Hacking Santa 204
Inigo Montoya writes "Josh McCormick outlines how he has hacked a 5-foot tall, $49.84 Wal*Mart animated dancing and singing Santa into saying and doing things his creator, Gemmy, just hadn't intended him to do. With some outboard electronics hacked into the right places, Josh has made this Santa sound and act like a drunken old mall santa on Christmas Eve.
There is also a video too."
Oh no... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh no... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh no... (Score:2, Informative)
D&D had a 'homebrew' class called the anti-paladin, the evil version of a paladin (or one fallen from grace). It occassioned the magazines and such.
In the 3rd edition of D&D they made it official, but it is now called a 'blackguard', a prestige class (one you can only take after reaching so many levels in a normal class first).
To point: it would be a comment aimed at pencil&paper gamers
Re:Oh no... (Score:2)
Ah, good times!
Anti-klepto? (Score:2)
Oh, so he was a Kender [wikipedia.org]?
Re:Anti-klepto? (Score:2)
Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Insightful)
Wait for the first few trash pickup days after x-mas. 50 bucks is cheap enough for a lot of people to trash it rather than try to store a 5 ft tall corpse.
Then you have a year to come up with clever things for Santa to say and do.
Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not quite (Score:2)
Plase, dont click that link. Think about your eyes!
(No naughtyness except for the gross colors)
haha (Score:2, Informative)
around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:haha) (Score:5, Funny)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122005/80/drunken-sant
Drunken Santas run amok in NZ
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2, Funny)
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:4, Funny)
Oops! That wasnt programmed in the Santa. It was a bug .
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
No; actually, that's a feature.
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
Re:around 40 already deployed in NZ... (was: Re:ha (Score:2)
Oh, no... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh, no... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Won't happen. (Score:2)
I don't know who told you this but they do it all the time. I've gotten a number of products from wal-mart that had clearly been opened and repackaged. And of course, anyone who's shopped at Fry's Electronics
Re:Oh, no... (Score:3, Funny)
-Lieutienant Obvious
Which just goes to show... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:5, Funny)
The producers of the new Superman film would sue, claiming prior art.
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:3, Insightful)
Solve, yes...implement, no. The infrastructure needed to actually effect such big far reaching things such as "World Hunger" and "Global Warming" are largely controlled by those interests that profit directly from such things.
Oh yea... Merry Christmas or whatever
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
Re:Which just goes to show... (Score:2)
New Christmas song... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New Christmas song... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points
Oh, I wish I had some merry mod points !!
and a happy new sig
Re:New Christmas song... (Score:2)
So Bring us some Frickin' iPods.
So Bring us some Frickin' iPods.
So Bring us some Frickin' iPods right now!
Great song...
What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2)
So, what your saying is... if you have santa do something bad make sure it's really bad.
What about putting it outside a nunery and have santa make cat calls at the nuns.
Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:5, Funny)
He sees when you're awake,
He knows when you've been bad or good
And when you masturbate"
Those were the words when I was a kid, anyway.
Justin.
Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What would Slashdotters have Santa singing? (Score:2)
Did it occur to you that it might be older than the show?
J.
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
A mirror of the video can be found here. [mirrordot.com]
The link is already Coralized... (Score:2)
Yarrr! (Score:5, Funny)
So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.
Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!
Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.
This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.
Fun Santa phrases... (Score:5, Funny)
"No kids, I don't really exist and all your toys were made in China."
"Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night!"
"Anyone seen my whiskey flask?"
"Remember kids, be good and don't pee on Santa's lap."
"Where are all the good lookin' Ho Ho Ho's?"
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:4, Funny)
The loud, obnoxious Christians sure do get their panties in a bunch over that one. And the loud, obnoxious non-Christians do if you try to "change it back".
Personally, I think they're both fucking retarded. So, as I sit in a bar on the winter solstice, drinking a pint of brown ale, I'll salute them both for bringing much merriment to the rest of us. Cheers!
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:5, Funny)
There I think that covers just about everything.
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
Cold? Fuck worrying about the cold. Remember how you were when you were a kid? You'd run around outside all day long without a coat on if your mom didn't make you put one on. Why could you stand it then and not now? Because it's all a state of mind! Stop being a crotchety old man and enjoy yourself!!
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:3, Funny)
So Jesus was Australian, what's your point?
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:4, Insightful)
See the trend here? If someone wishes you a $HAPPY_HOLIDAY, regardless of what it is, you thank them and do the same in return, regardless of how fucking stupid you may or may not think their religion or holiday is. All the same, though, demanding a business or person adhere to one particular holiday greeting is pretty pathetic, no? Let the people do whatever they want and take it as it is meant: happy whatever holiday you feel like celebrating, whether that is Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule (as in the winter solstice), or Hannukah. Or, when it so happens to fall here, Ramadan (insert other holidays as applicable - I have no idea what Hindu, Buddhist, etc, etc follows). If someone wishes you Merry Christmas and you're Jewish, accept the well-wishing as it was meant! If someone wishes you a Happy/Merry/Solemn Ramadan, accept that as well! It's someone being polite! Stop being fascists about your season's greetings and go with the spirit in which it was meant!
Happy Holidays = "I hope things rock for you!"
That is why this whole thing is fucking hilarious. My hatred for Christianity runs high, but when someone tells me Merry Christmas, I don't get upset! Why? Because they're wishing me well! Regardless of the religious trappings or cultural overtones, it's the thought that counts, and it's the meaning that should be accepted, not the manner in which it is said!
Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:2)
Merry Christmas = "I hope things rock for you!"
Merry/Happy Yule = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Hannukah = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Kwanzaa = "I hope things rock for you!" (I have a hard time not typing "Krazy Kwanzaaa". Curse you, Krusty!)
Merry/Happy/Solemn Ramadan = "I hope things rock for you!"
All different phrases, but they all mean essentially the same thing!
Re:PC holiday greetings (Score:2)
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
"I did not have sex with that woman -- Ms. Lewinsky." (Clinton's voice).
OK, picked it from the hacking of "Billy the big-mouthed bass", previously reported here.
Re:Fun Santa phrases... (Score:2)
You ain't goin' a sh*t right for a week
No kid, I don't want any f*ckin' sandwiches!
Uh (Score:4, Funny)
(please do not link directly to video)
Did you miss that?
Re:Uh (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Uh (Score:2)
Re:Uh (Score:2)
carefull though because coral doesn't cache files over 50 megs instead redirecting back to the original site.
Re:Uh...but don't look in its eye! (Score:2)
You may mirror this page and contents in its entirety. (In fact, please do!)
But please do not look directly into the eye of Santa's personality chip, it is scary, black as coal and could cause sudden disillusionment!
Re:Uh...but don't look in its eye! (Score:2)
Wishlist (Score:2, Interesting)
Santa (Score:2, Funny)
Santa Hacked? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Santa Hacked? (Score:5, Insightful)
Couldn't everything?
pfft... (Score:2)
Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:5, Funny)
To WalMart: Please, for the sake of the children, check those return Santas before putting them back out on the sales floor!
Re:Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:2)
Imagine the headlines over that one. "Life size Santa toy a drunk"
Re:Oh, I just thought of something EEEEEEVIL... (Score:4, Interesting)
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby... (Score:2, Funny)
Exorsanta (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exorsanta (Score:2)
Ok, the race is on ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ok, the race is on ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ok, the race is on ... (Score:2)
Er, seriously, if you look at the cost of the parts the guy used, it really would have been cheaper to use old PC guts instead of a Basic Stamp. The Santa looks big enough to hold a motherboard and hard drive in his bowl full of jelly, so of course you'd want to run Linux on it.
Tramp-O-Claus (Score:2)
Big Mouth Billy Bass in Pain (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Big Mouth Billy Bass in Pain (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no! It's robot santa! (Score:5, Funny)
He knows when you're on the can,
He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
You better not breathe, you better not move,
You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Santa Claus is gunning you down! [geocities.com]
Ho ho ho ho (Score:2)
"YULE TIDE!!!"
Hack A Day (Score:5, Informative)
guts (Score:2, Interesting)
Who made this Santa? (Score:2, Funny)
Way better (Score:2, Interesting)
Seems like a lot of trouble... (Score:4, Informative)
There's better (cooler) stuff (Score:2)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp [snopes.com]
Re:There's better (cooler) stuff (Score:2)
Evil robot Santa (Score:4, Funny)
Josh McCormick here.... (Score:2)
BTW, I am working to make a more detailed step-by-step on the instructions.
Another mirror (Score:2)
Warning, 720x480 version ! (divx 1.7 MB)
This Santa is the Halloween Skeleton (Score:2)
I wouldn't be surprised to see an Easter bunny on the same frame but I think what is more interesting is what people are going to start modifying their Santa to.
Wal-Mart is EVIL (Score:2)
Talk about doing something the hard way (Score:2)
Imagine... (Score:2)
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wow - Submitter did a good job (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Well I know what he wants for x-mas (Score:2)
Re:Request ignored (Score:2, Insightful)
Santa boxing his own ideological shadow, maybe? (Score:2)
Seriously, I have relatives who are convinced that the multi-language instruction book on a Timex watch is an example of how they're being marginalized by the liberal society