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  1. Re: So make sure they all get jailed for fraud on Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation (atr.org) · · Score: 0

    This is California. Back in the day of MediCal there was billions of $$$ of fraud and they didn't care

  2. Re:Physical store advantage? on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 2

    any why would i want to pay $99 a year for shipping when i can simply drive to the store that day?

  3. Hopefully it can actually kill someone on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    back in the day everyone used to joke that the baretta's didn't have any stopping power and if you shot someone with it you would only make them angry

  4. apple TV + xbox one hooked up to a TV on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    it can stream from any computer running itunes or put a USB flash into an xbox and play from there. plus all the streaming services out there. simple to use

  5. how do you make money from the hacks? on Why Aren't There Better Cybersecurity Regulations For Medical Devices? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    most of the hacking is done by criminals to make and steal money. how would you make money from hacking medical devices?

  6. Re:When in Rome on Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly (sprint.com) · · Score: 1

    they never promised you any set speed and when they first sold those unlimited plans the speeds topped out around 1mbps, so this is perfectly fair. they are capping you at the top speed they originally promised you

  7. Re:4K movies will be around 100 gigabytes in size on Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly (sprint.com) · · Score: 1

    then netflix needs to join everyone else and offer caching to the device

  8. Re: Another disruptive company... on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Mercola is what you're thinking of

  9. Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? on Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com) · · Score: 1

    wal mart has been doing tech before there was an amazon. just not consumer side tech. they pioneered RFID back in the 90's

  10. Re:Hello? It's payware... on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 1

    except SQL Server is two or three SKU's that include all the features in the box and the licensing is by device/user or CPU core. fairly simple. one time i tried to price out Oracle vs SQL and it was a mess with lots of features being an add on from the base price. you have to install a different version of SQL than you are licensed for to screw up. or use more licenses than you bought. RTFA, sounds like with oracle you buy some features and the install will install features you didn't pay for and then oracle will come back and demand money for those even if you have never used them

  11. Re:it's already been debunked on Not All iPhone 6s Processors Are Created Equal (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    the tests were only done once on one set of CPU's. needs to be done a few hundred times at least to statistically compare the results.

  12. it's already been debunked on Not All iPhone 6s Processors Are Created Equal (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    real world usage shows both are virtually identical with TSMC coming out on top by a few percentage points. this is only for the benchmark idiots who think benchmarks mean anything

  13. so there will be even more iphones on craiglist? on Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed · · Score: 1

    seems every year the thing to do is open a T-Mo account, "buy" an iphone and resell it before it's bricked for not paying the bill

  14. Re:Local cache servers on Reports: Telstra Customers Suffering Crippling Speeds To Any Apple Service · · Score: 2

    its australia and will probably cost five times what it should really cost anywhere else

  15. Re:Could this be unintentional? on Reports: Telstra Customers Suffering Crippling Speeds To Any Apple Service · · Score: 1

    not if the other services have CDN's on different networks or locally on Telstra's network

  16. Re:Let's face it... on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    just an abandoned annunaki base

  17. Re: Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Where I work everything in code is documented with trouble ticket numbers, feature requests, etc. If someone was asked to put something possibly illegal into code verbally then you do it and send an email to the manager saying what you did and document it in your code base and documentation and let QA know its there.

  18. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 2

    as long as you have this in writing and can give it to a lawyer that is the most important thing. otherwise PHB will leave you out to dry saying they gave you no such order or instruction

  19. Re:Single line of code? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    i think in some states they put it on what is essentially a treadmill and run the car for 5 minutes or whatever the standard is and they have a sensor near the exhaust to measure the pollutants

  20. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 2

    seriously, if you're a dev and PHB asks you to do this then you make sure you get it in email form and then forward that email to a personal account or to a safe pst file you keep yourself. or you send an email to said PHB saying what you did. along with everyone on the testing and QA team. there was a paralegal arrested in NYC recently who forged a judge's signature without his bosses knowing because he was swamped with work and in his mind it was the only way to do it knowing he would be cause and commit suicide from ruining his life. this could be the same. a bunch of people without half a brain breaking laws because they were given an impossible task to make the car perform

  21. Re:I said "No, I won't put that code in." on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 1

    to pay the mortgage, yep and i'll make sure to keep some proof around in secret places in case it goes to court

  22. Re: Police? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 2

    don't get into flame wars on the internets with people over stupid things, or anything at all. herd mentality and vigilantism is alive and well

  23. how does it apply to MS and Google? on Technology Colonialism · · Score: 2

    the same ones who have been sued and being sued by government around the world? how about when GE tried to buy Allied in 2000 and the Europeans said no and killed the deal? what about when reagan told japanese car makers to make their cars in the USA and they complied? The president is not a king and no one has to run and see him. some of you kids need to realize we live in a nation of laws and private companies can tell the government to fcuk off if they wanted to. happens all the time. the reason why we have paid warranties on everything now is that around 2000 UPS won a big case against the IRS concerning writing off the risk of selling insurance even when you minimize your risk to almost nothing.

  24. Re:Nothing good happens in Mexico on Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico · · Score: 1

    yep. just came out today that AT&T is suing a few former employees who facilitated the whole iphone unlocking thing a few years back. they took $10,000 to install some software on their systems to allow swift unlocks to unlock iphones

  25. OMG, he's messing with my netflix on AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper · · Score: 5, Funny

    death penalty