• OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to ITEric
    ITEric:
    I'm a little concerned as to why the photo was unavailable in the first place...couldn't they find her to take a picture? Besides, I thought one of the first things the corrections people did was to take an offender's picture. Did they lose that one?

    They probably did, then later discovered the battery in the digital camera was flat.

  • me (unregistered)

    I'm not sure how WTF this is. I can easily imagine the agency has a process where a .jpg of each offender must reside in a certain place, and if the file is missing it screws the whole system up. So standard operating procedure would be for them to take a photo of the sign, if the perp wasn't available.

  • (cs) in reply to me
    me:
    I'm not sure how WTF this is. I can easily imagine the agency has a process where a .jpg of each offender must reside in a certain place, and if the file is missing it screws the whole system up. <snip>
    Oh! So that must be the reason for the no_photo.jpg file at the end of the directory list.

    Sorry... what were you saying again?

  • AdT (unregistered)

    I guess the special offer is that they kept the old price despite the inflation...

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to ITEric
    ITEric:
    I'm a little concerned as to why the photo was unavailable in the first place...couldn't they find her to take a picture?
    Of course they can find her. They're just waiting for the bruises to fade.
  • (cs)

    My bet is that there once was a photo, but it was taken down for some reason. Perhaps they didn't have the ability to simply remove the photo, so they replaced it instead.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    It appears they have done this more than once. I randomly clicked on one of the links and got this [image]

  • Anon (unregistered)
  • (cs)

    The real WTF is that every "no photo available" is different: http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421028.jpg http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421049.jpg http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/421062.jpg

  • luigii (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    I used to work there recently. I've seen signs like that a few times, but customers aren't supposed to. When there was a not-very-special special like that one, my manager would just write over it in permanent marker so you couldn't see the previous price or "savings"

  • mateusz (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR

    <33

  • iToad (unregistered)

    OK, I think I see what's wrong with the sign. It's all in French.

  • (cs)

    Looks like www.corrections.state.nm.us crashed from the dozens of hits after be featured here.

  • anon (unregistered)

    The real wtf is that a 7mb file listing didn't freeze my browser.

    [img=http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/433088.jpg]

    Also: http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/no_photo.jpg

    Has anyone run that EXE yet?

  • Metallic Cloud (unregistered) in reply to rycamor
    rycamor:
    akatherder:
    "No photo available" would be even funnier if they take a picture of the sign for every inmate who doesn't have a photo available.

    Umm... how do you know they don't?

    I have a sneaking suspicion that any process this screwed up is THAT screwed up.

    Looks like they did. Some random clicking shows another printed "No photo Available", which doesn't look like the first.

    http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/441416.jpg

  • AntiQuercus (unregistered) in reply to ITEric

    they should have put amber on a wooden table first

  • (cs)

    Reminds me of one time, a few years ago, I was selling my apartment. I measured the rooms and made a layout diagram, and sent it to the real estate agency as a picture file, so that they could just add it directly to their website.

    They did display the picture in their ad for the apartment. It was a scan of a printout of the e-mail to which I'd attached the file.

  • Hiredman (unregistered) in reply to gurhall
    They haven't forbidden directory listing:

    http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/

    Heh, amateurs... I probably shouldn't but let me just peruse a couple of pictures....

    NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    [image]
  • Sane Person (unregistered) in reply to valerion
    valerion:
    configurator:
    Sorry about the big image.

    Does anyone have any idea why my cellphone camera made my wooden table blue?

    Ok you get the 10 points. But you do realise that these are mythical, made-up points that don't actually account for anything at all in any sense, right?

    I mean, I don't see the reason for actually bothering...

    When you accumulate 10,000 points, you can trade them for $20,000,000 from the widow of a deceased Nigerian millionaire.

  • John Muller (unregistered)

    Usually photos like that would be sent from each county/jail/probation office..., not from one office at the state capitol or such.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR

    Epic.

  • John (unregistered)

    This whole discussion has reminded me of a typical Goon Show (1950s BBC Radio comedy) running joke where a picture of an item substituted for the item itself.

    It's called 'subject transference', a favourite technique of Spike Milligan, the writer.

    Compare it with the famous 'What time is it Eccles?' scene available as an 'ogg' file on the Wikipedia page linked to above.

  • Wongo (unregistered)

    Hey, I live two blocks away from the Cap 15 picture (second on the page)! It's located near the Eiffel Tower, which explains the "eiffel_clip" flash file...

  • (cs)

    the .exe seems to read in a file from \docweb2\Pics\pics.txt and output a bunch of pics to \docweb2\Pics\

    or maybe the other way around :) I didn't look to closely, but the above are referenced in the program. It's vb if anyone cares and I have an 'decompiled' version here.. in that it's 'decompiled' from native :)

  • Erik (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    Userfriend:
    So...

    I have two attempts to pick one of two answers both of which are the same and both of which are contradictory.

    I give up!

    Actually the answers are opposites, and don't contradict themselves at all. Even better, the "hint" tells you the correct answer.

    Yeah, I can only hope that question had nothing to do with real health care... I mean, imagine when "Alex" is out there with no hints!

  • Kuba (unregistered) in reply to Smash King

    There's more, although not on a wooden table:

    http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/415184.jpg

    I guess clay tablet should be next. Sharpen your styli, people!

  • Real-modo (unregistered)

    Vincent is a friend of NULL?!? Way cool!

  • aBrase (unregistered)
  • dunno (unregistered) in reply to valerion
    valerion:
    +10 points to the first person who prints a sheet of paper saying "No Comment Available", tapes it to a wooden door, takes a picture of it and posts the link in a comment.
    actually in such a way it loses the point. originally it was the picture of "no picture available", so "no comment available" should be commented, i.e. just 'texted' here... sincerely yours, the fun killer.
  • -- (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR

    lol^^ that's the right comment

  • feugiat (unregistered) in reply to Apostrophe'Man
    Apostrophe'Man:
    gurhall:
    They haven't forbidden directory listing:

    http://www.corrections.state.nm.us/offenders/pics/

    Awesome LoL

    it's still availible.

  • (nodebb)

    thanks for info

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