• Mr. Grammer (unregistered)

    My guess is that he ran his source through a spellchecker and 'html' turned into 'hotmail' ?!?!
    CAPTCHA=mustache?!

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    GoatCheez:
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    Ha! And you guys think that CAPTCHA that I put together is hard to read. At least I didn't use the one that K.C. tried to use ...

    [image]



    IT'S A SIRDS!!!! Well, it looks like one at first glance, but I can't see anything in it... (A ball or torus maybe?).

    Some of these look fake.... Are user submissions decreasing Alex?

    Actually if you look REALLY carefully you can see a big S in the center. That or I'm going crazy again :)



    Nah, I'm pretty sure it's a boob.

  • (cs) in reply to Kodi

    Hypotheticals.org - funny, unfortunately not real. Belongs to one Tyler Cruz, a self proclaimed internet entrepreneur from BC www.tylercruz.com. Must be an inside joke. The <hotmail> tag was great though.

    update: looks like someone else got that conclusion while i was still laughing at it

  • (cs)

    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    codemoose:

    Ya know what's an even better WTF?  He's marketing his webdesign biz - and there's no contact information.


    I'm pretty sure that this is a satire.  13 years of experience puts it at Mosaic's first release date.  Plus, the image on the aboutus page looked like he was a pharmasist, so I looked up the name in google and found: http://www.adorebeauty.com.au/mensgrooming/brand_anthonylogistics.asp which oddly enough has the same picture.  Normally satire sites don't copy an image and a real name at the same time, but this one did.


    Actually, it doesn't even appear to be a satire, but rather a place to put google ads.  Whois shows the same registrant for hypotheticals.org as for tylercruz.com which is a blog about how much money he makes every month from ad revenues.  Pretty clever, I must say, but he underestimates what lengths someone will do to avoid work at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon.

    Hmmm .. it's hosted at 69.93.63.130, which using a reverse DNS lookup brings you to movie-vault.com  ... hosted by the same tool.  Slightly better design.

     

     

  • (cs) in reply to marvin_rabbit
    marvin_rabbit:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Hmm, 49707 days + 23 hours + 16 minutes =?

    (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    How many times can you laugh at the same punch line but when told a different way?


    So this guy walks into a talent agency and says to the agent, "Have I got an act for you! It's a family act, you'll love it." ....


    Really?  What do you call yourselves?
    You skipped the middle part:

    I and my 14 year old daughter named Paula come on stage. She sits down on a wooden table and I take a picture of her. My dog named File Not Found takes the picture and scans it into a computer and sends the email to the hotel reservations system. Then my wife comes out and attempts a SQL injection attack on a an enterpisey site using nothing but XML.
  • allo (unregistered)

    And its not a anti-Sourcestealing script ... its a anti-rightclick script.

    So he calls the cop, when the user uses right click ... and ms calls the cops, when the user doubleclicks, because of their patent, amazon even on a "single click", because its patented, too.

  • (cs) in reply to chaim79
    chaim79:

    codemoose:
    Here's another.  Try right-clicking on the website for this web-design "expert" (sorry, only in IE).
    http://hypotheticals.org/

    (Copped from today's Sidebar WTF)

    <font size="5">WARNING! DON'T CLICK 'CANCEL' ON THE 'What is your name' DIALOG IF VIEWING IN IE.</font>

    You just gotta love MicroS**t and IE... clicked cancel and it proceded to kill windows explorer and several other apps, had to use CTRL + ALT + DEL to get the task manager and close down my open apps and restart the system....

    <font size="5">W</font>hat version of Windows and IE are you using?  Crashes like that happen once a week with XP and IE 6.
  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    Check out http://www.hypotheticals.org/images/

    Only a single image in there, but Good Stuff (tm).
    ...

    <font size="5">H</font>e must have read Alex’s blog on MS Paint.  Link at top right of this page.
  • (cs) in reply to codemoose
    codemoose:
    John Bigboote:
    codemoose:


    Ya know what's an even better WTF?  He's marketing his webdesign biz - and there's no contact information.


    He probably didn't care to hear what people were contacting him with.

    "How much would I have to pay you to design my competitor's website?"


    Does anyone know how to get Coke out of a keyboard?


    Assuming you don't have one of those IBM Model M keyboards:

    Open keyboard with screwdriver.
    Remove all electronics.
    Put rest of keyboard in dishwasher with 1/4 of normal amount liquid and on shortest cycle time.
    Air dry.  Shake dry.
    Reassemble keyboard.

    You might yellow a white keyboard slightly; don't use this on a pricey keyboard
  • Random Idiot (unregistered) in reply to codemoose

    Do you mean Coca-Cola, or Cocaine?  Normally, one would snort Coke off of a hooker's tits and not a keyboard... but geeks will be geeks.

  • Tharg (unregistered)

    That website doesn't even validate ...

  • (cs) in reply to Benanov

    His 'Who are you?' popup appears to come from this site. It looks like a big how to cut and paste your way to easy money site.

    I think I could throw my keyboard down the stairs and generate better, more standard, html, than the hypathecticals.org (not a typo, but a really lame pun) site.

  • (cs) in reply to Tharg
    Anonymous:
    That website doesn't even validate ...
    I tried using Tidy to clean the html, and it just deleted it all.
  • I am who I am (unregistered)

    Nonono, in 1-bit two's complement, 02 is zero, and 12 is -0!

  • Chris Brien (unregistered) in reply to I am who I am
    Anonymous:
    Nonono, in 1-bit two's complement, 02 is zero, and 12 is -0!
    That would be one's complement. Two's complement has no negative zero.
  • (cs)
  • (cs)

    Thank you for your inconvenience!

  • (cs)

    I got it...


    [image]

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:

    Just a link to an item on the website of one of the largest catalog stores in the UK:

    http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6272076/Trail/C%24cip%3D42805.Furniture%2Band%2Bfurnishings%3EC%24cip%3D42941.Sofas%2Band%2Bchairs.htm

    Now right-click on the picture of the sofa. Seen that? Then click on the "See larger image" button, and right-click on the picture you see then. Useful? Nah.



    Not to mention I had to switch to IE rendering to see the alert popup.
  • (cs) in reply to GoatCheez
    GoatCheez:
    Anonymous:
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    Ha! And you guys think that CAPTCHA that I put together is hard to read. At least I didn't use the one that K.C. tried to use ...

    [image]



    It's a sailboat.


    It looks more like a schooner to me...

    <insert responding mallrats reference here>

    Actually... it's a skiff with a trolling motor. We're looking at the aft end.

  • kevin smith fan (unregistered) in reply to Bus Raker

    Yep, it's a schooner, right?  :-)

  • (cs) in reply to WeatherGod

    WeatherGod:
    codemoose:
    John Bigboote:
    codemoose:


    Ya know what's an even better WTF?  He's marketing his webdesign biz - and there's no contact information.


    He probably didn't care to hear what people were contacting him with.

    "How much would I have to pay you to design my competitor's website?"


    Does anyone know how to get Coke out of a keyboard?


    Put the keyboard on a wooden table, then take a picture of it and print it out.  Use the printout instead.

    To obtain ( in trade ) a COKE(tm) for the keyboard....

    Open/Eject the CD drive to reveal the cup holder,  then jam a dollar bill into the floppy drive slot.  You gatta pay for it first. ( this is America ). Then type "COKE" ( all uppercase ) on the keyboard. Call IT support. Wait... keep waiting. Odds are, eventually someone (Probably IT) will put a COKE(tm) on the cup holder.

    To "clean" the keyboard of soft-drink residue...

    PLAN A)
    rinse ( flush ) the keyboard (sans cables) in the dishwasher, no soap, rinse only. non-heat dry. This will clense the keyboard. note: Some keys may not work as expected after treatment.

    PLAN B)
    Wait until after 5pm... swap keyboards with a co-worker. Don't forget to swap all passwords taped to the underside of the keyboard.

  • (cs) in reply to olddog
    olddog:
    GoatCheez:
    Anonymous:
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    Ha! And you guys think that CAPTCHA that I put together is hard to read. At least I didn't use the one that K.C. tried to use ...

    [image]



    It's a sailboat.


    It looks more like a schooner to me...

    <insert responding mallrats reference here>

    Actually... it's a skiff with a trolling motor. We're looking at the aft end.



    Shee-it. My eyes need fixing. All I see is a rabbit.

  • Richard Head (unregistered) 
    A schooner is a sailboat stupid-head!
  • Joseph (unregistered) in reply to Richard Head

    <font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000">I love the Microsoft MSDN one. It's actually repeatable, try it!</font>
    </font>

  • donAzea (unregistered)

    argh, sorry...

    just check the source - very first line.

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is searching for "Norton's new software that TD has announced".

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:

    Eeeerm - you obviously haven't been in Sweden recently, because "noll" means "zero" .... or are you lining yourself up for a personal WTF by posting on thedailywtf and not knowing the difference between "null" and "zero".


    It's a little bit more complicated than that. English has an insane amount of words that mean pretty much the same thing like "zero", "nil", "null" and "void", which is useful if you have lots of similar concepts that need names. Many other languages (e.g. Swedish and Finnish, both of which I speak fluently) have a smaller vocabulary, which makes it a pain to create adequate terminology; this is compounded by having a smaller community that uses this terminology, making it hard to standardise as everyone is reading mostly English anyway.

    This means that you're essentially left with four options if you want to say, for example, "null pointer" in Swedish:
    • Use the closest equivalent in Swedish ("nollpekare") and suffer the consequences of confusing zero and null (acceptable in many cases: e.g. in C, <font face="Courier New">NULL<font face="Arial"> is merely <font face="Courier New">0<font face="Arial"> (although the cast may convert this to a different representation in memory). About 80 hits on Google.</font></font></font></font>
    • Pretend that "null" is Swedish ("nullpekare"). Less ambiguous, may offend purists. About 90 hits.
    • Treat it as language syntax ("<font face="Courier New">NULL</font>-pekare" or similar). About 300 hits.
    • Give up and use English.
    This, in my opinion, is a good example of the sorry state of computing terminology in smaller languages. That's the real WTF.

    It's even worse in German: "null" simply means "zero".
  • MacLemon (unregistered) in reply to GoatCheez

    Doesn't work in Safari. :-( MacLemon

  • MacLemon (unregistered) in reply to MacLemon
    Anonymous:
    Doesn't work in Safari. :-( MacLemon
    The rightclick script I meant. (Sorry for the double post, wtf...)
  • Meh. (unregistered) in reply to Richard Head
    Anonymous:
    A schooner is a sailboat stupid-head!


    Ah, a vote for the return of <joke> tags...
  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    1337 wrote the following post at 08-11-2006 3:32 PM:
    [image] GoatCheez:
    [image] codemoose:
    Here's another.  Try right-clicking on the website for this web-design "expert" (sorry, only in IE).
    http://hypotheticals.org/

    (Copped from today's Sidebar WTF)


    ROFLMAO!!!!!

    /*
    No rightclick script v.2.5
    (c) 1998 barts1000
    [email protected]
    Don't delete this header!
    */

    var message="SORRY HACKER BUT GOOD TRY.\nIF YOU TRY AGAIN IT WILL CALL THE COPS\nHAHAHAHAHAH BYE!"; 




    A RIGHT CLICK SCRIPT (!!LOL!!) "Copyrighted" (!!!LOL!!!!) by an AOL USER!!! (!!!ROFLMAO!!!!!!!)

    ahhh, classic... I really didn't think sites like that existed anymore lol.


    the fun part is that its v.2.5! what did version 1 say? "i'm a n00b, get off my source code!"

    capicha: hacker, plz... dont call the cops...lol




    did you notice that he has a "foot" tag as well? I don't think that was ever standard html


    I personally like the <hotmail> tag.
  • Paco103 (unregistered) in reply to codemoose

    Experts in adsense?  As in, they know how to sign up for an account and copy/paste the provided code?  That site is less professional than many geocities sites built by people's pets!

  • (cs) in reply to Colin
    Anonymous:
    Hmm, 49707 days + 23 hours + 16 minutes =?

    (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    How many times can you laugh at the same punch line but when told a different way?


    Ten dollars, same as in town.
  • Scottford (unregistered) in reply to Colin

    > (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to

    > 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    I'm pretty sure 2^32 does not end in 5.

     

  • (cs)

    So why has no one asked what happened to foosball girl??? Beanbag girl's taken over or something.

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    1337 wrote the following post at 08-11-2006 3:32 PM:
    [image] GoatCheez:
    [image] codemoose:
    Here's another.  Try right-clicking on the website for this web-design "expert" (sorry, only in IE).
    http://hypotheticals.org/

    (Copped from today's Sidebar WTF)


    ROFLMAO!!!!!

    /*
    No rightclick script v.2.5
    (c) 1998 barts1000
    [email protected]
    Don't delete this header!
    */

    var message="SORRY HACKER BUT GOOD TRY.\nIF YOU TRY AGAIN IT WILL CALL THE COPS\nHAHAHAHAHAH BYE!"; 




    A RIGHT CLICK SCRIPT (!!LOL!!) "Copyrighted" (!!!LOL!!!!) by an AOL USER!!! (!!!ROFLMAO!!!!!!!)

    ahhh, classic... I really didn't think sites like that existed anymore lol.


    the fun part is that its v.2.5! what did version 1 say? "i'm a n00b, get off my source code!"

    capicha: hacker, plz... dont call the cops...lol




    did you notice that he has a "foot" tag as well? I don't think that was ever standard html

    And the ever popular <hotmail> tag.

    <HTML>
    <ROOF>T</ROOF>
    <HAT>A</HAT>
    <HEAD>G</HEAD>
    <BODY>S</BODY>
    <FOOT>-R-</FOOT>
    <SHOE>U</SHOE>
    <FLOOR>S</FLOOR>
    </HTML>

    It's a subset of ATML ( Any Tag Markup Language )

     

  • CompHobbyist (unregistered) in reply to Colin
    Anonymous:
    Hmm, 49707 days + 23 hours + 16 minutes =?

    (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    How many times can you laugh at the same punch line but when told a different way?


    (as someone else already said, 2^32 does not end in 5. what you're comparing to is 2^32-1.)

    This is a fairly common bug on AIM - I've observed it both in the official client, before I stopped using it, and in gAIM for win32.  It seems to happen randomly whenever one of the AIM servers trips on itself (also fairly common), especially if a lot of people get disconnected and then reconnect very quickly.  I think it's overloading their servers' gettime() (or equivalent) syscall and making it return -1 as an error, but their code doesn't error check it and so everyone ends up with 49700+ day online times.

    It's similar to the bug the air traffic control system used to have (before they moved to the 64 bit milliseconds-since-boot syscall that win32 provides now - GetTickCount64) - all the servers were set to automatically reboot before 49.7 days rolled around, because the GetTickCount function returns milliseconds since last reboot,  which overflows at 49.7 days... bet you feel safe flying now,  knowing that the US air traffic control system runs on windows servers that (until recently) had to be rebooted periodically to avoid a catastrophic failure.
  • (cs) in reply to CompHobbyist
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Hmm, 49707 days + 23 hours + 16 minutes =?

    (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    How many times can you laugh at the same punch line but when told a different way?


    (as someone else already said, 2^32 does not end in 5. what you're comparing to is 2^32-1.)

    This is a fairly common bug on AIM - I've observed it both in the official client, before I stopped using it, and in gAIM for win32.  It seems to happen randomly whenever one of the AIM servers trips on itself (also fairly common), especially if a lot of people get disconnected and then reconnect very quickly.  I think it's overloading their servers' gettime() (or equivalent) syscall and making it return -1 as an error, but their code doesn't error check it and so everyone ends up with 49700+ day online times.

    It's similar to the bug the air traffic control system used to have (before they moved to the 64 bit milliseconds-since-boot syscall that win32 provides now - GetTickCount64) - all the servers were set to automatically reboot before 49.7 days rolled around, because the GetTickCount function returns milliseconds since last reboot,  which overflows at 49.7 days... bet you feel safe flying now,  knowing that the US air traffic control system runs on windows servers that (until recently) had to be rebooted periodically to avoid a catastrophic failure.


    Not that anyone really wants to be flying right now anyway.  I certainly won't, since there is gel in my shoes....
  • (cs) in reply to Colin
    Anonymous:
    Hmm, 49707 days + 23 hours + 16 minutes =?

    (((494,707 * 24) + 23) * 60 + 16) * 60 = 4,294,768,560 seconds.  That looks awfully close to 2^32 = 4,294,967,295.

    How many times can you laugh at the same punch line but when told a different way?


    2^32 is 4,294,967,296 but 4,294,967,295 is the biggest number a 32 bit integer can hold.
    It's obviously a bug in Gaim's FutureTalk™ feature. It should have been -198,736 seconds (55 hours, 12 minutes and 16 seconds). It's the time before the user logs in. Gaim simply let you talk with the person in the future. 4,294,768,560 is of course -198,736 as unsigned 32 bit.
  • (cs)

    Anonymous:
    MSDN one is legit:
    http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?siteId=0&tab=0&query=WM_SETPOSITION

    For now. Go click on the link, I dare you...

    CAPTCHA: mustache.
    I never get a good one.

     

    What makes this particularly brillant is that it only works if you search from the us msdn pages.  Click "choose a different language" and select United Kingdom...

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    <font face="Tahoma" size="3"></font>

    <font face="Tahoma" size="3">My name is Tyler Cruz and I'm a web entrepreneur. I decided that since this site was Dugg, I might as well try to stir some traffic to my new site I'm trying to promote now: PublisherForums.com. It's slogan is "Intelligent Discussion for Web Publishers" and should give you an idea what the forum is about. If you're interested in such discussion, I'd like to invite you to visit the site. </font>

    <font face="Tahoma" size="3">Cheers, </font>

    <font face="Tahoma" size="3">Tyler </font>

    Found on the homepage of hypotheticals.org in my IE browser...

    (crosses fingers and hopes this post comes out right



    Although Tyler says that hypotheticals.org is a joke and PublisherForums.com is his "Real" site, the fact that PF.com has 78 validation errors itself doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the "Intelligent Discussion".  Back to Web school for you and your vBulletin forum software, Tyler...

    (Naturally here on TDWTF we can't complain too loudly about other people's forum software, but I thought I should say something anyway!)

  • (cs)
    Anonymous:
    GoatCheez:
    codemoose:
    Here's another.  Try right-clicking on the website for this web-design "expert" (sorry, only in IE).
    http://hypotheticals.org/

    (Copped from today's Sidebar WTF)


    ROFLMAO!!!!!

    /*
    No rightclick script v.2.5
    (c) 1998 barts1000
    [email protected]
    Don't delete this header!
    */

    var message="SORRY HACKER BUT GOOD TRY.\nIF YOU TRY AGAIN IT WILL CALL THE COPS\nHAHAHAHAHAH BYE!"; 




    A RIGHT CLICK SCRIPT (!!LOL!!) "Copyrighted" (!!!LOL!!!!) by an AOL USER!!! (!!!ROFLMAO!!!!!!!)

    ahhh, classic... I really didn't think sites like that existed anymore lol.


    Right, but try click and hold down left button, then click and hold down right button and then releasing left button and right button...

    captcha: null (am I on the right train here?)

    ~egilhh



    or.... try using firefox.... lol...
  • Timmy (unregistered)

    Google seems to change almost anything td to God.  For kicks, I tried:
    new Death Ray that td has anounced, and got a similar 'Do you mean..'

    --Jim

  • siege (unregistered) in reply to PoiZaN

    I think I actually know there wherewithall behind this particular oddity, if the person is using the Lotus Sametime plugin for Gaim.

    There's a 32bit unsigned value in the protocol itself that is supposed to indicate the time since last change in status. In the event that the status is idle or away, this can be used to determine a to display for idle time. Most clients didn't report this value, but the Gaim plugin does, using using time since epoch in seconds (aka, unix time!).

    Then along comes a new beta of the Lotus Sametime client. For a while, a bunch of users started showing up with huge negative idle times, which would eventually switch to huge positive idle times and back again. It took my a while to figure out what was up, but it's definitely WTF-worthy. It seems that the new beta of the official client was using System.currentTimeMillis to populate that value. That unsigned, 32bit value. Once I discovered the deal, I sent in feedback to try and get them to stop sending garbage over the wire. Their only reply indicated that they thought it was correct to truncate the millisecond value, but that they were investigating because they were worried about time-zone issues. For real. (For those wondering, unix time and System.currentTimeMillis are both UTC)

    My suggested fix was for them to just divide by 1000 before setting the value. They thought the whole thing was just too complex and wanted to set it to zero for everyone.

  • SadBugKiller (unregistered)

    You guys! The foosball chick is gone! SHE IS GONE! What are we going to do now?

  • Tyler Cruz (unregistered) in reply to SadBugKiller

    Anonymous:
    You guys! The foosball chick is gone! SHE IS GONE! What are we going to do now?

    OMG!  What happened to foosball girl?  Her dangling left breast was an institution on my browser.

  • (cs)

    I would like to know where Mike saw that spyware savings ad. Any way I can ask him myself?

  • mike davis (unregistered)

    cough


    when [doing stuff] if one of the files already part of the
    test plan is deleted, the interface accuses the user of screwing with the
    developer.. in otherwords a mostly-unhandled exception..


    if this occurs it might be best to remove the file from the test plan after
    warning the user that a file has disappeared

  • Carlos H. (unregistered) in reply to Digitalbath

    I can't believe how many times this CAPTCHA gets people.

    For Christ's Sake!!! It is a picture of a SAILBOAT!


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