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MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon
Bob Hearn writes "Some Slashdotters might remember the story Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend from a year ago. MIT Hackers have gotten even. Sometime in the middle of the night, Caltech's famous cannon appeared at the base of MIT's Green building. A plaque in front of it reads: 'CALTECH CANNON April 6, 2006 MIT hackers posing as the Howe & Ser Moving Company Appropriated this cannon on March 28, 2006. It later appeared on MIT's campus with the addition of a large brass rat made of gold-plated aluminum. In honor of its previous owners, the cannon points towards Padadena, CA.' The brass rat (MIT ring) is really a rather impressive bit of aluminum machining. Harvey Mudd College previously stole the cannon, in 1986, but later had to give it back."
It's actually a big relief to us to hear that MIT has it. For the last week, we've been wondering where the hell it got off to. The administration thought filed a police report for grand theft. MIT stole it in the early hours masquerading as contractors. Security stopped them, but they social-engineered their way out of it, and security let them go.
See Subject: Howe & Ser Moving Co..
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
I am running the caltechvsmit.com site. The one point was for last years retaliation against the "The Other IT" banner. They get at least 10 points for this; I haven't decided yet. (I am arbitrarily keeping score).
"Caltech" is capitalized sometimes like that, but never in mixed case, ie "CalTech" or "Cal-Tech" or "Cal Tech" are all wrong. A few old timers are allowed to call it "CIT", but that is considered quaint. BTW, for non-techers, an "RF" is a Rat Fuck, a prank that entails freezing a rat in liquid nitrogen and smashing it to bits in someone's dorm room. RF has come to mean any prank now.