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Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod
abscondment writes "Nearly a year ago, two couples were charged with scamming WalMart for nearly $1.5 Million by creating custom barcodes with reduced prices. You'd think that in the intervening months, other companies would guard against such shenanigans - but today we see that Target just caught a scammer buying iPods for $4.99! The 19 year old used BarCode Magic to create fake barcodes, buying expensive electronics suspiciously low prices. Personally, I would have gone for a less blatant discount, or refrained from visiting the same store so soon afterwards."
Nice moderating - Flamebait, troll? Come on, the guy's got a good point.
But at least it will be in a place that doesn't show, right Bubba?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I wonder how many people who are dissing this loser for stealing a meatspace item have downloaded copyrighted material illegally?
Mods, for crying out loud - how can this be offtopic? You scared about this, or something?
So, how much does the RIAA/MPAA pay?
(I kid, but really. Would it have been wrong for a german soldier to go AWOL from the army during WWII?)
You do meta-moderate, don't you?
*shrug* I corrected a spelling error/typo which I saw "en passant<sp>" while I was discussing the actual logic and/or facts he presented. While I was adding to the discussion I made an aside to the poster that he might want to check his spelling on a word.
If I'd been a spelling nazi like you and just replied to the comment with something like "HA-HA FUCKTARD IT'S NOT SPELLED definately MORON" the way you did then I could understand someone fucking with me over a spelling error... But damn, yo.. I was _talking_ to the dude about what he said, not just dicking about spelling.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
What we need is this:
... With some way of making stuff come out of the remote user's screen and inflict horrible painful death
yourfancyhostname$ rstab 516960@slashdot.org
516960@slashdot.org replied: Oww!
yourfancyhostname$ rbludgeon 516960@slashdot.org
516960@slashdot.org replied: Oof!
yourfancyhostname$ rimpale 516960@slashdot.org
516960@slashdot.org replied: Ulf!
P-plate adventurer
How many escape pods are there? NONE,SIR! You counted them? TWICE, SIR!
You're missing a space after your first comma.
I assume that your little name-calling episode wasn't intended to make you look superior to the poster you responded to. I found his error to be amusing (though don't get me wrong; the amusement was not in his favor), but your post was a lot worse. Please grow up.
And for what it's worth, your assertion that the word will never contain an "a" is a little short-sighted. Languages evolve, you know. Maybe the original poster's typo will eventually become mainstream? Bored readers from the future will no doubt come upon this thread with great amusement (most certainly not in your favor).
"At it's worst it is a error ridden and prejudiced document that discriminates against the "lower classes""
HAHAHAHAHA! A dictionary discriminates against the lower classes?? That's hilarious! I suppose you'll also begin railing about dictionaries 'discriminating' against the so-called 1337-speak folk too, right?
That said, if the 'rich and powerful elements of society' speak a certain way (a way, for that matter, that changes only when the current method no longer makes sense) the I'd assume that most would want to speak that way too. The "lower classes" that you speak of tend to follow trends (foshizzle my nizzle, anyone?) and are thus addopted and abandoned so often as to make a standard dictionary obsolete quicker than it could be printed.
So how do you discriminate against a "trend"?
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.