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- jorgefeucht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The only thing the Caltech kids did was save the MIT administration the cost of shipping the cannon back, so I guess the joke is on them. ( If you bring your assistant vice president for campus life along its hardly a hack)
- SixSider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16http://www.caltechvsmit.com/
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I agree. How the hell is this a counter prank? The babies came and picked up their cannon. Everybody at MIT knew they were coming.
Honestly, when it comes to hacking, Caltech doesn't hold a candle to MIT. We put airplanes and police cruisers on the big dome, Caltech came and gave out free tshirts. When they did that, everybody here though it was lame. - pferdestarke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The recovery was by no stretch a prank. MIT'ers knew of the Caltech arrivals, and decided to give it back.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N17/17cannon.html - lava, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I hate to fondle penguins.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Oh my, you do not want to get MIT students in a hack war- they WILL destroy you.
- Travelsonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I just don't get it.... how is recovering the cannin in itself a prank? Should we call somebody lifting their pants up after somebody pulled them down a prankster? I am confused here.
- josephg2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Actually, the hack war was already started by Caltech last year. Caltech and MIT are now in the middle of a hack war. Check out www.caltechvsmit.com. MIT is winning right now but the most recent "hack" hasn't been added.
- koktakee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What I love best is how we go from inarticulate, misspelled ramblings about iPods vs. Creative to "I'm an MIT student and lol we so own Cal", ha ha.
If half the people in here who claim to go to either of those schools really do, I'll eat my hat. - timtop, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Dude, please. Caltech cant touch us. I bet they have smart people there and all, but the only reason we let them take the cannon back is because they were threatening legal action. This doesnt count as a prank, it was what HAD to happen. Go Tech, bizitch.
- Apollo11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Strange, the AP's take on the "counter-prank" was this:
CalTech's Cannon Rescue Plan Flops
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/04/11/caltechs_cannon_rescue_plan_flops/
And that it was "intended" to be a hack, but failed. - CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5That's not a counter prank, it's them taking the canon back.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with everyone eles...this wasn't a prank. This was lame..."well be back with a surprise"? Please.. A.K.A. "we couldn't think of anything in time....but you'll rue the day you messed with us!! Someday....."
- clueless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IHTFP... come on... everybody say it...
- barleymeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Their reclamation of the cannon sucks, they should have had an all-out brawl for the cannon with the MIT students. Possibly involving nets and tridents. Either that or they should have gone through with the helicopter idea. MIT pwnd Caltech on this one.
- okcomputer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4nice counter move caltech.
my question is why didnt anyone fire the cannon? get it together smart kids - jackal123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, what a weak and lame retrieval. When I read the title/description, I thought that the caltech people pulled off a badass heist; however, that was far from what really happened. They came and took the damn cannon in daylight, while a crowd was watching (look at the pictures) and making food for them. What is even more lame is the huge slant that website took...claiming the caltech people were operating like the characters of Italian Job. Fear their awesome planning abilities of using Google Earth and taking a picture with their digital camera. Mission successful my ass...I'd be ashamed. They also spent a lot of money to fly their crowd of people there, and I have no idea what their purpose was in doing so. If they were gonna do it in broad daylight, they should have just got some movers instead of wasting all that money.
P.S. They might have had it all planned out to take it in the secret of night, but it seems like MIT was always one step ahead of them. - losvedir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Haha, I was thinking the same thing. We (as in people claiming to go to those schools) just sort of came out of the woodwork. My school address is just my digg account here plus @mit.edu if you must test, but I can't speak for the others.
But yeah, I thought that was pretty funny, too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4MIT's best hacks were from the 60's/70's.
- Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Indeed. MIT wins this round.
- robina, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nobody in Fleming/Caltech declared this as a counter prank. seriously. You took Fleming's cannon (yea, major mistake: you thought you stole the Caltech cannon, and all you did was piss Fleming Hovse off), and Fleming came back to get it. It is NOT a counter prank.
The counter prank is on its way. We'll see who looks confused then. - narzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hey in our defense, we're busy studying instead of cannon stealing.
- radial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wheres the link to the bikini girls draping all over the canon?
oops never mind. here's it i think: http://xuth.net/pics/mitcannon/mit_cannon_1.HTM - radial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wheres the link to the bikini girls draping all over the canon?
oops never mind. here's it i think: http://web.mit.edu/ec/www/cannoncoeds/
oh and here too http://xuth.net/pics/mitcannon/mit_cannon_1.HTM - cskevint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The AP had two takes on it. Here's the second one:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/04/11/caltech_gunning_for_revenge_on_mit/
Go Big Red! - Stockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pardon me for asking, but where is the Digg-value in this???
Seems a lot of postings on Digg concentrate around what happens on that big land mass west of the British Isles, across a big Atlantic Ocean... Yeah the USofA (and Canada - the 51st state).
What's the tech value in some frat guys pulling prancks on another fraternity or university or college???
Fun read though, but not worth a digg.
Rather something you'd find on the frontpage of USA Today.
Maybe it's just that I'm from the Old Continent... - agimat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Beavers" rule indeed..
- hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those are some gnarly looking chicks, I'm glad I'm no going there.
- Grub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was on the 20th aniversery of Harvey Mudd stealing CalTech's cannon.
- dm0ney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am a student at Caltech and a member of Fleming Hovse (email me if you're so inclined).
This was never intended to be the counter-prank. The Fleming Cannon has status on campus as 'Non-RF-able' which means that no other hovse is allowed to execute a prank that involves it in anyway. There are several other items on campus like that including Page Hovse's book with every single Pageboy's signature, Fleming's 100+ year old bell and of course Fleming's cannon. They are termed as such because they are historic items and are irreplaceable.
When the cannon was taken from Caltech, Fleming Hovse banded together for the sole purpose of getting our cannon back. MIT executed a prank; it was never against Caltech or a Caltech Cannon but against Fleming's Cannon and Fleming Hovse. Although we support the prank, Fleming Hovse had every intention of going in and causing as much as a commotion as we could, then load up our cannon, and come back to Caltech where work always awaits.
To plan a prank / hack in less than four days especially with MIT expecting one is unreasonable even if one has all the time in the world. Furthermore, because Caltech would respond as a University not as an individual hovse, the recovery of the cannon cannot be considered a prank at all. Instead, Caltech left their turn intact for pranking and Fleming Hovse independently went to recover the Fleming Cannon.
It is true that MIT students expected us and we also had contacted MIT Security hours before we planned to move the cannon. It's also true that MIT security stated that nothing but moving the cannon and offering the replacement cannon was to be done. The initial plans of waking up as many students as we could and hanging the Fleming Flag from the Green Building were vetoed by MIT security.
I hope that this sets apart the MIT / Caltech debate going on in other comments. There is always some contest between the two schools but they can never be compared directly. They both have strengths and weaknesses and although both 'Institutes of Technology,' might as well be 'an apple and an orange.' Schools should be picked on the basis of students choosing one or another because they fit them. The last thing that should happen is that a discussion of school rankings erupt.
The title of this thread should not be Counter-Prank and I'd like to invite all of us here to overlook that and be reasonable. - feylanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1someone's brain envy is showing
- calebegg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/newsletter/nov2002.html
Here's an interesting top ten list of college pranks. Caltech has #1 and #3, MIT has #10 - Qopax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2To be fair, the security policies at each school seem vastly different according to the articles, being lax towards pranks at Caltech(you just have to leave some kind of note/card), and rather strict at MIT.
It wasn't a counter-prank according to the fleming hovse anyways, and also according to them MIT will be surprised soon enough. - briangig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1whats with the one guy mixed in with the girls? Weirdo.
This whole thing would have been alot better if they did a covert operation...like POOF the cannon is gone. Don't tell me it couldnt be done....They are in college!
There is nothing more annoying and obnoxious than today's typical college student. - grifta67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The real issue here is House being spelled with a V. How lame is that. Yea yea, its a Roman "U" or something, like on old courthouse buildings, whatever. Still looks pretty ridiculous.
- kurtm85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this only proves that there a lot of people that go/went to MIT and Cal Tech on digg, otherwise this would have never made it on the front page
- AlfaWolph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't sound like a counter-prank to me. They forced CalTech to come to their own campus to ship it back and they even put on a BBQ for them.
- keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://howeandser.com/ (aka mitcannon.com)
- Kokichi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish UCLA did something like that to those bastards over at USC...
- vcudigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We need more nerd wars stories like this... Universities KEEP US UPDATED!!! (I'm not a in a technology field at VCU, sorry!)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2it took them 4 days to buy som eplane tickets and fly there? doesn't sound like they are too clever
- yesiamveryshort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The barrel alone is 1.7 tons. The entire cannon weighs just over 3.
- koktakee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doctornakul may be the only one who actually DID go to either of these schools...right you are, Dr.! I didn't even know THAT.
- maxium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey eggheads...
I'm still waiting for a car that runs on water or a $100 PC that works and can play DVD's. In short get back to work everyone..
BTW exactly how intelligent is it to get in your bikini in sub 50 degree weather? Yea didn't think so. - scispaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Both schools are the beavers.
- Dawei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Caltech has its share of pranks. The Rose Bowl one comes to mind. Also keep in mind that MIT has 4x the number pf people.
- fkngroovn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As the minutes ticked toward dawn, a crowd of MIT students gathered around the cannon. They taunted the Caltech crew by focusing a couple of portable spotlights on their prize and firing up a barbecue."
hahahahahah - davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Пушка Пушка Пушка!
- rodbibeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This all makes me want to goto one of these schools. My school, Univeristy of Minnesota, Duluth, is totally lame.
I hope MIT and Caltech both are using this for recruitment. - Dawei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The Caltech Beavers that is.
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