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[lilandrew60]

Yea, I was watching G4TV and say the defcon convention. I also saw that there was this one guy who had like this big antenna and said that he could change the price of a lcd tv or any item of a store to just a price of a bag of chips. I would really like to know how to do this.

[TheCotMan]

Yea, I was watching G4TV and say the defcon convention.

I do not understand, "and say the defcon convention."
[Was, "say," supposed to be, "saw"?]

I also saw that there was this one guy who had like this big antenna and said that he could change the price of a lcd tv or any item of a store to just a price of a bag of chips.

This is where learning how to research comes in handy. Where did you see this? G4TV? They would be good to bug about this. They probably collected their sources by name or handle, if they are good journalists. Once you have a name, then you can perform a search.

If the person provided a presentation, then you can wait for their presentation to come online and watch it or check into buying a copy.

If you know their name, you may be able to search for docs they have published or get a contact for e-mail.

I would really like to know how to do this.

When you find out who it was, maybe you can post their name and if they have one, a URL and the name of their presentation, so others can find it too.

[skroo]

Yea, I was watching G4TV and say the defcon convention. I also saw that there was this one guy who had like this big antenna and said that he could change the price of a lcd tv or any item of a store to just a price of a bag of chips. I would really like to know how to do this.

Sure. You can actually do this with a plain old purple permanent marker (it must be purple or this won't work), some scissors, and a glue stick. Here's what you do:

- Locate an item within your budget, or that's at least affordable with no more than 30 minutes of panhandling. Doritos usually work for this, though I've heard unconfirmed rumours that this technique can be applied equally well with Ding-Dongs and frozen peas.

- Take your bag of Doritos and, using your scissors, cut out the barcode from the back of the package. If the barcode is in some other location, forget it and move on - ONLY the barcodes on the *back* of the packages can be used for this.

- Locate the box for the really expensive item you want (for our example, we'll say it's a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display) and, via the magic of your glue stick, paste your Doritos barcode over the one already on the Cinema Display's box.

- * * * READ CAREFULLY, THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART!!! * * * Take your permanent marker and put a big 'X' over every reference on the box to Apple, the Apple Computer Corporation, Cinema Display, or anything else computer-related that may be on there. Next, in REALLY FUCKING HUGE BLOCK CAPS, write 'DORITOS' in as much of the remaining free space as possible. Maybe draw some spaceships and flowers too.

- Now take your box of (heh, heh) 'Doritos' to the checkout. Act normal. Maybe pick your nose a little or pull your underwear out of your asscrack repeatedly while the clerk rings you up. If all goes well, you'll leave the store with a $3000 display for a buck twenty-nine!

Just remember to be cool. If the clerk says something like 'Hey! This isn't a box of Doritos! I'm calling my manager!', shut him up real quicklike by saying something like, 'ALL I CAN FEED MY CRACK-ADDICTED WELFARE FAMILY ON IS THIS OVERPROCESSED PSEUDOCHEESE PRESSED CORNSTARCH SHIT AND YOU HAVE TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT IT? THANKS PAL, JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A CAREER DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET TO RUB IT IN MY FACE! MAYBE *I'LL* CALL YOUR MANAGER OVER MYSELF AND SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS JACKBOOTED FASICST DISCRIMINATION KEEPING ME DOWN!!!' At this point he'll probably be so embarrassed that he'll just ring you up and let you go!

OK, that's about all for now. In my next installment, I'll tell you how to return that display for big refund $$$ by using only a dead raccoon!