• (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    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?

    Only if you're white.

  • Antony Koch (unregistered)

    re the Nod32 error, sod 1649 - wtf is the 16th month?

  • (cs) in reply to L.
    L.:
    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.

    I once posted a comment on someone's blog post on Blogger.com (or Blogpost.com or something) about how, in school cafeterias, the sweat of black people is bottled as cola and the sweat of white people is bottled as fanta. And that when they can't work anymore, the black people are made into chocolate pudding while the white people are made into vanilla pudding.

    Blogger (or Blogpost or whatever) told that guy to remove that comment for being racist, or they'd shut his blog down.

  • Vilx- (unregistered) in reply to Antony Koch
    Antony Koch:
    re the Nod32 error, sod 1649 - wtf is the 16th month?
    I think it uses that odd convention of MM/DD/YYYY.
  • Vilx- (unregistered) in reply to Antony Koch
    Antony Koch:
    re the Nod32 error, sod 1649 - wtf is the 16th month?
    I think it uses that odd convention of MM/DD/YYYY.
  • (cs) in reply to Brian White
    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

    So to prove you're a human, you have to edit the POST request in-flight so as to remove the query parameter for the captcha answer altogether, thus ensuring the captcha script gets null when it goes to verify your answer.
  • Up Down (unregistered) in reply to Vilx-
    Vilx-:
    Antony Koch:
    re the Nod32 error, sod 1649 - wtf is the 16th month?
    I think it uses that odd convention of MM/DD/YYYY.

    No, then it would be 03/16/1649. 3/16/1649 is obviously D/DM/YYYY and a longer version of this date is June 31st, 1649. This leads us to that TRWTF is that in 1649, June had 31 days.

  • Mike (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the Local transport comany used Windows as Operating System for displaying the adverts.

    Solaris, Linux, OpenBDS and all unix-like OS are better tailored to be used on public transportations: when something bad happens on the vehicle a specific error signal could be raised: the aptly named bus error.

    For trams and some undergrounds, expecially if paintend dark red there is also a specific programming language: Ruby on Rails.

  • Cap'n Spanky (unregistered) in reply to Eric
    Eric:
    TRWTF is that someone posted his password online. That's a serious security issue!
    You can see his password? All I can see is *******************************

    Strange.

  • (cs)

    Password problem easily solved by taking screen shot. If print screen is disable, take photo using cell phone and be done with it.

  • (cs) in reply to Unicorn #8157
    Unicorn #8157:
    operagost:
    That's like being homicidal, yet pacifist.
    You feel killing is wrong but have urges to murder. Simple.
    Homicidal Pacifists would be a cool band name.
  • Someone else (unregistered) in reply to SeySayux
    SeySayux:
    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.

    On my keyboard, it's <Multi_key> <o>.

  • nick burns (unregistered)

    For the PostgreSQL one, if you press Ctrl+C (like you are copying and pasting) when that dialog has focus, it will copy all the text in the dialog, including that ridiculous password.

    You're welcome.

  • Ozz (unregistered)

    Getting a British passport is even more fun if you're a Brit living in the U.S. (like me). I had to renew mine earlier this year. What a nightmare. For example, no one around here could do the photo correctly (special paper requirements, etc.) so I ended up having to e-mail a digital photo to a studio in London, have them print it on the magic paper and snail-mail it back to me. And don't even get me started on the price...

  • Don (unregistered) in reply to L.
    L.:
    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.

    That comment is just plain ignorant . Remove your uneducated crap, thx.

  • Harrow (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.
    Well are any of those people here?

    -Harrow.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Harrow
    Harrow:
    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.
    Well are any of those people here?

    -Harrow.

    It doesn't matter, they suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context, not just when they're around.

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

    I'd say TRWTF is that the equation seems to be in plain text, so the captcha would be pretty easy to crack.

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to SeySayux
    SeySayux:
    Oh yea, that's obviously a Sim-dollar sign.

    That would be the Simoleon.

  • A. Nonymous Coward (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Brits need "More Help" determining male or female.

    CAPTCHA: eros - the diminishing of euros.

  • (cs) in reply to nick burns
    nick burns:
    For the PostgreSQL one, if you press Ctrl+C (like you are copying and pasting) when that dialog has focus, it will copy all the text in the dialog, including that ridiculous password.
    Of course, that's perfectly normal on a small embedded device with no filing system.
  • NEGATIVE_SEVEN_FFS (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    Came here to say this.

  • Poncy Leon (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.

    While programmers jump automatically to thinking of null pointers, in everyday speech "null" is a word for zero (though admittedly, seldom used in arithmetical contexts in English; maybe the CAPTCHA writer was a German speaker?), so "null minus seven" is -7.

  • jcsanyi (unregistered)

    Regarding the radio buttons, has nobody noticed that you're supposed to select one button per COLUMN, not row?

    The grouping is not the problem, and it really is the missing 2 rows that's making it look so broken... the whole "tar baby" description is describing something completely different.

    Of course, that does still leaves the open question of why it is allowing you to select one row to be both MOST and LEAST likely.. and whether it would allow that if there really were multiple rows. (technically, it's correct as is but should not allow it if there are multiple rows)

  • BobTheBuilder (unregistered) in reply to Eric

    Only if you know where the server is located and the server has access to the internet and you have permission to access the server and . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . (I think you get the idea, or at least I hope so)

    Do I need to go on? I think the poster of the password can reasonably assume that it's a safe bet.

    I hate over-reactive supposedly security conscious freaks.

  • nobis (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    You forgot, Frist!

    first fool

  • nobis (unregistered) 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)?

    ampersand

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Harrow
    Harrow:
    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.
    Well are any of those people here?

    -Harrow.

    If the latest word declared to be racist is spoken in a forest when no white liberals are around, is anyone offended?

  • Dotan Cohen (unregistered) 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)?

    hunter2

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to operagost
  • Jay (unregistered)

    If Windows corrupts the system's drivers, then we need to build busses with no windows.

  • (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)?

    It's called a "scilicet".

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I think the prices of those bags is taking into account the fact that they come pre-filled with cocaine. Or maybe Greek promissary notes.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I think the prices of those bags is taking into account the fact that they come pre-filled with cocaine. Or maybe Greek promissary notes.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I think the prices of those bags is taking into account the fact that they come pre-filled with cocaine. Or maybe Greek promissary notes.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Whoops, sorry for the repetition, I had a technical glitch.

    It's debateable if that comment was worth posting once, never mind three times.

  • (cs) in reply to BobTheBuilder
    BobTheBuilder:
    Only if you know where the server is located and the server has access to the internet and you have permission to access the server and . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . (I think you get the idea, or at least I hope so)

    Do I need to go on? I think the poster of the password can reasonably assume that it's a safe bet.

    I hate over-reactive supposedly security conscious freaks.

    If some software creates a password with a paragraph mark for me, the first thing I'd do would be to change it. I don't want to go typing weard characters that are not supported on every keyboard and changes place depending on the update status of your machine on a field that won't let me see what I wrote.

    Publishing a strong password that you don't use for everybody to see doesn't look like a security flaw. Otherwise, it is.

  • (cs)

    look like Jay guy is try too hard to grab everyone's attention.

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

    Not at all. War is wrong as a way of performing the much-necessary task of reducing the population. The task is to be done with an automatic rifle and a bag of hand-grenades, wielded by me.

  • (cs) in reply to The poop of DOOM
    The poop of DOOM:
    L.:
    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.

    I once posted a comment on someone's blog post on Blogger.com (or Blogpost.com or something) about how, in school cafeterias, the sweat of black people is bottled as cola and the sweat of white people is bottled as fanta. And that when they can't work anymore, the black people are made into chocolate pudding while the white people are made into vanilla pudding.

    Blogger (or Blogpost or whatever) told that guy to remove that comment for being racist, or they'd shut his blog down.

    Do they make the Chinks into custard?

  • zippy (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    weird keyboard my flipside... on my keyboard § is above the |, and above 3 is #. Never nmind what happends if I select to try to use a german keyboard as it gets even worse by exchanging y and z.

  • (cs) in reply to SeySayux
    SeySayux:
    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.

    Nah, it's $\S$ and $\P$ for section and paragraph respectively.

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Harrow:
    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.
    Well are any of those people here?

    -Harrow.

    If the latest word declared to be racist is spoken in a forest when no white liberals are around, is anyone offended?

    Well the grey squirrels refer to the red ones as "tomatoes", while the red ones call the grey ones "rainclouds", so there's racist language wherever you go. And don't get me started on the race wars between the white and black rhinoceroses.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:

    "Dammit, stop the war and conflict or I'll kill you!" ??

  • (cs)

    My keyboard doesn't even have a section sign.

  • (cs) in reply to Don
    Don:
    That comment is just plain ignorant . Remove your uneducated crap, thx.
    That applies to a full third of the comments on here...
  • derpiderp (unregistered)

    I think the thing you guys don't get about the "null minus seven" is that the numbers are obviously in text format, so there must be a conversion for that somewhere. Perhaps the programmer's native toungue isn't english, and therefore parsed 0 to "null" (which is another word for zero, look it up), instead of zero.

  • OldPeter (unregistered)

    About that § sign in the generated password: It's frequently used in German texts and is followed normally by the number of a legal paragraph which you want to refer to. So, like the first replier wrote: legal paragraph, not an ordinary text paragraph. In German texts. So it's available on every standard German keyboard layout, on top of the 3. German keyboard layout. - In return, that US paragraph sign, which appears when you press the return key in a text processor application, is totally unknown to us here in Germany, we have to learn it when getting into contact with computers. - Don't know about the use of that paragraph sign in other foreign languages, whether there's a similar usage to that in Germany.

  • (cs) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    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)?

    It's called a "scilicet".

    Not sure if that's what it's actually called -- that's more like what it means. In legal docs, they use it as a symbol for the latin word scilicet. Or "sc." meaning "to wit" or "namely."

    Heard it more often referred to as a section mark or section-sign.

  • scoreKeeper (unregistered) in reply to Alesix

    quote] Homicidal Pacifists would be a cool band name.[/quote]

    for +2, under what musical genre?

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