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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.
I carry mine in a non-descript back pack rather than an obvious laptop case that has DELL written all over it.
[n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
Looks cool, but ...
I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.
-- Sally
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?
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.
If real.
And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.
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.
- 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.
How on earth did this get slashdotted? This is pure Fark fodder and nothing more. Are they letting the dog post?
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.
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!
he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
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".
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 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.
Sorry...it's already been done. They're called Dell Computers.
Successfully condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 1998.
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.