"Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?

[Joel S. Berson]

Rather, "stolen" (theft from the property, intellectual or real, of
sellers of hand-scanners), from how those in the ghettoes are
presumed to operate habitually?  Associated with "ghetto blaster,"
also presumed to have been stolen (ghetto blacks are poor; they can't
afford blasters, or shouldn't be wasting their money on them;
therefore stolen)?

Joel

At 1/9/2006 03:15 PM, you wrote:
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> From today's SlashDot:
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>"[The computer-science student thereby] made [his mouse] into a
>_ghetto_ B&W handscanner."
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>-Wilson Gray