• (disco)

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to JBert
    JBert:
    you just ruined the embellishment!

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    What? This story was amazing. I loved it!

  • (disco)

    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.

  • (disco)

    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:

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    I liked the story

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    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.

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    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.
    I respectfully disagree; TR :wtf: is that the… I hesitate to use the term 'webmaster'… removed the button *yet left the back-end code in place and working!*
  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    I read that as the tech diffusing the situation without going into details.

    I guess calling the cop a technician, even if he's computer savvy, is part of my problem with it.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    Do the police not have an IT department? :trolleybus:

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    Enhance!

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I hesitate to use the term 'webmaster'

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Do the police not have an IT department?

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    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.

    Or the owner's nephew, who's "good at computers."

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    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?

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    I still have you wondering what's embellished and what's not

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    I detected a lack of embellishment on those pizzas in any case. I need to know the toppings, damn it!

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    I read that as the tech diffusing the situation without going into details.
    Be careful about the difference between *diffusing* and *defusing*. Was he making the situation diffuse, or was he removing a figurative fuse from it to stop it figuratively exploding?
  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Given the amount of confusion, I'd say both work.


    Filed under: I never fuck up. Honest!

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    The Pizza toppings were diffuse because after the tech defused the situation the pizza was on the house.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx

    The toppings are very important, they will tell if the story is legit.

  • (disco)

    ...did anyone else expect the "pizza place" not to sell pizza at all?

  • (disco)

    I found it quite offensive and racist.

  • (disco)

    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)

  • (disco) in reply to giammin
    giammin:
    I found it quite offensive and racist.

    Because the cops are not eating dognuts/doughnuts?

  • (disco)

    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?

  • (disco) in reply to DocMonster

    Fillet mignon and beluga caviar pizza maybe?

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann

    Because the smart cop is black. Duh.

  • (disco)

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    giammin:
    I found it quite offensive and racist.

    Because the cops are not eating dognuts/doughnuts?

    "If you wanna find all the cops \ they're hangin' out \ in the donut shop. \ ... \ Walk like an E-gyptian!"

    Right?

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    What is a gyptian and when did we get the online version?

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    What is a gyptian

    Not dissimilar to a gypsie

    http://hdm.wikia.com/wiki/Gyptian

  • (disco)

    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."

  • (disco)

    ... 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?

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    Enhance!

    Zoom!

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    All front page articles are 90%+ embellishment

    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:

  • (disco)

    This was the first article I've seen where I doubt it was even based on a true story.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    dognuts

    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

  • (disco) in reply to tharpa
    tharpa:
    This was the first article I've seen where I doubt it was even based on a true story.

    MAJOR SPOILER: [spoiler]it was[/spoiler]

    Unless the submitter lied to us, but who would lie on the Internet?

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    Unless the submitter lied to us, but who would lie on the Internet?

    On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog with giant nuts who poops donuts.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    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?

    I'm going to assume that everything is true but the food in question was actually Greek.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    it was fixed as promised.

    Indicating it got "fixed" right in production

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    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.

    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".

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to anotherusername

    /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.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue

    (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.

  • (disco)

    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.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    Indicating it got "fixed"broken initially right in production

    FTFY, unless that's what you meant in the first place? I could read that one either way.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx

    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?

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