It seems he tried to redeem a $500 gift card that was already redeemed. So obviously _some_ fraud and some scammerinvolved. Apple decided that since they were not the ones at fault, they were not making themselves the fraud victims and pay $500 to the scammer.

Looking forward to plenty of lawsuits. Can their DRM find out which person tried to breac DRM? Or can any idiot effectively destroy my console by trying to play a game they shouldnâ(TM)t?

So what? What damage do you think can he cause with a non-existing flight ticket except some financial damage to the airline who will be forced to fly him back to Heathrow if he managed to get to LAX, for example? He cannot even use it to give me a paper cut because he doesnâ(TM)t have a bloody ticket.

In Germany he would easily get through security, because security checks security, not whether you have a valid passport, ticket etc. You can kill someone with a knife so security confiscates your knife. You canâ(TM)t kill someone with a fake passport, and definitely not with no ticket, so thatâ(TM)s not their business. Making sure you have a ticket is someone elseâ(TM)s job.

I had a colleague who had studied architecture. He told me they made little clay models of houses and for that you need a clay cutting tool that is sharp enough to cut clay. For all intents and purposes this tool is just a knife, but with an extremely sharp edge. Will make an absolutely clean cut through clay, which many knives cant, and cut your throat very easily. But officially itâ(TM)s not a knife, itâ(TM)s a clay cutting tool. They let him carry it on flights.

So he got on a flight without paying for a ticket. Quite common on trains or underground in the UK, rare for an airplane. Saved himself a few hundred pound maybe except he got caught.

But no security risk, because anyone up to no good would obviously buy a ticket. Trying to get on a plane with a bomb or gun or knife but no ticket would just be obviously stupid. You wouldnâ(TM)t bring a bomb and risk being caught because you have no ticket.

On iOS, malloc (1ull 35) will succeed. It will reserver 32 GB in the address space but nothing else. As long as you don't write to the memory, nothing happens at all. So you are right to ask "WTF is going on here", but it won't hurt any user.

At least Apple claimed years ago that iPhones used GPS when available and used a database of WiFi network locations otherwise. Because in the locations where you donâ(TM)t get GPS you typically get tons of WiFi signals.

Indiana court fully agrees and wants Indiana doctors to use legible handwriting.

Changing human behaviour is the whole point of daylight savings time.

Why does it need to be higher? If I own _one_ car I pay $234 per illegal u-turn. Say out of 10,000 drivers 100 get caught, that is $23,400 caught. If waymo has 10,000 cars and 100 get caught, they should pay the same $23,400. Not 100 times $23,400 per case.

The quotes are not a problem with my or your input. It looks like we send Utf-8 to the server, and the server converts it to some messed-up single byte code. The problem is the slash dot server. Itâ(TM)s ridiculous actually.

From someone wiser with me: "You can make people stay in the office more than 40 hours a week. You can't make them work more than 40 hours a week".

And I remember a study that showed after working six 60-hour weeks the total output per sixty hour week became less than after a forty hour week. Not productivity per hour, but per week.

It makes it much easier to rent a car. Without this there are two choices: You find your way to the car rental place, find the car, drive the car home and start your actual journey, later drive back to the rental place and back home without a car. Or the rental car is driven to your place by a rental drive who has to find his way back without a car, same when the car is returned.

Now the car arrives at your place, with nobody at the rental company having to drive around. Much easier. Also I could rent for a 50 mile trip, and the rental car company picks it up instantly for the next customer.

Because there is a reasonable suspicion that Disney will sue them for some reason, public domain or not, and they want to prevent that.