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Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug
g00set writes "Alek's Christmas lights story was previously covered on Slashdot here, however the Denver Channel is now reporting that it was all a hoax: 'The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked.'"
Ho ho hoax!
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
Thank God the rest of the internet is hoax-free. Now I can get back to my penis enlargement pill popping and free ipod winning in peace.
"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
May he incur the wrath of thousands of angry slashdotters! He's in for a whooping!
You grab the pitchforks, I grab the torches.
;-)
And by pitchorks and torches I meant: Let's find this guy's adress and BURY HIM IN SPAM!
'tis the season of giving, after all
You can't take the sky from me...
9/11 a natural disaster? And even so, 3000 dead americans worse than 20000 dead asians? It's you who need to get your priorities straight.
So I think Google should pay him with Monopoly money or something.
One would think that a tech/science-oriented site such as Slashdot would do a little bit of backround research before publishing articles that will eventually turn out to be hoaxes.
I am very, very disappointed at the current level of professionalism shown by the Slashdot crew. I mailed the article to several friends of mine and now, thanks to Slashdot, MY integrity is in question.
also... there are protons decaying AS WE SPEAK!!!!
what of the protons!?
-pyrrho
... but on a much smaller scale. The idea was that it was a webcam in my kitchen, which you could click on to turn the lights on and off. One guy I know was fooled by it for a week. No-one had the heart to tell him...
Devistating, simply devistating.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/holidays/4027215/d etail.html
"I got a chuckle out of putting a clock up in the window and having the hands of the clock display the right time (it actually started out 3 minutes slow, but then gained a minute a day, until it was 4 minutes fast, and then reset itself) -- again, all computer trickery!" Komarnitsky said on his Web site Monday.
The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked, but after performing web server stress testing, he replaced the test images with real-time camera generated images for the holiday season.
Not everything on the internet is a forgery.
Now the news guys need to get together and start calling him and saying how pissed they are that they lost their jobs for not checking the facts, and right after xmas no less. When he is finally reduced to a gibbering crying mess they can tell him, "Just kidding". I bet he would get a big laugh out of that lemme tell ya.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Hmmm.
- Faked a demo of a cool concept.
- Lacked the geek talent and dedication required to pull it off.
- Reaped the benefits (web hits and publicity) by duping the users.
Yep, clearly the guy is made for marketing/management.
And yet, most of us are reading this via the "new" media. For all I know,
you should always demand a girl be present in the webcast who will answer your live questions.
that way you can verify that she is actually there with the christmas lights...
in fact forget the lights... and the questions.
Thank you, I'll be here all week (except Friday, coz that's a holiday :)
;-)
cLive
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
If he'd actually done it for real he would've deserved all the geek-praise he got. But because it was a hoax he's just a goddamn terrorist in my eyes now....
But they're orientals. 20,000 orientals is like 5 Americans tops.
[Huge, long and well thought out list deleted]
For all the trouble you went through to research and type out all this, you could have set up your house with teeceepipped blinkenlights
Regards,
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*Art
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Haven't you ever seen any Hollywood movies? Doing something like that only requires a few typed commands on the keyboard! You don't even need a mouse!
And, if he wanted to, he could zoom in on and "enhance" a single pixel until it looked like his christmas lights.
Exactly! How does the grandparent figure that eradication of the Jews he mentioned would be a blow to the human genome? He's nuts.
For all that trouble, he might as well have just done it up real. ...but where's the challenge in THAT?
You, sir, need to turn in your geek card.
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
How do you feel about Slashdot is just a bunch of AI programs which mod each other up?
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