this happened in August and there was a really crazy media frenzy at the time which mostly died down (although I do get a few random emails time to time). And yeah, I do work for The Tartan.