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A Pizza Box for Your Laptop

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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Re:On recovery from theft... by YrWrstNtmr · 2005-01-04 04:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

GMail wouldn't do it, even though there's no threat to user privacy here...
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
Once laptops start including onboard GPS,
/.ers will scream that the EvilGummint(tm) is trying to track everyone.