Or write "nigger" like all of 4chan does. They even got banned for a while because of that, I dunno why it's back up now (maybe the trolling stopped or they stopped caring)
Posts made by hvm
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RE: Multi lingual capchas now? Seriously?
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RE: PHP ad wtf
Also, can I be the one who asks who the hell comes up with this stuff? Was some guy really paid to 'invent' a teat cleaner? And how do you get an idea like that? It's a very specific thing, is he/she staying in the bath and finding spots that are (in their mind) hard to clean?
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RE: When you really need a wooden table
That's a truly remarkable use of technology, whoever did that is a genius! A genius at WTFing but still a damn genius.
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RE: PHP ad wtf
" The Teat Scrubber will really clean all areas inside the teat"
WTF, inside?! That has to hurt...
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RE: Maybe I do need to learn a new language...
@Heron said:
I disabled adblock too but still couldn't see the damn picture. I suppose it thought I really shouldn't look at it. Anyway, respectable idea to 'steal' the bandwidth but it won't matter much.-5 points because you made me turn off AdBlock to see what you're talking about.
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RE: *Thump* *thump* *thump* .. the sound of my head hitting my desk
@campkev said:
It's fifth grade or fourth if you count the use of line segments to represent fractions and stuff.WTF does this have to do with technology? This is 8th grade math.
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RE: Flash Ad Freeze-up WTF
@codeman38 said:
So I set my clock to CST (GMT-0600) and loaded the page. Now that the system clock claimed it was a bit past 11:00 on Tuesday, the ad loaded properly.
How did you know what was the problem? Is that something you try each time a flash misbehaves? :P
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RE: Another billing WTF
@belgariontheking said:
I understand why they continue to send mails to people they owe money to (even if it's a few cents). They probably don't want some jackass with nothing better to do to sue them for not paying full or something. Still, they could just put that if for people that owe them less than a buck and save a few hundred dollars.@dabean said:
I overpaid a loan by the equivalant of around $2 once. Since then they've sent me a statement every month saying they owe me the money, for the past 3 years.
I had a credit come through on a closed checking account (through my debit card) and they sent me a statement saying they owed me like $7 for around 6 years. Finally, I called them up and they mailed me a check.
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RE: Another billing WTF
@belgariontheking said:
I understand why they continue to send mails to people they owe money to (even if it's a few cents). They probably don't want some jackass with nothing better to do to sue them for not paying full or something. Still, they could just put that if for people that owe them less than a buck and save a few hundred dollars.@dabean said:
I overpaid a loan by the equivalant of around $2 once. Since then they've sent me a statement every month saying they owe me the money, for the past 3 years.
I had a credit come through on a closed checking account (through my debit card) and they sent me a statement saying they owed me like $7 for around 6 years. Finally, I called them up and they mailed me a check.
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RE: SourceSafe Square Radio Buttons
@bridget99 said:
My friend said that because it is also possible to leave both checkboxes un-checked, and that this constitutes a third state, for which it would be hard to think up a name. So the GUI they provided is actually correct, in a very unique way.
I dunno, why not just make the options with radio buttons and add a checkbox for the "no change" or whatever option. Or like another poster said, add another radio button like "none of the above". I might make a similar design in certain situations but I wanted to point out that the functionality of radio buttons+checkboxes are enough to implement any workflow. -
RE: PayPal self-contradicting WTF
@Monomelodies said:
I dunno, I hate MS like any other geek but I think that Microsoft should be allowed to do what the hell they want. Then they will make shitty programs which will fuck over simple people too and then you can actually make a good argument about switching to other browsers/office programs/OSes. It's not fair to tell them what their product should consist of.@amischiefr said:
I mean come on FFS, it's not like you HAVE to use IE, you can get your OS and download FF or Chrome or w/e.
No you can't, at least not if you use Windows. One cannot uninstall IE (well, okay, you can with a lot of trouble and if you don't mind some things breaking). It's still there, lurking in the background, being vulnerable to attacks.
@amischiefr said:
They have the right to distribute their OS with thier browser
No they don't. They manufacture both the platform as well as the software, so they need to tread carefully. To stay in the car analogies: you buy a Ford which comes with a navigation system by Ford. But you think navigations by TomTom are better. Only, you can't remove Ford's. Installing side-by-side is NOT equal to choice, and since you can't uninstall Ford's your car will still go up in flames if it short-circuits and manages to catch fire. AND you're still paying for Ford's system, even if not directly. Also, Ford explicitly tells you that you can't rip it out and sell it on e-Bay to a non-Ford driver. It's not even your actual property...
The main difference of course being that it's much easier to buy a non-Ford car if you don't like them.
Like I said, I don't like MS but I mostly hate ignorant people that don't even want to hear about better and free stuff. Those people are the problem not Microsoft which only tries to make a ton of money like any other corporation. As long as you have idiots that actually believe in what ads, salesmen and even spam tell them you will have Microsoft like companies.
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RE: PayPal self-contradicting WTF
@derula said:
It's a shame that, while Firefox fixed the bug now that would cut the title tool tip after the 50th character or so, it now hides it every few seconds and you have to move the cursor away from the link and over it again.
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RE: WTF Getacoder job
Isn't the biggest WTF the task itself (and the pay for it)?
I need someone to program me a new OS (Operasting System) that looks different than Ms Windows XP etc. but has the same style.
Program an OS for 100$?I'm going to sell that operating system later on.
and you're supposed to get 100$ bucks for it while this guys sells it for wads of cash?
It HAS to be HACKER SAFE!
Good luck with that...
It must be quick and good looking.And ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A REDESIGNED WINDOWS
Again, this guy has no idea what he's talking about... Further proof would be the fact he thinks Visual Basic (as WTFcky that is on its own) will be useful/necessary in creating an OS. -
RE: WTF Getacoder job
@KattMan said:
What really gets me here is in the middle of listing languages anotjher required skill is "Programming"; and I thought that was supposed to be a given if you knew C++, C or Visual Basic.
Well, technically, programming is just the algorithmic know-how part. Of course, you probably need those skills whatever you do but it's not like you can't code without it :P. That's why most of these stories on TDWTF exist in the first place: people that know a (part of a) language but don't understand basic algorithmic concepts.
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RE: Exception: welcome!
@Heron said:
Actually running a remote desktop session (inside a remote desktop session) on a wooden table would be quite the impressive feat.
Dunno, maybe you can simulate a wooden table with that Microsoft surface thingy. Then the meme will come full circle and TDWTF will spawn a super-meme that will include all jokes ever done about IT.
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RE: BSD's Shutdown Module
@PJH said:
In the C programming language, you're regularly forced to deal with the painful, dangerous concepts of pointers and explicit memory allocation.
<font size="2" face="Lucida Console">b1 = (double *)malloc(m*sizeof(double));</font>What's that cast doing there? <font color="#ffffff"><stdlib.h> makes it redundant</font>
I don't know about other compilers but when gcc is working in c++ mode it won't allow different pointer types to be assigned to each other (like double *d; float *f=d;) so you have to cast it explicitly. I tested this and it's true. I think the microsoft compiler should act the same way because AFAIK it's an ISO standard.
Also you should probably use sizeof(*p) instead of the type but as long as you know what you're doing it's not that big a deal.
Anyway, they just gave a example, the same one most would use when quickly mashing up a little program.
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RE: Dell WTF
Why not just go to a store and choose a system that's on stock or choose your own parts and build it yourself. It would take less than waiting 10days for an 'on time' delivery from Dell.
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RE: Why Board Games are better than Electronic Games
@Helix said:
This place was a lot better before the trolls
Dude, now you look just like one. More than just one person told you that you are overreacting and yet you throw your "subtle" accusation again with that condenscending attitude. You need to learn how to take in being wrong once in a while, because that's what trolls think they are right after all evidence has been put before them and you hate those, don't you?
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RE: Why Board Games are better than Electronic Games
Well int main () is the standard, people should use it, it's not like it hurts anything.
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RE: Turn your screen into a mirror
Yeah but the guy wants to have his desktop image work as a mirror (so I guess he could still have icons and windows on top of it). For that you need some pretty advanced technology.
Or if you want a half result you could just set it to black, turn off the lights in the room and put a spotlight on your face.
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RE: So THAT's how you get a file extension
@DrJokepu said:
@Monomelodies said:
TRWTF of course being that extensions are considered important - they're just an indication at best.
I am sure you know that in the CP/M - DOS - WINDOWS environment, extensions are important. I mean, they are meant to be important.Yeah, and that's TRWTF...
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RE: Email-based security
Why does he need it to be reencripted everyday anyway? If they're encripted they're probably not uploading or used in any way so they just sit on the hard-drive. Unless his hard-drive is under constant surveillance by the **AA he could just encript it once.
Also, you could just put the stuff in an archive and encript that. Unless you decript them you can't tell what's inside. Then the **AA won't be able to ask you to decript those or you would have a better case against it at least: you could say that they're homemade movies or something (to explain the size) and you don't want people to see them.
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RE: FAQES
I think someone thought that you could copy paste the html you get from a site, copy it in your computer and that it would work like the previous website only with your stuff in it. Soon after realizing this is wrong, that person started looking up on how to build a website and found it was actually hard work involving thinking not just the computer reading your mind on what you want it to do.
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RE: Emailed SQL Statements
@Zecc said:
@yshiphuf123 said:
There's not much I can say say about the rest, but I don't really see the WTF here. What am I missing?At some point the user is given the price(s) s/he is expected to pay. That logic worked similar to the following mess:
students*15 + graduates*0 + adults*30
The cost is hardcoded and no real history of what he/she requested is kept. TRWTF though (if I'm not mistaken) is that the prices are not easy to check on the server so the user can create a page that lets him pay whatever he/she wants.
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RE: We Don't Need Databases!
Man, I like dymanic code but doing that is just wrong. It looks like what someone would do after the first hour of learning programming.
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RE: Emailed SQL Statements
Wow, it's hard to keep track of all the WTFs. I can't decide what is the worse thing there. Have you been able to 'optimize' some of the code?
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RE: Not suspicious
So the real WTF is that a company can just force you out of your property because they have more money.
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RE: Evolution of Not
@AJAXdrivenBuzzwords said:
Someone is going to be blown away when they find out about the not-operator.
Not to mention the idea of putting those 'things' in an array and using for loops. You know, like actually searching for a string.
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RE: Peak download hours
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@KattMan said:
While this may be lame for the sidebar, he makes a good point.
No he doesn't. How are they supposed to know when the peak time is?
@KattMan said:Oh damn, Austrailia just came on line...
Exactly.
Are you trying to look like a troll or are you just thick? The owners of the site know better than the users when the so-called peak times are. They know their bandwith, the number of users they get from different regions, the amount of traffic at the time of the download, etc. You could just do something simple like if (total_bandwith/number_of_users < 100KB/s) echo "try later";
The page like it is now is similar to those signs saying "floors slippery when wet": you can't actually complain because they did warn you but they don't help either. You can try and download a file and get it with 10KB/s and think that's bad but instead that can be the best you'll get. Therefore the site has to tell you if you could get a better download speed some other time.
Also, this was not particularly funny for me but I rarely find something on this site that actually makes me laugh out loud because I've seen too many WTFs. It's like "oh, he doesn't know how to use a for loop, he instead wrote all the possible cases with copy-paste? yeah, moron, the world is going down, etc."
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RE: Brilliant Oracle Consultants...
Hehe, brilliant post :). Also I'd like to add that you don't have to scroll back to everything when reading a post on a 'dead thread'. If the poster quotes properly or give a short review of what (s)he's talking about then there are no problems. Maybe before when internet connections were expensive and slow you wouldn't quote everytime (resulting in tree-like posts) and couldn't load pages with hundreds of comments at a time but now that is possible. Why not get along with the time, habits and traditions change and on the internet that happens really fast.
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RE: Brilliant Oracle Consultants...
Thanks, that was part of the idea behind my post :D
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RE: Brilliant Oracle Consultants...
Why are people so pissed when someone 'ressurects' a thread? Does the thread feel some kind of pain, is it inhuman to treat it like that? I agree that the guy should've have posted a different thread for his story but in other cases it seems legitimate to post in a dead thread. Maybe you have new information or want to clear up a mistake or something. Is that such a big problem?
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RE: PR messes up again
TRWTF is the flash webpage that does exactly what a normal html (but simpler) could do. And that if you want to change the country you get a map that doesn't do anything in spite of the fact that it's a flash thingie.
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RE: Communication issues
Wow, we finally meet the guy that inspired Dilbert :D
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RE: Amish and technology
@tster said:
@hvm said:
I sometimes look in the data directory of programs of games
that's TRWTF!
It's not what you think! I only look for the, uh, articles?
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RE: Amish and technology
I know it's not something to laugh at like a negative stock value on some lame "get rich quick" site. I found something that made me smile because I realized that there are probably very few people who know of this 'insult' addressed at Tim Aidley, whoever that is. I didn't expect anything else. The amish are indeed very unfunny especially their potato thing (I can't remember what you said in your post and I'm too lazy to back and forward).
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Amish and technology
I sometimes look in the data directory of programs of games out of boredom, curiosity, whatever. While looking at the textures of a game, Star Monkey I found this:
This should be the mask used to draw the hud.
I know it's not a WTF but I like seeing this kind of humor from developers and I think they want someone to discover them in the end so I thought I'll share it.