• Igotist (unregistered)

    Applecare: Long may it waive!

  • SR (unregistered)

    My guess is that Zep is Zimbabwean and Amazon helpfully localised the currency.

    CAPTCHA: not even remotely funny

  • (username *)me (unregistered)

    I'm pretty sure that do_exit() isn't the correct way to get out of a cab.

  • Bryan (unregistered)

    I actually work at a credit union that uses that home banking software. And it does tie audio response (home teller) with internet banking. We've been trying to get the vendor to change the message for years ... with much success as you can tell! Restart session is a default link that takes you back to the logon page. Which is a dumb idea if you're getting an error message on the logon page!

  • (cs)

    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

  • Redacted (unregistered) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

    What?! You don't prepare your human meat? There's a WTF...

  • Robert (unregistered)

    If you only use the odd positioned rows - 106, 45, 47, and 94 - for the total, all the percents work out, even for the numbers not added in.

  • (cs) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    Yes. More specifically, "Five-Finger Kabobs".

  • (username *)me (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    Yes. More specifically, "Five-Finger Kabobs".

    It's a handy nutritious snack!

  • Arancaytar (unregistered) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

    The cover says "To Serve Man"! :P

  • (cs)

    No wonder my computer has been running so slow!

    sets his resolution back down to 3840x2400

  • Ocson (unregistered)

    There is a 600 million dollar discount on Bosch products. I don't call that a WTF, I call that a really great deal.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    If anyone was wondering what a "continuums bit" is, here you go, complete with an explanatory comment:

    /*[Removed Chinese comment due to Akismet being crap]*/
[Redacted entire code sample due to Akismet being crap]

    [FYI - it disallows any two consecutive characters]

    Apparently, Akismet thinks this is spam. Interesting, considering there are no fucking links in this comment at all. Can we please take Akismet out back and shoot the pathetic waste of space in the head?

    Still spam apparently.

    Still spam. I'd remove the links but there aren't any. What the hell? Why is this happening?

    I must have pissed of an Akismet staff member at some point.

    I think I get it now - the code sample had a Chinese comment. Obviously Akismet just assumes that any Chinese writing automatically makes you a spammer and blocks your message. In other words, Akismet is fucking racist and it should die in the fire of bigotry from which it came. Thanks for listening.

    So I removed the Chinese comment and it's still flagged as spam. Going to give up on this soon.

    Removed code tags, does that make you feel better Akismet?

    No, apparently not.

    OK, so I've basicaly redacted everything in this post and just left the Akismet flaming so at least a mod might see the pain that Akismet is causing. Bring back the fucking spammers.

  • (cs)

    The taxi is simply objecting to running sys_getdents64(). Even for a taxi, 63 dents is more than enough.

  • Sir Read-a-Lot (unregistered) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    If you only use the odd positioned rows - 106, 45, 47, and 94 - for the total, all the percents work out, even for the numbers not added in.

    Alternatively, the second and sixth rows also work. (74 and 25)

  • Anon (unregistered)

    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.

  • Tyler (unregistered)

    Gotta watch out for that secondhand rounding.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Redacted
    Redacted:
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

    What?! You don't prepare your human meat? There's a WTF...

    Indeed, I only eat human when it's well done. People who have it rare risk infection.

  • Sir Read-a-Lot (unregistered)

    This comment cannot magically do the right thing.

    Loading your comment caused TDWTF to crash. This is most likely caused by a missing CAPTCHA or a CAPTCHA that has been loaded as replacement for a missing CAPTCHA. TDWTF cannot easily determine whether a replacement CAPTCHA is of a new or older version. It will load a CAPTCHA with the same CAPTCHA ID as the missing CAPTCHA. This means that if the author makes incompatible CAPTCHAs with the same CAPTCHA ID TDWTF cannot magically do the right thing. In most cases TDWTF will load the comment and not crash, but this is an exception. Please load the comment with the appropriate CAPTCHAs. When loading a comment still crashes when all CAPTCHAs are found you should file a bug report. The missing CAPTCHAs are:

  • Robert (unregistered) in reply to Sir Read-a-Lot
    Sir Read-a-Lot:
    Robert:
    If you only use the odd positioned rows - 106, 45, 47, and 94 - for the total, all the percents work out, even for the numbers not added in.

    Alternatively, the second and sixth rows also work. (74 and 25)

    Of course, the real wtf is the poll question and answers

  • (cs) in reply to (username *)me
    (username *)me:
    frits:
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    Yes. More specifically, "Five-Finger Kabobs".

    It's a handy nutritious snack!

    Finger Food for Dummies

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.

    Well then which one of the 8 buttons was he supposed to push to decline to take the wash?

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.

    I think it's because in the picture there are no Yes/No buttons. But on all the gas pumps I've seen (in the US), there are Yes and No buttons. Usually they are used to ask if you want a receipt, but they should also work for the car wash upsell.

  • (cs)

    Audio obviously stands for Automated Useful Display of Information Online. MCW, on the other hand, is the Modulated Continuous Wave.

  • (cs) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Anon:
    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.

    I think it's because in the picture there are no Yes/No buttons. But on all the gas pumps I've seen (in the US), there are Yes and No buttons. Usually they are used to ask if you want a receipt, but they should also work for the car wash upsell.

    I routinely go to a gas station that does this. The Yes/No buttons are usually by the keypad.

    You know, the one not shown in the picture with the buttons to select a payment type and enter in a PIN if you select Debit.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.
    "But I was riding a motorbike!"

    Actually no, the WTF is not that it's asking you if you want a car-wash. The WTF is that it's asking "yes or no?" but does not visibly provide any means to enter an answer. Do keep up!

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

    Listen to me. You've got to tell them. WTF IS PEEEEOPLLLE!!!!!

  • (cs) in reply to Arancaytar
    Arancaytar:
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    May be that is TRWTF!

    The cover says "To Serve Man"! :P

    How to Cook for Forty Humans ?

  • Ken B. (unregistered)

    And the 3-billion-dollar-plus oxygen sensor is being sold by a place called "damlow prices". :-)

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000CF1WNM/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1270821934&sr=8-1&condition=new

    (Sorry, the spam filter won't let me place it as a URL.)

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Anon:
    What's wrong with the car wash one? It's a gas pump screen. Lot's of gas stations have car washes. They try and sell you a car wash while you pump gas.
    "But I was riding a motorbike!"

    Actually no, the WTF is not that it's asking you if you want a car-wash. The WTF is that it's asking "yes or no?" but does not visibly provide any means to enter an answer. Do keep up!

    Perhaps if you saw the entire display, with the other keypad next to the cropped image, you would have seen the yes and no buttons there.

    But, I do agree that it's a poor design choice to not use the buttons surrounding the screen in addition to the existing yes/no buttons, since it's apparently not obvious to some that they exist.

  • Robert (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    And the 3-billion-dollar-plus oxygen sensor is being sold by a place called "damlow prices". :-)

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000CF1WNM/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1270821934&sr=8-1&condition=new

    (Sorry, the spam filter won't let me place it as a URL.)

    Means it is sold out. Apparently it is easier to jack up the price to some crazy number that remove it from inventory and re-add it later, on an amazon store.

  • Knux2 (unregistered) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    Ken B.:
    And the 3-billion-dollar-plus oxygen sensor is being sold by a place called "damlow prices". :-)

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000CF1WNM/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1270821934&sr=8-1&condition=new

    (Sorry, the spam filter won't let me place it as a URL.)

    Means it is sold out. Apparently it is easier to jack up the price to some crazy number that remove it from inventory and re-add it later, on an amazon store.

    I bet that wouldn't make the US Government hesitate to make a purchase.

  • (cs) in reply to Igotist

    G Nubeutel scares me. A lot. Please, honestly, I'm all gamey and wouldn't taste very good.

  • (cs)

    I keep forgetting to cut the meat across the grain when preparing human carcasses.

  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    I keep forgetting to cut the meat across the grain when preparing human carcasses.
    Just put it through a meat grinder and make Sloppy Joe's. Like the old commercial said... a sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal!
  • Zap (unregistered)

    But, Zep, you could have saved $618,403,687.00! Have you ever had an opportunity anywhere close to that before??!

  • Xenon Xavior (unregistered)

    Huzzah! There's finally something on one of these error'd features that I've seen before.

    The OpenTTD error comes from a truly awesome game - Transport Tycoon Deluxe. There's a great open-source project now freely available. The problem seen here is related to the fact that the in-game graphics files are copyrighted and not included with the open-source distribution. You need to get a set of new graphics files to make the game work, UGH! It's totally worth the hassle to play the game.

  • Bill (unregistered)

    Linux: finally ready for the cabtop.

  • (cs)

    "3 billion dollars plus change was a tad more than I wanted to spend."

    Suit yourself Zep, but when you get tired of all those cheap parts breaking down on you, you know where to find the quality stuff.

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Bill
    Bill:
    Linux: finally ready for the cabtop.

    WIN!

  • (cs) in reply to Xenon Xavior
    Xenon Xavior:
    Huzzah! There's finally something on one of these error'd features that I've seen before.

    The OpenTTD error comes from a truly awesome game - Transport Tycoon Deluxe. There's a great open-source project now freely available. The problem seen here is related to the fact that the in-game graphics files are copyrighted and not included with the open-source distribution. You need to get a set of new graphics files to make the game work, UGH! It's totally worth the hassle to play the game.

    Yup, it's one of my favourite games!

  • (cs)

    So Dexter wrote a cookbook! Huh! Who knew?

  • Andrew (unregistered)
    3 billion dollars plus change was a tad more than I wanted to spend.
    Those are hopedollars, also known as Obamadollars. They're printing them as fast as they can, day and night, and of course they are going to hand out plenty to everybody solving all financial problems. Prices may rise a bit, though...
  • Ailure (unregistered) in reply to Xenon Xavior
    Xenon Xavior:
    The OpenTTD error comes from a truly awesome game - Transport Tycoon Deluxe. There's a great open-source project now freely available. The problem seen here is related to the fact that the in-game graphics files are copyrighted and not included with the open-source distribution. You need to get a set of new graphics files to make the game work, UGH! It's totally worth the hassle to play the game.
    There's open source graphics now, so that's no longer needed. You might want to check out newGFX. :)

    Plus the error is regarding "newGRF". It's basically addon stuff for openTTD and TTDPatch. See http://wiki.openttd.org/NewGRF

    I'm not sure what version of openTTD is used there. I never seen that specific newGRF error before. I tried this myself by removing a newGRF used by a savegame, and the game would warn me with a different dialog (that newGRF's are missing and it's not openTTD's fault if it crashes)... but it did not crash, it did make all ingame industries glitch out however. I'm really curious what the troubling savegame is.

  • Ailure (unregistered)

    I meant openGFX, not newGFX. Sorry for that. :)

  • Cliff notes anyone (unregistered)

    No thanks, my car is pretty clean now," writes Chris Johnson, "too bad there's no way to decline the upsell."

    Problem hese is that this is a PEBKAC. The user must have not noticed the num pad which always has yes/no options in addition to things like cancel and 0-9.

  • (cs) in reply to (username *)me
    (username *)me:
    frits:
    GettinSadda:
    Hang on... is that book really explaining how to prepare human meat?

    Yes. More specifically, "Five-Finger Kabobs".

    It's a handy nutritious snack!

    Boo. Hiss. Give your self the finger for that one.

  • Zep-- (unregistered)

    Wow..I submitted that 3 billion $ WTF picture at least 6 months ago. Can't believe it's still like that on amazon. And I ended up paying $170 for one. So I saved considerably more than the 600 million dollar discount "damlow prices" was offering me. :)

  • Ross (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse

    This is a much better treatise: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/e-sermons/butcher.html Butchering the Human Carcass for Human Consumption

    Akismet sucks

  • Bosshog (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    If anyone was wondering what a "continuums bit" is, here you go, complete with an explanatory comment: 
    /*[Removed Chinese comment due to Akismet being crap]*/
[Redacted entire code sample due to Akismet being crap]
    [FYI - it disallows any two consecutive characters]

    Apparently, Akismet thinks this is spam. Interesting, considering there are no fucking links in this comment at all. Can we please take Akismet out back and shoot the pathetic waste of space in the head?

    Still spam apparently.

    Still spam. I'd remove the links but there aren't any. What the hell? Why is this happening?

    I must have pissed of an Akismet staff member at some point.

    I think I get it now - the code sample had a Chinese comment. Obviously Akismet just assumes that any Chinese writing automatically makes you a spammer and blocks your message. In other words, Akismet is fucking racist and it should die in the fire of bigotry from which it came. Thanks for listening.

    So I removed the Chinese comment and it's still flagged as spam. Going to give up on this soon.

    Removed code tags, does that make you feel better Akismet?

    No, apparently not.

    OK, so I've basicaly redacted everything in this post and just left the Akismet flaming so at least a mod might see the pain that Akismet is causing. Bring back the fucking spammers.

    But.... your comment came through fine!

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