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I don't get the Star Chart one…
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It says "frist"
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*looks again*
Oh.
Sorry; after reading so many of @accalia's @accalias, I'm almost immune to spotting them :laughing:
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I find that Samsung one enlightening…
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TRWTF is "Blue-Ray".
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Naughty article writer! SPANK!
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No, Andrew A, you are not supposed to read the 338 page contract. What part of, "Just click OK," don't you understand?
I swear, the only way Samsung could make this worse would be to pop up a page, "You have just paid $500 for your new TV. Before using it, you should read and agree to the terms and conditions. There is a fee of $50,000 to read the terms and conditions; or you can just click 'agree' and get on with your ride straight into hell."
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@raceprouK seems to have inadvertently done one of the more inventive frist posts in quite some time
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The Samsung TV one is not a technological WTF, it's a legal WTF.
The WTF is that somehow, in the current legal system, you have to write 338 motherfucking pages of boilerplate, composed of either incredibly obvious stuff, legal terms you won't understand, and three hundred variations of "SAMSUNG HAS THE RIGHT TO SCREW YOU OVER IN ANY WAY WE CHOOSE TO, YOU AGREE NOT TO SUE SAMSUNG, YOU WILL NOT SCREW OVER SAMSUNG". And then you have to pretend you want your users to read it, and the users have to pretend they read it, and if anyone dares skip any of these pointless rituals they will get royally screwed over by a court 10 years later when someone claims eating their TV made them sick and the judge cannot find a statement in its EULA saying you agree not to eat the TV.
And people complain about Java being too verbose. Billions of dollars are wasted on this legal crap, every fucking year.
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What's even more “fun” is that with consumer devices, a court might well decide that the EULA is bogus anyway and set it aside in favour of the usual local consumer protection setup anyway. It's really wasted.
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You don't have to, though. This is a company with lawyers run amuck.
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Wait - How did they get my Amex account???? :flushed:
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But... according to WikiPedIa the flight happened on August 30th. Maybe it's a Push... from the Future!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery
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Blimey -- Littlehaven. Used to go through Littlehaven on the train every day on the way to and from school.
Well, not every day, obviously, not Saturdays and Sundays, and not during holidays.
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The WikiPedia article mentions its first flight, but the Star Chart message is about its frist flight, so no contradiction.
Filed under: I have NFC what WikiPedla is talking about.
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Ohhhh! My silly little brian totally autocorrected that during interpretation, didn't even notice it!
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Another great american invention?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-happened-to-the-rights-of-the-accused/2015/04/30/8b4cf4ca-ef74-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html
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Not to mention frist being a meme round these parts.
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No, they could make it worse by requiring you to state that you have read it. "All you have to do is sell us your soul and state that you've read it when you haven't, and then you can use the item you've already purchased."
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They already have that. First of all, there's the text we can see (emphasis mine):
We can't see the rest. But then there is the check box above, which states simply and clearly, "I agree."
So you can spend, conservatively, six hours reading the terms and conditions, or you can just click agree to get on with using your Blu-Ray player. I mean, a straightforward estimate of 6 words per line by 12 lines yields 24,000 words...¼ the length of a novel.
Could it possibly be clearer what they want you do do? And that is the point of my other message: They could make it clearer by charging you an enormous fee to read the terms and conditions...or just click here to agree no problem.
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Not the same at all. In one case, the word "should" is used. The user is simply disregarding the unsolicited advice. No lie is required. In the other case, the user must state that he has read the lengthy agreement,, that is lie, or actually read it, which no one (or hardly anyone) does.
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Well, okay, I guess that's true enough. But if you read between the lines, that is really...
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They could also disable the checkbox until all 338 pages have been displayed.
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Well, that would be nasty. But it really wouldn't achieve the desired goal. The desired goal these days is to have you agree to Terms and Conditions in which...
...all without, of course, reading the agreement. Because if you actually read the agreement, you might discover there is something bad in there you might not want to agree to.
So these days, companies are actually expending extra effort to ensure you quickly click "I agree" without actually reading the 24,000 word agreement. It's much better that way from their perspective, because that way you won't actually find out you agreed to bad terms until your soul is already on its way to hell. By then, of course, the agreement is irrevocable.
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Which is a large part of why courts are really likely to not enforce that “agreement” to the letter when it comes to consumer products. They tend to reason that if the company is deliberately causing a device to be sold to consumers, then no fancy agreement is necessary to use that device as it was obviously meant to be used.
Which is why some of these companies ought to not just get their “agreements” drawn up by people experienced in corporate law, but also have some meaningful input from consumer law experts. If nothing else, it'd save a lot on legal fees because they'd know that they could omit most of the time spent on the corporate lawyers…
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Some installers require you to scroll all the way down the text before enabling the OK button.
Can't think of any examples off-hand, though ...
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Not an installer, but EVE Online used to (does?) do this.
They pretty much didn't expect you to read it, I guess. On the top of the window it clearly said: "Scroll to bottom to continue". The actual EULA, of course, contained the usual "YOU MUST READ THIS" thing. But knowing CCP (the company behind EVE) they really just put it there because they had to.
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There's a Fed EX Office near here, that has computers you can rent by the minute. I've never bothered to buy my own printer, so I use them once in a while. The agreements on those require you to scroll all the way to the bottom before you can agree.
There are two agreements, but the first is about a page long and the second is just 4-5 lines or so; no big deal.
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I don't get the "Where your money went" one.
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The categories look like those of a personal budget, so - among other things - a ten-thousand-dollar phone bill?
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Is that a problem? There's no reason why the poster cannot spend that much. His caption doesn't say anything about how rich he is. Maybe :wtf: is the poster making this submission only to tell us:
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The rail replacement one manages to have two points A at different locations. Schroedinger's Railway? The bus is simultaneously in a state of being at both bus stops, but when someone gets onto a bus the other one disappears. Anybody who knows about the Southern Railway will realise that reality is going to be more absurd than any speculation.
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So what you're saying is, Faust should have read the EULA for Helen of Troy a bit more carefully? Unfortunately for him, he studied magic but not law.
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Added to "fanfic ideas" folder ;)
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Well, there's your problem (to quote Adam Savage). You installed "Star Chart", not "Start Chart". Read those descriptions in the iStore more carefully.
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Regarding the picture beside the Star Wars collection. This is what happens when the marketing heavily retouches the photograph of one of the stars, in this case Yoda. You can hardly recognize the guy after all the "improvements."
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This is Southern Railway. They were masters of Discologic before it was even named such.
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Poor Brian...
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Can't think of any examples off-hand, though ...
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Doh! Caught in the act!
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If a small balloon bursts and nobody notices, does it make a sound?
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No, but it may make a bad movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoyhi0
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I'm sorry, is that a reference to Sodastream bottles hypothetically going pop?
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No, it's a reference to the movie I embedded the trailer for, in which a drug mule gains super powers when her drug balloon pops inside her
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That sounds brilliant. Could be a possible plot for Crank 3
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That was how much was spent in 7 days! So averaging something like 10 million a year... Anyway, his comment was "Wow! I guess this is how the 1% lives." meaning "I'm not rich, but I can imagine this is what a rich person's bill may be like".
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And I thought Peter Parker getting superpowers from a spider-bite was ridiculous… Doesn't stop Spiderman being good, but you have to agree, that method of getting superpowers is a bit ridiculous
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Oh, it's hilaribad. CinemaSins did a pretty decent rundown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rZmnJ66Po
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a 16 minute "everything wrong with" video? That's probably twice as long as the longest one of those I've seen so far!