Financial
- An error in the payment terminal code for Bank Of Queensland rendered many devices inoperable for up to a week. The problem was determined to be an incorrect hexadecimal number conversion routine. When the device was to tick over to 2010, it skipped 6 years to 2016, causing terminals to decline customer's cards as expired.
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“Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
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—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)