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Stop freaking out over the TV-B-Gone prank at CES

Started by ekai · 9 months ago

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  • Nicole Lee

    1 year ago

    Not to mention it's giving a ton of press to Gizmodo right now.
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  • pava

    1 year ago

    In true 'net justice,' if any of the big phat CES companies wanted to take prank revenge on Gizmodo. . . what would they do?

    What could a small company like Motorola or Panasonic POSSIBLY do prank Gizmodo back?

    I mean. . . that was a pretty damn mean and random act -- the remoting. Not a mugging, but certainly a random wedgie to the nerd kid with the highwater pants.
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  • Eddie Codel

    1 year ago

    Kevin:

    I totally get your point, but I don't think the prank quite rises to the level of denial of service. The room is still full of people, the presenter still has the ability to address the crowd (and from what I saw the Motorola guy did pretty well under the circumstances) and the ensuing controversy and press coverage drives more attention and traffic to all those involved. I am now actually curious about what Motorola was demoing. I probably wouldn't have been otherwise.
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  • Justin Simonsen

    1 year ago

    Thanks for this response. It is exactly how I feel about the entire thing. Just chill out people. You’d think it was illegal to turn off the TV like out of the movie 1984 or something.
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  • cindy

    1 year ago

    turning tv's of is not as bad as the apple store getting goatse on thier monitors. now that was unruly! memorable, but unruly. no one should be surprised with that photo. without warning of course.
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  • Larry Edelstein

    1 year ago

    The guy did it and the conf reacted by banning him, and I don't have much of a problem with it. I don't see the specific hyperventilating you're talking about, but assuming it's out there, OK, perhaps I agree to a degree.

    But it sounds like posturing, and your post here is posturing, and that's fine, but I want to note it to justify my own posturing, which is coming up in the next paragraph.

    When I hear about TV-B-Gone and people who use it, I usually think: fuck you, busybody! Probably because I hate when people get up on their high horse about other people's personal preferences. Usually the complainer is making a tacit assumption that they're smarter than all those other people out there.

    Naturally I would never try to use the coercive power of the law to try to stop someone from expressing their viewpoint, but I might kick someone in the shins if I caught them fucking with my TV.
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