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... so, like, maybe that was the point?
I mean, if you're a lowly news-drone in the c|net hive, you have to find little ways to rebel. I've talked with headline writers in the past (big newspapers used to have guys who wrote all the headlines, to enoforce consistent style), and they've told tales of exercising subversive control over the message through the article title.

Perhaps something similar is going on here. The author focused on Gartner's iPod obsession as a way of pointing out the absurdity of the issue. (Which, BTW, is an absurdity that touches all of our entire lives, as the previous posters have noted. This isn't just a technological absurdity, though technology has give us a nice little "burglary tool", in this particular case.)
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News Flash  Letophoro | 07/06/04
iPods don't kill people :P  JakAttak | 07/06/04
Same can be applied  Linux User 147560 | 07/06/04
What about email? I can email from my work account to my account at home.  Laff | 07/07/04
You can't E-Mail the entire Windows source kit  Atlant | 07/07/04
I was thinking more in terms of documents and such that the company might  Laff | 07/07/04
Oh Please  issthatso | 07/06/04
Coming soon...  gtdworak | 07/06/04
ZDPravda does it again!  mlindl | 07/06/04
What's Pravda?  mlindl | 07/06/04
As the Russians used to say: ...  escoles@... | 07/07/04
Silly Zdnet, you killed the article punch by iPod tie-in  FilledOut | 07/06/04
Article length and title  rkadowns | 07/06/04
An interesting diversion....  AbsolutelyNot | 07/06/04
Generic names  tic swayback | 07/06/04
ZDNet is trying to kill 2 birds...  Rick_K | 07/06/04
... so, like, maybe that was the point?  escoles@... | 07/07/04
Other Nefarious Devices  MonsterPuppy | 07/06/04
Interesting  mpaskus | 07/06/04
When do Body Condoms go on sale?  BitTwiddler | 07/06/04
Yeh, those darn "workers"...can't eliminate them as risks, ...  escoles@... | 07/07/04
But you CAN teach them uppity workers a leason  Laff | 07/07/04
FLASH! Pencil and paper can be security risk...  YuridaMan | 07/07/04
And? Whats New?  Dreaded Eddie | 07/08/04
Typical! Blast Apple's tiny share of the problem.  macbill | 07/08/04
Anal Probes & Memory Mind Melds  SirAndre007 | 07/08/04
you mean like LAPTOPS  V Sanders | 07/10/04
you mean like POKET PC  V Sanders | 07/10/04

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