• boog (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    boog (unregistered):
    The Judge:
    I DEMAND THIS THIS IMMEDIATELY BE MADE A FEATURED COMMENT!!!!
    If the admins did that, it would be a clear violation of whatever ethereal policies they have put in place. In case you haven't noticed, Bert Glandstorm and Darth comments are deleted, along with references to wooden tables, Irish Girl, etc. Therefore, blah blah boo-hoo blah...
    I know, it's almost like they own this message board and can do whatever they want with it. *scoff*
    What I'm trying to point out is the idiocy of referencing material that is on their own site. If it's not funny, fine, I can ignore it. But lately I've noticed that they have been deleting comments based solely on the fact that they reference a previous article. Some of the ones that have vanished have been pretty humorous.

    About the only ones I'm in support of deleting are the "frist" comments that have no value whatsoever. Even the trolling comments should be dealt with as trollers have been dealt with from time immortal: just freakin' ignore them and they go away.

    Now I realize that the point of these forums is not to crack jokes, but seeing as most of the allure of this site is the humorousness of the WTFs; it's hard to think that there aren't going to be a lot of comments that are humorous.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."
  • (cs)

    I would think that if my remote is not operating the air conditioner, but it should be, then the first "popular question" would suffice. Or maybe the second. Or the last.

    Wait, how many say "remote not working"? It is a popular question!

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    elamberton:
    boog:
    aircon:
    So what? Samsung also makes air conditioners.
    Yeah, I'm going to call foal on this one.
    What has that got to do with a baby horse?
    Absolutely nothing. He's just unable to come up with his own jokes. Or username.
    I was being ironic. The constant foal humor got pretty tiresome yesterday. By the way, what do we have 5 or 6 people posting as "boog" on here?
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."

    Indeed, I was just going by what they call themselves on their own website:

    Corporate headquarters:

    IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722 United States 914-499-1900

  • Trevel (unregistered) in reply to Comic Book Store Phishing Guy
    Worst. Phish attempt. Evar.

    You know, I think that's exactly what this is -- the program is saying "Uh, give me your password." and Notes is saying "FYI this is a script asking for something, NOT me."

    Which might mean that TRWTF is that Notes actually did something ... sensible.

    ... I'm as shocked as you are.

  • anon (unregistered)

    No joke: my TV remote keeps trying to operate the air conditioner (the remote for which I lost long ago). A couple of unrelated buttons must map to the same IR code as the air conditioner uses, so when I (for instance) turn the volume down, the AC powers off, or if I press the 7 button, the AC switches between "cool" and "fan only" modes.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Steve-O
    Steve-O:
    You can't make this stuff up, she was trying to control it from about 20 miles away.

    Well duh, it's called a remote!

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    boog:
    elamberton:
    boog:
    aircon:
    So what? Samsung also makes air conditioners.
    Yeah, I'm going to call foal on this one.
    What has that got to do with a baby horse?
    Absolutely nothing. He's just unable to come up with his own jokes. Or username.
    I was being ironic. The constant foal humor got pretty tiresome yesterday. By the way, what do we have 5 or 6 people posting as "boog" on here?
    I see what you did there.

    CAPTCHA: pecus - pecus if you think our comment is the best.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."

    Indeed, I was just going by what they call themselves on their own website:

    Corporate headquarters:

    IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722 United States 914-499-1900

    I didn't mean that to come across as a critique - I was just adding another variant.
  • Alex (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."

    Indeed, I was just going by what they call themselves on their own website:

    Corporate headquarters:

    IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722 United States 914-499-1900

    I didn't mean that to come across as a critique - I was just adding another variant.
    Variant? I thought we weren't going to bash VB today.
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog (unregistered):
    boog:
    He's just unable to come up with his own jokes. Or username.
    I was being ironic. The constant foal humor got pretty tiresome yesterday.
    Oh that's what you were doing?

    Interesting...

    boog (unregistered):
    By the way, what do we have 5 or 6 people posting as "boog" on here?
    Doesn't that pretty much support my claim?
  • Bill (unregistered)

    In some parts of the world, particularly Asia, they install room air conditions in the wall up high. It is common to have remote controls for these units. When I was in college we had to present what we did on our summer internship and one of my classmates worked on one of these remotes.

  • Alex (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    boog (unregistered):
    boog:
    He's just unable to come up with his own jokes. Or username.
    I was being ironic. The constant foal humor got pretty tiresome yesterday.
    Oh that's what you were doing?

    Interesting...

    boog (unregistered):
    By the way, what do we have 5 or 6 people posting as "boog" on here?
    Doesn't that pretty much support my claim?
    Well, what should I post as? "boog86"? I've been "boog" since the first time I played Final Fantasy on the Game Boy(remember how it only allowed 4 characters?) I didn't know about the restriction, and I jokingly said I wanted my mage named "booger," which he shortened to boog. It's been my standard gaming name and my online "ridiculous handle" ever since.

    I think the wave of "boog"s started when you gave them the idea the other day.

  • Bill's Kid (unregistered) in reply to Alex
    Alex:
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."

    Indeed, I was just going by what they call themselves on their own website:

    Corporate headquarters:

    IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722 United States 914-499-1900

    I didn't mean that to come across as a critique - I was just adding another variant.
    Variant? I thought we weren't going to bash VB today.

    Don't we bash VB every day?

  • (cs) in reply to Alex
    Alex:
    Well, what should I post as? "boog86"? I've been "boog" since the first time I played Final Fantasy on the Game Boy(remember how it only allowed 4 characters?) I didn't know about the restriction, and I jokingly said I wanted my mage named "booger," which he shortened to boog. It's been my standard gaming name and my online "ridiculous handle" ever since.

    I think the wave of "boog"s started when you gave them the idea the other day.

    Actually, it's been going on for several weeks now. I was ignoring it, but after it didn't let up I thought I might as well have some fun with it. Too bad my doppelganger keeps getting so defensive.

    Honestly, I'm not sure why some people get so serious about it; I'm not.

  • RBoy (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    The Judge:
    Bruce W:
    Soylent Fritos!!!
    I DEMAND THIS THIS IMMEDIATELY BE MADE A FEATURED COMMENT!!!!
    If the admins did that, it would be a clear violation of whatever ethereal policies they have put in place. In case you haven't noticed, Bert Glandstorm and Darth comments are deleted, along with references to wooden tables, Irish Girl, etc. Therefore, references to Soylent Green would be equally meme-ish.

    That's right, ladies and gentlemen: we are not allowed to refer to anything else when we write our comments. Doing so bring the damnum of the admins for some tristiquerious reason.

    Yes, because it's always the best when the comment section has 3 pages full of two jokes.

  • OakenBucket (unregistered) in reply to Justice
    Justice:
    Given the kind of town South Bend is, it doesn't really surprise me that Fritos are prominently featured on their baseball team's website.

    Fritos aren't really popular there. I assume this is because they have an advertising deal with stadium concessions.

  • (cs) in reply to Medinoc
    Medinoc:
    Nik:
    International Business Machines
    Finally some guy who remembers IBM is not just an initialism.
    Not sure about IBM, but some other companies have done away with their pre-initialized name. HP and KFC come into mind.
  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to RBoy
    RBoy:
    boog:
    The Judge:
    Bruce W:
    Soylent Fritos!!!
    I DEMAND THIS THIS IMMEDIATELY BE MADE A FEATURED COMMENT!!!!
    If the admins did that, it would be a clear violation of whatever ethereal policies they have put in place. In case you haven't noticed, Bert Glandstorm and Darth comments are deleted, along with references to wooden tables, Irish Girl, etc. Therefore, references to Soylent Green would be equally meme-ish.

    That's right, ladies and gentlemen: we are not allowed to refer to anything else when we write our comments. Doing so bring the damnum of the admins for some tristiquerious reason.

    Yes, because it's always the best when the comment section has 3 pages full of two jokes.

    There are also three pages of people proving that they're far worse coders than the subject of the article.

  • (cs) in reply to Medinoc
    Medinoc:
    Nik:
    International Business Machines
    Finally some guy who remembers IBM is not just an initialism.

    I hadn't realized they were still called that, although obviously I knew what the acronym stands for. I assumed they had gone over to just using the initials years ago, like BP, KFC, COLT - who became COLT Telecom, which is a really bloody stupid name - and so-on.

  • NutDriverLefty (unregistered) in reply to Trevel
    Trevel:
    Which might mean that TRWTF is that Notes actually did something ... sensible.

    It might have done something sensible, but it likely took at least half an hour for it to decide to do it.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    AC remotes? One is sitting 18" from me as I write this. They most certainly do exist. Just because the only AC most people see is central air that doesn't have a remote doesn't mean there aren't other units.

    I have a room unit that vents it's hot air out a plate you insert in the window because the central air simply doesn't deliver enough cooling to deal with the heat my equipment produces. Most of the features can ONLY be controlled with the remote.

  • uuang (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that that dude's real address wasn't censored, amirite?

  • tclas (unregistered)

    I had a Samsung window air conditioner that had a remote. The remote doubled as a thermostat so you carried it with you to keep the temperature comfortable in different parts of the house. Only problem, the air conditioner didn't come with you and I quickly found out how limited this feature really was.

  • wtf (unregistered) in reply to uuang
    uuang:
    TRWTF is that that dude's real address wasn't censored, amirite?

    TRWTF is people who think nobody else saw that, and post it without reading the comments.

  • mathew (unregistered) in reply to Comic Book Store Phishing Guy
    Comic Book Store Phishing Guy:
    Please type your Lotus Notes password

    Warning: This is not a prompt for your Notes password.

    Worst. Phish attempt. Evar.

    Yeah, I'm not sure why a correctly functioning warning against phishing attempts counts as a WTF.

    The pictured dialog box isn't a Lotus Notes password entry box. It's some piece of script trying to phish for your password. Hence the warning message.

  • wtf (unregistered) in reply to tclas
    tclas:
    I had a Samsung window air conditioner that had a remote. The remote doubled as a thermostat so you carried it with you to keep the temperature comfortable in different parts of the house. Only problem, the air conditioner didn't come with you and I quickly found out how limited this feature really was.

    Not the only problem - what happens when you have this remote, and you need a free hand, so you stick the remote in your pocket?

  • uuang (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    uuang:
    TRWTF is that that dude's real address wasn't censored, amirite?

    TRWTF is people who think nobody else saw that, and post it without reading the comments.

    Touché

    Appropriately, my captcha was nobis.

  • Sean Cheshire (unregistered)

    You think I register software with real details? I have enough calls asking if I would like to buy stuff already.

    email comments to [email protected]

  • (cs)

    Lotus Notes isn't REALLY at a WTF this time. It's actually trying (Haha!) to be "secure" and try and keep social engineering attacks down.

  • JuanCarlosII (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that most of the popular questions are not questions.

    At least BestBuy can understand that $69.699999... === $69.70

  • (cs) in reply to mathew
    mathew:
    Yeah, I'm not sure why a correctly functioning warning against phishing attempts counts as a WTF.
    If anything, I'd say the wording is the WTF. It insists that it's not prompting for a password when clearly it is a password prompt (just not legit). </grasping-at-straws>
  • Larry (unregistered)

    TRWTF is insurance.

  • Scott (unregistered)

    How about: IBM, BP, AT&T, Ford, LG, Sony, BMW, Dell, MSI, Palm, RCA, NEC , GE, NBC, CBS, CNN,3M, Acer, Asus, HP, SGI, Sun, AMD, ATI, AOL, eBay, Lego, CSX?

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to Zog
    Zog:
    Rottweiler:
    Lulzfish:
    Oh God, is Best Buy using binary floating-point cents?!
    It is amazing that they're not doing currency calculations with a proper BCD or Currency type!
    The real WTF is that we're STILL seeing people write software where the type of money is real or float. Sad thing is that this aparently was an improvement on the original, mainframe way of doing things with COBOL ...

    Less WTF but more FFS!

    What's wrong with PACKED DECIMAL?

    Get off my lawn!

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    TRWTF is that BikeSure's logo looks like a captcha.

    Ah you beat me to it.

  • EngleBart (unregistered) in reply to Juan Williams

    Attribution required for Soylent Frito comment.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/quotes?qt0380964

    (how do I defeat the spam filter?)

  • Fred (unregistered)

    I don't care how bad you wanted to be a real computer company, NCR, I for one am never going to forget that your initials formerly stood for "National Cash Register".

    And then there's the early word processor company, NBI. They insisted it stood for "Nothing But Initials" but with massive pre-google research you could sleuth out that it was really "Necton Bilinium Incorporated" -- no wonder they were ashamed of it!

    http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=523

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to OakenBucket
    OakenBucket:
    Justice:
    Given the kind of town South Bend is, it doesn't really surprise me that Fritos are prominently featured on their baseball team's website.

    Frits isn't really popular with Bert GlandsTroll. I assume this is because they have an old argument over lawn care or something like that

    FTFY

  • The Typinator (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    Zog:
    Rottweiler:
    Lulzfish:
    Oh God, is Best Buy using binary floating-point cents?!
    It is amazing that they're not doing currency calculations with a proper BCD or Currency type!
    The real WTF is that we're STILL seeing people write software where the type of money is real or float.
    A related WTF is Java (as always) and its lack of operator overloading, making its fixed point classes horribly, needlessly painful to use. I imagine at least some other overly-restricting languages are equally bad in that department.

    CAPTCHA: Iterfacere: Those who post real CAPTCHAs should hit the road!

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    How about: IBM, BP, AT&T, Ford, LG, Sony, BMW, Dell, MSI, Palm, RCA, NEC , GE, NBC, CBS, CNN,3M, Acer, Asus, HP, SGI, Sun, AMD, ATI, AOL, eBay, Lego, CSX?

    I'm going to guess that not one of them is an actual legal name of their respective corporations. They could probably all be entered as:

    xxx corporation

    or something similar.

  • distracted (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    snoofle:
    Anon:
    "IBM Corporation" > 5 characters.
    So is "International Business Machines, Inc."

    Indeed, I was just going by what they call themselves on their own website:

    Corporate headquarters:

    IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722 United States 914-499-1900

    Interestingly, elswhere on their own website, they use a different name:

    International Business Machines Corp. New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504 914-499-1900

  • (cs) in reply to Zog
    Zog:
    The real WTF is that we're STILL seeing people write software where the type of money is real or float.
    I know, rounding is such a nuisance, amirite?

    Then again, we've seen worse solutions.

  • The Corrector (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    OakenBucket:
    Justice:
    Given the kind of town South Bend is, it doesn't really surprise me that Fritos are prominently featured on their baseball team's website.

    Frits is always followed by posts from Bert GlandsTroll. I assume this is some sort of pathetic self-advertising for his comments or something like that

    FTFY
    FTFTFYFY

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Scott:
    How about: IBM, BP, AT&T, Ford, LG, Sony, BMW, Dell, MSI, Palm, RCA, NEC , GE, NBC, CBS, CNN,3M, Acer, Asus, HP, SGI, Sun, AMD, ATI, AOL, eBay, Lego, CSX?

    I'm going to guess that not one of them is an actual legal name of their respective corporations. They could probably all be entered as:

    xxx corporation

    or something similar.

    In that case, I give you IHOP. Used to stand for International House Of Pancakes, but not any more. I got into a long discussion of this at the place earlier this year and we discovered that the company name is now four letters long and doesn't stand for anything.

    (TRWTF is I don't even like pancakes.)

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah

    IHOP Restaurant

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    No, no, no! My remote IS operating the air conditioner. Every time it hit pause, I get a facefull of cold air! And don't even get me started on the Eject button!

  • (cs) in reply to JuanCarlosII
    JuanCarlosII:
    At least BestBuy can understand that $69.699999... === $69.70

    Ever talk to a typical Geek Squad staffer?

  • Olli Dittrich (unregistered) in reply to danixdefcon5
    danixdefcon5:
    Not sure about IBM, but some other companies have done away with their pre-initialized name. HP and KFC come into mind.
    This way Hewlett Packard now is only one Pee away from TRWTF.

    And of course Kentucky Cried Fucking.

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