Give Your DVD Player The Finger

sebFlyte writes "Wired is reporting on some scary new DRM tech being developed. From the article: 'At the store, someone buying a new DVD would have to provide a password or some kind of biometric data, like a fingerprint or iris scan, which would be added to the DVD's RFID tag. Then, when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player, the viewer would be required to re-enter the data.'"

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[hanshotfirst]

The full story gets too strange for fiction. Here's the summary from local news (Wendy's HQ is here, so we get a lot of coverage).

The finger in the chili was a scam.
The finger came from a friend/co-worker of the woman's husband (the husband happens to be in prison now). The co-worker lost the finger in an industrial accident, had some money problems, and gave the finger to the woman's husband to settle a $50 debt.
The woman stuck it in the chili and tried to take Wendy's to the bank.

The upside is, last weekend Wendy's gave everyone free Frosty's to say "thanks for the support" (and come in and buy our stuff again).

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[bill_mcgonigle]

Who are you going to believe? Some nice, benevolent corporation, or some stupid person who drinks shit coffee?

That's a good point - it has to be that hot so it'll burn off your tastebuds so you can choke it down. The more often you drink it the less objectionable it (or anything else) tastes.