A Pizza Box for Your Laptop

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 4, 2005 @03:26AM 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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Back Pack by natron+2.0 · 2005-01-04 03:28 · Score: 5, Informative

I carry mine in a non-descript back pack rather than an obvious laptop case that has DELL written all over it.

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Translation by tarunthegreat2 · 2005-01-04 03:28 · Score: 2, Informative

"Nicked" is English for "Stolen" for those who only speak "American".....

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1. Re:Translation by Atario · 2005-01-04 07:38 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Consulting the English-to-American Dictionary, I see this entry:
  nick v. 1. Steal. To nick something is to steal it. Likewise, something you buy from a dodgy bloke over a pint has quite probably been nicked. In a strange paradox, if a person is described as nicked, it means they've been arrested and if a person is in the nick, they're in prison. 2. Condition. Commonly used in the phrase "in good nick", the nick of something is the sort of state of repair it's in. Seen in contexts like "Think I'll buy that car; it seems in pretty good nick".
  Those quaint Englishmen.
  
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So thieves just... by Iphtashu+Fitz · 2005-01-04 03:32 · Score: 4, Informative

Look for people walking around with pizza boxes tucked under their arms... That's what'll end up happening after people get tired of carrying their laptop around like it's a pizza.
1. Re:So thieves just... by El+Cubano · 2005-01-04 04:04 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Look for people walking around with pizza boxes tucked under their arms... That's what'll end up happening after people get tired of carrying their laptop around like it's a pizza.
  Especially since your average sized laptop ways 6-8 pounds, which is quite a bit more that your average pizza. It would be like holding a gallon bucket full of water out at arms length.
  Just out of curiousity, how would this thing work when travelling by air? Would airport security just let go by with it? What about when you have to open it? Then everyone knows what is in there.
Re:Idiot poster by atta1 · 2005-01-04 03:52 · Score: 2, Informative

No, I don't believe it is. It allows you to order it. If you click the fictional products link at the top of the page, it doesn't list the pizza box. RTFM indeed.

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Re:Instead of Theives by jayhawk88 · 2005-01-04 03:56 · Score: 2, Informative

An old South Park episode. The boys encounter Underpants Gnomes, who have an excellent business plan:

1. Steal underpants.
2. ??????
3. Profit!

It's obvious when you think about it.
Re:Worlds. Stupidest. Product. by Anonymous+Monkey · 2005-01-04 04:07 · Score: 2, Informative

From the websight

"Spam: from Human Beans. An exhibition of fictional products"

So your right, it's fictional, but also funny.

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It's in the "Fictional Products" section by hairykrishna · 2005-01-04 04:10 · Score: 2, Informative

It's not a real product (just in case people don't get it)

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Exactly by sjf · 2005-01-04 04:16 · Score: 3, Informative

As a former Pizza delivery person (Hello Mamma's in Edinburgh !), I can guarantee that an unsecured pizza box is far more likely to be stolen on a Friday night after the pubs turn out than an unsecured laptop bag.

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:On recovery from theft... by Niddix · 2005-01-04 04:29 · Score: 2, Informative

Oh you mean like... PC Phone Home? http://www.securitykit.com/pc_phonehome.htm or CompuTrace http://www.absolute.com/public/main/default.asp
Re:Domino's by beebers · 2005-01-04 05:18 · Score: 2, Informative

Domino's 555 deal is really good...especially when a bunch of us want pizzas. We get together 6 or so people and order 6 medium pizzas...ends up to be somethin like 33 bucks with tax....charge everyone 6 bucks (plus tip)...and you've got a nice late night snack.
Re:On recovery from theft... by hcsteve · 2005-01-04 06:01 · Score: 2, Informative

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

There was actually an article in the Fall 2004 issue of 2600 that discussed a shell script to do something very similar. It would check in periodically to a particular web address, and execute a command contained on that web page. So if your laptop ever gets stolen, you have both a record of the thief's IP address and a means to execute commands locally. Pretty interesting.

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