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Laser-etching a coin.
Apr 7, 2018 7:28 PM
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shoe47
It’s an Amazon link for Tide pods
SpodgyTwoSugars
I bet the vending machine in our office would still reject it
InvolentaryYoga
I read that as “laser erection test” for a second
pandaboo
Where can i find the person who makes these so i can give them money
szechaunfiend
Is that a bit coin?
Janusha
This is how they make Bitcoins
bringbakfirefly
QR link to a dickbutt image?
DragonSphere
QRency.
SoThatsWhere
But is it secret? Is it safe?
magila
OneEyedTrouserCatsnake
First decent thing in usersub I've come across today.
scnottaken
De-cent
HulkHoganWeComingForYouNiiiigaaaaa
Crawmak
Honestly. All I've seen today is dumps and half naked women. More than usual at least.
bawdeepinsheep
was expecting dickbutt... disappointed
mooseandsquirrell
Neat
BongoSchlongo
Make a dickbutt currency !
rijstewafels
Pew pew pew laz0r
turkletoon
Vhalar morgulis
TheGoodKingOfImgur
Laser etch my ass daddy
notsocks
..oh.
NZSheeps
To make it easier for your clients to pay?
1Person
Forgive my ignorance, but if adjusted a bit, could this be used as some kind of futuristic tattooing method?
malkos
Maybe. Tattooing is injecting ink into your skin, this would.. just burn your skin honestly.
1Person
I know. But some tattoo places do a type of branding as well. Or maybe the laser could burn ink into the skin very precisely. I dunno :D
JackKellyHasSmallHands
ITT: Bitcoin jokes
addicted2pjs
Why doesn't it start at one end and finish on the other. It's like the Lazer has a stutter or something.
savanik
Metal is super annoying to laser engrave. Spend too much time in one spot and the metal (and thus pattern) will distort.
addicted2pjs
Thank you! I wouldn't have thought of that.
Newtownchris
So could I do that to a friends iPhone camera
nevernotsure
fyatre
This would be magic to people not that long ago
begonedouche
cool, but qr codes aren't.
WhatFloatsYourGoat
Didn't read the title and thought the thumbnail was a cake...
lordofthelanterns
Was expecting send nudes
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
wtf is that currency?
lookatmelookatmelookatme
Bitcoin, clearly.
causamortis1
It's essentially someone's Bitcoin wallet ID. Show them the coin and they can pay you in Bitcoin.
shriek
To elaborate on this - it's a QR code of a wallet ID. Bitcoin being one of them.
OmgWhyAmILikeThis
Defacing currency. A law never enforced.
eggmuffin
This is neither defacement nor a valid currency.
tyr888
The original coin was blank - was not any country's legal tender, therefore no currency defacing ocurred
Thugnificient
I agree with other comments that this isn’t defacing, but I agree with you that the law is never enforced.
eggmuffin
It is. You likely just don't know what the term means, in the context of existing legislation.
yy0b
Iirc the caveat is that you can't deface currency with the intent to profit off of it (like melting coins to sell the metal), could be wrong
LazyLuppy
Also to prevent people from shaving coins, which was a way to get the metal off the coin and still pass the coin off at original value.
clid3r
You remembered correctly.
TeflonTrout
This'd be a cool way to brick someone's phone, a la snow crash
bobstallone
I prefer a la cart
ThereWereProblemsAndAFewDeathsWereInvolved
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software), high-speed pizza delvery
Woofbloodywoof
And those words where the thing that really made me realize how shitty my copy of it was, I had to go re-buy a paper copy to re-enjoy it. /2
Woofbloodywoof
I've listened to the audiobook a load of times, but my version is ripped and old and compressed, I listened to it on my girlfriend's 1/2
Iseeyourpointandraiseyou
+1 for Snow Crash, but I think I liked Reamde a tiny bit better.
doctorwoohoo
Reamde was not good, he even said so. He rushed it to work on another book. Seveneves is good. Anathem is great.
tenkawa
Nah nah nah, its all about the Cryptonomicon.
doctorwoohoo
It is one of my fav's but I feel he just took a chainsaw to the plot threads towards the end; and then they all got rich. The end.
doctorwoohoo
Not that Anathems 'and then the nerd got laid. The End. ' was any better. I will read anything he writes though.
Iseeyourpointandraiseyou
I didn't like Anathem much at all. It was too stilted for my tastes. I'm a simple man, though.
doctorwoohoo
Have you tried the Baroque Cycle? It has pirates, alchemy, calculus and MIT.
doctorwoohoo
To be fair it also has syphilis.
Iseeyourpointandraiseyou
I did, actually. I liked it better than Anathem, that's for sure. Some interesting points of view. I mostly just felt bad for Jack.
wardenclyfe
My first Phil professor told me about that book, apparently it's written by one of his favorite authors
thecorrupterx
Neal Stephenson has a great lucid writing style that makes the story really move along.
HugfordBlops
The part of Snow Crash with Hiro fighting out of a restaurant, get to his bike then "The rest is just a chase scene" fucking nailed it.
Shamwowser
My dad told me to read zodiac before reading snow crash just to see how his writing style changes
NicoAugustusDrake
That was an amazing boo
DrArbitrary
For a second I thought the virus got you.
NicoAugustusDrake
Snow crash is not a virus it is a glorious world, we err I mean that is welcoming to everyone...
NicoAugustusDrake
Book*
abcEasyAs123
You made your bed now lie in it.... with TeflonTrout
NicoAugustusDrake
I will continue to do just that. Finally upgraded to a Cal King with two down mattress toppers on top of the tempurpedic. I live here now.
TeflonTrout
Just don't lie in it with 14 year old delivery girls
VigorousButtstuff
Neat idea, but like a hundred other plots that used the same concept, to get a device to RUN code it sees is trickier than it looks.
d0o0o0d
If the QR code is a URL pointing to a malicious file? Pretty sure that's been done IRL.
d0o0o0d
Yep. https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/android-malware-spreads-through-qr-code/
VigorousButtstuff
Device has to know it's supposed to. So just a picture won't run a QR code unless the QR reader is actively looking for it.
TheDarkNerd
Plus, would any sane QR reader just *run* code? I thought they told you what the string was before doing anything.
flawlesssoul
Unless the app that is currently looking for code.is expected to do something with it, like a 2FA reading it's setup QR code that could 1/2
flawlesssoul
2/2 be used to exploit a bug in the app to do something else (like dump all the current codes for other auth. in the same app.
OneOfTheDaddiesPig
I recognise a web address. My phone recognises a web address. I've never used a QR code. Has anyone?
1Person
I used one once..but i cant remember why. Something inconsequential
nerdmatic
Nope. Wallet address. The QR code is the address printed under it.
SAFireStorm
I use QR codes to transfer links to my phone from my desktop
MevNav
QR codes is an easy way to share a bitcoin wallet so you can accept payment. Crypo phone apps have QR readers so you can deposit that way.
mirrorz
Only time I ever used a QR code reader was to test a QR code generated for mail pieces at work. (graphic design)
SociopathicOtter
I use them. I think they're kinda fun. I also have one saved for my dog's tags so it can be scanned and her page viewed if she's lost.
atimisk
They have them in one of my online textbooks. Links to a lecture, given by the professor who wrote the book, on youtube. They're decent.
intaglioguy
The drawback of QR codes is that there is no way for me to determine if the code is malicious until it is too late.
ZeDestructor
sane apps bring it in as raw test and let you decide wtf to do with it
RemiRixJones
I have. It would be better if browsers had built in QR scanners. The whole point is to be convenient.
5P4C3M4N
On iPhone you can scan a at code with the camera app
lordmogul
It also works the other way around. Addons that allow to put the current address into a qr
RustBunny
I couldn't get it to decrypt from a screenshot. Not enough detail? It can be done, but its not as good as using the camera to scan the QR.
LeumisRichardson
Suppose the center pixels being blotted out by the laser affects it?
The701
That shouldn't do it; a fair chunk of a QR code is for error correction, depending on the encoding scheme being used. My guess is that it's
The701
the blurring in the back corner, including the locator mark.
soggyscone
I don't know why phone manufacturers don't include a QR reader as standard in the camera app. I think more might use them if it was included
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Incentive for them?
vowofloudness
Recent iPhones (iOS 11+) have it built into the camera app.
vowofloudness
Looks like: https://imgur.com/kNq2rCb
MulattoGelato
It's a standard in my phone and I've got a Samsung a5
PrimeShitposts
s8 and s9 have them in bixby vision which is a button in the camera app
soggyscone
Oh! Never knew. I've got a note 8
spx39
Motorola has it incorporated into the default camera app. I found that out one day by accident, and I've never actually used it on purpose
Corona688
what default camera app is this?
spx39
No idea. It's the one that comes pre-installed on the moto X phones
theyar
Antitrust or something maybe? Microsoft got sued into near irrelevance because they dared to include a web browser in the OS.
soggyscone
And most of the QR reader apps on Android I've seen seem a little questionable. Random adverts popping up on your phone with it installed
myotherusernameismyotherusername
You just need to download one from a trusted source. The one from Zxing Team is as close as you can get to an "official" one, it doesn't 1/2
myotherusernameismyotherusername
have ads. Then there's the QR Scanner you can get from f-droid, which is open source and completely free/ no ads.
ExcrementCarver
Literally every unpaid app ever lol
Corona688
"unpaid"
SirWeezle
I have a QR code framed on my wall that lets people immediately connect to my home Wifi network. It has it's uses.
Whiskyinmycoffee
I want this. How did you do this?
SirWeezle
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/ Just choose Wi-Fi from the drop down up top.