• Easy There Pardner (unregistered)

    Wait! Don't choose user ID 10206662-1! Everyone knows row 1 in the user database is admin. You'd end up with control of (and responsibility for) the entire AT&T Global Network!

  • Date Logic (unregistered)
    June 10, 2009 is greater than June 10, 2009
    And that's why we need to stop truncating dates to integers!
  • (cs)

    Surely it would be the Crown which needs special treatment when registering websites rather than HM?

  • (cs)

    Hmmmm... Buys a $1 item and hands the clerk 99 cents

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I don't count the domain registration one as a WTF really. They're just being thorough. Can't knock them for that, can we?

  • MMSS (unregistered)

    The dropdown lists all entities authorized to register a .ca address as legal entities in Canada. As head of state HM would count - but it does seem a stretch to think that entry would ever be legitimately used.

    brb checking for queengonewild.ca OMG NOT WHAT I EXPECTED

  • ClaudeSuck.de (unregistered)

    The AT&T button captions look a little my account numbers

  • y0da (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I don't count the domain registration one as a WTF really. They're just being thorough. Can't knock them for that, can we?

    I, for one, miss the "Evil Overlord" option.

  • skawt (unregistered)

    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

  • (cs) in reply to skawt
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.
    Wow, somebody who really has said, "You want fries with that?"

    So you typed in really big numbers when you got bored with spitting loogies on the hamburger patties?

  • skawt (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.
    Wow, somebody who really has said, "You want fries with that?"

    So you typed in really big numbers when you got bored with spitting loogies on the hamburger patties?

    Actually I worked at Cinnabon so no fries involved. No loogies either, we preferred to jerk off into the frosting, at least according to some hot chick who asked about it.

  • Ian B (unregistered)

    The Comment you have selected, this one, is after the after the previous comment, this one

  • James (unregistered)

    I got really excited when I saw the bus one, because I live in the same city. :P

    I congratulate for you finding an early bus - it's never happened to me before!

  • (cs)

    Ben Avecilla spent $782,350? What did he buy with his $5 million dollar bill, a house?

  • flyboyfred (unregistered)

    I don't think any of the AT&T Global Network answers are right. I get 10205533.

  • (cs)

    You guys know that resizing imaging in the browser sucks, right?

  • (cs)

    The seven 666s in the first image just prove what many have been saying since at least the 1980s: AT&T is Satan.

  • Ken B (unregistered)

    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

  • Been there done that (unregistered)

    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.

  • Bob (unregistered)

    So you just typed things into the register willy nilly?

    God, I'd hate to be the guy closing at the end of that night.

    "WTF, 4 million in transactions?"

  • IT Girl (unregistered)
    Dan:
    If you work for the government and rent a car for a work-related trip, the renter is officially "Her Majesty the Queen" and you're a licensed operator.

    Crazy, but true.

    I call BS

  • (cs) in reply to Ken B
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.

  • bramster (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    Dan:
    If you work for the government and rent a car for a work-related trip, the renter is officially "Her Majesty the Queen" and you're a licensed operator.

    Crazy, but true.

    I call BS

    Nope. True

  • Some Random Royal Subject (unregistered)

    The Queen sent her first email on 26th March 1976. I don't see a problem with giving her her own line on the domain registrars' form

  • Sa (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.

    This may help... http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2050215/Software-Glitch-Leads-To-23148855308184500-Visa-Charges?art_pos=18

  • RBoy (unregistered)

    "needless to say, the upload still took a few hours."

    Then why did you say it?

    And no, I had no idea how long the upload would take.

  • (cs) in reply to James
    James:
    I got really excited when I saw the bus one, because I live in the same city. :P

    I congratulate for you finding an early bus - it's never happened to me before!

    At first, "Langstane Kirk" looked like a mainland European or Scandinavian language, but I've been away from Britain for enough years that spelling things funny isn't usually out of respect for history and culture.

    Of course there wouldn't be a test case for buses arriving early in the UK.

  • (cs) in reply to Been there done that
    Been there done that:
    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.
    Erm, no. They do that in the UK. Notice the entry in question is at the bottom of the list.
  • (cs) in reply to rfsmit
    rfsmit:
    At first, "Langstane Kirk" looked like a mainland European or Scandinavian language, but I've been away from Britain for enough years that spelling things funny isn't usually out of respect for history and culture.
    Kirk is Scottish for church. I don't see why "Langstane Kirk" couldn't be in the UK.
  • MikeR. (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    Dan:
    If you work for the government and rent a car for a work-related trip, the renter is officially "Her Majesty the Queen" and you're a licensed operator.

    Crazy, but true.

    I call BS

    I work for the federal government in Canada, and I've rented a car before for work purposes. It was rented to my name, not HMtQ. Can't speak for all parts of the government, but I can't see that happening unless you're possibly in parliament.

  • Josh (unregistered) in reply to skawt
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid
    kastein:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.

    The significance of that number is obvious; skawt used to work for Visa.

    CAPTCHA: damnum

  • A Muffin (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users. Anyway if it's uploading Infinity KB at Infinity KB/s, why would it take a few hours? It should only take one second.

    Windows wifi is a huge WTF. I have a screenshot at home of it showing that it automatically connected to a WEP-enabled network without the key. Needless to say, it didn't work very well.

    Pretty sure Canada doesn't have a queen?

  • jordanwb (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    Pretty sure Canada doesn't have a queen?

    I don't usually put question marks after statements?

    These fails made me lol.

  • Mike Caron (unregistered)

    Of course we have a queen! She's our Figure-Head of State!

  • (cs) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    Pretty sure Canada doesn't have a queen?

    Pretty sure it does?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada

  • Who is responsible (unregistered)

    The Queen is a special/separate entity in Canada.

    Yes we have a queen. Yes most of use like that fact.

  • Addison (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users. Anyway if it's uploading Infinity KB at Infinity KB/s, why would it take a few hours? It should only take one second.

    Windows wifi is a huge WTF. I have a screenshot at home of it showing that it automatically connected to a WEP-enabled network without the key. Needless to say, it didn't work very well.

    Pretty sure Canada doesn't have a queen?

    It's properly mocked as 'Rapidshit'.

    Pretty sure we do. It's called a parliamentary monarchy for a reason. The queen of England is our head of state. Look it up next time.

    Listing Her Majesty the Queen is not really a WTF. Her name is on a lot of Canadian federal stuff.

  • (cs) in reply to Sa
    Sa:
    kastein:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.

    This may help... http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2050215/Software-Glitch-Leads-To-23148855308184500-Visa-Charges?art_pos=18

    Yeah, that's what I said - it's 6 spaces followed by a tab and a capital P. Or the other way around, if you use a little-endian architecture (most likely). I'm slightly confused as to why you're linking me to this, seeing as it says exactly what my post did...

    Ken B:
    kastein:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.
    $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 = 0x2020202020201250 cents.

    0x1250 = 4688.

    $46.88 is not an unreasonable charge nowadays at a gas station.

    OK, now THAT is what I was missing. I didn't consider the fact that someone could have done that... Perhaps an snprintf() or equivalent for displaying the space-padded value got used to set the actual value in the database or something?

    Addendum (2009-07-16 13:08): Also - 0x2020202020201250 minus 0x2020202020202020 is 770 decimal, which seems a fairly reasonable value for a pack or two of cigarettes.

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to skawt
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    This is great fun until the IRS comes to audit your business and wants to see the journal rolls from your point of sale system. If your state has a sales tax, and most do, then you have just created a really big sales tax liability for your employer as well. Well Done!

    It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye...

    -Lego

  • (cs) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    This is great fun until the IRS comes to audit your business and wants to see the journal rolls from your point of sale system. If your state has a sales tax, and most do, then you have just created a really big sales tax liability for your employer as well. Well Done!

    It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye...

    -Lego

    I doubt it. The IRS doesn't really care how much the customers are giving you, they really only care about the difference between what the customers give you, and what you give them back in change. That's called revenue.

    Imagine if a customer owes $1, and gives you $1,000,000. You give $999,999 in change. Why should the IRS care that the customer gave you a million? What matters is the $1 in revenue.

    In Skawt's rather juvenile case, the customer owes some small amount, say $8, and gives $10. Skawt knows that the change he needs to give is $2. He enters 1,000,000 in the register, the register says "give 999,992 in change". He gives the customer $2.

    It all nets out. At the end of the day, the paper trail will match the till: $8 revenue.

  • (cs) in reply to Who is responsible
    Who is responsible:
    The Queen is a special/separate entity in Canada.

    Yes we have a queen. Yes most of use like that fact.

    See, I'm thinking Scott Thompson.

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    Lego:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    This is great fun until the IRS comes to audit your business and wants to see the journal rolls from your point of sale system. If your state has a sales tax, and most do, then you have just created a really big sales tax liability for your employer as well. Well Done!

    It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye...

    -Lego

    I doubt it. The IRS doesn't really care how much the customers are giving you, they really only care about the difference between what the customers give you, and what you give them back in change. That's called revenue.

    Imagine if a customer owes $1, and gives you $1,000,000. You give $999,999 in change. Why should the IRS care that the customer gave you a million? What matters is the $1 in revenue.

    In Skawt's rather juvenile case, the customer owes some small amount, say $8, and gives $10. Skawt knows that the change he needs to give is $2. He enters 1,000,000 in the register, the register says "give 999,992 in change". He gives the customer $2.

    It all nets out. At the end of the day, the paper trail will match the till: $8 revenue.

    Well...

    Yes and no. The IRS may only care what your profits are, but sales tax is computed on the sale amount is irrespective of what change the customer receives from their $5 million.

    -Lego

  • Mike Caron (unregistered)

    Yes, and the sales are $2.00, regardless of how much money the customer gives.

    So, where's the problem?

  • Gerrit (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Perhaps an snprintf() or equivalent for displaying the space-padded value got used to set the actual value in the database or something?.

    Perhaps their backend application is written in COBOL. Abusing REDEFINE statements can easily produce something like this. Perhaps they use a screen scraper to interface with the backend, and it failed to convert spaces back to zeros. A mainframe backend would use EBCDIC, of course, and a space would be 0x40, but that could easily be converted to ASCII before the screen is parsed.

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to Mike Caron
    Mike Caron:
    Yes, and the sales are $2.00, regardless of how much money the customer gives.

    So, where's the problem?

    Ok, I see where you are going. I am assuming Skawt was keying really big numbers for sale amount and amount tendered. You are assuming he is only keying big numbers for amount tendered and ignoring the change amount. The record is unclear, but if your assumptions are correct then your conclusions are, of course, correct also.

    -Lego.

  • spinn (unregistered)

    Wow! That is an advanced bus reporting system. My city just put GPS in the buses, but I'm impressed that theirs can tell you when the bus needs a wheel alignment.

  • skawt (unregistered) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    Mike Caron:
    Yes, and the sales are $2.00, regardless of how much money the customer gives.

    So, where's the problem?

    Ok, I see where you are going. I am assuming Skawt was keying really big numbers for sale amount and amount tendered. You are assuming he is only keying big numbers for amount tendered and ignoring the change amount. The record is unclear, but if your assumptions are correct then your conclusions are, of course, correct also.

    -Lego.

    Mike Caron is making the right assumption. I apologize for not being clear enough in my original comment.

  • (cs)
    Ken B:
    kastein:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    I was hoping this would be featured today - anyone figure out what the significance of the value is? It's not any power of two, nor any power of two minus one... but if you treat it as a number of cents it is very close to the value you get when you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as a 64 bit integer. I haven't checked floating point values yet.
    $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 = 0x2020202020201250 cents.

    0x1250 = 4688.

    $46.88 is not an unreasonable charge nowadays at a gas station.

    TRWTF here of course is that $46.88 is not considered an unreasonable charge nowadays at a gas station.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to James

    Ditto. I think we can assume they never tested for early buses during development as they never happen with our local bus company.

    But then some of the system's other behaviours have me thinking there must be some wtfs in the code.

  • Dlareg (unregistered) in reply to Kermos

    Well I guess he only filled half his tank. If I fill up it EUR 70 gone (and then I have to buy candy). Those USA-sians have all the fun....

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