• Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    CT:
    I don't get the lizard one. Can someone explain to me what I'm missing?
    I expect so.
    I'm sorry. I don't understand. Could you please explain?
    Yes, probably.
    Probably?

    Excuse my ignorance, but that word is unknown to me. Thanks for your friendly responses. I hope you keep that attitude.

    I expect so.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Shoruke
    Shoruke:
    TRWTF for the fail one is that that popup is the only part of the application that is in English. What is an English popup doing on a Spanish (or whatever language) page?

    I would guess Finnish. The Finnish flag on the page is kind of a give away. Also the url on the error dialog ends .fi

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Unverified by Visa

    Thanks Akismet, stand down now.

    More appropriately, though is this article on Mastercard InSecureCode.

    (VbV/MSC are the same system, called "3D Secure")

    We have to pull up that Wish-It-Was-Two-Factor article again.

  • (cs)

    An integer between 1 and 1, and 1 doesn't work.

    This is the kind of thing that makes us math majors roll our eyes. People using non-rigorous language in a rigorous context.

    Someone obviously assumed that "between" means "between, including". Someone else assumed that "between" means "strictly between". These two people are, for reasons unknown, not speaking to one another, hence the observed behavior.

  • (cs)
    Quirkafleeg:
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    CT:
    I don't get the lizard one. Can someone explain to me what I'm missing?
    I expect so.
    I'm sorry. I don't understand. Could you please explain?
    Yes, probably.
    Probably?

    Excuse my ignorance, but that word is unknown to me. Thanks for your friendly responses. I hope you keep that attitude.

    I expect so.

    These comments have been certified by worse than fail.

  • brainfsck (unregistered)

    Note that 2147483647 = 2^31 - 1 = the number -1 stored in a 32-bit int (1 bit is used for sign) that was interpreted as positive.

  • Fail (unregistered)

    I did verify that! It was working JUST FINE when I checked it! Quit making fun of my name, you insensitive clods.

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to brainfsck
    brainfsck:
    Note that 2147483647 = 2^31 - 1 = the number -1 stored in a 32-bit int (1 bit is used for sign) that was interpreted as positive.
    Not quite. -1 is stored as 2^32 - 1. 2^31 - 1 == INT_MAX (with 32 bit integers). Maybe they used it as a magic value and failed to handle it in the message.
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to bob171123
    bob171123:
    Quirkafleeg:
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    frits:
    Quirkafleeg:
    CT:
    I don't get the lizard one. Can someone explain to me what I'm missing?
    I expect so.
    I'm sorry. I don't understand. Could you please explain?
    Yes, probably.
    Probably?

    Excuse my ignorance, but that word is unknown to me. Thanks for your friendly responses. I hope you keep that attitude.

    I expect so.
    These comments have been certified by worse than fail.
    Yes, prob– That's quite enough of that.

  • (cs) 
    public class PaulaBean {
    public String ToString(String arg1, String arg2, String arg3, String arg4, String arg5,
            String arg6, String arg7, String arg8, String arg9, String arg10,
            [snip]
            String arg2147483646, String arg2147483647) {
        return "brillant!"
    }
}
  • (cs)

    I have that Sams book. But I'm only up to page 140...

  • (cs) in reply to mc
    mc:
    Brad:
    Circular Structure - Isn't the trash usually a "Circular Structure"? Maybe this isn't really a fail...

    Drums are also often circular structures...maybe Apple is just a big fan of Stomp.

    It's just that loops aren't allowed in a Mac.

  • unekdoud (unregistered)

    Many numbers other than 1 are safely between 1 and 2^32+1 (which we know is equal to 1 for all practical purposes.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to unekdoud
    unekdoud:
    Many numbers other than 1 are safely between 1 and 2^32+1 (which we know is equal to 1 for all practical purposes.
    Unfortunately, all practical purposes include using int64_t, long long int and, on some architectures, long int.

    In short, 2^64+1.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Grimoire
    Grimoire:
    Please enter an integer between 1 and l
    It is asking for an integer between 1 and lower case L. Obviously, they are using the base 17 system.
    Nice idea, wrong base. Hexadecimal goes up to F; base 17 is supposed to go to G. Unless there is a sort of gap in your alphabet that makes L the letter immediately after F.
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    Grimoire:
    Please enter an integer between 1 and l
    It is asking for an integer between 1 and lower case L. Obviously, they are using the base 17 system.
    Nice idea, wrong base. Hexadecimal goes up to F; base 17 is supposed to go to G. Unless there is a sort of gap in your alphabet that makes L the letter immediately after F.
    Immediately after F doesn't work properly, viz.:
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Y O U F A I L
  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Highly amusing, but

    (1) The dialog box suggests using the trash function, and (2) There is a reasonably well-known algorithm for traversing a circular list (and therefore having the option to delete each member). I assume that the Apple Trash-Can implements this algorithm.

    What it's like with undirected graphs without a definable total order, I don't know.

  • CATS (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    Grimoire:
    Please enter an integer between 1 and l
    It is asking for an integer between 1 and lower case L. Obviously, they are using the base 17 system.
    Nice idea, wrong base. Hexadecimal goes up to F; base 17 is supposed to go to G. Unless there is a sort of gap in your alphabet that makes L the letter immediately after F.
    You just forgot one thing: all your base are belong to us!

    Except for binary, decimal, octal, hexadecimal...

  • Kaii (unregistered)

    "you will not be able to use this connection until the daemon is not installed"

    looks like a (wrong) 1:1 translation from the german sentence:

    "sie können diese verbindung nicht verwenden, solange der daemon nicht installiert ist"

    "solange" [whilst, as long as] was accidentially translated with "until", which is a false friend.

    captcha: immitto

  • Ahura (unregistered) in reply to Kaii
    Kaii:
    "you will not be able to use this connection until the daemon is not installed"

    looks like a (wrong) 1:1 translation from the german sentence:

    "sie können diese verbindung nicht verwenden, solange der daemon nicht installiert ist"

    "solange" [whilst, as long as] was accidentially translated with "until", which is a false friend.

    captcha: immitto

    Someone's looking for attention.

  • Stefan W. (unregistered)

    Most programming languages organize integers in circles, so if you add 1 to (byte) 127, you get -128, and therefore between 1 and 1 you find every possible value - just look the other way round. Captcha: quis

  • (cs) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    Circular comment! Please report to Apple how you did this.
    That's not a circular comment! This is a circular comment!
  • (cs) in reply to Ahura
    Ahura:
    Kaii:
    "you will not be able to use this connection until the daemon is not installed"

    looks like a (wrong) 1:1 translation from the german sentence:

    "sie können diese verbindung nicht verwenden, solange der daemon nicht installiert ist"

    "solange" [whilst, as long as] was accidentially translated with "until", which is a false friend.

    captcha: immitto

    Someone's looking for attention.

    And the moral of the story is... never process C source code by translating it from English to German and then from German back to English using Google Translate, or all your while() loops will be turned into do...until()s, causing hard-to-find bugs.
    Stanley Marsh:
    I think we all learned something today.
  • Shea (unregistered)

    Well if the ChineseHacker got killed, it should be SAFER to put your credit card in there.

  • (cs)

    Circular Structure - Try emptying the trash.

    Well, isn't the trash can a 'circular structure'?

    <the Circular File>
  • an integer between 1 and 1 (unregistered)

    Good thing I am allowed to enter...

  • Ouch! (unregistered) in reply to Kaii
    Kaii:
    "you will not be able to use this connection until the daemon is not installed"

    looks like a (wrong) 1:1 translation from the german sentence:

    "sie können diese verbindung nicht verwenden, solange der daemon nicht installiert ist"

    "solange" [whilst, as long as] was accidentially translated with "until", which is a false friend.

    The really fun part of it is that in some regions people actually say:

    "Sie können diese Verbindung nicht verwenden bis der Daemon nicht installiert ist."

    Take that, automatic translator ;)

  • Buffled (unregistered) in reply to Keloran
    Keloran:
    wouldnt a $10/month discount, on 0$

    mean he would be paying -10$ (aka they would pay him 10$ a month not to leave) ??

    This comment has been verified by fail.
  • Taquito Sensei (unregistered) in reply to Bram Smulders

    How zen.

  • Skip Sailors (unregistered) in reply to Bram Smulders

    That's "between 1 and 1" exclusive?

  • Entropia (unregistered)

    Haha, the first one cracked me up. I applied for a job at that very company earlier this year, they even interviewed me. Didn't get it, if I had, this could have not happened. :D

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