• (cs) in reply to Jag
    Jag:
    Noob :

    ( "214-555-1212" );

    Isn't that The Irish Girl's phone number?
  • Niall (unregistered)

    When you drag your mouse over the blacked out number it shows 214-555-1212 - Is that a real number?

  • nd (unregistered) in reply to Niall
    Niall:
    When you drag your mouse over the blacked out number it shows 214-555-1212 - Is that a real number?

    Read the comments dude...

  • Wizard Stan (unregistered)

    I can't believe no one has noticed this yet, but if you highlight the text you can totally see the number!

  • Jeremy (unregistered)

    Fail on the anonymized... do a Ctrl+A although, I'm guessing it's not a real number anyway

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    I hope that's not his real phone number, because you can see it by highlighting the text, or by doing a view source...

  • St Mary's Hospital for the Exciting Owls (unregistered) in reply to Wizard Stan
    Wizard Stan:
    I can't believe no one has noticed this yet, but if you highlight the text you can totally see the number!

    Somebody else has done the same WTF some years ago:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Giuliana_Sgrena#Release_of_classified_information_in_US_report

  • (cs)

    The captcha should be improved. It should require comment posters to read previous comments

  • Skippy Lovejoy (unregistered)

    If the real number was 214-555-1212, you needn't anonymize it. That is directory assistance.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    So much for censoring.... highlighting the phone number with your mouse cursor reveals the numbers underneath. Hopefully, you changed the numbers as well, or he might become quite popular.

    It's EVE Online

  • (cs)

    On a vaguely related note, there's a reason that phone numbers should not be stored in a 32-bit signed integer... and that reason is 214-748-3647.

    Some guy in the Dallas area must be really unlucky.

  • (cs) in reply to call me
    call me:
    dave:
    I don't know much about american phone numbers, being english and all, but there seem to be an aweful lot of people with that number - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=214-555-1212&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

    ..and almost all of them are called John!

    You have unwittingly stumbled upon the great Smith/Doe conspiracy

    I bet a lot of them live in Dallas, too.

  • Anonymouse (unregistered)

    Holy crap, did you notice that you can see the number? Golly I wonder if 555-1212 is his real number!! LOL what kind of moron runs this blog!

  • John Smallberries (unregistered) in reply to CaptainSmartass
    CaptainSmartass:
    call me:
    dave:
    I don't know much about american phone numbers, being english and all, but there seem to be an aweful lot of people with that number - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=214-555-1212&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

    ..and almost all of them are called John!

    You have unwittingly stumbled upon the great Smith/Doe conspiracy

    I did some further research and they all have sequentially assigned social security numbers assigned on October 31, 1938.

  • Matt (unregistered)

    Hell, no war-dialing needed. Just highlight the censored phone number in the post!

    This developer must moonlight as a celebrity, cause i've heard his phone number, 555-1212, in all kinds of movies and TV shows. Boy, he's in for a shock when this 1337 hax0r calls him pretending to be Uwe Boll. :)

  • JT (unregistered)

    Yeah....I don't know, but somehow I think the 555 number that shows when you highlight it isn't his phone number...

  • (cs) in reply to Resistance
    Resistance:
    The captcha should be improved. It should require comment posters to read previous comments
    I totally agree. For God's sake, doesn't anybody read A SINGLE comment? I mean, come on, it's dozens of comments, don't you think anybody else would have noticed something that simple by now? A quick sweep through the page would show these comments to be irrelevant before they were posted.

    Please PLEASE Jake highlight any of those comments. It'll at least weed out those who read the blue comments after the main article before they enlighten the world with their "discoveries".

  • John Smallberries (unregistered) in reply to Smash King

    Has anyone commented about the commentators commenting on the comments made by commentators not reading previous comments? Because someone already made those comments.

  • Anonizator (unregistered) in reply to call me

    But the real wtf, that anonymizer does not work ;))

  • anonimated (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234

    this WTF is WTF-ish, too :) Just select the number to reveal what's hiding on the black background :)

  • (cs) in reply to anonimated
    anonimated:
    this WTF is WTF-ish, too :) Just select the number to reveal what's hiding on the black background :)

    Nice catch, Columbo...thanks for finally bringing that to everyone's attention.

  • (cs)

    I'm surprised the anonymized phone number isn't 867-5309 ;)

  • (cs)

    Why not use 867-5309 (it was annoying as a song, might as well be annoying in the code)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

  • (cs) in reply to call me

    555-1212 is an invalid number. 555 is always an invalid exchange and 555-1212 is frequently used in television and movies

  • (cs)

    <irrelevant> In my hometown, the 666 exchange is reserved for government numbers. I appreciate their honesty. </irrelevant>

  • (cs)

    Hey look, if you highlight the blacked-out number you can find out the real number, 555-1212! And I'm the frizt person to notice that, all the way here on the second comments page. Wow, you guys are a bunch of morons.

    That poor guy must be getting all sorts of prank calls now because of this site's irresponsible blogging. Cancel my subscription immediately!

  • (cs) in reply to matt
    matt:
    @dave: NNN-555-1212 is directory enquiries for the area code NNN.

    But his area code is AZI not NNN, fool.

  • slogmeister (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234

    WTF??? Exactly how is a 1 in 10,000,000 chance open this developer up to serious phone calls??? You have a better chance at winning the lottery. Tell you what - here's my area acode: 952. Find me if you can.

  • Drasha (unregistered) in reply to slogmeister
    slogmeister:
    WTF??? Exactly how is a 1 in 10,000,000 chance open this developer up to serious phone calls??? You have a better chance at winning the lottery. Tell you what - here's my area acode: 952. Find me if you can.
    I'm right on it... Could you please wait on line until 27. 7. 2010?
  • 503-XXX-XXXX (unregistered)

    Ummm... you didn't quite anomymize the number... It shows up quite clearly when you simply highlight the text :-) Maybe I should give it a call...

  • Anonymous. (unregistered)

    Better replace phone number wit xxx because I can easy see it just by selecting text.

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234
    214-000-0000 Hello? Nope 214-000-0001 Hello? Nope.

    'Lets see, 111-1111. Lois? Damn! 111-1112. Lois? Damn! '

  • Charles Manson (unregistered) in reply to nspitzer
    nspitzer:
    555-1212 is an invalid number. 555 is always an invalid exchange and 555-1212 is frequently used in television and movies
    It's valid Dial it.
  • (cs)

    I worked on a multi-hundred million dollar project at Fannie Mae writing disclosures: reports which go to wall street investors. These reports were already running on old mainframe systems, and part of our job was to be able to recreate the report on our modern unix systems in the exact same format -- EBCDIC, fixed length, etc. -- so that downstream consumers wouldn't be forced to retool.

    On one disclosure, each record had a phone number field for some kind of point of contact. The business requirement for that report actually mapped the field to a constant... a 202 area code number.

    I just had to figure out what the hell this number could be, so I called it. The number turns out to be the front desk in the lobby of Fannie's DC headquarters. Nice.... I'm sure that the investors will appreciate their financially savvy point of contact being a rent-a-cop.

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is the number of people who evidently subscribe to the theory that if a joke is funny once, or even twice, by GOLLY it would be just HILARIOUS if I repeated the joke too!

  • someguy (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234

    Or just select the black boxes for the real phone number. No computing needed. :)

  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    The real WTF is the number of people who evidently subscribe to the theory that if a joke is funny once, or even twice, by GOLLY it would be just HILARIOUS if I repeated the joke too!
    I don't know what you're talking about since I only read the last comment before mine, but if you highlight the blacked out numbers, you can see that it's 555-1212!! I called it and some woman answered saying she'd give me some "assistance"
  • Mogri (unregistered)

    If you highlight the text, you can see what's underneath! I bet no one on this technology site thought of highlighting the text.

  • Rikki (unregistered)

    You realize you can just highlight the number to see it?

  • sh (unregistered)

    maybe it is his ex-'s phone number.

  • (cs)

    HAY GUYS! I DISCOVERED AN AMIZING SECRET YOU ALL SURELY DIDN'T KNOW YET!

    YOU CAN READ THAT PHONE NUMBER IF YOU HIGHLIGHT THE BLACKED OUT TEXT!

    BUT IT'S A 555 NUMBER, I DON'T THINK IT IS REAL IF YOU ASK ME. BECAUSE THEY DON'T ASSIGN 555 NUMBERS. THAT'S WHY THEY USE THEM IN THE MOVIES.

    IT'S A WONDER NO ONE ELSE FOUND THAT OUT YET. GUESS THAT SHOWS HOW SUPER COOL I AM.

  • (cs) in reply to PSWorx

    OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! STOP THIS MADNESS!

  • (cs)

    so... yeah... I guess I didn't read the comments either and missed that even the "the joke is getting old" joke is getting old. Please accept my apologies.

  • (cs)

    I'd just like to thank this thread for, once again, demonstrating exactly why having "Add Comment" available outside the actual discussion thread is a terrible, terrible, stupid idea.

  • graf0 (unregistered)

    Interesting way to anonimyze the phone number... Black letters on black background... Hehehe... You don't even have to look at the page source. All you have to do is highlight the text with your mouse cursor and mysterious phone number will be revealed.

    Ok, have to go now. I need to make a phone call... :)

  • Bling (unregistered) in reply to dave
    dave:
    I don't know much about american phone numbers, being english and all, but there seem to be an aweful lot of people with that number - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=214-555-1212&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

    Is it just a dummy phone number a bit like http://example.com ?

    Maybe they all use this code?

  • Smart Arse (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    I'd just like to thank this thread for, once again, demonstrating exactly why having "Add Comment" available outside the actual discussion thread is a terrible, terrible, stupid idea.

    By the way, you can highlight the text to see the number....

  • Aoler (unregistered) in reply to Smart Arse
    Smart Arse:
    Zylon:
    I'd just like to thank this thread for, once again, demonstrating exactly why having "Add Comment" available outside the actual discussion thread is a terrible, terrible, stupid idea.

    By the way, you can highlight the text to see the number....

    Me too!

  • (cs) in reply to Aoler
    Aoler:
    Smart Arse:
    Zylon:
    I'd just like to thank this thread for, once again, demonstrating exactly why having "Add Comment" available outside the actual discussion thread is a terrible, terrible, stupid idea.

    By the way, you can highlight the text to see the number....

    Me too!

    Pls send me teh codes.

  • Lenny (unregistered)

    DENTAL PLAN

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