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Crack the Pepsi iTunes Promo Code
An anonymous reader writes "Someone posted a technique to find a winner in the iTunes Pepsi promo giveaway." Next step: a Pepsi/iTMS winning number generator!
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Oops, there went that debt free memo! ;)
Welcome back to the world of debt.
No, really--this would never have occurred to me.
I mean, really--the tipping of the bottle I could probably get to, but then to look through the clear plastic--inspired, my friend, inspired. And differentiating between 'again' and a random string of numbers? This guy has to be into hardcore pattern recognition. NSA, are you seeing this?
Yeah.
There exist elegant solutions to truly vexing problems that, once discovered, are striking in their simplicity. There also exist people who try to pass off the painfully obvious as an elegant solution to a truly vexing problem.
A free iTunes code to the person who can guess which category this falls into...
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Darn!
Now I'll have to play fairly and by the rules!
That just ain't fair!
Watch the Teaser Trailer for "The Lightning Thief" Her
As long as the "crack" can be placed in a secret decoder ring I'll be happy.
The American Dental Association, for the sudden increase in work coming their way. A Mr Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. will be presented with the award - a special enamel yellow I-Pod - at the next 'Fillings Across America' convention.
Cool - a guaranteed way to pick a winner!
Now i'm off to buy many $1.20 bottles of sugar water so I get get a free $0.99 song!!!! I can't lose!
oh wait............
Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers.
If this is about the "crack" I read yesterday (article is completely /.ed to hell) of tipping the bottle to see what's under the cap, all I can say is hoorah! for creative thinking.
When you set up something this stupid, you deserve to be caught with your pants down.
...Just one iTune, and Pepsi wouldn't give it to me!
Wouldnt hardcore geeks drink so much caffine (ie pepsi) that they wouldnt need the generator?
That's pretty amusing but did the editors actually read this story before posting it? "Next step: a Pepsi/iTMS winning number generator!" WTF? Stuff that matters indeed.
Of course before I criticize them too much don't think I'm not going to try this the next time I go to the store. I don't drink soda (evil substance) but I can resell it to friends that don't use iTMS for the purchase price and pocket the songs ;)
1) Buy evil sugar water that's bad for you with winning code.
2) Resell said sugar water to friends who don't use iTMS.
3) Download songs legally while simultaneously screwing Pepsi and RIAA.
4) ???
5) Profit!
(I'm not trolling for karma. Feel free to mod this funny to avoid giving me any overrated if you disagree).
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I suspect not, but I'm sure it could produce music of the same quality as most of the stuff produced today.
Since it's already slashdotted i'll paraphrase.
Tip the damn bottle.
If it constains the word "song" you won.
Buy that bottle.
The end.
No, people who lack the capacity to detect sarcasm ad absurdium is a truly vexing problem. What part of that post made you think the guy was actually singing the praises of an individual he considers an intellectual giant?
ORiON PROUDLY PRESENTS ...: Team ORiON ....: Team ORiON ...: Team ORiON ...: 02.18.04 .......: Keygen ......: XX/01
/sarcasm
iTunes Sweepstakes (c) Apple
SUPPLIER
CRACKER
PACKAGER
RELEASED
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DISKS
I tired this in our break room but I had to tip the entire Pepsi machine over to see which bottle I should buy! I hope the boss didn't see me.
Is that why they have that picture of the guy being crushed by the pop machine?
Is it to keep you from checking for iTunes winner bottles?
Ever dream you could fly? Get up from the Flight Sim. I Fly
Its a joke boy, don't ya get it? Yer built too low. The fast ones go right over your head!
...but unfortunately this bottle cap is too small to hold it. - Fermat
Good thing we released it GPL. Now those Apache commies can't use it, either!
Free Tibet!
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One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
But then ebay will yank the auctions, because the numbers do not belong to you, they belong to Pepsi.
hear that, all your numbers are belong to Pepsi. don't try any funny stuff, like making up your own numbers, or "adding" or "dividing". They'll get you... get you, I say!
No, it's too hard to print the entire winning number on the bottom of a cork.
It seems more like social engineering.
If your only friend is a bottle of Pepsi.
KFG
I think someone should start a business selling CDs full of random numbers.
"You got a hole in your glove: I keep pitching 'em and you keep missing 'em."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)
I drink Pepsi like water, and friends give me their caps at school, so I'm already over the 200 cap limit. Really.
Maybe Pepsi should be giving away a free diabetes exam instead.
The Four-Color Map theorem.
Kepler's Sphere-Packing problem.
Fermat's Last Theorem.
And now this.
Brilliant.
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
I remember a long time ago, when I was in junior high, Coca-Cola had an under-the-cap contest going. The twist was that every bottle had tick-code on the cap. If there were 6 vertical lines, you were guaranteed to at least win a free soda. Needless to say, the employees at the gas-station down the road from my school (right in front of the bus stop) got very sick of junior-high kids going through every last bottle in the cooler looking for a six-tick bottle that had been miraculously missed by the 200 other kids that had already been through the place.
for the next front page writeup at slashdot we have:
"WATER H4X0R3D... found to be wet" and
"GRASS P0WN3D.. GREEN ENSUES"
Not if you just take the cap off....
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
This didn't work for me.
I took the Pepsi bottle cap, inserted it into my PC CD drive, and could read nothing.
But I forgot to hold down Shift - that may be why.
I just wish people would document these hacks properly before publishing them. I'm pretty computer-savvy, so I don't think it was a mistake on my part.
"Would you rather sell sugar water to kids for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"
Steve Jobs to that guy from Pepsi. It's on folklore.org somewhere. The Bouncing Pepsis story, I believe.
The best part of this amusing if lame article, is without a doubt the Mountain Dew eBay link.
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=2, Troll=1, Redundant=1, Insightful=6, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=12. (not mine)
You actually have to buy the pepsi! It costs $1.09-$1.29. Even worse if you accidentally drink the pepsi!
just take the winning bottle caps. the cool thing is when the RIAA comes a knocking at your door you could feasibly have hundreds of bottle caps to throw at their minions.
with the arrow saying "Look." Damn, without that arrow, I'd have looked at the wrong end of the bottle.
I got hooked on Dew back in 99 or so when you could win a free pop (soda) in the cap. I worked in a gas station and had nothing to do but go through the stock room and tilt the bottles to look under the cap and see WINNER. Then I would just open the bottle, drink and turn in the cap when I was done. I had like 5 cases that were exclusivly winners that never made it on to the regular sales floor.
359 7-11 employees are going through their Pepsi stock and taking out all the winners.
Step 1: Enter Supermarket
Step 2: Go to Soda Aisle
Step 3: Tip Pepsi, grab winners
Step 4: Unscrew Caps and stick in pocket
Step 5: Log on to ebay.com
Step 6: ??????
Step 7: Profit!
... (Here) I am concerned that either Pepsi's formula has become much more syruppy, or someone is screwing around with the gravity near MacMerc's headquarters.
either watch A Christmas Story (recommended) or learn to read leetspeak (not recommended).
MOD PARENT UP +5 Fucking Idiot...
You might find it easiest to practice while not in the store. Just buy a few and take them home. Get the knack for the angle, and it isn't that hard to pull off without looking like a huge tool.
Yeah, for that you need a website about it...
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
We used to do that back in Jr. High when you used to get free Mtn Dews from the under bottlecaps. We'd Tilt, Look, pick a winner and then open it and bring the cap up to the register.. viola.. free soda.
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...that this hard-hitting piece of "journalism" made Slashdot's *front page*. I mean, I understand -- slow news day and all, and, well, Slashdot's front page was never a real "exclusive club" in the first place.... "Try to read the cap and see if you've won before you buy the Pepsi." That's it. THAT made the front page. He even put pictures for the, shall we say, "less intellectually fortunate" among the Mac faithful. What's next, "shake your Christmas present and maybe you can tell what's inside?" How about "Check your fruit for bruises BEFORE you buy it to avoid getting bruised fruit!"? GENIUS, I tell you, SHEER GENIUS. Yes, Bobby, "Genius" as in "Genius Bar". I bet Apple's already looking for this Einstein's number as we speak. But they'll have to beat NASA to him! He's like the guy off Phenomenon, I wonder if he can learn Spanish in a half hour. Frickin' Brilliant. I hope he uses his powers for Good, not Evil. Hey, I'm not kidding. He managed to make Slashdot's FRONT PAGE. The FreeBSD guys could cure cancer with their ass and they wouldn't make the front page.
Why do the Editors even *bother* with apple.slashdot.org when something this fundamentally NON-earth-shakingly important (ie remember that credo "Stuff that Matters"?) makes the front page? SLASHDOT is now apple.slashdot.org. Get it? Slashdot = Apple. Everything NON-Apple seems secondary. Linux stories are tolerated. Books are ignored. YRO is buried. Games are irrelevant.
You know, I used to think the guys who say "the Slashdot Editors are on Apple's payroll" and that "Apple is astroturfing here" were crazy. Now, I'm starting to believe it. Or has the definition of "stuff that matters" changed fundamentally since Apple is involved?
Either the editors are slipping or they have an agenda. Take your pick. I like cheating as much as the next guy, but this doesn't deserve front page coverage. I guess that's why I'm not an editor. I'd be fair, I speak in full sentences, and my spelling is adequate. Hell, right there my chances are shot.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
if people need a website to figure this out we have problems, me and my friends were doing this with free cokes when we were 12 without any help. Whoever made that has too much time on their hands and more so then any other geek they need to GO OUTSIDE!
Every time you download a high-quality ogg or mp3 for free from p2p or better sources, you save $0.99 off an ITMS purchase.
Every time your convenience-store friend lets you fill up your personal cup with soda at no charge, you save $0.79 on a Pepsi purchase.
Never underestimate the resourcefulness of law school students.
And we did it...just like that
When we want something and
We don't wanna pay for it
We walk right
Through the door
We walk right through the door
If holding the bottle at 25 degrees is so important, and they're showing the angle verses the line of horizon, shouldn't the soda in the bottle be parallel to the line of horizon? I mean, I'm not by any means as mathematically and engineering-ly inclined to come up with such a "brilliant" way of peaking into soda bottles in convenience stores to get free music, but I think I could have at least figured that part out.
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.