The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

The reason the plane's zigzagging like crazy is because some idiot didn't turn his phone off.

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
UKSCEPTIC:
Come on , there can't really be a food in America called a Hush Puppy.

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

Read and be enlightened.

And let's not forget the shoes:

http://www.hushpuppies.com/

Ahhhhhh... The shoes bring back memories. ;-)

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

The plane was obviously trying to take Ed Snowden to South America with countries left and right denying entrance.

lucidfox · 2013-07-20 Reply Admin

TRWTF is SWTOR.

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

Using a 2V-R9 droid would have been worth an additional 0.0000000238419 points.

;->

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

"Would the flight attendants please STOP serving alcohol to the pilot?!?"

;-)

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

Cogo The Barbarian:
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.
There's also a brand of chocolate that's called "Dove". (Wikipedia says it's sold as "Galaxy" in the UK.)

Ah, thank you. I'd no idea that "Galaxy" was sold as "Dove" in the US. I may be no wiser, but at least I'm better informed, now.

2013-07-20 Reply Admin

Perhaps the pilots were attempting to zigzag away from the faster but less agile solar ray of death following it...

Zecc · 2013-07-21 Reply Admin

It's a spring-propelled airplane, don't people understand that?

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

The real problem is that it's an inexact amount of evil ...

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

More puppies with a load of hush-ness.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/02/the-navys-mk-22-hush-puppy-pistol-2555326.html

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

Ignore/went to the wrong thread. :(

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

I admire a well-honed sense of cynicism. Nicely done.

Getting back on topic...

There's even a weapon with that innocent-sounding label.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/02/the-navys-mk-22-hush-puppy-pistol-2555326.html

Made fresh to order in the USA.

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

modifiable lvalue:
Perhaps the pilots were attempting to zigzag away from the faster but less agile microwave satellite of death following it...

FTFY.

2013-07-21 Reply Admin

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.

Sphincter say what?

2013-07-22 Reply Admin

I wish I had the option of the Dove Bar when I was little. I always ended up with Dawn or Dial.

2013-07-22 Reply Admin

This from a country whose culinary history includes a suet pudding called spotted dick, and a dessert called drowned baby.

2013-07-22 Reply Admin

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. 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.

Both kinds of Dove bar are still around. I got curious and looked 'em up. Turns out, the chocolate bar is slightly older than the soap bar. (Dove chocolate goes back to 1950, and Dove soap goes back to 1957.)

Kensey · 2013-07-22 Reply Admin

Captain Oblivious:
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.

Mountain range? The Catoctin "Mountains" barely qualify as low hills. Pedro flying over Aconcagua that ain't.

2013-07-25 Reply Admin

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

There were buildings with clutter of ads in late 19th/early 20th century, too.

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pscs · 2013-07-26 Reply Admin

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.

So, if you have 3 accounts with the same bank, how do you know which one the letter is talking about?

Maybe they shouldn't include your name and address, or who they are either, as that is also information that could be used by identity thieves. So, they should just post a letter with no address on it, saying 'You've got a letter from someone'. That should be safe enough.

2013-07-28 Reply Admin

"Add to cart to see price" is TRWTF. I'll tell you how much it costs when I see if you really want it. Is that even legal?

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