2010 Bug Plagues Germany 233
krou writes "According the Guardian, some 30 million chip and pin cards in Germany have been affected by a programming failure, which saw the microchips in cards unable to recognize the year change. The bug has left millions of credit and debit card users unable to withdraw money or make purchases, and has stranded many on holiday. French card manufacturer Gemalto accepted responsibility for the fault, 'which it is estimated will cost €300m (£270m) to rectify.' They claim cards in other countries made by Gemalto are unaffected."
They had to Queue? (Score:3, Funny)
Revenge at last (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Effected? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2010 (Score:3, Funny)
Damn Mayans and their inability to correctly predict the end of the world! It came two years early!
How big is a country factory? (Score:3, Funny)
Which countries were made by Gemalto?
This won't be fixed quickly... (Score:5, Funny)
Gemalto accepted responsibility for the fault, 'which it is estimated will cost €300m (£270m) to rectify.'
I hope that money isn't in a German bank...
Re:FIRST NIGGEr (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How big is a country factory? (Score:1, Funny)
They should hire Slartibartfast, I hear he has experience with fjords.
Re:2010 (Score:3, Funny)
Planck units since the Big Bang is the only way! Let's see: ~5.4E-44 seconds per unit, ~1.37E10 years since the Big Bang ~= 2.53E53 decimal = 2A4359FEF2C78D94A50F53B75B35AA648000000000000 hex, which should take about 180 bits to store.
Re:2010 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Remind me of another story... (Score:4, Funny)
My school did also. It's just a small one. They gave tours. It was really neat to look down into the core. Until I realized that I was looking down into the core.
I thought most large universities had one.