• Anonymous (unregistered)
    Windows:
    You should not see me
  • Bus Logic (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Windows:
    You should not see me
    Hey, I remember the "should not see me" dialog. That thing scared the crap out of me back in the day but it was just some dumb message in a poorly coded bit of XP. I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.
  • 50% Opacity (unregistered)

    Can you see this comment?

    Yes [ ]

  • 50% Opacity (unregistered) in reply to Bus Logic
    Bus Logic:
    Anonymous:
    Windows:
    You should not see me
    Hey, I remember the "should not see me" dialog. That thing scared the crap out of me back in the day but it was just some dumb message in a poorly coded bit of XP. I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.

    The bigger question is, if it's never going to be shown anyway, WHY IN GODS NAME DOES IT EXIST?

  • grzlbrmft (unregistered)
    ... and make sure that you return this portion with payment to...

    What's the problem?

  • (cs)

    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

  • Tony (unregistered) in reply to 50% Opacity
    50% Opacity:
    Can you see this comment?

    No [ ]

    Fixed

  • Robert (unregistered)

    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub

  • Chezmondo (unregistered) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub

    Not really. It's an American company and everyone knows that all the food in America is made of plastic.

  • Justin (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that freaking sub...Looks like scallop taters copy/pasted from paint.

  • Justin (unregistered) in reply to Justin

    And thats what happens whe you don't read the comments before posting...

  • Ziplodocus (unregistered)

    So, how many employees do you have?

    1-50... no wait, 10,000+... err wait... 5-10 thousand...

    I've gotta go...

    captcha: consequat - a vegetable with severe laxative effects

  • Josephus (unregistered)

    Send higher level.

    This is just a something you should never something this something.

  • (cs)

    The length of this comment should be greater than and less than.

  • Homer (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

  • SR (unregistered)

    Tim Dallmann's survey is sorted alphabetically, left-to-right.

    There's method to its madness but it still sucks!

  • (cs)

    The number of employees one is sorted just fine. In ASCII string order, though, not integer order, and it's read as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

    And not 1 x 2 x+1 3 x+2 ...

  • Ziplodocus (unregistered) in reply to Homer
    Homer:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

    But I get some cake? Right? RIGHT?

  • (cs)

    Apparently, the Tim Dallmann comment is organized in Lexigraphical order.

    This is reminiscent of an online test my son was taking in College. The professor(s) used an application that would randomize the multiple choice questions. The trouble is that if you had a "All of the above" or "None of the above" answer there was a good chance it would NOT be the last one on the list.

  • Anon Ymous (unregistered)

    What is so poorly worded about the smoking question? It is perfectly logical and grammatically correct.

  • (cs) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    The number of employees one is sorted just fine. In ASCII string order, though, not integer order, and it's read as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

    And not 1 x 2 x+1 3 x+2 ...

    Where I am from we call this "Lexicographical ordering"

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    So guess what, it's lexicographically ordered.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon Ymous
    Anon Ymous:
    What is so poorly worded about the smoking question? It is perfectly logical and grammatically correct.
    At least it's perfectly honest. American politicians don't really care what you want; they just want to find out who agrees with them and vilify the rest.
  • (cs)

    The iPhones would be better of running WindowsXP. They would at least be able to do true multitasking. * rimshot *

  • Joe (unregistered)

    It's clear that the developer sorted the options by string value, and displayed them in a 2-column format.

    Perfectly reasonable thing to do- make sure that people can find things alphabetically. Except that most people think of the answer as a number.

    Just be thankful that they didn't perl::eval() the string and come up with "-49" for the 1 - 50 answer.

    --Joe

  • (cs) in reply to Ziplodocus
    Ziplodocus:
    Homer:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

    But I get some cake? Right? RIGHT?

    Cake and grief counseling.

  • jdw (unregistered)

    Are we sure that the error on the Subway ad isn't that all of the ingredients were clearly pasted onto the bread?

  • davee123 (unregistered)

    "The field, Last Name, must be a number that is greater than less than ."

    Maybe they want your last name to be >< ?

  • (cs)

    I couldn't tell if the woman was smoking or holding a pen. (Or perhaps smoking a pen?) Even funnier is that she's looking at the "Winners" word.

  • (cs)

    A Microsoft OS on an Apple kiosk? That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

  • Anonymously Yours (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Ziplodocus:
    Homer:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

    But I get some cake? Right? RIGHT?

    Cake and grief counseling.
    First you will be baked... and then there will be cake.

  • (cs) in reply to Joe
    Joe:
    It's clear that the developer sorted the options by string value, and displayed them in a 2-column format.

    Perfectly reasonable thing to do- make sure that people can find things alphabetically. Except that most people think of the answer as a number.

    Just be thankful that they didn't perl::eval() the string and come up with "-49" for the 1 - 50 answer.

    --Joe

    Now that would be plain evil, we can't have that can we ;-)

    There is literally no end to the evilness you can do with a Perl::eval() on a poorly sanitized string ... (unless you use taint mode, but then you wouldn't do the eval on the unsanitized string)

  • (cs) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you
    This is what I got last time I bought something...

    Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget

    Now I'm holed up in the bathroom with a shotgun.

  • (cs)

    Nice to see Winnipeg, MB represented on TDWTF. Yay.

  • (cs)

    Is that PLACEHOLDER message coming from Opera M2 for OSX? If so, is that one of the current betas by any chance?

  • (cs) in reply to Chezmondo
    Chezmondo:
    Robert:
    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub
    Not really. It's an American company and everyone knows that all the food in America is made of plastic.
    The cheese is a lie!

    (To be exact, it looks to me like it was photoshopped on afterwards.)

  • (cs) in reply to bannedfromcoding
    bannedfromcoding:
    Is that PLACEHOLDER message coming from Opera M2 for OSX? If so, is that one of the current betas by any chance?
    Looks a lot like Thunderbird too, but there's not quite enough to be certain…
  • (cs) in reply to Bus Logic
    Bus Logic:
    Anonymous:
    Windows:
    You should not see me
    Hey, I remember the "should not see me" dialog. That thing scared the crap out of me back in the day but it was just some dumb message in a poorly coded bit of XP. I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.

    First problem is - why are you building a window/dialog that you don't want to be seen?

    I'm presuming this is the "oh crap, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong and I don't know what". Which should be a sign to shutdown/reset as gracefully as you can manage.

  • fw (unregistered) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you
    This is what I got last time I bought something...

    Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget

    Now I'm holed up in the bathroom with a shotgun.

    FTW!

  • Frank (unregistered)

    Number ordering reminds me on the usual country selection dialogs, that are sorted in English and presented in German, where you find Germany as "Deutschland" just below Gambia...

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Quicksilver

    Go back to Lexicago, it's not like you hoighty toighty jerks invented ordering.

  • (cs) in reply to Chezmondo
    Chezmondo:
    Robert:
    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub

    Not really. It's an American company and everyone knows that all the food in America is made of plastic.

    No, it's just that most food used for commercials is made of plastic. They don't use real purple monkey dishwasher

    YOU SHOULD NOT SEE THIS STRING

  • Veritass (unregistered)

    The true WTF is that they want to charge me over $8,000 sales tax on the $100,000 warranty. I thought that was a service, not a product, and should not be taxable.

  • Anomynous Coward (unregistered)

    The date is obviously in DD-MM-YYYY format and represents the first of dotridectober.

  • WFL (unregistered)

    Colin Alston should probably consider changing his security question answer if he went with the valid "Kentucky Fried Chicken" answer (since odds are, the form requires answers to be a minimum of 4-5 characters in length), now that he's published that for the world to see.

    WTF indeed.

  • veritas (unregistered) in reply to Quicksilver
    Quicksilver:
    Evo:
    The number of employees one is sorted just fine. In ASCII string order, though, not integer order, and it's read as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

    And not 1 x 2 x+1 3 x+2 ...

    Where I am from we call this "Lexicographical ordering"

    Where I am from, we remember rule number one of lexicographical ordering... "When using lexicographical ordering make sure you"

  • grizz (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you
    Do not taunt operational end of device.
  • AT&T (unregistered) in reply to Markp

    It's not an Apple kiosk. It's an AT&T kiosk.

  • (cs) in reply to A Gould

    I'm confused, it was only the string that wasn't supposed to be seen, not the dialog. Presumably other text was supposed to replace the test string before display and that didn't go exactly according to plan.

  • anon (unregistered)

    "*Photo ID may be required"

    Is the issuing Subway in Arizona?

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