Get real. Security all comes down to the person who's task it is to implement it.
Years ago, I was on a DoD facility where scheduling was being done on a UNIX box. Everyone there used the console for their work, everyone used the root account to do their work, and the password was written in on the first page of the book marked "Procedures" that was beside the console.
Hmm. Maybe she was. But, she sounds more than a little batty to me. I have seen similar behavior in a relative with some form of dementia. If she is not competent, she can't be held responsible for her actions. Now, I don't know what her mental state actually is, but can you honestly argue that sending almost half a million dollars to some unknown over two years is rational behavior? To carry on your own example, if the burglar who falls through your skylight turns out to be a 22 year old who functions at the level of a three or four year old, do you feel the same way?
Yes, she did not deserve to get ripped off. Women do not deserve to get raped. Nobody deserves to have someone walk in their home an take money off the table.
However....
If everyone tells you that your behavior is going to make you the victim of a criminal act and you still insist on continuing your behavior, then I get to withhold my sympathy. That is where I draw the line; at the point where there is no doubt you knew you were putting yourself at risk.
I used to get the cosmic ray answer from Motorola when one of our former systems would suffer a double-bit parity error and go TU. The first time the support weenie said it, it was mildly amusing, but by the third time they replaced all the memory, including swapping it with a system that nevercrashed, I figured out that it was their code phrase for "I don't know, I don't care, and I am going home." I have not had a Motorola system for eight years, and my cosmic ray problem left when they did. To me, that proves that Motorola was the weakest link.
Harry Potter has a zigzag scar on his forehead right? I wonder where she got that idea from?
It came from a guy that does not live on an island, who does not fight pirates, but does have a ring with a lightning bolt on it, and he punches people in the forehead. Oh, and he carries two Lugar pistols.
The point is that I consider the mind behind the device to be the issue, not the device. A car is meant to transport people. A firearm is meant to launch a projectile. Beakers are meant to contain things. Phrases like "could be used to kill" and "meant to be used to kill" only serve to muddy the waters of discussion. Not even the chemicals used in lethal injection are "meant to be used to kill."
And, since this was a discussion on chemistry, I thought it was the wrong place to bring up guns.
Considering all the things that are not supposed to kill people, but do, maybe we should ban them before trying to inject the gun debate into a discussion.
While I didn't get the double major, I spent almost as much time in philosophy classes as in CS classes. I found it to be a different kind of thinking that was almost relaxing compared to a long day over a hot keyboard debugging a parser. Not, as my family insisted, because I like to argue. I agree completely with it being about discussion, and how to defend one's ideas without resorting to "Oh, yeah?", and "Sez you!"
Oh, and getting to recite from memory the Professor of Logic from The Album of The Soundtrack of The Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in class was a also a plus.
So, this system will not be susceptible to fraud because young people will use it to buy alcohol, an activity known to create a black market in fraudulent identification. Brilliant!
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I hope you are waiting for someone to mod you "funny."
Get real. Security all comes down to the person who's task it is to implement it.
Years ago, I was on a DoD facility where scheduling was being done on a UNIX box. Everyone there used the console for their work, everyone used the root account to do their work, and the password was written in on the first page of the book marked "Procedures" that was beside the console.
At ease, man. Just trying to be funny.....
I first read that as "Hamster-On-A-Rope". A very WTF moment.
Lord help us, Shampoo has a sibling.
Cheese, Gromit!
Water, the refreshing beverage that rusts pipes, and fish fuck in!
Makes recycled pee seem tame by comparison.
What about middle managers, hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, etc.?
Hmm. Maybe she was. But, she sounds more than a little batty to me. I have seen similar behavior in a relative with some form of dementia. If she is not competent, she can't be held responsible for her actions. Now, I don't know what her mental state actually is, but can you honestly argue that sending almost half a million dollars to some unknown over two years is rational behavior? To carry on your own example, if the burglar who falls through your skylight turns out to be a 22 year old who functions at the level of a three or four year old, do you feel the same way?
I dunno. Fuck it.
There is a company that make super loud horns (150dB). Google "super loud horn" and see all the things that turn up.
Yes, she did not deserve to get ripped off. Women do not deserve to get raped. Nobody deserves to have someone walk in their home an take money off the table.
However....
If everyone tells you that your behavior is going to make you the victim of a criminal act and you still insist on continuing your behavior, then I get to withhold my sympathy. That is where I draw the line; at the point where there is no doubt you knew you were putting yourself at risk.
Will your world also have flying pigs?
Yes! And, a soundtrack from Pink Floyd! Hello, tinnitus!
I used to get the cosmic ray answer from Motorola when one of our former systems would suffer a double-bit parity error and go TU. The first time the support weenie said it, it was mildly amusing, but by the third time they replaced all the memory, including swapping it with a system that nevercrashed, I figured out that it was their code phrase for "I don't know, I don't care, and I am going home." I have not had a Motorola system for eight years, and my cosmic ray problem left when they did. To me, that proves that Motorola was the weakest link.
Let the 'suck' jokes commence.....
I bet she could suck a planet through a garden hose!
Better than having it drop through your $500 floor.
Everybody have fun tonight! (Everybody have fun tonight) Everybody Chunghwa tonight! (Everybody Chunghwa tonight)
I know someone that did that! Four disk packs and two CDC drives later, it was all over but the shouting.
I think that's the same thing my Labrador does.
Can't really argue with that, either!
Harry Potter has a zigzag scar on his forehead right? I wonder where she got that idea from?
It came from a guy that does not live on an island, who does not fight pirates, but does have a ring with a lightning bolt on it, and he punches people in the forehead. Oh, and he carries two Lugar pistols.
The point is that I consider the mind behind the device to be the issue, not the device. A car is meant to transport people. A firearm is meant to launch a projectile. Beakers are meant to contain things. Phrases like "could be used to kill" and "meant to be used to kill" only serve to muddy the waters of discussion. Not even the chemicals used in lethal injection are "meant to be used to kill." And, since this was a discussion on chemistry, I thought it was the wrong place to bring up guns.
Considering all the things that are not supposed to kill people, but do, maybe we should ban them before trying to inject the gun debate into a discussion.
If you are really home on the range, you can cook anything anywhere.
While I didn't get the double major, I spent almost as much time in philosophy classes as in CS classes. I found it to be a different kind of thinking that was almost relaxing compared to a long day over a hot keyboard debugging a parser. Not, as my family insisted, because I like to argue. I agree completely with it being about discussion, and how to defend one's ideas without resorting to "Oh, yeah?", and "Sez you!"
Oh, and getting to recite from memory the Professor of Logic from The Album of The Soundtrack of The Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in class was a also a plus.
So, this system will not be susceptible to fraud because young people will use it to buy alcohol, an activity known to create a black market in fraudulent identification. Brilliant!