dasnake

vandezuma

And, they are probably controlled by *some sort*of computer, so the laws against hacking would apply (along with the several other laws mentioned by others).

XJ_4x4

ViperBorg

All that aside, this is friggin awesome. Skullphone, you rule.

lpranal

[www.dailydooh.com]

It looks suspicously like it to me

DailyDOOH

Until it happens to a site you shopped online with, then have to wonder how much information they made out with.

After all, if a website gets vandalized, it would be possible or highly likely someone else got in and tried to steal all the nice juicy customer data. Or it may have been done already and someone else decided to make it public... (or someone discovers the vandalized web page, and hacks it to see if there's any data worth stealing...)

Worf

Scalvo2

Personally, I don't want anything else distracting drivers from the road. The non-Gizmodo-reading Houstonians can't drive for shit as it is.

tinyhands

Clear Channel Outdoor != Clear Channel Radio

Separate divisions, different business practices. I worked for CCO and it is a great company to work for (beaucoup company-paid parties ftw). While having digital billboards is pretty much asking for it to get hacked, CCO is a much more benevolent company than Radio is. They just get a bad rap for having the Clear Channel name.

crespo

Hunty

The constantly changing message combined with the inabilaty to focus/read at distance makes most of the ads useless anyway. By the time I can read it, the message has changed and unless I picked out a well-know logo or other icon, I have no idea who or what was advertised.

Relevant to the post, I think the hack is pretty amusing, as long as no paid advertising was displaced. That would amount to damages I think, so done right this is almost preferable to the punk with a can of spray paint and too much time on his hands.

balloondoggle

buyj3llo

I agree too that they are a bit bright sometimes, even in the daytime. I wonder how much one costs...

fsusmithc2

dirk1965

iFlingPoo

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: they don't have them in Houston? Weird I live in a small city in FLa 200,000 folks or so and LAMAR Advertising has them up all over town here_

Anyway - I think this is awesome! That was the first thing that went thru my mind the first time I saw one of these - how long will it take for someone to hack them?

I think they are stupid anyway_ Yeah more advertisers can be signed up and for different periods of time_ But it's like watching TV commercials while driving and most of the Ads don't stay up long enough to read them_ Also if one catches your attention it changes and then you don;t have enough time to sit waiting for it to come on again_

uberfu

Cordfucious

BigViper

jstonemo

EnochLight

tehnoobzorz

EnochLight

Monty

On the radio, online, and on iPhone... WFMU

glennalex

goshone

workingonyourinvoice

Publican

Evangelion

humorbot

cruci-fiction

IndaKnow

PiOnMe

92BuickLeSabre

I've even recently thought that it would be cool to hack these. (Note: I am not Skullphone, I promise!)

snubz

bobdobbs

lpranal

G3ttin-H3r-D0n3

drbles

Anyway, to your specific comment on playing music over and over, I'm not sure how you figure that. In fact, ClearChannel had strict guidelines on how often a song was to be played. They even went so far as to limit the number of times a certain ARTIST was played within a given time period. Perhaps your local station is not adhering to guidlines?

drbles

gunbu

geekinky

Part-Time-Viking

jackfrost132

bobdobbs

liveallnight

SumGuy

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

AdmNaismith

92BuickLeSabre