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TL;DR: A pizza website doesn't have and order button. A web developer opens the console and adds one so he can get a pizza. The pizza restaurant owner knew his website was broken, so he accuses the web dev of hacking.
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Oh come on, you just ruined the embellishment!
Though I do wonder if the whole "technician goes to check, saves bacon of developer" bit is canon.
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No offense intended to @Maciejasjmj, but... The embellishment isn't as bad as the stories about our friend Hanzo, but I did think it was a bit overdone.
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What? This story was amazing. I loved it!
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I liked the story, but I will baulk at the description of how the button was added. That's not how it works. Unless the idea was that he added the node in the inspector.
Because someone will complain about it, it might as well be me.
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hmm.... overedited. bad acting. mediocre plot.... tenuous at best grasp of reality...
all in all 9.7/10 for a TDWTF front page article.
:laughing:
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I was ok with it up to the point of the "Internet Police," but then my willing suspension of unbelief became unwilling to continue suspending.
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I read that as the tech diffusing the situation without going into details. I can see someone who claims that managing to submit an order from a broken form is hacking buying something like that.
TRWTF is the pizza place's webmaster who claimed that they took the site down when all they did is remove a submit button from otherwise fully functional form.
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I guess calling the cop a technician, even if he's computer savvy, is part of my problem with it.
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Do the police not have an IT department? :trolleybus:
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Enhance!
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I use it only as a very vague catch-all. Because I can't really discern their skills just from this I don't know if I can use a developer, code monkey, or WordPress fiddler. So something as vague as "webmaster" works for me, in this case.
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I'll bite, despite the :trolleybus:. Yes, they probably do. If it's a city of significant size, they may even have a computer crimes unit. However, the average beat cop is not likely to be any more computer savvy than the average member of the general population, and I think it's unlikely they're going to get a special unit officer out of bed at 22:00 over a pizza restaurant's website, especially since they already have the address of the guy who "hacked" the site.
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Or the owner's nephew, who's "good at computers."
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I admit, I went full "shut up and enjoy the story" mode on this one.
But as long as I still have you wondering what's embellished and what's not, that means the embellishment is at least decent, right?
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I'm with you on this one. I enjoyed it. I saw where it's going pretty fast with "can't deliver" thing, but the ending was funny and I enjoyed the writing none the less.
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All front page articles are 90%+ embellishment, so I'm sticking with my belief that the original submission is pretty close to the TL;DR version.
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I detected a lack of embellishment on those pizzas in any case. I need to know the toppings, damn it!
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Given the amount of confusion, I'd say both work.
Filed under: I never fuck up. Honest!
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The Pizza toppings were diffuse because after the tech defused the situation the pizza was on the house.
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The toppings are very important, they will tell if the story is legit.
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...did anyone else expect the "pizza place" not to sell pizza at all?
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I found it quite offensive and racist.
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I just spent 20 minutes trying to order a Gluten-free Pizza from a well-known companies website - and then I find this? Are you watching my web traffic?
(I failed. The secret is - GF is only available in small. Set the Pizza to small first, then you see the GF option. Didn't think of re-writing the UI in the browser)
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Because the cops are not eating dognuts/doughnuts?
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The real WTF is that he apparently has never ordered pizza before, because he had to google a pizza place that was local instead of just knowing which ones were around. Also, $50 on a pizza to feed two people? What. The. Fuck?
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Fillet mignon and beluga caviar pizza maybe?
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Because the smart cop is black. Duh.
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I tried to hack the website of a pizza company the other week. But only because the post office don't know that my address exists, so I can never find it in 'enter postcode and search' address fields. When did it become normal to only allow users to enter their address with an address finder, without an option to do it manually?
Unfortunately their form had sufficient validation to revert my attempt to enter my own house number, so I put next door/upstairs, and added in the 'additional delivery information' that my address wasn't listed, please could they deliver to [my number] instead. The driver, when he arrived, knocked on next door's door anyway, so evidently no-one pays attention to the additional information. But next door is empty anyway and I was watching out for them.
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"If you wanna find all the cops \ they're hangin' out \ in the donut shop. \ ... \ Walk like an E-gyptian!"
Right?
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What is a gyptian and when did we get the online version?
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Not dissimilar to a gypsie
http://hdm.wikia.com/wiki/Gyptian
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This story actually reminds me of an email problem between Novell Groupwise servers and AOL-hosted domains (including aol.com) back in 2004. One day, someone at work would send an email to a customer with an AOL account. They would get the email...and another copy...and another copy...and another copy...this would go on for four days if no intervention at the Groupwise server was done.
Forums yielded nothing of use. After 5 days of this, the President of our company calls me into his office and orders me to "solve the problem, whatever it takes." This was at 11 in the morning.
By 3AM the next morning I had determined the problem. AOL was no longer following RFC spec for email communications; specifically, it wasn't ending off with a 221 message to Groupwise when done receiving the email. Groupwise apparently didn't like this, sent the email to the defer folder to try again every 20 minutes for the first hour, then every 4 hours for the next 4 days. Oh, and all those settings were hard-coded in Groupwise at the time, so you couldn't work around them either.
Called AOL support, escalated to level three, the guy took a look at what I was talking about (including the forums of many people complaining about the same problem) and said "oh, ok. I'll have this fixed in 30 minutes." Sure enough, to my amazement, it was fixed as promised.
In a manner worthy of a TDWTF front-page story, after confirming all was well (and incidentally others on the forum at the time were delighted to see the problem vanish), I undid my other irrelevant changes and rebooted the server - only it wouldn't come back up. FRACK!
Hit the stairs from the basement to the first floor to get to the server cabinet (setting off a number of silent alarms in the process - who knew the alarm system auto-armed if no one set it at night?), got the server working, tested things once more, then went to shut down my laptop so I could finally go home. It was about 6 in the morning by then.
Suddenly, I hear a door open in the hall behind me. I turn around to say hi, only to see a cop with his baton out with the location manager, so I say "oh man, what did I screw up now?" She promptly said: "arrest that man, I have no idea who he is!" :trolleybus:
My split-second thought before I realized she was trolling me was envisioning the next morning's headline news in the paper:
"Man Solves Worldwide Email Problem, Goes to Jail."
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... but what about the fact that a man and his wife ordered $50 of pizza at 10PM? Do they have a party tomorrow where all the guests love day-old pizza?
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Zoom!
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You'd be surprised. I find it hilarious when I have a story with only a few minor embellishments and everyone attacks all the real parts (assuming the original submitter didn't embellish). Then you guys pick the one or two actual embellishments and say "Yeah, obviously this part happened but the rest was made up." :laughing:
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This was the first article I've seen where I doubt it was even based on a true story.
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https://www.killyourculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dognuts.jpg
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Danglin+dognuts+lolz+http+wwwzazzlecom+dangling+dognuts+128911736235759967_79756c_5378321.jpg
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MAJOR SPOILER: [spoiler]it was[/spoiler]
Unless the submitter lied to us, but who would lie on the Internet?
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On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog with giant nuts who poops donuts.
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I'm going to assume that everything is true but the food in question was actually Greek.
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Indicating it got "fixed" right in production
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No, that's a pretty fair description of how it works (at least, in Firefox). Saying he "opened the site's source" is a bit oversimplified, but it amounts to basically that.
Open the Inspector, right click the HTML element, "Edit As HTML".
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/me hits CtrlU
[image]Oh, look. Site source. And I can't edit it, at all. It's read only.
Some of us have been using this shit to check things out before all the shiny firebugs, dragonflies and webkit caterpillars.
You may now leave the lawn. Thanks.
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(raises hand). After they told him to wait, I was expecting the pizza place to be a front for a marijuana distributor.
That would have placed the story in St. Paul, MN. Apparently, all the drug cops really need to do is look for pizza places with terrible Yelp reviews.
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I am particularly amused that, in an article about interface issues, the Facebook share button omits the colon and a forward slash in the URL, trying to submit http/thedailywtf.com/articles/pizza-hacker as a link.
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FTFY, unless that's what you meant in the first place? I could read that one either way.
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It didn't say he used "view source", it said he opened the Console, which has the Inspector tab (or the Elements tab in Chrome) and from which you can both view (as a tree) and edit the HTML source of the page. And you could see as much from the screenshot I posted. So what exactly was hard to understand about that?