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This would be a good time to short their stock. The biggies hurt at CES would sue their a***s off. The video is really fun to watch. Except if you're one of the people who worked hard to prepare, stage and deliver their presentation which the pranksters sc***ed with - let alone the companies that spent millions to participate at the show.
Not everyone agrees, and frankly, I am amazed how people I normally respect find it a laughing matter.
Update (1/12): Must be a slow weekend, this is still the hot topic on TechMeme. But here's the best part, that we all missed: Gizmodo themselves trashed the TV-B-Gone 3 years ago:
Mitch Altman is an asshole. And not just any asshole, but one of those snotty holier-than-thou types who has nothing better to do with the money he made as a founder of 3ware than to develop a device with the sole purpose of imposing his viewpoint on others...
...Essentially a universal remote that cycles through every possible code, the TV-B-Gone has a single purpose: to power off televisions whenever the user feels like being a dick.
So who is the a**hole now? And who feels like being a d*ck? Was this Altman's ultimate revenge?
(hat tip: Anonymous commenter)
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