SlashNOT

Matthew writes: The editors of SlashNOT have announced that they lack the technical capability to fix the infamous ‘$’ bug that has afflicted the site since it’s initiation.

Principle editor Matthew explains. “See, we stole the code that runs this site. We don’t really know anything about it. And, we hacked the server it runs on, so we don’t actually know much about it either. The administrator of that site long ago secured it but apparently doesn’t know that SlashNOT is hosted on it. So basically, we’ve lost administrative access to the server and couldn’t repair the code even if we knew how to, which we don’t.

“Of course, the bug only expresses when a $ is followed by a number–and how often does that really happen? We have figured out that if you include the HTML escape sequence $ the system will display a $. We don’t know why that works either.