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  1. Re:State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    https://www.wired.com/2014/10/...

    Another software bug, aka not a malfunction according to you, was found in video poker machines. Player exploited it and was forced to pay back the casinos the jackpots and even legally got in trouble. If software bugs were not malfunctions why would he have been forced to repay the casinos and was even banned from gaming in Pennsylvania?

  2. Re:State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.c...

    Software bug, aka not a malfunction according to you, caused a $54.3 million jackpot to show on machine. Casino refused to pay the amount and later settled for $1 million. Didn’t get in trouble with the Nevada gaming commission.

  3. Re:State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So basically you’re using a definition that doesn’t match the rest of the world. Fine here: https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.c...

    A casino executive said the machine had a software error and mistakenly displayed a jackpot amount in excess of what Casinos Austria is even allowed to pay. Officials told Merlaku that there was a glitch in the machine and blamed the manufacturer for the problem. Merlaku was offered a free meal and $100 instead.

    So according to you a “software error” is not a malfunction so now please do show me where this casino got in trouble with the state gaming commission. Oh wait, they didn’t and eventually both parties came to a civil settlement far below the jackpot malfunction.

  4. Re:State should honor the tickets on A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Except there have been multiple high profile stories of casinos refusing to payout for software bugs. Not a single one has involved the casino getting in trouble. Even ones that involved the Nevada Gaming Control Board which has some of the most hardass regulations of any gaming commission. If you’re really in the industry and that ignorant then... sow...

  5. Re:Does Thunderbird still matter? on Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Complaints but no suggestion.

    Yeah, and? You gonna cry more?

    So typical these days. So, did you see the new Star Wars product yet? It's great, made so much money...

    Good for it. And?

  6. Re:Does Thunderbird still matter? on Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird (threatpost.com) · · Score: 0

    You’re not missing anything. Thunderbird is a joke product that Mozilla let get stale.

  7. Re:New Maths on Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Reading comprehension fail. The sentence is stating it was bundled with those four other bugs.

  8. Re:Will never replace F150 or Silverado on Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    The F150 is manufactured in both Dearborn, Michigan and Claycomo, Missouri. How would that make them “less” American-made?

  9. Re:Thank you for the shower of crumbs! on What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be soon enough when the skills glut happens and most people will be lucky to make a tiny fraction of that amount.

  10. Re:Amazon employee getting paid 1099 on What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Don’t worry. It’ll drop a couple of magnitudes soon enough.

  11. Re:Legal Tender on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that doesn’t mean what you think it does.

    This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.

    So you’d be paid a visit by the cops for not paying.

  12. Re:Does Dolby Atmos reproduce a tiny violin well? on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the joke is accurate. One of the points of a normal distribution is that the mean, median and mode are the same.

  13. Re:Does Dolby Atmos reproduce a tiny violin well? on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Since IQ is on a normal distribution those things are all the same. If you’re trying to pedant you might want to actually be correct.

  14. Re:And compared to the USA? on China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They’re entitled to for the same reason i can tell you to get out of my house and off my lawn. You may have freedom of speech but I don’t have to use my private property as your platform.

  15. Re:China is evil on China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, Facebook doesn’t have the ability to jail and/or execute people. So the level of “evil” Facebook can commit pales in comparispn.

  16. Re:Excessive hate? on Days Before Christmas, Theranos Secures $100 Million in New Funding (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    despite not being as accurate

    Interesting euphemism for test results that were often flat-out wrong and could have lead to numerous patients being given incorrect, unnecessary and potentially harmful treatments.

  17. Re:I'm sorry - why? on Days Before Christmas, Theranos Secures $100 Million in New Funding (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy the patents. Who cares if the tech is real when you can patent troll for years beyond? It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

  18. Re:Samsung could gross $22 billion on Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year's iPhones (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    So then Apple goes: “Okay. Bye.”

  19. Re:I try not to buy anything made in China on Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    LG and Samsung both manufacture things in China.

  20. Re:Non-security expert throws tantrum on 'Username or Password is Incorrect' Security Defense is a Weak Practice (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    It’s because msmash is an idiot.

  21. Re:That ain't right! on Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is likely that USB drives with hardware write locks are made in much smaller production runs so the price is higher. It just comes with the territory for niche use cases.

  22. Re:That ain't right! on Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0
  23. Re:Interestingly enough Win10 1709 did this on Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    At least it wasn’t an HP laptop. It can always be worse...

  24. Re:Slow news day? on Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This change from a browser company to an add company is quite apt.

    Good thing they hadn’t become a minus company.

  25. Re:its fine, just disclose one thing on Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course they did.