The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Earp's Friend:
Earp:
In all seriousness, I have a friend who truly believes that the next evolution in computing is a 3rd state.
On.Off.Maybe.

Not 3 state, but multiple state. Not just on and off, but Voltage.

Infinite state, precisely. 3-valued logic was theorized in the beginning of the 20th century and implemented in computing in 1958.

The concept itself was extended to n-valued logic in the 50's too, and then (logically) to "infinite-valued" logic, aka fuzzy logic, which is mainly a new approach to statistics.

Neural networks (and the brain which they copy) are a massively parallel implementation of fuzzy logic. They are not even the next evolution because they already are there (see search engine algorithms for instance).

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

@Deprecated:
Jay:
Gordon Freeman:
About exhausting a meme, I think the best way to kill a meme is to explain it to death.
That's because immature teenagers who use them are just looking for a cryptic language that only them and their bunch (or gang or bros or whatever vocabulary there is nowadays for it) understand, thus reinforcing the impression of sharing an identity. Obviously if you explain all of it (typically by writing a meme wiki), everyone outside the group can understand it, so the meme does not fill that role and is left only with its inner humoristic potential. Most memes don't have one, so they just die.

Sure. Lot's of people, especially school kids, want to be part of an "in" crowd.

When my daughter was in high school she once commented that what the Goth kids were apparently all about is, "I want to be a non-conformist -- just like all my friends."

Speaking of memes and school kids, my kids run around with their friends saying "fail" and "Pwned" now. Thank you, internet!

I live in Spain. The other day, I heard a grown up man in his 50's, wife and two kids, say in a conversation: "Gracias, capitán obvio"!

da Doctah · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

COSYG:
Unfortunately, my camel does not go 100mph, no matter how much I try. Even the cattle prod doesn't get him above 30....

Have you tried throwing him off a bridge?

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

sparky:
Do or Do Not. There is no Try

Meh . syntactic sugar :

Do{ //stuff }orDoNot(exception e){

} ... Yoda is still an exceptional master.

DaveK · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Jim:
Matt Westwood:
Jim:
Jim:
Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....
Matt Westwood not so far behind.... At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....

It can be fun. Like you feed the sealions at the zoo to hear them going: onk, onk.

Oh dear, I've just gone and done it again ...
Onk! Onk!

Make that *three* hard-boiled eggs.

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

cheap shot:
This is good, simple, robust coding. Enterprise-ready.

LOL 'Enterprise-ready'... a.k.a. 'defensive programming'

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Hater:
trtrwtf:
Love you too, frits.
I KNEW you're gay. C'mon I'll fuck you hard

Really, that's all? You could at least exercise some creativity. For instance, you could have explored some sadomasochistic scenario between considering the statement of love in response to abuse. Just an idea. Try coming up with your own.

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Haven't stopped laughing.. Thanks.

frits · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

trtrwtf:
Hater:
Matt Westwood:
Oh, it's *your* site, is it? Really? Really, truly?

Yes, from now and on. You're all doomed. I suggest it's better for you to leave just now. Before you're frustrated and will actually commit suicide

This place will become most unpleasant place to visit in near future.

So, let me guess - frits has finally decided he's sick of unregistered posters and he's trying to force Alex to require registration to post, by making a nuisance of himself under random unregistered names. Do I get a gold star?

Do you mean one of those Korean made TVs?

Now there is no practical way for me to disprove your allegation. Nonetheless, I am going on record as saying I am not "Hater". However, your very specific accusation makes me quite suspicious. It's already well-known that you dabble in the sock-puppet business, so perhaps this is a new character of yours?

ContraCorners · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Aw man, did Alex pass away again?

C-Octothorpe · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Jim:
Jim:
Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....
Matt Westwood not so far behind.... At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....

What? It's funny! I know it can pollute the forums, and I apologize for that, but I find it hilarious. I am disappointed however at Haters terrible English and lack of creativity with his insults.

He kind of reminds me of the lunatic SpectateSwamp in that he doesn't really listen to anybody and has his own special version of reality playing in his head.

BTW, I like how you quoted and responded yourself.

C-Octothorpe · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
Jim:
Jim:
Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....
Matt Westwood not so far behind.... At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....

It can be fun. Like you feed the sealions at the zoo to hear them going: onk, onk.

Oh dear, I've just gone and done it again ...

I was going to say it's more akin to poking a caged rabid animal with a stick only to see what it'll do, which turns out isn't much other than telling people to leave his site...

I'm done feeding that fucktard.Wait for it, wait for it...

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
I am disappointed however at Haters terrible English and lack of creativity with his insults.

See you suck at life nomatter if I say that or dont.

You should thank me for showing that for you, sucker.

Now go clean your ass with mommy toothbruth

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
I'm done feeding that fucktard.

You bastard born from whore who fingered herself to death, how dare you judge me. LOL

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Earp:
In all seriousness, I have a friend who truly believes that the next evolution in computing is a 3rd state.
On.Off.Maybe.

Then we could play with trinary bits.

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Hat3r:
C-Octothorpe:
I'm done feeding that fucktard.

You bastard born from whore who fingered herself to death, how dare you judge me. LOL

Your insult is fairly imaginative, but lacks in coherence and humour.
★☆☆☆☆

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

frits:
trtrwtf:
Hater:
Matt Westwood:
Oh, it's *your* site, is it? Really? Really, truly?

Yes, from now and on. You're all doomed. I suggest it's better for you to leave just now. Before you're frustrated and will actually commit suicide

This place will become most unpleasant place to visit in near future.

So, let me guess - frits has finally decided he's sick of unregistered posters and he's trying to force Alex to require registration to post, by making a nuisance of himself under random unregistered names. Do I get a gold star?
Do you mean one of those Korean made TVs?

Now there is no practical way for me to disprove your allegation. Nonetheless, I am going on record as saying I am not "Hater". However, your very specific accusation makes me quite suspicious. It's already well-known that you dabble in the sock-puppet business, so perhaps this is a new character of yours?

If you say it's not so, I'll believe you. It was a stab in the dark - Hater reads like a more extreme (ie, violent, homophobic and stupid) version of Zunesis - the only reason I can see for his posts is to make things impossibly unpleasant. Like Zunesis, only more so. So I got that idea in mind, that this was a regular poster trying to ramp things up so the management would have to force registration. How did I get your name? Well, Zunesis made the comment about how I liked his postings under another name, so I figured it's one of the regulars. Your handle had been somewhat quiet since Hater showed up, and one of the posts you did make had the bit about "Back to my previously scheduled fucktardery... " which seemed weird. And I remembered that you'd complained in the past about the unregistered nuisance posters. Like I said, a stab in the dark. But imagine if I'd been right - wouldn't you have been gobsmacked?

No, for the record, I'm not the brain (as it were) behind Hater, or Zunesis, or Nagesh. I play Nagesh once in a while, when I see a funny Nagesh line, but that's mostly it. Oh, and sometimes I pop up under nonce names, for sport, but those are one-time funnies, not continuing characters.

C-Octothorpe · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Hat3r:
C-Octothorpe:
I'm done feeding that fucktard.

You bastard born from whore who fingered herself to death, how dare you judge me. LOL

Nagesh?

Wait, lets try this: Bah! All developers from India can't program their way out of a wet paper bag. Especially those from Hyderabad.

frits · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

trtrwtf:
Your handle had been somewhat quiet since Hater showed up, and one of the posts you did make had the bit about "Back to my previously scheduled fucktardery... " which seemed weird.

I was just acknowledging that my mere presence probably annoys some of the intolerant uber-geek snobs who visit here. I was also saying I don't care. I have as much right as anyone to post my unqualified opinions and quips here.

trtrwtf:
And I remembered that you'd complained in the past about the unregistered nuisance posters.

I don't recall that. Maybe once or twice about fake frits until I realized that it's futile and kinda funny.

trtrwtf:
Like I said, a stab in the dark. But imagine if I'd been right - wouldn't you have been gobsmacked?

Nah. I would have just ignored it.

trtrwtf:
No, for the record, I'm not the brain (as it were) behind Hater, or Zunesis, or Nagesh. I play Nagesh once in a while, when I see a funny Nagesh line, but that's mostly it. Oh, and sometimes I pop up under nonce names, for sport, but those are one-time funnies, not continuing characters.

I think you and I are cut from the cloth, then.

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Hat3r:
C-Octothorpe:
I'm done feeding that fucktard.
You bastard born from whore who fingered herself to death, how dare you judge me. LOL

Getting better, but...

How 'bout his mother was a slut that habitually drew the attention of rapists and he was born the hybrid of 30 different guy's cum?

Or maybe her uncle always made her swallow it and she barfed it up again and shoved it up her cunt.

Or claim he was born out of her stink 'cause her pink was too busy, whatever. Try something new! Go wild!

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

frits:

trtrwtf:
No, for the record, I'm not the brain (as it were) behind Hater, or Zunesis, or Nagesh. I play Nagesh once in a while, when I see a funny Nagesh line, but that's mostly it. Oh, and sometimes I pop up under nonce names, for sport, but those are one-time funnies, not continuing characters.
I think you and I are cut from the cloth, then.

That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all day. But I'm working from home, so I haven't actually talked to anyone yet today.

2011-11-04 Reply Admin

Brenden added, "I'm still trying to figure out how truth can fail."

I bet Brenden works at Fox News. It explains this.

boog · 2011-11-04 Reply Admin

trtrwtf:
Zunesis made the comment about how I liked his postings under another name, so I figured it's one of the regulars.

And you believed him? I wouldn't have posted my alliterative rebuttal had I known you were going to buy into his bullshit.

So sad... sniff

2011-11-06 Reply Admin

My brain crashed for a few seconds there.

2011-11-07 Reply Admin

boog:
trtrwtf:
Zunesis made the comment about how I liked his postings under another name, so I figured it's one of the regulars.
And you believed him? I wouldn't have posted my (I have an inkling this wasn't funny enough to warrant re-linking, I'm thinking) had I known you were going to buy into his bullshit.

I don't know what is meant by "regulars" but is it so hard to believe that I at least once made an intelligent comment under another name while in a different mood, and he agreed?

I think you fail to appreciate how far I'm willing to go to amuse myself.

boog:
So sad... *sniff*

Yes, your lack of imagination is sad.

boog · 2011-11-07 Reply Admin

Free Zune...:
...is it so hard to believe that I at least once made an intelligent comment under another name while in a different mood, and he agreed?

That you might post under a different name is not at all hard to believe, but the idea that you're feeding him shit is just so very much easier to believe.

Free Zune...:
I think you fail to appreciate how far I'm willing to go to amuse myself.

Not at all - I've clearly considered that you might amuse yourself by going so far as to claim to be someone else, in order to inspire frustration in my persuadable peer. Surely you, of all people, would get off on the thought of him fretting, "dammit, who is it? I just have to know, that way I know to never laugh at his jokes or agree with him again". And it seems you managed to convince him, since he became suspicious of others (this is what I was referring to as "so sad" - as for you I must begrudgingly say "well played").

Maybe you have posted as someone else, maybe even someone that we all know. But there's not much you can do to prove it without your supposedly-registered identity confessing, which we all know you're not going to do. So I'll just refuse to buy into your bullshit until then.

2011-11-07 Reply Admin

boog:
Not at all - I've clearly considered that you might amuse yourself by going so far as to claim to be someone else, in order to inspire frustration in my persuadable peer. Surely you, of all people, would get off on the thought of him fretting, "dammit, who is it? I just have to know, that way I know to never laugh at his jokes or agree with him again". And it seems you managed to convince him, since he became suspicious of others (this is what I was referring to as "so sad" - as for you I must begrudgingly say "well played").
Maybe you have posted as someone else, maybe even someone that we all know. But there's not much you can do to prove it without your supposedly-registered identity confessing, which we all know you're not going to do. So I'll just refuse to buy into your bullshit until then.

Ah, I believe we understand each other then. "bullshit" can mean many things and I couldn't tell which one. And I think you know proof isn't necessary at all in this endeavor, nor do I think a lack of proof positive will prevent an idea from worming inside someone's mind.

boog · 2011-11-07 Reply Admin

Free Zune...:
Ah, I believe we understand each other then.

A terrifying prospect.

Free Zune...:
...I think you know proof isn't necessary at all in this endeavor, nor do I think a lack of proof positive will prevent an idea from worming inside someone's mind.

True - trtrwtf's revealed suspicion of frits supports your argument.

Wait, did I just agree with you on something? sob

2011-11-08 Reply Admin

Steve:
Anketam:
It could fail if File Not Found or in this case Email List Not Found *nods sagely*

I'm guessing you're being sarcastic or something, but just in case you're not - how could it possibly fail? It's an empty function, it doesn't try to load a file or an email list.

ThreadAbortException.

The others in comment #365574 don't really apply, since there's no stack increase that could overflow, and no memory being allocated that could fail...

2011-11-10 Reply Admin

not that i'm familliar with the language used here but if its C perhaps "True" is overriden and somehow could fail...

either way its definetely a WTF

2012-02-03 Reply Admin

For any case.... (rofl)

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