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

[Erik Nelson]

1) RFID tags
2) McHawking
3) x-raygun
4) ???
5) PROFIT!

Or a painball gun.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> 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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