The problem is the generated passwords. go read a few IPSec articles about passwords. Also changing passwords on sites is bad idea unless an absolute necessity. Also in said articles.
Citation required for any absurdity claiming that changing passwords is a bad thing.
My boss (CIO) promotes me from his favorite developer to management, of which, admittedly I know nothing. After a few months he calls me into his office, wants to discuss my management style. He feels I'm not being assertive enough. Throws a knife down on the desk says, "Now, I want you to stab me." I say what. He says, "Stab me, go on, fucking stab me."
Perhaps you should have taken your smart phone out of your pocket and started video taping him.
I am officially done with this shitty site, I won't be checking to see if I got voted down, I am logging out & never coming back. I submitted this nearly an hour before, but yet this one gets posted instead; so fuck slashdot, and fuck all the owners, they can all go fuck their children which I know they love to do!!!
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Do you really blame the users for not updating? How many times have you updated an application and found the UI worse (such as filled with ads) or doesn't work as well?
Yup, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I once updated an app that I used regularly. The new UI changed so much that a process that used to take 5-10 minutes in the old app would have taken an hour in the new app. No, thanks. I uninstalled the app, restored the.apk from my wife's phone, installed it onto mine, and disabled all updates. I'll never update a working app again.
These days - the "cover letter' is the wording of the e-mail you attach your CV to. That's where you determine if the person whose job it is to filter out the time-wasters (most likely a professional head-hunter these days) will bother with your CV at all.
These days, the cover letter is meaningless because HR departments use computers to filter CVs that contain the keywords that the hiring manager is looking for. If your electronic CV doesn't contain those "magic words", no human will ever see your CV.
In today's Electronic Age, what matters more is who you know, not what you know. You need to know the right person so you can bypass the HR department.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
No, we don't. The citizens of the US elect the people who make the laws, but that's where it ends.
When was the last time one of your representatives asked your opinion about a proposed new law? I'm willing to bet it's never happened, because it's certainly never happened to me.
DDG was ok for generic queries but sucked ass last I tried it for anything technical. Has it improved substantially since the Snowden revelations for day to day programming queries?
To me, the do-not-track benefit of DDG outweighs the occasionally poor search results. So I always search DDG first. If I don't find what I'm looking for in the first page or two of results, then I rerun the search in Google. And that includes both geeky queries and non-geeky queries.
1. Duress codes are a dumb idea that sounds cool. Why ? By definition you almost never use them.
Let me just throw out a few other "dumb ideas" you almost never use... Airbags. Fire Extinguishers. Life insurance. Parachutes. Seatbelts. Fire Departments. Just because they're an extreme response and you don't use them very often doesn't make them a "dumb idea".
Home alarm systems don't have them any more for a reason.
Friend of mine proved you wrong last year. His wife got home after a craaazy day at work and put in the wrong PIN on her home alarm. 15 minutes later there's a knock on the door from a guy in a white coat and the entire backdrop is full of cops. "What is this? I disarmed my alarm?" "yes, m'am but you used the *duress code* to do it." "oh..." So a bunch of boys in blue came in and swept the entire house while she was outside talking with the cops. Yes there will be false alarms, but the feature serves a function. They had that option enabled because someone they knew a few years back had been forced to disarm their car alarm at knifepoint so they knew the risk was real.
My home security system has the same feature, and it's easy to remember the "panic" code. It's just one number less than your "real" code.
I work for one of the largest Defense companies in the nation. In the last year we have had two major network outages. One related to provider issues and the other related to firewall changes gone bad.
This shit happens. Creating/Managing/Upgrading huge networks like this a very complicated and delicate task.
Certificate management is not a complicated task. Expired certificates is an example of incompetence, not an example of "complicated shit that just happens". It should be somebody's job to manage those expiration dates, period.
That's not just an "only" complaint. That's a HUGE fuckin' complaint.
I sure-as-hell love to find out that EVERYTHING I WAS DOING the last day at work is completely wiped away. It's fucking infuriating. And I maintain Microsoft products for a living.
Rebooting a PC won't lose a damn thing, unless you're too ignorant to save your work. Ever heard of a hard drive? You can save things semi-permanently there. Just like magic, what gets saved to your hard drive is still there after a reboot!
The only thing that rebooting would lose is your "current desktop", such as which apps are open and where the windows are located. And of course anything in-progress that hasn't been saved yet, but only idiots work in an unsaved Book1/Sheet1 in Excel all day.
It sounds to me like you are getting the treatment that your ignorance deserves. Or you just like to spread FUD.
I thought you scientist types were supposed to have an open mind? Yet you absolutely refuse to even consider anything religious.
Because religion is made-up bullshit. Being a scientist requires intelligence and the ability evaluate factual evidence. Once most scientists evaluate the "evidence" of religion, they realize that it is a man-made concept.
Yet, we both know you can't prove it wrong, so why be so closed minded?
Nor can you prove it right. Why do you insist in believing in fairy tales?
I have talked to dozens of SAP customers, and I always ask them "Are you happy that you decided to go with SAP?". So far, this is that number that have answered affirmatively: 0.
As a user stuck in the middle of an SAP migration, I would agree. Our legacy system has 18 years of transaction history, and it can run database queries that would crash SAP that only has 5% of the transaction volume. SAP can't even do simple data transfers to your PC without crashing because they do everything in-memory.
After migrating less than 1/5 of our sites to SAP, we are having such awful performance issues that we are implementing SAP's only solution (called HANA), which just runs the entire system in-memory. Great solution - instead of creating a well-designed system, just charge way too much money for more RAM.
Rules get ignored and circumvented. Devices and software have backdoors. I don't see how to make sense attempting to apply the concept in one area to the other.
Sorry, poor terminology choice. I should have said "exceptions" or "loopholes."
Bubble? What bubble, my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago. There is no bubble, and that's why people aren't moving. They owe too much on their house from last time the bubble burst. If selling your house means you have to pay the bank money to close out the mortgage, you're probably not going to move.
Same here. I live in the U.S. Midwest, and my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago.
Unless I win the lottery, this is the last home I'll ever own. (I'm 50, BTW.)
For WiFi management on laptops, I have yet to find a better alternative for Linux than NetworkManager though. Do you have any better suggestions? (Yes, I know that NetworkManager had a lot of issues the first few years, and I know about e.g. wicd — but these days NetworkManager has been working fine on my computers, and automatically works with most WiFi networks, while e.g. wicd still refuses to work with my uni network.)
Same here. NetworkManager does a pretty good job of managing my WiFi connections. That includes roaming between a dozen APs in a 3-story office building, and automatically switching between WiFi and LAN when I dock and undock my laptop.
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The problem is the generated passwords. go read a few IPSec articles about passwords. Also changing passwords on sites is bad idea unless an absolute necessity. Also in said articles.
Citation required for any absurdity claiming that changing passwords is a bad thing.
My boss (CIO) promotes me from his favorite developer to management, of which, admittedly I know nothing. After a few months he calls me into his office, wants to discuss my management style. He feels I'm not being assertive enough. Throws a knife down on the desk says, "Now, I want you to stab me." I say what. He says, "Stab me, go on, fucking stab me."
Perhaps you should have taken your smart phone out of your pocket and started video taping him.
I am officially done with this shitty site, I won't be checking to see if I got voted down, I am logging out & never coming back. I submitted this nearly an hour before, but yet this one gets posted instead; so fuck slashdot, and fuck all the owners, they can all go fuck their children which I know they love to do!!!
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Do you really blame the users for not updating? How many times have you updated an application and found the UI worse (such as filled with ads) or doesn't work as well?
Yup, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
.apk from my wife's phone, installed it onto mine, and disabled all updates. I'll never update a working app again.
I once updated an app that I used regularly. The new UI changed so much that a process that used to take 5-10 minutes in the old app would have taken an hour in the new app. No, thanks. I uninstalled the app, restored the
These days - the "cover letter' is the wording of the e-mail you attach your CV to. That's where you determine if the person whose job it is to filter out the time-wasters (most likely a professional head-hunter these days) will bother with your CV at all.
These days, the cover letter is meaningless because HR departments use computers to filter CVs that contain the keywords that the hiring manager is looking for. If your electronic CV doesn't contain those "magic words", no human will ever see your CV.
In today's Electronic Age, what matters more is who you know, not what you know. You need to know the right person so you can bypass the HR department.
I don't believe that anyone could find 50 "Netflix-only" kids who have never seen "normal" TV.
TFS should be posted at https://www.change.org./
TFS mentions "highly reliable numbers." Since only an HR department would use that terminology, the entire article is assumed to be B.S.
Next story, please.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
No, we don't. The citizens of the US elect the people who make the laws, but that's where it ends.
When was the last time one of your representatives asked your opinion about a proposed new law? I'm willing to bet it's never happened, because it's certainly never happened to me.
I had to read the first sentence 3 times just to figure out WTF the summary was trying to discuss.
DDG was ok for generic queries but sucked ass last I tried it for anything technical. Has it improved substantially since the Snowden revelations for day to day programming queries?
To me, the do-not-track benefit of DDG outweighs the occasionally poor search results. So I always search DDG first. If I don't find what I'm looking for in the first page or two of results, then I rerun the search in Google. And that includes both geeky queries and non-geeky queries.
Let me just throw out a few other "dumb ideas" you almost never use... Airbags. Fire Extinguishers. Life insurance. Parachutes. Seatbelts. Fire Departments. Just because they're an extreme response and you don't use them very often doesn't make them a "dumb idea".
Friend of mine proved you wrong last year. His wife got home after a craaazy day at work and put in the wrong PIN on her home alarm. 15 minutes later there's a knock on the door from a guy in a white coat and the entire backdrop is full of cops. "What is this? I disarmed my alarm?" "yes, m'am but you used the *duress code* to do it." "oh..." So a bunch of boys in blue came in and swept the entire house while she was outside talking with the cops. Yes there will be false alarms, but the feature serves a function. They had that option enabled because someone they knew a few years back had been forced to disarm their car alarm at knifepoint so they knew the risk was real.
My home security system has the same feature, and it's easy to remember the "panic" code. It's just one number less than your "real" code.
I work for one of the largest Defense companies in the nation. In the last year we have had two major network outages. One related to provider issues and the other related to firewall changes gone bad.
This shit happens. Creating/Managing/Upgrading huge networks like this a very complicated and delicate task.
Certificate management is not a complicated task. Expired certificates is an example of incompetence, not an example of "complicated shit that just happens". It should be somebody's job to manage those expiration dates, period.
...that studies are invariably wrong. Until another study shows that the "wrong" study was actually correct.
That's not just an "only" complaint. That's a HUGE fuckin' complaint.
I sure-as-hell love to find out that EVERYTHING I WAS DOING the last day at work is completely wiped away. It's fucking infuriating. And I maintain Microsoft products for a living.
Rebooting a PC won't lose a damn thing, unless you're too ignorant to save your work. Ever heard of a hard drive? You can save things semi-permanently there. Just like magic, what gets saved to your hard drive is still there after a reboot!
The only thing that rebooting would lose is your "current desktop", such as which apps are open and where the windows are located. And of course anything in-progress that hasn't been saved yet, but only idiots work in an unsaved Book1/Sheet1 in Excel all day.
It sounds to me like you are getting the treatment that your ignorance deserves. Or you just like to spread FUD.
I thought you scientist types were supposed to have an open mind? Yet you absolutely refuse to even consider anything religious.
Because religion is made-up bullshit. Being a scientist requires intelligence and the ability evaluate factual evidence. Once most scientists evaluate the "evidence" of religion, they realize that it is a man-made concept.
Yet, we both know you can't prove it wrong, so why be so closed minded?
Nor can you prove it right. Why do you insist in believing in fairy tales?
what could possibly go wrong?
I have talked to dozens of SAP customers, and I always ask them "Are you happy that you decided to go with SAP?". So far, this is that number that have answered affirmatively: 0.
As a user stuck in the middle of an SAP migration, I would agree. Our legacy system has 18 years of transaction history, and it can run database queries that would crash SAP that only has 5% of the transaction volume. SAP can't even do simple data transfers to your PC without crashing because they do everything in-memory.
After migrating less than 1/5 of our sites to SAP, we are having such awful performance issues that we are implementing SAP's only solution (called HANA), which just runs the entire system in-memory. Great solution - instead of creating a well-designed system, just charge way too much money for more RAM.
SAP is 10% product and 90% marketing.
...any email in my RSS feed from /. that contains Mozilla or Firefox in the subject.
I've moved on to Pale Moon, and I'm tired of hearing about Mozilla's self-induced death-spiral.
I cut ties with Disney after they outsourced their IT department.
News at 11.
Rules get ignored and circumvented. Devices and software have backdoors. I don't see how to make sense attempting to apply the concept in one area to the other.
Sorry, poor terminology choice. I should have said "exceptions" or "loopholes."
Thanks to the NSA and CIA, and such "rules" will have so many back doors that they will be useless.
Bubble? What bubble, my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago. There is no bubble, and that's why people aren't moving. They owe too much on their house from last time the bubble burst. If selling your house means you have to pay the bank money to close out the mortgage, you're probably not going to move.
Same here. I live in the U.S. Midwest, and my house is still worth 20% less than when I bought it 10 years ago.
Unless I win the lottery, this is the last home I'll ever own. (I'm 50, BTW.)
For WiFi management on laptops, I have yet to find a better alternative for Linux than NetworkManager though. Do you have any better suggestions? (Yes, I know that NetworkManager had a lot of issues the first few years, and I know about e.g. wicd — but these days NetworkManager has been working fine on my computers, and automatically works with most WiFi networks, while e.g. wicd still refuses to work with my uni network.)
Same here. NetworkManager does a pretty good job of managing my WiFi connections. That includes roaming between a dozen APs in a 3-story office building, and automatically switching between WiFi and LAN when I dock and undock my laptop.
Since "you don't need to provide any proof of purchase" the headline should be:
Here's how to get $10 free!
In other words, a bunch of whiners don't like the Zuck, and want him ousted.