• (cs) in reply to Wade
    Wade:
    The barcode for "Do Not Scan" is the barcode for the box, which is only used at the box factory, and the people at the box factory do not understand any English, so they don't know not to scan it. The people who work at the fill-the-box factory understand English, so they know not to scan it, and they add the barcode for the item in the box.

    That has all the making of its very own WTF...I seriously laughed a bit to myself, then went along hoping that you were

    A) Not serious.

    or, barring that,

    B) Not a programmer in whose footsteps I would ever have to follow.

  • Albert (unregistered) in reply to Erik
    Erik:
    The image clearly says "No Dialtone". Now, maybe my DSL modem is defective or something, but it's never complained about "no dialtone" before.

    Troll? or are you people really this dumb?

  • MeRp (unregistered) in reply to Graham Stewart
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?

    The walk to Sears, I'm sure, would be very pleasant, weather permitting. The walk home with the table saw might be a bit, y'know, difficult.

  • Graham Stewart (unregistered) in reply to MeRp
    MeRp:
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?

    The walk to Sears, I'm sure, would be very pleasant, weather permitting. The walk home with the table saw might be a bit, y'know, difficult.

    Man! So you people actually buy stuff from real high street stores? I just go there to browse stuff then go home and hit Froogle (or Google Shopping or whatever-the-f*** they call it now)

  • Sutherlands (unregistered) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    ATimson:
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?
    To there, probably. (Though I wouldn't want to do it in the northern US's current below-zero weather.) Getting back could be a bit difficult, especially if you're buying any of their larger Craftsman products. :)

    Buy a riding mower. Problem solved!

    But then he'd need the google directions to get home!

    DocWat232:
    Ronald McDonald:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of I-95.
    Wow what a typo. Let's see if we can fix that:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day of 1995.

    Actually, the quote is correct. It can be parsed as "John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of Interstate 95."

    I-95 is the name of a highway.

    I think he was saying it was a typo, even though it wasn't, for humorous effect. Implying, of course, that no one uses modems anymore, and it must have meant 1995.

  • Andy (unregistered)

    The real WTF is how many people seem to think you need broadband to control a sign with 22 characters.

  • AnonymooseCanuck (unregistered)

    well for the directions to sears... anybody that has ever driven in NJ knows that there is no such thing as left turns!!! :P (Stupid map) but still..even dumber driving there.

    The directions to the PA airport are NOT that difficult?

  • Zondo (unregistered)

    In fairness to the Sears directions generator, anyone who's ever lived in NJ knows that the directions like those shown here are actually the fastest route to where he wants to go.

    /grew up in NJ...

  • (cs) in reply to Voodoo Coder

    Nah, it's one of those aptitude tests, like when the IT department sends around an email saying "don't reply to emails with your password, even this one".

    If you scan the barcode, your scanner registers a mark against you. Too many, and they box you up and ship you to an even worse factory.

    Voodoo Coder:
    Flatline:
    Voodoo Coder:
    bryan986:
    A barcode that says "Do Not Scan" usually means there is another barcode on the box somewhere that you should scan instead.

    Then, why have the "do not scan" bar code in the first place? Is it just for decoration?

    Probably because the 'do not scan' bar code is for internal factory/warehouse use only and wouldn't refer correctly to the contents of the box.

    Yeah, I kinda thought that...and since the kind of people who get paid to scan boxes might not always have the finest of deductive reasoning (no offense intended to the intelligent box scanners, of course)....they probably can't rely on the operator rotating the box when the bar code they scan returns an error...

  • ChiefCrazyTalk (unregistered) in reply to Graham Stewart
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?
    Doubtful. Most Sears stores are in suburbs that lack sidewalks, etc. making them hazardous or even in some cased illegal to walk to.
  • Steve (unregistered)

    The Philly airport directions looks like the scene from one the series 4 Dr. Who episode... (The Sontaran Stratagem)

    "You have reached your final destination" --SatNav system "Where the hell are we? This isn't my destination" --driver "You have reached your final destination" (doors lock), engine revs, car plunges into the river.

  • (cs) in reply to DocWat232
    DocWat232:
    Ronald McDonald:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of I-95.
    Wow what a typo. Let's see if we can fix that:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day of 1995.

    Actually, the quote is correct. It can be parsed as "John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of Interstate 95."

    I-95 is the name of a highway.

    Whoosh!

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Andy

    On an old sign you'd be right, but this sign uses a proportional-width font, meaning it can display somewhere around 40 characters (all i's). What's worse is that it may very well be an APA (All Points Addressable) display, meaning each "pixel" can be manipulated independantly (probably 700+ total). The next version supposedly requires a dedicated T1 connection for multiple color support.

  • sf (unregistered)

    Sheesh, a shortcut through John Malkovich's head would cut a lot off of that trip.

  • Sanity (unregistered)

    Seems like it's just lens flare on the "no 13th floor" photo. I suppose it's a photography WTF... sort of... not sure why it's dailywtf material.

  • Zerbs (unregistered)

    the RWTF is that Sears is actually still using MapQuest.

  • (cs)

    I know the Rt 1/18/27 area highways are tough to navigate, but that's just ridiculous.

    Bonus WTF: The "State" dropdown on the Sears store locator contains "KA" as one of it choices.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike

    That's not a problem with google maps. New Jersey roads are just that fucked up.

  • DropDeadThread (unregistered)

    Someday I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I was there for The Great Modem Debate of 2008. "They blotted out the sun with their sarcasm so we snarked at them in the shade!"

  • Anon (unregistered)

    That last one is fail. dude pulled up directions from outside chicago to NJ... where's the fail in that? The only failure here is a PEBKAC error.

  • modo (unregistered) in reply to Albert
    Albert:
    Troll? or are you people really this dumb?
    Ah grasshopper, you begin to comprehend the way of thedailyWTF.
  • (cs)

    "GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT. Windows would like to crash. Do you mind if I reboot now? Because I totally won't if you don't want me to."

  • (cs)

    In respect to the last one ... Allow me to share the fruits of my boredem.

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&saddr=D+Rd&daddr=US-36+to:I-72+E+to:I-70+E+to:40.479435,-74.421837&hl=en&geocode=Fa4WWwIdKCgX-g%3BFaHbXgIdQrIZ-g%3BFab7YAId8q-z-g%3BFSifXgIdIpjc-g%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=4&sz=16&via=1,2,3&sll=40.480218,-74.425185&sspn=0.00994,0.022466&ie=UTF8&ll=43.325178,-83.935547&spn=38.794955,92.021484&z=4

    That will give you the exact route described, as near as I can figure it, from start to end.

    You americans have seriously screwed up naming systems for your roads.

    I'm serious... who the heck thinks the corner of 27th rd and C Rd is a fun sounding address shake head

    Modems... As far as I am aware, a cable "modem" is not a modem but a DSL "modem" is, since DSL is transmitted over analogue lines but cable isn't.

    The sun flare is a beautiful coincidence.

    The "do not scan" label is obviously a super compressed virus placed there by the tech company to increase support center revenue from dumb customers with barcode scanners.

  • Daedalus (unregistered) in reply to Graham Stewart
    Graham Stewart:
    MeRp:
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?

    The walk to Sears, I'm sure, would be very pleasant, weather permitting. The walk home with the table saw might be a bit, y'know, difficult.

    Man! So you people actually buy stuff from real high street stores? I just go there to browse stuff then go home and hit Froogle (or Google Shopping or whatever-the-f*** they call it now)

    GroofaBargain, last I checked.

    ...Wait, no, now its Grooflabargains.

  • (cs) in reply to Voodoo Coder
    Wade:
    The barcode for "Do Not Scan" is the barcode for the box, which is only used at the box factory, and the people at the box factory do not understand any English, so they don't know not to scan it. The people who work at the fill-the-box factory understand English, so they know not to scan it, and they add the barcode for the item in the box.

    ... are you a CSS coder? Because that's how CSS hacks work.

  • Goggle Mop (unregistered)

    (Not that anyone seems to care, but....)

    The google Streetview is no WTF....

    It does not suggest that following the blueline is possible, it merely connects the next point along the road with the previous - clearly the car (or cars) mapping out streetview used different routes (one travelling part of the route on the opposite side of the road to the other). In my experience of streetview this is not all that uncommon

    Streetview DOES NOT give directions, it merely gives you a view of the street at a particular point (taken from the roof of a moving car, I believe) - Clearly at this lparticular point, pictures in that area were taken by vehicles travelling in opposite directions.

    Suggesting this is a WTF is like suggesting that every part of google's satellite map that doesn't quite meet up properly is also a WTF.

    </rant>
  • Chris M. (unregistered) in reply to Nazca
    Nazca:
    Modems... As far as I am aware, a cable "modem" is not a modem but a DSL "modem" is, since DSL is transmitted over analogue lines but cable isn't.

    Speak for yourself, John. My cable comes in over analog coax cable, as does every cable TV connection I've ever seen.

  • kinz (unregistered) in reply to Goggle Mop

    <rant>Ugh, no opening rant tag...</rant>

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Albert
    Erik:
    The image clearly says "No Dialtone". Now, maybe my DSL modem is defective or something, but it's never complained about "no dialtone" before.

    DSL requires a phone line too, so it will not work if you don't have a dialtone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL

  • llama009 (unregistered)

    Using the google maps centred over Australia, typing in a start point of "perth" and a destination of "brisbane" picks up brisbane in california, rather than brisbane australia.

    Driving directions to Brisbane, CA 22,892 km – about 55 days 0 hours

    This includes not one, not two, but THREE kayak trips across the pacific ocean. 30. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean Entering Japan 5,404 km

    1. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean Entering United States (Hawaii) 6,243 km

    2. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean Entering Washington 4,436 km

  • Bryan (unregistered)

    Actually the do not scan is used quite frequently. Usually it is a bar code for the recieving company according to THEIR bar code lineup. so if you scan it on the outgoing it could feed corrupt data.

  • convicted felon (unregistered) in reply to Nazca
    Nazca:
    Modems... As far as I am aware, a cable "modem" is not a modem but a DSL "modem" is, since DSL is transmitted over analogue lines but cable isn't.

    So close, yet so far.

    Your cable modem modulates and demodulates an encoded analog signal. Indeed, your cable box contains "half" a modem -- a demodulator. Cable is just fancy AM radio. Even "digital" cable, which does NOT send 1's and 0's down your line, but a modulated signal.

  • buckittz uv lite (unregistered) in reply to Yogi
    Yogi:
    Anon:
    Umm, the no-13th floor building is simply explained by the sunlight covering part of it. No WTF there.
    Yeah, because light is quite useful for covering things. Like this one time I poured a bucketful of light on my car, and now the speed cameras get nothing!

    you win the thread.

  • true, false, Funny_Not_Found (unregistered) in reply to DocWat232
    DocWat232:
    Ronald McDonald:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of I-95.
    Wow what a typo. Let's see if we can fix that:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day of 1995.

    Actually, the quote is correct. It can be parsed as "John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of Interstate 95."

    I-95 is the name of a highway.

    you lose the thread.

  • Cheong (unregistered)

    I once seen a GPS map that, if you click somewhere near ahead on your side of street, it'll show you to just move forward. If you click the other side of street, it'll show that you have to drive across a few streets to turn back. If you click somewhere behind you, it'll bring you to the highway first...

    Despite the huge difference on the result of click a few pixel distance on the screen, these results are "technically" correct. :P

  • El_oscuro (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Rob:
    Clearly you're not familiar with Philadelphia. You're expected to jump the divider.
    ...with your piece drawn, popping caps like a muthafu-

    "The City of Brotherly Love"

  • El_oscuro (unregistered) in reply to Idiot Police
    Idiot Police :
    Ronald McDonald:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day off of I-95.
    Wow what a typo. Let's see if we can fix that:
    John W. snapped this on Memorial Day of 1995.
    There we go. No one uses modems anymore. Right?

    TRWTF is some people think we don't still use modems.

    Currently in three confirmed locations 3 modems are still in use. The breakout is as followed...

    2x DSL Modems

    1x Cable Modem

    = 3 Modems total

    Links to the respected Wikipedia articles are..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL_modem

    While it may be true that the "Dial-Up" variety of modems are no longer in wide-spread use, I can assure you that modems are widely still in use.

    When I swipe my credit card, I often hear the familiar dial tone of an old 56k telephone modem. The are still used because they are simple and reliable.

  • Jonathan Wilson (unregistered) in reply to Bob

    Thats not true, you don't need dialtone, just a suitable copper pair from your location to the DSL gear Google for Naked DSL.

  • This comment was great (unregistered) in reply to MeRp
    MeRp:
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?

    The walk to Sears, I'm sure, would be very pleasant, weather permitting. The walk home with the table saw might be a bit, y'know, difficult.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to MeRp
    MeRp:
    Graham Stewart:
    Surely if you're only a mile from Sears then you could just, y'know, WALK?

    The walk to Sears, I'm sure, would be very pleasant, weather permitting. The walk home with the table saw might be a bit, y'know, difficult.

    You don't get it: Walk over to Sears, buy you table saw and have them deliver it. Then ask the delivery guys if they drove out of state and back again...

  • eMBee (unregistered) in reply to MeRp

    why? just turn the table saw and use the blade as a wheel, pushing the table saw like a wheel-barrow

  • (cs) in reply to Nazca
    Nazca:
    Modems... As far as I am aware, a cable "modem" is not a modem but a DSL "modem" is, since DSL is transmitted over analogue lines but cable isn't.
    There are no "non-analogue" lines. Even when you design "purely" digital circuitry these days (think PC motherboard), you have to account for all sorts of old-school RF effects, like line impedance, substrate dissipation, etc.

    A cable modem has just as complex signal processing than the best phone line modems do: it still has to equalize the line response, apply echo reduction, it still has to modulate and demodulate, error correct, and so on. The main difference is in the order of magnitude of the first carrier frequency, but apart from that the logical functional blocks are very, very similar.

    If by "analogue line" you meant a copper pair -- well, "cable" is just coax - two conductors. It doesn't emit as much as a twisted copper pair would do at the same frequency, and has a different line impedance (not by "much"), but it's the same concept, really.

  • (cs) in reply to El_oscuro
    El_oscuro:
    Idiot Police :
    TRWTF is some people think we don't still use modems.

    Currently in three confirmed locations 3 modems are still in use. The breakout is as followed...

    2x DSL Modems 1x Cable Modem = 3 Modems total

    Links to the respected Wikipedia articles are..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL_modem

    While it may be true that the "Dial-Up" variety of modems are no longer in wide-spread use, I can assure you that modems are widely still in use.

    When I swipe my credit card, I often hear the familiar dial tone of an old 56k telephone modem. The are still used because they are simple and reliable.

    It'd be, most likely, a 9600 bps (or less) modem. You transfer very little data when authorizing CC transactions. The faster modems usually take much longer to initially negotiate the line equalization, error correction etc. In a CC authorization, time is of the essence: it makes no sense to set up a very fast connection with complex protocols involved when you transfer maybe a kilobyte total (often much less).

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Bob

    [quote]DSL requires a phone line too, so it will not work if you don't have a dialtone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL [quote] Not true. I have a very buggy phone line that drops dialtone 2-3 times a week. My DSL signal almost never drops. Im not sure why you reference Wikipedia, since that article doesnt mention dialtone at all.

    DSL and Voice are two entirely seperate signals despite the fact that they are often transmitted over the same copper-pair.

  • Another canuck (unregistered) in reply to Yogi
    Yogi:
    Anon:
    Umm, the no-13th floor building is simply explained by the sunlight covering part of it. No WTF there.
    Yeah, because light is quite useful for covering things. Like this one time I poured a bucketful of light on my car, and now the speed cameras get nothing!

    You're right. Obviously the missing floor is due to a massive lemon juice spill.

  • Someone Else (unregistered) in reply to Nazca
    Nazca:
    Modems... As far as I am aware, a cable "modem" is not a modem but a DSL "modem" is, since DSL is transmitted over analogue lines but cable isn't.

    A modem is simply something that modulates and demodulates. It could be voice or data that is supplying the modulating signal (and what is being demodulated) over a carrier.

    Advanced cellphones/smartphones refer to the cellular part as the cell modem - it's modulating/demodulating the voice and data signals to something that can be sent over the air.

    An ADSL modem modulates data onto the phone lines (out of the way of voice communications, which are sent unmodulated). A cablemodem modulates data onto a carrier that is then sent over regular television coax. A TV station modulates the video and audio signal over the same coax, where your TV demodulates it to produce the picture and sound.

    Of course, a regular dialup modem works by modulating and demodulating data onto a regular voice channel to be carried by regular phone lines.

  • Kenny (unregistered)

    It looks like the directions to Sears is actually from somewhere near "D Rd & 26 Rd, Kearney, Nebraska 68924" since there are no directions to go the opposite direction.

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I live right by that Sears on US 1. It requires a three lane merge to the right to enter it from US 1.

    Everyone knows not to enter via US 1. We take local roads, and cut through the women's dorms of the state univerity.

  • csm (unregistered)

    You know, I want to see more non-WTFs posted on this site. There aren't enough stupid user comments that I need to sift through.

  • Yanman (unregistered)

    That McDonald's sign has been posted before:

    http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Pop-up_Potpourri_0x3a__It_0x27_s_Getting_a_Little_NaN_Outside.aspx

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