• venio (unregistered) in reply to subnetmask255x4
    subnetmask255x4:
    Carl:
    nixar:
    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%</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Hmmm. Works fine for me.

    Oh, yeah, I typically don't let psycho maniac kneecap breakers run executable code in my browser. Do you? WTF???

    It gets better. The actual page is like a huge rambling mass of WTF. Insanely long lines, created by Front Page 5.0, and his alert message is a lie. He might as well said the message has been reported, and you are getting cake!

    <meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR"><meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId"><script language="javascript">var message="THIS ILLEGAL ACT HAS BEEN RECORDED AND REPORTED TO EBAY";function clickIE4(){if (event.button==2){alert(message);return false;}}function clickNS4(e){if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){if (e.which==2||e.which==3){alert(message);return false;}}}if (document.layers){document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS4;}else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){document.onmousedown=clickIE4;}document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false;")</script>
    Ah, thank you, i was just about to post this idiocy. NS4-proof, no less.

    Hello, 1997. Where've you been all this time?!?

  • UpsetStomach (unregistered) in reply to Justice
    Justice:
    Chuck:
    If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

    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...

    That bit about Carter made me laugh in an "I feel like throwing up" sort of way. I thought that I was going to be alright until I started thinking about the current incompetent head of state. Half of the US reader's of this site will probably soon be out of work because of that empty suit. That is the real WTF. I digress.

  • Tama (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    TRWTF is one or more of: 1) That scripts are able to intercept basic browser functionality 2) That Mike H hasn't configured his browser to block such nonsense 3) That people think they can deliver content to a user's browser, which the browser will store on their hard drive in cache, and not let it be stored on the hard drive 4) That this person was able to put such a script on an eBay page (anyone else smell a huge gaping security hole?) or even worse, eBay themselves put it there The attempt to scare people into thinking right-clicking is illegal, reporting an "illegal act" using an all-caps popup message, and having it apply to the entire page are just bonus lulz.

    Richard is confused. Those are lowercase numbers. The form is simply saying &$^* )#!! ^)$$ is also acceptable.

    Agreed. And is EBay really vulnerable to XSS?!? WTF indeed.

    Third attempt.

  • venio (unregistered) in reply to UpsetStomach
    UpsetStomach:
    Justice:
    Chuck:
    If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

    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...

    That bit about Carter made me laugh in an "I feel like throwing up" sort of way. I thought that I was going to be alright until I started thinking about the current incompetent head of state. Half of the US reader's of this site will probably soon be out of work because of that empty suit. That is the real WTF. I digress.

    Yes, you do. Now, for a real trick, GTFO, dipshit. Go fake-politicking on some other spin-up forum.

    TDWTF™ ACCIDENTALLY NOT FOR YOU ARE ILLEGAL AND HAS BEEN REPORTED!!!

    SWAMP, SWAMP, SWAMP!@!!1!

  • abico (unregistered) in reply to Tama
    Tama:
    lolwtf:
    TRWTF is one or more of: 1) That scripts are able to intercept basic browser functionality 2) That Mike H hasn't configured his browser to block such nonsense 3) That people think they can deliver content to a user's browser, which the browser will store on their hard drive in cache, and not let it be stored on the hard drive 4) That this person was able to put such a script on an eBay page (anyone else smell a huge gaping security hole?) or even worse, eBay themselves put it there The attempt to scare people into thinking right-clicking is illegal, reporting an "illegal act" using an all-caps popup message, and having it apply to the entire page are just bonus lulz.

    Richard is confused. Those are lowercase numbers. The form is simply saying &$^* )#!! ^)$$ is also acceptable.

    Agreed. And is EBay really vulnerable to XSS?!? WTF indeed.

    Third attempt.

    In .co.uk, XSS is mandatory. We even have cameras to watch if you're doing it right.

  • Garmoran (unregistered) in reply to subnetmask255x4
    subnetmask255x4:
    ... and his alert message is a lie. He might as well said the message has been reported, and you are getting cake!
    Really? I'm so glad you found that out. I was just about to check my ebay account in case it had been suspended.

    But, more seriously, why on earth is he using this fairly common, if easy to defeat, method of protecting images and/or page source? I can see nothing on the page that anyone could possibly want to copy.

    Captcha: caecus. Mmmm, chocolate caecus...

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    To those defending the dialog, the real WTF is in the poor UI design, and thinking that such a dialog is acceptable practice.

  • SQL Dave (unregistered) in reply to Markp

    So, if you actually SAY "dishwasher" does the salesman put a bucket over his head forcing the other employees to get into a fish tank and sing "And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time" ?

  • Boy am I angry!! (unregistered) in reply to UpsetStomach

    TRWTF is using is using a tech humor website's comment section as a soapbox

  • cgi.ebay.co.uk (unregistered)

    THIS ILLEGAL ACT HAS BEEN RECORDED AND REPORTED TO EBAY

  • (cs) in reply to Bellinghman
    Bellinghman:
    B.E.:
    amischiefr:
    I was thinking more along the lines of a midget. A 24" dishwasher? Mine is 5'3"...
    You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?
    Well, my dishwasher is 5'2", and our dishes are pretty standard in size.

    I still don't get the original WTF. Is it that the dishwasher is included? That makes sense to me as you'd expect that to be in the box. Or is it the neck strap?

    (Hopefully we'll be renovating the kitchen soon and let the machines take over some more duties. I'm 200cm tall (I think that's about 6'6") and it hurts my back to stoop over the sink...)

    Here's another WTF:

    An Error Occured

    Not sure what it was, but it was logged. A human will eventually look at it. If the problem persists, please Contact Us. If the problem is on the contact form, then ... well ... that pretty much sucks. You can email instead: alexp-at-WorseThanFailure.com.

  • aliquam (unregistered)
    "I have never subscribed to this newsletter, but still received it," wrote Mary, "at the end though, it does tell me I am not a subscriber...or am subscribed...or then again, not...?"
    That's what you get with Random Reads (brought to you by Random House).
  • Les Acres (unregistered)

    To hold you down, or the dishwasher!

  • anon (unregistered)

    'course there are lower-case numbers:

    These are in use since centuries. It's just that most people have no idea they exist.

  • Silverhill (unregistered) in reply to cgi.ebay.co.uk
    cgi.ebay.co.uk:
    THIS ILLEGAL ACT HAS BEEN RECORDED AND REPORTED TO EBAY
    THIS ILLEGAL COMMENT HAS BEEN CAPTCHA'D AND REPORTED TO ALEX PAPADIMOULIS

    captcha: validus -- valid only in the U.S.

  • J.R. Blood (unregistered)

    I just right-clicked on that ebay page about 20 times!

    w00t!!! I'm just waiting for the ebay police to come a knocking on my door! You can't touch me coppa! Dip-immunity!

    (This post, right-clicks, and typos infuenced by Bacardi. I take no responcibilty. ;) ) Don't surf while drinking, kids. It'll land you in ebay jail.

    CAPTCHA: transver.... (You're kidding me, right? Since when have we had to type in a fricking novel?)

  • Pingmaster (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    To those defending the dialog, the real WTF is in the poor UI design, and thinking that such a dialog is acceptable practice.

    #1 - This came from an Excel worksheet, where you are limited to some fairly basic VBscript event coding and formulas

    #2 - The script probably ran something like this: User fills out some fields on the worksheet, clicks a button. The script then pops up this dialog box stating that an email will be generated and PLEASE double check the address before clicking send. Upon clicking OK the script then launches Outlook with a new email, setting the To, Subject and Body to the contents of specific ranges in the spreadsheet. The user then verifies the information and clicks send.

    If one were to 'clean' this up, you would end up with a process something like this:

    User fills out form with incorrect (but valid) email, clicks button RegEx verifies that email LOOKS correct, continues Email is generated, User double checks nothing and clicks send. Email goes to wrong person, possibly leaking confidential information. OR User fills out form with incorrect (and invalid) email, clicks button Regex checks email, Says invalid, user corrects and continues. Re-iterate until Regex validates that email LOOKS right.

    So not you have an added potential for error, when all you need is one little MsgBox line to make a popup that tells the user to check the address in the to: box and make sure it's the right one

  • VanOfWorms (unregistered) in reply to nellie
    nellie:
    Sunil Joshi:
    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.

    Yeah, I was reading that trying to figure out what the problem was.

    Go figure. A user that didn't "read" a dialog.

    Except.... I think there's an inference that this dialog comes up as a result of hitting send. This presumably means that it's too late to check the email address anyways (especially seeing as there is no cancel).

    Perhaps I read too much into it because I didn't think there was much of a WTF there either, but unless the box pops up as soon as the email field loses focus (or is an error highlighting that an address is different to the 'check' address), it seems this box would appear after clicking 'send' and therefore too late.

    In this day of pre-made dialogs it is also possible that the Developer wrote 'send' without thinking of the fact that they created an 'OK' (and not even an 'OK'/'Cancel') box....

  • Wilson Tuckey (unregistered) in reply to Chuck
    Chuck:
    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...

    {url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=College+St+Bruce&sll=-35.24285,149.075975&sspn=0.013091,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=College+St,+Bruce+ACT+2617,+Australia&ll=-35.242833,149.076061&spn=0.013021,0.01929&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-35.242843,149.075969&panoid=OsNGOAUYvmkumiSaue_4Uw&cbp=12,247.42,,0,5] Carparks [/url] Seem a common thing with them.

    I tend to agree with an earlier posters comments that inaccuracies like this are deliberate to identify their work (Printed Street directories have deliberately included errors for years). AFAIK, Google maps is (generally) filmed from atop a car, so deviation off roads would have to be quite deliberate by either the camera operator or under instruction from the powers that be. That said, it is interesting that the previous link appears to fly over a car or two....

  • Jared (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    'course there are lower-case numbers:

    These are in use since centuries. It's just that most people have no idea they exist.

    You're not the first to say it, however before explaining case on that very link you kindly posted, it says: "The Number Case feature type specifies a choice for the appearance of digits. Number Case is independent of Letter Case. " Though Numbers may have case, it is not the same thing as letter case (and there is no way short of changing font) to easily change between number cases on a keyboard, so case insensitivity should apply wherever numbers are seen on such cards. Stating the obvious like this is still a WTF (especially since, if anything, it would do more to confuse than to clarify)

  • Blogel (unregistered) in reply to Jared
    Jared:
    anon:
    'course there are lower-case numbers:

    These are in use since centuries. It's just that most people have no idea they exist.

    You're not the first to say it, however before explaining case on that very link you kindly posted, it says: "The Number Case feature type specifies a choice for the appearance of digits. Number Case is independent of Letter Case. " Though Numbers may have case, it is not the same thing as letter case (and there is no way short of changing font) to easily change between number cases on a keyboard, so case insensitivity should apply wherever numbers are seen on such cards. Stating the obvious like this is still a WTF (especially since, if anything, it would do more to confuse than to clarify)

    Perhaps it's a hexidecimal number string (that happens not to have a,b,c,d,e or f in this case. Perhaps letters are normally allowed, but by some amazing coincidence, none are present here. Perhaps these cards are standard and used places where they may contain letter.

    Etc....

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to ugh
    ugh:
    these error'ds get stupider and stupider every time
    Fortunately, the quality of the complaints keeps improving over time, so it all balances out. Thanks for your useful and intelligent contribution.
  • (cs) in reply to akatherder

    he! he! but they look like pretty much familiar in fhm magazines models like bitchy bitchy girls dressup like a nurse bringing toys stuffs

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    I hope that screenshot is old and eBay don't still let users embed Javascript in their item descriptions. Ugh.

  • (cs) in reply to Wilson Tuckey
    Wilson Tuckey:
    Chuck:
    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...

    Carparks Seem a common thing with them.

    I tend to agree with an earlier posters comments that inaccuracies like this are deliberate to identify their work (Printed Street directories have deliberately included errors for years). AFAIK, Google maps is (generally) filmed from atop a car, so deviation off roads would have to be quite deliberate by either the camera operator or under instruction from the powers that be. That said, it is interesting that the previous link appears to fly over a car or two....

    OMGWTF!

    Attack of the flying killer road!

    Flying Killer Road reaches Australia!

    Apparently Akismet doesn't like me, either. :-)

    And then with more text, the notorious Unexpected Error strikes!

    Addendum (2009-11-08 22:54): Never mind, that doesn't seem to be able to be linked to...

    Apparently there's some bug in the street view, where looking at the ground can trigger a bit of flying road to be displayed. Sometimes. Near where these carpark views join the normal road views...

  • (cs) in reply to Blogel
    Blogel:
    Perhaps it's a hexidecimal number string (that happens not to have a,b,c,d,e or f in this case. Perhaps letters are normally allowed, but by some amazing coincidence, none are present here. Perhaps these cards are standard and used places where they may contain letter.Etc....
    Um... yes?
    Dave:
    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.
    (I also have one with alphanumerics).
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    I hope that screenshot is old and eBay don't still let users embed Javascript in their item descriptions. Ugh.
    Actually, they do. But it turns out that this is forbidden according to their terms and conditions and they even provide a mechanism to report listings that breach their terms. So it looks like this seller is going to be getting a surprise from eBay really soon.
  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    'course there are lower-case numbers:

    These are in use since centuries. It's just that most people have no idea they exist.

    E.G.: FIRST !

  • Jasper (unregistered)

    KNOCK KNOCK THIS IS THE FBI! OPEN THE DOOR AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!

    MOVE AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER! YOU'VE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE ILLEGAL ACT OF RIGHT-CLICKING THE MOUSE!

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Xythar:
    I hope that screenshot is old and eBay don't still let users embed Javascript in their item descriptions. Ugh.
    Actually, they do. But it turns out that this is forbidden according to their terms and conditions and they even provide a mechanism to report listings that breach their terms. So it looks like this seller is going to be getting a surprise from eBay really soon.

    Well, they've just disabled the right click code on the listing, but it's still there. Knowing ebay, they'll just shrug it off and keep allowing people to add javascript to listing. No that is a WTF, but seeing as it ebay I'm not surprised.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Anonymous:
    Xythar:
    I hope that screenshot is old and eBay don't still let users embed Javascript in their item descriptions. Ugh.
    Actually, they do. But it turns out that this is forbidden according to their terms and conditions and they even provide a mechanism to report listings that breach their terms. So it looks like this seller is going to be getting a surprise from eBay really soon.

    Well, they've just disabled the right click code on the listing, but it's still there. Knowing ebay, they'll just shrug it off and keep allowing people to add javascript to listing. No that is a WTF, but seeing as it ebay I'm not surprised.

    Damn, I really have to remember to profread!

  • Shmork (unregistered)

    (Why were modal dialogs ever allowed in the Javascript spec in the first place? And why don't all browsers allow you to "close and refuse to continue execution of code" in some way?)

    I once stayed at a motel in San Diego via Travelocity that was advertised as having, as its sole "perk," a manager at night. It was pretty cheap, though.

  • (cs)

    The ebay pop-up is one of those stupid anti-right-click java scripts. I always laugh at the combination of arogance and stupidity that goes into them. They're best when, like this one, they try to scare you with THE LAW.

    There's a setting in firefox's about:setup that disables those. I don't know why it's not on by default.

  • (cs) in reply to VRAndy
    VRAndy:
    There's a setting in firefox's about:setup that disables those. I don't know why it's not on by default.
    Actually, it's exposed through the UI: Preferences->Content->Advanced (beside Enable Javascript)->Allow script to...Disable or replace context menus.

    The reason it's allowed by default is that there are many legitimate uses for them, particularly with Ajaxy Web 2.0 apps that dry to mimic a desktop environment (like some popular web mail clients).

  • vereor (unregistered) in reply to Wilson Tuckey
    Wilson Tuckey:
    {url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=College+St+Bruce&sll=-35.24285,149.075975&sspn=0.013091,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=College+St,+Bruce+ACT+2617,+Australia&ll=-35.242833,149.076061&spn=0.013021,0.01929&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-35.242843,149.075969&panoid=OsNGOAUYvmkumiSaue_4Uw&cbp=12,247.42,,0,5] Carparks [/url] Seem a common thing with them.

    Looks like your preview button doesn't work.

  • Mary (unregistered) in reply to North Bus

    As someone in that industry, that survey from Case Western looks like it was done with SurveyMonkey. A great service, and requires zero IT help to set up.

    They just need to not have their student interns in their admin departments setting up surveys without someone looking over their shoulder.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The idiot eBay seller who likes to embed Javascript warnings into all his listings has come up with one better. In this one, he not only fails to spell a simple word but seems to be confused about the very nature of copyright when he asserts that "copyright is ilegal":

    [image]

    FYI, this joker can be reported to eBay by following this link.

  • ben e. (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The idiot eBay seller who likes to embed Javascript warnings into all his listings has come up with one better. In this one, he not only fails to spell a simple word but seems to be confused about the very nature of copyright when he asserts that "copyright is ilegal":
    In his defence, the way it is being used, it probably should be.
  • jbrecken (unregistered)

    I guess it means it was that baby girl's first night out of the womb.

  • dubya (unregistered) in reply to UpsetStomach
    UpsetStomach:
    Justice:
    Chuck:
    If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

    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...

    That bit about Carter made me laugh in an "I feel like throwing up" sort of way. I thought that I was going to be alright until I started thinking about the current incompetent head of state. Half of the US reader's of this site will probably soon be out of work because of that empty suit. That is the real WTF. I digress.

    No prob, they can join the other half of the people who were put out of work by the last incompetent head of state.
  • coldwater (unregistered) in reply to dubya
    dubya:
    UpsetStomach:
    Justice:
    Chuck:
    If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

    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...

    That bit about Carter made me laugh in an "I feel like throwing up" sort of way. I thought that I was going to be alright until I started thinking about the current incompetent head of state. Half of the US reader's of this site will probably soon be out of work because of that empty suit. That is the real WTF. I digress.

    No prob, they can join the other half of the people who were put out of work by the last incompetent head of state.

    Since this thread is dead, and we're going political, W had the lowest unemployment yet. Use facts, not emotions, and you'll do much better next time.

  • Robert (unregistered)

    I love thedailywtfcom. Great site.

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