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Straya
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Many online forms ask for a 10 digit telephone number.
Some insist on no spaces, others require spaces, still others
require a dash and some want the area code in brackets.
Is it that difficult to write code that accepts any
reasonable style?
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As they require alphabets - plural you could always reply cycling through Roman, Greek, Cyrillic and for the numbers Ascii, ebcdic and unicode encodings for the punctuation.  Of course strictly speaking you should include the complete alphabet in each case. 
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Here in the UK we don't tolerate that kind of crap. Sometimes the back-end falls over, but the customer-facing side is licketty-spit.
But seriously, my Blackberry Z10 has an app from my bank which is a joy to use. Presumably reasonably secure as well. I can see all my dineros in big font detail that fits the phone screen perfectly. 
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By Chance was the Caption for the Submit button one of these:
- Circular File
- Pump and Dump
- Send and Forget
- Register as an Offender
- Ask about our amazing 0.00001003% APR
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Similarly, I went to make a credit card payment on my phone the other day. I found I could not schedule the payment for a specific date.
So, I found the 'send us feedback' part of the app and wrote a message about how bad this was (they're bad in a number of other ways, but like this, typically it's not end-of-the-world bad).
Submitting resulted in an error that the module could not be found or some such.
Sigh.
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Chris Maunder wrote: These guys are managing my money. Seriously scary
Stuffing cash in a mattress is sounding increasingly like the best choice these days. Our bank sent us an email with a click-here-to-install-this-app link. App was new, buggy and didn't work (wife trustingly clicked the link and installed the app). Bank didn't even know they had sent such an email that violated their own no-active-links-in-our-emails policy.
Chased it down, all was well, it turned out it was sent by some vendor they outsourced to.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I bank with a very, very well known bank whom I won't name.
Name names! If they're that bad we should be told so we can avoid them like the plague.
Speaking the truth isn't libellous.
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Just had an email from a site I sometimes buy old games from - I won't say who for fear of activating the spam filter - informing me of changes to their privacy policy.
Normally this means "we're going to sell your ass to everybody!" so I thought I'd better look.
I was surprised to find the page has two versions, side by side:
LEGALLY BINDING VERSION "ENGLISH" VERSION
1. WHO WE ARE
1.1. We are [REDACTED], a company incorporated in
[REDACTED] with its registered office at [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] is the data controller under European
Union data protection legislation. Hello, we're [REDACTED] and we are based in Europe!
... Dunno why, but it tickled me!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that GOG?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The PP on GOGs site is in a single column format...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not the one I went to: if you look at their support/policies/gog_privacy_policy page it's two column.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This is the one I get from the footer on their front page. Still one column.
http://www.gog.com/support/policies/privacy_policy[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wonder if they realize they have multiple versions posted on their site...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They do sell Good Old Games, yes - but they seem to be preferring rather rubbish movies at the moment.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: they seem to be preferring rather rubbish movies at the moment.
Not to say that a bunch of those games are found for free on other sites as abandonware. For example the Sierra's Quest for Glory series and many King's Quest...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You can find pirate versions of new games too; and if the sites you're thinking of really were honest abandonware instead of filthy pirates looking for a figleaf, once the GoG versions came out and the games stopped being abandoned they'd take down their version.
GoG doesn't just negotiate for rights to old games; when they're old enough to have compatibility issues on newer OSes they fix them to just work. (At times this means you're playing them via an executable with a VM inside.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And they remove the DRM so you don't have to work from a terrible OCR of poor scan of a bad photocopy of the wrong version of the manual to find the eighth word of the fourteenth line of page thirty two.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And they remove the DRM so you don't have to work from a terrible OCR of poor scan of a bad photocopy of the wrong version of the manual to find the eighth word of the fourteenth line of page thirty two.
Oh, it's ELEPHANT by the way.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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LEGALLY BINDING VERSION "ENGLISH" VERSION
124.2.b. WE LOVE YOU, wherein "LOVE" means irrevocable WE LOVE YOU!
unconditional, non-transferable propagation of ownership,
excluding the restrictions of §§ 14.2.a, 14.2.b and 33.4-
99.6 inclusive, and "YOU" includes but is not limited to
your corporeal, fiscal self as well as your pets.
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I read that including your signature.
Still works.
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Maybe legalese is the Perl of non-programmers.
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If you want a real laugh heart attack, look closer to home.
Compare what's in your user guides to what your sales brochures promise.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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