On 1/27/2021 11:35 PM, rbowman wrote:

You jest... The Feebs haven't been all over anything except garage door
pulls and morons they can convince to do stupid things.

That was national newz at it's finest. We had them at a garage I
worked at and
I never heard it referred to as a noose. I guess that my mind doesn't
think in
that direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

That was one of the bigger flops but when they came our all the
programmers who had subscribed to one of the trade mags were puzzled to
get an unsolicited box with a CueCat in it. The USB cable was long
enough to fashion a nice noose so there were little cats hanging on the
cubicle walls.

Probably okay though. The cat was white.




Hey, I had one of those. Even used it once. It was a good idea but
poorly supported. Now, the QR code is everywhere and easily accessed
on a phone with camera.