The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Coyne · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

I'm sorry: I'm in a hurry and I can only afford to wait 5.5045871543179 minutes.

Coyne · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Oh, and as for that lottery: I'd buy a ticket. Since NAN ranges from $0 to $110 trillion (or even more), I have to assume the average winner would be at least $55 trillion.

Definitely worth a ticket. Worth a lot of tickets.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Admin!

He, he, he. Admin!

Hee hee. Admin Admin Admin Admin Admin

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

synp:
Admin!
He, he, he. Admin!

Hee hee. Admin Admin Admin Admin Admin

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

lanmind · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Grzechooo:
"permission from Everyone" means the ACL of folder is fucked up. Good luck.

I thought the same thing...

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

My Irish girl is broken :(

Can I pleze has an othur?

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Did you catch the at at on the KFC receipt?

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Paul Neumann:
My Irish girl is broken :(
Can I pleze has an othur?

[image]

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

The first thing I thought when I saw the folder deletion message was "No, don't delete it, it was made on John Egbert's birthday! The blind prophets will be angered."

Captcha: caecus. Latin for "blind". Okay that's just a creepy coincidence.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Obvious Man:
Paul Neumann:
My Irish girl is broken :(
Can I pleze has an othur?

[image]

She wants my body... I can just tell by looking.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

she have "Hot Chick with LOW STANDARDS" written in her eyes.

Gurth · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Some Jerk:
She wants my body...

Probably grilled, with ketchup.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Some Jerk:
Obvious Man:
Paul Neumann:
My Irish girl is broken :(
Can I pleze has an othur?

[image]

She wants my body... I can just tell by looking.

+

Some Jerk (unregistered):
she have "Hot Chick with LOW STANDARDS" written in her eyes.

= WIN!

and by the way, she stil looks broke.

oh, and ) lets finish off the unmatched braces in this therad

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

@Deprecated:
In the really old Amiga game 'Bard's Tale', you had 4 characters. You could attack and kill the character in slot 3. Then with him having 0 gold, go into the shop, and buy something with the 4th (still alive) character. The game would *then* decide to reorder the characters, and subtract the item price from the dead (now 4th) character with zero gold, and poof, you'd have minus 2 billion gold, which was as good as +4billion, I guess. Or something like that.

In the early days of the MMOish web game Kingdom of Loathing, something similar happened: there was an item that if you were dumb enough to use it out of combat, would steal a handful of meat (the game's currency) from your inventory. Turned out, if you used it without any meat in your inventory, it would still steal meat from your inventory, giving you a couple billion meat. I wasn't around back then, but I gather the information spread quickly, everyone had max meat, and the game's economy didn't recover for many months (as the developers put in various leaderboards for "who donated the most meat to this leaderboard", with no other tangible benefit, for people to voluntarily remove their bugmeat with.)

Neither of these are really instances of having NaN currency, though; just instances of failing to consider boundaries, or the difference between signed and unsigned ints.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
Did nobody think to query what an i@v@ice is?

Well obviously, if they'd spelled it out, it wouldn't have gotten past the profanity filter! I can't think of many words more vulgar and disgusting than those that describe bills. Well, there are those that describe taxes.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
re: [redacted, profanity]
From Wiktionary:

3 (countable, US, derogatory, slang) An Asian person who dresses, acts and speaks according to Caucasian stereotypes rather than Asian ones (from the “yellow” outside and “white” inside; compare Oreo (“Black person who acts white”)).

That's for the Tee DoubleYou Eye Enn Kay Eye Ee (can't write out racist slang, you know...)

So like, if a Chinese person deliberately fails a math test, they call him a twinkie?

A friend of my daughter was suspended from school for wearing a t-shirt that said "Oreo". He's black. So he was suspended for making racial slurs against ... himself. Apparently the white administrators believe that they know better than he does what offends him.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

den:
Here's a tip for you: If you are thinking about creating a "profanity filter" - STOP. You're welcome.

Or at the very least, try not to be mind-bogglingly stupid about it. Here are a few suggestions:

Look at whole words only. "classic" is not an obscenity.
Don't block words that have objectionable meanings if those words also have routine, acceptable meanings. Not unless you're going to parse the sentence for context. "I had saltine crackers and Oreo cookies for a snack" is probably not a racial slur.
Test your filter before deploying it, to make sure that it does not have a lot of false hits.

Why is it necessary to even point out such obvious things?

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Some Jerk:
Is it just me or are these WTFs going down hill? I mean, what is happening in the world today when even stupidity is served in substandard quality?

...for me, getting to see Irish Girl again made up for it.

(and besides, a few of them really are kind of amusing...)

I apparently have nobisness posting here without logging in...

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Paul Neumann:
My Irish girl is broken :(
Can I pleze has an othur?

No. You must learn to take care of your toys.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

TRWTF is that the old version of FireFox 3.6.28 (apparently the last 3.x ever) that I was running was somehow unable to see the end of comment marker about the Irish girl, turning most of the page into one big comment.

Not gonna go for that "New Age Firefox" crap, so I finally downloaded Seamonkey for this computer. (I use Seamonkey everywhere else anyhow.) Just a little profile-fu, and all my settings are back.

PiisAWheeL · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Jay:
"I had saltine crackers and Oreo cookies for a snack"

Sounds like it could be a 3-some, or given the plurals, an orgy.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

I was going to say that one cannot withdraw from a balance of NaN, but I proved myself wrong:

class Main
{
        public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
        {
                double acctBalance = Double.NaN;
                double withdrawal = 100000000.00;
                double result = acctBalance - withdrawal;
                
                System.out.println(result);
        }
}

for demo: http://ideone.com/kpxs8

Seriously?! Akismet thinks this is spam? I'm now starting to understand the average intellectual level of comments here...

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Oh, and points to all who can find the WTF in that code. (No, Java does not count.)

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Double the NaN, double the fun!

So six regular nuggets are $6, or $1 each, but a single "CAT NUGG" is only 75 cents. Can I just order six CAT NUGGs?

da Doctah · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Jay:
2. Don't block words that have objectionable meanings if those words also have routine, acceptable meanings. Not unless you're going to parse the sentence for context. "I had saltine crackers and Oreo cookies for a snack" is probably not a racial slur.

Or stop schools from passing out "magna cum laude" honors.

Unrelated question: why would you order cat nuggets at a place that serves falcon?

lrucker · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

According to my Spanish teacher, "taco" is very rude in Spain.

PiisAWheeL · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
Double the NaN, double the fun!
So six regular nuggets are $6, or $1 each, but a single "CAT NUGG" is only 75 cents. Can I just order six CAT NUGGs?

I wasn't payin any attention to the reciept, but when I first looked at it at .75 a pop, I thought they were charging for CATsup for the NUGGets. I was gonna say it wasn't a wtf until someone else said:

Douglasac:
CAT NUGG means "catering nuggets" on a KFC invoice - to get eight you need to ring them up like that.

And so I figured they were probably right.

pjt33 · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

lrucker:
According to my Spanish teacher, "taco" is very rude in Spain.

I don't think you were paying enough attention. "Taco" means "rude word", but is not itself rude.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

pjt33:
lrucker:
According to my Spanish teacher, "taco" is very rude in Spain.
I don't think you were paying enough attention. "Taco" means "rude word", but is not itself rude.

Burrito means little donkey. Apparently, it is used as an explicit substitution in Mexico.

Taco is similarly used here in the states. I assume that most can identify the implications for themselves... so I won't draw you a picture.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
Double the NaN, double the fun!
So six regular nuggets are $6, or $1 each, but a single "CAT NUGG" is only 75 cents. Can I just order six CAT NUGGs?

I guess there's more meat on a cat than a chicken? So more bulk prices.

Maybe it is that there's not many stray chickens to round up in town.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

emaN ruoY:
(no need reading below this line) akismet thinks I'm a bot, but this long line of unnecessary text states otherwise. If I were a bot, I'd actually try and link some website where I was trying to sell something, steal data, install a virus, do all three, or ... something completely unrelated. If you have actually read this far, stop, just go to the next comment. By the way, your server is on fire. Or your router. It could be the DSLAM, but in any case, you'd better go check it just in case. How do I know, I don't, but somebody told me and now that I've made the accusation, the onus is on you to prove me wrong. But if I'm wrong, don't you feel better knowing that your equipment was not, in fact, on fire? I know I would be. So why not get up and check it out... or read the next comment, like you really should have done a long time before getting to this point.
It still thinks I'm a bot. go figure.

PROTIP: Make an account, post anything, immediately edit that comment with whatever you want to say. It lets you bypass the bloody Akismet.

Seahen · 2012-08-03 Reply Admin

I guess whoever owned the cat from yesterday's story decided to do the sensible thing and have it made into nuggets, so it wouldn't destroy any more hardware.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
From Wiktionary:
3 (countable, US, derogatory, slang) An Asian person who dresses, acts and speaks according to Caucasian stereotypes rather than Asian ones (from the “yellow” outside and “white” inside; compare Oreo (“Black person who acts white”)).

That's for the Tee DoubleYou Eye Enn Kay Eye Ee (can't write out racist slang, you know...)

I thought that would be banana. No wait, bananas grow more where people are brown not yellow. Where do twinkies grow? Um wait, twinkies are also yellow not brown on the outside. I'm confused now.

The immigration bureau has sample forms filled in on display for people who need to refer to them, in Japanese and a few foreign languages. An English language sample used to include the abbreviation "Jap." When I mentioned that in a discussion on Usenet news, American posters were full of certainty over how the immigration officials had offended themselves and should censor themselves.

2012-08-03 Reply Admin

golddog:
tjc:
My guess is the offensive word was "twink". This is why non-space sensitive, excessive in scope banned-words-lists are BAD!

All banned-words lists. No need to be specific here.

There are no bad words, there are only words which are either ill-defined or misunderstood.

Uh, do you speak any language at all? The "bad" words the ones that are extremely well defined and well understood by virtually all native speakers.

mol1111 · 2012-08-04 Reply Admin

If you live in EU you would also consider Brussels nasty word…

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Meep:
golddog:
tjc:
My guess is the offensive word was "twink". This is why non-space sensitive, excessive in scope banned-words-lists are BAD!

All banned-words lists. No need to be specific here.

There are no bad words, there are only words which are either ill-defined or misunderstood.

Uh, do you speak any language at all? The "bad" words the ones that are extremely well defined and well understood by virtually all native speakers.

And, they are among the first to be learned by non-native speakers, along with the word for "beer" and the euphemism for "place to piss".

da Doctah · 2012-08-04 Reply Admin

pjt33:
lrucker:
According to my Spanish teacher, "taco" is very rude in Spain.
I don't think you were paying enough attention. "Taco" means "rude word", but is not itself rude.

In Japanese it means "octopus", which opens up whole new frontiers in menu misunderstanding.

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
So six regular nuggets are $6, or $1 each, but a single "CAT NUGG" is only 75 cents. Can I just order six CAT NUGGs?

Sure... I'll go scoop some cat nuggets of the litter box for you.

tin · 2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
Did nobody think to query what an i@v@ice is?

It also screwed the ABN up into AB@ - so it's quite surprising the CAT NUGG wasn't CAT @UGG. I'm also surprised the totals added up correctly since mangled characters tend to mean mangled RAM.

It's also not a valid tax invoice - the words tax invoice don't appear on it ;)

Zemm · 2012-08-04 Reply Admin

tin:
Steve The Cynic:
Did nobody think to query what an i@v@ice is?

It also screwed the ABN up into AB@ - so it's quite surprising the CAT NUGG wasn't CAT @UGG.

But not U WA@T...

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Paul Neumann:
Oh, and points to all who can find the WTF in that code. (No, Java does not count.)

TRWTF is using doubles instead of decimals when working with money.

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

OldCoder:
Ross Presser:
TRTWF is 10% GST. Total decimation of your wallet.
Lucky sod. Our VAT currently is 20%.

Trade ya. (25%)

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

HTML comments cannot contain two dashes in a row.

There is such a comment in the source code for this article, which causes most of the article and the comment thread not to render on Firefox (3.6.15, Windows).

(This doesn't seem to have been reported already, but I may be mistaken -- it is kinda hard to skim the contents of the existing comments when one can only do it in a source window.)

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Paul Neumann:
My Irish girl is broken :(

The Irish girl broke the entire article. TRWTF is using ambiguous notation for HTML comments.

Some people think that HTML comments start with

That is not the case. A declaration starts with <! and a declaration ends with >

Inside a declaration you can have comments that start and end with -- and does not contain the substring --

The actual document has a "comment" looking like this:

That does not mean what the person writing it, thought it meant. First <! starts a declaration, then -- starts a comment. The comment is "RSS doesn't like the CSS mouseover." then the comment ends with --

What follows is then a meaningless declaration saying "Here's the Irish Girl anyway: https://thedailywtf.com/images/12/q3/e23/irishgirl.jpg", which the browser will ignore, because it just doesn't make any sense.

Then -- starts another comment, the next comment starts with >

What follows then was intended to be part of the webpage, but is actually interpreted as a comment.

Some browsers may be buggy and render the page the way the author intended it to be rendered.

If you want your webpages to be unambiguous and render the same in all browsers, then never try to use the substring -- inside a comment.

notchulance · 2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Paul Neumann:
I was going to say that one cannot withdraw from a balance of NaN, but I proved myself wrong:
class Main
{
        public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
        {
                double acctBalance = Double.NaN;
                double withdrawal = 100000000.00;
                double result = acctBalance - withdrawal;
            System.out.println(result);
    }

}
for demo: http://ideone.com/kpxs8

Seriously?! Akismet thinks this is spam? I'm now starting to understand the average intellectual level of comments here...

pic or ban

Addendum (2012-08-04 22:19): [image]

2012-08-04 Reply Admin

Kasper:
If you want your webpages to be unambiguous and render the same in all browsers, then never try to use the substring -- inside a comment.

Did I see what I saw in Kasper's COMMENT?

Fortunately no one can answer that question because the same thing is in this here comment too.

(Yeah I know Kasper meant HTML comment, but the comment as commented is fully decrementable.)

2012-08-05 Reply Admin

There was also a racial slur lurking as a substring, perhaps it spotted that one...

2012-08-05 Reply Admin

Shame Dave didn't buy a ticket like I did.

The winning numbers were 0,0,0,0,NaN,FILE_NOT_FOUND.

Easiest NaN I ever made.

2012-08-05 Reply Admin

The real WTF is that they are charging 75 cents for packages of catchup.

2012-08-05 Reply Admin

verbing "at" should be be grounds for for instant dismissal, and "work it how u want"? sounds sordid :(

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