At 04:45 PM 12/08/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Lessons splessons.
>
>How often would you leave a valuable item in the open with nobody keeping
>an eye on it?
Daily!
>I can't think of many places where it would still be there the following
>day, even if you wrote."This is the property of..." all over it.
That's the last thing I'd do!
>Where the hell can you conduct business these days without encountering
>opportunist scumbags?
Nowhere if you attract opportunist scumbags.
>The more security in protecting yourselves from unwanted pilfering, the
>better. Bolt it /strap it/ glue it down if you have to, even so, the place
>does not need to look like Fort Knox to be thief unfriendly. Cameras are
>also a good deterrent.
>I must admit that with all the concern about individuals getting into your
>machines and causing damage, the waters have been muddied, there is far
>more to worry about with theft and vandalism.
>There are ways of tagging even relatively small items that set off alarms
>as you leave a premises. Smaller scale of the average shop tagging system.
> This would act as a detterent to those opportunists who would walk off
>with headphones, mouses, PC's keyboards etc.
>It costs about ?0.03 (3p) per tag. The detector equipment (loop) for
>entrance points cost about ?1000 - 3000 per door.
And the irony of your "lessons splessons" is that you're located in the
UK, a place that once had the lessons down as a way of living rather than
as a mockery of what could and should be.
Paul B.
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