It always amazes me the hacks some people will try.  I honestly thought I would never see anything that astonished more than someone’s decision to put Vista on a PS3 — but after seeing this?

There’s no words — they should have sent a poet.

Ok — maybe there are some words, but they’re not mine.  From the modder himself;

I work at a small but fantastic place in the middle of Montana fixing up computer hardware of all kinds. Most of the time, this involves desktop PCs, laptops, and rackmount servers, but every so often a unique item comes by that makes you wonder what all it’s capable of. Today, this item was a state lottery ticket machine — the kind you’d find on the checkout counter of any Quick-E-Mart style establishment. While the machines used ancient computer hardware and had no trace of lottery related data (who wouldn’t look?), I did spend a couple minutes testing it and, naturally, launching Doom! The LCD on the machine was monochrome and only used the top left quarter of the video output, meaning the lottery system was a pretty big hack itself. With some configuration, video could probably be sized to use the available space, but I didn’t want to put more than a couple minutes into hacking, as this is work, after all.

[via Command-Tab]

Now I just need to find a picture of someone with an “IDKFA” license plate!

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