dont steal my laptop

JS80

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they have laptop trackers now in the bios. i read it in wall street journal. lojack for laptops.
 

OdiN

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I can track anyones laptop with a small makeshift compass and a bit of string.
 

swtethan

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Originally posted by: OdiN
I can track anyones laptop with a small makeshift compass and a bit of string.

HAX!

why would you need a compass if you had string?
 

iamtrout

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Yeah, it's really old, and he's full of sh!t.

If I were the thief and I was in the class listening to his spewing about this valuable data, I'd be so happy at my break. Jackpot!
 

chuckywang

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Originally posted by: InlineFour
i think he's just trying to scare the thief.

Yeah, the question I want to ask is "What was the point of all that?" If they already have a pic of the guy, as well as being able to track the laptop anywhere on campus, why don't they just arrest the guy? What are they waiting for?
 

OdiN

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Originally posted by: swtethan
Originally posted by: OdiN
I can track anyones laptop with a small makeshift compass and a bit of string.

HAX!

why would you need a compass if you had string?

The string is to strangle the thief.
 

QurazyQuisp

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I work at the national superconducting cyclotron laboratory, and our laptops have tracking devices in it... there is a lot of confidential information in our building... Most of the physicists are professors as well, so, if some one did steal a laptop from one of them, chances are the lecture would probably hear something along those lines.
 

InlineFour

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Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: InlineFour
i think he's just trying to scare the thief.

Yeah, the question I want to ask is "What was the point of all that?" If they already have a pic of the guy, as well as being able to track the laptop anywhere on campus, why don't they just arrest the guy? What are they waiting for?

they probably don't even have the picture. it's probably just another scare tactic.