I actually caught myself thinking like I was in a game once. I was going hiking recently and thought, "Hey, if I climb that peak I'll be one away from satisfying the 'Climb the Highest Peaks' achievement." I was creeped out and amused at the same time.
If I was in a permanent vegetative state I would love it if someone disconnected me, especially if I was conscious. Being awake in what is essentially a dead body sounds like a small slice of hell to me.
Especially if I sneak into your room and stand there with a feather tickling your nose.
Actually from my extensive winter hiking experience staying warm when you are moving is easy, in fact not getting too hot is the problem. The problem with getting cold is only when you stop to camp. Breakfast time is the worst. You have to get out of that nice comfy sleeping bag at the coldest part of the day, put on your frozen outer clothes and fiddle with an ice cold stove with half frozen fingers or gloves on. Just keep moving and you'd be fine.:)
I applied to them for a 1 year posting at McMurdo once. I didn't have the electronics skills though. You have to be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades to work down there due to the lack of outside support, especially in the winter.
At the very least they should create a list including passwords like the one in the article and block those from being used (the "lazy list"). Restricting you to a specific pattern is nuts though. What a great way to simplify things for a password cracker.
Friend of mine in college once out of curiosity tried to see how many systems he could get into just by trying obvious passwords. He told me he found approx 10 of them that used "password" as the password. He also found a number of databases and routers that were still using the factory default passwords.
What pisses me off even more is that every damn website requires a username/password so either I use the same password for every site, making me vulnerable to a hack on one breaking all of them, or I choose different ones. If I choose different ones I have to either write them down somewhere or use a password manager, again making me vulnerable to a single point of failure.
When schemes like this are based on obfuscation I have to wonder if the people running them know what exactly is going on in their own system. How do they keep track of it? How do they get money out of it? It is like setting up too many fake names and passwords, eventually you forget one yourself.
Also, his personal experience is not necessarily representative of all workplaces. It also depends on the nature of the work. Is it purely deadline based? "Fire fighting" type work like in customer support? "Feast or famine" type project work? That all makes a difference.
The more miserable and abusive the air travel experience the more people will want to avoid air travel as much as possible. Then air travel will be absolutely safe from terrorists because the planes will be empty and on the ground.
I strongly recommend watching this show from the back rows because it is so awful that space and time actually collapse into a singularity on the screen. Those in the front rows risk sitting within the event horizon and will have to watch it for all eternity.
I has psoriasis when I was fingerprinted for a DOD lab job. My fingerprints were temporarily gone and all I had was thick smooth skin on my fingertips. I even told them I had no prints and they didn't care. My print cards looked like heel prints, they wouldn't match my hands today at all.
I also had a hard time holding onto things with smooth fingertips.
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Plus it also requires using a massive, unshielded, nuclear fusion reactor.
I actually caught myself thinking like I was in a game once. I was going hiking recently and thought, "Hey, if I climb that peak I'll be one away from satisfying the 'Climb the Highest Peaks' achievement." I was creeped out and amused at the same time.
I hate the fact that sometimes I can't stack things in piles of more than 20. Just try carrying a hundred M&Ms.
I don't know who this Rob guy is or what he has in mind but I don't like the sound of it.
I've spent 3 weeks trying to get the Blue Bricks of Bamboozle set. I'll be pissed if they let any noob just walk in a get it for a few tokens.
Screw it, I'm going back to the Mega Blox MMO.
If I was in a permanent vegetative state I would love it if someone disconnected me, especially if I was conscious. Being awake in what is essentially a dead body sounds like a small slice of hell to me.
Especially if I sneak into your room and stand there with a feather tickling your nose.
Actually from my extensive winter hiking experience staying warm when you are moving is easy, in fact not getting too hot is the problem. The problem with getting cold is only when you stop to camp. Breakfast time is the worst. You have to get out of that nice comfy sleeping bag at the coldest part of the day, put on your frozen outer clothes and fiddle with an ice cold stove with half frozen fingers or gloves on. Just keep moving and you'd be fine. :)
I applied to them for a 1 year posting at McMurdo once. I didn't have the electronics skills though. You have to be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades to work down there due to the lack of outside support, especially in the winter.
Before anyone from the US gets too excited about going out on an exotic job:
Only Australian citizens, Australian residents with proof of eligibilty to work in Australia and New Zealand residents are eligble to apply.
At the very least they should create a list including passwords like the one in the article and block those from being used (the "lazy list"). Restricting you to a specific pattern is nuts though. What a great way to simplify things for a password cracker.
Friend of mine in college once out of curiosity tried to see how many systems he could get into just by trying obvious passwords. He told me he found approx 10 of them that used "password" as the password. He also found a number of databases and routers that were still using the factory default passwords.
What pisses me off even more is that every damn website requires a username/password so either I use the same password for every site, making me vulnerable to a hack on one breaking all of them, or I choose different ones. If I choose different ones I have to either write them down somewhere or use a password manager, again making me vulnerable to a single point of failure.
If you watch a bukkake scene in 3D you might instinctively want some eye protection.
When schemes like this are based on obfuscation I have to wonder if the people running them know what exactly is going on in their own system. How do they keep track of it? How do they get money out of it? It is like setting up too many fake names and passwords, eventually you forget one yourself.
Also, his personal experience is not necessarily representative of all workplaces. It also depends on the nature of the work. Is it purely deadline based? "Fire fighting" type work like in customer support? "Feast or famine" type project work? That all makes a difference.
The more miserable and abusive the air travel experience the more people will want to avoid air travel as much as possible. Then air travel will be absolutely safe from terrorists because the planes will be empty and on the ground.
I suspect Amtrak and Greyhound are behind this.
...someone who stares quietly into space and then says 'Hmm. I think I've seen something like this before.'"
Finally! Now I know what to say when I'm caught spacing out at work.
Or it can be used to power the Matrix for our computer overlords.
I hope they start spamming "Meet hot and horny girls!" more then.
If the pizza was a pie chart for what people would do if they found a million dollars, the fucker gave me the "donate it to charity" slice.
I strongly recommend watching this show from the back rows because it is so awful that space and time actually collapse into a singularity on the screen. Those in the front rows risk sitting within the event horizon and will have to watch it for all eternity.
Ah, here we go. The "good ol' days!" effect rears its ugly head. Nothing satisfies like an unfounded bias.
Well at least all those spams I get saying "Make you stronger in bed!" may actually be true for once.
I has psoriasis when I was fingerprinted for a DOD lab job. My fingerprints were temporarily gone and all I had was thick smooth skin on my fingertips. I even told them I had no prints and they didn't care. My print cards looked like heel prints, they wouldn't match my hands today at all.
I also had a hard time holding onto things with smooth fingertips.
"It takes a village to raise a child." Yes, as long as you also have a police officer and two witnesses present and it is tape recorded.
Children are starting to resemble museum pieces. Too fragile to be in public.
"Won't someone PLEASE think about the children!" Oh wait, these jerks did.