• (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Outside of the semitropical Vancouver Lower Mainland, we have four distinct seasons in Canada: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Work.
    FTW!
  • (cs) in reply to strictnein
    strictnein:
    Lastchance:
    I don't know, this one is pretty weak to me. It certainly seems like it's just a typo. You could make a case for input validation, but as a WTF, it isn't really interesting, or funny. At least not to me.

    Uhmm... yes, that's the point. It's a typo. And the typo is amusing. The real WTF here is that you think these all need to be earth shatteringly amazing.

    Well, given the name of the site, I would expect some that is either Worse Than Failure or something that would make me say "What The Fornication?!?" This does neither.

    It's a little typo, and given the visual similarity between 2 and 5, it is quite understandable. Yeah, it's kind of amusing, but not really front page amusing, especially for a Friday.

  • muttonchop (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Outside of the semitropical Vancouver Lower Mainland, we have four distinct seasons in Canada: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Work.

    Alternatively, in the Vancouver Lower Mainland we have the following seasons: "Rain", "Still Raining", "I Can't Believe It Hasn't Stopped ____ Raining Yet", and "WTF! Snow?"

    We also experience Road Work but it occurs year-round.

  • Buffalo2Wheeler (unregistered)

    This would be perfect for http://www.shamefultypos.com

  • Cheong (unregistered) in reply to jtl
    jtl:
    Does that mean 3000 years of funding?
    No. You won't see it in the next year's budget. So apparently it's a autofunding construction. :P

    Captcha: quake (Hope that the "quake" won't slow down the construction by another 3000 years... Or it has provision of continuous quake in mind already?)

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    I don't get it. What's a WTF about the traffic department finally telling the truth?

  • Turbowaffle (unregistered)

    Metric dates use metric time. You know, 10 hours in a day? It makes so much more sense. I wish we could adopt it like England.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to strictnein

    So the real WTF wasn't the article, but that guy's comment? Retard.

  • (cs) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    Trerro:
    Nonetheless, it's still an amusing announcement of 3000 years of road construction. That's it. It's a silly thing to chuckle at and move on... that's the point of error'd.

    Perhaps the real point of this is the fact that we can no longer easily tell when something is a CSOD or an ERRORED entry. Everything blends in to each other on the front page and it looks like your normal everyday posting.

    So maybe Alex should take note of this as not a mistake on the users part but rather a UI change that made things more difficult for the user.

    Yeah, I guess it saying "By Jake Vinson in Errord" under the title on the main page, or the fact on this very comments page it says "Home » Articles » Error'd » Moderate Traffic Impact » Comments" at the top isn't obvious enough for the software development geniuses that all the people commenting on this site evidently are.

  • none (unregistered)

    traffic

  • Nathanael (unregistered)

    The REAL WTF here is all the damn wingers! Gosh - you're the only element detracting from the site. So what about the name change? So what if the WTFs don't meet your high expectations? You telling me that you totally love every weekly update on the pr0n site you subscribe to? That you PAY for? Didn't think so. How about you send articles in, or hey - perhaps if you come here and the headline isn't to your liking and doesn't meet your particular tastes in WTFing, then ... oh gosh, go somewhere else for the day! Try again tomorrow!

    Yeah I preferred the original name, yeah I like it when articles make me laugh - but it's absolutely unconscionable to be putting Alex down because he didn't manage to find a super duper fantastic whizz bang article after work last night for you to read today. There's like 6 billion web sites out there - work through some of those for the rest of the day if you don't have a real job to keep you occupied, and then come back tomorrow.

    Now - to the story:

    The WTF is why can't the system shorthands for addresses be expanded out to something readable? Or the system formatted dates converted to DD mmmm YYYY format? Events? What is a "moderate" impact "event"? It's horribly formatted and designed more for a machine than a human. No UCD here!

    How can a start time be under way? Start time is a milestone, not an interval. So the "under way" graphic is invalid.

    The only GOOD thing about it is it's only got a 4 digit reference code. Unlike trying to enter your Windows XP serial code :-)

  • (cs) in reply to JohnB
    JohnB:
    freelancer:
    What the hell are metric dates?!
    My weak attempt at humour. Cut me some slack, please -- it's been a long week. (At least I didn't write about my captcha. Or submit a pic of the printed output from my wooden desktop. Or mention file-not-found.)
    No quack ? :-)
  • Mai naim (unregistered) in reply to WIldpeaks
    WIldpeaks:
    savar:
    E.g. when you see a date that is 100 standard deviations above the median completion data, ask the user if he's sure he wants to enter such a strange value.
    Some call it a brain and soon most people will have one ^_^
    Hell no! >.<
  • (cs) in reply to Quakeman
    Quakeman:
    List of tables:

    http://roads.theweathernetwork.com/repport/Road_Const.asp?Construction_ID=0%20union%20all%20select%20null,name,null,null,getdate(),null%20from%20master.dbo.sysobjects%20where%20xtype='U';

    captcha: quake

    Woah, nice sql injection.

    One can even create and drop tables...

  • (cs)

    Just a few years ago I traveled in and out of Logan Airport (near Boston) almost weekly. There was a construction project around the airport that eventually lasted for many, many years. But, during that time there was a wonderful billboard just as you approached the Sumtner tunnel that said: If Rome was built in a day, we'd have hired their contractor

    I wish I had taken a photograph. I would have added it to these

  • (cs) in reply to Jerk
    Jerk:
    packrat:
    Sounds like the Missouri Department of Transportation (MDOT)
    Shouldn't that be MODOT?

    Mental Organism Designed Only for Transportation?

    http://www.angryflower.com/modoke.gif

  • MarkP (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston

    You've obviously never been to Niagara, where this article is talking about. It's got warmer summers than many American states, hence the abnormal prominence of soft fruits.

    But you're right, too...I remember a couple winters back, they ripped off the top level of asphalt, leaving the course lower layer, in October. They didn't resurface that route (the main route through St. Catharines) until April or May. Guess they knew what the winter would do to it, and decided to just fight fire with fire.

  • LassTech (unregistered)

    Ok I drive this every weekday and seeing how I only see workers on the site every other day it might just actually take this long G Thanks for the LMAO!

    Lass

  • ThePhwner (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that if you try to go back to that site:

    Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0408'

    Invalid character

    /repport/Road_Const.asp, line 12

    If InStr(UCase$(strQuery),"EXEC(") > 0 OR Len(strQuery) > 500 Then --------------^

  • fgfg (unregistered) in reply to ThePhwner
    ThePhwner:
    The real WTF is that if you try to go back to that site:

    Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0408'

    Invalid character

    /repport/Road_Const.asp, line 12

    If InStr(UCase$(strQuery),"EXEC(") > 0 OR Len(strQuery) > 500 Then --------------^

    It's still that way now. In 2013.

  • Rfilip (unregistered)

    Now that page is return diffrent error:

    Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0408'

    Invalid character

    /repport/Road_Const.asp, line 12

    If InStr(UCase$(strQuery),"EXEC(") > 0 OR Len(strQuery) > 500 Then ---------------------^

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