• Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    The one that gets me is the form to pay my credit card bill online using by debit card. The fields are:

    First name: Middle initial: Surname:

    and I have to enter the name exactly as it is on my card. However, the name on my card is title, first initial, surname. If I enter the information they are asking for, I'm asked to try again. If I enter my title as the first name and my first initial as the middle initial, it works.

    It looks like all they are doing is concatenating the contents of these boxes with spaces between them, which raises the question - why not just have a single box that says "Name (exactly as on card)"?

    CAPTCHA: ratis... why is there an 'i' in that?

  • (cs) in reply to phire
    phire:
    Apart from the fact that its all pointless and I hate it; I think the best form of anti right click image protection, is to simply stretch a transparent 1px gif over it (or even the entire page).

    This is an excellent means of preventing users from right-clicking on an image. Of course, it does nothing to prevent them from downloading it, but they certainly won't be able to right-click on it!

  • charon (unregistered) in reply to Rich Wilson
    Rich Wilson:
    http://naartjie.homestead.com/ disables right click entirely for all browsers. Good time for noscript!

    Rightclick and download image works perfectly in my firefox (no special addons used, JS turned on)

    enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, NONE, SHEMALE, OTHER, GENDER_NOT_FOUND, ..., PROFIT!!! };

    MM:
    ...they don't know that in order for your browser to display a picture, that means it's already downloaded it to its cache folder.

    You would be surprised (I was too), but firefox doesn't do that in some special cases, but it's quite hard to reproduce :(

  • (cs) in reply to Skriiik
    Skriiik:
    @FredSaw: you forgot BOTH or HERMAFRODITE.
    I figured SHEMALE covered that.
    Skriiik:
    And maybe a genetically mutilated human can change its gender at will, so maybe you could add ANY or WHATEVER_YOU_LIKE_BABY.
    Had that one covered with OTHER. OTHER can also be applied to as-yet-undocumented genders of otherworldly aliens with whom there may be more than two genders necessary for successful procreation.
  • brodo (unregistered) in reply to Zecc

    It says "more than two". Two characters are not more than two.

  • (cs) in reply to akatherder

    Deactivating javascript ? You mean quick-hacking with firebug then fix with a greasemonkey script. firebug+greasemonkey is the counter-WTF weapon.

    But the real WTF is being a man and being called Sandy.

  • (cs) in reply to charon
    charon:

    enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, NONE, SHEMALE, OTHER, GENDER_NOT_FOUND, ..., PROFIT!!! };

    FILE_NOT_FOUND is missing from this "Paula" enum...

  • some guy (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    snoofle:
    Ola:
    Sandy should choose a valid gender.
    Done:

    enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, GENDER_NOT_FOUND };

    Nah, it's still incomplete. Here: enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, NONE, SHEMALE, OTHER, GENDER_NOT_FOUND };

    enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, IT };

    covers the possibilities well enough.

  • scott (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    yes, but usually not so inadequate as this one: Firefox shows the popup menu before the dialog box. lame lame lame.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    One of the web sites I had to use as part of my job at a previous employer used "security questions" for validation that were mostly "favorite" questions, like "what is your favorite color?", "who was your favorite teacher in school?", "what is your favorite TV show?". I filled in answers to all these, but when I had to do a password reset a few months later, it insisted I get three in a row right, and I couldn't remember what I'd answered. I don't really have a favorite color, etc. Are there really people out there who have one favorite of all these things that they would never change? I can accept the ones that ask things like "what city were you born in" or "what is your mother's maiden name". At least those would normally have a single answer. Except that my mother changed the spelling of her name, so even that I have to remember which spelling I used. (Her name was "Blind", which resulted in people routinely thinking she was identifying a handicap rather than giving her name.)

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Teh Optermizar
    Teh Optermizar:
    float gender; #define FEMALE 0.0 #define MALE 1.0

    This is clearly sexist. Note that MALE>FEMALE is true.

    Given the existence of cross-dressers, sex-change operations, Michael Jackson, etc, and increasing involvement of the courts in such questions, I think we will soon have laws requirng any gender field to be varchar(255) and free-form entry, so that the user can write an essay about his/her/whatever's feelings about his gender identity.

  • Ruuuben (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    Chewbacca itself would already fail because there are 3 c's in it.

  • Barry O'Connell (unregistered)

    This kinda thing really annoys me.

    I am often told by web forms that I must enter a valid surname. O'Connell with the apostrophe is valid; if you can't handle that then at least be honest enough and give an error message along the lines of; "Your perfectly valid surname has an apostrophe but our developers are too lazy to cope with such conditions so please lie and enter something other than your actual surname".

    WTF !?

  • rocky (unregistered) in reply to AT

    uhm www.ci.org resolves in my FF browser to http://www.compassion.com/default.htm and it seems to allow right clicking anywhere...

    so, you are wrong fella!

  • (cs) in reply to Deiwos
    Deiwos:
    For a certain forum I'm a part of, the password has these requirements:

    Must be 12 characters long, at least. Must contain both letters AND numbers. Must contain at least one capital letter. Must contain at least one punctuation character.

    1.Password

  • (cs) in reply to Pete
    Pete:
    How about a combo box of the 300 most common last names? or just a checkbox labeled "Are you really real?".

    (robots: no cheating)

  • (cs) in reply to Teh Optermizar
    Teh Optermizar:
    FredSaw:
    snoofle:
    Ola:
    Sandy should choose a valid gender.
    Done:

    enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, GENDER_NOT_FOUND };

    Nah, it's still incomplete. Here: enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, NONE, SHEMALE, OTHER, GENDER_NOT_FOUND };

    No, no, no... guys, that is just not forward-thinking enough... are you sure you are professional developers? :P

    This solution should allow for a nice broad spectrum of gender related surgery, hormone therapy, and mutation:

    float gender;

    #define FEMALE 0.0 #define MALE 1.0

    gender = { :x_chromosome => 1.0, :y_chromosome => 1.0, :male_sexual_identity => 1.0, :female_sexual_identity => 1.0 }

  • Twey (unregistered)

    So... what gender is poor Mr./Ms. Barnabus?

  • Michelle (unregistered) in reply to Twey

    She stated in a previous comment that she's female. It seems though that some people plainly refuse to accept that there are female developers, and still wonder about her gender :P

  • Rubén (unregistered) in reply to michael
    michael:
    Vioindi:
    wing commander:
    I once dealt with a (Spanish) website that would not sell to anyone without a middle name. If you didn't have one you had to invent one.
    Bonus point for being Spanish, as middle name aren't needed (nor common) in Spain.

    More likely it was asking for both surnames. Having two surnames is fairly common.

    This of course gives a grand total of three names, one at the beginning, one at the end and one in the middle (I know it's not what most other people mean by "middle name" since it is generally used as the "main" surname but it is still in the middle).

    Actually, having only one surname is really uncommon. I have only met a few spanish citizens having only one... and they weren't born here.

    Here, you get your first surname from your father and your second one from your mother, always their first ones (And women do not lose their surnames when they get married).

  • IByte (unregistered) in reply to Fant
    Fant:
    Just change it to "qwert" or "zxcv".. For some reason only obvious to the designer of that site those are perfectly valid. Maybe this is the chance for a anti-discrimination lawsuit for asdf people :-)
    It wasn't obvious to him any more either when he got sober...
  • AdT (unregistered)

    Sandy needs to look at his passport again to find out whether she is male or female. Which reminds me... Alex could stand for Alexander as well as Alexandra (and some more obscure names). Hmmm...

  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    Sandy needs to look at his passport again to find out whether she is male or female. Which reminds me... Alex could stand for Alexander as well as Alexandra (and some more obscure names). Hmmm...

    Which is why the Scots used to call men "Sandy" and women "Alex". Simple, easy to remember. Unfortunately the Sassenach influence has confused things.

    Chapcha: damn the english!

  • solaraddict (unregistered) in reply to Rich Wilson

    In all browsers? O RLY? [image] Opera 9.26, JavaScript enabled. QED.

  • akappa (unregistered)

    the real WTF is to use internet explorer, of course.

  • vaucanson (unregistered)

    I was working in a leasing company. There was a column in the database to store customer's name declared as char(20).

    Now, in the risk-calculation function - the one that decides whether you'll get the lease or not - the code went like this:

    if (strlen (name) > 20) return rejected;

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    sure it is, you just have to download the code and rewrite it to sign up... ;)

  • Ömer (unregistered)

    if not I wrote 'asdf' then ? Dundasdfranklin or same lastname is a not correct ? Dund asdf ranklin

    Thank you

  • TheUiGuy (unregistered)

    Ugg.. look at all those disgusting eval calls... how absolutely terrible. One of the more painful pieces of coding I've seen in a long time.

  • Skip (unregistered)

    the real problem here is that she isn't using firefox.

  • dave (unregistered)

    anyone with enough technical experience to read and understand javascript (which isn't all that technical) should be aware of how crap IE is. you should be using firefox. then worry about the sites you can't access because of your surname.

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