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Corporate Fallout Detector

Posted by michael on from the ideas-whose-time-has-come dept.

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."

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  1. A New Corporate Vision. by Jonsey · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... I scan a product. :: beep beep ::

    And I get free, instant, corporation level blackmail?

    Sweet.

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  2. It's a good thing that... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:It's a good thing that... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about Universal Political Codes for politians?

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  3. Jumpin' Jehosophat! by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Who shaves the barber? by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, what happens if you scan one of these detectors with another detector?

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    1. Re:Who shaves the barber? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Trust me. It will be bad." -Spengler, Ghostbusters.

  5. Barcode this by Sogol · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  6. Bruce Sterling thought of something like this by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 4, Funny

    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'?"

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  7. Mine blew up. by cyclist1200 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I built a corporate fallout detector, scanned a copy of SCO OpenServer, and the damned detector blew up!

  8. Re:MIT Fallout detector by Enry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would it measure ego in ESRs, RMSs, SCOs, or Perens?

    What's the conversion rate between those units anyway?

  9. Re:it was slashdotted before anyone even replied by iworm · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)