I don't know about other places, but I noticed on Best Buy's rebate form it said, "It's your responsibility to get this to us, if it's lost in the mail you're outta luck" or something of that nature.
Posts made by rbowes
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RE: You Save 100.00%
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RE: Job application WTFs
I felt bad for my co-worker who was tasked with posting jobs to security-jobs@securityfocus.com because there would always be a deluge of emails like that, and he would have to dig to find the ones that actually weren't brutally terrible.
I guess that's why a lot of places have an automatic filter that will check your submitted stuff for keywords before even bothering to show it to a human.
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Pope apologizes for Apple
From a quick search, I don't think this great apology has been posted here, yet. I had no idea that Apple had so much influence!
Here's a mirror of it, just in case.
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RE: Not my potato
You asked him to open up weird ports with no explanation, he rejected your request. That's exactly what my group would do (we're security). If you gave a good reason for it, then we'd consider/allow it.
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RE: All tags need to be closed
Ah, I get the joke. It's supposed to be this, right?
#include <shellapi.h />
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RE: Backwards Headline
The story is about how bus stops are getting bigger, right?
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RE: Prank Opportunity - Should I?
Just put clear tape across the cubical door, and cover the back of the tape with peanuts. If the walls are tall enough, it might look like it's full. :)
[edit] crap, beaten to the punch!
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RE: Javascript Trim
Why don't you guys just use AJAX to access a trim() service provided by .NET or Java or something? That's the Enterprise Solution!
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RE: My Neighbour, the hacker.
Damn, I thought for sure he had pwned up 127.something :)
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RE: The shotgun approach
@DOA said:
Throw lots of random replies at the customer until one of them sticks. In fact give different mutually-exclusive answers in the same post. Kinda like using shot to hunt game so you have a bigger chance of landing a hit.
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing; when somebody has an unknown problem with something I wrote, I tend to send them a list of possible problems/solutions, even if they overlap, and tell them to try the solutions until one of them works. Granted, I don't try to sell them anything, but I don't think the general approach is wrong.
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RE: PhpPETITION
@topspin said:
@rbowes said:
I love their CAPTCHA!
WTF is that? My grandma could code a OCR to beat that "captcha" !
Just convert the image to black and white at the right threshold and you got perfectly well separated characters to feed into your OCR engine. Easy as cake
That too, but I just liked making it giant
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RE: Spectra - the whole spectrum of WRONG
Although it's totally useless, it looks and feels kind of slick.
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RE: Indiana Jones and the course of the countdown banner
The Real WTF is somebody using tags as they were intended.
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Decorative barcodes?
I found this on a box at work we received:
My question is, if you aren't supposed to scan the barcode, what ARE you supposed to do?
(Sorry for the slightly blurry image)
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RE: Program X Crashed
Haha, we had a lot of fun trying to solve this one in the office. Took us a few tries to get the right one. I agree that it's the stupidest CAPTCHA ever invented!
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RE: Don't trust SSL!
@merreborn said:
@rbowes said:
Thanks go to The Web Application Hacker's Handbook for starting me on the search to find that quote.
Is the book any good?Glowing reviews on amazon.com... http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0470170778
Not sure yet, just started. The first two chapters are promising, though. Send me a message/email in a month and I'll tell you. :)
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RE: Don't trust SSL!
@medialint said:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
Yes clearly they are using superior technology. Why would I ever doubt them!?
Is it me or is that not only a stupid FAQ answer but an extremely rude one as well?
I was thinking that it sounds more arrogant than anything, in a "ha ha I know more than you" way.
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Don't trust SSL!
You shouldn't trust SSL, according to the National Tap Ensemble's old FAQ Page:
"I would like to sign up online but your website has no security (such as SSL), so I cannot enter my credit card details on to it."</font>
Incorrect. This is a professional, highly-respected organization so if we state that you can safely send an online transaction, you can. This site is secure. For your safety (and our peace of mind) we do not use "standard" security procedures such as SSL- which only secures PART of the process - but proprietary protocols which we won't disclose in detail here but permit immediate transfer of any data you submit to a completely secure location. In other words the data never stays on a server "floating in cyberspace" which allows us to keep potential malfeasants in the dark. One of the TRUE signs of a secure and/or encrypted transaction is NOT just a SSL "certificate" on a web page (those can just be bought, some are actually completely fake) or whatever your browser says to make you THINK that a site is "secure" (these schemes only enrich the Verisigns of the world) but the "shtml" part of a URL, which if fact you DO see in the URL immediately after you click "register" or "submit" on this site. For the record we have processed thousands of registrations and purchases over the years and I have never had one problem. However if you still have any doubt, you always have the option of printing a form and faxing it. That will delay its processing but the job will eventually get done.Thanks go to The Web Application Hacker's Handbook for starting me on the search to find that quote. :)
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RE: For projects that just make you go wtf?
@morbiuswilters said:
Invalid use the of the Mug. The Mug is for things that aren't really WTFs being presented as such. This is just an imagine snoofie made and he even admitted it was "sort of lame". Personally, I think it's a fine visual representation of how I've felt on a few projects.
Also, stop with the post locking. It was cool when we did it but now that other people are doing it it can longer be cool and has now become lame.
I'm not so sure, I click on "Sidebar WTF" with the expectation of reading a WTF. Posting here (on the "Sidebar WTF" board) alone is sufficient to present itself as such, in my opinion.
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RE: OMG WTF...
@mrprogguy said:
The second question also never makes clear whether or not it's the same refrigerator that you previously filled with chopped giraffe bits.
Congratulations, you found the joke. Well, part of it at any rate.
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RE: OMG WTF...
Heh, I've heard that joke/quiz before. It's one of my favourites. :)
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RE: "Send me teh codez" t-shirt
Alex should definitely provide this. I'd buy one! :)
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RE: OGC Logo
"and is not inappropriate to an organisation that's looking to have a firm grip on government spend!"
*snicker*
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RE: How NOT to pass parameters into a query
@morbiuswilters said:
@ammoQ said:
Hibernate query language. GIYF
GIYF? What's that? Let me check Google... ooohhhhh!
Heh, I took it to mean, "Google it, you F***er!" Close!
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RE: Localized at
Doing that kind of makes sense, since a German person may not know the English days (just like I don't know the German days). Maybe it should use a more standard approach, like numbering the days, that way scripts can be consistent.
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RE: Phpajax
I kind of expected the site to use AJAX, wouldn't that be a good demo? But I guess you couldn't change the template on every link if you were using AJAX. :)
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RE: Sears website wtf
I always use the "guest" option, when available, and will go out of my way to use sites that don't require me to log in. I can handle typing my cc# every time!
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RE: Any price you want
@bstorer said:
@Daid said:
And the forum breaks too :X
Haven't we already established that this forum sucks donkey nuts?Yes, including the ability to write fake posts. But it never gets boring!
<edit> After reading the rest of the thread... yes, yes you can forge posts. Me and somebody else used to do it, though I forget the thread now. :)
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RE: Open PHPMyAdmin Installations
Heh, I'm in government and somebody tried to make a page that exposed PHPMyAdmin. I wouldn't let them. Luckily, my government doesn't show up on that. :)
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RE: Your new password is...
At the very _least_, they should force people to change the password as soon as they log in. I guarantee that 95% of people wouldn't change from the default unless forced.
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RE: Stupid Secretary WTF
So back to the original post.. I'm totally nominating it for best-of-the-sidebar hour. I love this situation!
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RE: Double RAS
@morbiuswilters said:
The real WTF is that I can't vote that up until I reach "level 2", and that was after all the work I went through registering an account, just so I could rate it!
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RE: Char-to-String conversion
Can this be made into a Web service? You pass it a character, and it returns the string?
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Another useless error
Maybe there are already enough of these here, but I love them anyways. This is from a program that I'm told is called "Calltracker". Sorry about it being a .jpg, I didn't take this. :)
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It's been 59.9899856 seconds!
These aren't major WTFs, just the classic old stuff, but I figured I'd share them anyways.
First, the whole error message is black, and I can't figure out what the error is. Second, when I mouseover, I find out that it timed out after not quite 60 seconds. Obviously a rounding error, but I still laughed:
On this one, I asked the students here how long till an operation would be done. They brought up this window to check the progress:
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RE: UserName, PWD, Security Question and Answer Sent Clear Text in the same email
@lolwtf said:
WTF #5: Not sorting the messages into a sane order before posting them.
Thanks for that, I was worried nobody would point it out. I found it excessively confusing to read that, and it took me a couple tries...
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RE: Lysis got banned
@Lysis said:
@rbowes said:
Who's Lysis?
Probably what I get for only reading the first couple posts in each thread.. :)
Who's Lysis? Whoooooooo's Lysis? OMG The only troll that actually makes MasterAsshat and Beljerk cream their pants. Let's not forget the QQers of quoting the original post and the Knights of Fail who get their panties in a bunch because this was posted on the Sidebar WTF forum.
I vaguely remember hearing about "MasterAsshat", but not your or that other guy. Hmm...
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RE: Lysis got banned
Who's Lysis?
Probably what I get for only reading the first couple posts in each thread.. :)
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RE: The internet enabled coffee machine/wooden table
If it was me, I'd put the cdrom drive in front of the "on" button for the coffee machine. Then I'd log in remotely, type "eject /dev/cdrom", and I'd know that the cdrom tray would pop out and whack the "on" button. There you go, coffee made, and life's even easier!
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RE: Please contact us if you can't contact us
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
It is the OP, it is a given that you are replying to it. No need to quote it.
Cue the 20 different people that will now turn this into a flame war for no reason.
The general consensus, at least on most boards I visit, is that if you quote nobody then you're responding to the person immediately above you.
That's assuming that it isn't a threaded style of discussion, which this board kinda sorta wishes it was. Kinda.
What it really comes down to is, who cares? In general, quoting adds more clarity, and it's not like we're being charged per byte.
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Weird use of "switch"
My buddy sent me this odd code:
switch (true) { case (empty($this->options['canvas'])): // Create new image from width && height of the clipping $this->_img = imagecreatetruecolor( $this->options['width'], $this->options['height']); if (!$this->_img) { return PEAR::raiseError('Could not create image canvas.'); } break; case (is_resource($this->options['canvas']) && get_resource_type($this->options['canvas'])=='gd'): // The canvas is an image resource $this->_img = $this->options['canvas']; break; case (is_array($this->options['canvas']) && isset($this->options['canvas']['width']) && isset($this->options['canvas']['height'])): // Canvas must be a width and height measure $this->_img = imagecreatetruecolor( $this->options['canvas']['width'], $this->options['canvas']['height'] ); break; case (is_array($this->options['canvas']) && isset($this->options['canvas']['size']) && ($this->options['canvas']['size'] = 'auto')): case (is_string($this->options['canvas']) && ($this->options['canvas'] = 'auto')): $this->_mode = 'auto'; break; default: return PEAR::raiseError('Could not create image canvas.'); }
He found it in the Image_Text PEAR module: http://pear.php.net/bugs/report.php?package=Image_Text
Lines 579-620 as of version 0.6.0beta.
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RE: Please contact us if you can't contact us
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
The opposite of the mug is quoting the OP for no apparent reason.
Hmm, perhaps because I was referring to it? I sorta had the impression that that's basically the reason for quoting.
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RE: Please contact us if you can't contact us
@gutch said:
Is it a real WTF if the Contact Us page on a website throws an error, but then includes contact details in the error message?
See http://www.melton.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=32&h=-1 - it does:
Contact UsThis page has been deleted.
Please contact the Webmaster for more information.
Or maybe the real WTF is this?: <span align="left" class="h1">Contact Us</span>
Haha I don't know why, but I found that whole thing incredibly funny! An accidental contact page. I love it! :)
Is there an opposite of the mug that I can hand out?