• Anon (unregistered)

    The biggest WTF is that PNC bank took TARP money and used it to buy National City. Way to go PNC!

  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to Bellinghman
    Bellinghman:
    I thought the US was supposed to have been founded as a protest against high taxes?

    To paraphrase Dave Barry "They dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the harbor, but surprisingly this did little to reduce taxes. They then dressed up as a harbor and threw tea into Indians, but this had no effect on taxes either..."

  • Da' Man (unregistered)

    I have a mail account at German freemailer Web.de, which is pretty good service for money (it's free!) but has a limit of 500 mails or 5 GB - whichever comes first.

    Unfortunately, once you are approaching either of these limits, they start sending you "reminders" - by email, that is. And since they keep sending these reminders everyfewminutes they make sure the mailbox is over the limit in no time at all.

  • CynicalTyler (unregistered) in reply to xxx
    xxx:
    Recommendation: if you are trying to hide some part of an image, DO NOT blur it. Instead, draw an opaque black ... box over the sensitive part.
    That's why I draw an opaque text box over the sensitive part and type in "101 N. Screw You Dr." and blur *that*.
  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    No, you missed the step where lots of different criminal pictures appear on the screen while the computer searches the database. Because everybody knows, it's important to show the data on the screen as you search it.
    Don't forget the beep as each character of text appears on the screen.
  • (cs) in reply to Walleye
    Walleye:
    To paraphrase Dave Barry "They dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the harbor, but surprisingly this did little to reduce taxes. They then dressed up as a harbor and threw tea into Indians, but this had no effect on taxes either..."
    What about dressing up as tea and throwing Indians into the harbour?
  • (cs)

    "Whaddya expect, something intuitive here?"

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  • (cs) in reply to Bob Dole

    I cringe every time I see this happen in movies. They might have gotten other critical details spot-on, but when it comes to mugshot searches, FAIL every time.

    The "rapid-fire flash every image on the screen" search flub-up reminds me of the just-as-aggregious "infinite zoom capabilities on grainy, black-and-white camera feed or photos" gimmick directors just love to abuse.

    Or the "flying through space with cool icons to show where you are in the computer system or network" representation that featured in Hackers and too many other movies/shows since.

  • (cs)

    Man, National City. I used to have a second mortgage with them, and their website was HORRIBLE. They completely embodied the "doesn't get modern technology" side of things; completely different sets of login credentials for each kind of account (and it wasn't clear where the hell to go for a "home equity line of credit"), the login form kept on moving around and breaking in all sorts of curious ways, and their online payment options didn't fill me with any sense of confidence. Plus, even getting basic account information from the website was difficult, if not impossible - "for your security" they completely censor all account numbers from the online statements, and you have to consult the paper statements in order to get them (of course, I always ended up needing these numbers when I was nowhere near my filing cabinet).

    Somehow I guess they decided that a PDF stored on a password-protected SSL server was less secure than a piece of paper sent through postal mail.

    I ended up just setting them up as a recurring bill from my bank's bill payment instead.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Anon:
    No, you missed the step where lots of different criminal pictures appear on the screen while the computer searches the database. Because everybody knows, it's important to show the data on the screen as you search it.
    Don't forget the beep as each character of text appears on the screen.

    Yes, this is especially import with password systems so you know which characters you got right.

  • ck (unregistered) in reply to shepd

    I was hoping it might be a "No Keyboard Present - Press F1 to Continue" error.

    And in the UK, d/m/y is the norm - makes far more sense as when you want to sort it completely you just reverse it. Also incrementing isn't done in the middle. Thats a WTF!

  • (cs) in reply to plaidfluff
    plaidfluff:
    Man, National City. I used to have a second mortgage with them, and their website was HORRIBLE. They completely embodied the "doesn't get modern technology" side of things; completely different sets of login credentials for each kind of account (and it wasn't clear where the hell to go for a "home equity line of credit"), the login form kept on moving around and breaking in all sorts of curious ways, and their online payment options didn't fill me with any sense of confidence. Plus, even getting basic account information from the website was difficult, if not impossible - "for your security" they completely censor all account numbers from the online statements, and you have to consult the paper statements in order to get them (of course, I always ended up needing these numbers when I was nowhere near my filing cabinet).

    National City's web site is better now, and features a very happy and politically correct vaguely ethnic lady on the front page.

    Wells Fargo has a horrendous web site, with separate logins for account lookup and account payment. The first part displays account numbers as "xxx-xxx1234-9001", the second as "xxxxxxx2349001". Since all my accounts end with the same last 4 digits, it's really easy to make a payment to the wrong account.

  • Trinian (unregistered)

    No, you got the wrong number... this is 912.

  • (cs)
    National City's web site is better now, and features a very happy and politically correct vaguely ethnic lady on the front page.
    I can only see a white douchebag holding binoculars. WTF, where's my vaguely ethnic women?
  • Corion (unregistered)

    In my book, the real WTF here is that Adobe Photoshop is likely the culprit for the last one.

    And after all that trouble Adobe went through telling people to not use Photoshop as a verb.

    From http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html :

    Trademarks are not verbs.

    CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software. INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

    Also INCORRECT: Photoshop using Photoshop.

  • Lihtox (unregistered) in reply to ck
    ck:
    And in the UK, d/m/y is the norm - makes far more sense as when you want to sort it completely you just reverse it. Also incrementing isn't done in the middle. Thats a WTF!

    The best date format is of course y/m/d-- no reversing needed. Therefore, the problem with the US system isn't that we've got month and day reversed, it's that we've got the year on the wrong end.

  • Dennis (unregistered) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    Anon Ymous:

    (1300 block) Willow St. Pekin, IL 61554-2908 delivery point 04.

    I can tell you Martin's last name and show you pictures of his house. It's all out there for anyone to see. Privacy is an illusion.

    The funniest part and the real WTF is that the privacy page at http://thedailywtf.com/Info/Policy.aspx says "Coming soon..."

    Captcha: ratis ... in ur trashbinz stealin ur privaceez

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Corion
    Corion:
    In my book, the real WTF here is that Adobe Photoshop is likely the culprit for the last one.

    And after all that trouble Adobe went through telling people to not use Photoshop as a verb.

    From http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html :

    Trademarks are not verbs.

    CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software. INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

    Also INCORRECT: Photoshop using Photoshop.

    "enhanced"?

  • '; drop table comments; (unregistered) in reply to Blue Rose
    Blue Rose:
    Or the "flying through space with cool icons to show where you are in the computer system or network" representation that featured in Hackers and too many other movies/shows since.

    Has this ever actually been implemented? I want it so bad now.

  • Voytech (unregistered)

    Quick question: What's a 733EB MHz CPU?

    Hex for CPU running at approx 472GHz?

  • Craig (unregistered) in reply to shepd
    Also, D/M/Y on the receipt. WTF!

    km on the receipt implies this is not American. Nearly everywhere else lists dates as d/m/y.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to ck
    ck:
    And in the UK, d/m/y is the norm - makes far more sense as when you want to sort it completely you just reverse it.
    No you don't - that would get you 8002/50/03. A date in ISO 8601 format wouldn't help you put your receipts in order in any case.
  • (cs) in reply to Voytech
    Voytech:
    Quick question: What's a 733EB MHz CPU?

    Hex for CPU running at approx 472GHz?

    Judging by the gibberish hard drive name and random characters on the screen, I'd say it's a sign of defective RAM and/or CPU.

    Also, these images have clearly been Photoshopped 8 times.

  • (cs)

    FinePix software is terrible. All I want to do is move my files from the camera to the disk. Nope, I have to click each one and say what I want. A great reason to avoid Fuji cameras.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to squeem
    squeem:
    No, it was one of those evening detective shows. There are 3 steps: 1. Spray window cleaner on a Q-Tip 2. End of Q-tip turns red 3. ...

    Note that if the Q-tip is currently pregnant it will turn blue instead of red. This has caught a number of people in the past.

  • (cs) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    Walleye:
    To paraphrase Dave Barry "They dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the harbor, but surprisingly this did little to reduce taxes. They then dressed up as a harbor and threw tea into Indians, but this had no effect on taxes either..."
    What about dressing up as tea and throwing Indians into the harbour?
    That's racist!
  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    squeem:
    <snip>

    No, it was one of those evening detective shows. There are 3 steps:

    1. Spray window cleaner on a Q-Tip
    2. End of Q-tip turns red
    3. Murderer's picture appears on computer monitor

    This process is called "Forensic Science".

    No, you missed the step where lots of different criminal pictures appear on the screen while the computer searches the database. Because everybody knows, it's important to show the data on the screen as you search it.

    In one CSI episode, someone is trying to search for fingerprints in the DB. They show about 10 fingerprints flashing by on the screen and on the eleventh they show the reference points, a pop-up saying "NO MATCH" appears and the search stops.

    So what about the first 10? Where they a "NO MATCH" as well? They probably were less of a "NO MATCH" than the last one. And what about those other millions of fingerprints... why don't they also show "NO MATCH"?

  • martin (from the wtf) (unregistered)

    Wow, you guys are good. I don't suppose any of you that discovered the address, would want to e-mail me and walk me through step-by-step exactly how you did it, would you? phpworm AT yahoo com

  • John (unregistered) in reply to squeem
    squeem:
    JPhi:
    cthulhu:
    Blurring it only works so far. Giving me 3 instances of the same blurred text provides enough info to retrieve the underlying address.

    Whatever... Just because you saw that article on Slashdot or where ever it was doesn't mean you can do it.

    No, it was one of those evening detective shows. There are 3 steps:

    1. Spray window cleaner on a Q-Tip
    2. End of Q-tip turns red
    3. Murderer's picture appears on computer monitor

    This process is called "Forensic Science".

    Don't get me started on those 'forensic science' shows!

    I remember one where a picture of a killer was obtained by enlarging a security camera shot of a victim, so the killer's reflection could be seen in the victim's eyes.

    They're responsible for giving technically-challenged bosses the idea that any information whatsoever can be obtained from a computer once a nerd steps up and presses a few keys.

  • weirded verber (unregistered)

    i have 'paper-free' banking and it works like this:

    )sign up for paper-free banking )they stop sending monthy statements )at end of year, the bank sends 12 months worth of statements instead...

    ...err...wtf?

  • iogy (unregistered) in reply to gravis
    gravis:
    I've seen that multiple Photoshop import error pop up quite a bit actually... on client computers with pirated installs of Photoshop. Way to go.

    I've had it pop up on my laptop, and I'm running a completely legit version of CS3 Web Premium here.

    I've also submitted the animated gif version of this (the row of Photoshop Photoshop Photoshop goes on and on) before either screenshot of this WTF (this is the second time this dialog appears in Error'd) turned up.

  • |-| (unregistered) in reply to squeem

    its taxies or taxis, not taxes.

  • Steven (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    Voytech:
    Quick question: What's a 733EB MHz CPU?

    Hex for CPU running at approx 472GHz?

    Judging by the gibberish hard drive name and random characters on the screen, I'd say it's a sign of defective RAM and/or CPU.

    Also, these images have clearly been Photoshopped 8 times.

    This picture was not "Photoshopped". I don't even have photoshop. That Niagra Falls picture is real.

  • (cs) in reply to DeLos
    DeLos:
    I decoded the barcode. It turns out that the mails are coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!!

    If you're interested...

  • clickey McClicker (unregistered) in reply to Steven

    [quote user="Steven"][quote user="lolwtf"][quote user="Voytech"]

    Also, these images have clearly been Photoshopped 8 times.[/quote]

    This picture was not "Photoshopped". I don't even have photoshop. That Niagra Falls picture is real.[/quote]

    You took a picture of a photoshopped object that was photoshopped 8 detectable times.

    refer to:detecting photoshop

  • (cs) in reply to |-|
    |-|:
    its taxies or taxis, not taxes.
    It's "it's", not "its"; "taxies" is not a plural noun, but a third person singular verb; and you're replying to the wrong comment. Please do try harder.
  • Pax (unregistered)

    Has anyone else noticed that the holiday line for the receipt is $13107.20 and that 131,072 is 2^17?

    Or have I just been in the industry too long?

  • Pax (unregistered)

    Crikey, no wonder it's called "Dry" Ridge.

  • (cs) in reply to shepd
    shepd:
    I work with busted computers too much.

    CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR - DEFAULTS LOADED Press F2 for setup Press F1 to continue

    Unless it's reversed or using DEL or another key.

    shepd:
    Also, D/M/Y on the receipt. WTF!

    You do know that there are other countries out there, right? And some of them call their currency "dollar" too... Oh, and quite a number speak English. Australia and New Zealand spring to mind just to get the examples started. Actually, the crazy "holiday" charge might not be a WTF if we're talking NZ dollars though (joke at New Zealand's expense there)

    Voytech:
    Quick question: What's a 733EB MHz CPU? Hex for CPU running at approx 472GHz?

    EB model Pentium 3. Most BIOSes showed it as a part of the speed for some reason. http://www.cpuscorecard.com/cpufaqs/dec99e.htm

  • fmobus (unregistered)

    the real wtf is having a "peak hour" surcharge in a holidays.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to Pax
    Pax:
    Has anyone else noticed that the holiday line for the receipt is $13107.20 and that 131,072 is 2^17?

    Or have I just been in the industry too long?

    yup i noticed that too - which led me to the conclusion that the erroneous software probably works in $0.10 units rather than in $ or cents

  • BKatt (unregistered) in reply to squeem

    @cthulhu:

    I can't find the 3 images?!? ... :) Moreover to use super-resolution algorithms you will need the blurring function to be different or to have shifted snapshots by a non-integer number of pixels. so please cut them some slack, will ya?

  • Krem (unregistered) in reply to shepd
    shepd:
    I work with busted computers too much.

    CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR - DEFAULTS LOADED Press F2 for setup Press F1 to continue

    Also, D/M/Y on the receipt. WTF!

    D/M/Y format is not uncommon as the day increments the quickest.. US Military uses this format to match the rest of the world.. US Citizens just have to be "special".. but gj on cmos checksum... was going to point out the battery prob died, but n/m now..

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Holy shit I was in Niagara Falls the same 3 days and got the same picture :O

    That was weird One day it was working and then the next day it stopped... and just showed a bios screen. lol.

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