• empgodot (unregistered)

    XXXst

  • Memleak (unregistered)

    Please activate your copy of TDWTF to see FRIST comment.

  • (cs)

    The Citi email isn't a WTF, is it? You shouldn't send any private information like account numbers or passwords over email since it's insecure.

  • Dhamp (unregistered)

    How dare dishtip show a picture of fried dough balls! You clearly searched for restaurants that serve the similar, but different, named footwear brand!

  • faoileag (unregistered)

    The flight pass is not a wtf - it's what you get, when you put ethanol into airplane fuel to make it greener!

  • Wody (unregistered)

    the AMD one isn't a WTF, it reports that date because for security reasons AMD turned off automatic updates a while ago. If there is a WTF, it is at the user side, for not updating drivers for so long and not knowing that.

  • Doctor_of_ (unregistered)

    It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a Seismograph!

  • UKSCEPTIC (unregistered)

    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.

    Surprised my captcha wasn't rejected "damnum"

  • (cs) in reply to UKSCEPTIC
    UKSCEPTIC:
    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.

    Surprised my captcha wasn't rejected "damnum"

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

    Read and be enlightened.

    For reference, I might also be called UKCYNIC.

  • Vlad (unregistered) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    The flight pass is not a wtf - it's what you get, when you put ethanol into airplane fuel to make it greener!

    Looks like evasive maneuvers to me. Did they deploy chaff?

  • (cs) in reply to Wody
    Wody:
    the AMD one isn't a WTF, it reports that date because for security reasons AMD turned off automatic updates a while ago. If there is a WTF, it is at the user side, for not updating drivers for so long and not knowing that.

    Yes of course. How stupid can a user be, not manually checking for updates regularly after enabling automatic updates! What, does he think the computer will do it for him or something? And did he seriously think it was an error to see a date set 14 years in the future? I mean, it's so damn obvious that means updates were remotely disabled by AMD for security reasons. I don't know how these people even manage to tie their shoes.

    (turned off automatic updates for security reasons? WTF?!)

  • O. Contraire (unregistered)

    Probably the airplane was dodging Secret Service flak after it strayed into Camp David airspace.

  • Pi (unregistered) in reply to UKSCEPTIC

    Yep, and it's actually fried cornbread. They go great with fried catfish.

  • localghost (unregistered) in reply to Dogsworth

    Perhaps not, but you could at least put the last 4 digits or something. If you're going to mask every single character then you might as well not bother showing it and just say "you have a bill from Verizon".

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I was going to write another rant about how the author doesn't know when to use PNGs, and even for a JPG that screenshot has horrible quality, but the rest of images seem to actually be PNGs.

    Maybe the screenshot was already sent like this? But that still sounds unlikely, neither MS Paint nor the Windows snipping tool generate such bad JPGs, so which software could it be? I can imagine a single stupid person saving an image in Photoshop with quality set to "very low" but it happens on almost every Error'd.

    Checking the other files now it seems to indeed be the author, MARK BOWYTZ (bolded to catch his attention) trying to keep file sizes very low. Next time I suggest he tries http://tinypng.org/ first (or maybe just open and resave in GIMP). Or just keep it the way it is, I think we can live with a 150KB image.

  • I forget (unregistered)

    The real WTF in that last one is software activation and why people put up with it. On the other hand it slightly beats having to put your original, only, and worn out, floppy or CD in the drive whenever you want to use the software. So instead, when you change your PC you have to reactivate and hope the company is still in business to bless your machine again. No risk there, right?

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous

    It makes me sad when nice old(-ish, that looks like 19th or early 20th Century?) architecture gets "augmented" with advertising.

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    The flight pass is not a wtf - it's what you get, when you put ethanol into airplane fuel to make it greener!
    This is what you get when you put ethanol in the pilots' fuel, which makes the passengers greener. Good thing they have extra air sickness bags in the supply cupboard.
  • (cs)

    Regarding the airplane's path: When I am sailing into the wind, my path will look something like that as I tack first one way and then the other, but I don't think that works well with airplanes. Did someone put an airplane transponder on a sailboat?

    Maybe the INS (inertial navigation system) and GPS (global positioning system) need to be re-calibrated. Old INS systems are known to wander a bit if they aren't calibrated exactly properly, but I have not seen one this bad before.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    ... and even for a JPG that screenshot has horrible quality, but the rest of images seem to actually be PNGs.

    Screen caps don't have glare or keystoning; it's a cell phone snap. And it's really easy to spot that.

  • (cs) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    Regarding the airplane's path: When I am sailing into the wind, my path will look something like that as I tack first one way and then the other, but I don't think that works well with airplanes. Did someone put an airplane transponder on a sailboat?

    Maybe the INS (inertial navigation system) and GPS (global positioning system) need to be re-calibrated. Old INS systems are known to wander a bit if they aren't calibrated exactly properly, but I have not seen one this bad before.

    Looks like one of them there newfangled "sail planes" headed upwind... hate to be the poor son of a sea-cook haulin' the sheet on that thing.

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)

    Double dare? More like double precision dare, amirite?

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I was going to write another rant about how the author doesn't know when to use PNGs, and even for a JPG that screenshot has horrible quality, but the rest of images seem to actually be PNGs.

    Maybe the screenshot was already sent like this? But that still sounds unlikely, neither MS Paint nor the Windows snipping tool generate such bad JPGs, so which software could it be? I can imagine a single stupid person saving an image in Photoshop with quality set to "very low" but it happens on almost every Error'd.

    Checking the other files now it seems to indeed be the author, MARK BOWYTZ (bolded to catch his attention) trying to keep file sizes very low. Next time I suggest he tries http://tinypng.org/ first (or maybe just open and resave in GIMP). Or just keep it the way it is, I think we can live with a 150KB image.

    [image]
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Mark Bowytz

    I was trying to help you you idiot, not make you mad.

  • (cs) in reply to Doctor_of_
    Doctor_of_:
    It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a Seismograph!
    I hope they keep on flying like that. After all, they are sewing the continent shut, and I think that is a very important task.
  • Captain Oblivious (unregistered) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    Regarding the airplane's path: When I am sailing into the wind, my path will look something like that as I tack first one way and then the other, but I don't think that works well with airplanes. Did someone put an airplane transponder on a sailboat?

    Maybe the INS (inertial navigation system) and GPS (global positioning system) need to be re-calibrated. Old INS systems are known to wander a bit if they aren't calibrated exactly properly, but I have not seen one this bad before.

    Tacking does work for planes. But regarding the charting, the zig-zag is a symbol that means that the pilot has something like a 15 mile wide corridor to fly in, so that he can choose the most efficient tack. Notice he's flying over a mountain range.

  • Pete (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    Yep. The cornmeal dumpling precedes the shoe, actually. Goes to show you what good marketing will do.

  • (cs) in reply to UKSCEPTIC
    UKSCEPTIC:
    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.

    Surprised my captcha wasn't rejected "damnum"

    Nobody ever complained about hot dogs either even if there is no dog it them.

    Funnier than that, in Quebec where I live we have a dessert we call "pet de soeur", which literally translate to "Nun's fart". I have no idea where the name came from.

  • Jellineck (unregistered)

    The only Southern food I can eat without feeling my arteries harden is Brunswick stew with a side of hush puppies. Or maybe hush puppies with a side of Brunswick stew.

  • (cs) in reply to UKSCEPTIC
    UKSCEPTIC:
    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.
    When I was a kid, a "Dove bar" was a particular brand of really creamy hand-and-face soap. When Emo Phillips turned up on the radio doing a commercial where he talked about biting into a cool refreshing Dove bar, I thought it was a joke.
  • Jay911 (unregistered) in reply to Nutster

    There are typically at least two if not three devices that report an aircraft's location to ground stations these days. One of the two has a GPS that appears to be laterally out of sync by a few hundred meters.

  • C-Derb (unregistered) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    Regarding the airplane's path: When I am sailing into the wind, my path will look something like that as I tack first one way and then the other, but I don't think that works well with airplanes. Did someone put an airplane transponder on a sailboat?

    Maybe the INS (inertial navigation system) and GPS (global positioning system) need to be re-calibrated. Old INS systems are known to wander a bit if they aren't calibrated exactly properly, but I have not seen one this bad before.

    I don't have Sith-like precision, but given the zoom level of that map, it appears that the zig zags are at least a mile or two wide. This is the most definitive evidence of U.S. Government population control using airplane contrails ever seen!!!

  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to Stan Rogers
    Stan Rogers:
    Screen caps don't have glare or keystoning; it's a cell phone snap. And it's really easy to spot that.
    This does not look like a photograph to me. It looks like using the wrong tool for the job, and in this particular case it looks like JPEG being used where PNG would have been appropriate.
  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to Le Poete
    Le Poete:
    in Quebec where I live
    TRWTF is in the comments.
  • (cs)

    "Use the floating point decimal, Luke."

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I was trying to help you you idiot, not make you mad.

    This is going to end well for you.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    UKSCEPTIC:
    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.
    When I was a kid, a "Dove bar" was a particular brand of really creamy hand-and-face soap.
    It still is, at least in the UK. In fact, I don't know any other meaning for the term.
  • (cs) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Anonymous:
    I was trying to help you you idiot, not make you mad.

    This is going to end well for you.

    You may be right but after seeing the comment that has been featured, I think the "you idiot" description is pretty accurate...

  • Evan (unregistered) in reply to Dogsworth
    Dogsworth:
    The Citi email isn't a WTF, is it? You shouldn't send any private information like account numbers or passwords over email since it's insecure.
    Agreed, but... disagreed.

    You shouldn't send out account numbers over email. But then... you should really phrase your email so that it doesn't need to say the account number.

    Further more, it looks like a lot more than just an account numbered XXX XX XXXXXXXX XX XXX.

  • (cs) in reply to Hmmmm
    Hmmmm:
    You may be right but after seeing the comment that has been featured, I think the "you idiot" description is pretty accurate...

    Highlighting the post that shows what a hush puppy is?

  • jonkenson (unregistered) in reply to Jellineck

    Mmm I love me some "traditional" Georgia Brunswick stew for sure. :)

    Captcha: Laoteet - Laoreet that stew!

  • (cs) in reply to Stan Rogers
    Stan Rogers:
    Anonymous:
    ... and even for a JPG that screenshot has horrible quality, but the rest of images seem to actually be PNGs.

    Screen caps don't have glare or keystoning; it's a cell phone snap. And it's really easy to spot that.

    You can even see the phone reflected in the photo.

  • Cogo The Barbarian (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    da Doctah:
    When I was a kid, a "Dove bar" was a particular brand of really creamy hand-and-face soap.
    It still is, at least in the UK. In fact, I don't know any other meaning for the term.

    There's also a brand of chocolate that's called "Dove". (Wikipedia says it's sold as "Galaxy" in the UK.) They made it big in the US with their chocolate-coated ice cream bars, which is probably what the advertisement da Doctah is referring to was for.

  • Someone (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    Stan Rogers:
    Anonymous:
    ... and even for a JPG that screenshot has horrible quality, but the rest of images seem to actually be PNGs.

    Screen caps don't have glare or keystoning; it's a cell phone snap. And it's really easy to spot that.

    You can even see the phone reflected in the photo.
    Which picture was Anonymous talking about? My guess is that it was the hush puppies picture, because that does look like a screenshot, and it's a terrible one. The plane picture is pretty likely to be something onboard the flight that you wouldn't have access to to get an actual shot.

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    The flight pass is not a wtf - it's what you get, when you put ethanol into airplane fuel to make it greener!
    It's greenhouse gas distribution technique.

    You go in zigzags over the third world countries and straight lines over your own.

  • Anomaly (unregistered)

    Right or wrong, jpgs were how it was done back then.

  • Disgruntled EA Employee (unregistered)

    Trust me, all you need to measure the evil of Electronic Arts is Astronomical Units.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    UKSCEPTIC:
    Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.

    Surprised my captcha wasn't rejected "damnum"

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

    Read and be enlightened.

    For reference, I might also be called UKCYNIC.

    The Joy of Cooking has a wonderful comment on the etymology of the name. Fishermen frying their catch on campouts would take some of the batter they made for the fish and drop balls of it into the cooking oil, then toss the resulting bit of fried cornbread to their dogs so that they would be too busy eating those to go after the fish. The authors' response: "That's probably still the best thing to do with them."

  • (cs) in reply to Anomaly
    Anomaly:
    Right or wrong, jpgs were how it was done back then.

    Did the president's sick daughter use them?

  • Lucky Starr (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    There certainly is and it's a favorite of Southerners.

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