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ah damn, not a network guy but couldn't they put lifts on their own subnets and avoid populuting the constrained airway. good read :)

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nowprovision 10y ago
since this is same local network could u forge this and play hardcore porn audio?
- maxaf 10y ago
  There are some much nicer and more fun, also arguably less destructive, pranking options: - text-to-speech output based on a definitive history of elevators - same for an exhaustive safety lecture that'll probably horrify some guests - BBC programming interspersed with random bits of Arabic speech - sound of iPhone ringing using the most common ringtone - toilet flushing noises - JFK's "we choose to go to the moon" speech - "thank you for using the elevator - achievement unlocked! Please visit the hotel's reception desk to collect your prize. Your raffle code is: ID-10T" - "dear guests: a gentle reminder that floors in our hotel are zero-indexed" - mouse scratching sounds on full blast - Soviet anthem on repeat ... I can do this all day.
  - JoshGlazebrook 10y ago
    Default ringtone ringing would be hilarious.
  - david-given 10y ago
    ... I've suddenly realised that if someone were to improvise a two-hour lecture similar to _The Art of Boxing_ from Frog Fractions and upload it somewhere, then I would probably find a way to use it. Somehow.
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  - curiousgal 10y ago
    >- BBC programming interspersed with random bits of Arabic speech Ah, nothing like a dash of racism to prank someone.
    - mnx 10y ago
      How is that racist?
      - curiousgal 10y ago
        Isn't he implying that Arabic speech would scare people?
        mattdeboard 10y ago
        Even if he was, how is that racist
        curiousgal 10y ago
        Arabic speech is scary => Arabs are scary?
        soohyung 10y ago
        More like "there are people who think Arabic speech is scary", he doesn't have to think that himself to know that there are people who think that way and he wants to prank those people therefore I wouldn't say it's racist.
        curiousgal 10y ago
        To me it was like "I'd play Arabic speech to scare people" rather than "I'd play Arabic speech to scare some people". I am addressing the statement of course not OP's person.
        mattdeboard 10y ago
  - retbull 10y ago
    Our elevators are 0 indexed. LOL that would only be really funny for programmers though.
    - gus_massa 10y ago
      In many countries, the floors are 0 indexed. I live in Argentina an the usual name for the floor that is at the street level is "Plata Baja" (something like "low floor") and the elevator has usually a button that says "PB". Now it's increasingly common to see a "0" in that button :) . (This makes me slightly happy as a mathematician.) Moreover, in some places the first underground floor "primer subsuelo" is "-1". (I've never seen a "1/2" for "entrepisos" :( . I don't know the translation, with autotranslation I get "mezzanine" and "intermediate floor".) Some images: http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/accesibilidad-y-seguridad.html http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/acces... http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinger-pressing-the-zero-floor-button-in/497420412 http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinge...
      - maxaf 10y ago
        Oh, bother! I totally forgot that when I lived in Israel, floors in my apartment building were numbered the same as in Argentina. :)
      - reubenmorais 10y ago
        Mezzanine is what you were looking for, by the way.
    - PakG1 10y ago
      Look at how many elevators have the ground floor as G, and then the second floor is 1. It already happens a lot in lots of places in the world. Of course, it levels out if the building excludes unlucky numbers, like 13 in North America or 4 in China.
  - johnlbevan2 10y ago
    Or given lots of hotels are likely setup the same, write an app that lets people take advantage of this / broadcast their own tunes to these services, so they can choose their own lift music in a Sonos-like way. If this were an officially endorsed thing, hotels could even stick a Physical Web Beacon (https://g.co/beacons https://g.co/beacons) in the lift, pointing customers to your app. All that said, I guess my above scenario, headphones may be a simpler option ;).

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nowprovision 10y ago

since this is same local network could u forge this and play hardcore porn audio?

maxaf 10y ago
There are some much nicer and more fun, also arguably less destructive, pranking options: - text-to-speech output based on a definitive history of elevators - same for an exhaustive safety lecture that'll probably horrify some guests - BBC programming interspersed with random bits of Arabic speech - sound of iPhone ringing using the most common ringtone - toilet flushing noises - JFK's "we choose to go to the moon" speech - "thank you for using the elevator - achievement unlocked! Please visit the hotel's reception desk to collect your prize. Your raffle code is: ID-10T" - "dear guests: a gentle reminder that floors in our hotel are zero-indexed" - mouse scratching sounds on full blast - Soviet anthem on repeat ... I can do this all day.
- JoshGlazebrook 10y ago
  Default ringtone ringing would be hilarious.
- david-given 10y ago
  ... I've suddenly realised that if someone were to improvise a two-hour lecture similar to _The Art of Boxing_ from Frog Fractions and upload it somewhere, then I would probably find a way to use it. Somehow.
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- curiousgal 10y ago
  >- BBC programming interspersed with random bits of Arabic speech Ah, nothing like a dash of racism to prank someone.
  - mnx 10y ago
    How is that racist?
    - curiousgal 10y ago
      Isn't he implying that Arabic speech would scare people?
      - mattdeboard 10y ago
        Even if he was, how is that racist
        curiousgal 10y ago
        Arabic speech is scary => Arabs are scary?
        soohyung 10y ago
        More like "there are people who think Arabic speech is scary", he doesn't have to think that himself to know that there are people who think that way and he wants to prank those people therefore I wouldn't say it's racist.
        curiousgal 10y ago
        To me it was like "I'd play Arabic speech to scare people" rather than "I'd play Arabic speech to scare some people". I am addressing the statement of course not OP's person.
      - mattdeboard 10y ago
- retbull 10y ago
  Our elevators are 0 indexed. LOL that would only be really funny for programmers though.
  - gus_massa 10y ago
    In many countries, the floors are 0 indexed. I live in Argentina an the usual name for the floor that is at the street level is "Plata Baja" (something like "low floor") and the elevator has usually a button that says "PB". Now it's increasingly common to see a "0" in that button :) . (This makes me slightly happy as a mathematician.) Moreover, in some places the first underground floor "primer subsuelo" is "-1". (I've never seen a "1/2" for "entrepisos" :( . I don't know the translation, with autotranslation I get "mezzanine" and "intermediate floor".) Some images: http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/accesibilidad-y-seguridad.html http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/acces... http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinger-pressing-the-zero-floor-button-in/497420412 http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinge...
    - maxaf 10y ago
      Oh, bother! I totally forgot that when I lived in Israel, floors in my apartment building were numbered the same as in Argentina. :)
    - reubenmorais 10y ago
      Mezzanine is what you were looking for, by the way.
  - PakG1 10y ago
    Look at how many elevators have the ground floor as G, and then the second floor is 1. It already happens a lot in lots of places in the world. Of course, it levels out if the building excludes unlucky numbers, like 13 in North America or 4 in China.
- johnlbevan2 10y ago
  Or given lots of hotels are likely setup the same, write an app that lets people take advantage of this / broadcast their own tunes to these services, so they can choose their own lift music in a Sonos-like way. If this were an officially endorsed thing, hotels could even stick a Physical Web Beacon (https://g.co/beacons https://g.co/beacons) in the lift, pointing customers to your app. All that said, I guess my above scenario, headphones may be a simpler option ;).