{"id":8,"date":"2005-12-22T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-04-07T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T19:42:47","slug":"i-crashed-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2005\/i-crashed-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"I Crashed Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just crashed the debit card reader at Walmart. It had an Ingenico label on it. Here&#8217;s what I did&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Selected English<br \/>\n2. Swiped my card<br \/>\n3. The teller asked if it was credit and I said &#8220;yeah sure&#8221;<br \/>\n4. She said &#8220;Press Cancel and select Credit&#8221;<br \/>\n5. I hit &#8220;Credit&#8221;, which was right there on the screen next to &#8220;ATM&#8221;<br \/>\n6. It started to authorize<br \/>\n7. The teller exclaimed &#8220;Oh no you have to hit Cancel!&#8221; and started hitting buttons<br \/>\n8. The keys she punched obviously set the reader back to the start screen<br \/>\n9. I attempted to follow her advice, swiping and hitting Cancel.<br \/>\n10. This failed, but we repeated it 2 or 3 times<br \/>\n11. During the last attempt, the reader screen went blank<br \/>\n12. It flashed black, then white, then posted a boot screen, something about Initializing, incrementing a percentage<br \/>\n13. Eventually the Walmart logo scrolled up and down the screen for about 4 minutes<br \/>\n14. Finally dropped me back to start &#8211; another teller came by and said &#8220;Run the card through the cash machine&#8221;, and that worked.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit surreal to have something as trivial as a card reader malfunction like that&#8230; makes me wonder if I could get it to crash again&#8230;Maybe Ingenico needs to consider a name change&#8230; Ungenico?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just crashed the debit card reader at Walmart. 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