Selecting a seat with Qantas
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I was trying to select a seat for a Qantas flight and got this helpful message:
I've checked the characters and can confirm that they are indeed characters, and the length of text sure is a length of some sort.
No matter what I entered into the "address" field, I kept hitting the same error. "Start over" is the only choice, the error page totally kills the session so clicking back just brings me to a "session expired" page.
The address field has a limit of 18 characters so I had to write "St" instead of "Street" in the address field due to the length of my street name. I thought that might be why it's complaining, so I entered my USA address instead, and got the exact same error. I tried four times and couldn't even work out what I was doing wrong now.
I called Qantas and a service rep couldn't do it either - She kept getting a "Seats already allocated" error. We eventually worked out that since this was a codeshare flight (a different airline ticketed my flight), we needed to use a different booking confirmation code to get it to work. I tried again with the other booking code and got the same error, but she tried it on her end and it worked for her.
Airline booking systems are TRWTF.
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It quite clearly says your address has to be between 4607 and 15623 characters.
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It quite clearly says your address has to be between 4607 and 15623 characters.
But the address field has a maximum length of 18 characters. Does this mean I need to fill in the form 256 times?
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I have a corporate credit card for my employer. The credit card issuer (a slightly big one, starts with Am ends with Ex) has an address field that is 20 characters long. My street address is 30 characters long.
I used Firebug to change the max length on the form and submit it, properly formatted. Some manual data entry drone must have touched it because now when I go to my profile, I can see that my address has been... Creatively mangled:
- They changed Apt. to "#"
- They removed the whitespace between words
- They dropped a letter from the street name ("Dallas" -> "Dalas")
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That's some creativity right there... the front end doesn't properly sanitise it before stuffing it into a database, and then one of the green card goblins changes it to fit a different and broken system?
Filed under: we need a way to rank the level of WTF. I award this 7.34 WTF points.
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I award this 7.34 WTF points.
Out of 153 possible points, where an increase of 1 WTF point signifies an arbitrary increase or decrease in WTFitude.
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No, no, it's not arbitrary. It's lineagorithmic.
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Kindly have 2.437 WTF points.
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A lineagorithmic algorithm: http://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Sort
"Sort sorts data. "
Filed under: no shit Sherlock
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You're thinking of kind, which kinda kinds by kinds.
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Kind words indeed.
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The API is confusing. I'm not sure if you meant
type
, which typically types by type. Worse, sort sorta sorts by order type.
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Except TYPE is deprecated. Now you're supposed to use ENGINE.
Filed under: yes, I use MySQL. plz don't hate
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Here's an interface in the sort package named sort.Interface that you can use to interface with the sort package.
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TRWTF is Qantas Cash and its password system.
Let's count the WTFs.
- Storing passwords in plaintext.
- Taking a perfectly good n-character password with plenty of entropy and shitting all over it.
- It always asks for the same three characters (2-4-6) so basically everyone has a three character password now.
I have no idea how this was meant to be a good idea.
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1. Storing passwords in plaintext.
Well, they could be storing salted, key-strengthened hashes of those three characters. You never know.
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I have no idea how this was meant to be a good idea.
Filed under: authentication systems == magical thinking
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I just hope that my bank does it sanely...
Filed under: I used to work in a bank. It was scary. When said bank collapsed, the only surprise for me was 'it took this long?'
Filed separately under: going with
*
or inline code formatting breaks the<small>
tag.
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See also: *e*u*i**
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Well, they could be storing salted, key-strengthened hashes of those three characters. You never know.
I hope you're being sarcastic here.
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lol how does I security?
Filed under: the average 4chan user could do better than this
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I tend to doubt that given the magnitude of the other 2 WTFs.
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I propose dBWTF, or decibels of WTF. Each 3 dBWTF change is twice (or half) the WTF, and a tenfold change in dBWTF value is a tenfold change in actual WTF.
It's much easier to talk about one WTF being 1 dBWTF and another WTF being 100 dbWTF, instead of saying one is 1 WTF and the other is 10000000000 WTF. And we get lots of range.
Filed under: Monday Mornings, amirite?, oh yeah Discourse is 1000000 dBWTF, mandatory Discourse bashing
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I already proposed WTF points, which were lineagorithmic in nature. Then we have quite literally all the range.
Filed under: X all the Y meme
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I like this (using dBWTF), but dB is a ratio, so you need to define a reference to compare to. I don't think using "Discourse is 1000000 dBWTF" as the reference is really workable, since it completely fails to avoid the @mott555 said:
instead of saying one is 1 WTF and the other is 10000000000 WTF.
problem. You still wind up with a lot of very large WTF values because (hard as it may be to believe) some things are even more WTFy than Discurse.Edit: Clarify that I was replying to mott555, not Arantor. Discurse didn't add an indication that my reply wasn't to the most recent post.
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I keep wanting to type Discourage. Damn that muscle memory.
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Doesn't it actually end in ss?
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Discuss does, but Discourse is more formal.
noun - written or spoken communication or debate. "the language of political discourse"
verb
- speak or write authoritatively about a topic.
"she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe"
- speak or write authoritatively about a topic.
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Discuss does, but Discourse is more formal.
I think you missed something to get that response to
Doesn't it actually end in ss?
which was in response to
@error said:The credit card issuer (a slightly big one, starts with Am ends with Ex)
Filed under: Unless I'm the one missing something, crazytalk, klatyzarc
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See, I got no fscking idea what's going on here. I didn't realise that that was what was going on because Discourse is so clear about such things without quoting people and I just assumed it was rage against Discourse because there's no shortage of that.
But yes, it does really end in ss when it's that magical piece of plastic.
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CORE FUNCTIONALITY is deprecated. Now you're supposed to use ENGINE.
DTFYFiled under: Discoursified That For You.
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You sir/madam/insert-preference, kindly accept One Internet for your contribution to the meme world.
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See, reply in a normal forum setup automatically quotes whoever you are replying to (assuming you didn't click the reply button at the very bottom).
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May I also note how jarring it is to be moved to the bottom of the page after you post a reply to something in the middle?
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May I also note how jarring it is to be moved to the bottom of the page after you post a reply to something in the middle?
There's a user preference to change that.
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See, reply in a normal forum setup automatically quotes whoever you are replying to
This happens.
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Nope? Literally just clicked the reply button on HardwareGeek's post and look, no quote
Edit: Ah, I see, you have to select the text first. RES does this, but I guess I'm just jumping on a hate bandwagon for no good reason.
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Ah, I see, you have to select the text first.
There's also a quote bubble in the top left of the editor in case you forget. Then you can edit out or in content as desired.
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