@bnt said:
Well, I hope it's a bit quicker, because the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx will be assuming control in 2112...
What, you think those two are not related?
@bnt said:
Well, I hope it's a bit quicker, because the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx will be assuming control in 2112...
What, you think those two are not related?
@Bert said:
Chances are the rings lopgo is copywirtten and the store would not be allowed to reproduce them. Perhaps it's part of the IP protection policy of the bakery.
You're not wrong. However, they are still going to offend the precious snowflakes at the Olympic Movement:
@Wikipedia said:
wp:Olympic_symbols#Criticism: The Olympic Movement is very protective of its symbols; among other things, it claims an exclusive copyright on any arrangement of five rings, irrespective of alignment, color or lack thereof, as well as to any use of the word Olympic.
@ammoQ said:
If I understand you correctly, they were looking for a warehouse worker. You should not be surprised that the people applying there did not write perfect applications like you would expect from people applying for a senior developer position.
Living and working in Korea, I handle a lot of applications for the few jobs in my company that require English speaking skills. Our work, though not related to software, very much requires people who can read and write in an accurate, proper, and formal style.
Most of the applications we get from non-native English speakers (mostly South and South-East Asian) have some errors, but you can see they put a little effort into writing their resumes and cover letters.
The level of applications from American and Australian expatriates, however, is absolutely horrendous. The look like they wrote them in notepad.exe using their elbows. After a too many long island ice teas.
And let's not forget the pictures they include. You would expect a formal headshot, but a lot of the pictures seem to have been taken at the tail end of some pretty nasty parties. Also, some people send a picture taken in front of a mirror, with the camera visible.
I don't know what they teach in American and Australian colleges, but formal English does not seem to be in the curriculum.
Basically, I sort the resumes in two piles: Native speakers and non-native speakers. The non-native ones I forward upstairs, and native ones I show around our department for laughs.
@bnt said:
Well, I hope it's a bit quicker, because the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx will be assuming control in 2112...
What, you think those two are not related?
Final update on this story. The lower courts handed out their verdict today: 2 years jail time.
Though he won't spend that much time in jail (this being in a Nordic country, after all), 2 years is a pretty harsh sentence, more than you would get for attempted manslaughter or molesting a child (!).
He will have to pay 500,000 Euros back to the gambling company. He managed to spend 250,000 Euros before being caught, the remaining 250,000 is frozen on his bank account.
Apparently, this guy also told about the bug to his friend (which indicates this was a system-wide bug), who managed to take out 20,000 Euros before the whole scheme was unravelled. The friend got 6 months probation.
@Daid said:
I wonder how many people have just transfered a 1000 euros or so and then stopped cause they didn't want to trigger anything. How do you explain a sudden extra 500.000 to the taxes?
You'd think they would want to find out, wouldn't you? At least publicly they did not talk about there being other cases.
Maybe the bug was confined to a single player account?
As for the extra monies, the guy is unemployed, and apparently spent all the money at other gambling sites, stocks and just buying stuff (probably alcohol). So he's not going to be paying back much anything.
The prosecutors are demanding a 3-year jail sentence. His defense is arguing that because the security systems sucked, he shouldn't go to jail, but be on probation instead.
@ZippoLag said:
may I ask wich was the site and if the bug is still up there?
no, I don't want to get rich by clicking, why?
(link is in Finnish, sorry about that)
A Finnish man is suspected of defrauding 1,000,000 euros from an internet gambling site.
In 2006, he was transferring 17 euros between his accounts on the site. Lo and behold, the money appeared on the destination account, and yet remained on the original account. WWFSMD?
He transfers monies around, until he reaches 10,000 euros of free money. Tries to move it to his bank account, no good. Seems banks check for transfers of 10,000 euros and up. Transfer is invalidated, gambling site notices error, removes extra monies from account. They don't fix the bug, though. Or do much anything else, either.
Well, failing just means you weren't clever enough.
Man starts moving money around his gambling accounts again. "How much should I go for?", maybe thinking. How about a million euros?
So, eventually there's a million euros on his account at the gambling site. Banks check for transfers of 10,000 euros and over, so man only moves 9,000 euros at a time. No problem. No one notices.
Time passes, man keeps taking out 9,000 euros at a time. Has taken out 500,000 euros already.
Come last January, man is in a hurry. Types 19,000 euros by accident. Bank's automated system kicks in. I guess someone at the bank finally wakes up, finds out what's been happening, contacts gambling site, police arrest man.
IMHO, there are three WTFs here:
1. The transfer bug that would deposit money in one account without removing it from another.
2. The gambling site apparently had no systems to verify transfers from an account on the site to an external bank account, no matter what the amount is.
3. Even after getting caught the first time, no accounts were removed, no one was banned, no checks were added.