• Peter (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    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.
    What makes you think that sort of behaviour is confined to American politicians?
  • (cs) in reply to veritas
    veritas:
    Quicksilver:
    Where I am from we call this "Lexicographical ordering"
    Where I am from, we remember rule number one of lexicographical ordering... "Lexicographical make ordering sure using when you"
    FFTY.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Markp
    Markp:
    50% Opacity:
    Bus Logic:
    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?

    To increase the chance of it being reported. Just because the user shouldn't see it doesn't mean they won't. You have to admit, a dialog like this makes the user feel special and not at all guilty for reporting it. There's no chance they'll think their own lack of comprehension is causing the error.

    Yes, but the "should not see me" dialog that we were originally talking about was non-harmful and didn't need to be reported at all. I really don't think it had anything to do with making it easy to report to the "issue". It seems pretty clear to me that the dialog should never have been user visible in the first place.

  • Miltox (unregistered)

    The first one isn't a WTF... when you call from a landline it'll automatically report your address to the 911 operator. It doesn't work the same for a mobile phone so you have to tell them where you are.

  • (cs) in reply to Miltox
    Miltox:
    The first one isn't a WTF... when you call from a landline it'll automatically report your address to the 911 operator. It doesn't work the same for a mobile phone so you have to

    FTFY

  • PITA (unregistered) in reply to Ziplodocus

    The cake is a lie!

  • VAXcat (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    And whatever you do, don't lesnerize!

  • (cs) in reply to Anomynous Coward
    Anomynous Coward:
    The date is obviously in DD-MM-YYYY format and represents the first of dotridectober.
    tridectober actually, as december is the 12th month because they later added July and August.
  • Neil (unregistered)

    The placeholder string is for an alert that should have already been reported, and therefore does not need to be reported again. Except somehow it is. Oops!

  • J (unregistered) in reply to Justin
    Justin:
    ContraCorners:
    Veritass:
    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.
    Oh for crying out loud! $8,000.00 is *obviously* the sales tax on the $400.00 grill.

    Hmm, I guess Obama started the VAT?

    Policies regarding tax on services vary from state to state. More states that are in revnue trouble are trying to make services taxable.

  • //Rumen (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    Candlejack strikes aga......

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    Precisely what I was going to say, bro. As part of mandatory test protocol, the Enrichment Center will stop lying to you in five four three

    As part of testing protocol, the Enrichment Center is required to inform you that when testing is completed, you will be baked, and then there will be cake.

  • Pierre (unregistered)

    The puzzling order of the survey questions ("Number of Employees") could be due to the fact that some survey software randomizes the order of the questions, in case the position of a question would predispose or bias the person answering the survey.

  • a passerby (unregistered)

    This comment has been intentionally left blank.

  • Ditto (unregistered) in reply to 50% Opacity
    50% Opacity:
    The bigger question is, if it's never going to be shown anyway, WHY IN GODS NAME DOES IT EXIST?

    Only reason I ever do it is as a form of humorous comment/documentation.

    I've created logic such as:

    if some condition then do something else if some other condition then do something else ... else if some "impossible" condition then // you shouldn't be here ... all other conditions met, nothing left ... ( message"Congratulations!! You've won the Spanish Inquisition Lottery!" else // fallout ... end if

    because, you know .. nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition ... :)

  • Ditto (unregistered) in reply to Pierre
    Pierre:
    The puzzling order of the survey questions ("Number of Employees") could be due to the fact that some survey software randomizes the order of the questions, in case the position of a question would predispose or bias the person answering the survey.

    Actually, it appears to be sorted as strings, not numbers .. the comas and hyphens create the word-break, which allows "10," to show up before "101", etc.

  • .NetRolller 3D (unregistered)

    The number one rule of writing warnings: make sure you do not cut off the end of

  • Nitpicker (unregistered)
    "I saw this while walking past an AT&T store," Chris Clennon, "at least it's not a blue screen!"

    So who is this Chris Clennon guy, and why are you addressing him publicly in your Error'd column?

    Oh -- you left out a verb after his name -- a very common occurrence in your articles.

    CAPTCHA: validus; even the Romans knew how to proofread.

  • a non y mous (unregistered)

    That's a pretty funky looking sandwich, too.

  • Tobias (unregistered)

    The ordering of numbers is perfectly logical (albeit confusing): It is alphabetically ordered, where comma comes before 0 and 0 comes before 1. The strings (containing numerical intervals) are then sorted in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom fashion.

  • Ric (unregistered)

    It's meant to say "and make sure that you return this portion with payment to MTS Allstream Inc.", obviously.

  • (cs)

    Sometimes, I dream of cheese.

  • Tarek (unregistered)

    Last one not an Error'd. Most likely a poorly designed survey. In order to answer 'No' all you have to do is leave the yes radiobutton blank. But if you clicked it and intended to answer 'No', you'd have to reload the page.

  • Rebecca (unregistered)

    RE Subway Coupon..

    Wtf is with the cheese on top?

  • Mark J. (unregistered) in reply to 50% Opacity
    50% Opacity:
    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?

    The Lord has very little to do with this particular subject.

  • George (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    Now you're thinking with portals!

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