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Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network
aesoteric writes "A man's backyard beer fridge in Australia has been busted interfering with the cellular network of major carrier Telstra. Engineers used an internally-developed software 'robot' to crawl log files from the network and sent a field team out to pinpoint the cause of the interference."
You're joking, right? We export that crap so we don't have to drink it.
Want a good Australian beer, try something from Malt Shovel, Cascade or Mountain Goat.
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A good lawyer could probably claim that this is a clear cut case of the cellular network being a form of hacking the refridgerator technology, since the fridge tech was around first and therefore has claims to do whatever the cell signals should "work around". If this case were in the US, the lawyer could even pull in the DMCA, 'cause the DMCA specifically destroys any technology made to circumvent an older tech. This cell network is definitely attempting to circumvent the fridge owners right to his technology. Therefore, the cell network should pay $1,000,000 for damages and the CEO should spend a year in prison and have a permanent record for all this hacking of fridge's & then trying to blame the fridges for getting in the way. I don't even care if this is a case of hactivism on the part of the cell network(s) involved, this is unacceptable. UNACCEPTABLE!!
Sorry, no-one in Australia drinks Fosters anymore. We're all boutique these days - except for Queenslanders, who only drink Fourex (XXXX) - and the reason it's called XXXX is because they can't spell 'beer'.
You want reliable network performance or ice cold beer? That's a tough question.
Now I understand why, after I have 20 or 30 beers, why I have such a hard time finding my way home.
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Why can't we have more stories like this? Why does it always have to be something political or an advertisement for a product or the usual MS bashing stories? This title alone is more interesting than any "news" story I've seen on Slashdot in the last year.
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You're joking, right? We export that crap so we don't have to drink it.
Given that Fosters has something like a 45% share of the Australian market, some combination of this must be true: it still has fans, remains a guilty pleasure that isn't admitted to, or nobody can find enough export victims. At least it has some snappy advertising to help.
Frankly, I have no idea what can be done about vegemite. People have been warned.
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The Fosters we get in the States is brewed by Oil Can Breweries, Fort Worth, TX, which I suspect is a front for recycling refinery waste.
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Dos Equis is named for the blend... it contains the piss from two horses.....
(yes, I'm aware the Latin is spelled slightly differently...)
So it's only half as bad as XXXX?
We had beer fridges interfere with our work for 20 years and we don't even had internet.