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When fast food company Burger King attempted to trigger Google Assistant/Google Home by including "OK, Google" in an advertisement, Google moved to block its software from responding. But The Inquirer reports that rogue editors on Wikipedia played a prank on the advertiser:
[...] Burger King forgot that Google draws that kind of information from Wikipedia. And anyone can edit Wikipedia.
Soon, Wikipedia and therefore Google was telling all and sundry that the Whopper was made with "cyanide" "toenail clippings" and "rat meat". It also said that it is "the worst hamburger product" [...]
However, according to The Verge, the restauranteur appears to have inserted its desired text into Wikipedia prior to the broadcast:
For almost a decade, Wikipedia's page for the Whopper began with more or less the same sentence: "The Whopper sandwich is the signature hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King and its Australian franchise Hungry Jack's."
[...]
But last week, that first line — the only line that Google Home reads — was changed to: "The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100 percent beef with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun." That certainly sounds like ad copy.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:11PM (18 children)
The worst is McDonalds, hands-down. Burger King ain't bad but they would be a lot better if they could tone down the sodium while retaining the flavor. Of all the shit-tier burger franchises Wendy's is probably the best but keeps poorly in the fridge. So the personal winner of shit-tier burger joints is Carl's Jr. because it tastes great and keeps well in the fridge.
A former local food critic (the one who went to the nice restaurants, there was another who went to the holes in the wall and food-trucks) used to take a portion home in a doggy-bag and dedicate a paragraph or two to stating how well the food kept in the fridge, which is totally awesome.
If somebody else is driving, sure.
Making one's own meals is not something a drunk should do. There are issues of operating the stove, knives, or forgetting stuff in the microwave (to be re-discovered a few days later). I am a proud American and come in my pants eating fat disgusting sodium-laden greaseburgers and Wienerschnitzel and Del Taco chili-cheese fries with thousand-calorie IPAs until my arteries wheeze. * Burp *
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:12PM (7 children)
I ate most of a pot of lentils. I had about one serving left. I've left it in the fridge for about six months now. There's a lid on the pot so I don't have to look at it, but if I'm ever to throw it away then wash out the pot I'm going to have to look at it and smell it.
I'm hoping that it turns to dirt someday, maybe I'll use it on my houseplants.
Or maybe I'll throw away the pot and all, and buy a new one.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:00AM (5 children)
Method 1: Lift the edge of the lid. Slip in a quarter cup of sodium chlorate, then close the lid. Open windows or, better, head outside. Place the pot on a hot burner, preferably a high-powered flame. Wait a bit, perhaps 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and let things cool without lifting the lid. Dump out the white powdery ashes and rinse.
Method 2, for non-aluminum only: Lift the edge of the lid. Slip in a quarter cup of sodium hydroxide prills (some brands of drain unclogger) and a cup of water, then close the lid. Place the pot on a burner, heating it as you'd boil water. Wait several hours. Dump out the goop and rinse.
Method 3: Get concentrated sulfuric acid (thick and syrupy, but lousy on pancakes) from a hardware store and 30% peroxide from a health/nature store. Cool them. Mix them very slowly and carefully, avoiding splatters and watching the temperature. Lift the edge of the lid. Very slowly, add the mixture to your pot, pausing if it gets lively. After things cool down, drop your pot into a large body of water or use a garden hose to hit it from a distance. Once the mixture is essentially gone, grab your pot and rinse it.
It's good to practice all 3 methods in case you ever need to dispose of a body.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:52AM (1 child)
I've cleaned trying pans with a wire wheel. Gets all the carbon crud off.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @04:16AM
I've done method #1 in a crucible to remove carbon deposits from overcooked baking soda. It works great.
Method #3 should work too. It's a type of piranha solution. Mix 3 parts acid with 1 part peroxide. Do not make more than you will use. It's probably best to only use this with pans that have a non-metalic inside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution [wikipedia.org]
If you don't have carbon deposits, method #2 is probably the best choice. It's preferred by Mexican drug cartels. (see "the stew maker" Santiago Meza Lopez, who did over 300 bodies this way)
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 16 2017, @04:41AM (2 children)
Tip #3, with Sulfuric acid (H2SO4) + Peroxide (H2O2?) sounds like a bomb that will go of when you least expect it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @06:08AM (1 child)
This is a totally standard procedure for cleaning laboratory glassware. It removes everything organic, including carbon deposits. You can find video of people doing silly stuff with it, like "dissolving" a hot dog. Search for "piranha solution" and see.
It does tend to get hot. Cheap glassware may shatter from the heating. Some metals may fail, so you might want to test your pan first.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday April 16 2017, @08:31AM
Kaszz was warning us about this happening ... [cenblog.org]
Thanks for the heads-up!
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:29AM
> I'm hoping that it turns to dirt someday
That, or it develops a civilization and proceeds to greet you to establish contact.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:21PM (5 children)
It doesn't matter which is worse. The meat they give you is 5pm farmer's market quality at best.
and McDonalds is bad? Here I thought you were a gentleman of taste and highest integrity. You fuck.
Also I hope more companies try this. Nothing better to prove the danger of listening devices than an annoying ad mildly inconveniencing people but without picking up their SS number for example. Assuming they haven't accidentally googled it already.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:48PM (4 children)
People who buy "smart" devices are retards anyway. The Mossad Jews who designed and implemented the Intel Management Engine in my desktop may be listening to me discussing their gassing, but at least Samsung isn't listening to my grunts and watching me jack off in my own living room.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:54PM (3 children)
Dear god I just read IME's feature list and it does everything from serial redirects to KVM over IP. This crap has more access than I do.
Of course I use an older chip and intend to switch to AMD. That's the solution for sure. They would never hurt me.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:16AM (2 children)
AMD got their equivalent as far as I know. So as a minimum you need to drop Intel and AMD. Probably any chip made under USA jurisdiction.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Sunday April 16 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)
Yeah my badly indicated sarcasm was in reference to that. What do I use then that is socket compatible and doesn't manifest strange behavior when transcoding or something then at this point? :(
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:14PM
Have a look at ARM64, like Raspberry-Pi 3 etc. For transcoding perhaps you should try FPGA.
When the release of mr "Snow" in 2013 got public. The Russians started development of their own CPUs and bought typewriters. So that's also a place to start looking into.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:19AM
Which parts contains the bulk of the sodium ?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 16 2017, @06:53AM
Why not pause your driving for the few minutes it takes to eat that burger?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Sunday April 16 2017, @12:00PM (1 child)
The worst is McDonalds, hands-down. Burger King ain't bad
Uhm, no. My anecdata: 3 out of 3 visits in Burger King ended in a nasty diarrhoea (twice in Warsaw, once in Charlottesville). I've been to McDonalds 20+ times with nary a problem.
Obviously, 20 McDonalds visits in 39 years is a lot less extensive test than for those who eat there twice a day. But then, if you go there only once in a while, it can be quite tasty.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:57PM
Maybe because McDonalds heavily cooks their meat-- as required by the FDA because their meat is below food grade and LITERALLY contains crap. So to allow this new low grade meat, the FDA says cook out the bacteria in the crap so nobody gets sick. Eating shit has a know new meaning and if cooked well enough you can actually eat shit.
I do not know of burger king's meat quality. I only know that White Castle uses grade A meat because they have actually stated the grade of the meat and not been sued for lying. The others do not say. 100% beef can probably include shit from the same beef cow.