NetStrikeForce
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
Yesterday a friend ordered a sofa from a well known online retailer in the UK, then chose to finance it 12 months 0% APR. The retailer site sent him to a very well known bank's website, pre-filing part of the finance form with things they had already like forename and surname. Except he's Spanish and the site wrote his middle name and both surnames in the non-editable surname field.
Once he finishes filing the form with all the addresses he lived in the last 3 years he clicks on "continue" and is greeted with a "surname is in the wrong format" message.
Remember, that filed is non-editable and it's pre-filled by the retailer's website; so he effectively can't do nothing at all about it.
Conclusions?
1) This is living proof that diversity is a business advantage (they lost at least one £1200 sale).
2) The Internet is stupidly broken.
3) People working in IT is as clever or as stupid as anyone else.
A colleague had a Linux box at home with a TV Tuner PCI card. We would SSH from the University's lab and watch TV-on-ASCII-over-SSH to the amusement of the people around us.
Sounds so simple and silly today, but it was a fun way to learn back in the day :)
The threat is "baiting someone into nuclear war" and not "having tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and being ready to use them to kill millions of people"? Give me an effing break mate :)
That premise does not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Ask the USSR.