ajt9000 t1_jdilgrm wrote on March 24, 2023 at 5:27 PM

Reply to comment by wagnus_ in South Carolina's comptroller quits after a $3.5 billion accounting error by kangarooturd

Depends how it was counted. If it was a bug in a computer program or excel sheet doing the double counting its hard to attribute that to malice. Especially if many people used it.

TheOldGuy59 t1_jdvakdq wrote on March 27, 2023 at 1:42 PM

In 40+ years in the IT industry both in the military and the private sector, I have NEVER seen a "bug" in a program that would do that to this degree. In every case it's been PEBKAC. People love to blame the computer but it's operator error, every single time. Error or malfeasance that they'll try to blame on the computer as an escape route to avoid prison time.