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Microsoft's iLoo Project A Hoax
minesweeper writes "It appears that the 'iLoo,' a portable toilet with Internet access designed by Microsoft, was actually just a hoax issued by its MSN division in the United Kingdom. In addition to receiving press here on Slashdot, the fake release was also covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, and Reuters. See a diagram of the iLoo here."
...as I said at the time. Boom, boom!
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
and if you were unfortunate enough to have fallen for it, your picture and whatever it was you did in there will soon be posted on the internet for the world to see. Trusted computing my arse
this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
unfortunately.. it turns out Longhorn wasn't a hoax. :(
An April fool that's wayyy late.
sooo, not only do microsoft talk shit, they talk shit about making things that deal with shit, which end up being as useful as shit, because, in the end, its all shit... :-)
I'm sure when they find out the name of the guy responsible for the hoax, his job will be flushed...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Does that mean the iLoo has gone down the toilet?
but... I thought reality was supposed to be stranger than fiction.
take a 3-flusher. All of a sudden, BSOD. The bowl
is full. You need to flush, but the flush control is a
mouse click and you can't reboot (that's locked out
by their new DRM controls so only the janitor
can reboot). Stranded
Or, could you imagine the germs on the mouse or
trackpad. Or you were in New York where no one
washes their hands. Or porn....
The Open Source communities efforts to build a better shitter?
I guess this means I should cancel my GNUPoo project over at SourceForge.
I was looking forward to writing the W32/flusher.gen virus. I had all my plans in the works. Automatic flushing, and handwashing alarms....
After all, iLoo was already trademarked by Apple, the new toilet from Microsoft will be called Microsoft Shit 1.0.
I've often wondered about this, and I think it is simply because some people take longer than others to drop a loaf. Some can force it out, but others have to let nature take it's course, so they have to sit there for ages and bring some reading material.
In short, there are both passive and active shitters - to the active, the shitting is it's own reward. With passives, it is merely a distraction.
...would I have ever thought I would see /. ranked right up there with the big boys:
/. headlines. Hell, he might even stop bitching at me about wasting time reading all that geek drivel, now that he realizes he's been in good company all along.
In addition to receiving press here on Slashdot, the fake release was also covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, and Reuters.
What prestige! I bet my boss wouldn't even notice if I swapped out his beloved Journal with a copy of today's
Who would think of trusting Microsoft with a device as important as the toilet? What would stop every script kiddie in the area from using your bathroom? How far from your computer does the toilet have to be in order to prevent Microsoft toilet viruses from reading your Outlook address book? How reliable would such a toilet be?
So you upgrade to the Palladium toilet, but now you can only go to the bathroom when Microsoft says it's OK.
Microsoft Flush 2003 offers very little improvment over Flush 2000, but you have to buy it because of "Potty Assurance (tm)." The new requirement of having each bathroom visitor sign the EULA looks annoying at first until you realize that the hardcopy EULAs are useful as toilet paper.
Uh, it would be very un-Microsoft-like for them to release something on time. It was probably intended for April 1st but release got delayed by 32 days.
-- Dossy
Dossy's Blog
I thought Microsoft was finally being innovative!