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MIT's Bathroom Server
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Some of the undergrads wired Random Hall's (an undergraduate dorm) bathroom system up to the net so that you can visit http://bathroom.mit.edu and see which stalls on which floors are vacant, and if they're in use, how long whoever's been in there. It's a pretty good idea-- you can scout your stall from your dorm room, and watch it to make sure nobody's taken a s$#% there recently."
Hehe. I mean, this could get interesting. Imagine what pranks you could pull - the most obvious would be to "cheat" the sensors so that the casual user would think that all the bathrooms are in use at some critical time - say 7am on finals week!
Now waiting to hear the Beowulf joke...
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For peats sake, Michael, you Slashdotted someones bathroom. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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So, if I've been wanking for the last 20 minutes, the whole world gets to know about it?
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As if it wasn't enough crap on the net already!
seriously, there is such a thing as trusting your remote sensors too much... (the main reason spysats haven't replaces human intelligence sources)
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As I write, one stall has been "in use" for 47 minutes.
Somebody better go check for either a body, or an alligator clip....
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
Great, now the cry of "First Dump!" will echo up and down the dorm halls.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.