• (cs) in reply to Mr B
    Mr B:
    iceman:
    ParkinT:
    What's wrong with the PDF from Georgia? I always lock the combination to a safe INSIDE the safe; for safe-keeping. </sarcasm>
    But where do you keep your safe?

    Inside the safe.

    Yoo Dawg, we heard u like save combinations, so we put a safe inside a safe in ur bath, so u can save ur savings while u shave!

  • (cs)

    I want that $999,999.99 phone! I'm sure it's a gold plated Samsung.

  • (cs) in reply to Apostrophe'Man
    Apostrophe'Man:
    HAI captcha 'transverbero'... a spanish verb?
    No. Random syllables from Latin thrown together, I think.
  • abstract protected synchronized final void longSignature() (unregistered) in reply to Edss
    Edss:
    Qwertyuiopas:
    Step 1: Download or install an internet browser.

    Step 2: Read this comment.

    Step 1: Sue Microsoft to have them take IE out of Windows

    Step 2: Download alternative brows- Damn.

    Look, this is easy. Just use wget!

    Step 1: go to www.gnu.org/software/wget and downl... Damn.

  • Baz (unregistered)

    There is no WTF with that PDF.

    It uses the form-filling capabilities of Acrobat, including autocomplete, and javascript. That means it cannot be used as instructed in evince, xpdf, kpdf, Preview on OS X, Nodobe, Google Documents, Foxit,... or any other PDF reader you care to name (and as mentioned earlier in this thread, won't work in old Acrobat readers either). On Windows Acrobat is king but its not the viewer of choice on any other platform.

    TRWTF is (a) asking you to snail-mail this, and (b) not using the dynamic barcodes you get in PDF forms that make scanning the paper copy accurate. (Apparently - I have all those features turned off in Acrobat because it runs like Stephen Hawking when they're on; I don't feel motivated enough to enable them just to check this)

  • JB (unregistered)

    I think the use of phrase "Due to the fact that..." in writing and speech should be a death penalty offense.

  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to JB
    JB:
    I think the use of phrase "Due to the fact that..." in writing and speech should be a death penalty offense.
    However, due to the fact that it is not, I shall continue to use it.

    -Harrow.

  • (cs) in reply to Zemyla
    Zemyla:
    The last one may not be quite such a WTF, if it works in older versions of Acrobat, but other PDFs on their site might not.
    Nah, it's simpler than that. They have another PDF that tells you how to install Foxit, so you can read the PDF that tells you how to install Adobe.
  • (cs) in reply to notme
    notme:
    Edss:
    Qwertyuiopas:
    Step 1: Download or install an internet browser.

    Step 2: Read this comment.

    Step 1: Sue Microsoft to have them take IE out of Windows

    Step 2: Download alternative brows- Damn.

    Windows has an integrated FTP-Client. It's called, surprisingly, "ftp".

    Y:>ftp where can i download a browser

    Transfers files to and from a computer running an FTP server service (sometimes called a daemon). Ftp can be used interactively.

    FTP [-v] [-d] [-i] [-n] [-g] [-s:filename] [-a] [-w:windowsize] [-A] [host]

    -v Suppresses display of remote server responses. -n Suppresses auto-login upon initial connection. -i Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file transfers. -d Enables debugging. -g Disables filename globbing (see GLOB command). -s:filename Specifies a text file containing FTP commands; the commands will automatically run after FTP starts. -a Use any local interface when binding data connection. -A login as anonymous. -w:buffersize Overrides the default transfer buffer size of 4096. host Specifies the host name or IP address of the remote host to connect to.

    Notes:

    • mget and mput commands take y/n/q for yes/no/quit.
    • Use Control-C to abort commands.

    Y:>ftp google.com Connected to google.com. Connection closed by remote host.

    Nope, doesn't work.

  • Level 2 (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    His breath smells like Mittens butt.

    How do you know this? Forget it, I don't want to know.

  • (cs) in reply to Smash King
    Smash King:
    Anon:
    Code Dependent:
    I can has keyboard?

    It's "I can haz keyboard", n00b.

    No, it's "I can haz keyboard plz?"
    No, it's "I can haz keyboard pls?"

  • (cs) in reply to Level 2
    Level 2:
    akatherder:
    His breath smells like Mittens butt.

    How do you know this? Forget it, I don't want to know.

    Because I smelled his breath. Duh.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I couldn't agree more. TDWTF is not the place for this lolshit. We're supposed to be adults for Christ's sake, not a bunch of kids making image macros of cats and posting them on anonymous message boards "for teh lulz!!!1!!1!". Grow the fuck up already.

    I find it ironic that the person saying such is the person calling themselves 'Anonymous'.

  • AndyC (unregistered) in reply to notme
    notme:
    Windows has an integrated FTP-Client. It's called, surprisingly, "ftp".

    Antitrust! Quick, sue that bad old Microsoft before they put all the other FTP client vendors out of business.

  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Yep, seems like it. For the record, for anyone who doesn't know, "QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRpb24g" is base64 encryption of "Adminstration".

    Not quite... it's actually the base64 version of "Administration " (note the space) :P

  • ruurd (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    Yeah, what? You can print it before copying the URL in your browser, can you?

  • Enigma (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Anonymous:
    Yep, seems like it. For the record, for anyone who doesn't know, "QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRpb24g" is base64 encryption of "Adminstration".

    Maybe your brain has been melted by the idiots above with the lolcat-speak, but... base64 isn't encryption. It's a cipher/encoding. It's only encryption if you do it a few times, as previously featured on this site.

    A cipher is not encryption?

    It may be very weak encryption, but it is encryption encrypt = To put into code or cipher.

    Incidentally, (though we, naturally, ar not quite so pedantic here) as far as many Math departments are concerned there is a HUGE difference between Codes and Ciphers.

    Codes deal with Data RELIABILITY/CORRECTNESS (parity bits come under the Code banner {as one of the simplest codes}) Ciphers deal with Data SECURITY Morse Code was designed to transfer data in such a way that it could reliably be recieved at the other end. It also happens to be a simple substitution cipher. Base64 is similar. It was (AFAIK) designed with reliability not security in mind, however it does offer a (very weak) form of encryption, in so far as the original data is not immediately obvious from a string of characters (Someone has to realise it is Base64 to undo it - something that is quite probable to happen quickly, hence VERY WEAK). Repeating can (sort of - assuming people don't know how many times you repeat) make it a slightly stronger form of encryption, however it doesn't suddenly change it from coding to encryption or vice-versa...

    Of course, the world understands code to mean either a code or a cipher.

    Captha: odio - "O God!!"

  • Adobe (unregistered) in reply to Technical Thug
    Technical Thug:
    Given that the DOR document is likely distributed both in paper format as well as online, there's nothing wrong with instructions on how to tell people to get it online.

    Of course, it's not as funny then.

    Yes it is...Have you tried opening a link on paper?

  • John (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    Level 2:
    akatherder:
    His breath smells like Mittens butt.

    How do you know this? Forget it, I don't want to know.

    Because I smelled his breath. Duh.

    Clearly not all you smelt....

  • Nodody (unregistered) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    Anonymous:
    Voodoo Coder:
    And that's how TDWTF died. It was good while it lasted, but once the plague that is lolspeak took hold, it's grasp was inescapable, and it sucked all brain matter out of the site, not unlike a hungry swarm of zombies...only this was much more painful to watch.
    I couldn't agree more. TDWTF is not the place for this lolshit. We're supposed to be adults for Christ's sake, not a bunch of kids making image macros of cats and posting them on anonymous message boards "for teh lulz!!!1!!1!". Grow the fuck up already.

    I couldn't agree more. Will everyone please behave like grownups while making fun of people for doing stupid shit.

    Best. Comment. Ever.

  • Rory (unregistered) in reply to monkay

    Andy give me some money, plz.

  • David (unregistered) in reply to Kiss me I'm Polish
    Kiss me I'm Polish:
    I want that $999,999.99 phone! I'm sure it's a gold plated Samsung.

    Solid gold with diamond buttons more like. Coming soon to a hip hop video near you.

  • David (unregistered) in reply to Enigma
    Enigma:

    A cipher is not encryption?

    It may be very weak encryption, but it is encryption encrypt = To put into code or cipher.

    Most professional cryptographers would distinguish between encoding (such as substitution, like base64 and rot13) and "proper" encryption. A cipher usually refers to encryption, not encoding.

    Most people don't understand the difference between the two. Interestingly the term cipher may have come from the Arabic zero - which was considered too hard to understand by some people. So cipher might have originally just have been used as a reference to anything too complicated to understand.

    By that standard practically anything to do with computers is a cipher to most people :-)

  • Buzz Monkey (unregistered) in reply to David
    David:
    Enigma:

    A cipher is not encryption?

    It may be very weak encryption, but it is encryption encrypt = To put into code or cipher.

    Most professional cryptographers would distinguish between encoding (such as substitution, like base64 and rot13) and "proper" encryption. A cipher usually refers to encryption, not encoding.

    Most people don't understand the difference between the two. Interestingly the term cipher may have come from the Arabic zero - which was considered too hard to understand by some people. So cipher might have originally just have been used as a reference to anything too complicated to understand.

    By that standard practically anything to do with computers is a cipher to most people :-)

    Not sure that professional cryptographers would actually care...but

    Either way, I was taught something similar to Enigma (if I understand him correctly) - that coding is about trying to increase likelihood that message is received correctly - or at least that errors are detected. Cryptography is about trying to decrease probability that Oscar can get meaningful message out of it.

    I think most cryptographers will acknowledge that the Ceaser Shift Cipher is indeed encryption - even though it is essentially substitution. Vignere Ciphers, too, are just substitution (albeit more complicated substitution), and I have no doubt that cryptographers see Vignere Ciphers as encryption. In fact, Stream Ciphers are also just substitution ciphers - They just substitute against a (seemingly) random key.

    If we were really being pedantic, we could even reduce more complicated Cryptography to substitution, although I think that would be being facetious, and is hardly the point.

    I can accpet that people confuse a lot of these terms - and let's face it, provided you can understand what people are on about do you really care?

    The point that stood out to me (which I thought Enigma was replying to) was that kastein (the original poster) was suggesting that base64 encoding is not encryption, but base64 encoding the result of the base64 encoding would be considered encryption - this is not the case no matter how you look at it. If you accept that base64 encoding as encryption, then it is encryption no matter how many times you do it. If you don't (on the basis it is merely substitution), then it isn't no matter how many times you do it. In fact, the security is not even increased - if you suspect something has been base64 encoded, keep decoding repeatedly until you either get English out of it or you are left with no characters - base64 encoding will always be 4/3 times as long as the original message - so decoding messages are always 3/4 of the length - if you find a message 10000characters long, and think it has been base64 encoded (possibly several times), you only need to check 20 times to be down to 32 characters - at which point you eityher realise the message is trivial, or continue another 5 times to 5 characters. The algorithm is simple, and a computer would do it reasonably quickly. If we accept that base64 encoding is not encryption, then we have to accept that repeating it does not constitue encryption either...

    ...Phew...Long Rant

  • Bastiaan (unregistered)

    I once pirated a .rar containing a cracked version of winrar...

  • Mateo_LeFou (unregistered)

    Makes perfect sense to me. I view pdfs all the time, some of which tell me how to install assorted Adobe products -- none of which I have ever installed.

    TRWTF is that someone doesn't realize that PDF is a document format, and a relatively interoperable one at that.

  • jondr (unregistered)

    I love the PDF instructions in a PDF. But really, be aware that on the Mac, PDF viewing is built into the OS (preview application handles PDF)--you don't need a reader from Adobe. If you do install the Adobe Reader, you get a much better experience, but most Mac users wouldn't bother. I'm very sure the government agency involved DID NOT have this in mind, however.

  • (cs) in reply to Kiss me I'm Polish
    Kiss me I'm Polish:
    I want that $999,999.99 phone! I'm sure it's a gold plated Samsung.
    A gold-plated turd is still a turd.
    Bastiaan:
    I once pirated a .rar containing a cracked version of winrar...
    ...and used the trial version to extract the crack. I don't see a problem here.
  • (cs)

    Plz do not serve this comment under MS browser, i.e. IE.

  • Inlaw Programmer (unregistered) in reply to Kiss me I'm Polish
    Kiss me I'm Polish:
    I want that $999,999.99 phone! I'm sure it's a gold plated Samsung.

    or a magnetron...

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    To read these comments - please use the following link

    http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Theres-Gotta-Be-A-Catch.aspx

    1) Alan's comment only appears on the comment page. 2) The joke is funny, so it is awarded with a blue background. 3) The blue background causes it to appear on the article's page, killing the joke. 4) Now that it isn't funny, its blue background can be removed. 5) GOTO 1

  • fizze (unregistered) in reply to Alan

    I actually clicked this link and thought: WTF? Then it hit me. Good one! :)

  • helmric (unregistered)

    How about the lack of USB-support in Win98, With 95C there was some suport and with 98 I think it's built in....

  • IHasYerCheezburger (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    Level 2:
    akatherder:
    His breath smells like Mittens butt.

    How do you know this? Forget it, I don't want to know.

    Because I smelled his breath. Duh.

    And how do you know that it smells like Mittens butt?

  • compardo (unregistered) in reply to abstract protected synchronized final void longSignature()

    you can still use "telnet 72.14.205.100 80" or "telnet 216.92.122.221 80" and exercise your knowlegde of the HTTP headers ;)

    but still telnet.exe comes from microsoft...

  • (cs) in reply to AndyC
    AndyC:
    notme:
    Windows has an integrated FTP-Client. It's called, surprisingly, "ftp".

    Antitrust! Quick, sue that bad old Microsoft before they put all the other FTP client vendors out of business.

    While you're at it they must remove TCP/IP from Windows so they don't put winsock providers out of business!

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that the phone company wants you to think that it's a hot chick lounging on the couch-- until you follow the cord up to her hands and realize it's the exact opposite.

  • KJW (unregistered) in reply to Mr B
    Mr B:
    iceman:
    ParkinT:
    What's wrong with the PDF from Georgia? I always lock the combination to a safe INSIDE the safe; for safe-keeping. </sarcasm>
    But where do you keep your safe?

    Inside the safe.

    The safe appears to be stuck in itself, knotted into a strange multi-dimensional wreath.

  • (cs) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    Let me apologize in advance for adding some signal to the noise. That said the pdf one reminds of the time I was reinstalling everything on an old WinME PC...

    Winrar... AAARGH, it's rarred.

    That's your fault for not downloading the self-extracting executable like everybody else does.

    In the real old days of the early internet, there wasn't a FTP program available to the OS. However you could easily get one by FTP'ing into a server and downloading it. Oh, wait...

  • ricecake (unregistered) in reply to Bastiaan

    I accidentally 93MB of .rar files what should I do...is this dangerous ?

  • (cs) in reply to m0ffx
    m0ffx:
    Anonymous:
    I couldn't agree more. TDWTF is not the place for this lolshit. We're supposed to be adults for Christ's sake, not a bunch of kids making image macros of cats and posting them on anonymous message boards "for teh lulz!!!1!!1!". Grow the fuck up already.

    I find it ironic that the person saying such is the person calling themselves 'Anonymous'.

    Sounds a lot like "Old Anonymous" bitching about "New Anonymous" to me!

  • (cs) in reply to Buzz Monkey
    Buzz Monkey:
    Not sure that professional cryptographers would actually care...but

    Either way, I was taught something similar to Enigma (if I understand him correctly) - that coding is about trying to increase likelihood that message is received correctly - or at least that errors are detected. Cryptography is about trying to decrease probability that Oscar can get meaningful message out of it.

    Oh, they certainly do care.
    Now most people in Alice's position would give up. Not Alice. She has courage which can only be described as awesome. Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organize a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimizing the cost of the phone call.

    A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.

    Clicky-link for much more. It's funny.
  • Funkadelic (unregistered)

    I was a shift manager taking over for the night, when the previous shift manager informed me the safe combo had changed. To ensure I didn't forget the new combo, he had helpfully written the new combo on a piece of paper, and locked it in the safe as a precaution. I stared at him for about 10 seconds before he clued in and sheepishly went to retrieve the paper.

  • CB (unregistered) in reply to Baz
    Baz:
    There is no WTF with that PDF.

    It uses the form-filling capabilities of Acrobat, including autocomplete, and javascript. That means it cannot be used as instructed in evince, xpdf, kpdf, Preview on OS X, Nodobe, Google Documents, Foxit,... or any other PDF reader you care to name (and as mentioned earlier in this thread, won't work in old Acrobat readers either). On Windows Acrobat is king but its not the viewer of choice on any other platform.

    You have something against ghostscript? :-|

  • (cs)

    They bang their heads on the keyboard all day? That must be where the programmer/designer works that wrote: "Search the LDAP Directory".

    I'm from the Department of Redundancy Department and this foolishness is a non-sensical phrase with no clear meaning, and clearly, a clear violation infraction of a regulation ordinance.

    Unless LDAP means something else to Bradford, one does not search the LDAP, you use LDAP to query and modify directory services... and users won't know what the hell you's talkin bout, and might miss out on an integral tool.

  • Compliance Sheep (unregistered) in reply to notme
    notme:
    Edss:
    Step 1: Sue Microsoft to have them take IE out of Windows

    Step 2: Download alternative brows- Damn.

    Windows has an integrated FTP-Client. It's called, surprisingly, "ftp".

    Came here to say this only to discover my work here was done :)

    c:\>ftp ftp.firefox.com
ftp>ls
ftp>get...

    ...you get the picture ;)

  • The Fake WTF (unregistered)

    The show was about money & politics, so why are you guys complaining that it was described as a dummyEvent?

    Don't they have truth in advertising laws to follow?

  • quintopia (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    To read these comments - please use the following link

    http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Theres-Gotta-Be-A-Catch.aspx

    Featuring this comment took the humor out of it. It's no longer self-reference if you move it to another page!

  • Alex (unregistered)

    QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRpb24g == base64'd Administration

  • SXQncyBtZQo (unregistered)

    "QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRpb24g" is the word "Administration" in base64 encoding.

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