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Comment Re: Reality (Score 1) 228

Great, so they set up that committee. I'll ask again: did Congress empower that committee? No. The Board can set up a bake sale, but it doesn't mean the ladies' auxiliary chair gets to run the Congressional canteen. Irrespective of that, the committee took no action, nor did the Board.

Incorrect. You can repeat it until you're blue in the face, lol.
The Board took action via the committee that it was empowered to form to act in its name.
You're basically trying to argue that every official name in the history of the US was illegal.
All prior to 1947, which were done on executive action alone, and all since that were done through a subcommittee of the board.
Like it or not, the board does have the power to delegate to committees.

Back in your hole, dipshit.

Comment Re:Going meta with stores (Score 1) 46

Hmm. I doubt theres too much worry about that. Whereas phones have a fully locked down duopoly , theres a tonne of competition in the console space with 3 major players, and a boatload of minor ones, and even running old C64s and N64s and the like.

Kind of. The landscape is rife with exclusivity agreements, which is highly anticompetitive. This is on machines that are virtually identical on the inside.
Sony has faced antitrust scrutiny in the EU for this.
Microsoft settled an antitrust lawsuit in the US.

The manufacturers take a loss on the console in return for a profit on game sales.

Microsoft is actually alone in this, now.
PS5 and Nintendo are selling profitable units.

So the arguments that work for phones dont really work for consoles. At least to a matter of degree.

The arguments never really mattered. That is something people lose sight of a lot in antitrust discussions.
They think {n}opoly is a factor.
Anticompetitive behavior is, and the cost for you to escape that anticompetitive behavior.

Comment Re: Reality (Score 1) 228

Did Congress empower that committee?

Congress empowered the Board to setup its own committees.
That committee has existed since 1947.
The executive+congress policy in question has existed at least since 2016.

Seriously, shut the fuck up and crawl back in your hole. You are terminally fucking stupid.

Comment Re:Human on the loop required (Score 1) 141

Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him — finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert. "I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun," Allen said.

So you figure they were waving ostrich feathers at him threatening to tickle?

Do you think the only actual guns in the school at the time didn't loom large in the kid's vision?

How do you suppose they picked out the "right" student to hassle without a picture?

In the before time when I was in high school, searching for weapons was a job for the unarmed principal or the football coach. Either they had the picture on them or they held the kid WAY longer than necessary after the pat down revealed nothing.

The parents should sue the crap out of the cops, the school, and probably the manufacturer of the scanner.

Comment Re:I'm inclined to believe that BUT... (Score 1) 112

Agreed, the actual publication is considerably more ambiguous. In my case, 2K really would be about the max, but I can easily see other people would have a good case for 4K.

Though notably they're talking about ability to discern the difference in an A/B test. A somewhat lesser display may still make no difference in the 'experience' of normal watching, but that would require a follow-up study.

Comment Already exist on top of the passport (Score 1) 24

Your passport number is all that really matters. Everything else is just for the plebes, when you interact with the TSA or other government agencies, the number gets checked against the government records which gives back a photo along with the other information. The issuing country tracks everything by that number, but that's not the end of it.

When you go abroad, they take a photo of you and your passport and put it in a database, using your country plus passport # as the real id. Now that new country starts to track you too.

Spies really hate this because it means that once they go to a country they really can't go back to it using a different name. The computer would match up your new false identity with the photo they took of you with the old identification.

Comment Re:Transparency and verification (Score 1) 40

Easiest solution is to issue employees a corporate credit card that they are responsible for. All reimbursable expenses have to be correlated against the copy of the statement issued by the credit card company to the corporation.

But what about cash expenses, you ask? Issue a per-diem for travel, and a periodic "here's your budget for IT refresh, whatever you don't spend, you get to keep."

Clean and simple. You're a man of reason.

My question is, what kind of receipt fraud are we looking at? Invented expenses that they're using to defraud the company, or real expenses that normally wouldn't be reimbursed that they're disguising as reimbursable ones?

Probably both.

Also, wouldn't invoice fraud be a bigger threat?

Can't speak to all companies, but AP handles there here. It's their job to validate every invoice before it is paid out with people on our side of the transaction.
They also track changes to recurring invoices, and verify those changes.

but with the bank details modified to point to the scammer's accounts instead?

These happen. We've had 2 this year.

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