The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

eViLegion · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

(1) WTF is "fat sick"?

(2) Why is Frank Dilatush's story so fascinating?

(3) Who is responsible for all this boldness?

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2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)

Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

eViLegion · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

I like how "alphanumeric" doesn't seem to include the separately specified "numeric".

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

eViLegion:
(3) Who is responsible for all this boldness?

Isn't that obvious? 'Peter Gutmann/strong>' is responsible for all the boldness...

russ0519 · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind

One likely scenario is the system imports some users from a third party source which happens to use 9 character ids. This restriction is probably just to prevent the possibility of conflicts.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

If the last picture is from the same site as Wednesday's code it's no WTF at all. You can't select no button anyway.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

ANON:
If the last picture is from the same site as Wednesday's code it's no WTF at all. You can't select no button anyway.

I think the proper grammar choice is the triple negative, as in: "You ain't gonna select no buttons, nohow."

DaveK · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

TRWTF is that it makes that suggestion, but if you click on it all you get is a message telling you that 'we could not find any results for "fat sick and nearly dead"'. So why did you suggest it then, idiots?

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Its a good thing that instead of worrying about xss or js injection in his browser, Peter laughed at number 3 and quickly navigated to tdwtf.

....On other hand maybe form hijacking isn't that bad when purchasing on ebay.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

The Duke Nukem Steam-WTF isn't a WTF at all. It just means the games are on 50% discount, but the full package which is a different item, isn't. Happen(s/ed) all the time in physical software stores too, where individual software items were on sale, but the collection of something isn't/wasn't. At least steam is nice enough to show you that you can get thngs cheaper, if you want. So if you don't, well, stores must love you.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

TRWTF is naming any web site as "MySomething".

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Various search hints from play.com

fox's -> Did you mean: blue slim tri-fold pu leather case for kindle fire hd 7" stylus screen protector

sock's -> Did you mean: 8-socket surgemaster maximum series

your's -> Did you mean: the best years of our lives

's -> Did you mean: chilled r n b

The apostrophe must be the key to getting strange 'Did you mean' results...

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Hankey:
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

One, Two, Five!

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Arthur:
Hankey:
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

One, Two, Five!

Three, sir.

Nutster · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

I guess it is time to get the altimeter recalibrated on that plane. My first thoughts on that flight were: Wow, that is most of the way to the moon (then I realized I goofed a decimal place, still that is really out there), and how do you get an air temperature that far from the Earth?

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead was a book about the health complications of obesity. How the computer figured that you might be interested in that from a couple of cute children's books, I have no idea.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Peter is clearly caught in a time loop and needs to take Cmdr Riker's advice.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Search Hint Coder:
Various search hints from play.com
fox's -> Did you mean: blue slim tri-fold pu leather case for kindle fire hd 7" stylus screen protector

sock's -> Did you mean: 8-socket surgemaster maximum series

your's -> Did you mean: the best years of our lives

's -> Did you mean: chilled r n b

The apostrophe must be the key to getting strange 'Did you mean' results...

I tried without the apostrophe and got the same result.

The "Did you mean" is just strange.

Leak · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Sockatume:
Peter is clearly caught in a time loop and needs to take Cmdr Riker's advice.

This being Peter Gutmann I think he's probably aware of the RISKS...

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Get back to work you slackers!

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

quote user="eViLegion" WTF is "fat sick"?

"Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" is a documentary film about an Australian businessman who goes on a juice diet for two months while touring the United States. He drops a lot of weight and gets himself into quite good shape. It's a "food propaganda" film promoting whole raw foods.

operagost · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

russ0519:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.

Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Nick:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind

One likely scenario is the system imports some users from a third party source which happens to use 9 character ids. This restriction is probably just to prevent the possibility of conflicts.

Still, that's not something you need to tell your users. Just add a special case to the code that checks to see if an ID is already in use: if it's 9 digits, it's reserved. Suggest adding a number to it, which conveniently makes it longer than 9 digits.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Sometimes a system requires both "local" users that are unique to the system and "imported" users from some larger system. When this is done there is a need to deal with the possibility of collisions between "local" usernames and "imported" usernames.

So I suspect the answer is that 9 character usernames can be imported from some other (internal) system and so aren't available for people registering on the website.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Man, I've been short changed. Mine US Social Security number is only 9 digits.

operagost · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

It's clear Fox In Socks has a surplus of socks, so the government should impose a 75% sock tax, taking three of his four socks. Then they can give one sock to "Fox's Socks", give one sock to an overseas dictator, Baby Fox, and one sock will disappear in "administrative costs". Each fox will then have one sock, prompting MSNBC to laud the Obama administration for improving "Fox's Socks" eleventy billion percent (because they can't find the infinity key on the teleprompter keyboard) and sticking it to the "rich fox" who really only needs one sock because he can always wear flip flops. Fox in Socks goes on-- you guessed it-- Fox News to complain. The mainstream media fails to notice that when the Obama family goes to Martha's Vineyard a few weeks later, each is wearing four pairs of socks.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

TRWTF is wanting to buy DNF

operagost · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Drenrab:
Man, I've been short changed. Mine US Social Security number is only 9 digits.

Trust me, the extra digit doesn't help it work any better.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

DaveK:
TRWTF is that it makes that suggestion, but if you click on it all you get is a message telling you that 'we could not find any results for "fat sick and nearly dead"'. So why did you suggest it then, idiots?

Although there is a sponsored link for "fat, sick and nealy dead recipes".

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

CigarDoug:
ANON:
If the last picture is from the same site as Wednesday's code it's no WTF at all. You can't select no button anyway.
I think the proper grammar choice is the triple negative, as in: "You ain't gonna select no buttons, nohow."

Upping the ante: "You ain't never gonna select no buttons, nohow."

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Was there really any need to delete all the previous comments? You risk alienating people when you lose/remove participants contributions.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

DaveK:
TRWTF is that it makes that suggestion, but if you click on it all you get is a message telling you that 'we could not find any results for "fat sick and nearly dead"'. So why did you suggest it then, idiots?

Horrible application of Markov Chains and some goofball having too much fun with the search engine.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

operagost:
russ0519:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.
Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.

xxx-xx-xxxx 123-45-6789

hmm....

Medezark · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

operagost:
russ0519:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.
Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.

Really? Mine is 9 digits. XXX-XX-XXXX

DCRoss · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Search Hint Coder:
Various search hints from play.com
fox's -> Did you mean: blue slim tri-fold pu leather case for kindle fire hd 7" stylus screen protector

sock's -> Did you mean: 8-socket surgemaster maximum series

your's -> Did you mean: the best years of our lives

's -> Did you mean: chilled r n b

The apostrophe must be the key to getting strange 'Did you mean' results...

I tried searching for "fox'); DROP TABLE USERS; --" but nothing came up at all.

I did get several sponsored links trying to sell me "Table Removal" and "Drop Leaf Tables" at very reasonable prices, so it wasn't a total loss.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

operagost:
It's clear Fox In Socks has a surplus of socks, so the government should impose a 75% sock tax, taking three of his four socks. Then they can give one sock to "Fox's Socks", give one sock to an overseas dictator, Baby Fox, and one sock will disappear in "administrative costs". Each fox will then have one sock, prompting MSNBC to laud the Obama administration for improving "Fox's Socks" eleventy billion percent (because they can't find the infinity key on the teleprompter keyboard) and sticking it to the "rich fox" who really only needs one sock because he can always wear flip flops. Fox in Socks goes on-- you guessed it-- Fox News to complain. The mainstream media fails to notice that when the Obama family goes to Martha's Vineyard a few weeks later, each is wearing four pairs of socks.

That's not quite how it works.

What they do is tax 75%, take 2 socks chop them up and hand everyone a piece of sock. The remaining sock goes to tax breaks for their lobbyist friends. Then when they realize that the criminal undocumented immigrants didn't get any socks because they don't have IDs, they force some Chinese guy to make material to make socks with, temporarily employ workers so they can say they created jobs, make the workers quality test the socks the Chinese made, and hand the socks to the banks, so the banks can give back loaner socks for the government to hand out to the criminal undocumented immigrants, who get whole socks, while Americans get only shredded pieces.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Face's -> fuck buttons slow focus WTF!

eViLegion · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Yozza Hughes:
Face's -> fuck buttons slow focus WTF!

Do you require medical attention?

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

DCRoss:
Search Hint Coder:
Various search hints from play.com
fox's -> Did you mean: blue slim tri-fold pu leather case for kindle fire hd 7" stylus screen protector

sock's -> Did you mean: 8-socket surgemaster maximum series

your's -> Did you mean: the best years of our lives

's -> Did you mean: chilled r n b

The apostrophe must be the key to getting strange 'Did you mean' results...

I tried searching for "fox'); DROP TABLE DID_YOU_MEAN; --" but nothing came up at all.

I stopped getting weird Did you mean results, so it wasn't a total loss.

ftfy

operagost · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

xaade:
operagost:
russ0519:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.
Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.
xxx-xx-xxxx 123-45-6789

hmm....

Well, you know... Fridays and Mondays... runs

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

"fat sick and nearly dead" -- as the parent of young children this makes perfect sense to me.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

[quote user="Theo20185"]quote user="eViLegion" WTF is "fat sick"?

"Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" is a documentary film about an Australian businessman who goes on a juice diet for two months while touring the United States. He drops a lot of weight and gets himself into quite good shape. It's a "food propaganda" film promoting whole raw foods.[/quote]

TRWTF is promoting "whole, raw foods" with an all-juice diet, since fruit juice isn't exactly whole.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

I wish we lived in a world where if some idiot made their username for some random website their SSN, and then something bad happened, it was the user's own stupid fault.

I wish.

Coyne · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

/*
 * Return an appropriate suggestion if an exact match wasn't found.
 */
public String findDidYouMean(String input)
{
   String best = "";
   int closer = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
   int recent;

   //find closest match
   for(i : getMostRecentSearches(100))
   {
      recent = i.hashCode() - search.hashCode();
      recent = (recent >= 0 ? recent : -recent); //abs
      if (recent < closer)
      {
          closer = recent;
          best = i;
      }
   }
   return best;
}

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

np:
Search Hint Coder:
Various search hints from play.com
fox's -> Did you mean: blue slim tri-fold pu leather case for kindle fire hd 7" stylus screen protector

sock's -> Did you mean: 8-socket surgemaster maximum series

your's -> Did you mean: the best years of our lives

's -> Did you mean: chilled r n b

The apostrophe must be the key to getting strange 'Did you mean' results...

I tried without the apostrophe and got the same result.

The "Did you mean" is just strange.

and when you click on the suggestion:

Home Search "fat sick and nearly dead" We could not find any results for "fat sick and nearly dead".

Always good to suggest something irrelevant that doesn't exist. Keeps people from thinking they understand you.

lolwtf · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

Surprising the air is that warm out in space. Also surprising the air is in space at all.

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

operagost:
russ0519:
Yazeran:
Oh I would love the see the code behind that 'never 9 characters' rule... My guess is I would need some brainbleach afterwards... (I't Friday after all)
Yours Yazeran

Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

Isn't it obvious? the system assumes 9 ddigits are social security numbers.
Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.

Nope... 9 digits... count 'em

chubertdev · 2013-08-09 Reply Admin

operagost:
xaade:
operagost:
Maybe in Australia or the Philippines or something; they're 10 digits in the USA.
xxx-xx-xxxx 123-45-6789
hmm....
Well, you know... Fridays and Mondays... runs

hah

2013-08-09 Reply Admin

(1) WTF is "fat sick"?

Fat, sick and nearly dead is no way to go through life son.

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