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Hacking Santa

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

Inigo Montoya writes "Josh McCormick outlines how he has hacked a 5-foot tall, $49.84 Wal*Mart animated dancing and singing Santa into saying and doing things his creator, Gemmy, just hadn't intended him to do. With some outboard electronics hacked into the right places, Josh has made this Santa sound and act like a drunken old mall santa on Christmas Eve. There is also a video too."

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  1. Oh no... by drrngrvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the anti-santa!

    1. Re:Oh no... by AviLazar · · Score: 1, Funny

      There is no anti-santa...he took prestige class levels in Blackgaurd. Since Santa was 20th level, he was able to trade them in, fully.

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    2. Re:Oh no... by mokiejovis · · Score: 3, Funny

      This Santa is just another crass example of the War on Christmas (TM)!

    3. Re:Oh no... by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Funny

      I really wanted to get one for Halloween, rip off all the Santa costume and replace it with a really good devil costume. The thought of the Devil singing "Jingle Bells" along with all those bizarre dance moves just seems soooo right to me.

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  2. Well I know what he wants for x-mas by ZiakII · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well I know what he wants for x-mas... a new server that was slashdoted before it even went live...

  3. Oh, no... by GhaleonStrife · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put this thing outside on Christmas, singing random anti-Christmas songs, and let the mayhem commence!

    1. Re:Oh, no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      Awww crap, Captain Obvious is back in town? I was getting used to bossing around the younger hotter female cadets too...

      -Lieutienant Obvious

    2. Re:Oh, no... by nizo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Even better, how about returning him for a new one? Just imagine how happy some unsuspecting person will be when they hear the new modified Santa they just bought from Walmart. Plus you can keep hacking/returning them until Walmart runs out of Santas or has you thrown in jail.

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  4. Which just goes to show... by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...some people have a little too much technical know-how combined with too much time on their hands. And where's the penile mod? What good is a druken Santa that isn't a child-lusting perv?

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    1. Re:Which just goes to show... by millahtime · · Score: 1, Funny

      I bet if we put all this free time and knowledge that we do into doing drunk santas and other (soon to be /.ed) hacks into say ... getting rid of world hunger ... that we could solve it by xmas.

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    2. Re:Which just goes to show... by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

      And where's the penile mod?

      The producers of the new Superman film would sue, claiming prior art.

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  5. New Christmas song... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I saw Mommy slashdotting Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night..."

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    1. Re:New Christmas song... by mikerubin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points
      Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points
      Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points !!
      and a happy new sig

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  6. What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? by vm146j2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And remember, not only does he see you when you're sleeping, but he knows if you've been bad or good....

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    1. Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? by aug24 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "He sees you when you're sleeping,
      He sees when you're awake,
      He knows when you've been bad or good
      And when you masturbate"

      Those were the words when I was a kid, anyway.

      Justin.

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    2. Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? by Gadgetfreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know, you've left the rest of us just hoping, for your sake, that there was no overlapping time period of when you began pleasuring yourself and when you stopped believing in Santa.

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  7. Yarrr! by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.

    Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!

    Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.

    This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.

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  8. Fun Santa phrases... by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn't get it to load but while trying I thought of a few fun things for him to say:

    "No kids, I don't really exist and all your toys were made in China."
    "Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night!"
    "Anyone seen my whiskey flask?"
    "Remember kids, be good and don't pee on Santa's lap."
    "Where are all the good lookin' Ho Ho Ho's?"

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    1. Re:Fun Santa phrases... by Skye16 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I dig the Happy Holidays one.

      The loud, obnoxious Christians sure do get their panties in a bunch over that one. And the loud, obnoxious non-Christians do if you try to "change it back".

      Personally, I think they're both fucking retarded. So, as I sit in a bar on the winter solstice, drinking a pint of brown ale, I'll salute them both for bringing much merriment to the rest of us. Cheers!

    2. Re:Fun Santa phrases... by Gryle · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have a contextually-appropriate celebration of the particular winter event your religious group, if any, should happen to endorse.

      There I think that covers just about everything.

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    3. Re:Fun Santa phrases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think you're forgetting the southern hemisphere.

    4. Re:Fun Santa phrases... by RobinH · · Score: 2, Funny

      Add to this that Jesus was actually born in late spring/early summer!

      So Jesus was Australian, what's your point? :)

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  9. Uh by omeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    It says right there:

    (please do not link directly to video)

    Did you miss that?

  10. Santa by certel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awesome! Just what you can expect from a real Santa!

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  11. Unforseen slashdot effect by necromcr · · Score: 0, Funny

    Walmart Singing & Dancing 5' Santa Claus is currently.. Out of stock..

    My god.. It's full of drunken santas!

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  12. Ho Ho Ho by halleluja · · Score: 1, Funny

    Finally. I asked a worthy article on Slashdot for x-mas :-)

  13. around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:haha) by beh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently around 40 of them have already been sighted:

        http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122005/80/drunken-santa s-run-amok-nz.html

    Drunken Santas run amok in NZ

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.

    Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.

  14. Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy Santa. Hack Santa. Return Santa.

    To WalMart: Please, for the sake of the children, check those return Santas before putting them back out on the sales floor!

  15. Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha by B3ryllium · · Score: 1, Funny

    oh noes! It's a YULE TIDE!

  16. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby... by PTS+Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is just so wrong, on so many levels. Besides, you could just hit a mall and find any number of REAL drunken Santas...

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  17. Exorsanta by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    From what I gather, the head can just spin around endlessly... Am I the only one thinking "Exorcist Santa"???

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  18. Ok, the race is on ... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's the first to install Linux on Santa?

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    1. Re:Ok, the race is on ... by orgelspieler · · Score: 2, Funny

      Santa switched to Linux back in 2002. Red Hat, of course.

  19. Re:Big Mouth Billy Bass in Pain by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm as far from an animal rights person as you can get, but that's pretty funny. :) I once toyed with turning one into a part of a home automation system. Billy Bass would announce someone at the door or wake me up in the morning or something.

  20. Oh no! It's robot santa! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He knows when your are sleeping,
    He knows when you're on the can,
    He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
    You better not breathe, you better not move,
    You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
    Santa Claus is gunning you down!

  21. Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha by Varun+Soundararajan · · Score: 4, Funny
    Drunken Santas run amok in NZ

    Oops! That wasnt programmed in the Santa. It was a bug .

  22. Who made this Santa? by cciRRus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I haven't read the article... but is this Santa made by Sony? ;-)

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  23. Evil robot Santa by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't find ONE evil robot Santa from Futurama reference in this whole thread. For shame!

  24. I for one... by NeuroManson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome our drunken robot Santa overlords.

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