It's not only a bitch about McDonald's but all of these fast food places. Years ago, they really didn't offer any healthy alternatives. Speaking in a highly realtive American mindset, us Americans are always GO GO GO.. Therefore we want food that can be served and eaten at that same pace. The only places that offered that were McDonald's BK, Wendy's, etc... However, they really had NO alternative healthy choices years ago. Now that everyone is dieting and eating somewhat healthier these fast food places have realized that to keep revneue and profits up they need to switch and offer healthier food to appeal to EVERYONE.
I thought McDonald's was supposed to start promoting it's more healthier meals now? What's the point of tying that to a Big Mac extra value meal? They should put it with their healthier stuff to spark up sales of that since that's where their business looks to be heading...
It seems they have been having problems with their computer systems since 2001 when it was "privatized".
"The air traffic service has been beset by problems since it was partially privatized in 2001. A $484 million center at Swanwick in southern England opened five years late in 2002.
The opening was delayed by problems with computer software, and the glitches continued for months afterward, as controllers misread aircraft altitudes and destinations because of hard-to-decipher computer screens. In at least one case, controllers mistook the Scottish city of Glasgow for Cardiff in Wales.
Now.. that seems like a pretty big mistake for me.. especially for an air traffic controller to do. However, the article later states that:
"Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said Thursday's problem did not lie at Swanwick but at the older West Drayton center, which is due to be closed by 2007."
Thank goodness that old one is closing, however it doesn't sound like its replacement is doing any better!
"If you want to know what is wrong with transport in this country it is that over decades successive governments did not spend enough on the infrastructure and air traffic control is no different," Darling told BBC radio."
Excellent quote! While terrorism is on everyone's mind, we sometimes forget that safety of transportation should also be just as high. I couldn't imagine pilots relying on themselves to fly airplanes amid the thousands of others without the aid of traffic controllers and their computers.
OK... IANAFW, but that is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Even though 1999 signaled the end of the dot-com boom, is 2 more months really isn't that much longer to wait to cash all of that in? Hell, wait 2 more months and use that money to infuse it into your giftspot.com site? Makes no sense to me...
And then they realize that they need to start playing "catch up". Case in point now with Google and search technologies in OS. An earlier article that said Microsoft had wished they got into search technologies a lot earlier. Now they have to cath up to the rest of the market and offer that to their customers.
I guess it was only a matter of time before more commercialized security practices made it to the general public. SecurID is used in a lot of different places, for example, the US government. It was about time that this sort of security practices made a more outreaching affect on the rest of the World.
One caveat I had about this article was this....
"Outfitting 1 million customers with such devices could cost $20 million, while Internet fraud for those customers amounts to "tens of thousands at most," said Tony Chew, director of technology risk supervision at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Singapore banks thus limit dynamic passwords to fund transfers, he said."
This is a pretty bold statement coming from the director of technology risk at eBay. eBay has pretty much become the breeding ground for scams and frauds. With millions of items up for auction at any one time this doesn't make any sense. I believe I read an article several months back that eBay estimated that at any one time about 3% of their auctions are fradulent. A small number in comparison to the number of auctions that are ongoing. Doing a totally unscientific experiment, I averaged about 3,000,000 ongoing auctions at eBay, and took the 3% of fraud auctions = 90,000 auctions. I would imagine atleast an average of $100 per auction completion. That puts it at $9,000,000 at any one time and that's only from eBay. This also doesn't acocunt for auctions that were performed outside of eBay as the P-P-P-powerbook one was so performed. Also, imagine the thousands of other financial banks and credit card companies doing business online. And let's not even get started on Paypal.
*Notice.. this was a totally unscientific experient performed by myself.
I think that when putting these numbers all together would make a strong case for such two-factor authentication. I don't mind a second step if it's going to save me money if someone really wants into my banks, eBay acocunts, etc...
The problem is that most car manufactuers don't monitor all of the same components. For example, While GM may have something to monitor your intake temperature while Kia may not have the same thing. However, the problem code they throw may be the same number. While there would be a general diagnosis for the scanner to show what the problem is, it will not always show the exact problem.
Case in point, I had to scan my car because it was always throwing a CEL. I scanned it and it said something was wrong with the exhaust. Once I cross-checked the number it scanned with a Mazda listing it showed that the actual problem was a vacuum leak on the EGR. All it took was to re-connect the line and it was all better.
Yes.. this is the same with my car. Although we have found a couple ways around it. They integrated the radio, climate controls, and the LCD display for everyhting into one circuit board. Therefore, to do anything aftermarket creates a HUGE PITA. Even some of the biggest aftermarket radio manufactuers (Scosche, Metra, etc..) refuse to make any parts. With the repair cost topping $300 it's no wonder why they don't because of the liability if it screws someone's system up.
They are creating competition... If more service shops have these "codes" they are able to offer a better price than the dealership. This gives the consumer the choice of taking it there, having to pay less but also have less-experience machanics (for that particular model perhaps) work, or pay a slightly higher price and have the dealership do it. It creates a choice for the consumer rather than telling them they MUST go to the dealership to get it fixed.
Wow... There is a lot of stuff going on in this story...Not to offend any Hyundai or Kia owners here...
First off, when purchasing a "cheap" car, you get what you pay for. Most of the commercials you see on TV for Kia, Hyundai's and offer the 10-year warranty are crap for this exact reason. The car, a 2002 model is still covered under the manufactuers warranty, however, there's some stipulations. In short, it doesn't cover "user error". Here's a college student who has had the car serviced 12 times for the same problem, and each time told the same thing. Depending on where she lives, she may need to check into her state's lemon law.
I help admin a Mazda 6 enthusiast site and have never heard of anything like this before regarding warranty problems. Any check engine light, whether the drivers fault or not is taken care of without a charge. Paying a $120 fee each time it gets services is ridiculous! Again, just another use to show you the hooks and gimmicks of buying "cheaper" cars thinking that a 10-year warranty will keep you safe from any problems. Our group was lucky. With the help of Mazda service mangers around the US, we were able to get a complete list of trouble codes posted. As was stated in the article the AutoXRay is a wonderful tool to help. It is fairly pricey, but if you have no other way of determining the problem, this would really help and saves on having the repair shop diagnose the problem for you. Instead alll it takes is this scanner to read the codes, determine the problem, and have them fix it. From the article...
"Bryan Hanks, who has taken his 2002 Toyota Prius to his local Houston dealership four times since a single sensor malfunctioned and the Check Engine signal prevented him from using the car's electronic display, said automakers should incorporate USB ports in dashboards to allow consumers to download error messages to a laptop."
Any legitimate scanner will allow you to also download a freeze frame and trouble codes to your laptop or monitor real-time data that may not be available to you through dashboard guages.
IMHO, if after 12 times, I think common sense has to play a big part in the determination process of what's going on. With the advent of cars having tons of microprocessors and computers on-board to control everything from real-time air/fuel ratios to your cabin temperature settings it's no wonder why CEL codes will light up for inane reasons, the gas cap one being the most common. When the reason shows up on the diagnostic computer it most likely shows a fuel leak (depending on car manufactuer). Out of perspective, it seems like a pretty serious problem. However, once all of the fuel lines have been pressure checked and show no leaks, the only problem could be with a loose gas cap. This can go 2 ways.. either she is taking it to the dumbest dealership service department or she is a complete twit herself.
Not that everyone is from the US here, but this could be remarkable for many users that are outside of the US where diesel is used more often for non-commercial uses.
However, a quick report I found shows that there may even be a slight shift in the US market towards diesel. While it's interesting to say the least, I think it's due to the fact that since the US is in a SUV/Truck frenzy right now, the demand for bigger, more fuel efficient vehicles is very high.
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It's not only a bitch about McDonald's but all of these fast food places. Years ago, they really didn't offer any healthy alternatives. Speaking in a highly realtive American mindset, us Americans are always GO GO GO.. Therefore we want food that can be served and eaten at that same pace. The only places that offered that were McDonald's BK, Wendy's, etc... However, they really had NO alternative healthy choices years ago. Now that everyone is dieting and eating somewhat healthier these fast food places have realized that to keep revneue and profits up they need to switch and offer healthier food to appeal to EVERYONE.
In that case you might as well just buy the songs and forego the food part all together. Capece?
I thought McDonald's was supposed to start promoting it's more healthier meals now? What's the point of tying that to a Big Mac extra value meal? They should put it with their healthier stuff to spark up sales of that since that's where their business looks to be heading...
This is about the equivalent of when one of the members of RunDMC (I believe) wore the wall clock around his neck as a wrist watch.
Im guessing that toxic dust probably wasn't one of the reasons.
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On a totally unrelated note.. is it bad when you post comments to your own stories?
Don't forget Overrated, Informative, and Interesting you insesitive clod!
Well.. logically the next patent in line is the Ctrl-Alt-Del one. It was probably used more than their double-click.
And did anyone else read the last part as "parent" troll instead of "patent" troll? Or is that just me?
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It seems they have been having problems with their computer systems since 2001 when it was "privatized".
"The air traffic service has been beset by problems since it was partially privatized in 2001. A $484 million center at Swanwick in southern England opened five years late in 2002.
The opening was delayed by problems with computer software, and the glitches continued for months afterward, as controllers misread aircraft altitudes and destinations because of hard-to-decipher computer screens. In at least one case, controllers mistook the Scottish city of Glasgow for Cardiff in Wales.
Now.. that seems like a pretty big mistake for me.. especially for an air traffic controller to do. However, the article later states that:
"Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said Thursday's problem did not lie at Swanwick but at the older West Drayton center, which is due to be closed by 2007."
Thank goodness that old one is closing, however it doesn't sound like its replacement is doing any better!
"If you want to know what is wrong with transport in this country it is that over decades successive governments did not spend enough on the infrastructure and air traffic control is no different," Darling told BBC radio."
Excellent quote! While terrorism is on everyone's mind, we sometimes forget that safety of transportation should also be just as high. I couldn't imagine pilots relying on themselves to fly airplanes amid the thousands of others without the aid of traffic controllers and their computers.
OK... IANAFW, but that is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Even though 1999 signaled the end of the dot-com boom, is 2 more months really isn't that much longer to wait to cash all of that in? Hell, wait 2 more months and use that money to infuse it into your giftspot.com site? Makes no sense to me...
And then they realize that they need to start playing "catch up". Case in point now with Google and search technologies in OS. An earlier article that said Microsoft had wished they got into search technologies a lot earlier. Now they have to cath up to the rest of the market and offer that to their customers.
Mod me down :)
One caveat I had about this article was this....
"Outfitting 1 million customers with such devices could cost $20 million, while Internet fraud for those customers amounts to "tens of thousands at most," said Tony Chew, director of technology risk supervision at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Singapore banks thus limit dynamic passwords to fund transfers, he said."
This is a pretty bold statement coming from the director of technology risk at eBay. eBay has pretty much become the breeding ground for scams and frauds. With millions of items up for auction at any one time this doesn't make any sense. I believe I read an article several months back that eBay estimated that at any one time about 3% of their auctions are fradulent. A small number in comparison to the number of auctions that are ongoing. Doing a totally unscientific experiment, I averaged about 3,000,000 ongoing auctions at eBay, and took the 3% of fraud auctions = 90,000 auctions. I would imagine atleast an average of $100 per auction completion. That puts it at $9,000,000 at any one time and that's only from eBay. This also doesn't acocunt for auctions that were performed outside of eBay as the P-P-P-powerbook one was so performed. Also, imagine the thousands of other financial banks and credit card companies doing business online. And let's not even get started on Paypal.
*Notice.. this was a totally unscientific experient performed by myself.
I think that when putting these numbers all together would make a strong case for such two-factor authentication. I don't mind a second step if it's going to save me money if someone really wants into my banks, eBay acocunts, etc...
I think you mean this one. Oh wait.. You were talking about Linux and not games.. my fault :)
Or obvious solution #3... Regular /.'s don't have to worry about this "problem", so why ask me^H^Hthem?
Case in point, I had to scan my car because it was always throwing a CEL. I scanned it and it said something was wrong with the exhaust. Once I cross-checked the number it scanned with a Mazda listing it showed that the actual problem was a vacuum leak on the EGR. All it took was to re-connect the line and it was all better.
Yes.. this is the same with my car. Although we have found a couple ways around it. They integrated the radio, climate controls, and the LCD display for everyhting into one circuit board. Therefore, to do anything aftermarket creates a HUGE PITA. Even some of the biggest aftermarket radio manufactuers (Scosche, Metra, etc..) refuse to make any parts. With the repair cost topping $300 it's no wonder why they don't because of the liability if it screws someone's system up.
Hell... Even local auto parts stores will run a FREE scanner for you and tell you what the code is....
They are creating competition... If more service shops have these "codes" they are able to offer a better price than the dealership. This gives the consumer the choice of taking it there, having to pay less but also have less-experience machanics (for that particular model perhaps) work, or pay a slightly higher price and have the dealership do it. It creates a choice for the consumer rather than telling them they MUST go to the dealership to get it fixed.
First off, when purchasing a "cheap" car, you get what you pay for. Most of the commercials you see on TV for Kia, Hyundai's and offer the 10-year warranty are crap for this exact reason. The car, a 2002 model is still covered under the manufactuers warranty, however, there's some stipulations. In short, it doesn't cover "user error". Here's a college student who has had the car serviced 12 times for the same problem, and each time told the same thing. Depending on where she lives, she may need to check into her state's lemon law.
I help admin a Mazda 6 enthusiast site and have never heard of anything like this before regarding warranty problems. Any check engine light, whether the drivers fault or not is taken care of without a charge. Paying a $120 fee each time it gets services is ridiculous! Again, just another use to show you the hooks and gimmicks of buying "cheaper" cars thinking that a 10-year warranty will keep you safe from any problems. Our group was lucky. With the help of Mazda service mangers around the US, we were able to get a complete list of trouble codes posted. As was stated in the article the AutoXRay is a wonderful tool to help. It is fairly pricey, but if you have no other way of determining the problem, this would really help and saves on having the repair shop diagnose the problem for you. Instead alll it takes is this scanner to read the codes, determine the problem, and have them fix it. From the article...
"Bryan Hanks, who has taken his 2002 Toyota Prius to his local Houston dealership four times since a single sensor malfunctioned and the Check Engine signal prevented him from using the car's electronic display, said automakers should incorporate USB ports in dashboards to allow consumers to download error messages to a laptop."
Any legitimate scanner will allow you to also download a freeze frame and trouble codes to your laptop or monitor real-time data that may not be available to you through dashboard guages.
IMHO, if after 12 times, I think common sense has to play a big part in the determination process of what's going on. With the advent of cars having tons of microprocessors and computers on-board to control everything from real-time air/fuel ratios to your cabin temperature settings it's no wonder why CEL codes will light up for inane reasons, the gas cap one being the most common. When the reason shows up on the diagnostic computer it most likely shows a fuel leak (depending on car manufactuer). Out of perspective, it seems like a pretty serious problem. However, once all of the fuel lines have been pressure checked and show no leaks, the only problem could be with a loose gas cap. This can go 2 ways.. either she is taking it to the dumbest dealership service department or she is a complete twit herself.
However, a quick report I found shows that there may even be a slight shift in the US market towards diesel. While it's interesting to say the least, I think it's due to the fact that since the US is in a SUV/Truck frenzy right now, the demand for bigger, more fuel efficient vehicles is very high.