[Noisebridge-discuss] no actual theftiness and not from the donation bins

[Jennifer Mann]

Regarding the laptops that run the CNC, laser cutter, etc. ...  would it be
worth spending some Noisebridge funds on a couple of laptop lock cables
($13 ea.) to keep them from wandering off next time they are replaced?  Or
were those already in use and cut through?

I just joined Noisebridge, and I love that it is a very open and trusting
place.  However, I think there are a few inexpensive precautions that could
be implemented that wouldn't be seen as unfriendly, just as assuring that
general-use items will be there when someone needs them.

- Jenn

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> ... AND one of my macbooks (one was returned, eventually)
> ... AND a sled of chips
> ... AND a small miniITX machine.  Old, but serviceable
>
> The fact is, if it's valuable and on a member shelf .. these days
> there's a good chance it's gone.
>
> I thought about bringing one of those plastic storage bins with a
> lockable top and putting it on my shelf space.   I'm still thinking
> about that solution.
>
> -M
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> > Actually, there has been theft.  Maybe not of the donations bins (i
> disagree
> > that presence of proper collection precludes the possibility that people
> are
> > sticking their hands into an unmonitored unlocked box of cash by the
> door)
> > but of laptops.
> >
> > Laptops have been disappearing from the member shelves and elsewhere.
> >
> > Everyone knows about the lasercutter laptop that was stolen by some
> tweaker.
> > Not everyone realizes that the CNC machine laptop has been stolen THREE
> > TIMES.
> >
> > The first one was the one we took to toorcamp - it had been donated by
> > Carlos just before toorcamp.  It was stolen a few weeks after toorcamp, i
> > believe.
> >
> > Then I gave Hao another laptop to use as the CNC laptop, and he put it on
> > his member shelf.  Before he got it set up and running, I gave him
> another
> > laptop to use as CNC machine (to use whichever worked better) but then
> both
> > were stolen, from his shelf.
> >
> > That, coupled with the disappearance of a lot of valuable and useful
> > materials from the hack shelves, is plenty of proof to me that theft is
> > happening.
> >
> > -jake
> >
> >
> > Danny / O'Brien wrote:
> > Oh, as you were then. I checked the black bin, and it was in there. Mea
> > culpa.
> >
> > No-one will, of course, remember this email when they tell each other
> > enthusiastically how money is going from the bins.
> >
> > Anyway, all my other points are EXCELLENT, and we should probably be more
> > organized about this. I will defer doing anything about this until
> somebody
> > harasses me though.
> >
> > d.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Mitchel McAllister <xonimmortal at
> > yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have been taking the money out of the pink box and putting it in the
> >> metal box, as was requested by a member, after I expressed concern that
> >
> > the
> >>
> >> hasp on the pink box was broken.
> >>
> >> I haven't seen people taking things from the bins, but I have seen
> >
> > people
> >>
> >> tossing things from bin to bin.
> >>
> >> - Reverend Mik ------------------------------ www.prismandink.com
> >
> >
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-- 
Jennifer Mann
simple.as.pi at gmail.com

 <jennmann at umich.edu>
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