Hating the “Deutsche Post”
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I just spend about an hour to print some stamps which I bought from the “Deutsche Post”.
- my PDF-Reader (evince) does not execute JavaScript (which I appreciate very much - it’s a f**king PDF-displayer, not a turing machine)
- the Deutsche Post java-webapplet successfully rebootet my computer twice and crashed my X-Server twice too. The problem only occurs when compiz is used - metacity runs flawless.
- After all this trouble suddenly I was not able to print one of my stamps, since it was “already printed” as the Acrobate Reader (but only the windows version - the linux version did not get that far) and the web-applet claimed. This was fixed in 10 secs by an online-chat-support-guy (I was really supprised).
After all this trouble something came two my mind: Why the hack do they all this to try to keep me from printing some sheet of paper twice? If this is, what their online-stamp-system is secured by, they’ve probably did not realize, how a computer works (these days) - we are not (yet?) living in a TCPA-World.
… my mother would be able to hack their system by simply using a copying machine.