London thugs grabbing iPods

p.s. lives in London that is, not just England and I'm English, hence being a bit of a wind up merchant.

It is funny though how often iPod crops up these days being blamed for anything from deafness, to street crime and who knows what else.

Visted many many many many times being I live in England and my sister lives there, my brother has lived there and worked there. : ) London is hot, crowded, expensive and dirty. Sure it has its nice bits, but it's not somewhere I'd want to live personally. Of course, all those things could be things other people love about London.

That's right OWRC, classic British Jobsworth attitude of the authorities here. "You got mugged? Well you were pretty stupid weren't you?"

Of course try and be a vigilante Texas-style and it's a whole other ballgame...

Correction: de Menezes didn't even have a gun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5189476.stm

Perhaps the police should stop blaming the victims and catch some criminals for a change. this si typical government spin to avoid confronting the fact that their record on crime is simply diabolical.

This isn't a real story... The same story will show up but with a New York focus or Tokyo focus in a month or two... Don't be such media suckers... It's bullshit.

PS. I live in Hackney, London...

Its been possible to block stolen phones if stolen, if you have a GSM phone. It was built in the original standards, and many companies produced the network element to block those stolen phones. But the vast majority of carriers either never purchased these components, or never turned them on.

Regarding the stealing iPods - perhaps they could looking at why people steal etc. Rather than what they steal?

Totally unrelated but is anyone else feeling nauseous from the Get Zwinked banner add and right side panel on this site?

>Well, put it this way, I feel very low in myself. I can't see much in the future, and I feel that any second something terrible is going to happen to me.

Good one Kowalski. You're the last beautiful free soul on this planet. 'cause 1971 was a good year.

What I think Apple (and cell phone companies) should do is figure out a way to make ipods (or cell phones) useless if they're reported stolen. The serial number for that stolen ipod would no longer allow the ipod to function in certain ways, such as in the ITMS, or syncing or having its software updated. Must be some way to achieve that to some degree at least. Without many or any downsides.

What I think Apple (and cell phone companies) should do is figure out a way to make ipods (or cell phones) useless if they're reported stolen. The serial number for that stolen ipod would no longer allow the ipod to function in certain ways, such as in the ITMS, or syncing or having its software updated. Must be some way to achieve that to some degree at least. Without many or any downsides.