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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. 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!

  5. 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)