• Wanker (unregistered) in reply to ben
    ben:
    Why doesn't every boring wanker tell us what his captcha is? Oh, good, you're already on it. Now if those who think their post might be the first one in a thread had some way of bringing that to our attention, we'd be set!
    Captcha: luctus

    And 51st!!! That makes me #1 on 2

  • tbrown (unregistered) in reply to Arthur
    Arthur:
    First shalt thou answer to the admin defined challenge question. Then, shalt thou count to five. No more. No less. Five shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of counting shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Seven is right out. Once at the number five, being the fifth number be reached, then, submittest thou thy response to admin defined challenge question.

    The "Holy Security Challenge Questions of Antioch" :-)

    (captcha: transverbero -- Is this a noun dressed up as a verb or a verb dressed up as a noun??)

  • tbrown (unregistered) in reply to ben
    ben:
    Why doesn't every boring wanker tell us what his captcha is? Oh, good, you're already on it. Now if those who think their post might be the first one in a thread had some way of bringing that to our attention, we'd be set!

    Or be the ultra-boring wank-meister to post about people posting their captchas!

    (but then here I am posting [about] people who post about people who post their captchas -- Doh!)

    (captcha: nulla -- just to keep you informed ;-> )

  • (cs) in reply to zzo38
    zzo38:
    I want to know, how many people use their web-browser function for doing calculation if you are already viewing a web-page, so you don't have to open another program? (It is useful to open another program if doing spreadsheets or something like that, but not for simple calculation, nearly any web-browser software can already do a simple calculation in JavaScript anyways)

    I just use Google.

  • (cs)

    I euthanised happy fun ball more quickly than any test subject on record!

  • (cs)

    Who're you calling 'dummy', dummy?

  • (cs) in reply to Lunkwill
    Lunkwill:
    There is some REALLY bad programming behind the weather prediction one. It looks like there is a macro on that computer that takes a screen shot of some software and cuts it out to the specific pixels needed.
    They should have done it like in the bottom one: print it out and take a picture of the printout on a wooden table. n00bz!111

    Yup. Aaron showed some nice wood.

  • J (unregistered)

    TRWTF is tipping.

    /controversy, oh my!

  • Aaron (unregistered)

    Woohoo, my submission finally made it! Fame and fortune will surely follow...or something.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Dopey Dwarf
    Dopey Dwarf:
    The real sand thing about this is that Alex made the images Adblock friendly and none of the whiners and conspiracy theorist seem to have notice...

    Is that why I suddenly can't see the pictures google reader & my igoogle rss feed, the only 2 ways I have to get around my company's internet filter and read thedailywtf from work.

  • (cs)

    Maybe I'm gonna read EULA's as well =P

    Addendum (2008-12-16 22:33):

    Mozy - The end user license agreement text displayed in the Mozy software contains (as of August 2008) the text 'DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL' in the middle of the lengthy 'LIMITATION OF LIABILITY' section.[1]

  • (cs) in reply to Shii
    Shii:
    There is some REALLY bad programming behind the weather prediction one. It looks like there is a macro on that computer that takes a screen shot of some software and cuts it out to the specific pixels needed.
    Windows graphics libraries seem to work like that. They actually do paint stuff to a window and then take a screenshot.

    I wonder why no Windows developer actually figured out how to construct the image in memory and then send it over the network without going through the graphics card. (Especially when there are Java toolkits - and many Linux/UNIX based libraries - that actually do that.)

  • Drak (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    Re: Mozy

    While it was taking a long time to perform some task the other day, the status was "Reticulating Splines..." -- pretty funny too.

    That comes from Sim City 2000, when you start a new city. It's the final (or almost final) step of the terrain generation.

    In a bizarre coincidence I downloaded SC2000 for my PSP yesterday and saw that message.

  • reader (unregistered) in reply to Shai

    Maybe the typist was Vulcan?

  • reader (unregistered) in reply to Shai
    Shai:
    If you look at the dummy text in Chat Magazine, and then at your keyboard, you'll see that TRWTF is that the typist managed to bang on j,k and ; without hitting l even once.

    Maybe the typist was Vulcan?

  • (cs) in reply to Eternal Density

    That thing you burned up isn't important to me. It's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice job breaking it, hero.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that nobody has a made lewd/geeky remark about the Bathing Beauty

  • (cs) in reply to Melnorme
    Melnorme:
    TRWTF is that nobody has a made lewd/geeky remark about the Bathing Beauty
    I think we all agree with lolwtf:
    lolwtf:
    Interesting definition of "beauty".
  • Random832 (unregistered) in reply to reader
    reader:
    BCD:
    The percentages are in Binary Coded Decimal. This is not unusual at all. Google it.

    Decimal, as in "FF"?

    Yes. It's base A, therefore decimal. FF = F*A+F.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    The real WTF on the receipt? That FF (i.e. 255%) would be $55.85. What hex calculator are they using over there?

  • Joe (unregistered)

    WTF. Shouldn't FF% be $55.85 ?

  • memals (unregistered)

    detailed history here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball enjoy

  • sroens (unregistered) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    reader:
    BCD:
    The percentages are in Binary Coded Decimal. This is not unusual at all. Google it.

    Decimal, as in "FF"?

    Yes. It's base A, therefore decimal. FF = F*A+F.

    You have missed the structure/purpose of Binary Coded Decimal (BCD). Each half-byte only goes 0-9, therefore the maximum value is 99 (both as decimal and BCD). BCD is primary used for display with simple ciffer displays.

  • (cs) in reply to Shai
    Shai:
    ... the typist managed to bang on j,k and ; without hitting l even once.
    That typist rocked the shocker!
  • (cs) in reply to zeptimius
    zeptimius:
    Any toy in the Netherlands (and probably in the EU) that contains small parts has a symbol of a 'prohibited' sign with the text "0-3" and a sad-looking toddler on it; that is, kids up to age 3 can't use it.

    I think the thing is that toys suitable for kids under 3 years of age are subjected to stricter rules than those for ages 3 and up. At least it's not like the result is an empty set. It's just that one constraint makes the other redundant.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Sparr
    Sparr:
    My quick launcher panel applet does math for me, in addition to launching programs, it is perfectly happy with "firefox<enter>" or with "0x7F & (2+9)<enter>" :)

    Heretic! The one true calculator for PCs is GHCi, everyone knows that. Its power extends far beyond calculating with simple numbers, foolish mortal! For instance to concatenate files named "file001" through "file100" into a new file "output" one does not have to switch to a lowly shell. Instead,

    mapM (readFile . ("file"++) . (\s -> replicate (3 - length s) '0' ++ s) . show) [1..100]
  >>= writeFile "output" . concat

    are entirely sufficient.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Melnorme:
    TRWTF is that nobody has a made lewd/geeky remark about the Bathing Beauty
    I think we all agree with lolwtf:
    lolwtf:
    Interesting definition of "beauty".

    Yeah, her average looks and the consternated look (punintended) on her face produce a particularly poor pick of a photographic picture provided for product promotion purposes.

    Now, does anyone remember Irish Girl's face (the body part about one foot above her, err, splendid T-shirt) for comparison?

  • keysmaker (unregistered) in reply to scott

    Absolutely, totally hilarious!

  • SuperHappy (unregistered) in reply to zeptimius

    Did you notice that there's a HappyFunBall symbol on the tag? I assume You wouldn't want to taunt your train either, then.

Leave a comment on “Insider Secret”

Log In or post as a guest

Replying to comment #:

Log Out

« Return to Article