iPods worth $35000 go missing from Best Buy

I'd install iPod linux on them and make a cluster computer out of iPods with software RAID and all! (I know it doesn't, yet, support the 2nd gen nano)

i'm not one to complain about grammar, but not putting a comma in that 35000 makes it about five times harder to read. 100% Easy 2 Read http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100E2R/

Erica, I just love your idea for a "techno-white theme" decorated christmas theme. I wish I was filthy rich just to do that... aren't there any photoshoppers out there to give it a try?

(I don't know about the US, but here in Germany we love nativity scene figures under the tree. I am just imagining one of these in the form of a nativity scene wallpaper on an opened MacBook ...)

Contrary to the first few posters claims, Apple doesn't track stolen merchandise at all, even though they have all the means to. Speaking as someone whose one-month-old 30GB iPod 5G was stolen, calling Apple to report it stolen got me a lot of nowhere. They finally agreed to make a note that it was stolen, but didn't say they'd ever do anything about it. Thanks, Apple. Thanks for nothing.

Probably Jim Kung Il contracted the work for his iPod-starved country.

I worked for Best Buy when it was a much smaller company, and I remember a whole warehouse staff was busted taking the empty boxes from large TVs put out for display and filling them with camcorders, then having one of their friends come in and buy said model TV, and hauling out the box right past the loss prevention agent, ending up with thousands of dollars in profit after selling off the camcorders. It caused much tighter inventory controls company-wide, and I have no doubt a similar method was used here, as it was obviously an inside job. In this case, though, as written above, serial numbers will eventually bust the offenders, idiots as they are.

In a related story, a local youth builds a beowulf cluster with 174 ipods and an xbox.

in related news...the Pembroke Pines Best Buy store reports that the shipment of 300 Zunes was not touched at all....

Eventually, one of the buyers will register its purchase on apple.com and there you go...

Well someone isn't going to have a job much longer.