{"id":11158,"date":"2018-01-18T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/news-4929\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T04:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:30:16","slug":"news-4929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/news-4929\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: What are the odds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:00:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet filter is installed at this site, and in the beginning, there are complaints from users who can’t get to their favorite non-business sites, says an IT pilot fish working there.<\/p>\n

But after six months and lots of explanations to users, the complaints have stopped. “Then one Saturday evening, a user called me,” fish says.<\/p>\n

“He called to report that something must be wrong, because he could get to his lottery numbers tonight.<\/p>\n

“I told him thanks, and that I would inform the individual in charge of the filter on Monday morning, as it wasn’t stopping anything production-critical during the weekend hours.<\/p>\n

“I still can’t decide which is funnier: the fact that apparently every day for nearly six months this user tried to get to his lottery numbers even though the page should have never loaded again — or that, when he actually was able to, he reported it as a problem.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:00:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Internet filter is installed at this site, and in the beginning, there are complaints from users who can’t get to their favorite non-business sites, says an IT pilot fish working there.<\/p>\n

But after six months and lots of explanations to users, the complaints have stopped. “Then one Saturday evening, a user called me,” fish says.<\/p>\n

“He called to report that something must be wrong, because he could get to his lottery numbers tonight.<\/p>\n

“I told him thanks, and that I would inform the individual in charge of the filter on Monday morning, as it wasn’t stopping anything production-critical during the weekend hours.<\/p>\n

“I still can’t decide which is funnier: the fact that apparently every day for nearly six months this user tried to get to his lottery numbers even though the page should have never loaded again — or that, when he actually was able to, he reported it as a problem.”<\/p>\n

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