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HP Gives Printers Email Addresses
Barence writes "HP is set to unveil a line of printers with their own email addresses, allowing people to print from devices such as smartphones and tablets. The addresses will allow users to email their documents or photos directly to their own — or someone else's — printer. It will also let people more easily share physical documents; rather than merely emailing links around, users can email a photo to a friend's printer. 'HP plans to offer a few of these new printers to consumers this month, and then a few more of the products to small businesses in September.'"
Hell no! Goatse for everybody!
That, that really grinds my gears!
1. Spambots sending your printer garbage...
2. DDOS somebody's printer with a combo of tubgirl / lemonparty / goat.se
3. ???
4. Profit?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
...and by "congratulations", I mean a nice, hard punch in the crotch.
What in the hell were they thinking? EMAIL IS NOT A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL, DAMMIT.
Now when you are fired your boss can let your kids and wife know by printing out You're Fired from all the printers in the house.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Now, you'll get a print out from your printer telling you you're out of ink and at the bottom will be a coupon you can cut out... Note: the coupon will be white lettering on a black background and will probably take an entire 8x11 sheet of paper...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
For years I've been looking for a viable replacement for my aging fax machine. Fax... that's short for facsimile for you youngsters.
I know the rest of you have all been looking for an better way than plain e-mail to exchange physical copies of documents. There's just nothing like holding the document in your hand. Am I right?
So I'll let *you* decide what I need to have printed. Send me your stuff: tonerlow@anothersillymarketingideanobodyneeds.com
And so now we're back to fax spam? Thanks HP!
At least there is a good part.
How many days until we get a post on TheDailyWTF regarding a PHB asking their employee to send them an email with a blank word document, because their printer is out of paper?
Email address or it didn't happen!
And TCP/IP wasn't designed with Carrier Pigeons in mind, but it can and does work that way...
But think of the new paradigm of email/fax spam, a synergy of such epic proportions as to usher in a new Zeitgeist.
Sorry.
By ensuring your ink cartridges are changed regularly, we can help make sure your ink will always be fresh. At HP we're making it easier for empty out those old, crusty ink cartridges by printing all your attachments for you. At the same time we're keeping your ink fresh, we're also helping you uphold your document retention policy by automatically generating hard copies of all your email!
Amazed? Well that's just what we do.
Love,
Hewlett-Packard
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
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I find your ideas fascinating and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
...so post your printer's e-mail address!
Why all that hassle? I'm sure any spam message sent to a printer will have the evil bit set (see: RFC3514), so you can just tell the printer to ignore those messages... Simple!
"Smarts" in the printer?!?! No, sir - this featurette will be part of the wonderful HP Driver & Utility package, now available on a single disk thanks to BluRay technology. It'll run from your PC. And when I say PC, I mean the one you basically 'give' to the HP drivers.
At least they know where to send their DMCA takedowns to now.
Surely you mean:
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
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We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
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