UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...
BORK!BORK!BORK! The scales are empty, and so what else can there be but a 404?
Today's entry in the pantheon of bork takes us to the UK city of Coventry, where a set of scales at a Tesco store shows the number 404. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Rowan Archer, the scales have logged off and done the computing equivalent of popping down to the pub.
It's an odd number to choose. Hopefully it's a device identifier rather than a message code. After all, netizens have long associated the number with a browser being unable to find a resource on a server. 404 means not found. 400 is a bad request and, in fact, pretty much anything starting with a 4 generally means the client has likely done something naughty and the server is patiently replying with the computing equivalent of...
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