On Sept. 20—the same day Applereleased the iPhone 16—a pair of teenagers from Detroit was arrested in Texas after police say they flew in and went on a porch-thieving spree around Houston.
Chris Brown, a lieutenant with the police department in Deer Park, Texas, said the suspects were armed with inside information: AT&T parcel tracking numbers. Deer Park police are working with AT&T to investigate how the suspects got that information, he said.
“We have no evidence of any breach of our systems, and this was not a hack,” the AT&T spokesman said.
It seems likely that this is someone on the inside at AT&T is selling lists of tracking numbers to rings of thieves.
Not exactly the same, but this reminds me of when I got my Switch. I somehow managed to order one from Walmart.com when they first came out. They used a shipper I hadn’t heard of, and it never arrived. I’m guessing that they just shipped it in it’s branded packaging so that everyone could see what it is and it just “fell of the truck” somewhere along the way. I ended up having to buy one off the black market (Craigslist).
Very amusing happening today where Bret Stephens was debating Lee Fang and Matt Taibbi and learned live on stage that Pol Pot had not been opposed by the US as he had supposed, but had in fact supported him until his overthrow by the North Vietnamese Communists.
And USA supported the Khmer Rouge until 1993, and then the change was about US policy shifting towards Vietnam. Vietnam was opening up and in 1994 the trade embargo was lifted.
I lived and paid taxes in the Keller school district for twelve years. It’s a well off school district. Cutting food down for one percent of the students seems unnecessary,
I realized I hadn’t re-filled my kid’s school food account in a while and was confused, turns out it’s all free since COVID.
On the one hand, it’s nice. On the other, I don’t mind paying for my kid’s lunch if it makes it easier for the families who need help. But to do that would require applications, paperwork, etc etc etc. So I guess it’s easier/better to just give meals to all the kids who want them.
I was on free and reduced lunches and 100% of any stress related to lunches was the administrative paperwork. It’s so much stress, intentionally so, so that less parents will do it.
Yeah Im not sure the California schools who have instituted free lunch for all will ever go back. Its just such a positive for all involved that switching back will get incredible backlash
Looks like once she got this fixed she took her account private. Which I get, we all know eBay is super vindictive, and it’s her livelihood. But what about all the people this happens to who don’t go viral?
Replacement iPhone has been shipped and FedEx is not giving me an option to have it held at their office. So tomorrow I will need to be vigilant and meet the truck as it arrives I guess.
I probably could have, but in the past I’ve always been able to contact FedEx and have them hold a package at their office if I wanted. That is apparently disabled here.
I can be home tomorrow and between setting up alerts on the Ring cams and keeping an eye out it should be fine.