Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

I think this forum has got a great waste drainage system...

...almost all threads can go down the drain within hours time :D

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

Who is Chuck Norris? What is a Texas Ranger? Is this something like our Kindergarden Cop?

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

Chuck Norris is a martial arts enthusiast who played the role of a Texas Ranger, a member of law enforcement (not to be confused with keeping the peace). He is the epitome of in control, always right, macho. For example "When Chuck Norris falls into a pool he doesn't get wet - the pool gets Chuck Norris'd."

What any of this has to do with a leak at Nokia is beyond me. I will add that I recently acquired an SU-8W. When I popped out the old batteries when they died I saw the serial number 000056 and that it was marked prototype. That is the fourth time I've acquired a prototype Nokia device over the internet without knowing before hand it was a prototype when I purchased it The bozo who broke into my house in February walked off with the first three, a 6290 and two 7376 T-Mobile devices. All of these devices were crippled to a certain extent, failing to boot past the Nokia screen for example so I know who ever took them is going to be highly unhappy that I keep such "junk" lying around.

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

Ahahahahahahahhahahhaha*gasp*ahahahahahahahhahahah ah!
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Sorry, I just found that really, really funny.

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

as I said. big nokia suing small human being and ruining the rest of ones life would be evil, wouldn't it?

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

Hell. At this rate, it's cheaper to still from Nokia to find out the future products than it is to keep buying their products only to find out it might/might not get support a year or so later.

Yay looting!

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

I don't know what keyboard you're talking about (PC? N900?) but I had one of those cheap $5 PC keyboards that had an extra row of keys between the arrows and the del/end/pgdn etc keys. Those keys were POWER, SLEEP and something else stupid. Placed in the worst possible location. I had another cheap keyboard with the same extra row, but instead they shifted the ins/dec/home/end/pgup/pgdn down, and put the power/sleep keys on the top row. My solution in both cases involved removing keys.

1st keyboard, use flat-head screwdrive to remove the keys. If rubber dome is still existing, put tape over it so you can never press it. Problem solved.

2nd keyboard, same thing, but remove all 9 of those keys and replace the "good" keys up 1 row where they belong, then remap the key definitions so those keys are back where they belong. (Depending on your operating system this is done in different ways)

If you've using one of those crazy "Multimedia keyboards" with a dozen extra buttons all over, or any recent Microsoft keyboard, then I don't know if there's any way to save it physically. Just remap those buttons so they don't do anything at all.

If you were referring to N900 keyboard, how did you manage to get 8 hours of battery life??? :p

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

It sounds like maybe this guy was just kind of crazy or stupid, but not malicious. If he were working for competitor or something I have no doubt that Nokia would push for more harsh punishment. Now that he got "busted" and had to give back everything maybe it'll scare him away from doing this again.

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

The guy had said that he wanted to see if he can assemble working devices out of the junk that was lying in carts waiting to be destroyed. So it was just a harmless geek without any common sense.

Re: Small leak at Nokia research center. Guy steals 55 prototypes.
 

And, of course, he needed the projector to show his "building useful stuff from junk I stole" presentation, and the laptops were needed for...Awww c'mon, stop making excuses for the guy, when the place I work for were upgraging their cctv systems and I saw a camera destined for the compacter I asked if I could have it.