An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia 234
First time accepted submitter xx_chris writes "Cell carriers can and do brick jail broken cell phones but they won't brick stolen cell phones. Except in Australia. The Australians apparently have been doing this for 10 years and it reduces violent crime since the thieves know they won't be able to sell the stolen phone. The article points out that cell carriers have a financial disincentive to do this since a stolen phone means another sale."
Re:Violent (Score:0, Funny)
Were you the "gangsta thug" mugging innocent people?
Re:Phone isn't bricked, its just blocked (Score:4, Funny)
yeah but nobody wants to buy a phone with Australian auto-correct.
#TODO: insert funny English -> Australian translation
Re:Phone isn't bricked, its just blocked (Score:0, Funny)
>>> That happened years ago to some 6.000 phones[...]
Three-digit fractional precision seems a little bit excessive for an integer quantity.
Re:They do not brick (Score:5, Funny)
You know what you're supposed to do when you find a phone, right?
Write a submission to Slashdot saying it might be an iPhone 5 prototype cleverly disguised in an old Nokia case?
16-bit (Score:4, Funny)
The last guy who came said that some inverters can be tweaked to get past the 255v limit.
Wouldn't this require switching from an 8-bit inverter to a 16-bit inverter?