Error'd: Something Doesn't Add Up

As we grind towards closing out this year, we have a roundupof a variety of the usual sorts of bugs, including some regularold just plain bad labelling. The penultimate submission isparticularly puzzling.

Starting us off,Kevin B. has found an example of "new Date(0)"or its equivalent. Says Kevin "I noticed Anonymous is among the top 10 posters of all timeon the AT&T Community Forums. Too bad he or she hasn'tposted anything since their time at Bell Labs."

Error'd Regler Argle Bargle offered us a rushed job from MSN."In their defense, I'll say that they createa lot of little quickie polls to go with articles, so thingslike this were bound to show up."

Malhar S. tries to tempt us withProtected Health Information but it's well-redacted."Trying to pay bill for Quest lab. The date input clearlyhas a label 'Patient Date of Birth'. After submitting,error message pops up telling NOT to use patient's DoB."

The shortcoming of the Error'd model is that we areimplicitly trusting our audience to send us bona fide free-rangeerrors, not factory-made or farm-grown. But every so often someone sneaks in a clever construction (I'm saving some fora special column). And then there areitems that you have to wonder "how could a bug like this ever happen?" Some weird application cache?In any event, here's the details from Antonio: "This is from Microsoft Teams. I pasted a link to the Italianarticle (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinazione) ofCombination, which basically describes the binomial coefficient (n over k).
But itlooks like Microsoft Teams is more interested in a TV presenter." Any ideas?

Summing up, Joel C. figures "This is one of the lesser bugs in the McDonald's Android app." It seems like one of the most inexcusable, though.

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