here is where the site originates from. i like how it defaults to network-abuse.
here is where the site originates from. i like how it defaults to network-abuse.
@Daniel15 said:
Wow... Looks like the original issue is fixed, but the HTML is still ugly. Just look at this:
<font
color="black" face="VERDANA,ARIAL" size="1">© <i>2007<small><small><small><small>, </small></small></small></small></i></font><small><small><font
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;"
color="black" face="" size="2"><small><small><strong>Deborah Jeane Palfrey</strong></small></small></font></small></small><font
color="black" face="VERDANA,ARIAL" size="1"><i>. All rights reserved.</i></font>
@bairy said:It does, I wonder if somewhere, some coder is looking for a new job. There are still quite a few br tags at the bottom of the source.
Not just that, they've even got strange indentation :PPity it hasn't got a 'designed by' on it
I noticed this:
<!-- Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Netsential.com Inc. All Rights Reserved. info at netsential dot com -->
I think that company may be responsible - Their website has a similar HTML style (ie. UGLY) :P
They must be using Netscape Navigator's HTML Editor, it does this sort of crap. I wonder what they charged her for the site?
@sycro said:
@savar said:@tster said:
congrats. you found a bug. Just fix it. That's what your paid to do.It's not really a bug. A bug implies something that at first looks correct but turns out to be subtly wrong.
This is just plain wrong. If I told you I was born in 1982, could you tell me how old I am today? No, and neither can a computer.
bug: Informal. a defect or imperfection, as in a mechanical device, computer program, or plan; glitch: The test flight discovered the bugs in the new plane.
So, yes, it is a bug. Change DateInterval.Year to DateInterval.Day and it's fixed. I think the fact that it involves changing one word more than shows that it is in fact a bug, even by your definition. At most, it is 1 year greater.
Edit: So this was wrong. I just read the MSDN link, and the first doesn't give a level of precision, it gives what you want a count of.
Outuput from sample: -47
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine(CInt(DateDiff(DateInterval.Year, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Parse("06/15/1960"), , )))
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module
@mrsticks1982 said:
@KattMan said:Go to Computer World's Sharktank at http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/
Go to any entry and attempt to add a comment as an unregistered user.
Take a look at your captcha text.
I predict you will have the following:
NECXA
It doesn't validate but I always get that as the first captcha text. The second one is always different, but of course it also doesn't validate.
I've tried this on both IE and FireFox.
I am guessing that the site puts a cookie on your computer with the captcha id.http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=_textimage/image/117491988
http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=_textimage/image/1Change the last digit to something else and a new image will appear.
It generates a new catcha sequentially for each post try.
@KattMan said:
Go to Computer World's Sharktank at http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/
Go to any entry and attempt to add a comment as an unregistered user.
Take a look at your captcha text.
I predict you will have the following:
NECXA
It doesn't validate but I always get that as the first captcha text. The second one is always different, but of course it also doesn't validate.
I've tried this on both IE and FireFox.
I am guessing that the site puts a cookie on your computer with the captcha id.
http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=_textimage/image/117491988
http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=_textimage/image/1
Change the last digit to something else and a new image will appear.
@malfist said:
I really want to move hosts, but I don't own it. It was hacked once sense I've started working on it and everything deleted almost (not just my site, all of them), according to their news it's not the first time either. They had a DoS just before I started working on it. ugh, I hate it.
What is message board software are you using? I currently host my wifes website through 1and1.com, never had a problem with them and they are dirt cheap and usually give you a couple free domains.
@sycro said:
@mrsticks1982 said:@sycro said:
I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!"
sorry, I work in the web development realm and forget that there are other programming worlds! I was just blown away at how stupid the US Patent office can be.
That wasn't quite my point. Just because they have this technique patented does not mean you are working for them. They can force you to stop doing it, but they can't take your work.
It got you to read it, right? Otherwise you would've just past right over this thread.
It now gives Yahoo the power to sue every other company that produces for the web because they are infringing on a patent. Honestly, I don't think yahoo will do anything with this new power except brag about how they created they created the "web".
@sycro said:
I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!"
sorry, I work in the web development realm and forget that there are other programming worlds! I was just blown away at how stupid the US Patent office can be.
http://www.patentmonkey.com/PM/PatentID/7171414.aspx
found on http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/15/patent-monkey-yahoo-ready-to-smash-up-the-mash-ups/
Welcome to the American patent system.
some of the content is there, you just have to have fast fingers!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch04a.asp
@AustinW said:
The site looks nice. But anybody try actually using it? Everytime you do anything it takes forever to load
The site works well and has nice feel to it except the error messages suck major a$$, now if yoda read the error messages they may make more sense.
@Monkeyget said:
Step 1) Buy a copy of Windows XP
...Step 4) Money! (Between 1000 and 3000 minus the price of XP)
Step 2) Purchase 1 copy of WindowBlinds and 1 theme
Step 3) Send Screenshots
here is the product the site is using.
@Carnildo said:
@Grimoire said:@Cap'n Steve said:
I knew someone would notice that. I was just curious, ok? I especially like the phising emails, someone should really make a site where you can rate how well done they are.You aren't alone. I also read the phishing messages. Some are almost grammatically correct! I have to wonder about the mental capacity of people who fall for these emails...
I click on them regularly. Sometimes I'm even fast enough to get to the website before it's shut down/hammered into oblivion, and I can start poisoning their results with false information.
My favorite part of gmail is view original. Then doing a who-is on the ip address that is usually contained in the "paypal" web address.
seriously we all have been students at one time, but someone please shoot the submitter of that code and plead Darwin made me do it. That person shouldn't be allowed to write anymore code and shouldn't be allowed to breed.
[quote user="newfweiler"]
20 years ago it was very difficult to get a patent. You'd send in your application and it would always be rejected and you'd go over it and maybe on the fifth try it would be accepted.
Now you can get a patent for just about anything. Not much checking seems to go on. It's up to you to defend the patent in court if it's challenged. Whichever side has the most persuasive "experts" will prevail.
Penn Jillette has a patent. As far as I know it's a non-ridiculous, novel, useful and non-obvious idea. Search for it. Warning: it is NSFW (Not Safe For Work). But evidently it was Safe For The Patent Office.
[/quote]
[quote user="newfweiler"]
20 years ago it was very difficult to get a patent. You'd send in your application and it would always be rejected and you'd go over it and maybe on the fifth try it would be accepted.
Now you can get a patent for just about anything. Not much checking seems to go on. It's up to you to defend the patent in court if it's challenged. Whichever side has the most persuasive "experts" will prevail.
Penn Jillette has a patent. As far as I know it's a non-ridiculous, novel, useful and non-obvious idea. Search for it. Warning: it is NSFW (Not Safe For Work). But evidently it was Safe For The Patent Office.
[/quote]
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6681419.html
some of this crap should be outlawed!
[quote user="Dragnslcr"]
[quote user="Pap"]And to others: superglobals only allow the request data to be defined as individual variables within the global scope of the document, not functions.[/quote]
Maybe I'm misreading that, but superglobals ($_POST, $_GET, etc.) are always visible within every function, hence the name superglobals.
My first thought was that what was posted was pretty much the entire script, so The Real WTF (tm) was that some spammer could take advantage of it with a script that keeps hitting http://www.example.com/mail.php?name=foo&email=foo@example.com&message=spam
[/quote]
That is where I was thinking as well. What would stop someone from doing the above and pressing enter. I linked to the @_REQUST information because it contains the info from any post or get method as well as a cookie. A simple program could submit information automatically. Although I like the BCC injection better!
[quote user="overmyhead"]
function contact_us(){
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$body = $_REQUEST['body'];
[/quote]
This is beautiful code </sarcasm>. I love how they use the $_REQUEST check instead of the $_GET or $_POST. Now if this is a public website we could have some real fun telling people about this great new stock program, maybe spam everyone with the new short POS story or make men feel as though they are really not man enough!
[quote user="mattd"]
Good morning all. First post here. Love the site.
Several months ago we met to discuss some employee issues. Last on the list was a complaint from a security guard. This particular guard worked in a standalone building checking in trucks and logging trailers that come onto our property. During her check-in, the driver had to give the guard his manifest so she could log it. Then, she handed him the manifest and was required to sign a slip of paper. All this document exchanged was done through a window, the driver sitting in his cab and the guard standing in her building. When it rained, she complained about the papers getting wet.
How could we deal with this? This is horrible! Ideas were thrown back and forth ranging from giving her an umbrella so she could keep herself dry as she walked outside in the rain to making the driver come inside the building. Finally, it was decided. We would build a $15,000 awning that wrapped around the roof's perimeter in an effort to keep the papers dry. As everyone nodded in agreement my boss was about to end the meeting.
"One suggestion, if I may?" I spoke, holding in my horror at the $15,000 "solution." "What if we put the papers in some sort of folder? Maybe one of those plastic ones for $1.99?"
The silence was incredible. My boss considered it and concluded that though it would work in the short term, but it wasn't a viable long term solution because "those folders have a tendency to wear out," and ordered a quote on the awning. I couldn't bear to tell him that they make more than one of those folders.
[/quote]
But that would make too much sense and help out their bottom line. You should know better than to think logically and provide better solutions than the gods, um bosses
[quote user="tmountjr"]
Number 9: "An application program bug in Genera will never hang or lock the system, no matter when it happens. The debugger is the exception handler of last resort (or first resort if that's what you want)."
Oy. That's a pretty risky statement. I'm sure someone somewhere can crash Genera.
[/quote]
i'll do it, now should I pull out my old 486 computer to program in Genera?
i like their high tech use of scanning. I must now go update my webpages to meet this new Web 3.0 standard!
the anticipation grows. It's like a good book, just hope the ending doesn't disappoint!
read the comments, funniest issue log i have ever read!
sounds like they want to pay someone a lot of money to be a business analyst.
awesome find, seriously OMFG what went through their head. Don't most parent try to teach their kids to think first before you speak?
who made this site? check out their online application for the credit in Firefox 1.5.
https://www.alienware.com/financing_pages/OnlineFinancialApplications.aspx
[quote user="Alex Papadimoulis"]
Isn't that closer to how it works in Europe?
One of the biggest WTF's about being an employee (at least, in every company I've ever worked for) is the lack of an upaid vacation policy. You're only "allowed" the two or three weeks of paid vacation, and that's that. I remember chattting with a coworker a while back who was telling me how exicted he was to have earned, after four years of service, the ability to take a six-week (2 wks paid / 4wks unpaid) vaction. It took a lot of begging and pleading though, but he finally got it.
Is this the norm? Just doesn't sit right with me ...
[/quote]
It seems as though american employers want you to love your job but don't want to change the normal way as to how the business operates. I, for example, don't mind taking a day or two unpaid because as long as I get my work done and everyone is happy why not. I completed everything that was required and I am not charging them anything, but I am happier since I feel rested and ready to tackle the next big project. Why do corporations feel as though containment equals happiness?
i love the hardcoding of the dates. Someone next year gets to shift everything and redeploy it. lovely!
[quote user="powerlord"][quote user="ammoQ"][quote user="powerlord"]
Unless you want to limit the number of rows returned. That appears to be different in every database.
For example:
SQL Server's
SELECT TOP 10 column, column2 FROM table
is the following in Oracle:
SELECT column, column2 FROM table WHERE ROWNUM <= 10
[/quote]
Beware, it's not exactly the same. (AFAIK)
SQLServer's "SELECT TOP 10 foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo" will give you the 10 lowest values of foo (in ascending order).
Oracles "SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE ROWNUM<=10 ORDER BY foo" will give you 10 arbitrary values of foo (in ascending order).
To get the 10 lowest values in Oracle, you have to write the more elaborate statement
SELECT foo FROM (SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo) WHERE ROWNUM<=10
[/quote]
I don't use Oracle a lot, can you tell? I always thought the whole ROWNUM thing seemed rather silly, now I actually have a valid reason to hate them. Thank you.
[/quote]
read up
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/agg/index.html
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/RankDenseRankFirstLastAnalyticFunctions.php
Seems like someone doesn't know anything.
@RyuO said:
@Your Oracle DBA said:<font face="Verdana" size="2">See, RyuO gets my point. I'm flat-out telling people not to use Oracle. I'm not selling anything. </font><font face="Verdana" size="2"> I'm not evangelizing the product.</font><font face="Verdana" size="2"> I'm trying to make your life easier.
I like to write, so sometimes my verbosity gets in the way of my point. All the extra writing that goes beyond the main point -- feel free to ignore it. Or not. But basically, I'm posting in the "I-Hate-Oracle-Club" forum, and I'm saying "Don't use Oracle." I can't be any more clear than that.
</font>
Just to be annoying, I'll pose the question: what should you do if somebody else makes the decision and hires you to do Oracle? I often tell clients they should be using PostgreSQL instead, and they always me to shut up and do Oracle. Those projects usually end badly.
There are plenty of rational reasons people pick Oracle over something smaller and cheaper, which is not to say they are good reasons or sufficient reasons. Foremost is that it is easy to find Oracle people. Another reason is that the other commercial DBMSes give you even less for the money. A third is that if you buy a big league product, you look big league to other dumb people
and at the end of the day everyone receive the OVER MAILBOX LIMIT emails, and everyones rejoices!
@Kev777 said:
@m0ffx said:
A bigger wtf is the #1 google result for 'whip'.
@kuroshin said:
@ocean12 said:it only took me 108 hours to build, you try building it faster than that, i'm the best designer in the world!!
Only 108 hours? OMG. You should be the best designer in the world.
Why dont you submit more of your work for us to see?
Expecting your reply very eagerly
@Cosmo7 said:
This Antenna sounds fantastic. Let's have a look at some of the generated code!
They have the meta tag right there, though I thought short tags were supposed to self-close:<meta name="generator" content="Antenna 2.7">How's the rest of the code? Besides the inline CSS, we get gems like this:<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Buy
now</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></a>
</strong></strong></strong></strong>
Which is amazing, considering that this is on the page selling the application that generated the code.
@jesirose said:
I just went to read one of their support things, for what to do on an error message
http://www.utdallas.edu/SIS/login%20session%20expired%20messages.htm
Some of those are pretty funny. Some of them are not actually solutions either - it's called "Login Session Expired Message Resolutions"
- You are using America Online's browser
- You are using WebTV
- You clicked a link twice
*headdesk*
I liked that one too .. have you EVER watch the average person use a web browser .. they would be screwed!!! Apparently they have not!
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** I would just like to say that if any of TheDailyWTF team
has a problem with a person's signature let them know before
deleting a post. Since editing a signature effects all of that persons post.
Just catching up on my tech feeds and was browsing http://share.opml.org/ (news story from digg) and was suprised to see thedailywtf at number 80.
Reminds me of the Jimmy Sweeney Cover Letter Creator!!!
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