0xb16b00b5

[donKey jote]

BBC News - Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18922629)
teehee. :rolleyes:

How offensive is a puerile hex 0xB16B00B5 in code nobody but nerds would see ? http://i46.tinypic.com/hv9ul3.gif
Oh I forgot, this is the country where a nipple on TV causes an outrage...

Good job I don't work for Microsoft, my code is full of puerile donkeys :laugh:

[Mark]

It is great isn't it. Devs do have a sense of humour after all. It's just as the likes of the BBC got a hold of it that it's 'news'.

Seriously who else but people coding device drivers is going to see this?

[Dave B]

It's no more sexist than making your calculator display "BOOBIES". Shame hex has got such a limited character set, the best I could ever get was 50D0FF. Just daft humour, nothing to apologise for.

[TheFamousEccles]

Ya know, I was just flicking through the Chit Chat listings and saw this thread. "what does that mean?" I thought to myself. So I clicked.

Really? Someone got all het up over that? The world is a strange place, sometimes - and not always in an interesting way. I agree, if the meedja hadn't pretended to be all outraged by this it wouldn't have even raised a ripple...

[donKey jote]

I misread the last word in your post... :dozey: :andrea:

[TheFamousEccles]

Fnar! (que best Beavis and Butthead impersonation)

[Gregor-y]

I'm surprised MicroSoft still does that level of coding in the US.

[ioan]

You'd be surprised about the absolutely normal stuff that some people can get offended and upset about.