TheftCon

[BlackOrchid]

Al.. I'm still upset about the maid throwing away my bag of ping-pong balls! Now I don't have my christmas tree decoration!

So.. IF ANYONE has the defcon ping pong balls.. feel free to offer them! :) Every year I put something unusual on the Xmas tree to see if anyone notices them.. and my tree is always decorated with purple, white and silver decorations!!!! The ping pong balls were perfect!!!!!!!

[alklloyd]

Wish I could help, but I don't remember even seeing them in the vendor area (much like the the zippo lighters). I remember one year Blackwave being pissed off the maids took his empty Romulan Ale bottles he wanted to keep.

Al

[erehwon]

I came into town Thursday night, there was one kid who was already badged at the groundfloor OSVDB room who basically came into the room, looked at the laptop on the floor, looked at the open window and then left. So after closing the window, and getting a picture or two of the little turd, he tried it again, walked into the room and I tapped a buddy that this twit was more than likely trying to walk off with the laptop.

I think mentioning that in Vegas there are already holes dug in the desert for wiseguys who want to f*ck around might have spooked him. But it did have me thinking in the back of my mind there were people who had nothing to do with Defcon, but did pay the $80 only with the intention of lots of moments of opportunity with 5000+ drunken hackers and lots of highend hardware there for the taking.

[octalpus]

Wish I could help, but I don't remember even seeing them in the vendor area (much like the the zippo lighters).
Al

That's because they weren't there. The ping pong balls were ordered for the robot contest, which needed a dozen or so, but the minimum order was something like 1000. The zippos were offered to goons first (one of the perks of working your ass off while everyone else is drinking/sleeping/going to talks) and were very limited in number.