Honestly after reading your description it sounds like whatever problem the guy had was with their own custom software not working right and blaming the kernel for it? I mean I get that "tar" won't just work, but its just tar you know? If its some kind of backup software you should be checking mounted file systems anyway.

Yea you should of seen how Fry's electronics did it back in the day. They tracked those people from taking the item to walking out the store to make the case 100%. I am sure Walmart had a few cases of this eerily on and decided globally not to pursue for your reasons. Its not like they had 5 security people on staff like Fry's did:P

I remember that there was this 5 second rule at the Kroger I went to. After you put your item on the scale, you count to 5 and then you can remove it. Well the entire bag of stuff you put on. You would always see a slight flicker to the display too. I thought it was funny at the time.

Yea. Sam's Club and even Walmart, before the self checkout system, started using people to manage their queues and move people around to equalize the pressure. Hell I have even seen on busy days they have two people managed the 10 registers self checkout arena. One for "need supervisor" and one to move people to empty registers. Works fairly fast. That's how it should be done.

Yea ugh. I used to hear that message ALL the time at Kroger. They changed it about a year ago and disabled the scale completely. Walmart figured this part out in like under a month. Took Kroger 5 years:P

Yea, don't get me started on the machines that measure the "weight" of the item. To make sure they are put on the freaking scale. Our local Kroger has these sales on 12 packs soda (by 2 get 2 free or such, honesty it only saves a few bucks when calculated though). Before COVID I had to take each one and make sure it was scanned and put on the scale. It also does not help that some items that weighed almost nothing would not move the scale at all and I had to call a supervisor to get it to work again. They eventualy just turned the scale completely off but it took years for that to happen.

You might be right about the whole thing. Does not look like New Guinea had been a modern country for to long. In fact I am betting there are a bunch of "little things" that the government does on the day that might might explain the situation more. You don't go zero to riots just because the governments shutdowns for a day.

As humans when someone says "security fraud", depending on the human, it means something different. One person might not know what a security is but know "fraud is bad". Another person might even went to jail for it, or another might of been getting away with it for years. Language models take the word "disapproved" not as "this is super bad thing" to either "1 in 100 will say its bad" to "80 in 100 say its bad". Depending on how the model was setup the weight of that single word determines weather its really bad or "only bad without an excuse"

Think of all those wonderful manager speak out there that go out of their way not to blame anyone or reports that seem too fake but written in such a way that the writer cannot be held accountable. LLM are programed off THOSE kinds of things. That kind of ambiguity causes these machines to look for excuses rather than say no to an illegal act. To be frank, they would be really good at it too if they didn't just wholesale make up references.

To be fair I think this was a strangury to fight Steam and to make sure that when this whole Fortnight thing dies, that Epic has a solid foothold as both a publisher and distributor. Even with how shitty the store was for the first few years. They spent ALOT to get it to where it is and those free games sold it to the public. Its HARD to fight Steam with more than 10 years of user content and polished store, as well. So I think Epic is not as bad off as they say.. I just see them winding down the Fortnight staff. Of course winding down means cutting that $5+billion plus of their revenue.

No joke. First thing I would ask is "is this cheaper than insurance?" My second question is "My $20k TV is 72 inch's and weighs 200 pounds, will this thing save it?" I am betting no.

Ugh I remember that. I got an AS500 on sale thinking it was a great deal to find out, out of the box, ONLY 10 CLIENTS. THEN to get a firmware update I had to get a licensee for THAT. It had NO phone support email or forms JUST firmware. FOR ONLY A YEAR. I sold it to another sucker for 300 bucks. I gave up on it when I realized for its "gigibit ports" the firewall could only handle 20mbps. If you have to install a special licence server for your ROUTERS you might as well just lease the bloody things.

Humm, it sounds like the problem Torque3D had. Makes me wonder if this is why Epic pushed for their "store" as with all the Fortnight money they were getting they realized that once that cash cow dies, they would be back to square one. I am still not sold on the Epic store but there is a new generation out there who dosn't know of the Ea's of the past. Best I figure they are trying to find a model where they don't have to dump money into a hole like Epic did to get its store of the ground and find some "tech" way to do it. Its not going to work but hopefully Unity doesn't die from this.

My hat says maybe they didn't go out of their way to get the victim to get to court so they can try to silently drop this one so they don't get sued. Never piss off a pregnant mother though.

The fact is they aren't paid enough to care, so its hard to get people to replace them that are not just as bad. Personally I want to look up what the judge said about the whole thing when the prosecutor submitted it. He seemed to just outright dismisses the indictment yet the prosecutor staunchly keeps saying he followed "procedure" It sounds like more the person who made this a "procedure" needs to fired more.

See there you go! Apparently its proper procedure in Detroit.