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Stealing Legos for fun and profit?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-joy-of-connections dept.

Mad_Rain writes "Every nerd I know had (or still has) a fairly extensive Lego collection. But I don't think most would go so far as to steal $200,000 worth of Legos. When police arrived to carry away the evidence from his home, they needed a 20-foot-long truck. They found in the car of the accused a laptop computer that had a list of Target stores that he was planning to defraud along with the mapping software on how to get there."

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  1. Re:Conjecture by Joe+Random · · Score: 3, Informative
    No, but you could probably add another RFID tag, with a larger antenna and stronger signal....
    The problem is, there's an actual underlying protocol that keeps RFID tags from interfering with each other. You could have 2, 20, or 200 tags all in the same LEGO box, and the scanner would read them all.

    You could use some sort of jamming device to block all RFID tags in a small area, but if the store can't read the RFID tag they'll have to do the equivalent of "Price check on aisle 5!", which will reveal the actual price of the item, thus nullifying all of your efforts.
  2. Re:LEGO by Mahou · · Score: 2, Informative

    no the url is there so when people type it they will get the message that they don't want to be called legos, but LEGO. http://legonotlegos.ytmnd.com/

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  3. Re:hehe. by mav[LAG] · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's because a +1 Funny doesn't give you karma. Some mods use a +1 Insightful to say "yes I thought that was funny and I think you deserve karma as well."

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  4. his feedback page. by weierstrass · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=swanberg

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  5. Re:hehe. by Scarblac · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, anybody who just posts now and then and behaves a bit on /. will have their karma maxed pretty easily. Who cares.

    The thing is though that sometimes the "+1, Informative" mods rather add to the joke, or are a joke in themselves.

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  6. Re:LEGO by elgatozorbas · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hey, the Mountain Dew on my desk in front of me says "Mountain Dew" right on the can. I guess I can't talk about drinking two Mountain Dews, can I?

    Of course you can. It's a free country. You could even say 'cat' to a dog. But a difference between Mountain Dew and Lego is that the latter explicitely request not to refer to their product as 'legos'.

    From Wikipedia:
    Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over.