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Corporate Fallout Detector
BandwidthHog writes "MIT student shows off Corporate Fallout Detector. Acts and looks kinda like a Geiger counter, but it's a UPC scanner with an internal, updateable database of corporate misdeeds, with both Pollution and Corporate Ethics modes. I want one."
So... I scan a product. :: beep beep ::
And I get free, instant, corporation level blackmail?
Sweet.
I assert that my comment is only my opinion, not that of any employer, past, present or future.
It's a good thing that Enron and Worldcom products can't be barcoded, because the thing would explode if it scanned any of those...
The guy in that video was handling that Diet Coke bottle and that 3M spray can without any sort of protection at all, and those readings were through the roof!
I give him two to four hours, tops. Oh, what a brave sacrifice for research. I hope his suffering isn't prolonged needlessly.
Yeah, like that's gonna survive a front-page link...
magic smoke and keep a copy of quicktime ready
Has anyone seen OpenGov MIT Project ? What is it with all this uncovering business, can't the creatures at MIT leave our act of a society alone?
So, what happens if you scan one of these detectors with another detector?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Supposedly so important that they only need be known by their initials. So do they have a monopoly on math and science? Or can any other school (or individual person) develop a sufficient weapon to wipe this "MIT" off the map?
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
Does that mean any Microsoft product will set it off? Anything directly related to Enron would definately blow a fuse.
After looking at this and all other articles pertaining to MIT generating massive amounts of ingenuity and vigilant social intelligence such as this bizarre device, my question is: how many more years will pass until MIT's home-grown nerd-mercenaries release their top-secret 9 Android Devils of Cambridge on the earth, therein enslaving man in a gruesome and enlightening web of technology, power and fashion emergencies?
If I could make this sig kill you, I would.
Well, you could subscribe to different groups, have different 'bands' on it...
'Well, it looks ok on the Amnesty International band, but check out the reading on Greenpeace!'
Thats great. Another MIT dweeb attempts to take the moral high ground. Meanwhile MIT sit on an entire Class A address block, as entire countries are forced to switch to IPv6. Got a scanner for that fallout?
I can't remember where it was -- might have been an interview -- but he envisioned something like a UPC scanner for your Palm Pilot. You'd point it at stuff in the grocery store and get a short summary of the good and bad about it. He said something like, "How would it affect people's buying habits if it said 'sure, these peas are 60 cents cheaper, but they'll give your kids liver cancer'?"
Carousel is a lie!
I built a corporate fallout detector, scanned a copy of SCO OpenServer, and the damned detector blew up!
"That's because they're calling themselves MCI this week Bobby. Next week, when that name is too polluted, they'll switch to something else."
"MIT student shows off Imminent Slashdoting Detector. Acts and looks kinda like a Geiger counter, but it's a packet shaper with an internal, updateable database of slashdot users, with both Geek and Troll modes. He needs one."
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
I'm going to set this right next to the key to my electric car, my organically grown bean sprouts and my copy of Gore's "Earth in the balance." It should round out my "Liberal with too much time on his/her hands" tool kit nicely.
Would it measure ego in ESRs, RMSs, SCOs, or Perens?
What's the conversion rate between those units anyway?
It seems the google cache is slashdotted, here is a google cache of google.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
Impossible. That would suggest that /. members were trying to read an article before posting a well-informed comment.
Surely not... (looks out of windows to check for low-flying pork)
You can't take a ratio of infinities.
A simple program that I used to toy around with as a kid was called "Animal" - it asked you a series of questions to figure out what kind of animal you were thinking of. If it got it wrong you'd add one more question to specifiy the animal you were thinking of... perhaps you could do something simialr to program what a person thoguht of ethics:
...
EthicBuilder> Do you care if animals are hurt?
N
EthicBuilder> Even if they are little bunnies?
N
EthicBuilder> Oh really, here are some pictures. How about now?
OK FINE YOU WIN I CARE ABOUT CUTE LITTLE BUNNIES
EthicBuilder> Great, now how about cows?
EthicBuilder> Database complete, downloaded to scanner
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Left-wing, hand-wringing hysteria in a can. Plus it saves the users the terrible bother of making up their own minds.
Do they get more beeps for Nabisco enslaving elves and converting them to E.L. Fudge cookies, or extra beeps for being owned by RJ Reynolds/Phillip Morris cancer stick makers who also own the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese company my kids love so much? Having a Morse Code type interface is also pretty stupid.
Doesn't matter I suppose. It's not like I could stop buying Oreos.