[Noisebridge-discuss] Missing laptop followup

[Danny O'Brien]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Mark Cohen <markc at binaryfaith.com> wrote:

>
> I think the lessons here are that not all members or NB space users are on
> this list, and not everyone is honest.
>
> Until there are lockers with locks, I would probably recommend not storing
> anything in the space that you actually care about.
>

On the other hand, it's frequently such *weird* things that go. And of
course, so much stuff that stays around, defiantly.

My experience is, well, not quite the opposite: I left a fancy-schmancy hat
in a public bit of NB by mistake, it walked off, and then I asked around and
someone said oh X has it, and I asked for it back, and they returned it. It
would have been very different result if there hadn't been someone who
happened to be around who had spotted it, and hats weren't something you
fairly publicly balance on your head. Neither of the people involved read
nb-discuss.

I do think that people don't necessarily know that the membership shelves
are for stuff that you can't hack on, though I'm not saying that's all of
what happens.About the only part I can think of to improve without breaking
other things is the level of pan-community communication, but that is also
hard.

I appreciate people talking about this openly: I hope it doesn't make people
think that there are constantly people in stripy shirts and masks
half-inching the wheels off robots, but i do think we should keep track of
when it happens, just in case we see spikes or a change for the worse or
better.

d.


> I guess "Fool me once, shame on you.. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies.
> j
>
>
> On May 23, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Foote wrote:
>
> > While on the thread about member shelves, the missing NB laptop has
> > not shown up. It was a Thinkpad T40 (pretty sure, or a T41),
> > identifying marks were a NB sticker and white Apple stickers (heh) on
> > the front and the power supply, which is also missing, along with a
> > mouse.
> >
> > Result of this experiment with communitarianism seems to be an
> > resounding FAIL. And, sadly, not my first:
> >
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2010-March/012896.html
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org>
> > Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM
> > Subject: Missing laptop
> > To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> >
> >
> > There was a Noisebridge Thinkpad sitting on my member shelf. It's gone.
> >
> > I feel proprietary about it as I resuscitated it out of the pile,
> > including purchasing a disk for it (it was diskless) and installing a
> > special kernel to drive the CNC mill. I use it to teach the occasional
> > class and to loan to visitors.
> >
> > Please return it.
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