Article 74HKR Error'd: Timely Reminder

Error'd: Timely Reminder

by
Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#74HKR)

There is no particular theme this week, except that Ihave noticed many of these contributors are providing "customized"email addresses. This is a practice which I too havefollowed, to detect who is selling my email address tospammers. I would use a consistentlogin id for many web sites, and a decent password generatedby a mental algorithm, with a unique email address for each site.It worked great until some website wanted to know specificallywhat "my" email address is, and I couldn't remotely rememberwhich of 300 variant email addresses I had signed up fortheir services with.

First up, Martin is traveling by air."I have heard it's so beautiful this time of year, so I lookforward to visit @arrCity_SLPH." Martin helpfully explains "First sentence is in Danish: Your SAS-booking has been confirmed."

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Dr. Bob Bobbers, PhD would rather drive. "Somehow I'm projected to arrive 20 minutes ago. I had startedin one timezone and was finishing in the next timezoneto the east, and when I had connectivity, the ETA wasright, but somehow seems to have stopped computing correctlywhen I went offline."

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Caleb B. thinks Amazon's AI-generated coding practices don't compute."I've been working with my kid a lot with her math homeworkexplaining that the alligator eats the bigger number. Ithink someone at Amazon needs to learn it too."

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Andrew knows that there's a difference between > and ."Tried to upload my insurance card back and front.Apparently I cannot please the webserver."

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And finally, Daniel D. has a timely reminder that we should all bear in mind so that nobody else has to: "Set your country, set your time zone and they shouldmatch. Google thinks otherwise, offering only one option(Czechia) for the selected country (Slovakia). The timezoneis correct as the whole Central Europe uses the sametime (CET). But the basic rule of usability is: Don't make me think!"

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