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How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft?
DragonTHC writes "I'm thinking about hosting a lan party open to the public. I'm aiming for approximately 60 people to attend. I can handle all the logistics of operation. The only thing I can't wrap my head around is: how do I prevent theft at the lan party? Do I hire security guards? Do I need security cameras? I don't know the people who will attend, and I don't know if they're trustworthy enough to not steal other people's equipment. What do I do?"
That's really disappointing ... I've seen this argument stop lots of events from happening...
Public Liability insurance is not expensive for this sort of affair...
if you hold the event in a hotel or other such place then most straight forward issues could be covered by the hotels insurance...
Also, 20178 is pretty low... so your probably old enough to have actual assets worth suing over, where as students and younger people aren't as big a target.
No assets, no point suing.
Wow. That's the first time I ever saw UID used as an estimator of age. That's pretty entertaining. I guess it's more of a lower bound, but still....
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If you can't have enough faith in humanity to throw a lan party because you fear for all the items that could be stolen, accidents that could happen, insurances, law suits... Your attitude to life sucks.
Either that or you've had enough experience to not have faith in humanity...
For instance, my car was recently rear-ended by a woman in an SUV in some heavy traffic while I was stopped. There was a chain reaction and I hit the car in front of me. The woman agreed that all damage was her fault so I decided that we could let the police report slide as no one was injured. That was all good and well until 8:30 the next morning when her insurance company had called me to tell me that she claimed I had hit the car in front of me prior to her hitting me. Granted, if you could see pictures of the damage to the front of my car you'd realize quickly that there is no way she could have seen the damage to the front end of my car. But now me and my insurance company are taking it to court. I think we have a solid case but still the paper work alone makes it worth the time to cover your ass. And if I do lose the case? My insurance company is going to be eating a bill they shouldn't have and I'm going to be out of my deductible.
Faith in your fellow human is fantastic until some fucktard comes along and shows you that, yes Virgina, there are pricks in this world. And to think that this is a simple auto accident. Had there been an injury? God only knows what I'd be putting up with right now.
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do you graybeards have a script that scrapes slashdot for the string 'uid' in user comments? i honestly can't think of how else there's such a high correlation for all the 'uid' posts to garner so many old-timers.
Hah, It would be interesting to see how strong the age/uid correlation would be. I'm probably a hundred years old by slashdot standards.
It's just statistics. There are probably 30K active accounts with UIDs low enough to qualify as 'graybeards'. If even one sees the comment, you get a satisfactory reply. Also, most people have the filter set to promote comments from long term users, so again, once you get one low uid post, you drastically increase the odds of getting another.
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do you graybeards have a script that scrapes slashdot for the string 'uid' in user comments?
No. It may sound incredible but there are people who are still reading slashdot even after that many years.