Being TRWTF on a few levels A.K.A trying to subscribe to a fucking Science Magazine
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What is this nonsense?
If the whole thing is an Image, How am i supposed to subscribe and stuff ?
I feel pissed offfffff.
Why would someone do this? I am so confused right now.
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Uh oh , turns out nothing on the page is clickable. MINDBLOWN!!!!
I did not expect scientific american to do this . The US version of the site seems to be working perfectly fine though.
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What are you talking about? Clearly the site is using a technology called Image Maps.
If your shitty browser doesn't support HTML 3.2 in this day, you're TRWTF. Of course, using image maps is also . But you can't blame the page, it works just fine.
Edit: Of course, it would help if they didn't comment out the maps. WTF.
Also, WTF are you doing there anyways? That server looks mostly decommissioned and they haven't got rid of the cruft.
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Is it working fine for you ? I was accessing this site using TOR so I don't know wtf is going on.
I just googled Scientific american India and this came up. I did not go out of my way to get into this.
Maybe wanting to read Scientific American is the real WTF? I don't know
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@ben_lubar Wow shit , so no SA for me then.
Have to go hunting for other stuff.
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How do i edit the Topic? The title seems super misleading after i realised I'm TRWTF
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@stillwater I'm pretty sure you edit the OP for that.
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Goddamnit.
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@stillwater said in SNEAKY MOFOS WHO WONT LET ME READ:
Goddamnit
The power of the Darkweb compels you!
@stillwater said in SNEAKY MOFOS WHO WONT LET ME READ:
Is it working fine for you ?
Okay, you got me, it wasn't working because they html-commented out the map lines. Even then, it would not have helped, as all of the links get auto-redirected back to the page @ben_lubar screenshot.
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@Tsaukpaetra I should have paid attention to the usemap="#map" part. I was pissed at the thought of not being able to subscribe I failed to notice this. My Bad. In Hindsight, The layout of the site alone should have raised alarms. Well whatever.
Also I just wanted to try reading sciency stuff in earnest. I was not trying to buy drugs, buy machine guns or grow my dick and this is the kind of shit I get.
Huge sigh.
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@stillwater said in Being TRWTF on a few levels A.K.A trying to subscribe to a fucking Science Magazine:
My Bad.In Hindsight
Is that a real Indian website?
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@ben_lubar Fuck.Fixed.
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@stillwater said in Being TRWTF on a few levels A.K.A trying to subscribe to a fucking Science Magazine:
The layout of the site alone should have raised alarms.
What, the fact that it only contains advertisements about itself? And that it appears to expect a 1024x768 monitor?
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@stillwater said in Being TRWTF on a few levels A.K.A trying to subscribe to a fucking Science Magazine:
I was not trying to buy drugs, buy machine guns or grow my dick and this is the kind of shit I get.
Confirming that shooting my machine gun while high on Viagra works as expected. You're just Doing it Wrong.
Filed under: Can you get high on Viagra? I suspect not, but fuck it.
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Why did you need Tor for that?
Is science illegal in India?
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@CreatedToDislikeThis At work, Dell Sonicwall blocked the site under Forbidden category 'Arts/Entertainment'. Sonicwall is another WTF that deserves its own thread.
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@stillwater Wow it's an old-fashioned website made from Photoshop slices. That's charmingly archaic in 2016.