• (cs) in reply to TK
    TK:
    Dzov:
    That search engine is working as intended. Archaic books based on ignorance, superstition, torture and fear should be down-ranked.
    Interesting fact: the most frequently repeated command in the entire Bible is "Do not fear / Do not be afraid."

    As it turns out, all sin at its root is caused by a lack of trust in God's goodness fear. Humans are most likely to make such foolish choices when we are afraid. Hence, God's frequent repetition of that command.

    FTFY - changing that one bit makes it consistent with the rest of the comment, to which now I can happily agree.

    Apparently some of us define the word fear differently (my preferred wording is "obtuse emotions over ominous outcomes"). Rather than substituting your own definition (lack of trust in God blah blah), let's just keep calling it "fear" and let people fill in their own blanks. Agreed?

  • (cs)

    So, you are foreshadowing that there are still libraries which are not using Aleph? I'm not sure if I can live with that...

  • (cs) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    So testdupacc is supposed to be "test duplicate account", right?

    I thought he was a rising star in the world of rap.

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Arancaytar
    Arancaytar:
    I can pass for a native speaker of PHP

    I'm so sorry to hear that...

  • toshir0 (unregistered) in reply to iMalc
    iMalc:
    TRWTF is using "the" in a search query
    ...unless you're using double quotes, asshat.

    Also : Akismet, your mother is a free hooker for hoboes.

  • Akissmyass (unregistered) in reply to toshir0
    toshir0:
    Also : Akismet, your mother is a free hooker for hoboes.

    It's a durty job, but somebody's gotta do it

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is not blanking out the barcode. Mr. Testupacc lives in Liverpool, on Cameron Street.

  • pordzio (unregistered)

    Nasi tu byli!!!

    Sent from Poland

    Query polish-english dictionary for "dupa"

  • (cs) in reply to TK
    TK:
    Interesting fact: the most frequently repeated command in the entire Bible is "Do not fear / Do not be afraid."
    Really? I thought it was "Let's get out of here".
  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    rfoxmich:
    Trouble spots like high tech physics laboratories. Captcha: secundum - Well I know I wasn't frist.
    Nagesh:
    I can speak using pascal, c, java and fortran!

    Fortran I don't mention on resume, since it will land me in trouble spots of world.

    Don't fool me. I know you don't work in any kind of lab.
    Experimental test subject.

  • (cs) in reply to A Concerned Citizen
    A Concerned Citizen:
    WRT the search results: Where's the WTF? The search query was very unspecific. The lack of stop words aside, there are millions of possible bibles the user could have been looking for. Without context, it's pretty hard to guess what the user meant.
    If you took out the stop words (remembering that "bible" is basically a synonym for "book"), there wouldn't be much left of that search query.
  • (cs)

    Roy's library apparently uses "fuzzy logic". If you look carefully, every one of those results has a relation (albeit subtle in some cases) to the Bible. Of course, it could be argued that EVERYTHING has a relation to the Bible.

  • (cs)

    You can recognize Mr. Testupacc's house by the Fence out front; which is depicted at the top of the letter.

  • (cs)

    The Library one is not so odd: Three of the books are Biblical biograohies, two are "a" bible if not "The" Bible...

    As for the Berestain Bears; many of that series do teach some moral lessons and occasionally reference the Bible to do so. It's likely the word 'Bible' appears somewhere in the book's description (or even in comments/reviews, if there is such a system).

  • Krupuk (unregistered)

    My country's phonebook website sometimes uses the same logic (OR inplace of AND) for searches. So when you search for "John Smith" (""'s are ignored) you get every John and every Smith which is completeley useless. I have no idea how they're still in business.

  • StupidTheKid (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    Woops, I did indeed miss the "tomorrow" part.

  • anonymouse (unregistered)

    I think the book search was a push... they didn't scrub the word "the" from the search and the user (who is tech savvy) used it.

  • Amorpheus (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    TK: Interesting fact: the most frequently repeated command in the entire Bible is "Do not fear / Do not be afraid."

    Really? I thought it was "Let's get out of here".

    Hmm... here I thought it was "Use the force"

  • redblacktree (unregistered)

    Does Mr. Testupacc live at 123 Main Street, Anytown, USA?

  • Fanta (unregistered)

    Never heard of Fanti, looked it up, also spelled Fante, spoken in Ghana, most speakers mix English vocabulary and grammar with normal speech, cool.

  • "THE" Guy (unregistered)

    TRWTF is, the submitter used "the" as a search term, and expected the search engine to finish quickly...

  • Jon H (unregistered) in reply to toth
    toth:
    StupidTheKid:
    Facebook login seems a logical security feature. It saw you connect using a mean you've never used before, and it therefore verify that it is really you connecting to the service. Credit card companies have similar kind of detection to catch fraudulent charges.

    Of course, if it sends an email with every login then that would be a WTF.

    The WTF, I think was that is said he logged in tomorrow.

    Not if he doesn't normally logs in tomorrow. That is a break of pattern.

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to Jon H
    Jon H:
    toth:
    The WTF, I think was that is said he logged in tomorrow.

    Not if he doesn't normally logs in tomorrow. That is a break of pattern.

    That depends. Will he log in yesterday?

  • iToad (unregistered)

    I speak Fortran and Cobol fluently. I also speak Anglo-Saxon and Hochdeutsch. They're equally useful.

  • Neville Flynn (unregistered)

    I don't see the WTF in the IRS email. There's the IRS header, a bunch of government jargon in the left column, and a bunch of government jargon in the right column. So where's the WTF?

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    I can speak using pascal, c, java and fortran!

    Fortran I don't mention on resume, since it will land me in trouble spots of world.

    Nagesh, did you phrase the "Image not exists" message?

  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    Nagesh:
    I can speak using pascal, c, java and fortran!

    Fortran I don't mention on resume, since it will land me in trouble spots of world.

    I only know enough Fortran to ask which way to the bathroom.

    I only know enough fortran to know that IMPLICIT NONE and then trying to recompile, usually has the compiler point you at the error you're looking for.

    I've already fixed several fortran programs with this neat little trick.

  • asd (unregistered) in reply to SQLDave

    i just want to say, that dupa means ass

  • Tortoise (unregistered) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    Is the error in the library search that it reports Jan Berenstain as dead as of 2011? That almost ruined my morning until the Googlenets told me otherwise.

    The error in the library search has to do with the big arrow.

    Also, it wasn't reporting a 2011 death, it was reporting a 2011 publishment of the book...

  • cheapie (unregistered)

    As for the language selection dialog, well, if it has "Computer Language" in there, I wonder if it just might have "el glheþ Talossan" in there somewhere...

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