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Google street view is hardly a fair source for Error'd material. Of course they get it wrong sometimes, I consider it far more of a WTF that they actually get it right the rest of the time.
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That nurse's cheeks will give me nightmares until the day I die.
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"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.
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Yes, girl's night out no longer just includes tattoos; now with more facial cosmetic surgery!
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I'm with you. Mistakes on street view are not a WTF; they're inevitable.
If this qualifies, I'm going to start submitting a WTF for every misspelled word in TDWTF articles.
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I thought girl's night out was about gettin' knocked up, not delivering a baby, right? Or is this my sexist male brain talking?
Captcha: usitas, the Captcha guy must be out of good ones.
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Classic WTF: Misspelled TDWTF articles of Janaury 2004 part 7
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Well, the modal dialog did have a windows "close" button. Maybe the designer meant that to be the super-stealth triple-special-probation "Cancel" button?
OTOH, reasonable expectations of the pure fail documented on these pages means that the "X" button does exactly the same thing as the "OK" button. As does killing the browser through Task Manager, hitting the reset button, or even unplugging the system. You will be submitting that broken e-mail address, so you might as well get used to it. Bwahahahaha!
CAPTCHA: dignissim. "Missing ID" backwards? That's a mild WTF right there.
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The Government Gateway one isn't really a WTF, I also have a Government Gateway card thingy and it contains a mixture of alphanumeric characters.
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Look very carefully at the e-mail dialog one.
'When you press [OK], an e-mail will be generated....'
'Please ensure this e-mail address is complete BEFORE you press send.'
OK != Send
So not really a WTF after all.
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TRWTF is that someone is placing an order using Microsoft Excel.
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You think incorrect item descriptions are bad? You can have much more fun by mismatching SKU and ID numbers in Best Buy URLs: Toshiba Laptop/Insignia TV hybrid Wii Fit/Windows 7 upgrade etc.
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You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?
I think the item's description is supposed to be read like this:
[Whirlpool] [24"] [Tall Tub] [Built-in Dishwasher]
It's 24" wide (standard) and has a tall tub design.
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Remind me never to go to your house for dinner.
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Whoosh! That's the sound of the previous joke going over your head (unless you're a really good troll)
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(I have threatened to buy one of those newfangled mechanical contraptions to fill the spare under-surface space in the kitchen, only to be told 'No' in response. She happens to find washing up therapeutic after a long day of dealing with software developers.)
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The street "error" is fairly common. A lot of times it's simply something called a "trap street" that map providers add into their maps to see who is stealing their data. The theory is, if somebody went and did their own research, they wouldn't include the same non-existent street.
I've seen it used on sattelite images, maps, dictionaries, etc.
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Of course the discount was $.00. It was for: "Any lunch of nightly buffet".
Now, maybe if it had been for "Any lunch OR nightly buffet" it would have been worth something.
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Everyone else sees the guy in the window on Streeview, right?
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these error'ds get stupider and stupider every time
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If you look at the map you will see that St. Charles Rd. is a real road BTW running east-west through that town. I can attest to this being a real road. The WTF is that the picture shows the road going through a building.
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cgi.ebay.co.uk _________^^
Freedom not found.
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Yeah, I was reading that trying to figure out what the problem was.
Go figure. A user that didn't "read" a dialog.
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The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.
I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%
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With Firefox and NoScript, I can perform ILLEGAL ACTs with no punishment.
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Doh!
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Yes, you did miss the meeting. Numbers come in upper- and lowercase versions. Just look it up.
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/tools/tooldir/TrueEdit/Documentation/TE/TE3numbers.html
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If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.
Also if you pan left and down, I hope the driver of the street-view-photo-car has handicapped tags or he just documented his own parking violation...
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Really? Glad I read your comment or I'd have missed that!
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Oh, yeah, I typically don't let psycho maniac kneecap breakers run executable code in my browser. Do you? WTF???
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Sure do! He offered me candy!
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Is that what they refer to as sarcasm?
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Well obviously the dishwasher is for competitors in the "World's Strongest" competition. No WTF there
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OK, so explain how you get out of this situation? Your e-mail address is incorrect. Pressing OK will send the e-mail. (per the message) The only available option on the dialog is "OK".
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generated != sent
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What, you don't have a walk-in dishwasher?
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Do you wear adult diapers? Depends...
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Usage: Just place all dishes to the floor. The dishwasher-dog will lick away even the tiniest residual of food. The dishwasher-dog is very carefull not to damage any dishes. After it is fed up, it will send SIGBARK once, to make sure you know that the program terminated.
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That seems like a security risk to me; I'm surprised eBay lets sellers put JavaScript in their pages like that.
Also, right-clicking anywhere on the page will give you that message, not just specific text.
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TRWTF is one or more of:
Richard is confused. Those are lowercase numbers. The form is simply saying &$^* )#!! ^)$$ is also acceptable.
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www.EHinfo is fine. Most people just type it into the search box anyway. It works there.
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Woo! Case Western Reserve University! Go Spartans!
ahem
I did IT for the introductory physics labs while I was there as an undergrad. I can certainly state that there are some parts of the university (read: anything engineering/science related) which are quite well IT-staffed, due to most departments pulling IT support from their own students. We had fiber Gigabit Ethernet rolled out to every dorm room and classroom in 2002... all at once ... and IT made it work! (mostly)
From the content of Dan Videc's survey, I can assume he is working with the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, meaning that the IT staff is comprised of humanities undergrads who didn't get to study abroad (or at least on-site) this semester. Hence, the survey.
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Took me a minute to figure that one out. Looks like the driver pulled into the gas station, left the camera running while he went into the mini-mart for one of those nasty old hot dogs that's been around since the Carter administration, and then left the station on the other side, completely missing the entire road segment.
Anyway, Street View is a fun toy, but Google Maps has its own share of WTFs. For instance: Street View of my parents' house is available, yet the Maps part can't find the address. Smooth.
They need either a better map data provider, or a better user feedback mechanism. Every time I've gotten a correction accepted, it gets changed back to being wrong within a few weeks.
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Clicking OK only generates the Email but doesn't send it.