• (cs)

    Corporate transparency in action: the bus company admits its drivers may be corrupt.

  • (cs)

    Definitely one from the Vesa Local Bus company...

  • Fred (unregistered)

    You forgot, Frist!

  • Justin (unregistered)

    You can copy text from message boxes - just press Ctrl-C...

  • HughG (unregistered)

    Re the Postgress password: actually, you can copy/paste standard Win32 MessageBox dialogs, although that's far from obvious. Hit Ctrl-C and the dialog should blink/flash; paste into your favourite text editor (or Notepad) and you should get an ASCII-art representation of the dialog :-D

  • (cs)

    Well, look at the bright side: the bag of $127,992,000.00 used to be $159,990,000.00 before. A discount of $31,998,000 is not to be sniffed at.

  • (cs)

    On the upside if they just sell one bag at those prices I am sure they will meet their fiscal goals for the quarter.

  • Matt (unregistered)

    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

  • Br'er Rabbit (unregistered)

    'Tar baby' anti-pattern you say? What's with all the Uncle Remus references around here lately.

    OK, I guess I'll just take my place in the back of the bus now.

  • (cs)

    What Joel Hinz (and presumably the PostgreSQL developer) doesn't know, it that you can copy and paste from a Windows message box.

  • Planet (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    You did beat me on that! :D

    That made me chuckle, while everything else is mildly funny, but nothing we haven't seen in a similar way before.

  • Gender Equality Now! (unregistered) in reply to Br'er Rabbit
    Br'er Rabbit:
    OK, I guess I'll just take my place in the back of the bus now.

    You can't brother - in some Israeli busses that#s where the women have to sit :-(

  • anon (unregistered)
    The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maoris), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.
  • Foobar (unregistered)

    In the password, what is that character between E & L that looks like a capital S with an oval spliced in the middle (or perhaps a two-armed spiral galaxy)?

  • (cs)

    Actually the worrying thing about the NOD32 one is the suggestion that it hasn't been updated in over 350 years...

    And 1649 isn't even the NTFS epoch...

  • OneMist8k (unregistered)

    The bus display is saying there are no windows and 32 drivers in the system are corrupt... or not. Makes sense to me.

  • Gender Equality Now! (unregistered) in reply to Foobar
    Foobar:
    what is that character between E & L that looks like a capital S with an oval spliced in the middle (or perhaps a two-armed spiral galaxy)?

    That's a paragraph sign (legal not text) and tends to sit above the [3] key.

  • (cs) in reply to Foobar
    Foobar:
    In the password, what is that character between E & L that looks like a capital S with an oval spliced in the middle (or perhaps a two-armed spiral galaxy)?
    Standard symbol for "section".
  • moltonel (unregistered)

    "Male or Female" - I also appreciate that this is the only field that warrants a "more help" link.

  • Eran chetz (unregistered)

    I love this blog! Keep up the good work

  • (cs) in reply to Gender Equality Now!
    Gender Equality Now!:
    Foobar:
    what is that character between E & L that looks like a capital S with an oval spliced in the middle (or perhaps a two-armed spiral galaxy)?

    That's a paragraph sign (legal not text) and tends to sit above the [3] key.

    On my keyboard it sits above the ! key. And my 3 sits above the " key. You must have some wacky foreign keyboard.

  • (cs)

    At least the bus error'd on load and hadn't crashed.

  • Torge (unregistered)

    Makes me wonder what "More help" is provided about the Male/Female choice?!

  • Gary (unregistered)

    I urgently desire a flamewar debate over whether "tar baby" is a racist phrase. In the US, at least, I believe it originates from African and African-American folk tales, was transcribed/popularized by (sympathetic, yet racist) whites, and refers to a trap laid by a trickster character to ensnare his enemy. Later (unsympathetic, and stupid) racists decided that since tar was black, "tar baby" would be a good racist epithet. Discuss which is the relevant factor.

    Also - what do they think they're selling, Birkin bags?

  • SeySayux (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Gender Equality Now!:
    Foobar:
    what is that character between E & L that looks like a capital S with an oval spliced in the middle (or perhaps a two-armed spiral galaxy)?

    That's a paragraph sign (legal not text) and tends to sit above the [3] key.

    On my keyboard it sits above the ! key. And my 3 sits above the " key. You must have some wacky foreign keyboard.

    On my keyboard, it's 

    \textsection
    . Oh yea, that's obviously a Sim-dollar sign.

  • Buddy (unregistered)

    The prices of the purses look like Zimbabwe currency, at least well before they abandoned it. At the end, there are claims the non-official inflation rate, i.e. what people were actually experiencing, exceeded 10¹⁰⁰%. You know inflation is high when a standard scientific calculator can't represent it!

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

  • Jens (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    Not every person passes CAPTCHA. Wowereit.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

  • (cs)

    This different prices for travelling passports is also present here (Germany).

    The more expensive version has iirc twice the number of pages in it .. so its worthwhile if you are a very frequent traveller.

    So could be sth like that.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

    Actually it's so obvious you should all be embarassed.

    The right answer is NullReferenceException.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maoris), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.
    TRWTF is language being dismantled due to the ignorant minority. See also: niggardly.
  • (cs) in reply to Gary
    Gary:
    I urgently desire a flamewar debate over whether "tar baby" is a racist phrase. In the US, at least, I believe it originates from African and African-American folk tales, was transcribed/popularized by (sympathetic, yet racist) whites
    How can you be sympathetic, yet racist? That's like being homicidal, yet pacifist.
  • (cs) in reply to Buddy
    Buddy:
    The prices of the purses look like Zimbabwe currency, at least well before they abandoned it. At the end, there are claims the non-official inflation rate, i.e. what people were actually experiencing, exceeded 10¹⁰⁰%. You know inflation is high when a standard scientific calculator can't represent it!
    I think this phenomenon has been discussed before. Some people use automated scripts to change prices based on sales, availability, and competition. These scripts are buggy and sometimes put themselves in a feedback loop.
  • Anthony (unregistered)

    Must've been the /etc/bus.

  • Eric (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that someone posted his password online. That's a serious security issue!

  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    How can you be sympathetic, yet racist? That's like being homicidal, yet pacifist.
    Do you honestly think that having (possibly subconscious) prejudice toward a group precludes you from feeling sympathy for them?
  • Vilx- (unregistered)

    At least it's good to know that Windows couldn't corrupt the driver of the bus!

  • SeySayux (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

    Actually it's so obvious you should all be embarassed.

    The right answer is NullReferenceException.

    You must either mean NullPointerException, Segmentation violation or Bus error.

  • commoveo (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7
    #
  • Brian White (unregistered)

    null minus seven is null. It's not a math captcha, it's a database developer captcha which is also a gotcha.

  • Altourus (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

    Actually it's so obvious you should all be embarassed.

    The right answer is NullReferenceException.

    Having used javascript before, I can pretty much garentee the answer is -7, a quick check to the Chrome console verifies this. Also NaN would have been another attempt of mine.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Gary:
    I urgently desire a flamewar debate over whether "tar baby" is a racist phrase. In the US, at least, I believe it originates from African and African-American folk tales, was transcribed/popularized by (sympathetic, yet racist) whites
    How can you be sympathetic, yet racist? That's like being homicidal, yet pacifist.

    I'm sympathetic to the plight of black people. I really think they do the best they can with their inferior intellect.

    See, it's not hard to be sympathetic and racist at the same time. And for the stupid people out there, no, I don't think black people have an inferior intellect, I was illustrating a point.

  • Brian White (unregistered) in reply to Brian White
    Brian White:
    null minus seven is null. It's not a math captcha, it's a database developer captcha which is also a gotcha.

    ok, but the real trick is that it doesn't EQUAL null, it just IS null, which does not equal itself. So that is a pretty damn secure captcha

  • Duncan (unregistered) in reply to Quicksilver
    Quicksilver:
    This different prices for travelling passports is also present here (Germany).

    The more expensive version has iirc twice the number of pages in it .. so its worthwhile if you are a very frequent traveller.

    So could be sth like that.

    No, the larger passport costs more than that. The prices shown here seem to be for adult or child with the wrong caption.. Here's the complete list which with a choice of 12 different prices is surely worthy of a wtf: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Passports/howlongittakesandurgentappplications/DG_174109

  • Unicorn #8157 (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    That's like being homicidal, yet pacifist.
    You feel killing is wrong but have urges to murder. Simple.
  • Joel Hinz (unregistered)

    Hey, sweet! I learned something new today!

  • (cs) in reply to Altourus
    Altourus:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Matt:
    trwrtf of the math captcha is trying 0, 7, and null, but not trying -7

    Agreed, although anything other than NULL is plainly wrong.

    Actually it's so obvious you should all be embarassed.

    The right answer is NullReferenceException.

    Having used javascript before, I can pretty much garentee the answer is -7, a quick check to the Chrome console verifies this. Also NaN would have been another attempt of mine.

    Or saying: "screw you. I'll go fill out a form somewhere else"

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maoris), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.

    That comment is just plain racist . Remove your offensive crap, thx.

  • Dude.... (unregistered) in reply to Justin

    I can't believe I didn't know this. I've been showing it off in the office, and nobody else knew that it worked either.

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