• Ozz (unregistered) in reply to Frank Lee
    Frank Lee:
    ParkinT:
    Where do FLAH SEEDS grow?
    After mine went FLAH SEED, it only grows with the help of an, um... professional woman.

    Oops, too much information. Sorry.

    This should be blue!

  • Dumb (unregistered) in reply to Duh
    Duh:
    Look at the minimum amount due and then look at the balance on the card.

    It's not apparent from the screenshot what the different figures refer to ('payoff amount' is jargon to me).

    What I see:

    Column A: Frobnication Amount: $15 Column B: Outstanding Differential: $2 Column C: Related Hypotenuse: $2

    HAHA! Column A is one value and columns B and C are equal to a different value.

    Yes, I'm stupid. I'll come back to this page later to see if any helpful soul has explained it in words of <= one syllable.

  • car912 (unregistered) in reply to Dumb

    They need to pay more than they owe. ($15.00 vs $2.13)

  • Zap Brannigan (unregistered)

    I'm null intolerant. With less than 2% null, I wonder if the granola would give me gas.

  • Dumb (unregistered)

    I just assumed maybe that they only had 2.13 (or whatever) in their account, and since they couldnt pay the entire amount, the max possible would be taken, leaving them with an outstanding amount payable. Or something.

    With credit cards, you can have amount X payable, but pay minimum amount Y per month. I thought perhaps that was what was being shown.

    Is the screenshot from a specific website that a lot of contractors/Americans use? I haven't seen it before, but apparently the terminology used is common enough knowledge for the problem to be obvious.

  • Thunder (unregistered) in reply to ClaudeSuck.de
    ClaudeSuck.de:
    Gnonthgol:
    Wait. I thaught that (null) was bad. I don't want them in my programs. Here is someone taking on this task of removing all the (null)s in the world one bit at a time.

    You mean "removing all the ( )s in the world " ???

    Actually he means "removing all the (

  • MooseBrains (unregistered)

    a-country, country, country, country, country, country, country, country, country, country, country, country, mushroom, MUSHROOM!

  • LEGO (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    With a focus on the NULL, it seems everyone missed the use of $ (dollar sign) in place of the letter 's' !

    Secondly, what is 'FLAH SEED OIL'? Where do FLAH SEEDS grow?

    On FLAH plants!

    DUH.

  • (cs)

    Wow, I did not know "transient" is also a keyword.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    Hey, you know the bank website with the mis-matching amounts? Yeah, I recognize that site as being my company's product, and I'm about 99% sure that's from an implementation I was the tech lead on.

    Seriously. How embarrassing to be a WTF.

    FWIW, the amounts listed all come from the bank's mainframe. The site just displays what it's given.

  • JS (unregistered)

    I find the bug "w throws ..." etc. interesting. It looks like the file name pointer got mangled somehow and it pointed somewhere to list of reserved keywords (looks like Java, but I am not sure). And we thought that managed languages will be the end of all pointer problems.

  • Ilya Ehrenburg (unregistered) in reply to rgro
    rgro:
    At least it's interesting that Israel now is part of western europe.
    Continental drift, accelerated by global warming, I presume. All the more impressive because, according to the FIFA, in the eighties, Israel was located in Oceania. Makes me wonder where it'll be next year.
  • (cs)

    But doesn't EVERYTHING contain less than 2% of null? Except for maybe a null set. Does a null set contain null?

    Someone ask Confucius.

  • (cs) in reply to Ilya Ehrenburg
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    rgro:
    At least it's interesting that Israel now is part of western europe.
    Continental drift, accelerated by global warming, I presume. All the more impressive because, according to the FIFA, in the eighties, Israel was located in Oceania. Makes me wonder where it'll be next year.

    Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize. Just categorically declare Israel to be it's own continent. Therefore it will have no borders, and then can't have border disputes. Pacum Ergo Sum.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to GooberMcNutly
    GooberMcNutly:
    But doesn't EVERYTHING contain less than 2% of null? Except for maybe a null set. Does a null set contain null?

    Someone ask Confucius.

    Why bother Confucius when Fraenkel has already answered? The empty set is what you get when you start with a set and take every set out of it, and the empty set is a set, so the empty set is not in the empty set once you've finished.

    The power set of the null set, on the other hand, is full of null.

  • (cs)

    Regarding the long filename, my work computer is configured to paste on middle-click and the mouse wheel clicker is very sensitive. So sometimes when I try to scroll in a window I accidentally paste whatever text was highlighted in another window. Recently I found a directory with filenames like "Regarding", "the", "long", "filename", etc. I guess something bad happened when I misclicked while scrolling a terminal window.

  • (cs) in reply to Dumb

    Regarding the credit card bill:

    I'm glad someone else is having trouble seeing the problem, I understand it as

    'The bill is for $15, but your account only has $2.13, so it will take the $2.13 and you owe the rest.'

  • (cs) in reply to Zap Brannigan
    Zap Brannigan:
    I'm null intolerant. With less than 2% null, I wonder if the granola would give me gas.

    Hey, me too! My doctor recommended "I Can't Believe It's Not (null)!" You should give it a try.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to nat42
    nat42:
    CoWare's isn't really a WTF, whom doesn't enable ecmascripting?

    https://coware.market2lead.com/go/coware/060518wp164001171

    Addendum (2008-10-14 08:33): And, gasps while it may not be pretty, at least you can still choose your country with scripting disabled.

    People who want to prevent their browser from being hijacked and their computer from installing millions of keyloggers, trojans and other malware by clicking the wrong link, that's who.

    Remember there was one that infected SQL Server based websites via SQL injections? The purpose of which was to infect many of its visitors with malware by loading in IFRAMEs and other crap? And it infected many top-name sites that you'd probably assume was safe, too?

    That's why people run stuff like NoScript... to keep most of these malicious crap from being installed.

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is that if you live in Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Norway, Ireland, or Iceland they don't want you.

    The even more real WTF is using select lists for every country in the world. Morons. Why don't they JavaScript in a list of every city and postal code in the world?

  • US taxpayer (unregistered) in reply to David K
    David K:
    erat:
    now the Verisign icon appears on TDWTF too, meaning everything you read here is guaranteed to be correct! Woo hoo!
    In that case, everyone who reads this is obligated to send me $1,000 to help bail me out of my mortgage.

    We already did. Didn't you hear?

  • Kuba (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    *announcer voice*

    Buy NEW and IMPROVED Nabisco Nulls!

    Coming soon to stores everywhere

    This deserves a blue background.

  • Jim Woods (unregistered)

    Good one b. I cant help but wonder what they will think of next.

    Jiff http://www.privacy.de.tc

  • Kuba (unregistered) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    People who want to prevent their browser from being hijacked and their computer from installing millions of keyloggers, trojans and other malware by clicking the wrong link, that's who.

    Remember there was one that infected SQL Server based websites via SQL injections? The purpose of which was to infect many of its visitors with malware by loading in IFRAMEs and other crap? And it infected many top-name sites that you'd probably assume was safe, too?

    That's why people run stuff like NoScript... to keep most of these malicious crap from being installed.

    You are topcod3r, aren't you? If you are not, then just so you know: script or no script, a browser has no business in firing up executables for you.

  • Eedoc (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that if I know you signed up with CoWare, and I know your e-mail address, I can use the repeat visitor function to find out your physical address.

  • Mark V Shaney (unregistered)

    I didn't get the Baking one either. I looked at the comment to see if I was the stupid one. Looks that I am not the only one that don't even understand what the website is trying to say...

    On the next one, it seems that someone pasted some code (a list of keywords) in some open file dialog. It may very well be a user error (ie: the one that took the screenshot pasted those keywords by mistake).

    The one after is about a website being ugly with javascript disabled. Seems pretty normal to me.

    All in all, a very weak WTF...

  • Herby (unregistered)

    The billing incident reminds me of what my mom did to the phone company in the 60's. She was protesting the billing, and one month paid a bit too much. The next month she had a credit balance. Of course, she looked at the number and paid that. The next month the credit balance was more, and she paid that as well. After a few months of this a customer rep (they actually had them then) and politely told her "Please don't pay your bill for a couple of months" (or words to that effect). She took the time to talk to the guy about "customer service". I think they got the message.

    Now days, you MIGHT get some automated box and telling you to press one for English or some such drivel. Things change over the years.

  • Pranik (unregistered) in reply to erat
    erat:
    Come to think of it, now the Verisign icon appears on TDWTF too, meaning everything you read here is guaranteed to be correct! Woo hoo!

    You sick duck ;)

    P.S. Captha: nulla

  • Rhialto (unregistered) in reply to nat42
    nat42:
    CoWare's isn't really a WTF, whom doesn't enable ecmascripting?

    https://coware.market2lead.com/go/coware/060518wp164001171

    Addendum (2008-10-14 08:33): And, gasps while it may not be pretty, at least you can still choose your country with scripting disabled.

    Interestingly enough, they consider Israel to be part of the "Western Europe" region. I suppose they never looked at a map.
  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Rhialto
    Rhialto:
    nat42:
    CoWare's isn't really a WTF, whom doesn't enable ecmascripting?

    https://coware.market2lead.com/go/coware/060518wp164001171

    Addendum (2008-10-14 08:33): And, gasps while it may not be pretty, at least you can still choose your country with scripting disabled.

    Interestingly enough, they consider Israel to be part of the "Western Europe" region. I suppose they never looked at a map.

    Israel is part of Western Europe when defining sales territories. It's less hassle to fly from Haifa to Italy then to Saudi Arabia.

    I just figured all the select boxes were for the typical working guy who owns 13 houses.

  • (cs) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Now days, you MIGHT get some automated box and telling you to press one for English or some such drivel. Things change over the years.
    Ayup. Checked out any flight attendants lately?
  • tbrown (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    *announcer voice*

    Buy NEW and IMPROVED Nabisco Nulls!

    Coming soon to stores everywhere

    I prefer monounsaturated null myself!

  • tbrown (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    snoofle:
    *announcer voice*

    Buy NEW and IMPROVED Nabisco Nulls!

    Coming soon to stores everywhere

    Coming soon to stores nowhere, surely?

    Yes, and stop calling me Shirley!

  • MM (unregistered) in reply to Dumb
    Dumb:
    It's not apparent from the screenshot what the different figures refer to ('payoff amount' is jargon to me).
    Lazy-lump:
    I'm glad someone else is having trouble seeing the problem, I understand it as

    'The bill is for $15, but your account only has $2.13, so it will take the $2.13 and you owe the rest.'

    Well, I'm not quite sure what they mean by "Payoff Amount" either, but I thought "Amount Due" and "Current Balance" were pretty obvious.

    The current balance on a credit card account (or other loan) is the total amount you owe the bank (just as the current balance of a savings account would be the total amount the bank owes you), and the amount due is how much of that you're required to pay this month.

    Is it a regional thing? Those two terms seem to be pretty universal amongst U.S. banks. Are they called something else in the rest of the English speaking world?

  • chreng (unregistered)

    Hmm, interesting: You can live in the same city in several countries.

    Good to know.

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