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For real lulz: print this pattern of small yellow dots on all your business correspondence with big companies, just to screw with their document management syst
by cstross 11y ago
For real lulz: print this pattern of small yellow dots on all your business correspondence with big companies, just to screw with their document management systems. Hours of endless fun for all the bureaucrats!
(There's got to be a PDF/postscript file/print filter for the pattern somewhere. Anyone? EDIT: Ah, found it here: http://wildsparx.com/eurionize/ http://wildsparx.com/eurionize/ -- download has vanished, but source is on github: https://github.com/jplona/code/blob/master/eurionize.pl https://github.com/jplona/code/blob/master/eurionize.pl )
- jdimov9 11y agoThe Perl script is from 2008
- jdimov9 11y agoOk, I worded this wrong. I meant it as in "Wow, that Perl script is from 2008, I'm impressed and surprised because the article gave the impression that this is a relatively new trick." Can we stop the downvoting torrent now? Good grief!
- gpvos 11y ago2004 even, if the copyright message is to be believed (and why not).
- plausibility 11y agoThose online fax sites posted here the other day should definitely implement this "feature".
- Someone1234 11y agoOr print it on a t-shirt. If anyone tried to capture a screenshot from a CCTV video feed, well, too bad...
- kaybe 11y agoWhile looking for that I stumbled across patterns and text that only shows up after photocopying due to effects such as aliasing and low-pass filtering, also pretty neat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_pantograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_pantograph And I easily found some shops carrying shirts: http://www.spreadshirt.de/eurion-t-shirts-C4408A23774319#/detail/23774319T6A2PC120434135PA4PC120434136PA4PC120434137PA4PC120434138PA4PC120434139PA4PC120434140PA4PC120434141PA4PC120434142PA4PC120434143PA4PC120434144PA4 http://www.spreadshirt.de/eurion-t-shirts-C4408A23774319#/de... http://www.zazzle.com/eurion_constellation_t_shirt-235509764478000766 http://www.zazzle.com/eurion_constellation_t_shirt-235509764... if you know German, here are some people from AK Vorrat planning a campaign, I don't know whether it's still up to date: http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/EURion http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/EURion And it has been discussed before, huh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926114