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Stolen Laptop Alarms
torok writes "Three Engineering students from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada have developed a laptop alarm complete with remote pager that detects if your laptop is being moved and sounds an alarm. The article is a bit sketchy on details, but it sounds like a cool idea."
... and if I hear one of these going off during a test, I'll find the engineers and beat them up!
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Is this where I can look at stolen laptop alarms? Mine was stolen last week on the subway...
If you can't find the guy who walked off with your laptop, press button 'B' and collect his ashes.
Beep beep beep, you laptop is being stolen.
Beep beep beep, you will never see it again.
Beep beep beep, haha.
I have a sneaking suspicion it's because they want to take your stuff. Without, like, paying for it.
Now that you know their motivation perhaps you can do away with band-aid measures to prevent it, and then apply it to diamonds, money and TV sets so we can get rid of all of our alarms, locks and stuff.
Should be easy. It's surprising that nobody's done it already, innit?
KFG
Everyone knows that even though it's unlikely, your home could get broken into this very night.
Not just unlikely, but improbable. Somebody broke into my mother in law's fenced-in yard. It has a brand new steel fence with a gate. So someone walked up and opened the man-sized gate, no big deal. He stole a flatbed trailer. How they got the trailer into the yard, I do not know, and how this guy got the thing out, I do not know. Obviously he did not drive a truck through the fence. The only thing I can think of is four of five guys turned it sideways and walked through the gate or passed it over the top of the fence.
My point is, thieves strike at the worst times in the most improbable ways. You never see it coming because you do not expect it to come. Always be prepared: keep your shit locked up, and make sure you have insurance. If a laptop is stolen from your house, most home insurance policies should cover the loss. Even with depreciation you should get enough to help cover the cost of a new laptop.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I doubt it happened. Besides, when have you seen campus police move that fast unless it's to ticket your illegally parked car?
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I doubt in this time and age, a black box being carried by a rapidly walking person making a loud, alarm like noise would be disregarded in any sort of transportation terminal. Airports have been locked-down for less...
i've taken the opposite approach to alarms. if i have to leave the room, i just crank slayer on my laptop at full volume. when i hear the music begin to fade away, i know my laptop is being being stolen.
i call it my "proactive audio alarm system." maybe i should file a patent?
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So have an "airport mode" for the system that changes the alarm from a generic siren to a prerecorded message. Something like, oh...
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