• QJo (unregistered)

    Frist Yes [ ] No [ ]

  • moz (unregistered)

    The answer to Willy's question is, of course, "Yes".

  • Yanman (unregistered)

    If you press "No" at Jim's question, does that mean you want to answer multiple questions?

  • JohnB (unregistered)

    I also suffer from %_SQL_TEXT disease, got it through an injection back at the server facility

  • bcs (unregistered)

    Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?

  • dave (unregistered) in reply to bcs

    No Finish needed. Check out http://lipsum.com

    This is some extra text to get around akismet.

  • bruno (unregistered) in reply to dave

    What if the article is about lipsum?

  • Christoph (unregistered) in reply to dave

    But more interesting stories are on this page:

    http://slipsum.com

    Your link is so 1960s!

  • F (unregistered)

    Nero Imhard needn't have worried - it wasn't a petabyte, only a petabit.

  • Dangerous Beans (unregistered) in reply to bcs
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
    Easy: The text in the top green area looks like weird gibberish. No real language could possibly look that funny, so it's probably some kind of placeholder text. ;-)

    Dangerous Beans

  • (cs)

    1067 Petabytes... Is that what it takes to download the internet these days?

  • (cs) in reply to moz
    moz:
    The answer to Willy's question is, of course, "Yes".

    Wrong! The answer is, of course, FILE_NOT_FOUND.

  • E. Laite (unregistered)

    About Turun Sanomat, it's a job add. For Respecta, respecta.fi also offers site In English for those who are intrested...

  • Mr Keith (unregistered)

    "Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

    There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question. If you choose either yes or no, you may have helped (off the top of my head, by increasing hit count of the tracking widget, thus boosting advertising or other metrics; maybe there is some other thing that answering this question helps with), and it's internally consistent.

    captcha nulla = Holla at my %SQL_TEXT family!

  • ceiswyn (unregistered)

    Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...

  • Ralph (unregistered)
    your family?s medical history
    There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to ceiswyn
    ceiswyn:
    Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...
    Yup, you figured it out. Despite the inability to come up with daily WTFs, Alex is sitting on a lengthy backlog of submitted material. For example, I've submitted the following unseen gems:

    • A screen shot of my laptop simultaneously showing 17 minutes and over 10 hours of battery life remaining, vaguely similar to today's time sync WTF.

    • A picture of my cell phone displaying two different times, remarkably similar to today's time sync WTF.

    • A scan of my receipt from a national restaurant chain in which the randomly generated "enter this on our website" code soundly curses me out.

    But nooooooo...

    I guess the world just has too much WTF for even Alex to stomach.

  • Tasty (unregistered) in reply to bcs
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?

    Latin is the WTF here. The Finnish test paragraphs should be in Old Uralic.

  • Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)! (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    your family?s medical history
    There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
    ???

    I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.

  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to bcs
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
    FTFY. How fucking illiterate.
  • Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)! (unregistered) in reply to Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)!
    Boog:
    Ralph:
    your family?s medical history
    There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
    ???

    I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.

    I recommend Johnson/No Johnson's adjustable on-the-fly Crouching Tranny, Hidden Dick line of trapwear undergarments. You don't have to be "in disguise" in them all day, but you just never know when they'll come in handy.

    Sometimes I use it when I feel like approaching women, or just using the ladies' room. Or when trying to catch a muff diver. Only when they realize where it's going do you see a bigger look of shock!

    OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to Mr Keith
    Mr Keith:
    "Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

    There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question. If you choose either yes or no, you may have helped (off the top of my head, by increasing hit count of the tracking widget, thus boosting advertising or other metrics; maybe there is some other thing that answering this question helps with), and it's internally consistent.

    captcha nulla = Holla at my %SQL_TEXT family!

    Perfectly straightforward. If you press "Yes", it means you are prepared to help them improve their page by answering the question, which will follow on afterwards. If you press "No", they won't bother you with that question.

    This is standard, although it is usually worded "Would you like to help us by participating in our survey? It will only take about five minutes." This is of course always a lie, it will take between twenty minutes and an hour, and you will probably have logged out in sheer frustration as yet another seething heap of steaming smelly "select-0-to-10" questions splatters across your screen.

  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)!
    Boog:
    Boog:
    Ralph:
    your family?s medical history
    There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
    ???

    I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.

    I recommend Johnson/No Johnson's adjustable on-the-fly Crouching Tranny, Hidden Dick line of trapwear undergarments. You don't have to be "in disguise" in them all day, but you just never know when they'll come in handy.

    Sometimes I use it when I feel like approaching women, or just using the ladies' room. Or when trying to catch a muff diver. Only when they realize where it's going do you see a bigger look of shock!

    OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Won't work on me, you can't hide an adam's apple. And wearing a concealing scarf is such an obvious give-away. And if you must wear 15 denier, remember to shave your legs. Sheesh, that's gross.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    RE license server appears to be down.

    If you answer "no", does it then go ahead and connect to it?

  • That's our directory (unregistered)

    "Hey cool, I think that's our directory. Oh crap, that is our directory". Looks like we haven't been fast enough fixing that hard drive failure.

  • (cs) in reply to E. Laite
    E. Laite:
    About Turun Sanomat, it's a job add. For Respecta, respecta.fi also offers site In English for those who are intrested...
    Yes, but does it also offer the site in L... no wait, too easy.
  • (cs) in reply to bcs
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
    OK, let me translate that for you (quality of translation not guaranteed).
    Respecta is Finland's largest provider of products and services to support human productivity and mobility. Respecta provides services at its own offices at 8 locations, as well as by appointment in rehabilitation centers, health centers and hospitals at over 30 locations. Respecta has around 200 employees, and its revenue in year 2010 was over 30 million euros. Respecta is owned by the Invalid Foundation and the Health Fund. www.respecta.fi

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

    LOREM IPSUM DOLOR

    Your tasks will include at vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

    TL;DR: It's a job ad, for a position apparently named "LOREM IPSUM DOLOR". I didn't translate the job description from Latin, but apparently it involves some "denouncing with righteous indignation". Sounds fun!
  • Gary (unregistered)

    Clearly the Thunderbolt is not as fast as the network, since time for the network appears to be moving slower than time for the device.

  • lesle (unregistered)

    Roughly translated and condensed, it says, "A drunk squirrel don't tree."

  • (cs)

    My friend Bobby has a bad case of %_SQL_TEXT...

  • GP (unregistered)

    Obviously it's 10:45 (and mostly sunny) in New York but 10:08 at your current location. Do you happen to work in a high energy physics lab?

  • obsa (unregistered)

    To be fair, the IKEA download is only 127.29 TB. Paltry, really.

  • (cs) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    ceiswyn:
    Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...
    Yup, you figured it out. Despite the inability to come up with daily WTFs, Alex is sitting on a lengthy backlog of submitted material. For example, I've submitted the following unseen gems:

    • A screen shot of my laptop simultaneously showing 17 minutes and over 10 hours of battery life remaining, vaguely similar to today's time sync WTF.

    • A picture of my cell phone displaying two different times, remarkably similar to today's time sync WTF.

    • A scan of my receipt from a national restaurant chain in which the randomly generated "enter this on our website" code soundly curses me out.

    But nooooooo...

    I guess the world just has too much WTF for even Alex to stomach.

    Or maybe Alex and the others already devote quite a bit of their spare time sifting through & editing a shit-ton of submissions and updating the website nearly daily during their spare time for free, and they haven't gotten to your hilarious battery life story yet.

  • Jeff (unregistered)

    The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

    What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

    The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

    My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.

  • (cs) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.

    Meh. It's just the Etruscan word for "lettuce".

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
    FTFY. How fucking illiterate.
    Yes, the Internet would surely have ground to a halt if you hadn't fixed that negligible typo. We bow at your feet, O Perspicacious One. ["We're not worthy!"]

    -1 Intarwebz to you.

  • (cs) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    your family?s medical history
    There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft crapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
    FTFY.
  • (cs) in reply to ekolis
    ekolis:
    My friend Bobby has a bad case of %_SQL_TEXT...
    So bad, in fact, that the entire student body missed school today. (Or vice-versa?)
  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to Silverhill
    Silverhill:
    Matt Westwood:
    bcs:
    Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
    FTFY. How fucking illiterate.
    Yes, the Internet would surely have ground to a halt if you hadn't fixed that negligible typo. We bow at your feet, O Perspicacious One. ["We're not worthy!"]

    -1 Intarwebz to you.

    Plfsht. Another stupid cunt.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr Keith
    Mr Keith:
    "Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

    There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question.

    So that's not "answering one question" then, is it?
  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Mr Keith:
    "Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

    There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question.

    So that's not "answering one question" then, is it?
    Except "Please help us improve this page by answering one question" is not a question.
  • Wody (unregistered)

    I heard you get %_SQL_TEXT from watching too much TDWTF. I guess todays TDWTF shows it!

    Captcha: sucipit. I suscipit you have %_SQL_TEXT

  • Major DoucheBag (unregistered) in reply to obsa
    obsa:
    To be fair, the IKEA download is only 127.29 TB. Paltry, really.

    +1

    Is this a geek site or not?

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1067779576Mb+in+TB

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1067779576Mib+in+TiB

  • geek (unregistered)

    http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/file-size/result/?size=1067779576&unit=megabytes

    gives what I also calculate, just over 1 pb

  • geek (unregistered)

    Sorry, I mean just under 1 pb.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

    What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

    The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

    My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.

    Except when you are driving and need to know the time. Then the giant clock is much better and faster.

  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to Luiz Felipe
    Luiz Felipe:
    Jeff:
    The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

    What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

    The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

    My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.

    Except when you are driving and need to know the time. Then the giant clock is much better and faster.

    So who hasn't got a clock on the dashboard of their car?

    In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit. Certain other supposedly civilised nations, of course, contain significant more-or-less influential sections of the population who consider such traffic regulations to be an interference in their personal freedom to be complete arseholes. As a consequence the percentage of people who die in traffic accidents is higher in such nations (excellent, say I, less of those fucking arseholes in the world) than those whose populations are (in general) saner and more mature.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit. Certain other supposedly civilised nations, of course, contain significant more-or-less influential sections of the population who consider such traffic regulations to be an interference in their personal freedom to be complete arseholes. As a consequence the percentage of people who die in traffic accidents is higher in such nations (excellent, say I, less of those fucking arseholes in the world) than those whose populations are (in general) saner and more mature.

    The flaw in this logic is that it's not always the arseholes who die in those accidents.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    So who hasn't got a clock on the dashboard of their car?

    People with older cars. People who have replaced the OEM stereo that had a clock with a new one that doesn't. People driving other random cars where the clock's accuracy is unknown (although technically they would have a clock then).

    Matt Westwood:
    In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit.

    So you are OK with looking at the clock embedded in the car, but then go on to rant about how dangerous operating a mobile phone while driving is purely because someone wants a large clock to be visible. Fail.

  • Major DoucheBag (unregistered) in reply to geek
    geek:
    http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/file-size/result/?size=1067779576&unit=megabytes

    gives what I also calculate, just over 1 pb

    That's because you're not a geek, but an imposter!

    Mb != MB

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