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How about those sites where the requirements are wrong? Or how about where you can create a password of a specific length but when you go to log in you can't because the password field on login isn't long enough for you to enter your password?
I've encountered both.
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I still think my company's recent two-factor authentication was the best:
"We do not recognize the machine you are using, so you cannot access your e-mail. Please check your e-mail for the validation code we sent you to gain access to your e-mail."
EDIT: Another one that was awesome was when they changed their password standards for external sites without telling anyone, so my previously-valid password now "contained disallowed characters". (And don't get me started on ANY password field that doesn't accept the full ASCII set of characters. If you can't clean your input strings, you shouldn't be programming a user interface, youngling.)
Thus, in order to access my company's external-facing web sites I had to activate VPN to get to the internal network, then access the external site from there, at which point it DID accept the "disallowed" characters.
I mean, that's IT going above and beyond the call of duty...
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I still think my company's recent two-factor authentication was the best:
"We do not recognize the machine you are using, so you cannot access your e-mail. Please check your e-mail for the validation code we sent you to gain access to your e-mail."
EDIT: Another one that was awesome was that they changed their password standards for external sites without telling anyone, so my previously-valid password now "contained disallowed characters". (And don't get me started on ANY password field that doesn't accept the full ASCII set of characters. If you can't clean your input strings, you shouldn't be programming a user interface, youngling.)
Thus, in order to access my company's external-facing web sites I had to activate VPN to get to the internal network, then access the external site from there, at which point it DID accept the "disallowed" characters.
I mean, that's IT going above and beyond the call of duty...
Your company is the first recipient of my "In Need of a Clue-By-Four" award.
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Catapulting Livestock, cheering kids up since forever.
The more you know!
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You know what? I should go to China this January. It's a given I'm going to some foreign country over Winter break, airfare to Beijing is scary cheap, a lot of my research this semester is on Chinese rail transit and I could go see this stuff first hand, I've already been to Europe, and as a geography/urban planning major, seeing a whole other urban paradigm and breaking out of my "developed country bubble" and seeing something totally different would do my education good. Also, my Beijing born professor says early January is a good, cheap time to visit.
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You know what? I should go to China this January. It's a given I'm going to some foreign country over Winter break, airfare to Beijing is scary cheap, a lot of my research this semester is on Chinese rail transit and I could go see this stuff first hand, I've already been to Europe, and as a geography/urban planning major, seeing a whole other urban paradigm and breaking out of my "developed country bubble" and seeing something totally different would do my education good. Also, my Beijing born professor says early January is a good, cheap time to visit.
Go for it!
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Ultra-high Setting: "Single reactor ignition" :)The only possible upgrade to lisamarlene's dishwasher I could recommend would be:
Rantraptor's Atomic Dish Disintegrator
Low setting: Burn them all!
Medium setting: Feast of Ashes
High setting: Collateral Damage Guaranteed
Trouble is, the factory direct model is powered by three reactors. The industrial, ten.
So we'd have room for at least a couple more settings, there.
EDIT: Hard to make a profit, these days, if you can't overdeliver.
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I still think my company's recent two-factor authentication was the best:
"We do not recognize the machine you are using, so you cannot access your e-mail. Please check your e-mail for the validation code we sent you to gain access to your e-mail."
EDIT: Another one that was awesome was when they changed their password standards for external sites without telling anyone, so my previously-valid password now "contained disallowed characters". (And don't get me started on ANY password field that doesn't accept the full ASCII set of characters. If you can't clean your input strings, you shouldn't be programming a user interface, youngling.)
Thus, in order to access my company's external-facing web sites I had to activate VPN to get to the internal network, then access the external site from there, at which point it DID accept the "disallowed" characters.
I mean, that's IT going above and beyond the call of duty...
Why is that the passwords usually can't accept non-alphanumerical characters (beyond the programmer's laziness)?
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FINAL PERFORMANCE!!!!!
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Why is that the passwords usually can't accept non-alphanumerical characters (beyond the programmer's laziness)?I still think my company's recent two-factor authentication was the best:
"We do not recognize the machine you are using, so you cannot access your e-mail. Please check your e-mail for the validation code we sent you to gain access to your e-mail."
EDIT: Another one that was awesome was when they changed their password standards for external sites without telling anyone, so my previously-valid password now "contained disallowed characters". (And don't get me started on ANY password field that doesn't accept the full ASCII set of characters. If you can't clean your input strings, you shouldn't be programming a user interface, youngling.)
Thus, in order to access my company's external-facing web sites I had to activate VPN to get to the internal network, then access the external site from there, at which point it DID accept the "disallowed" characters.
I mean, that's IT going above and beyond the call of duty...
I'm afraid it's just that -- laziness.
The problem arises when strings are passed in, NO processing is done, and so miscreants who include escape characters followed by commands can commit all sorts of mischief (see "SQL injection").
So, it takes a decent programmer maybe 10 minutes to say, "OK, go character-by-character through this string and neuter anything that might possibly be bad." Maybe more, depending on how bad things are, but 10 minutes is a "reasonable" bet for most programmers.
And that's too much money for most companies to spend to protect their precious, precious data.
Sorry, but software security is a pet peeve of mine. Back when I was writing hardware drivers I was telling students, "If you trust an incoming packet to give you its correct size, you have failed."
The #1 issue with security is humans.
The #2 issue with security is humans.
The #3 issue with security is failing to check your d**ned input with a fine-toothed comb before passing it on.
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You are all speaking Greek to me.
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Ιδιόκτητα DM είναι ένα έβενο θεός του μαύρου λεβεντιά
EDIT: LOL! There's nothing like putting something through Google Translate and out the other end! I'm not touching it!
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You can build the most idiot-proof security, and they'll just build a better idiot.
It's Evolution baby!
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Ιδιόκτητα DM είναι ένα έβενο θεός του μαύρου λεβεντιά
EDIT: LOL! There's nothing like putting something through Google Translate and out the other end! I'm not touching it!
Now I wonder what have you put into google translator in the first place...
Also, it's been ages (ok, more like 12-13 years) since I was able to read that (not understand, mind you, merely recognize letters and be able to utter them).
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Something Freehold DM something, something else (most likely political related).
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sorera o tento!!
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The problem arises when strings are passed in, NO processing is done, and so miscreants who include escape characters followed by commands can commit all sorts of mischief (see "SQL injection").
So, it takes a decent programmer maybe 10 minutes to say, "OK, go character-by-character through this string and neuter anything that might possibly be bad." Maybe more, depending on how bad things are, but 10 minutes is a "reasonable" bet for most programmers.
I thought that writing the input prompt in the way that would enforce treating all the characters as characters and not anything else would for the password prompt would be a no-brainer for anyone who went beyond BASIC...
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I never went past AMOS myself...
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Though I mostly did Atari BASIC earlier...
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A very loose translation of the Greek there is: __________ DM is one ebon god of ______ ________. But that's merely informed by a decade-rusted recall of koine Greek.
According to Google translate: Owned DM is a black ebony god of bravery. Dunno why we have the redundancy "black" and "ebony", but, well, . . . they are applicable, wouldn't ya say, Freehold? :)
Somebody get that guy a toga!
I think a tense got a bit scrambled, hence "owned" rather than "owning" or "possessing", as "freehold" suggests an independent holding or estate, to my mind.
I've always enjoyed your avatar name, Freehold. Props! :)
EDIT: And I can't drive Google translate -- every time I put a piece of it through, I get something different. Hmmm. Strange.
EDIT 2: And it keeps getting weirder! Proprietary. So-god. Black ebony god of black. Levent, Turkey. RM. Bravery. Gallantry.
Guess that's what I get for doing this just with my phone, eh?
EDIT 3: A more strict, brick-by-brick (if you will) rendering could be thus: Δωρεάν κύριο αναμονή μπουντρούμι είναι μια μικρή θεότητα της μαύρης λεβεντιά. Conceptual translation, perhaps less subject to idiomatic whim.
The fact that "lebentia" translates to Levent (and its derivations), but is so rendered from "manliness" could point to a cultural notion from yore imbedded in the language, evoking the idea that "real men come from Levent/the Levant." Any Turkish/Levantene heritage, Freehold?
EDIT 4: "And he puzzled and puzzed till his puzzler was sore."
Man. That moment when you encouraged people not to do something, and then you go and do it. And now you feel committed and obligated. Sigh.
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Sounds complicated.
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I finally got to use The Prince's Bride inspired dialogue in a Star Wars game.
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As Kagore expertly tries to secure a hold of Heshvaun, the Imperial counters with his own deft move, to avoid the lock.
"Excellent. You are using a Förräderi offense against me! That marks you as a Teräs Käs adept, truly a gifted fighter. "
"But I find that Teräs Käs is highly effective on Jedi and other Force Sensitives, and even rudementary Echani (which I favor), cancels out Förräderi, don't you? Yet you are gifted indeed."
Heshvaun reverses the lock on him.
"As a living Clone Veteran, you are either highly skilled, remarkably resourceful, or unbelievably lucky. Perhaps a smattering of all three. In any case the General has found a worthy companion. Please accept my compliments."
Heshvaun releases the lock.
Pointing to the maintenance chute,
"That route will take us deeper into the vessel, but we will avoid getting shot at for some time. And yes, there are times a Field officer must take the lead."
With another wink, the Imperial follows Colton into the chute.
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The General and I are making a naturalist gnome couple for Ironfang Invasion.
So far mine is tentatively named Greenjeans Bojangles, a gnome psychic with the Psychedelia discipline.
I regret nothing!!!
baron: what era are you playing in?
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No kids, and while there may be a goat-mowing service, I really doubt I could afford it even if I was interested in using it.Rent-a-goat.
Either that, or send the kids outside with scissors and promise them five bucks for each Hefty bag they can fill.
Rent-a-Goat is kind of a thing out here. You can book it through Craigslist.
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We're up at Sane Grandma's house in Oregon for Spring Break, which is sort of like the Island of Misfit Toys for defective pets.
There's a chaotic evil macaw (redundant, yes, I know) with an Int of 18 and a Charisma of 2 who has absolutely no feathers at all except for on her wings because she plucks them all out, a seventeen-year-old cat with severe dementia (it's been diagnosed), a fat old chihuahua with cataracts who growls at you until you're close enough to see clearly-ish, another dog and a cat who are more or less okay, just obsessively needy, one elderly horse with back problems who only gets ridden when the kids are visiting, one horse who is only there to save him from the knackers because every time someone gets on him, they go to the hospital, and one horse who is more or less normal, and therefore gets no attention at all.
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The General and I are making a naturalist gnome couple for Ironfang Invasion.
So far mine is tentatively named Greenjeans Bojangles, a gnome psychic with the Psychedelia discipline.
I regret nothing!!!
So if his name is Greenjeans, is there an npc in a red robe with white piping somewhere? When do the magical ping pong balls drop on everybody?
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We're up at Sane Grandma's house in Oregon for Spring Break, which is sort of like the Island of Misfit Toys for defective pets.
There's a chaotic evil macaw (redundant, yes, I know) with an Int of 18 and a Charisma of 2 who has absolutely no feathers at all except for on her wings because she plucks them all out, a seventeen-year-old cat with severe dementia (it's been diagnosed), a fat old chihuahua with cataracts who growls at you until you're close enough to see clearly-ish, another dog and a cat who are more or less okay, just obsessively needy, one elderly horse with back problems who only gets ridden when the kids are visiting, one horse who is only there to save him from the knackers because every time someone gets on him, they go to the hospital, and one horse who is more or less normal, and therefore gets no attention at all.
at first I thought this was a roster of characters for an upcoming game.
Then I thought it was the animal companions for the druids and rangers of that game.
Then, I realized this was no game.
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Of course it is Freehold: it's the game... of LIFE~!
*cue prairie dog with music*
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Rent-a-Goat is kind of a thing out here. You can book it through Craigslist.No kids, and while there may be a goat-mowing service, I really doubt I could afford it even if I was interested in using it.Rent-a-goat.
Either that, or send the kids outside with scissors and promise them five bucks for each Hefty bag they can fill.
originally, I wanted to visit Wisconsin because I wrote a report on it as a child, and the people at the Wisconsin information bureau were so damn friendly, I had to shake their hands and thank them.
Then, I wanted to visit Wisconsin because cows were there, and I love cows, cheese, and dairy products.
Then, I wanted to visit Wisconsin because it was always winter there, and someone from there mocked my Brooklyn winters ever so politely, and I wanted to go there to see what the hubbub was about and potentially have a war of the winters, until I discovered he wore shorts even in the dead of winter as only a true child of winter could, and so any competition would have to be postponed.
Then, I wanted to visit Wisconsin because I had evidence that the women there were not just lovely but also incredibly well endowed and polite, and I had heard from a reliable source that my black manliness, even set at Steve Urkel levels, would be more than enough to seduce them, and that any faint Fargo-accents would be icing on the cake.
Now, I hear you can rent goats.
RENT.
GOATS.
So they can mow (and fertilize) your lawns FOR YOU.
Clearly, I need to get to Wisconsin POST HASTE.
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So... this is the level of incompetence you have to get accustomed to at Global Megacorporation:
As of Release 1 of the product, one of the core, fundamental ideas of the product is, "If the objects we provide for you aren't sufficient, you can create your own custom object to use."
I nurtured this course all the way through Release 8, and still, the fundamental heart of the course was, "You can build your own object if you need it."
Another team took over in Release 10, and that was still a core, key, fundamental practice.
So for Release 11, an instructor took over the course, and, through a simple misnumbering error, he accidentally omitted the practice. And NONE OF THE REVIEWERS NOTICED THIS OMISSION!!!!
It's kind of like a course on Microsoft Word that doesn't bother to mention that you can save your file. Yep. THAT significant.
As of Release 12, we handed the course to another team and said, "Determine what is missing."
In TWO MONTHS OF REVIEW, they failed to notice the whole, "Oh, the soul of the entire course is missing."
So yep, I have to re-create that practice, because NOBODY NOTICED IT WAS GONE.
Thank goodness for archives -- I can grab the Release 10 version and update it.
But seriously? Three developers and a dozen reviewers over a year and a half didn't notice that THE KEY POINT of the entire course was missing?
*SIGH*
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Sounds like someone needs a goat.
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These days everyone is getting Llamas. It's all Llama farm this, quiet, majestic fluffy dignity that.
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These days everyone is getting Llamas. It's all Llama farm this, quiet, majestic fluffy dignity that.
Well, alpaca yarn is extremely soft, fluffy, lightweight, and very warm. And you can't get alpaca yarn without someone raising the llamas... Just not me. I am a city girl, not a farm girl. :)
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These days everyone is getting Llamas. It's all Llama farm this, quiet, majestic fluffy dignity that.Well, alpaca yarn is extremely soft, fluffy, lightweight, and very warm. And you can't get alpaca yarn without someone raising the llamas... Just not me. I am a city girl, not a farm girl. :)
alpacas..are llamas?!
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alpacas..are llamas?!These days everyone is getting Llamas. It's all Llama farm this, quiet, majestic fluffy dignity that.Well, alpaca yarn is extremely soft, fluffy, lightweight, and very warm. And you can't get alpaca yarn without someone raising the llamas... Just not me. I am a city girl, not a farm girl. :)
Technically they're a close relative of llamas, but most of the time when people say they're raising llamas they mean they're raising alpacas. So I tend to confuse the two due to this bad habit.
I'm a knitter, not a farmer. I only care about yarn. ;P
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Yup.
And as someone that landscaped a Alpaca farm I can confirm that you can't have a bad day if you hug a Alpaca.
Also, watching thunderstorms pass by while I'm eating my lunch on a hillside outside of Mount Horeb surrounded by Alpacas is one of my fondest work memories. :-)
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alpacas..are llamas?!These days everyone is getting Llamas. It's all Llama farm this, quiet, majestic fluffy dignity that.Well, alpaca yarn is extremely soft, fluffy, lightweight, and very warm. And you can't get alpaca yarn without someone raising the llamas... Just not me. I am a city girl, not a farm girl. :)Technically they're a close relative of llamas, but most of the time when people say they're raising llamas they mean they're raising alpacas. So I tend to confuse the two due to this bad habit.
I'm a knitter, not a farmer. I only care about yarn. ;P
COOOOOOOOOL
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baron: what era are you playing in?
It's right before the events leading up to a A New Hope, here is a quick excerpt.
I'm playing Lt. Colonel Antonius Neurath Heshvaun, nephew to Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun, an Imperial defector who's initials are the same as A New Hope.
Nice!
In less nice news, I can't find my iPad.
Hrm.
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I managed to write onomatopoeic without having to check the spelling!