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Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans
DigitalLogic writes "There's a new security threat at some of the nation's military bases -- and it looks uncannily like a can of Coke.
All I can think of is that a furby with a coke can must be the military's worse nightmare."
When was the last time anyone saw Furby, really? I thought the military already neutralized that threat.
This is the new marketing strategy for Pepsi.
Disagreeing with me does not mean you get to mod me troll.
This was on FoxNews.com days ago.
Give it a day or two, and it will be on /. again too.
There are certain military facilities I visit where I have to surrender my calculator "because it has memory and you might use it to remove classified communications." Meanwhile, the local support staff is wheeling entire desks and filing cabinets in and out without the guards looking at them twice.
Don't think about it, it'll just make you crazy.
I don't really find this funny. I mean it's funny, but in the back of my mind
I just know that this is the tip of a big scary iceberg
Yeah, but on a semi-holiday slow-news day at Slashdot, it's a frickin' bonanza, no?
Ya got yer US military, Orwellian eavesdrop issues, Big Silly American Corporate Marketing Angle, and -- wait for it -- the grand prize for the promotion is an SUV! I mean, what's not to belittle/complain about/be otherwise snarky regarding? If this story didn't come over the wires, we'd have to write it ourselves...
I can imagine being majorly ticked if I spent my last 75 cents on a Coke only to get a cell phone + GPS receiver in a can.
In related news, Cokes' Hommies -
a one Pepsi,
a one Barqs,
and a one Mr Pepper Ph.D.
have been bought in for questioning.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
Sounds like the usual post 9/11 stuff on TV news:
"What you don't know about Coke cans could KILL you! Coming up next...on FOX News!"
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Duran Duran
-Too Much Information
It's pumpin down the cable
Like never seen before
A cola manufacturer is sponsoring the war
SLASHDOT IN TWO WEEKS:
"Hacking the coke can. Part 1."
Coca Cola is speaking here for civilians, but probably the army knows best about the capabilities of their military people... ;-)
I smashed it and threw it away. I wanted soda, not some darn cell phone!
Just like that bag or all purple M&M's I got, or the chipless Chip O' Ohoys bag I got. Quality control for these companies must really stink?
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Drink beer.
There you are, staring at me again.
thank god for tinfoil hats, but make sure yours is not actually ALUMINUM foil, since it offers no real protection. (that was part of another Al Queda plot, to distribute aluminum foil hats to people to make them think they were protected, when in reality it had no effect, allowing them to spy on our brain waves. Another story for another day..)
First the qualifier, I'm not a soldier, but I was an airman: It would not be that hard for a soldier gone bad to smuggle something in a base if they wanted to. The hard part is going bad without OSI/DIS/FBI/CIA knowing it. They knew (know) shit about me that I didn't even know, and that was during peace time.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
You'll never be allowed on a military base with one of those in your head.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Pre-verts and communists have created a new device made to infiltrate the NorthAm-complex.
But, Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name, if you shoot it you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
KFG
Maybe they are looking for that new secret Coke, you know the C4 Coke... I hear it's more potent than the new C2 Coke.
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That someone at Area 51 will open the damn thing, and Coke's prize patrol will have to report there with the giant check!
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
Speaking of transmitting Coke cans, how hard would it be to develop a GPS-coordinate-transmitting device that could be issued to anyone who could be potentially kidnapped and beheaded in the middle east? Of course it'd have to be held in their "compartment" since the terrorist assholes kidnapping them would probably be on the lookout for such a thing. But really, if it came down to sticking a coke-can-sized transmitter up your ass most of the day versus potentially getting kidnapped and beheaded, I think most people would go for the coke can, no?
Anyone patenting an ass-transciever based on this post damn well better give me credit for the idea...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I thought that rigged "Pepsi challenge" was bad, but this type of hysteria is a new low. Shame on you, Pepsi, for trying to share our brave troops from drinking Coke!
The cans do not even look like coke bottles.
:)
This emphasizes how insidious the plot is
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
Those military surplus apostrophes though, can we do without them?
on Independence Day, didn't they have to bring down the alien shields with a computer virus? As Jeff Goldblum demonstrated, a Coke can behind the shield of a no-longer-defunct alien spaceship in Area 51 is just as dangerous a threat to worldwide security as the shield of a no-longer-defunct alien spaceship.
sorry if this is redundant, but I have to mention it :
(US Army Ranger sergeant being ordered by Peter Sellers to use his gun to blow a Coke dispenser apart to get some coins in order to avoid total nuclear war)
"if you do not get the President of the United States on that phone, you will be responsible to the Coca-Cola Company".
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