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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by sebastianavina on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:39AM (#3760194)
From what I understand, drug cartels need software for running their bussiness, and because they can't take a call to SAP and have a representative build a custom solution, they just kidnap programmers, extortion them and make them build the software they need for bookeping and all the stuff made by computers on this days.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by adambyrtek on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @10:47AM (#3761764)
This doesn't seem very convincing. Simply paying programmers lots of money would be a simpler and more effective solution. They could certainly afford that, and bookkeeping is too critical to their business to risk. Would you suggest that they kidnap lawyers and doctors as well?
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by sebastianavina on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @11:06PM (#3764540)
Well, they don't kidnap them... They just hire them, and when they want to quit or resign the job, they just can't.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by zby on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @04:35AM (#3760601)
Slave is not a good worker - with tedious manual tasks you can force someone and measure his performance - but I cannot imagine how this could work efficiently for any professional work.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by einhverfr on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @08:41AM (#3761149)
Why don't they use open source accounting software? I am sure we could recommend a few packages ;-)
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