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A Pizza Box for Your Laptop
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."
The thief is hungry.
until some stoned kid walks by your car and decides he wants some pizza ....
he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
Goddamn it! There's no pizza in here! What a total rip off! I guess I'll just have to take this laptop.
Boring...
1. Steal Pizza Box (because you're really hungry)
2. Put laptop on Ebay.
3. Profit!
Oh wait, I need a ??? in there somewhere...
This
I don't know about everyone else but I wouldn't put my laptop in that. Do you know how hungry jocks are in college... they might not even care that's it's a laptop and eat it regardless.
A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care.
If your pizza box has a Domino's logo, there is no chance that anyone would steal it to get the contents, either.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Or you could leave it in the DELL box. That would keep any informed thieves away. :)
Nicked us Americans can get for the most part. It's crazy crap like "nappy" instead of diaper or "snog" instead of kiss that makes us wonder what the heck you put in your tea.
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
Never going to happen around here.
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?
I swear I've seen someone with the name 'Anonymous Coward' around here before...
"Please allow 14 days for delivery." Thats gotta be the slowest pizza ever!!!!
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This reminds me of back in the day when I delivered pizza for college money. To prevent hungry college students from stealing the pizza, I disguised them in "Packard Bell" computer boxes; that way no-one ever bothered me!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Knowing the price of pizza in London this will still be a theft target! Its more likely that someone will just steal it thinking its food and then get a good/bad surprise depending on the quality of your laptop and their hunger. Great joke though, I wonder how many they will actually sell? it was probably some student project..
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yea, I would be pretty pissed if my laptop got nicked. ;) oh! but pissed means 'drunk' over there too. Maybe I wouldn't be able to afford to be 'pissed' then.
Hint : a guy handling a real pizza usually does not carry it vertically under his arm...
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Many laptops are stolen in airports because they are in clearly visible laptop bags - why not stuff a laptop bag full of "old" pizza just for a laugh? This could guarantee some extra-fun airport security checks!
"But it's my computer, honest!"
This was released several months ago...
/. crowd - another cheap way to "protect" your valuables is to leave two BIbles on the front seat - one where they can plainly see the words Holy Bible - the other with the 8th commandment (Thou Shalt Not Steal) highlighted.
I had done a story on my website 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.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
was, "Someone will think it's a discarded pizza box and throw it away."
Retired from software... maybe. Sort of.
Until your drunken roomate throws the pizza box away!
Oh.. yeah.... right.. a drunken roomate actually throwing something away!! LOL!.. nevermind...
Dumbest product, but best idea in the world. I can buy a Little Caesars Pizza for $5 USD. I can probably get enough foam, straps, and hot glue for another $5 USD to do AT LEAST 5 boxes. Shipping will be cheap because all the parts weight so little. We're talking ~$8 USD
Not only do you make profit on every one, you get free food. If someone would hire me to do one of these a day, I'd never have to worry about food again. I imagine the entire "case" takes about 15 minutes to make (excluding pizza eating time), and it will even have grease stains on the outside to give it an authentic feel. Free food for relativly no work = good idea.
But, I'm betting those are bulk-purchased boxes w/o a real brand name (as that might come into legal issues). Assuming they actually sell as many as they bought the profit is going to be very large, even at $12 USD. All this for a non-custom case that is bigger than most laptops and pretty shoddy looking. I guess you get what you pay for.
...yeah, can you hold the spam and malware?
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Why would someone put a computer in a pizza box? They're just begging to get their computer thrown away.
or your laptop gets put in the oven!
I need to patent a DOGSHIT box that you put your laptop in. Nobody will want that.
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.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Sorry...it's already been done. They're called Dell Computers.
Successfully condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 1998.
Especially on a college campus?
Proverbs 21:19
Thief: "A laptop? Man... I wanted a pizza!"
Brain: "A fenced laptop can buy many pizzas."
Thief: "Explain how."
Brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services... and vice versa."
Thief: "Woohoo!"
You would disguise it as a beat-up accordion file like accountants use. Nobody would give a damn about that. If all else fails, how about a suitcase that looks like a homeless person's shoppoing cart?
"I love his boyish charm, but I hate his childishness" - Leela
I keep my ThinkPad in a Dell bag for this very reason :)
Maybe "Infectious Medical Waste" or "Pauly Shore Movie Collection". People like pizza.
Funny you should say that - Edinburgh's the only place I've ever witnessed a pizza theft. I was walking across the Meadows with two friends having had a few ales, my mate was carrying a pizza home, and some scamp just whipped it out of his hands and legged it. Mugged for a pizza. It'd drive a man to write to the Daily Mail, it really would.