We should practice our right to do civilian arrest!

The Police should use undercover to purposely park a car with a few NB in it at "popular" place (where frequent theft occur), then use a DV to record down everything from 20~50m away (of coz they can put another DV inside the vehicle )… They can also throw in a sniper with tranquilizer ammunition, or hot-wire the NB bag (use special carbon fiber bag for good electrical conductivity), or simply hot-wire the whole vehicle, with 50kv with remote trigger ( so that not to accidentally electrocute any innocent pass-by ) when suspect are near!

Hmmm... Smart huh? No wonder I can’t be a MP or the Police Director… hahaha!

Ha ha, crazy idea. hope they can do that for real..because I also fear my laptop being stolen.

Well I'd normally either dun bring it out, or if I DO bring it out I'll keep it with me all the times... No choicelo~

yes but when going to work no choice..and my laptop so heavy..tired to keep it with me all the times.
sometimes I gamble left it in my car..hehe, luckily still there...

LOL gamble to hope that ur laptop still there... That's a huge bet If u lose, u lose all, if ur laptop there, u dun gain anything pun

But yeh, I agree with u, so not much choice but to park at a more secure place... I'd take out the battery anyway juz to be sure that there's nothing transmitting any signal on my laptop for others to detect

This laptop stolen cases have happened back in the days when wifi was not built in (ie. separate PCMCIA card) so its not a wifi thing.

The thief watches ppl put in bags to the boot of the car then wait for the fella to go off then only does his dirty work

yeah same with u, I'll try to find more secure parking or at more people can see my car, ie: in front mamak stall where there many people there.

hi there...

i just lost my laptop today... in my home... well... i just went out on 10.30 AM and came back at 2.00 PM... and i saw my front door was wide opened... shocked... ran in to my house and checked... everything are there except my 2 months old laptop...

the best part is the solex that i used to lock the grill was disappeared and the grill and the front door were nicely opened without any signs of force open...

leaving the laptop in the house are not safe anymore nowadays...

kindly share with me if anyone knows how to get back my laptop even though i know it is hard to get it back...

For me taking out the battery from the laptop is a must before leaving it in the car. So far nothing bad ever happen to my laptop huhu

Hmm, my rules of thumb:

1) Always bring along the laptop with me to anywhere if I am on the move. Never leave it in a place unguarded. Choose a locker system where there is a security guard in place to look after it. Never rely on security guard when there is no such locker system - he/she is not a keeper, anyway.

2) Against the snatch-thief - easy solution: walk in a crowded place. Never go alone without a partner/friend when walking along a secluded place (even better: just avoid such place, find other alternative even it is quite far from the destination).

3) If you want to go somewhere where there is no business to conduct, there is no need to bring along a laptop. Just leave it at home (with people inside, of course!) Settle everything at home if possible. Reduce your addiction to Internet - it will be helpful as well. Find a substitute to your laptop (buy a smartphone or something that can be put inside a pocket)

This post has been edited by eclectice: Jan 14 2009, 11:18 AM

Amen, Reverand......

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This post has been edited by devilicd: Jan 14 2009, 11:52 PM

or more radical tips you can follow

when you leave your laptop at home make a good hiding place. like the ceiling for example, most houses have their ceiling made of plywood. so make a small compartment there and no thief would no its there

second when you are in public dont be a fool and carry around a bag with the designer logo on it. in other words dont be silly and take an Asus bag with the logo still on it

third, if you are afraid of snatch theft carry your laptop on the other side of traffic...in other words if you are walking on the sidewalk and the moving traffic is to the right of you, put your laptop on your leftside of your body.

got any picture to share?

WTF... RM40 only?!
Omg... Should ban d item from being sold...

so far, we r sharing the same luck... but me, i dont even bring the battery along...

there is no notebook detector. it doesn't exist. you cannot find any fooking engineer anywhere in the world who can make a device to detect the presence of a hidden notebook that has been completely switched off.

the people who lost their notebook lost them because they didn't realise they are being watched from afar, by a group of people constantly on the lookout with binoculars, motorcycles etc. if the thieves are skillful enough to build a device to detect notebook, they should be skillful enough to break into car without smashing windows since those cars are normal Protons, cheap Toyotas with old, outdated door system that can be easily picked by veteran car thieves.

bottomline, cars got broken into all the time, especially cars that the owners has left their bags, boxes in them, regardless of whether they contain notebooks or not. as long as you got something in there that thieves can reasonably suspect to contain something valuable, your car will become a primary important target. period. end of story.

My car was broken into twice, both without the window being smashed, just because my friends left schoolbags and handbags left inside them and none of them contain notebooks.

the notebook detector is just a fooking myth, a story made up by the police as a stupid excuse for the inability to control the rampant theft situation.

as long as you got something in there that thieves can reasonably suspect to contain something valuable, your car will become a primary important target. period. end of story.

u got a point there dude. Basically they just try their luck on those old car (e.g. those old saga like mine last time). I got broke in once, but nothing was taken since there is nothing inside thou, i mean not even a player or small change but some keropok bags.

Their target most probably aiming on certain types of car with certain defact, since according to my boss, he lost his laptop tat time, his honda accord's (2 generation before the new one) windows were all wind down by the theft.

Those theft are most probably belongs to some organization that has highly trained engineers that able to perform those high tech break in stuff since i bet the money is better than working in their own fields right?

Moral: Dont leave your laptop in the car walaupun without battery..detect jugak..so beware kwn2..

i've seen a group of people in a van using that detector. They were going round and round my neigherborhood (taman connought), very very slowly.

I guess they were trying to detect which house has the most laptop, then break in when we're asleep since houses there are 80% occupied by student...

Don't know whether this thing exist or not but better be safe than sorry...

Whats the range of this so called detectors?

1meter ? 10meter?