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on Sunday February 12 2017, @08:28AM
from the can't-get-caught-if-you're-not-cheating dept.
from the can't-get-caught-if-you're-not-cheating dept.
A French businessman is suing Uber for 45 million euros, for destroying his marriage.
It seems that he installed the Uber app on his wife's phone, used it once, and then logged out. Later, when using the app on his own phone to arrange tête-à-têtes with his mistress, his wife received Uber notifications, and figured out what was going on. Uber attributes this to a bug in their software specifically related to an older version of iOS.
What do soylentils think generally about the liability of tech companies for bugs in their software? Some say liability is needed to force some responsibility; others say it would be the death of the software industry as we know it.
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 5, Funny) by PiMuNu on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:58AM
> at least a bridge can't accept non-integer values of mass
Erm, mass is a float...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @12:56PM
Another example to illustrate that programmers aren't real engineers.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday February 12 2017, @01:09PM
If the mass of the brigde is a float, then there is the possibility of a fractional atom's mass. That sounds very very wrong...
The approximation using a float may be "good enough" for most cases, but the fact remains that it is an approximation.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday February 12 2017, @03:47PM
A bridge consist of different types of atoms. An arbitrary atom's mass is not an integer multiple of a common base mass. The approximation using an integer may be "good enough" for most cases, but the fact remains that it is an approximation.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday February 12 2017, @09:46PM
I meant to say "non-numerical".
At any rate, that's just why I shouldn't post at 4 am drunk.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday February 13 2017, @05:42AM
Only on pontoon bridges.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh