• (cs)

    I knew Aussies are really weird nation: walking upside down, having winter in summer, etc; but c'mon, New Year's Eve in June?

  • Just another bloke (unregistered)

    A comment that should never be submitted, was submitted.

  • loki (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    John:
    Add AT&T Wireless to the list of companies that turn off your phone for non-payment, when their system is asking to pay a credit balance.

    Total due: -25.34

    Make Payment to reinstate.

    That seems to be a misunderstanding of business rules. Someone figured, they were safe if they put:

    if (amountOwed == 0) echo "You're all good"; else echo "GIMME MONEY";

    I can't think of a good reason for a 0.00 payment to give you grief though.

    Rounding error - using floats?

  • farebane (unregistered)

    My mother once got one of those from a credit card company (in the mid to early nineties). They kept sending bills again and again asking for payment. So she sent them a check for $0.00. It apparently crashed their system for a couple days. They quit sending the bill though.

  • ethan (unregistered) in reply to Greg
    Greg:
    Ah, Java, the new COBOL... worse than the old COBOL, since it doesn't natively support decimal precision.

    It's reassuring that the programmers are still COBOL-grade, though. Never mastered that pesky little angle-bracket thingy in math.

    Java's built-in BigDecimal class allows you to do arbitrary-precision decimal math, and has been part of the platform for at least a decade. If you want dollars-and-cents, you just set the precision to 2. What were you complaining about, again?

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Nothing to do with computers, but just speaking of amusing signs ...

    There used to be a sign on I-75 in Ohio that said "All metric signs -- next 50 miles".

  • (cs) in reply to Mark from briz
    Mark from briz:
    Ebay has rapidly become the biggest WTF ever (at least in Australia). Sellers can no longer leave neutral or negative feedback on bay purchasers.
    Same everywhere I think. The perception was that the power was too much towards sellers, especially business sellers, since if the buyer leaves negative feedback, the seller just retaliates - but the seller's got hundreds of positives so it makes little difference, whereas the buyer may have only a handful, so the false negative shows up more. The change might rebalance it - but surely better is to just make it that you can't see feedback until you've left.
    Sellers also now have to sign up for paypal and further line ebay's pockets...direct deposit is no longer an option..

    Every tried to lodge a real complaint and only get canned responses stating how wonderful their policies are.... and then get your account suspended due to the ability of vindictive buyers still being able to lodge (possibly falsely) negative feedback WTF indeed

    OK, that's all eBay crapness.

  • Kahs (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw

    Firefox (2) Universal Downloading Laws:

    1. A System Call never fails.
    2. If a System Call should fail, use more memory.
  • (cs) in reply to Phil
    Phil:
    On the subject of oddities on road signs, I was out driving last night and saw a sign on the NJ Turnpike that said "REDUCE SPEED - SNOW AHEAD". Which might not be so odd in a month like February, but it's June, and it was about 90 degrees outside.

    Given that even in the US one should use SI-units showing this sign at 90 degrees Kelvin is not a WTF at all, in your case.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF that I once made a job search on monster.in just by curiosity. Since then I get spammed by Indian companies offering me $300/month jobs in Dehli and other places. Hey, if one of you stupid idiots is reading these lines: I make $300 before lunch, every day, so fuck off.

  • bcdm (unregistered)

    I used to work for eBay. Not my worst job ever, but definitely soul-crushing.

    One of my several positions was billing. This was a well-known issue - rounding error is, in fact, what happened here. (That, or you had a bill from 2002 that was never paid - those fall off the system, but you still owe them money, they just have to dig through a bajillion archives to find out how much.)

    It's an issue that's fixable in 30 seconds - even digging through the archives, finding the issue, and telling them how much to actually pay to clear the system can be done in five minutes - by anyone who's even vaguely competent at their job. Of course, the way the company is being run nowadays, I doubt there are many competent customer service agents left any more.

  • BAF (unregistered) in reply to Gnonthgol
    Have you ever tryed any of those wanderfull operting systems not made by Microsoft? Those with error messages that actualy gives users a good understanding of what went wrong.

    Oh yes, because knowing the kernel crashed because of a segfault on line 2934 of shittydriver.c means so much to anyone who didn't develop said driver.

  • anonimous (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw

    a mi tambien me paso hace poco lo mismo.. a los vendedores no les pasara nunca por que pagan comisiones, y aunque luego algunos timan y no mandan el articulo y tienen como 20 votos negativos pues nada, les dejan vender igualmente.. Repito, como pagan comisiones...

  • (cs) in reply to Phil
    Phil:
    On the subject of oddities on road signs, I was out driving last night and saw a sign on the NJ Turnpike that said "REDUCE SPEED - SNOW AHEAD". Which might not be so odd in a month like February, but it's June, and it was about 90 degrees outside.

    At 90° water is just about to start boiling. Nice temperature.

  • AllForBrian (unregistered)

    Once I accidentally knocked my keyboard cord when booting up my computer. It gave me an error message along the lines of "Keyboard input device not found. Press any key to continue."

  • s. (unregistered)

    For the "system restore" dialog, the "no" button is placed on the computer case.

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