America's Most Wanted on Your Smartphone

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=1060' target='_blank'>http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=1060</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20050122-USMostWanted_spv.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />America's Most Wanted host, John Walsh would be happy to hear that you're willing to help make America a better place, and with the US Most Wanted Pocket Directory Database, you can make a difference. The database includes the FBI Most Wanted, DEA Most Wanted, US Marshals Most Wanted, ATF Most Wanted, Secret Service Most Wanted, US Dept. of Justice Directory, and the US Dept. of the Treasury Directory. And if making America a better place isn't reason enough to install this, then perhaps the fact that this database is free might change your mind. :wink:

[Kevin Daly]

And won't it feel great when you're walking down the street in a new town to see people furtively check whether you're someone they get to have the thrill of informing on (especially if you have the bad luck to be of a swarthy hue)?
Something intended as a public service could so easily degenerate into The Return of TIPS, and suddenly you have a culture of spies and informers.
When the authorities have such a flow of information at their ends, and given the type of people who will be eager to offer it (as opposed to normal decent people who just notify the authorities when they happen to see someone they think is a wanted criminal), do we really believe that those specifically sought for actual crimes will not soon be joined by general "subversives" and anyone who just looks like they might be?

A friend of mine who was in Tiananmen Square when the smelly stuff hit the fan said that it was very noticeable afterwards how people would no longer say what they thought about anything, because nobody knew who they could trust.

Coming soon to a smartphone near you. :cry:

[Jerry Raia]

The problem is on my MPx220 the pictures will be too fuzzy to recognize anybody. :lol:

I do like the reader that comes with it though.