jswmm1
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod
If you think that Apple does not have the technology to track an Ipod as it is plugged into a machine, your crazy, especially if that machine is connected to the internet, hell even if its not directly connected when your downloading they could find it. I'm not even talking about IP addresses, I'm talking billing addresses, stay with me. Case in point. If you have not had your ipod stolen, perform the following with your Ipod disconnected, if it has been stolen, you obviously wont be connecteing it. Open Itunes. Click on Help. Click on Run Diagnostics. Unclick Network Connectivity and CD/DVD Drive Test, Leaving Ipod/Iphone Connectivity and Sync Tests selected. Click next 5 times regardless of what the information box tells you about your Ipod/Iphone not being connected (its stolen, of course its not connected). In this dialog box you will see your ITUNES, I repeat and say again, ITUNES serial number. That serial number is associated with your ITUNES account and any computer authorized to access your ITUNES account (which you authorized) as well as your credit card billing information. Get that?, billing address. Now scroll all the way to the bottom, and three lines from the bottom, the box will tell you the serial number of the last Ipod/Iphone to have been plugged into that computer. It is at this point you should realize that ITUNES identifies the last Ipod to be associated with this account. Even if you didn't buy anything, Itunes identifies the last Ipod serial number to be associated with your ITUNES serial number so that the next time you connect to the internet, ITUNES says "Hey Apple, this was the last Ipod connected to this Itunes account." "Well I have the solution" you say. I'll just leave the Ipod disconnected, download the music I want, and then close my internet connection when syncing, then disconnect the Ipod so that it doesn't connect to the internet. You would be partly right, except the next time you go on Itunes, you will automatically be telling Itunes, via your Itunes serial number associated with your account, "Hey guess what, this stolen IPOD was the last device associated with my ITUNES account/serial number." Apple protects your account information like your credit card number from getting stolen because stealing is wrong, yet when it comes to someone using a stolen Ipod, they overlook it so that they can sell more devices and media. Sounds like obstruction and or aiding and abbeting.— June 10, 2010 12:26 a.m.