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Re: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

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Post by r00fus »

sbarre wrote: post #154
slg wrote: post #112

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That just leaves me with more questions. What does he mean by "executing" an order? He used the word "placing" before. Is he placing the order and then immediately cancelling? Or is he just putting items in his cart? Why such the high dollar total on the order? Is it a single order at every store every minute? Does it really need to be that frequent? Regardless, it annoys me when I see developers abuse semi-public AP…

Like any other e-commerce store, you can add stuff to your cart, and then choose not to check out. And it is typically during the cart-adding process that you find out if a product is actually available for purchase or not, as opposed to at checkout time. I would assume that's what is happening here, which means it's not actually affecting any in-store operations, just (as the author says) probably messing with their…

Isn't that something that Google has been accused of before, adding things to carts, and then leaving?

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Post by wtracy »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #220
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #200

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Not my field, but edible gums (guar gum, or xanthan gum for example) is "plastic" (adj.). Gums are used more and more, AFAICT as a consumer; presumably to allow products to be bulked out with air. Basically take anything homogeneous, add gum, add air, create a foam. Basically like an Aero bar but with way smaller bubbles. You just cut a quarter (I'm guessing on this figure) off your ice-cream ingredients by weight an…

This 'bulking up with air' is most evident if you go to the yogurt or cream cheese section and look for the Yoplait Whips or Philadelphia Whipped containers. It's the same product, just as a foam, and seems to be marketed as a healthier alternative where users choose a satisfactory portion by volume, not by calories or weight. And while I think the whipped foods are stupid, I don't think that packaged food sellers ar…

It's not entirely true that regulators haven't plushed back: in the USA, there's a minimum amount of cream required before the vendor can call the product "ice cream".

The products in that category that have been puffed up with air (and don't meet this minimum) get sold as "dairy desserts".

(I don't work on the food industry, so I won't be shocked if I got details wrong.)

Re: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

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Post by smabie »

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #249
smabie wrote: post #245

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are you equating buying beef to the holocaust? And since I buy beef, are you equating me buying beef with the halocaust. And because I buy beef, should I also get thrown in prison? Would it be more reasonable if everyone who bought beef be thrown in prison?

You are small potatoes so no. As always, context matters. You don't really cause enough damage to be considered a threat to the entire human species. How much meat do you need to buy to be thrown in jail? I don't know. It's your fantasy. What number would you find most tittilating? Let's pick something that would really light your brain up. How about 1 quarter pound, life in solitary confinement? Are you entertained…

How much beef would I need to buy to be thrown in jail?

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Post by ev1 »

balls187 wrote: post #57
alexchamberlain wrote: post #27

Isn't this very illegal?

Not a Lawywer: What law is he breaking (relative to both the US and Germany)? In US criminal law, there is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has very specific narrow provisions, including the test of "has to intentionally cause damages to a computer system part of interstate or foreign commerce." Which does not apply here. McD's would have to pursue, instead, a civil case, based around a EULA or ToS, tantamount…

> [DMCA] section 1201 creates a potential legal obstacle for a researcher or coder if a software vendor employs mechanisms that control the way copyrighted software or other materials can be accessed or used. Many people think of section 1201 as prohibiting cracking digital rights management schemes (DRM). However, the language of section 1201 prohibits more than breaking traditional “copy-protection” mechanisms applied to DVDs and digital video downloads. It also prohibits breaking “access controls”. Software vendors have argued, or are likely to argue, that techniques such as authentication handshakes, code signing, code obfuscation, and protocol encryption all qualify as “technical protection measures” protected by the DMCA.

EFF has an interesting take: https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq

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Post by tosh »

warent wrote: post #250

Interesting, there's a location off the coast of San Francisco in the pacific ocean called "Morocco Mole Lab Pacific Ocean, Pune" Anyone know what that's supposed to be? Maybe a dummy location for test data?

https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Morocco_Mole

Re: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

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Post by Blammar »

surbas wrote: post #248
DerekL wrote: post #228

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Yeah! Whatever you do, never eat pretzels! They dip them in oven cleaner before baking, then they sprinkle them with those crystals they use for removing ice from roads!

Lye dipped pretzels are a thing! I didn’t know that thanks!

The best tasting soft pretzels are the ones dipped in a weak solution of lye, for sure.

Re: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

coddle-hark wrote: post #247
jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #240

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Pretty much, yeah.

What does that accomplish though?

I don't know. I don't have detailed plans describing how to bring about global peace by disrupting multinational corporations. Mostly because I don't think that's actually going to bring about global peace. I just wish people would chill out about McDonald's because it is kind of a monster. McDonald's specifically. If you want to generalize that to all meat companies, that's your choice. What really matters is what you value. What do you care about? What are your goals? How are you gonna do that? Don't get distracted trying to build up McDonald's because it's already "successful". There's really nothing you can do for it.
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