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"Stefan went in search of an assault rifle and a plane ticket..."
How would you get an assault rifle on a plane?
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You see, this is why TDD can't be trusted!
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Checked luggage?
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Maybe he hates plane tickets.
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Do they even let you an a plane in 'Murica without an assault weapon? Surely anyone without one is a foreigner, therefore a terrorist.
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TRTDWTF is that an author on this site does not know the difference between an internet and the Internet and between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
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" Time Berners-Lee built the internet on top of it all, and it still worked remarkably well."
You can't fool me. Al Gore invented the internet.
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Plus, Tim Berners-Lee came up with HTTP, not "the Internet" (everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet, right?)
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No, that was AOL Time-Warner ... oh, wait ... can't we just bring Jon Postel back from the grave, reconstitute the IANA, and get somebody who cares about names and numbers to straighten out all these blogs?
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What I learned from this article is that UDP was invented to replace operators on the PSTN, and was eventually replaced by TCP, which was invented (six years before UDP) because UDP wasn't reliable despite its misleading name. Then, Time Berners-Lee used TCP to invent the internet, which had already existed for decades.
All you need a reference to Al Gore, and you're golden.
TRWTF is this Fing article.
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Never trust your users, consultants, or off-shores.
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The TRWTF is a story that anonymized into a unbelievable level.
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Wow, such a long, rambling post for such a short WTF. Did Erik Gern log in on snoofle's account?
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Was the intro to this article supposed to be the WTF? I get jokes, but this was so mangled I could hardly read it. And really, an invention of the Internets requires an Al Gore reference. If you say Interwebs and want to reference Tim(e) Berners-Lee, then you get a pass and the joke still stands. But to go from operator assisted phone calls to UDP...?!
There has GOT to be a better way to introduce TCP into a story. Especially one where the entire flipping WTF is in the title of the article. (I knew the punchline before I got to it, 13 paragraphs later.
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What is the difference between an internet and the Internet and between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
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Al Gore invented the Internet!
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Al Gore did NOT invent the Internet. He invented something more fundamental: The Al Gore-rithm.
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You insert a PLUG into a JACK (a "hole").
The TT connector used in (wo)manned switchboards is still in use in recording studios and sound reinforcement.
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It is also termed an audio jack, phone jack, phone plug, and jack plug. Specific models are termed stereo plug, mini-stereo, mini jack, headphone jack, microphone jack, tiny telephone connector, bantam plug.[1]
In the UK, the terms jack plug and jack socket are commonly used for the respective male and female phone connectors.[2] In the US, a stationary (more fixed) electrical connector is called a "jack".[3][4] The terms phone plug and phone jack are sometimes used to refer to different genders of phone connectors,[5] but are also sometimes used colloquially to refer to RJ11 and older telephone plugs and the corresponding jacks that connect wired telephones to wall outlets. Phone plugs and jacks are not to be confused with the similar terms phono plug and phono jack (or in the UK, phono socket) which refer to RCA connectors common in consumer hi-fi and audiovisual equipment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_%28audio%29
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This is when we need a flash monkey to do some Al Gore-rhythm. Get some good quotes from him, get some good pictures of him, get a little beat going, and bang! You have an interweb sensation that'll make the people of ten years ago lose their minds.
Even now (and especially then) we weren't paratus (captcha) for that.
PS. It means "ready". Learn Latin (with an emphasis in fake-Latin) already so you can translate the captchas.
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Re: Al Gore and Internet http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
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Blue, please.
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Looks like the "company in a land recently liberated from an oppressive overlord" has just acquired a new oppressive overlord, Stefan.
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No I didn't. Now shut up or I'll write Hanzo article.
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Can you "guaranty" that there aren't some other mistakes?
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I thought Prometheus stole the Internet from the gods and brought it to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
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Don't worry. He has deeply held religious beliefs so he can do whatever he wants and it's okay.
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It's funny, you can tell if an article is using discourse for comments by just seeing how many comments it has already. If it's somewhere around 20ish, it's using discourse and nobody can be bothered commenting.
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Whoa dude, be careful with that edge! You might cut yourself.
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I was going to make the same observation yesterday but yesterday's article was using Discourse for comments, so I refrained.
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UDP
It's as easy as 3 2
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Impossible. Al Gore is a middle aged white man and everyone knows they don't have -rithm.
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The same tech company ran wrote the airport terminal screening software:
if (metalDetectorDetectsWeapon) { return; }
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There's still the old forum in place, although it is not linked.
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Incorrect. Americans use the term jack to describe telephone plugs/sockets/connectors. People in the UK don't.
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"she picked up the phone, pressed the receiver a couple of times"
You don't press the receiver. The receiver is the thing you speak into. You flash the hook. (That made a clicking noise on the line that would get the attention of the operator.)
This article gets a very high score in the I-don't-know-the-terminology competition.
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Apparently there's a large chunk of people who think it's the weapons that make a family friendly environmnet.
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http://www.news.com.au/national/tony-abbott8217s-gaffe-credits-malcolm-turnbull-for-8216inventing-the-internet8217/story-fncynjr2-1226671568832
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