The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

You Can't Beat This High Score

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2015-01-30

"According to Rocksmith's global stats, it looks like there's no point attempting to beat the arcade high score," Andrew M. wrote.

1 comments - Last comment @ 2018-08-31

Flying is Easier than Math

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2015-01-23

"I travel a lot for work and watch my 'premier (elite) qualification' with United fairly closely," writes Lincoln, "Imagine my surprise when I was looking at my account and United was showing 4,100 qualifying segments as my beginning balance. Sadly, like many aspects of the new United, 4100 plus 37 equals....78."

99 comments - Last comment @ 2015-02-01

For Those Who Insist on Zapping Their Tongues

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2015-01-16

"Cool! Amazon now apparently offers a battery that comes in various flavors to enhance the experience," writes Evan C.

59 comments - Last comment @ 2015-01-16

Savings That You Wouldn't Believe

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2015-01-09

"Apparently this subscription service will stop at nothing to keep my business," writes Mike F.

1 comments - Last comment @ 2023-06-09

Everything Californian Be Found On The Internet

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2015-01-02

"You wouldn't think that anyone would ever make such a clbuttic mistake as replacing every instance of 'ca' with 'California' on a page, yet, here we are," John S. writes.

41 comments - Last comment @ 2018-02-25

Classic WTF - The Long Way

by Mark Bowytz in Coded Smorgasbord on 2015-01-01

2014 was a great year for us and hopefully for you too! Happy 2015 everybody! Enjoy this popular WTF from all the way back in May.

Sometimes, a developer just needs to take the long way around. Sure, a line of code like DateTime StartTime = DateTime.Now looks simple and readable, but what happens if you want the StartTime variable to be not exactly now?

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Classic WTF - A Pentester's Paradise

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2015-01-01

To help ring in the new year, here - enjoy this "Best of WTF" classic that ran in 2014!

Tom works as a pentester and, as such, gets paid big bucks for finding flaws in his clients' websites usually because he has to find less than obvious 'gotcha'-level flaws.

119 comments - Last comment @ 2015-01-22

Happy New Year Everybody!

by Mark Bowytz in Announcements on 2015-01-01

Wow! Awesome! This is the year we finally get the flying cars and hoverboards that we were promised. I can't wait! It's officially the future.

1 comments - Last comment @ 2017-09-28