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andoriyu · 2020-04-09 19:50:23+00:00

>7 digits were for plebs.

TheButlerian | karma -13 | avg karma -0.18 · | 2021-03-22 06:30:43+00:00

From where did you get the 8 digits you clown?

notreallyserio | karma 1852 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2022-02-16 17:40:38

On the other hand, the emergency number from IT Crowd only had one 7.

Ballas | karma 504 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2020-12-03 07:55:16+00:00

> because our fraudsters aren't dumb enough to pick sequential numbers

That is quite a claim you make there!

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wklauss | karma 1305 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2017-04-24 20:23:12

> AKA Highway robbery and Google doesn't do any better. It should be in the single digits.

Why single digits?

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utkarshkukreti | karma 1666 | avg karma 49.0 · | 2011-03-04 11:24:18

Not anymore. Someone registered 7, 8 and even 9.

j_wtf_all_taken | karma 147 | avg karma 0.83 · | 2021-06-13 10:26:02+00:00

> Not sure were you have your numbers.

They're made up.

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qwerty456127 | karma 8748 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2022-06-28 06:52:03

> they gave you a number like you were Patrick McGoohan. It'd be like 71477,134

So nice. I bloody wish we still had numeric IDs instead of email addresses and nicknames.

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mrmonkeyman | karma -13 | avg karma -0.03 · | 2019-06-30 06:30:16+00:00

7 is our special number.

asafira | karma 589 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2017-09-13 05:39:21+00:00

I feel bad for those that run this person's random digits code and gets one of the numbers in his table.

merb | karma 3754 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2018-04-29 19:27:46

> Heck Googling just one, I found a Youtube documentary that chronicles the 40-year history of jingles associated with one of those numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv8zqpl8mI

NSFW:

In germany there was 0190 76 76 76 - come play with me. (seven - sex, seven - sex, etc.)

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ralphc | karma 1093 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2011-10-18 21:13:01+00:00

If Steve was going to crush them, why bother to buy them, especially for nine digits?

chrisweekly | karma 7226 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2024-02-08 20:59:08

Stepping back a bit, I find it kind of strange that knowledge of a 7-digit number is all that's required for anyone in the world to (by default) immediately interrupt someone.

deltaoneseven | karma 52 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2022-03-24 17:58:40

The first thing wrong with the system is that number. 69k. Even if nobody paid 69k. Who made up that BS number and for what insidious purpose?

cyphar | karma 11934 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2019-04-09 11:03:23+00:00

Presumably it's the number which are not fit-for-purpose.

slg | karma 31580 | avg karma 6.29 · | 2021-02-04 02:59:24+00:00

Sure, if you want to be pedantic. However the specific 7/8 number was unprecedentedly high compared to numbers used in previous propositions to the extent that it probably shouldn't have even been included in a honest piece of legislation.

lkxijlewlf | karma 1013 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2022-04-21 11:40:40

But why? Why would this be the number he wanted?

sigfubar | karma 288 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2018-06-23 12:12:27

But this number has nothing to do with the cost to society. Some yuppie whose keyboard doesn’t work right doesn’t represent society at all.

nraynaud | karma 3750 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2022-06-09 04:42:38

"The eight digits entered by the user actually results in not one but six keys. That is because the system had a (never used) audience feature made of levels. That was to allow subdividing memberships into Cinema, Sports, Documentaries and so on."

"so on." means porn :)

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tekla | karma 2501 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2024-04-11 01:45:06

These aren't numbers