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  1. I work for a McD's franchisee as the technical person. We moved to chip and pin this year, even in our drive thrus. Processing time is less than 4 seconds for chip and pin. Chipolte was way stupid for doing this. They are responsible for all these fraudulent charges because of the liability changes last year.

  2. Re:The Million Regulators March on Washington on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing as I've made maybe 3 or 4 post in my entire time here, I'm not sure what "available evidence" you're referring to. There isn't any, or very little. Since I wasn't addressing you anyway, and there was no reason for you to come on here and say that to me, go fuck yourself.

  3. Re:The Million Regulators March on Washington on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You come bouncing back on here to insult me directly, but you failed completely to answer my point. If ISPs can save money by cutting liability insurance, this is NOT going to lead to lower prices for you, me, or anyone else. This is a flat out lie. And you KNOW it. Your entire post is just a smokescreen to try and bury the issue at hand. All this is trying to do is loosen regulation on personal information so when the ISP inevitably mishandles it, there's no recourse or punishment. This has no benefit to me and I do NOT support it. This is a giveaway to business, and the customers of said business will not benefit in any way. Recent history is filled with these examples. Talk about unbelievably dumb and uneducated, and lacking manners or class. I've read your other posts. Look in the mirror lately?

  4. Re:The Million Regulators March on Washington on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a load of rubbish this is. These companies aren't going to cut prices if they get cheaper insurance. They're going to pocket the money and stiff their customers by mishandling their information. How fucking stupid do you think we are, anyway?

  5. There'a another in Portland, Maine on Is Google Building a Floating Data Center In San Francisco Bay? · · Score: 5, Informative
  6. Ship's frame was rotted on A Sea Story: the Wreck of the Replica HMS Bounty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Local media reported here that the ship was in for service at Boothbay, Maine before this occured. The captain was informed that the ship's framing timbers were rotted and needed replacement. They opted to not have the repairs performed and sailed off into a hurricaine.

  7. On WSUS too now on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    I have seen Microsoft Security Essentials listed in my WSUS server for a couple of months now. I also have been installing it in place of whatever free AV was in place on systems I work on for friends and family. The software is lightweight and works well, and I have no problem with Microsoft doing this. The mess that is the Internet is partially thier fault, it's fair they should help clean it up.

  8. Re:McUnix on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 2, Informative

    SCO has a market cap of just over $3 million. IIRC, McDonald's Corp is one of their major customers. That $3mil is pocket change for the $66.95 billion market cap McD's Corp.

    What if McDonald's buys SCO? McD's could hire a couple devs (since that is all SCO needs, apparently..) for maintenance and some support personnel, then service their own stores as well as other existing customers. Maybe they'd wind up saving, if not making, some money in a few years. Perhaps give Darl a store to manage...

    Heh. :)

    Point being, with a market cap of only $3mil, SCO and anything they have/own are basically chump change for a real corporation. So, if the judges (have) let this happen, then, and I hate to even think of it, we'll see this zombie keep stumbling forward...

    The UNIX systems are being replaced (yes, I admit I work at one of the new stores in the US). The new system is NewPOS. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/14/229409/mcdonalds-takes-epos-system-in-house.htm It's a Windows Server 2003 environment with Windows XP embedded workstations. So I doubt they'd be interested in SCO.

  9. Re:Out of curiosity... on Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze · · Score: 1

    Why does a music player need to know the date or time at all?

    Subscription music DRM.

  10. This Sounds Like a Great Idea on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...until you consider the security ramifications.

  11. Except that... on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 0

    This doesn't match my experience. I have a laptop dual booting XP and Vista Enterprise. I installed SP1 on the Vista partition with no problems. I installed it via WSUS as soon as it was downloaded to it. No, no Bitlocker, but the summary claims this problem exsists in nonBitlocker systems, too. And no TPM in the laptop.

  12. Fess up.... on Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many of you saw the word "vibrator" and clicked it?

  13. Left his Laptop on The Couch... on Dell Laptop Burns House Down · · Score: 1

    The local media here reported he left his laptop on the couch plugged in... So it seems to me that the heat vents could have become blocked, perhaps causing overheating and a fire? I don't own a laptop, but I noticed they get pretty hot under there....