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* Toyota is recalling 2.3 million vehicles in the United States because of the risk that the accelerator pedal could stick. The vehicles covered by the recall include the RAV4, Corolla, Matrix, Avalon, Camry, Highlander, Tundra and Sequoia. Consumers can check to see if their vehicle is covered by the recall at www.toyota.com/recall.

* Another 1.8 million Toyota vehicles in Europe, 270,000 in Canada and over 100,000 in U.S. dealer inventory are also at risk of developing a sticky accelerator and in line for repair, Toyota and industry sources say.

* Toyota dealers will begin receiving a part to fix the defective accelerators this week. The replacement part — a steel reinforcement bar — is designed to reduce friction in the accelerator and prevent sticking. U.S. consumers who have their vehicle repaired will be eligible to have a whole new accelerator installed when those parts are available.

* The repair job on the defective accelerators is expected to take less than an hour. The cost will be covered by Toyota. Dealers have said they expect to bill almost $100 per repair to the automaker. Many U.S. dealers said they were extending operating hours or would run repair shops overnight to fix defective vehicles once the fix arrives.

* In a separate safety action, Toyota is recalling nearly 5 million vehicles in the United States because of the risk that the accelerator pedal could become trapped by the floormat, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That recall covers late model versions of the Camry, Avalon, Prius, Tacoma, Tundra, Highlander, Corolla, Venza and Matrix. The Lexus ES350, IS250 and IS350 are also covered. Some vehicles are covered by both the floormat and accelerator recalls.

* Toyota has started to notify owners affected by the second recall that they can have their accelerator pedal shortened at a dealership. In addition, Toyota has said it will install a new brake override system on some recalled models. Owners who opt to do so can also have a new brake pedal installed sometime after April 2010.

* NHTSA says it has confirmed that five people — in two separate accidents — died in Toyota vehicles because the accelerator was trapped by a floormat. The U.S. regulatory agency said it has not confirmed any injuries or deaths because of the sticky accelerator issue.

* Safety Research and Strategies, a Massachusetts-based consultancy, says it has counted 2,262 incidents of apparent unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles since 1999. That total includes 815 crashes, 341 cases of injury and 19 deaths, according to the firm.

via FACTBOX – Key facts about Toyota safety recall | Business News | Reuters.

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One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over

Phishers only need to land a minute percentage of victims to make scams worthwhile.

Stats culled from Trusteer’s anti-phishing browser plug-in, which is offered by banks to their clients as a transaction security add-on, revealed that 0.47 per cent of a bank’s customers fall victim to phishing attacks each year. The figure comes from the number of users who visited and attempted to enter data onto a known phishing site but escaped because they were using Trusteer’s Rapport browser security plug-in.

Half (45 per cent) of bank customers who are redirected towards a phishing site attempted to hand over their login credentials.

The overall response rate to phishing scams translates to between $2.4m-$9.4m in annual fraud losses (per one million online banking clients), according to Trusteer.

via One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over • The Register.

• 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
• 29 developer builds
• 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
• 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten

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# 95% of pages have more than 10 fans

# 65% of pages have more than 100 fans

# 23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans

# 4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans

# 0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans

# 0.047% of pages have more than one million fans 297 in total.

via It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans.

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via Windows 7 Launch Day Facts – SuperSite Blog.

via Top U.S. Web Brands and Parent Companies for September 2009 | Nielsen Wire.

This is a rather silly hack, but if you’re visiting friends who may not be very computer savvy – this is a very easy way to impress them with your hacking skills. Borrow their computer (or bring your laptop), log into your Facebook account, and then on the computer keyboard just type the following key sequence of arrows and letters exactly: UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A- and then press enter!

via 6 Facebook Hack Codes And Tips To Show Off Your Geeky Skills.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

via Random Facts.