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No downside eh?
The Signal
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By October 20th, 2020, it will be too late... The 12th is the critical date. Or is it December 10th?
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Lots of people have suggested good reasons why the UPS one isn't really a WTF at all; I'll add one more: the USPS has change of address information that UPS almost certainly lacks.
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What does it say on the hand dryer screen?
I'm guessing: "No keyboard present. Press F1 to continue."
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They clearly have a programmer working on their team there. Axim #1: Laziness is a virtue -- don't do the work if somebody else has already done it for you!
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Today: GOTO 50
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So I'd get crappy bacon from the hand dryer, wtf?
Push button, receive bacon.
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I've had the experience of UPS sending me a postcard because my address was incomplete on the package. Actually, there was just a space in between the 2nd and 3rd digits of my house number. Apparently the US Postal Service can make intuitive leaps in address interpretation that are beyond the capabilities of UPS.
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Yeah, I accidentally switched two numbers on my Amazon account, One package was shipped via (overnight) UPS the other was sent via USPS, I got the USPS mail first and had to call UPS to tell them the correct address, and got it a day or so later.
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My computer said that the other day.. so I reseated my keyboard plug, hit f1 and I was good to go. :D
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TRWTF is that the date reads 10/12/20.
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The WTF with the UPS message is the person confusing UPS with USPS as UPS can't delivery to Post Office addresses. That is why they send a post card so they can get an actual street address to deliver to.
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My guess, the USPS is already going to your mailbox (and everyone else's) anyway. UPS has to send a truck special. One clearly has the advantage in playing hunches, seemingly obvious or not.
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I have personally received a postcard from UPS telling me they didn't have my address and so couldn't ship me the order.
The crazy thing is that I went over the address and there wasn't a thing missing or wrong. Not a goddamn thing. It was a computer printout, so it's not sloppy handwriting. I wonder if the driver just played hooky that day.
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Can we move the goalposts and have a design review, please?
If not, can I be on the other team?
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Yeah, but can it play doom? ;)
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It's the one where Fry dreams of the underwear and I think he gets rich in the episode because of 1000 years of interest on his bank account or something like that.
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They were just showing when Gore got his 7th level of Vice President. You can't get an award like a Nobel Prize without being of at least 7th level. I thought everyone knew that...
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But the real question everyone has:
Does it run Linux?
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I think I'm relieved to hear that it's for advertising and not that they have a computer-controlled hand dryer. Hey, I'm proud to be a geek, but there are some things that just have no reason to be computerized. Like, a few years ago I bought a toaster that turned out to be "computer controlled". What exactly does a computer do for a toaster? Isn't a simple timer, like toasters have used for, what, a hundred years?, plenty good. And that computer-controlled toaster was extremely inconsistent: I could leave it on the same setting and one day the toast would be underdone and the next day it would be burned. Whatever it was trying to be intelligent about, it didn't work.
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The real problem is: A hand dryer doesn't need a computer that complicated! Actually probably it doesn't need computer at all. Actually, the other problem is public washrooms don't have paper towels. You should put paper towel also.
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Gee. I'd think that a computer in an 11 year time warp would be relevant to corporate IT. But what do I know?
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This is going to happen when the user is the heat sink.
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I think it's fairly obvious that a computer isn't needed for a hand dryer. I think you'll find it hard to find anyone who believes otherwise. It's either a forgery, or there to dispense adverts.
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No, that's the promo for An Inconvenient Truth that the Futurama team made. So really, there is no WTF here. Here's a link to it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4CqZ6DdqA
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Apart from the odd date, not sure what the WTF is on that one. I am currently investigating a bug where we need the users to confirm the time it happened and it's amazing how many people don't bother. A prompt like this may help.
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Maybe the last person in the toilet had a last name with three a's. That's invalid :\
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Then after about 6 months, I finally got an Amex bill in the mail, and it was clear what the problem was. The street I live on has a long name, and I always listed my address as "123 Extremely Long Street Name, Apt 456". My address was printed properly on the bill, but the window on the envelope wasn't wide enough and the apartment number was cut off. I guess that day I got some other mail that was properly addressed, and the mailman was able to figure it out. I called up Amex and told them to change the format of my address to "456-123 Extremely Long Street Name".
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You see, it makes perfect sense- They probably threw a Dual-Core Pentium IV Prescott chip in there, and needed a was to dissipate the heat! If only more people would have dried their hands before it overheated.....
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UPS can't deliver to P.O. boxes; only the US Postal Service can. In that case, sending a postcard to the P.O. box asking for a physical address to deliver to is a smart idea.
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how about releasing a special linux distribution with kernel optimizations for running hand dryer software?
since we already have, for example, edubuntu customized for educational institutions, why not release 'dryerbuntu'?
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PCs in hand dryers? This is only the beginning of a dangerous trend. Hasn't anybody seen the hand dryer scene in "Ghost in the Machine" ??!
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The postcard thing actually works. UPS and the like perfectly know that they are employing underpaid drones to deliver parcels. Hence, when in doubt, they rely on the regular underpaid, but experienced mailpeople which have worked the district for decades. It's what you call a fallback solution.
One of my colleagues expected a parces from Hrms to be delivered to our company address. The system somehow messed up the dataset, resulting in "F. LASTNAME 31, S-RANDOMGARBAGE- ALL 12345"
Obviously, the drone despaired and sent a postcard. It successfully reached my colleague at FIRSTNAME LASTNAME COMPANY NAME 31, SOMEBIG ALLEY 12345 TOWN
and it's not like we'd have our last names displayed on the companies door plate.
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Since it has a monitor, adds?