• caper (unregistered)

    Shouldn't the password changer have used a wooden table instead of a cellphone camera with a shaky hand.

  • (cs) in reply to Some American
    Some American:
    Could someone tell me what country spells technician as technitian?

    Croacia.

  • Bob (unregistered)

    If I can get Some Ass in HD I won't need the blue pillz.

  • (cs) in reply to spoffy
    spoffy:
    So I wake up in the morning and I step outside I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs
    Dan H.:
    And I click O-Kay-ay-ay-ay-ay...
  • regeya (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Purple monkey dishwasher

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=purple+monkey+dishwasher&defid=757572

    captcha: purplemonkeydishwasher

  • (cs)
    Coming up next: someone will 'type words here.'

    The quality of programs has gone seriously downhill with reality TV..

  • J (unregistered) in reply to Ocson
    Ocson:
    I wouldn't be surprised if Purple Monkey Dishwasher is the result of a "Type words here"
    More like the old-time radio use of words incorporating first letters like Bravo for B, Charlie for C.

    So, the next question is - what the heck is the significance of PMD? Project Management Documentation?

  • (cs)

    http://www.purplemonkeydishwasher.com/

  • Fred (unregistered)

    Type comment here.

    Comment posted successfully. Click here to report this problem to Alex.

  • someguy (unregistered)

    Heh, I pointed that out to a coworker the other day. I had a series of those spams where each message had a lower discount than the previous. Clearly I wasn't acting fast enough.

  • Pauller (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Sorry Daniel but a truncated line on your TV guide is no WTF, even if it makes a vaguely rude word like "ass". Let's try to act like the professionals we all pretend to be, shall we?

    Hehehehe He said "ass" hehehehe

  • Socram (unregistered)

    The 'Purple Monkey Dishwasher' is mine! Yay for anonymous fame. For the record, it was meant as a Simpsons reference.

  • (cs)

    They probably stuck Purple Monkey Dishwasher on there just so they'd know if people were telling them the exact message.

  • Sabre (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Sorry Daniel but a truncated line on your TV guide is no WTF, even if it makes a vaguely rude word like "ass". Let's try to act like the professionals we all pretend to be, shall we?

    TRWTF is that DirecTV needs 1/3rd of the listing cell to identify the show in HD. Seriously, they can't make the HD symbol smaller to fit more of the title in the cell?

  • StychoKiller (unregistered) in reply to Some American
    Some American:
    Could someone tell me what country spells technician as technitian?

    CAPTCHA: tation - sounds like tim's last name.

    Probeility says it's yours.

  • Incontinetia (unregistered)

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q276304/

    The password-problem seems quite old. Rather surprised nobody noticed that before. Still, thanks for playing.

  • Wine Snob (unregistered)

    The real wtf is anybody uses wordpress. Insecure sack-of-shite.

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    The stupid Pfizer Viagra-Spam is coming in by the dozen. Got hundreds of them over the last couple of days.

  • Slicerwizard (unregistered) in reply to J
    J:
    More like the old-time radio use of words incorporating first letters like Bravo for B, Charlie for C.
    Since when is using phonetics "old-time"? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
  • (cs) in reply to 3M
    3M:
    better stock up on sticky notes to use for that password

    Or get one honkin' BIG sticky note.

  • theProject (unregistered)

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304

    "Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords"

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Pauller
    Pauller:
    Hehehehe He said "ass" hehehehe
    Hehehehe. He said "donkey". Hehehehe.
  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Sorry Daniel but a truncated line on your TV guide is no WTF, even if it makes a vaguely rude word like "ass". Let's try to act like the professionals we all pretend to be, shall we?

    Yeah. Truncated words may be humorous but they aren't WTFs. (For many years we had a group of people working in the Final Ass[embly] department. Fortunately this only occurred on the HR screens, not what the workers themselves saw.)

  • (cs)

    A lot of people here who can't read...

  • (cs) in reply to Socram
    Socram:
    The 'Purple Monkey Dishwasher' is mine! Yay for anonymous fame. For the record, it was meant as a Simpsons reference.
    Ah, so we should blame you for this dup of an old post, should we? Busted!
  • (cs) in reply to GCU Arbitrary

    I would go for 70% OFF on Pfizer, when someone provides more discount it must be a HOAX!

  • jussist (unregistered)

    That "Ass... " on tv reminded from older versions of fineli, a nutrion database. It had data like "How much vitamin K boiled potatoes have" etc... Some of the information they had acquired from ... somewhere, other from the own lab analysis. The source of information was also noted.

    I leave it to your imagination what abbreviation they used for "analysis".

  • Duke (unregistered) in reply to dpm

    True..... true....

  • Swedish tard (unregistered)

    Too many verts for dynamic vertex buffer? And tell a programmer to increase VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE?

    Doesnt sound too bloody dynamic to me.

  • Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Medinoc
    Medinoc:
    The real WTF is that someone still thinks "ERROR: The operation completed successfully" is original.

    It has been done to death since functions that fail without calling SetLastError() exist!

    You're 99.5% correct.

    The other 0.5% is the real WTF - given that this problem is over twenty years old, how come an error dialog was presented for some reason, and the return code from GetLastError was blindly used to get the error message?

    Surely a competent programmer, being aware of this ancient issue, would check for the "no error" indicator, and put up a generic "unknown error" mesasge instead?

  • (cs) in reply to Some Guy
    Some Guy:
    Surely a competent programmer, being aware of this ancient issue, would check for the "no error" indicator, and put up a generic "unknown error" mesasge instead?
    Why would you assume that a program featuring on this site was written by a competent programmer?
  • Burpy (unregistered) in reply to GCU Arbitrary
    GCU Arbitrary:
    Foobarbaz:
    TRWTF is everyone saying a phrase is from the Simpsons when it existed before that episode.
    The phrase featured in an episode of The Simpsons; thus, it is perfectly cromulent to assert that it is a Simpsons quotation. I did not claim that it originated with The Simpsons, however it is undeniable that the phrase has been popularised by its inclusion in the show.

    For many people, that will be the only context in which they would have heard it, and is likely the reason it was included in the dialog in the first place.

    Oh I understand now. So it's perfectly legit to make false assertions as long as it relies on the people's lack of culture!

  • Thomas (unregistered)

    I laughed more at the "Some assembly required" than at the "Some ass" :p

  • (cs) in reply to Slicerwizard
    Slicerwizard:
    J:
    More like the old-time radio use of words incorporating first letters like Bravo for B, Charlie for C.
    Since when is using phonetics "old-time"? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
    The real WTF --- literally --- is that someone paid for the name http://www.whiskey-tango-foxtrot.com/
  • commenter (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    What game project doesn't keep their source code in a folder name 'source' or similar?

  • Someone too lazy to login and at work (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Isn't the whole reason of giving you "Counter Strike: Source" that you can modify the "Source" yourself to fix it?

    Source is the name of the game engine.

  • Anonymouse (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the postal service managed to deliver that package despite the address being nothing but a series of black bars.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymouse
    Anonymouse:
    TRWTF is that the postal service managed to deliver that package despite the address being nothing but a series of black bars.
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  • (cs)
    [image] What's a Technithian and where do I find one?

    Did the developer who wrote this dialog have a lisp?

  • Carsten Muerau (unregistered)

    Can't wait to see the Viagra discount breaking the 100% barrier which will turn the business into a HUGE success. Especially for the marketing people behind this brilliant campaign.

    Captcha: immitto

  • sane person (unregistered)

    Our research shows that passwords of 32025 characters are very difficult to crack. As there are over 10^54701 possible passwords, even the most high-powered cracker programs have little chance of finding it. Also, even if someone does see your password, the chance that they will remember it completely is very small, and if they try to jot it down on a piece of scrap paper, the security people will have arrived to escort them out of the building long before they finish.

    The only real downside in our tests has been that it takes people approximately four hours to type in their password when they attempt to log in each morning. Some of our users have also complained about the fact that if they do not get it exactly right, the login screen blanks it out and makes them type it all in again from scratch.

    To maximimize security, of course we encrypt the password by hashing it to a 16-bit integer.

  • PeterY (unregistered)

    Hey that's pretty cool. A real "null reference". And I didn't die when I read it... ackkkk......

  • a paratus (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    [image] What's a Technithian and where do I find one?

    Did the developer who wrote this dialog have a lisp?

    Croacia, as already stated.

  • ~aProgrammer (unregistered)

    Scott, the saving is on Hershey's Assorted Miniatures. The price on top is for Hershey's Kisses. I guess reading is just too much trouble ...

  • Anoymous (unregistered)

    Uh, the one with the sale shouldn't be on here. If you were smart you would realize the first price says that it is for Hershey's kisses, while the sale price says that its for Hershey's mini assorted.

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