It's not a fair comparison because a car left running (while stupid, and illegal in my town) has a high expectation of being reclaimed or returned to by the owner. A phone left and not claimed within a reasonable amount of time is considered abandoned. And I'd consider a "reasonable amount of time" on a prototype with what I'd imagine high corporate security concerns, about 5 minutes, maybe less. However, if this was truly an engineer who lost the phone, I have to cut them some slack. While engineers are mostly very intelligent, from my experience many lack lack common sense.
Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:57 AM, David K Watson wrote: >> That is not a fair or accurate comparison. >> > > How is it not a fair comparison? A running car in a convenience > store parking lot has the presumption that the owner will return > to it very quickly, while a phone that has been left unclaimed for a few > hours does not, but that has no bearing on the actions of someone > who takes either one knowing that it isn't theirs and eventually > sells it to someone else who also knows this. > > Stripped to the bare essentials, we have: > > A) Guy takes physical possession of misplaced valuable item > that is not his > B) Well before he could think it reverts to him, guy sells > item to someone who also knows the item is not his. > > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:36 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > >> From: "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <popoz...@earthlink.net> >> Subject: Re: illegal search warrant? >> >> That is not a fair or accurate comparison. >> >> Stewart >> >> >> At 09:17 PM 4/28/2010, you wrote: >>> You can personally feel that Apple was foolish in how they let the >>> phone be stolen, but that has absolutely no legal bearing on its >>> theft. >>> >>> There are still people who are foolish enough to leave their car >>> running and unlocked when they go into a convenience store, >>> but if the car gets stolen, the thief can't plead this as an extenuating >>> circumstance if he or she gets caught. >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
