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Two Triple-Screen Laptops Were Stolen From Razer's CES Booth (theverge.com)
In a Facebook post, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said two of their prototype laptops shown off at CES 2017 were stolen. "We treat theft/larceny, and if relevant to this case, industrial espionage, very seriously -- it is cheating, and cheating doesn't sit well with us," Tan wrote. "Penalties for such crimes are grievous and anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart." Both items were prototype models of a laptop, called Project Valerie, that has three 4K displays. The Verge reports: Tan says that Razer is working with law enforcement and CES management to investigate. He's also asking show attendees to email legal@razerzone.com with any info they might have on what happened. A company representative added that a $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction. The alleged theft occurred "after official show hours," says Allie Fried, director of global events communications for the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES. "The security of our exhibitors, attendees and their products and materials are our highest priority," Fried wrote in an email to The Verge. "We look forward to cooperating with law enforcement and Razer as the incident is investigated."
Even though it was after hours, just how many cameras are there within sight of their booth? At the biggest electronics show in the US? The building itself probably has more than enough "footage" (bitage?) to at least pinpoint when if not who.
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Would anyone like to buy a triple-screen laptop? The brand logo is scratched, but otherwise it's brand new.
Usefulness: Debatable.
Uniqueness and recognizability: 100%.
Someone is asking for trouble.
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How typical and old-school. I'd bet half of my life savings this is an advertising stunt.
Linus (No, the other one) dropped them and did not want to be embarressed again.
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I guess with 3 screens there was no room for a Kensington Security Slot to lock them down.
Every news outlet is covering this story. Millions of dollars of free advertising for Razer.
I know criminals are not supposed to be that smart, but if you read between the lines here, nobody is getting any money for information. It could take 1-2 years to convict someone of this theft. By the time someone is convicted, Razor will conveniently forget about any reward money.
Offer a reward leading to an arrest.
Why? Because people trying to earn a decent living are invariably thieving from our corporate/industrialist overlords? Your compliance has been noted, however, like the 'work' of all supplicants your obedient talking points will be rewarded with lower wages and industrial waste. A modern day Uncle Tom.
These weren't even real prototypes. The whole thing is vaporware at the moment. You won't see this thing for another 5 years at least. Find me a graphic card capable of driving three 4K displays, now explain how you're fitting that inside a laptop.
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Every $399-and-up iPhone at the Apple store is held in place with a cable. And these crazy-expensive prototype laptops weren't because...?
If it were my prototype laptop, I"d've specced it with not just one but two Kensington slots. And it'd go into a substantial locking box after hours, or into the hotel room of a trusted rep.
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I've exhibited at these big shows - security is very lax, there's loads of people milling around after hours and the risk of getting caught is minimal. Anyone who leaves anything of any value unattended on the stand (whether in a cupboard or on display) is asking for trouble. I'm amazed these guys were so green - especially if they thought there was the slightest risk of 'industrial espionage'.
BS. It was the flight-simulator gang.
The proper word is frist and the many variations thereof.
Unions have long ago left their first purpose of protecting labor though collective bargaining and landed themselves squarely in the political game. They have become what they initially despised and no longer protect the little guy and his job, but now have become a barrier to employment, collect usurious "dues" and have parlayed the representative power from representing labor to management to engaging in political campaigns which many in their membership oppose.
It's time for unions to go back to what they initially were, or go away.
Sweet, I hope some idiot is selling a triple screen laptop on Ebay. Easy money.
These things will probably show up in a lapfu thread any day now.
to start thinking how to support something like this.)
or is it leuvers?
you implicating the leo doesnt work and is why everyone is asked to help the leo?
Your implication of news and media as a franchise of law enforcement is quite stunning. How many student press or papers circulating in a school, how many prison inmate news papers circulating in a prison?
Reminds me the courts are not open to the public since there are fees for everything rather than prepaid officers.
Well, we know it likely wasn't an Apple employee since they would be more interested in a laptop with no screen, or at least a screen that requires a dongle.
Depends on the union and "union culture".
Bad union: Cashiers at grocery stores in Canada and Japan - successfully prevented their duties from being expanded to bagging groceries. Result: self checkout is actually easier and faster than using a human (you can take the item out of the cart, run it across the scanner, and put it in the bag in one motion. Versus unloading the cart onto a belt and then loading things from a different belt into bags). And soon Amazon's system which simply electronically charges you for whatever's in your cart as you exit the store will put pretty much all these places out of business.
Bad union: in NYC the "token booth" clerks were being made irrelevant due to vending machines and security cameras. Transit tried to expand their duties, and lost against the union. The incident where a woman was raped in full view of staff who did nothing to intervene did not help (until that point one of the union's selling points to keep stations staffed was "safety"). So they simply started closing booths and replacing them with push button kiosks that connect people to a call center to ask their questions, and an emergency button to call for help. If all the booth person can be counted on to do if a crime is happening is call the police, any nearby warm body can push a red button to do the same.
Good union: white collar ones. They generally stay out of the way. They still of course try to keep the number of employees up, but are far more open to re purposing existing employees and titles.
But not "fistr", because that's probably a trademark of a... emmm... "dating" site.
Whenever Razer has something whacky they're betting will be the next thing, they remove the product at the end of the show and claim it was stolen in an act of industrial espionage. The reason is this: if any competitor makes a similar product later on, then Razer has already set up a precedent that allows them to accuse that competitor of being the very made-up thief who stole their equipment, betting on that the sheep on the Internet and the courts will side with them.
Good union: Many trains in the UK still don't have retention toilets, and spread human waste on the tracks. The RMT union asked the rail companies to inoculate track workers against diseases spread by human faeces. The companies refused saying that they'd be fitting retention toilets in all trains within the next ten years, so it wasn't an issue. The RMT responded by threatening strike action. The companies paid for the inoculations. (I have a feeling there had actually been a case of cholera in one rail worker, so we're not just talking minor bugs here.)
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Guess they don't want their prototypes back, then.
It was the Russians !
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... any thoughts on embedded GPS?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I've heard of security personnel *filling* hotel rooms with stolen gear from booths, and I know someone who stopped a theft-by-security-guard after hours a couple of years ago at CES. Those guys are about as trustworthy as a hungry bear.
Every iPhone at an Apple store relies on a store employee being nearby when someone snips the cable.
The same is true of any CES booth. I've been there after hours on a vendor badge - there are a TON of people wandering around, as you'd expect with so many people working each booth... just because it's after hours does not mean you can walk away from any valuable equipment for a second. Any computers or cameras at the vendor I was at were put into a locked closet for the night before the booth was left unattended.
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Oh oh! Someone stole the first post.
Have gnu, will travel.
Thank you for thanking that OP. We need heroes like you to inspire generations to come.
Well, then good bye your laptops.
What fraudulent report? Did it say they filed a report with the police? The news story said they were working with law enforcement, that's it.
And they gave you an email address from their domain if you have any information. (?!)
Sure, someone might have nabbed them, laptops get stolen all the time. Just somewhat interesting that this made the news feeds. Do I care? Not in the least.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
As revenge for the POS that is Razer TV obviously...
At least you know its portable...
CES attendees (guests) are much less likely to steal than attendees of consumer shows like IFA, but after hours security is worse.
That being said, even my little company which makes keyboards know not to leave prototypes unattended by our own staff at any time. I mean, come on.
Good union. Shit job.
I'm not at all surprised this happened. The United States is in the midst of a major - probably the most major in it's history - crime epidemic. Probably the most major in the history of any human society.
We read in the news every week about brazen robberies and burglaries: People literally driving vehicles into store front windows, grabbing items, then speeding away. Gangs of gorilla thugs invading stores and collectively stealing everything in sight. Car break-ins are so prevalent that police do not even respond nor investigate.
And on top of it more criminals than ever are roaming the streets because the jails are way overcrowded and many jurisdictions have passed leniency laws which seriously reduce penalties for many serious crimes.
It is absolutely not surprising that something like this theft would happen. Par for the course in America 2017. This is not an accident either, its the direct result of the policies of politicians constantly trying to score "humanitarian" points by pandering to the lowest-common-denominator in society in a sickening race to the bottom that's literally leading to societal collapse. Dysgenia is in full-swing in America fueled by "compassionate" policies which are nothing more than pathological delusion bordering on the criminal.
The Russians.
" and anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart." I would say that the person who allowed it to happen is considerably less smart.
Scratched is better than LL Bean and Sharper Image methinks.
has anyone checked eBay?
regardless of how you feel about Unions, if you've ever worked at a trade show, you'd agree that trade show unions are the epitome of lazy idiots living off doing nothing.
"um, you can't move that rolled up carpet yourself, you'll need one of us to come over with a forklift, that will be 2 hours from now, oh, and you have to rent the carpet from us too".
That's not the union screwing you, it's the convention center.
Also, idiots plugging twenty extension cords into each other, under carpet and a hydra of surge (outlet) bars at the end, are why there were enough deaths in fires to get a law passed allowing it in the first place.
Unions have to be political, that is where a lot of laws and regulations that will affect them get created. Why would any union be in favor of a politician who is going to vote to make their state a "right to work" (and get fired) state? Or make it so workers aren't required to join the union if it is a union shop?
It is the right wing politicians and conservative media who have picked other social issues that some union members might not agree with as to why they shouldn't support the unionization of workers. But that just let corporations gain a whole lot more power now than even back in the robber-barron era. The GOP saw the money that Unions would give to the Democrats and targeted that.
"...and anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart." So they are saying any moron could have stole this. Speaks more to their inattention than anything else.