One Ring Rules the MIT Dome

Patiwat Panurach writes "The Great Dome of MIT was overtaken on the morning of Monday the 17th by a great golden ring, inscribed in red Elvish with text that translates to: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows."

Comments

Re:Not bad.

[gaudior]

Are you kidding. I bet the administration at MIT really Love this stuff, in a Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge sort of way. As long as no one gets killed, and the hackers don't burn the place down....

Not so great

[owenferguson]

As far as MIT hacks go, I'd rate this a 3 or 4 out of ten. Usually, the pranks exhibit a certain flair of engineering knowhow, not simply a bungh of guys breaking onto the roof of a building a putting up a (pre-made, obviously) banner. I'd have been much more impressed if they'd forged a giant metal ring and somehow hoisted it up onto the dome. It wouldn't even have had to have the circumfrence of the dome's base - just have been large enough to sit on the dome comfortably and require some real genius work to get it up there. I guess we can expect little in the way or creative genius from this year's graduating class...

Those are not pranks

[DiveX]

Destruction of public property, impeding the flow of traffic, forgery, and the theft of a rug would not be considered pranks. There is nothing subversive nor ironic about any of those things. It sounds more like high school kids in a hick town behaving as drunks. Realy pranks have a value of humor or irony to them and cause no harm nor damage.

Re:It's times like these

[discogravy]

However, unlike Prof. Zamenhof (the creator of Esperanto), Tolkien did not intend or even imagine that his languages or scripts might be adopted by real-world populations. He invented them as an intellectual or linguistic game, and later as historical and cultural background to his stories. It is in that sense, not in the evangelical Esperantist's sense, that Tolkien fans pursue them.

that said, it's a sad comment on society (especially geek society here on /.,) that you're more likely to find someone fluent in klingon and tengwar than esperanto. it's a beautiful language with good ideals behind it, and it's dead easy to learn.

there's even some online courses;
check it out: http://www.esperanto-usa.org/