Posted on 11/04/2024 8:58:00 AM PST by BenLurkin
Before this week, most of the McDonald's ice cream makers could only be fixed through the machine’s manufacturer. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects the code embedded in the ice cream machines, made it illegal for third parties, like McDonald’s employees and franchisee owners, to break the digital locks installed by manufacturers.
The new rule, which went into effect on Monday, allows outside vendors to fix “retail-level commercial food preparation equipment.” That includes McDonald’s ice cream machines, as 404 media journalist Jason Koebler explained to NPR’s Weekend Edition.
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I worked at a McDonalds while in High School in the late 70’s. Back then the machine was disassembled every night at closing, parts were washed/sterilized, and all of the parts were put into holding trays until the machine was reassembled by the morning crew. Everything was done by hand. I never saw the Taylor machine down back then. This is a case of “progress” making things more complicated for everyone.
“For more than a hundred years people were able to make ice cream with no code involved at all.”
That system is controlled by a very sophisticated computer
The human brain.
“Exactly. Dairy Queen doesn’t have this issue. Whoever heard of a computerized ice cream machine.”
Dairy Queen! IntelliTec computer control.
“Dairy Queen had this nailed down solid in the 50s and 60s.”
If they had it nailed down then why are they now using computerized servers?
doesn’t do anything more complicated that couldn’t be done with a LOTS OF 555 timers and a MANY TTL logic circuits.
“Sorry, your car doesn’t have the Government Mandated Travel Monitoring & Snitch Computer — we cannot sell you gasoline.”
“This is a case of “progress” making things more complicated for everyone.”
Or maybe a case of un-motivated privileged workers ...
Exactly my thought. Has that issue been decided? If favorable it will be a boon to repair shops.
Anything where a simple switched circuit would suffice.
Because IT control freaks and anal management seek total control and tracking .
“Anything where a simple switched circuit would suffice.”
So, you can’t think of any ...
It ain’t worth doin’ if you can’t do it with a 741 op amp.
Once thete was a simple device requiring no batteries that would allow the user to ascertain temperatures with a high degree of accuracy ; this device operated on simple known properties of materials.
Similarly,there was a simple mechanical device for controlling tempertures based on known properties of metals.
Neither device needed batteries or code.
They just worked and were cheap to manufacture.
To a man with only a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Thanks for your unbiased reasoned response ...
Tell me how it improves ice cream machines over what we had 50 years ago.
“Neither device needed batteries or code.”
Just a $15 per hour dude to do the monitoring and adjustments.
How do you control viscosity?
Not BS. The big tech companies buy a politician, write a law for them to pass, and keep at it until it makes its way to the federal level to be imposed on all of us. Look up John Deere tractor as an example.
“Tell me how it improves ice cream machines over what we had 50 years ago.”
You said “anything”
Quit dodging
“Sorry, your car doesn’t have ... we cannot sell you gasoline.”
You never know!
Farmers have this problem also.
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