Mods, how is this funny? This is interesting, maybe insightful or at the least informative? Underrated if you will. Flamebait if you are hardcore IE'er. Troll if msft gives you a pay cheque. Redundant if you don't know what it means. But not funny. ARRRLovin is making a good point. Come on.
A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back." The
room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan's offer.
One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. "Is your bet still good?", asks the Irishman.
The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back.
The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.
The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, "If ya don't mind me askin', where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?".
The Irishman replies, "Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first".
I read this in of the/.'s sig: "Freedom of choice is what you have. Freedom from choice is what you want". I think it applies to the general populace and is relevant here.
Ideally, they should not be storing the password on the disk itself at all for it to be a secure drive. But I've seen a lot of these decisions that seem boneheaded because a *lot* of people will forget their passwords and come back *demanding* that you decrypt their shit. If this is someone that even remotely knows the CEO of the company or somebody higher up and if you try to explain them one-way math functions, you will be getting the pink slip in no time.
Although what these guys did is unpardonable. I mean XOR? Jeez.
Peter Gibbons : What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence : I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons : That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence : Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons : Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence : Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons : Good point.
But, surprisingly, the first spam wasn't sent via e-mail
Shouldn't that be "But, unsurprisingly, the first spam wasn't sent via e-mail".
It would be really a surprise if they sent spam by email 100 years ago. Don't you think?!
I imagine. Single configuration, one update, all the "personal files" in a server somewhere -- makes for easy updating and backing up. Also keeps hardware requirements down
Welcome to the world of 'dumb terminals' again. Thanks for playing this long!
A really bad one would look for Excel/Word files and modify a couple of data entries in a huge list of numbers.
Kind of like someone breaking into the house, leaving something obnoxious under the fridge that starts smelling bad really gradually over a period of few months.
Imagine the look on the PHB's face when 6 months down the line he realizes while doing some entires in the sheet that the p/e ratio is negative!
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Mods, how is this funny? This is interesting, maybe insightful or at the least informative? Underrated if you will. Flamebait if you are hardcore IE'er. Troll if msft gives you a pay cheque. Redundant if you don't know what it means. But not funny. ARRRLovin is making a good point. Come on.
I just checked mine too. Same result. I am not spam-worthy anymore. Damn.
Well, you might call it spam or whatever but atleast somebody was sending me email.
The Popeye cell phone to a store near you!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Alright. One more.
A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back." The room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan's offer.
One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. "Is your bet still good?", asks the Irishman.
The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back.
The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.
The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, "If ya don't mind me askin', where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?".
The Irishman replies, "Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first".
You will, the day they start selling a six pack of wine for $4 in supermarkets.
Dome C is uninhabited over winter. The experiment was controlled by a PC/104 computer system that had to survive temperatures down to -85C
Now, that's a savage dome!
send msft to the recycle bin of history forever..
And, Right Click and "Empty Recycle Bin" and done!
Why remake it? Why remake 2 versions?
Remember the Rocky series. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and will keep going till Sly Stone is 95 years old and can't do it anymore.
It's called milking a cash cow.
Me: I A9'd for it.
I think you meant, "I Googled it on A9"
isn't choice often the mother of all fuck ups
/.'s sig: "Freedom of choice is what you have. Freedom from choice is what you want". I think it applies to the general populace and is relevant here.
I read this in of the
I had particularly ugly neighbors
The neighbor's response: "I had particularly ugly neighbors too"
Well, let me try to phrase it as precisely as I can. "It's something that makes a man out of a boy, instantly".
Why does the password need to be 'stored' anyway?
One word: support.
Ideally, they should not be storing the password on the disk itself at all for it to be a secure drive. But I've seen a lot of these decisions that seem boneheaded because a *lot* of people will forget their passwords and come back *demanding* that you decrypt their shit. If this is someone that even remotely knows the CEO of the company or somebody higher up and if you try to explain them one-way math functions, you will be getting the pink slip in no time.
Although what these guys did is unpardonable. I mean XOR? Jeez.
Any other cool ideas out there?
Yes.
Peter Gibbons : What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence : I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons : That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence : Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons : Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence : Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons : Good point.
But, surprisingly, the first spam wasn't sent via e-mail
Shouldn't that be "But, unsurprisingly, the first spam wasn't sent via e-mail".
It would be really a surprise if they sent spam by email 100 years ago. Don't you think?!
I imagine. Single configuration, one update, all the "personal files" in a server somewhere -- makes for easy updating and backing up. Also keeps hardware requirements down
Welcome to the world of 'dumb terminals' again. Thanks for playing this long!
I'm still waiting for the really bad one...
A really bad one would look for Excel/Word files and modify a couple of data entries in a huge list of numbers.
Kind of like someone breaking into the house, leaving something obnoxious under the fridge that starts smelling bad really gradually over a period of few months.
Imagine the look on the PHB's face when 6 months down the line he realizes while doing some entires in the sheet that the p/e ratio is negative!
Beatles fan Steve Jobs could lose a large bite of his Apple to his idols
Shouldn't that be iDols?
*ducks*
If you start giving her good reasons to keep Commodore 64 stuff, you might have to give her a good reason to keep YOU eventually ;)
Just a thought.
He also had sticky keys from God knows what
Hmmmm...
*scratches chin*
Nah. They just want to rename it Intelnet.
However, in Japan, Intelnet would still be called...
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Never predict anything concerning science or science fiction. You will always be wrong.
Is that a prediction?
To quote Dennis Leary "I will never do a drug named after part of my ass".
Amen.
Well, I am registered. Albeit, as a 73 year old albino grandmother living in Nigeria.