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A Pizza Box for Your Laptop
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CmdrTaco
on Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:26 AM
from the just-a-little-bit-late dept.
from the just-a-little-bit-late dept.
Dark Twonky writes "Human Beans is selling the perfect gift for the geek who has everything. It's the PowerPizza, a pizza box for transporting your precious laptop in. From the web site: Desirable laptops are desirable to thieves too. Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked."
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Re:accidents (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday August 11 2003, @06:07PM)
Those pizza boxes get double/triple/quadruple checked in case there is the slightest remnant of cheese left before they are reluctantly chucked into the gaping bin.
And besides who's going to throw away a significantly heavier than usual box without checking inside?
Unless... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.secretlair.com/)
Exactly (Score:4, Informative)
The thief wants pizza, is fairly confident that the Pizza company is too busy to report the theft and in all likelihood would never dream of stealing a laptop.
-S
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.stileproject.com/ | Last Journal: Friday June 22, @03:09PM)
There is some prior art. During the cold war, spies would put materials exchanged at drop points inside of dead animals. The US imported their own dead rats from America, because apparently dead communist rats couldn't be trusted with the secrets of the free world.
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
Back Pack (Score:5, Informative)
(http://petesweb.spymac.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday May 07 2003, @03:37AM)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://libtom.org/)
Why leave your laptop at all?
When my laptop is not at home I generally don't get that far from it [unless I'm at a friends place or something]. Let's see, 1500$ laptop... 2 seconds to get stolen... hmmm...
Sure would be nice to live in a world where you don't have to lug things like that around but that's why you have to be smart. Don't take your laptop somewhere unless you actually need it. Duh
Tom
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://petesweb.spymac.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday May 07 2003, @03:37AM)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Label it as something nobody wants (Score:4, Funny)
this'll work (Score:4, Funny)
he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
Re:this'll work (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~Spy+der+Mann/journal/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 15, @12:57AM)
Yeah, but you're in trouble when he realizes a simple fact:
1 laptop = LOTS of pizzas!!!
So he starts thinking of ways to enjoy this "free prize":
a) He sells it and gets an extra money for pizzas
b) He steals your passwords, credit card numbers, and orders a pizza with your account (keep the change, you filthy animal). Of course he gets in trouble because he ordered the pizza with "extra anchovies" [imdb.com].
c) He calls you and asks for a reward for "finding a laptop that some guy dropped"
d) He calls you and asks for a delicious quantity of money "if you want to keep your data alive and healthy. And don't call the cops"
e) b) and c)
f) b) and d)
g) He backs up your porn folder and sets up a paid website using your credit card, to earn more money.
h) He backs up all your data and starts blackmailing you when he finds out that besides a porn folder, you also have online dates, AND you're married.
i) He finds out that you're involved in some illegal activity, and he asks for the double. In case you want to kill him, he published all this data in his personal internet harddrive, and sets up a script to publish all of it on his blog if he doesn't cancel it in 14 days.
j) Instead he blackmails your g/f and asks her to pose naked for him, or else he'll tell your wife. THEN he uses your credit card to setup a website, giving away the video of your g/f AND publishing your name (just because he felt like it!).
k) He gives the laptop (with wireless internet) to a hacker friend of his, and do all kinds of nasty illegal stuff.
l) Among the nasty illegal stuff, he defaces the PowerPizza website, mentioning how they made money with the laptop they stole thinking it was a pizza.
m) He writes all these experiences in his blog [slashdot.org] and the Hollywood guys buy him the script for "Home alone 4: Pizza Powered".
n) All of the above. The possibilities are endless!
Lesson: DON'T use the powerpizza box. It's not worth it.
Domino's (Score:3, Funny)
Are the edges padded? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.theworld.com/~sshears | Last Journal: Tuesday November 20, @11:18AM)
I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.
-- Sally
Why not cut out the middleman... (Score:3, Insightful)
So thieves just... (Score:5, Informative)
Worlds. Stupidest. Product. (Score:5, Insightful)
If real.
And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.
questions? (Score:3, Insightful)
How do you carry a pizza in a box? Horizontally
There's your disguise spoiler right there.
This reminds me.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This reminds me.... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://apl.jhu.edu/~mekkab | Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @03:45PM)
"There goes another executive lunchbox"!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://205.205.253.95/Crackster | Last Journal: Wednesday September 22 2004, @09:57PM)
A full-swing marketing campaign was launched, so no one would be ignorant of what those "executive lunchboxes" looked like.
The result was predictable: EVERYONE knew when some white-collar worker was bringing his lunch to the office, thus triggering the same social stigma as if he were carrying a blue-collar lunchbox, as blue-collar workers would laugh with a big "THERE GOES ANOTHER EXECUTIVE LUNCHBOX!!!" whenever they saw one.
The phrase eventually became a Madison Avenue monicker to designate a marketing failure...
The dumbest idea...ever! (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.successminders.com/)
- Putting your PowerPizza in a carrier bag will not only increase the level of disguise - it'll keep it dry too.
And how awkward would it be to walk around carrying a pizza box? If you tucked it under your arm, people would know it wasn't a pizza. If you walked around with it held in a proper pizza manner that would suck too.Really, how hard is it to pick up a nice black leather or blastic nylon bag that isn't plastered with "TARGUS" logos and just KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE DAMN LAPTOP?
I've owned many laptops for many years and I've never once come close to having it nicked because I tend to pay attention to my surroundings when I'm carrying it with me.
Don't need no steenking case... (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.zerohex.com/)
I saw a guy on the plane the other day who I thought had the right idea: He didn't have a case - just stuck the notebook in the seat-back pocket.
I got a big anti-static bag from one of the lab techs that should be sufficient to protect it from such "weather" as it might encounter, and I figure to keep the power brick in my purse/pocket/whatever...
Laptop cases are an anachronism.
Old news but here's some ideas (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 01 2006, @08:39AM)
I had done a story on my website [adzoox.com] about it back in July.
I proposed that people use tampon boxes for their iPods too.
Eventhough mentioning the Bible doesn't go over well with the
Even if they can't read or are not religios they know what a Bible is.
On recovery from theft... (Score:3, Interesting)
GMail wouldn't do it, even though there's no threat to user privacy here: the police are the only ones getting information, and that information was requested by the owner of the account.
That got me thinking: someone (laptop manufacturers) should run a phone-home service, that keeps a log of the IP addresses that send in requests (with an authentication string specific to the user or computer). That way, using that same string and a password, you could get a list of all the IP addresses your machine has connected to the Internet from... which could be turned over to the police if necessary. If you trust the site explicitly, you could even run an applet that will respond to remote instructions (including flashing the BIOS with a "THIS IS STOLEN PROPERTY" message on bootup) when the site's notified that it is stolen. Once laptops start including onboard GPS, this would make recovery a snap.
This won't do anything to deter sophisticated thieves, who will start formatting drives, but it would be cheap to implement and would provide another layer of protection from theft.
Re:On recovery from theft... (Score:5, Interesting)
Without a court order, Google has no way of knowing that the laptop was actually stolen. You (and your buddy in the PD), may be running a scam, or trying to stalk someone.
That got me thinking: someone (laptop manufacturers) should run a phone-home service,
Some do [inspice.com]
Once laptops start including onboard GPS,
/.ers will scream that the EvilGummint(tm) is trying to track everyone.
Now I've seen everything (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.marshallastor.com/)
Less stealth, more deterrent (Score:3, Interesting)
It looks like that's what's holding it together.
Plus it looks different from all of the other laptops going through security, making it easy for me to keep my eye on it.
If someone's going to lift laptops, they'll move along to one that looks less like a piece of s...junk.
Oh, and I also keep my bag with me everywhere except the security checkpoint.
Don't pizzas get stolen? (Score:4, Funny)