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Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary?
New submitter sc30317 writes "My house got robbed on Friday, and all of our electronics got stolen. Everything. Now, I have to go out and buy all new electronics with the insurance money. We had five TVs (don't ask), three laptops, a Bose Sound dock with iPod, a digital camera, and a desktop stolen. It's looking like I am going to get around $10K from the insurance company to replace everything. What would you do if you had to replace ALL of your technology in your house at once? I'm thinking:
replace TVs; nice Desktop; new speakers; and new, cool stuff I don't know about (suggestions welcome). I already added a DVR security system, so hopefully the new things won't get burgled! Looking for suggestions to utilize my money in order to get the best stuff. Also, no Windows computers allowed in my house."
They wouldn't have stolen your shit. Just saying...
>> What would you do if you had to replace ALL of your technology in your house at once?
Go on Craigslist and buy all your old crap back for ten cents on the dollar.
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"No Trespassing: What the dogs don't finish, we feed to the pigs."
Have gnu, will travel.
I wonder if he had auto-logon enabled and the burglar booted up his machine and is posting from his account. Maybe this is just a request from the burglar for additional shit he wants.
If someone wants all the information to become useless, they would need to:
- close all credit cards and get new ones from different companies
- close all bank accounts and open new ones to a different bank
- get a divorce or get married, whatever changes your marital status
- change your name, race, hair color, eye color, sex, religion and language
- move to another country so that all details of the address are obsolete
- close your Facebook account and open a Google+ account
Now, I know that last step seems impossible to do, but don't give up, you can do it!
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Basically, would you hire him again, when it is time to do the next round of upgrades?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Buy a pitchfork. Hysterical liberals don't have enough imagination to fear those or ban them.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
No, motion activated mini-gun.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Just pull up to your nearest Best Buy and get what they have in stock. Can't go wrong there. Just make sure to buy all Monster Cables and buy the extended warranty.
He's posting to slashdot. Chances are he runs encrypted root.
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++ if you train the dog to use it.
You mean the folks that oppose even reasonable things like background checks and waiting periods on gun purchases? And hand wave away any effort to introduce reasonable limitation on magazine size?
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
"Burgled" is correct in British / International English. Only Americans use the hideous "burglarized".
I thought American English was the only important version for International use....
Well, it just follows the pattern. Burglars don't burgle, they burglarize. Murderers don't murder, they murderize. Etc.
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This might lead to the expansion of the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine to include Slashdot users in addition to children.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Hell, here in New Orleans, if you shoot the bastard and he somehow makes it out of your house to die in the front yard, the cops here are usually nice enough to help you drag the body back indoors before they take the pics, etc....to help keep things 'neater'.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling
When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling
And listen to the merry village chime
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Except for hipsters. They likely already stole his turntable and cassette deck!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
You pipe over a loudspeaker
"there is going to be a test. You probably won't pass."
In GLaDOS voice!!
Put out a sign saying "Already burgled" and don't bother buying any replacement items.
or insist that your burbclave invest in a Rat Thing.
Double dip? I've been burgled 8 times now this past year and not once has a burglar come for a return trip!
I suggest a dictionary.
Didn't you read the summary? They took EVERYTHING.
More Twoson than Cupertino
Indeed. Without training, how is the dog going to know how to use the AR-15 safely?
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
signature is pants
they're just going to shoot the dog, or kill it with the crowbar they used to get the door open.
That's why you don't want a yappy dog. You get one that just stands there, in the dark. And then tears the throat out of the intruder once they walk around the corner in the hallway.
Joke:
This burglar breaks into a house. After walking around in the dark for a few moments, he hears a voice, "Jesus is watching you."
Looking around, he sees a parrot, and sees it repeat, "Jesus is watching you."
He chuckles and says, "Really? What's your name, parrot?"
The parrot replies, "Moses."
The burglar says, "Who would name a parrot Moses?"
"The same guy who named the Rottweiler Jesus."
Have gnu, will travel.
Where the hell do you live? Soweto? Nuevo Laredo? Aleppo? Kabul?