The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.
What Gizmodo did was to go around with this remote control and switch off the display sets. They disrupted a Motorola presentation, some gaming event and a lot of televisions on display. This is journalism at its worst. CES did what’s right to bar them from attending future CES event.
It’s a terrible prank and caused trouble from both attendees and exhibitors. I’m kinda disappointed when I saw the video of Gizmodo staffers switching off the televisions sets with a remote. Old prank and it wasn’t funny in my opinion.
I find it rather irritating to receive calls from people I don’t know. Especially during times having to actually leave lecture halls just to answer a call.
Here’s how my thought process roughly go:
Okay, here’s a call and I don’t know the number.
Alright I don’t want to answer calls from people I don’t know.
Hmmmp, what is someone I know is using another phone?
Nah, don’t want to answer…
Arrgh, this frigging phone refuse to stop ringing!
What if it’s actually important?
Okay, damn it. -leaves lecture room by squeezing through the seats-
Jodee Berry of Panama City, Fla., sits with her toy Yoda at her lawyer’s office Wednesday. Berry, a former Hooters waitress, has sued the restaurant where she worked saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest in April. Berry, 26, believed that she had won a new car, but she was blindfolded, led to a parking lot and presented a toy Yoda, the little green guy from Star Wars.
Police cheated girl, 4, of her trust! Okay, but I guess that is done with necessity.
Girl, 4, called 911 nearly 300 times
CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. - Authorities tracked down a 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times last month by offering to deliver McDonald’s to her suburban Chicago apartment.
Unbeknownst to her mother, the girl used a deactivated cell phone to call dispatchers 287 times in June sometimes as often as 20 times a shift.
Dispatchers heard the child’s voice but could only track the phone’s signal to the apartment complex.
So authorities used a ruse to pinpoint her.
“We asked (the caller) what she wanted. She said she wanted McDonald’s,” said Steve Cordes, executive director of QuadCom’s emergency center, which covers Carpentersville.
Well, if you’re really free (and horrible) and your friend aren’t around and you so happen to be in front of his or her computer… That’s a lot of conditions to satisfy right? Anyway, you can try this Windows XP prank on them. April Fools in coming. It would be a good (and yes - horrible of course) idea to right a program that can take screenshot and set it as a wallpaper. It would be loads of fun for the prankster and waste lots of time for the victim.
It probably wouldn’t work if someone try it on me since I do not use the desktop anyway. I switched off icons on the desktop and only use the start menu. Until some expert discovers how to prank my start menu in less than a minute, I’m pretty safe coming April.
