HAHAHA... Gizmodo reaks IR havok on TV's at CES

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Queasy

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Well, they certainly found a way to make complete douches of themselves.
 
Queasy

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Originally posted by: Citrix
Bwhahahah thats funny

what were they using?
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TV B Gone

There's a video of some guy using it to turn off TVs that people were watching soccer matches on.
 
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BigJ

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My buddy has one of those devices. It wreaks havoc in sports bars and malls.
 
ranmaniac

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I kind of felt bad for the person in the middle of a demonstration, but it was funny anyway lol.
 
kranky

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I'm not seeing the funny, considering how many thousands of dollars people pay to exhibit at CES and how their jobs depend on how well it goes.

Screwing with people who are just trying to earn a living isn't that hilarious to me.

How is this much different from someone hacking gizmodo's site so they don't earn their ad revenue?
 
Queasy

Queasy

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Hmmm, this video seems kind of hypocritical after Gizmodo wrote this

TV-B-GONE

Mitch Altman is an asshole. And not just any asshole, but one of those snotty holier-than-thou types who has nothing better to do with the money he made as a founder of 3ware than to develop a device with the sole purpose of imposing his viewpoint on others. See, Altman hates the television and its encroachment into public space. Rather than just doing what most everybody else has done?which is either not really caring or, failing that, getting the fuck over it?Altman has invented a device called the 'TV-B-Gone' (obviously having expended every last vapor of his creative ability developing the product, he was left to co-opt the most obvious name schtick ever). Essentially a universal remote that cycles through every possible code, the TV-B-Gone has a single purpose: to power off televisions whenever the user feels like being a dick.

Read the Wired News profile, where Altman wanders through a city, turning off other peoples' televisions, peppering his behavior with such gems as, "We just saved him several minutes of his life." Maybe after making his tens of dozens of dollars on the TV-B-Gone, Altman can invent a gadget that transports self-important cocks who think they're waging a subversive culture war to a log cabin coffee shop where they can reassure each other how awesome they are for hating television. Free berets for the first 100 pricks to use the word "Sheeple!"
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OutHouse

OutHouse

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Originally posted by: kranky
I'm not seeing the funny, considering how many thousands of dollars people pay to exhibit at CES and how their jobs depend on how well it goes.

Screwing with people who are just trying to earn a living isn't that hilarious to me.

How is this much different from someone hacking gizmodo's site so they don't earn their ad revenue?
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well you can count on a strong response from their targets and from the convetion organizers. that video is = to shooting your own foot.
 
pontifex

pontifex

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Hmmm, this video seems kind of hypocritical after Gizmodo wrote this

TV-B-GONE

Mitch Altman is an asshole. And not just any asshole, but one of those snotty holier-than-thou types who has nothing better to do with the money he made as a founder of 3ware than to develop a device with the sole purpose of imposing his viewpoint on others. See, Altman hates the television and its encroachment into public space. Rather than just doing what most everybody else has done?which is either not really caring or, failing that, getting the fuck over it?Altman has invented a device called the 'TV-B-Gone' (obviously having expended every last vapor of his creative ability developing the product, he was left to co-opt the most obvious name schtick ever). Essentially a universal remote that cycles through every possible code, the TV-B-Gone has a single purpose: to power off televisions whenever the user feels like being a dick.

Read the Wired News profile, where Altman wanders through a city, turning off other peoples' televisions, peppering his behavior with such gems as, "We just saved him several minutes of his life." Maybe after making his tens of dozens of dollars on the TV-B-Gone, Altman can invent a gadget that transports self-important cocks who think they're waging a subversive culture war to a log cabin coffee shop where they can reassure each other how awesome they are for hating television. Free berets for the first 100 pricks to use the word "Sheeple!"
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qft
 
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loup garou

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And bloggers wonder why people don't consider them "real press." That site has gotten so crappy and immature.
 
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