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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by pmiller2 on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:16PM (#22470573)
That's funny! I had heard of this before, but I misremembered it as a TV company printing a bicycle on the box to deter theft. I sort of wonder if that would work now, come to think of it.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by userbinator on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:58PM (#22470820)
If a TV company put a bicycle on the box, there would be plenty of shipping damage. The only reason the opposite worked is because people naturally assume a TV is far more fragile than a bicycle.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by pmiller2 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:14AM (#22472249)
Maybe a bicycle wouldn’t work, but could there be something else that would?
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by jolmg on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:41PM (#22471062)
By work, I think they were referring to avoiding thefts, not shipping damage.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by userbinator on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:57PM (#22471154)
Yes, perhaps I wasn't clear but I meant that instead of thefts it will become shipping damage.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by yellowapple on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:11AM (#22473221)
TVs and bikes are pretty comparable in value (both range from hundreds to thousands of dollars). Disguise a TV as a desk, though, and you might be onto something.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by Double_a_92 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:08AM (#22473720)
Good desks are also in the same price range as cheaper TVs.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by nomadluap on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:39PM (#22478499)
I bet most porch pirates will have an easier time fencing a tv rather than a desk, and so would be more likely to take a TV box.
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018) by yellowapple on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:17AM (#22517127)
On the other hand, fencing a desk would draw less suspicion than fencing a TV.
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