[Noisebridge-discuss] A test of Excellence

[Garrett Mace]

On 1/15/2013 3:50 PM, Dean Mao wrote:
> I'm guessing the theft incidence at the Hacker Dojo would be on par 
> with the UC Santa Cruz hackerspace.  We have this macbook power 
> adapter that belongs to nobody, but people keep thinking it belongs to 
> someone and it routinely ends up in our lost & found drawer.  We're 
> also located somewhat distant from the downtown area, so we have less 
> transient people who might be a theft threat.
>
> Maybe you guys could reconsider having a security camera in the 
> stairwell leading to NB.  It's not technically in the space, but maybe 
> it would help dissuade some blatant theft.  When I visit NB, I'm 
> worried about leaving my laptop when I use the bathroom, or when I'm 
> looking into the parts drawers.
>
> We did have an incident of theft at the Hacker Dojo before, but we 
> caught the guy on camera and handed him over to the police.  Sometimes 
> cameras aren't a bad thing either.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Martin Bogomolni 
> <martinbogo at gmail.com <mailto:martinbogo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >> I think the only reason that you guys have a theft issue is
>     simply because you're in a somewhat seedy part of town.
>
>     I think that's quite true.  OTOH, houses in 'seedy areas' have
>     ==locks== on the doors, and people use their social and cultural
>     awareness to keep themselves, and their property, safe.
>
>     When you reduce it, I still think it's a culture issue.  I didn't run
>     the experiment at Hacker Dojo, but only due to lack of resources.  I
>     definitely would have added it if I had the extra.
>
>     -M
>

I found it quite entertaining, and somewhat against the "seedy area" 
theory, that one of the thefts was apparently done by someone 
technologically aware enough to both recognize and make use of the 
Bitcoin value.
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