The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

daily · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

TRWTF is a weather channel.

Matt Westwood · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?

"Electric Bill" is the hypothetical robot that wouldn't have been tempted by Monica's purty mouth.

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?

It’s an electric bill because the bill is displayed on an electric device. Duh.

Nutster · 2011-08-07 Reply Admin

When I first saw the map, I was thinking that they weren't showing Detroit, MI, but Windsor, ON, the Canadian city across the Detroit River from Detroit. They usually have the same weather, but being Canadian, Windsor's temperatures are reported in Celsius. That or a transposition error.

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

hoodaticus:
Anonymous Coward:
Isn't DX just DirectX? ISTM the error message is pretty understandable then.
Indeed, all that leaves to be figured out is whether it's DirectPlay, Direct2D, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectCompute, DirectMusic, DirectDraw.... and which resource within these API's failed to release.
They could have been more terse and said "program fall down go boom," however, without loss of information.

In this case, all you need to do, is keep quitly and dont bother the user. Let Windows do the deallocation for us. The program will be dead soon anyway, why bother.

Matt Westwood · 2011-08-07 Reply Admin

That guy over there:
TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?
It’s an electric bill because the bill is displayed on an electric device. Duh.

+1

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

method1:
We used to feed our dog on Melts - Pig's Melts. They're a big block of frozen organ meat that you boil up & chop. They smelt hideous, but to the dog they were like crack made of meat, he loved those chopped pig organs so much. Mind you - tuna melt with "american" cheese - yeugghh!

Nagesh once treated to me this delicay

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Moran:
DFWian:
C-Octothorpe:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
I noticed how "women" were absent from your list of must-haves...

I guess Sgt. Hartman was right: only steers and queers come from Texas.
Who says I'm a male?

The fact that you're on TDWTF is evidence enough.

Shh....careful what you say someone is lurking....

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

In fact, it's practically illegal not to....

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Sigivald:
Historical term; that used to be the "Northwest".
(Also, that reading seems more likely to be for Windsor than Detroit, thus explaining the units.)

Holy Shyte, I believe you may be right!! Lucky you got in frist, eh?

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Lone Star:
distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...
Don't apply your misguided morality to me!
Oh christ... This isn't going to be one of those "I have retarded kids, so you can't say the word retard" threads, is it?

I don't like drinking and driving either, but I don't push my shit onto anonymous people on the intertubes.

I thought you were involved in the original "...I have retarded kids..." debate....

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?

But it is an electric bill - it's displayed on the screen...

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Shinobu:
steveo:
I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
Expressus is latin for ‘prominent and clearly exhibited’, ‘pronounced’ &c. but also ‘imitated’ and ‘squeezed / pressed [out]’ and cognate to words like expressive, expressed &c. In the male and neuter gender, the dative and ablative singular are both expresso. I'm pretty sure that Virgil would have called an espresso a [coffea] expressa.

Do the wogs even have an 'x'?

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Yeah, I had to look up Detroit as well. We don't all live in the US of A.

Mid-West indeed. There's at least another 2/3 to 3/4 "West" of Detroit for that continent... so... Mid-East really. You crazy Americans :)

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

grumpy:
DFWian:
C-Octothorpe:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
I noticed how "women" were absent from your list of must-haves...

I guess Sgt. Hartman was right: only steers and queers come from Texas.
Who says I'm a male?
On the interwebs, men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.

Uhm...if that were true, we wouldn't (time and time again) see all the uproar when someone says something that might (in the right context) be considered sexist or (worse still) sexually discriminatory. Indded, I have even seen sites that have many lezza's

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

PHP might be a WTF, but not really a surprising one...

The hard disk has obviously been in Yankee-land for w ahile...

I'm not sure what Groupon is, and I'm not sure what that politicians in trouyble for, but Groupon and politician's sex-scandal is nothing new....

Also, charging executives more isn't really a WTF either - nor are exorbitant Elcetrickery Bills.

ReferenceID has to start somewhere - 0 is a good start

Contrary to popular belief, Error Messages are there to allow users to report things back to programmers, not to explain anything to the user. The less meaningful the message, the more likely the user is to report it rather than to try to break things themselves. This is no WTF either

The weather one is no WTF. Obviously the characters got mixed up and it should be 82. Or perhaps it's a Canadian (and therefore Celsisus) measure. I actually thought Africa was a different shape...

Very little WTF here at all....

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

Twerty:
grumpy:
DFWian:
C-Octothorpe:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
I noticed how "women" were absent from your list of must-haves...

I guess Sgt. Hartman was right: only steers and queers come from Texas.
Who says I'm a male?
On the interwebs, men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.
Uhm...if that were true, we wouldn't (time and time again) see all the uproar when someone says something that might (in the right context) be considered sexist or (worse still) sexually discriminatory. Indded, I have even seen sites that have many lezza's

Perhaps, after you've come back from your spelling lessons you could look up the word "joke" in the dictionary...

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

illum:
TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?
But it is an electric bill - it's displayed on the screen...

Hah! Touché! So is that what the "e" in "e-bill" stands for? The more you know...

2011-08-07 Reply Admin

hoodaticus:
pitchingchris:
hoodaticus:
Anon:
On what planet should the Northeast ever be considered the "Midwest". Stupid oxymoronic geographic adjectives.
It used to be called the Northwest in the days of the 13 colonies.
Addendum (2011-08-05 14:34): This is why we refer to the modern Northwest as the "Pacific Northwest". Even though an Atlantic Northwest makes absolutely no sense.

I've heard news anchors from New York always refer to state X as the Midwest, regardless of location. It's like anything west of New York is the Midwest to them.
If you want to understand the origin of this expression, you need to read some history. After the expansion West, it was no longer fashionable to refer to everything Northwest of the Ohio River as the Northwest. So we started calling it the Midwest. To avoid confusion, the Northwest part of the country was and is referred to as "The Pacific Northwest", to distinguish it from the traditional Northwest that is quite near the East coast.

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing."

Also, this seems apropos: "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid."

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
Twerty:
grumpy:
DFWian:
C-Octothorpe:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
I noticed how "women" were absent from your list of must-haves...

I guess Sgt. Hartman was right: only steers and queers come from Texas.
Who says I'm a male?
On the interwebs, men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.
Uhm...if that were true, we wouldn't (time and time again) see all the uproar when someone says something that might (in the right context) be considered sexist or (worse still) sexually discriminatory. Indded, I have even seen sites that have many lezza's
Perhaps, after you've come back from your spelling lessons you could look up the word "joke" in the dictionary...

To me it looks like all of these posts were jokes... Me thinks you should perhaps take your own advice

nomdeplume · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Arvind:
TRWTF is the We All Live in America attitude on an international website. Where's Detroit? Care to explain?

The real WTF is reading something on the internet you don't immediately understand and not thinking to use the internet to work out what it's about.

Actually TRWTF is how long I stared at the image for without noticing the obviously out-of-whack numbers before finally looking up the location of Detroit.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

If you error deallocating DX stuff, I've got 2 words for you!

Severity One · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

AC:
Yeah, I had to look up Detroit as well. We don't all live in the US of A.

Exactly! And over here, we don't have a financial/debt cri... um, never mind.

Severity One · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

modo:
doctor_of_common_sense:
the chef's choice soup on Friday is not at all to be avoided, unless you are an ASP fellow of course. That one is a special for linux users, which by conjecture, must be a majority in the area for the place to cater for them specially.
PHP, actually.
So, in my mind, ASP and PHP function essentially the same, as far as HOW they render HTML. Exact same fucking shit, and don't anybody dare deny it. So, MS advanced ASP to ASP.NET over the last 10-11 years - to an awesome technology. Where the fuck is PHP today - expect it may have been added more functions to its API? This is what I need somebody to tell me. How's PHP even alive? What morons pick use it (when they can choose ANYTHING else)?

What is beautiful is that you completely failed to grasp what he was writing, and at the same time glorify the perceived merits of ASP.

Which confirms my opinion of people who develop in Microsoft environments, which is not particularly high.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Lone Star:
distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...
Don't apply your misguided morality to me!
Oh christ... This isn't going to be one of those "I have retarded kids, so you can't say the word retard" threads, is it?

I don't like drinking and driving either, but I don't push my shit onto anonymous people on the intertubes.

Hey! My kids have assholes, you can't say the word Asshole!

Captcha: acsi, 'acsi' not what your country can do for you, just create some damn 'acsii' art!

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

I made this little reference guide for non-Americans:

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(According to how the regions of USA are named...)

Lockwood · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Behold the gaseous stench of Skeletor's Breakfast Burrito!!!

Also, I also had to read the comments to find the WTF in the weather on. I was looking somewhere on the West, near the middle. TRWTF is expecting everyone to know US geography.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Rookierookie:
I'm not sure Detroit is worth more than a toothpick or two, sir.

You misunderstood what C-Octothorpe was saying. The $12 Billion was what the US would have to pay Canada to take Detroit.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Julius Scissors:
Shinobu:
steveo:
I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
Expressus is latin for ‘prominent and clearly exhibited’, ‘pronounced’ &c. but also ‘imitated’ and ‘squeezed / pressed [out]’ and cognate to words like expressive, expressed &c. In the male and neuter gender, the dative and ablative singular are both expresso. I'm pretty sure that Virgil would have called an espresso a [coffea] expressa.
Do the wogs even have an 'x'?

I think you mean "wops". Wops are eye-ties, wogs are niggers.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Julius Scissors:
Shinobu:
steveo:
I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
Expressus is latin for ‘prominent and clearly exhibited’, ‘pronounced’ &c. but also ‘imitated’ and ‘squeezed / pressed [out]’ and cognate to words like expressive, expressed &c. In the male and neuter gender, the dative and ablative singular are both expresso. I'm pretty sure that Virgil would have called an espresso a [coffea] expressa.
Do the wogs even have an 'x'?

While there exists an X in Latin, in Italian there indeed is no X. The alphabet has no J, K, W, X or Y. To compensate, there are copious diacritics which can be applied to the vowels. Beautiful language, far easier to learn than Spanish.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.

Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Enraged Brit:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.

It would be like a Brit to stereotype an individual.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

DFWian:
Enraged Brit:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.
It would be like a Brit to stereotype an individual.

Bah. You Texans all make fatuous generalisations.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

QJo:
DFWian:
Enraged Brit:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.
It would be like a Brit to stereotype an individual.

Bah. You Texans all make fatuous generalisations.

Pot...

hoodaticus · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Luiz Felipe:
hoodaticus:
Anonymous Coward:
Isn't DX just DirectX? ISTM the error message is pretty understandable then.
Indeed, all that leaves to be figured out is whether it's DirectPlay, Direct2D, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectCompute, DirectMusic, DirectDraw.... and which resource within these API's failed to release.
They could have been more terse and said "program fall down go boom," however, without loss of information.
In this case, all you need to do, is keep quitly and dont bother the user. Let Windows do the deallocation for us. The program will be dead soon anyway, why bother.

This.

There's a video game I play that takes about 3 minutes to exit because it's cleaning up its freaking heap. Since Windows is based on micro-VM's/virtual address spaces, this is entirely pointless, as a hard crash is instantaneous and just as safe.

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

No just somewhere that humans live.

piskvorr · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

Kuba:
Where Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler are. Obviously.

Would that be "up shit creek, without a paddle, in a barbed wire canoe"?

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

asdf:
QJo:
DFWian:
Enraged Brit:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.
It would be like a Brit to stereotype an individual.

Bah. You Texans all make fatuous generalisations.
Pot...

Kettle, how black you are!

2011-08-08 Reply Admin

asdf:
QJo:
DFWian:
Enraged Brit:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Holy cow! They said you guys were liars, but I thought they meant you were good at it.
It would be like a Brit to stereotype an individual.

Bah. You Texans all make fatuous generalisations.
Pot...

Yes, please!

Eternal Density · 2011-08-08 Reply Admin

In the article there's some popup ad I can't get rid of...

Oh.

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

There is one single reason: the (almost) whole rest of the world uses it. :-)

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

Ooops. I meant:

SeySayux:
<Cue massive amounts of comments why the Metric system is better>

There is one single reason: the (almost) whole rest of the world uses it. :-)

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

hoodaticus:
mindsofpsi:
What is Britain then?
What the hell is "Britain"? Is that a foreign word, because we mostly speak English here.

con el excepción de Tejas

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

I'm lost with the last one. I can't read Fahrenheit and I don't know where Detroit is.

TRWTF is USA.

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

neminem:
And I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis ;).

If God had intended for people to go outdoors in summer, he wouldn't have created freon.

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

cappeca:
... and I don't know where Detroit is.

It's easy to find Detroit. Just look at the direction all the people are running, and go the other way. Michigan is the only state in the US that has fewer people today than it did ten years ago.

The bright side of this is that housing prices are low. I bought a house here for half what the previous owner paid. Of course, things balance out. What you save in mortgage payments you lose to muggings.

I heard a commentator on the radio the other day talking about the fact that Detroit now has the highest crime rate in the nation. (We're Number One!!) But, he pointed out, at least so far this year, unlike last year, the mayor has not been convicted of any felonies.

frits · 2011-08-09 Reply Admin

cappeca:
I'm lost with the last one. I can't read Fahrenheit and I don't know where Detroit is.
TRWTFs are units and xenophobia.

FTFY

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

"It got warm in the midwest recently," Jeff Hollandsworth writes, "except Detroit it would seem."

Hell froze over.

2011-08-09 Reply Admin

cappeca:
I'm lost with the last one. I can't read Fahrenheit and I don't know where Detroit is.
TRWTF is USA.

Ah, yes. When Americans aren't familiar with anyone's geography anywhere, they're ignorant. When you can't be bothered to look up a freely, readily available map, it's the terrain's fault.

Nutster · 2011-08-11 Reply Admin

Windsor is beside Detroit, even Sarnia is pretty close, but London? That is over an hour east on the 401. London would be at least one character over and up from that location.

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