| Re: Oyster Card System Failure |
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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: MIGMIG Date: Jul 25, 2008 14:37
On Jul 25, 10:29Â pm, "tim....." yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> On 25 Jul, 18:45, Paul Corfield dsl.pipex.com> wrote:>
>>>> While everyone is enjoying the card hacking speculation I don't think
>>>> this problem is anything to do with it.
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>>> I'd be interested in hearing then why suddenly oyster goes down twice
>>> in 2 weeks , the 1st time trashing 60K cards, if it was just some
>>> "data upload error" that was being bounced around as the official
>>> excuse. Data errors don't mess up hardware.
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>>> B2003
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>> Of course they can - incorrect data downloaded to cards can easily
>> makethem inoperable.
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> Only if you design your systems wrongly.
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> Incorrect data in the validators could easily make them not accept cards,
> but it shouldn't cause cards to be trashed unless it has been specifically
> designed to do so.
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>> Both today anda couple of weeks ago are being put
>> down to Transys.& no hacking fix.
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> Hm, so we are told. Â It doesn't seem entirely believable.
The whole point of consultants is to be paid obscene amounts of money
to take the blame for management decisions that were made before the
consultants were hired.
(I generally think of New Labour as consultants to the ruling business
interests of this country.)
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