Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s

sandbagger (654585) writes with word of a Y2K-style bug showing up in Y2K14: "The glitch originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles during an automated data transfer of nearly 400,000 records. The records of males born between 1993 and 1997 were mixed with those of men born a century earlier. The federal agency didn't know it because the state uses a two-digit code to indicate birth year." I wonder where else two-digit years are causing problems; I still see lots of paper forms that haven't made the leap yet to four digits.

Y10K Compliant

[darkain]

Get with the times! Switch to Y10K compliance already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... [wikipedia.org]

Good Luck, I'm Behind 14,000 Skeletons

[Joe Gillian]

It's clear that Pennsylvania was taking a cue from Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and attempting to build an unstoppable army of 14,000 skeletons. I wonder what the Pennsylvania governor's necromancy score is?

Resurrection

[ColdWetDog]

I see the plot of a new Micheal Bay (or maybe J.J. Abrams) movie: The US military, unable to get qualified recruits to fight the new Zombie wars, takes a cue from the Zombie playbook and develops the technology to bring life old soldiers. After a bit of a difficult start, the program exceeds all expectations until the previously dead soldiers revolt at being put back in the grave and bring Washington to it's knees by filing for Social Security benefits.

Re: dmv

[kootsoop]

It did! It was called the Department of Manure Vehicles (AKA horses) then.

Re:Good Luck, I'm Behind 14,000 Skeletons

[Anonymous Coward]

Pennsylvania, Transylvania, it's all the same.

Re:Technically, it's not a "draft notice"

[xfade551]

Technically, the notice is called a "Failure to Register with the Selective Service Notice". I had one forwarded to me after I had already been in the Army 4 years (I enlisted a little before my 18th birthday), and was already serving in Afghanistan. I called the contact number, and the exchange went something like - Me: "Hi,this is Specialist [MyRealName], U.S. Army. I received one of your Failure to Register notices. I'm kinda in Afghanistan right now, what am I supposed to do with it?" Helpdesk person: "Er, umm... our apologies... umm, Soldier. Uh... thanks for serving. We'll update your record. What's your Social?"

Year-10,000 updates?

[Futurepower(R)]

Our programs use 4-digit years. We tell our customers that they must notify us by the year 9,995 if they want year-10,000 updates. And, if we are expected to go to a different galaxy, they must pay for travel.

Re:I'm sure both of the affected are rather flatte

[Austerity Empowers]

But with the usual mess in government records, quite a number of dead souls.

The dead are often a pivotal election demographic.

Re:any responses

[Austerity Empowers]

"Ulysses you old rat bastard, I'm not fallin' for that trick again. Let 'em secede."

Re:I'm sure both of the affected are rather flatte

[CurryCamel]

I think any election a century or so ago qualifies now.

Re:Y10K Compliant

[__aaclcg7560]

Something I'm looking forward to in my retirement years to make a few extra bucks.

Re:Good Luck, I'm Behind 14,000 Skeletons

[__aaclcg7560]

I tried to build an unstoppable army of 14,000 vampires until I realized that they suck in battle.