Fuck! We were robbed!
 

Well, not really we.
My mother was. And it feels really bad.
Cops came to make a few pictures and do the regular crap but surely that won't help much. Took the god damned computer, and been looking for cash.
:Oh crap
If you were robbed did you ever get your stuff back?

I've never had my home robbed, but some friends have. That sucks... Did they catch the guys that did it? The faster they do, the better the chances of finding your stuff. Good luck man :)

that sucks, I hope your mom can get the stuff recovered

your stuff is gone. write it off and move on

I don't think they will ever catch them..

Been robbed, cops really can rarely do shit to recover your belongings, and alot of the time they do not even run any prints they get due to budget issues and the like.
Only real way to recover is via insurance, and is why I always do a video inventory of all my belongings as well as save reciepts for years.

Makes me think about the computer security.. What can we do to prevent them fuckers from getting access to my files?

That's sucks, hope your mom will feel better soon. Look at it this way, be glad no one was hurt.

We were and never expect to see it. We were lucky in that the thief only took what he could carry but it was still several $1000 of stuff. The insurance covered it but you never get the 'real' valuable stuff back such as pictures of your child on the camera, data/pics on the laptop etc etc. Fucking scumbags.

you computer has been sole at the nearest pawn shop already. don't ahve to worry about them snooping

that sucks shima

I don't mind the computer to be sold, its the files, passwords and other stuff that bothers me. How often do you save passwords to your sites..

They can get my access code to GFY! Can you beleive that?!

I am letting my brother borrow our spare car, he lives in some shitty ass trailor park and someone stole my CD player out of it just a couple weeks ago. Feels pretty shitty, even though it probably wasnt worth 100$ it still pisses me off to no end. Guess I am lucky they didnt steal the car.

i dont understand you
where is the problem?

i had robbery too, but i've changed all passwords asap
i lost my laptop, computer etc

do the same, just change all passwords!

that sucks man.

Buy a gun :2 cents:

What happened sucks but, it could have been worse. Always say it could have been worse.

:thumbsup oh yeah, I was thinking about one..

No one was home so whats the point, unless you wish to supply thieves with guns to sell as well.

use the boot up password on the motherboard. Most people dont even know it exists nevermind how to get around it. I really doubt anyone breaking into houses would have any concept how to get by it. They would probably end up taking it to a computer shop and claiming they forgot the password.. by that time, you could easily have notified every computer shop for miles to be on the lookout for it.

that sucks, and if the robbers were professional there is no way you can have your things back

I have like hundreds of passwords. We do webdesign since 1998, imagine the amount of passwords I have.
Not that they all are working but damn.. I wouldn't want to risk that type of info anyway.

not a good feeling I bet

Man that is the easiest thing to crack.
Just take out the battery out of your motherboard for an hour and bingo you got your BIOS reset to defaults. No password either.

dont blame us. Coz thats just easy to do.

Sorry to hear that Shima..Most likey you stuff is not coming back! Get a Alarm for you mom brotha :Oh crap

yeah.. my momma needs an alarm now 4 sure..

Is there a program that can sort of ask for a password like 3 times, and if you type it wrong it will destroy your data? I'm really looking forward for a serious data security application. Any of you know a good one?

Well good for you corky, you waste an hour, I'd just reset it with the jumper, but what the fuck ever, had you read more then a half line the point i was try to make was most any crackhead breaking into houses would have no idea how to fucking do it and would probably take it to a computer shop.
http://24.153.126.126/~nitro/e/upyours.gif

Get one and get it quick. The % of homes broken into a second time within a few weeks of the first breakin is HUGE. The thieves know how to get in and where everything is so once the insurance replaces it all...

90% of theifs wouldn't know that. A police officer told me not too long ago that 50% of car audio stuff stolen in a area is found on the same side of town in pawn shops.

I've been robbed at a gun point several years ago (at home).

Advice: lock the fucking door and don't answer anyone.

Thiefs suck!

that would be the first placed i looked if my shit got stolen.

Computer can be disassembled and sold separately through a thing like eBay for example. No one will ever know. Corse it'll take longer, but no risk involved.

As for the dumb thiefs that do not know how to reset computers.... In my line of business I can't risk that..

http://www.epitope.org/laptop/ lol

That's awful, I'm happy to hear that everyone is ok =)

sorry to hear that :(

That sucks ! You feel less safe in a weird way. :disgust

sorry to hear that and even if they do catch them.... in vancouver,bc there is a 94% percent chance that they will not even be charged.

really sucks :(

If you want to protect the files on your computer, get a mac and use the file vault function in 10.3

i never got my stuff my stuff back when my car was broken into. That sucks when that happens

Guess what they do with car stereo now:
You need 2 guys. One, breaks into your car, gets the radio out and puts it on the ground by the car. Then another one walks by and picks it up.
Even if you catch the first one - he won't get into jail because thats not a robbery, thats hooliganism. And the other one just found it laying by your car.

My house got robbed once when i was a kid living in LA. the next day my dad found our broken VCR, that got stolen, in the neighbors trash. my mom called the cops and my dad ran in the neighbors house with a baseball bat and held everyone on the floor till the cops came :pimp
That was some crazy shit

No, when you get robbed there is very minimal chances that you'll get your stuffs back. Been there, been robbed. :(

buy a safe, and bolt it to the floor in a closet. Keep all valuables in the safe. Theives wont fuck with things that costs them time to get. Motion sensors in the house connected to a loud alarm work good to, not that brinks bullshit where they call your house when the silent alarm goes off. Theives know they still have 10 minutes or so to clean your house out after the phone rings, but with a loud alarm going off, they will leave immediately.

So what did it all come down to? Your neighboors really robbed you? Or that thing was just in their trash?

Over here they don't return your call, they simply send out the security guards. But it'll take them about 2 mins to get here..

it's gone, never to be seen again.

sorry bout your (mom's) luck.