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If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor’s Printer, What Would You Print?

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http://techcrunch.com – Reddit user H3K9me2 has discovered he has a pretty delightful power if you’re into cacophony: The ability to print remotely onto his neighbor’s printer. Tapping into some strange AI zeitgeist, the post asking what exactly he should print has blown up. The thread has produced 3875 comments and hundreds of suggestions, with the overwhelming favorite being this “Ghost In The Machine” inspired approach: Give the printer ‘sentience’ gradually. Start off with just some errors like random alt & unicode letters & symbols. Slowly get on track to printi (IT news)

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