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Obviously the bus is going to wherever those hotels are.
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Exception of type 'WTF_Class_Library.Comment.InputFucked' was thrown.
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I wonder what the details of the exception were? Maybe it was: "Some big guy came from behind and put his love-rod where the sun doesn't shine"
CAPTCHA: abigo
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The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25
I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something
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Well, too bad Melissa can't catch that bus to get to her hotel then. If only she could enter the bus...
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Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.
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Tianl ypu fos rebdiog tie wprle's bfst cpmmeot!
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I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!
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Didn't you get the memo? We're putting the Terminal Illness Cover on all the TPS Reports now, and there's no extra charge to the customer. And we're offering cookies at $1/39.
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I love the fact that this is a Subway just a couple of miles from Sun, Oracle, and other major software manufacturers. Makes the issue all the more glaring (although it is not as bad a shop as the one in back on the minimart a few miles away).
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Well played sir
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captcha: wifeisoutoftown
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My boredometer goes high with this entry. It's all foucked up too.
captcha: letatio??? is this the adult zone?
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I've been to unknown a few times. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.
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This is what you get if you outsource the cash register software to China/Taiwan/India/Eastern Europe
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Invalid Entry is naturally bound to Paris, France, Palais des Invalides captcha : nimis (nil quid)(= nothing too much)
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I dunno...that one looks like it may have actually been outsourced to Jar Jar Binks...
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The bus sign is not a WTF. The sign tells that even the people with disabilities can enter the bus. An other name for that is low-entry bus. Don't know where you need an electronic sign for that, though.
And BTW, it's "Wosld's Besu Saodwici". I would hate to have wosls in my saodwici (a wosl'd saodwici).
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According to maps.google.com, "unknown, usa" is somewhere in South Carolina.
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I'd suggest that calling disabled people invalids is a WTF.
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invalid entries usually go to /dev/null. and you don't want to be there before your time.
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I sure hope the "not a WTF guy" was being sarcastic and your sarcasm detector wasn't sensitive enough to pick it up.
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You sir are fucking retarded...
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The whole point of having "a birthday" is that it's the WHOLE number of years you have been alive.
If I was 36.5 at my next birthday it wouldn't be my next birthday, it'd be 6 months out.
I think this must be slight-less-obvious-than-obvious-troll-troll, as you also managed to use "it's" and "its" incorrectly TWICE in the same sentence.
:)
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Arguing with yourself isn't healthy you know...
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It looks like it had been outsourced to TUQKBIMLESICA.
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Wow. And I thought the time there was a bunch of unprocessed line break escapes ("\n") on my Subway receipt was bad. But this takes the cookie platter.
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the real wtfs are matt didn't give us the details on that exception and our hungry patron didn't order a cookie.
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Addendum (2009-03-31 10:59): Seems I forgot which bit is sent first on serial, so... my stop bit guess is impossible. I'd have to agree with Brian and others, definitely a stuck bit on the parallel port the printer is linked to.
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If I'm retarded, that means you're retarded!
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For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted. My first thought was that it was a parallel port issue where one of the data lines has been broken, but that doesn't quite work because it's not every single character.
SAME!RECEIQTSuose!#19111
is
SALE RECEIPTStore #19111
L is ASCII #76, M is #77. P and Q are also 1 bit different. Same for T/U and S/R. Spaces are being substituted as exclamation points (space is #32, ! is #33).
So, there's some sort of failure mode resulting in the LSB being set to "1". But only for certain characters in the ASCII set.
My guess, is that part of the memory area holding the ASCII codes has been fried.
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Clearly LightStyx is carrying a nasty grudge for being burned yesterday. In case you did not notice, LightStyx, THE ENTIRE SET OF COMMENTS were mocking you.
Give it up LightStyx, you might as well retire your account now.
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PS., FTFY
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CAPTCHA: consequat (Whatsa the consequat forsa makin funna Jar Jar?)
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These!is!a!loose!wise!os someuhiog!causiog!eycess!caqaciuaoce!oo the!D0 lioe/ Eiuhes thau, os these's!a!damagee pumldowo ciscuiu. The!resumt is; Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC seu, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC seu. Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC cmeas, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC uociaogee.
This!acuuamly!makes!iu possicle!to!pastiamly!rewesse!the!egfecu (ig ouupuu cias has!LSC cmeas, you!koow!the!ciasacues begose!iu hae the!LSC cmeas)/
(Original text:) There is a loose wire or something causing excess capacitance on the D0 line. Either that, or there's a damaged pulldown circuit. The result is: If character N has its LSB set, then character N+1 will have its LSB set. If character N has its LSB clear, then character N+1 will have its LSB unchanged.
This actually makes it possible to partially reverse the effect (if output char has LSB clear, you know the character before it had the LSB clear).
It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...
http://klozoff.ms11.net/testing/saodwici.html
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Actually, they do sometimes count years of 360 days for some calculations, so I guess after enough time they could get out of sync with reality, so to speak. But I've never seen them use a fractional age at a birthday, and it still seems like a WTF to me.
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Also, needs moar Besu Besu!
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TRWTF is not the decimal age, which, hooray, finally breaks the chains of this obsession with "conversational age", it's the report writer that can't see any other definition and puts a pointless, (and otherwise redundant) "birthday" in the label. However the company apparently still convinced you simply HAVE to truncate the number to SOMETHING.
Insurance companies, healthcare records, research, etc. should all be using floating-point ages, unless your subjects instantly age an entire year on your birth anniversary (how painful!). Looks like this company has finally figured out how a person reports their "age" number in casual conversation (assuming they are over 10) doesn't have anything to do with how many miles they body they are planning to insure actually has. In any case, conversational age shifts the mean (from a random distribution) from it's real value by 0.5 years.
Sadly I still see 360-day "years", 28-day "months" and nothing but "conversational age" in virtually all clinical research, healthcare, et. al. software I've encountered in the wild.
Anyway, I am surprised. The readers of this site, of all people, should know the difference between "correct" and "almost right".
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shutter
You must have all the patience in the world then. I'm comfortable with tedious work but not that tedious... =\
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John Galt - the problem with your theory is, it says "age next birthday." She won't be 28.5 on her next birthday, she'll be exactly 29...or 29. Which is it?
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Oops, she'll be 28 or 29. See how confused that report makes me?
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Me too. I remembered that a 16550A is a UART, but that's about all.