[Noisebridge-discuss] missing IBM model M keyboard from my shelf

[Jake]

1) i will not accept it as a fact of life;  if a bunch of hackers can't 
outsmart petty theives or at least out-technology them, then we're not 
trying, or our priorities are elsewhere.  I for one will not go quietly 
into that good-night, as you can see with my energy on the Jay issue.

3) i believe theft insurance would not be allowed to us unless we showed 
the insurer the means we were using to prevent theft - and we aren't using 
any.

5) I would love to get something like a library-style or drugstore-style 
theft beeper gates, so that if you have something you value, you implant 
an anti-theft sticker in it.  If you forget and try to leave with your 
item, you get to explain it to all your friends after they stop you :)
If someone new tries that shit, and accelerates their attempt at departure 
upon setting off the beepers, ITS ON.
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:IMG_0293.JPG

6) people probably won't consent to changing the space to members-only

9) there are machines available to do this, we could fit one onto 
mchawking

10) the place is already bathed in semi-lethal x-rays and gamma and 
everything else, ask Lilia.

11) mchawking can be used as an enforcement droid, but first you need to 
get the Quickcam Sphere drivers working so we can actually see through it.
And since I will be out of town for Hacker Prom, it will also help me 
attend the party... as a robot.

> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/MissingStuff  but it turns out its very
> hard to get people to report this stuff . My *guess* is that we get a bunch
> of opportunistic thievery, and then it declines, then it starts up again.
> But without any data, I can't tell.
> 
> I'm interested for solutions to this. The ones usually thrown up are:
> 
> 1) Accept it as a fact of life in an open space
> 2) Increase the vigilance of new people somehow
> 3) Get theft insurance
> 4) Put cameras in so we can at least see stuff going and track it down
> 5) Put in some sort of more narrow, exciting tracking system, so you could
> sticker stuff you didn't want stolen
> 6) Close the place to members only (and or) guests at certain times, open
> the rest of the time
> 7) Close the place to members only + guests
> 8) Close the place to members only
> 9) Check people's asses as they leave
> 10) Bathe space in constant, semi-lethal x-rays
> 11) Commandeer mchawking as enforcement bot
> 
> I put this in rough order of popularity (I don't even know if it would be
> possible for us to get theft insurance, but it might be possible. We might
> have to change a bunch of things to do so though.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
>
>       Jake wrote on Wed Sep 14:
> 
> I am missing a special keyboard from my shelf.  It is an IBM model M:
> http://blog.jpoetry.com/wp-content/inoad/landscape/modelm-007_scl.jpg
> 
> It has a black cord ending in a five-pin DIN, which is a MIDI
> connector.
> It has a midi controller inside and batteries and was attached to a
> charger.
> 
> There is a similar keyboard in the server closet, that's not it.  You
> can
> tell this one by its black cord (unless it has been removed) and by
> the
> fact that one of its screws on the bottom is now a charging port.
> 
> If you know where this is, please email me or place it back on my
> shelf or
> on the desk by the windows with a note saying it's mine.  No questions
> asked, i just want it back.  Thanks.
> 
> -jake
> 
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