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NES Controller Laser Mouse
An anonymous reader writes "Old school is new school, fool. It's time to take that retired NES controller of yours that you broke so mercilessly smashing it on the carpet in frustration at never ever ever being able to beat Ikari Warriors, and recycle that biz. Be good to the environment and turn that thing into a laser mouse, why don't you? And yes, the A button is left click, and the B is your right, and your raging case of carpal tunnel is about to get a whole lot more fun."
Yeah, but I don't have to lick or blow my hard drive to get my computer to work.
Contrary to popular belief, optical mice do not use lasers.
The article doesn't mention the hidden backdoor command sequence to immediately gain root access:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A
the sad thing is, they stole the article summary word for word from the site and still spelt it incorrectly. what the hell are the slashdot editors doing when they read these submissions?
Can it perform cunnilingus on a hardwood floor?
The latest Slashdot meme.
Come to that you could have linked directly to http://zieak.com/projects/nintendo_mouse.htm rather than to a ad laden blog site whoring someone else's content for pennies a click. (Not that it matters I suppose as the site is offline already.)
Beep beep.
See, where you go wrong is assuming that they even read the sumbissions.
Lick? Wow, you must have had a different relationship with your Nintendo than I did.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
So, what we have here is a Slashdot article which rips off an Engadget article which is basically ripped off from a Joystiq article on something from some guy's blog.
So, the guy who put the time, money and effort into this hack gets virtually no credit for what he's done, but three other web sites make money off of him via banner ads.
(I'd link to the original site, but it's already collapsed under the weight of the combined Slashdotting/Engadgeting/Joystiqing.)
I weep for the state of internet "journalism" these days. Can't imagine why people still buy newspapers.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."