• (disco)

    If we made statistics on which programs show up most frequently on Error’d articles, I think Oracle installers would be close to the top...

  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv

    Quite possibly not unrelated to the fact that there's a category explicitly for Oracle on here...

  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv

    If Oracle can't avoid NullPointerExceptions, what chance do the rest of us stand?

    They submitted a bug report but it went to the dummy(spam hole) department.

  • (disco) in reply to warreng

    I'm not afraid of nullPointerExceptions. I'm using Haskell.

  • (disco)

    NullPointerException is your friend. It tells you that you'd messed up your code.

  • (disco)

    Did anyone notices the pressure is 29.9 hPa too? All lifes would die under this low air pressure, in additional to that high temperature...

  • (disco)

    Pressure? Temperature? Didn't Pascal do some work on the subject?

  • (disco)

    That's what you get when you buy an autoclave you can live in.

  • (disco)

    For those unaware of the USA geography:

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to Eldelshell

    Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

    You mean Kansas really exists? I thought it was a mythical place, like Atlantis and Detroit.

  • (disco) in reply to leeyc0
    leeyc0:
    Did anyone notices the pressure is 29.9 hPa too? All lifes would die under this low air pressure, in additional to that high temperature...

    Statistically speaking we know that there is still bacteriological life on Voyager 1.... which has been in space how long?

    also look up Tardigrades. those boys have been to SPACE without a spacesuit and come back just fine.

    Source: (and i checked their sources too, i'm a geek) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0E77TdYnY

  • (disco)

    I am also concerned that in this alternate reality Phoenix has expanded to fill the whole of Arizona.

  • (disco)

    What's the WTF about the spam hole? I think it's a quite clever method to ignore bots. They'll probably keep the default option in the department drop down box (spam hole). A human should be clever enough to send it to an actual department. TRWTF is that someone was too stupid to select the proper department. Also, the ticking of the box to show you're human could block some/most of the bots, without being at all invasive. Care only slightly about bots and this is a fair solution.

  • (disco) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Also, the ticking of the box to show you're human could block some/most of the bots, without being at all invasive.
    As seen here: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/new-captcha-no-captcha-yes-rankling/5269?u=aliceif
  • (disco) in reply to Eldelshell
  • (disco) in reply to billpg
    [image] CTFY
  • (disco) in reply to billpg

    Does that happen to be Baarle? Strange Maps has the backstory, which is where I read it before.

  • (disco)

    It's not the referencing of the null pointer that's the problem. It's the dereferencing.

  • (disco) in reply to pedantic_git
    pedantic_git:
    I am also concerned that in this alternate reality Phoenix has expanded to fill the whole of Arizona.

    Not if Mesa has anything to say about it!

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Not if Mesa has anything to say about it!

    http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208042120/starwars/images/4/42/JarJarHS-SWE.jpg

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier

    MY EYES!

    THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

    MESA GETTING OUTA HERE! <a>

  • (disco) in reply to nerd4sale

    Lifelong Kansas resident here.

    To the rest of the world: The "Wizard of Oz" jokes are getting old. We've heard them all... several times.

    I did feel the need to go post the first screenshot at fyifk.com, though.

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier

    Mesa (MAY-sa), not me-sa!

    Filed Under: Kill Jar-Jar!

  • (disco) in reply to kylehutson

    How many Comcast customers does Kansas have anyways?

  • (disco)

    The City of Omaha, foiled by the State of Nebraska's brilliant law preventing the city from annexing Nebraska towns outside of Douglas County, turns its eyes to neighboring states in an evil new plan to conquer territory and increase their sales tax revenue...

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    How many Comcast customers does Kansas have anyways?

    Not a lot. Cox is pretty dominant here (Topeka, Wichita, and Manhattan, that I know of). There is some Time Warner near KC, as well as Google Fiber there.

    Short answer: "not where I am, so I really haven't bothered to find out".

  • (disco) in reply to kylehutson
    kylehutson:
    To the rest of the world: The "Wizard of Oz" jokes are getting old. We've heard them all... several times.

    Do you guys know some other Kansas jokes we could use instead?

  • (disco) in reply to kylehutson
    kylehutson:
    Cox is pretty dominant here

    Consider yourself lucky that you have the good guys of the cable industry (if you can say that with a straight face, that is) in your corner -- from what I can tell, Comcast and TWC are pure, unbridled, shareholder-fueled evil.

  • (disco) in reply to tarunik
    tarunik:
    Consider yourself lucky that you have the good guys of the cable industry

    This is very true. I have Cox Cable and not only have I pretty much never had problems, I get 100 Mbps. Compare that to the local Qwest/CenturyLink branch which exists solely to make people pay hand and foot for 5 Mbps DSL that's really 100 Kbps on a good day.

  • (disco) in reply to kylehutson

    All I wanted were new jokes about Kansas, but my wayward son said they were like dust in the wind.

  • (disco)

    Nothing makes a customer feel more loved than having his support requests go into the spam hole.

  • (disco) in reply to operagost

    All I wanted were new jokes about Kansas, but my wayward son said they were like dust in the wind.

    Now we're talking good Kansas jokes. Ones that aren't as old as a Dino. (obscure references FTW)

  • (disco) in reply to tarunik

    Consider yourself lucky that you have the good guys of the cable industry

    It's pretty bad state of affairs when Cox is considered "the good guys". I complain about Cox, but my stories pale in comparison with the ones from Comcast and TW.

  • (disco) in reply to nerd4sale
    nerd4sale:
    I thought it was a mythical place, like Atlantis and Detroit.

    Detroit's real, we just feel more comfortable pretending it isn't.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Filed Under: Kill Jar-Jar!

    Han shot first.

  • (disco)

    So the current version of that page correctly says "Arizona" instead of "Phoenix", but Nebraska is still giant.
    I wonder if somebody decided it was easier to fix the one bug than the other or if they just decided to keep whatever inside joke going.

  • (disco)

    In case anybody was wondering, my first job was programming binary load lifters decoding weather station data. The weather report almost makes sense if you look at the METAR message on the bottom.

    METAR KRIC 271865Z 22009KT 10SM SCT060TCU BKN300 32/17 A2992 RMK A02 SLP134 CB DSNT E MOV E TCU N T03220167

    "This is a METAR report from Richmond International Airport, at 18:54 UTC on the 27th day of the month. Winds are from the south-west at 9 knots, visibility 10 statute miles. Scattered clouds at approximately 6,000 feet of the towering cumulus type and broken clouds at roughly 30,000 feet. Temperature is 32 Celcius with a dew point of 17 C. Altimiter says 29.92 inches of mercury and I would just like to say that I am very happy to be an automated weather station with a rain and snow sensor. Did you know that if we were at sea level the barometric pressure would be 1,013.4 hPa? There are distant cumulonimbus clouds moving in the east and towering cumulus in the north, and I just wanted to remind you that the temperature is 32.2 degrees Celcius and the dew point is still 16.7 degrees C. Share and Enjoy!"

    The weather report says that the reporting station is in University Heights which is on the other side of the city from the airport, so why is the METAR data from KRIC attached instead of the report from KVARICHM48? 91.1 F is 32.8 C, which is a believable temperature considering the airport is 32.2 C, and most of the other numbers are converted correctly into metric (10SM = 16 km, 6000 ft = 1828 m), although I haven't seen significant digits abused like that since the last time Moxy Früvous played an all-ages show.

    So, um, yeah. The error is an unnecessary unit conversion. That's all.

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    METAR KRIC 271865Z 22009KT 10SM SCT060TCU BKN300 32/17 A2992 RMK A02 SLP134 CB DSNT E MOV E TCU N T03220167

    That's pretty tame compared to what we got this morning:

    METAR KOMA 051352Z 16006KT 1/4SM R14R/1200V1800FT FG VV002 02/02 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP196 T00170017

    (The fog's still there as of 1552Z btw...)

  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv

    The installer even checks if the OS supports 256 colors at the beginning. Sigh...

  • (disco)
    "I'm sure I could squeeze out many hours of fun on this calculator thing.”
    Only if you turn your computer screen upside-down.
  • (disco) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    All I wanted were new jokes about Kansas, but my wayward son said they were like dust in the wind.

    Carry on...

  • (disco) in reply to cconroy

    I'm not playing this game tonight.

  • (disco)

    Apparently one of the states, feeling in need of a better public image than being associated with cheeseheads, is now named Wincons[in].

  • (disco) in reply to Dreikin
    Dreikin:
    Apparently one of the states, feeling in need of a better public image than being associated with cheeseheads, is now named Wi<b>n</b>cons[in].

    Now fixed on their site. Nebraska still owns Kansas, though.

  • (disco) in reply to kylehutson
    kylehutson:
    The "Wizard of Oz" jokes are getting old. We've heard them all... several times.

    Time for something more visual?

    abarker:
    boomzilla:
    Tornado vs rainbow:

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1411/tornado_nguyen_960c.jpg

    I think someone's headed to Oz.
  • (disco)

    The map is just outdated, that's all. It goes back to when Kansas and Nebraska were the same territory.

    ("The more outrageously, the better. No small lies--big ones." -James H. Schmitz)

  • (disco)

    Did anyone else also notice some of the outliers in that map, such as "Wincons" (which I assume was meant to be Wisconsin...)? And that Phoenix is now its own state? ;)

  • (disco) in reply to MissSkittles
    MissSkittles:
    Did anyone else also notice some of the outliers in that map, such as "Wincons" (which I assume was meant to be Wisconsin...)? And that Phoenix is now its own state? ;)

    Yes

  • (disco) in reply to Evo

    Right. In addition, Google announced that it will be using just a single check box in the future, for captcha service. Apparently, software on the browser watches how the user moves the mouse to the check box ... and that's how they tell. Robots don't move jerkily?

    I'd do a link, but can't locate the article at the moment...

  • (disco) in reply to CoyneTheDup
    CoyneTheDup:
    Right. In addition, Google announced that it will be using just a single check box in the future, for captcha service. Apparently, software on the browser watches how the user moves the mouse to the check box ... and that's how they tell. Robots don't move jerkily?

    I'd do a link, but can't locate the article at the moment...

    Already posted:

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/new-captcha-no-captcha-yes-rankling/5269

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