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Re:Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirme... by ortusdux on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:59AM (#45277446)
There was an aluminum extrusion company that falsified test records for years. They got away with it because what's a few % when your customer's safety factor is 2. Once they got into weight sensitive aerospace applications, where sometimes the factor is 1.2, rockets starting blowing up on the launch pad.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/aluminum-extrusion-m...

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Re:Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirme... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:41PM (#45278180)
Should have resulted in jail time. A monetary fine is no deterrent.
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Re:Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirme... by Scramblejams on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:31PM (#45280373)
It says right there in the document that the testing lab supervisor was sentenced to 3 years. Not sure how much of that time was actually served, though, apparently he was suffering from dementia: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/08/company_supervis...
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