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The minoleum bug

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From: the.happy.hippy.nntp@ntlworld.invalid (The Happy Hippy)
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Subject: The minoleum bug
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by: The Happy Hippy - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:24 UTC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline's booking system.

The problem occurs because American Airlines' systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia was born in 1922, rather than 2022.

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Y2K was 24 years ago. By then the world had spent billions on purging two-digit year dates.

Just how incompetent and technologically backward is America ?

The poor, old, sad, frustrated zero (Re: The minoleum bug)

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by: Loose Cannon - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:49 UTC

In article <20240428082410.00000cb4@ntlworld.invalid>,
The Happy Hippy <the.happy.hippy.nntp@ntlworld.invalid> wrote:

> A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an
> airline's booking system.

But you're STILL an old, hateful, sick, frustrated zero, and
that's what you'll be until you die.

And you know it.

And it's driving you crazy.

LOL!

Subject	Author
The minoleum bug	The Happy Hippy
The poor, old, sad, frustrated zero (Re: The minoleum bug)	Loose Cannon