• (nodebb)

    The frist one obviously requires Internet Explorer.

  • (nodebb)

    I also thought TV Remote, but only if you hate television. 😅

  • MacFrog (unregistered)

    The first one is not a WTF. Works as intended. That's an insurance company, after all. 😏

  • what the f— (unregistered)

    is that an advertisement inside your chat client? presented as if it's a message from someone? please tell me it isn't.

  • (nodebb) in reply to what the f—

    If you mean the SAP ad, that isn't a chat client, it's LinkedIn.

  • Joe (unregistered)

    It could be a component of a mousetrap.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-powered_mousetrap

  • Ex-Java Dev (unregistered) in reply to AGlezB

    Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

    Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. - Fred Allen

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    I've had a few of them. Usually they mean they don't like my settings. Other sites at least tell me to "disable my adblocker" (which again just means Firefox default settings), but some do nonsense like this.

  • Brian (unregistered)

    Mousetrap is clearly the correct answer. You know, the mouse steps on a pressure plate and then watches for about 30 seconds while a variety of contraptions all operate in sequence, which eventually results in a string pulling the trigger on the pistol... and somehow shoots the cat that set up the whole thing.

  • (nodebb)

    It is indeed a toaster -- if you're staring down the business end, you're quite likely toast.

  • Conradus (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    You mean Edge. When he's not playing for U2, anyways.

  • (nodebb)

    My bank once redid their entire UI, and suddenly it told me I could not log in as my browser was too old. I was on latest MacOS and latest Safari. I dug into the 100,000 line Javascript file to see if I could figure out why, but gave up when I got lost in the spaghetti. I emailed the CEO (sometimes this works) and the staff told me my browser was too old because they mixed up the Safari version and MacOS version numbers. After more back and forth, plus a few weeks, I finally was told it was, indeed, a bug. Two months later it magically worked again.

    So, who ships a bank log in page without testing, raise your hands!

  • Back to the 1990s (unregistered)

    The run book for this kind of situation is to try changing the User Agent string in the browser. Don't run into this issue too often any more, but it still exists. My JCPenney credit card vendor's portal has errored on authentication since Apple changed their version number to 26, last fall. Just recently got fixed.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Conradus

    You mean Edge.

    Nope, I meant what I said.

  • (nodebb) in reply to AGlezB

    There were several Star Trek Phaser TV remotes made over the years, so you're not completely wrong.

  • MaxiTB (unregistered) in reply to Conradus

    Edge is just a Chromium clone, so nah, it must be a different rendering engine and Internet Explorer fits the bill. That said there is a ton of text only browsers available too, so without a hint its hard to guess without seeing the source. Then again I don't know a single web page that ever required one of those; these checks where usually done because of IEs incorrect implementation of the W3C box model.

  • (nodebb)

    @mynameishidden ref

    So, who ships a bank log in page without testing, raise your hands!

    Why test anything on an Apple? everyone we know around the IT office here at the bank uses PCs.

  • Michael R (unregistered) in reply to MacFrog

    I am with you on this. Now they want people to call which many probably don't do and hence no payout required.

  • Sean Fhearsalach (unregistered)

    Note that the gun has two hammers but only one trigger and one barrel. I bet the whole quiz was generated by an AS (Artificial stupidity)

  • (nodebb)

    I thought the blunderbuss would make for a very handy mouse trap.

  • what the f— (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    ...well, I suppose that explains both why I don't recognize the UI and why it has native advertising in your DMs.

  • Kotarak (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    Ah. mozilla 18, when you would download 200MB for hours, the hard disk would run out of space somewhere along the line and the browser would dumbly download the rest of file wasting money and time.

    Checking the return code of functions like "write" is totally overhyped.

  • mishmobile (unregistered) in reply to Back to the 1990s

    Likewise, I can't log into Apple Business Manager with Firefox, until changing the user agent, at which point Firefox is perfectly cromulent.

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