@PJH And now we know why @Fox decided to live in Texas.

@ScholRLEA said:Professor Snape, can today's potion be used as a sexual lubricant?

@xaade I'm really happy with the online security arrangements my bank uses. They do everything right. For their web-based banking facility, I have a completely ordinary username and a password. The login page is password-manager friendly. No 2FA is required to log on. If I request a funds transfer to any account other than one of mine, and the destination account is not listed as a favorite, then 2FA is required during the final confirmation step. I can configure my account to make 2FA work via one-time codes sent over SMS, or via a TOTP dongle (I use the dongle). They have apps for iOS and Android, both of which use the same underlying authentication as the web facility but hide it behind an app-authenticated 4-digit PIN. If I want to use their phone-based voice-menu banking, there's a separate PIN for that. I can get a new phone PIN issued either by talking to bank staff on the phone or via my web-based banking facility. To authenticate myself when talking to bank staff over the phone, there's a phone security password that's separate from all the others. Mine's the maximum length allowed (16 characters) and held in KeePass. If that fails, there's a reasonably in-depth phone interview process I need to go to in order to demonstrate that I am who I claim to be. None of that involves transferring any of the other security secrets. Last but not least, there's a secure messaging facility built into the web banking stuff, so I can mail them stuff I'm not happy to see sent via standard email. Last year they "upgraded" their web site to make it all modern-like and phone-friendly, so it doesn't work as well as it used to because it's now got colored rectangle tiny font hipster whitespace disease. Even so, it still works better than any site I've seen offered by any other financial institution. Anybody charged with making any decision about the best way to implement an online financial portal for customers would be well advised to open an account with Bank Australia and see what they do.

@steve_the_cynic said in Breaking Windows in Creative Ways: @heterodox said in Breaking Windows in Creative Ways: @jbert said in Breaking Windows in Creative Ways: I hope the admins know about loading hive files through regedit... Or just wipe out the users profile. He deserves it It's the only way to be sure. Filed under: Is my BOFH showing? BOFH would wipe out the user, then the profile. Nah, profile first. After making sure they've done something incriminating in a location that won't be wiped. Can't go around not inflicting necessary pain after all.

@Gąska said in Securing a SECURE system with antivirus: @jinpa I guess reviving a 3 year old topic just to say this isn't obvious enough. Doesn't follow. According to what you're saying, if I had not revived it, it would not have been obvious.

@gleemonk said:But I'm sure someone will come out of the woods and explain why they need that feature. I do have some similar things (not using cron though). I have one job that's scheduled to run every 5 minutes during the approximate hours of our nightly BI load (the same use case that @Weng mentioned), and alerts me to things that may have gone wrong. (Informatica doesn't actually directly support this kind of schedule, so what I have is actually a monitoring workflow that's scheduled to run every five minutes, and a pair of workflows scheduled at specific times daily which schedule or unschedule the monitoring workflow.) Also, our commissions processing workflow kicks off various jobs for which there is no option to wait until the job is done, we just get a job number back. So what happens there is we have a small table of pending jobs, and a polling workflow that is scheduled to run every minute which checks them. The main workflow schedules the polling workflow the first time it submits one of these jobs, and unschedules it after the last one has completed. @gleemonk said:I once sent myself 144(!) emails and texts in ~15 seconds Ouch. The worst I've done is the abovementioned polling workflow, before I set up auto-forwarding of its failure messages to my phone; it had encountered a failure on the weekend and sent about 1400 emails (at one-minute intervals) to alert my manager and myself about it, before he logged on to check his email and saw them all. Since I was out when he contacted me, he just turned off the polling workflow and I dealt with the issue later.

@loopback0 said:project-hanzo (fixed).zip I like sources.goodversion.zip and its variants too.

@Lorne-Kates said in I can verify that you and 763,117,241 emails are fucked: @pie_flavor said in I can verify that you and 763,117,241 emails are fucked: @Lorne-Kates This could be read as 'lots' or 'loots'. looooooooooooooooooots of loooooooooooooooooooot And now I think of Lancelot....

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@the_quiet_one said in Ready for launch: and the CEO was way too picky about the look and feel of the UI, kept making stupid tweaks that lead to a half-baked app I sympathise, deeply. Mostly from resembling the remark.

@The_Quiet_One said in One way to not have to do customer service: Dr. Sbaitso Looks like an M-x doctor variant. Oh, of course, someone put one online.

I better get some work done before that then.

@boomzilla said in Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far: @pie_flavor said in Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far: @boomzilla Well, if that's not what you were talking about, what were you talking about? You highlight text with your mouse and then paste that text somewhere else with a middle click. You forgot: it doesn't mess with what's on the clipboard. That's the important part.

@dkf said:Full apparent efficiency isn't full real efficiency because you've got to have some slack in the system to accommodate things going wrong. Make things entirely ‘efficient’ and the slightest thing will cause chaos. Would that more people understood this… This pearl of wisdom that you've hidden behind an <abbr> (why?) deserves more than a simple like.

My full name is so common there are multiple homonymous in the same city. Once the newspaper mentioned one of them was shot and several people phoned my family to see if everything was OK.

@Onyx said in Next Windows 10 major update will use machine learning to "try" not to force-reboot at the wrong time: hey, it's better than nothing, though I would prefer JSON or something, yes The point is that XML has schemata and has had them for ages and Gnome has a validating parser in the libxml2 library, so they can (and do) use schemata to define what settings each application has. JSON only got schemata much later and they are not as flexible. @blakeyrat said in Next Windows 10 major update will use machine learning to "try" not to force-reboot at the wrong time: XML isn't transactional XML is just a format. It makes no sense for it to be or not be transactional. As far as I can tell, the GConf library and service used to access it are. @topspin said in Next Windows 10 major update will use machine learning to "try" not to force-reboot at the wrong time: You mean copy, edit, move back? That's pretty annoying to have to implement for everything, and then you have to deal with creating temporary files and do you even have file create permissions and who knows... I'd rather have the API be transactional in the first place. That's the library's job to take care of it. I think the GConf one does, though it might actually just lock the files for writing after collecting the new contents; I haven't looked inside. It certainly does sychronize access from multiple applications though.

@royal_poet said:Shittriksh https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/e/e3/Skritt_cave.jpg

@Gribnit said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered: I really wanted to try to push for actual slurs to characterize them by, so that the above would be called a gay plug. Oh well. Take what you can get. A male that plugs into two females at once? I you really want NSFW names for it, "cock block" would do.

@pleegwat said in Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel: @steve_the_cynic said in Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel: pow( N, Info0 ) = Inf0Inf1 Oops. Good catch.

@Luhmann said:Eddy The Cannibal Merckx! Biggest Belgian on a bicycle. I had forgotten he's Belgian. It's amazing how some people can achieve greatness despite debilitating handicaps.

@gordonjcp said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft: @polygeekery said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft: Less than 1% of it is anything I would ever want to end up in a photo album. What's even better is if you own old equipment (like, oh for example, 1980s music synthesizers) that save their memories to tape, and instead of digging out a period-correct tape recorder you just hook it to your PC, fire up Audacity, and record it to a file... ... and then your media player indexes those files and decides they'd be good in a shuffle playlist. https://youtu.be/om4AE5El9oE

@dkf said in Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything: they were originally Polish Jewish hello i am here

@BernieTheBernie said in Not Dates, but Hours: Some people will never learn how to handle dates correctly. Social awkwardness thread is .

@OffByOne said:Maybe he wa'th writing with a li'thp. (somehow (, (doubt I that)))

@Zenith Welcome back!

@Zecc I know it's linked from the update on the article, but the patch is now live. Rich Stanton  /  Mar 16, 2021  /  Grand Theft Auto GTA Online load time fix released, shaves off actual minutes of waiting for some Our tests show a definite improvement, and some players are reporting a massive reduction in load times. "Insane. GTA menu -> GTA: Online. Dropped from 7 minutes to 1:57," writes user Ontyyy, who says they're using an i7-2600k with a GTX 1070 and 16 GB RAM. Xim claims that their load times "dropped from 5-8 minutes to 35 seconds."

@anotherusername said in Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising: blue waffle. Doesn't stop me, I visit every day!

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@masonwheeler said in How dare you use the possessive form of someone's name...: @hardwaregeek said in How dare you use the possessive form of someone's name...: You have summoned the didgeridoo! Please digeridon't. Shut up, digeriWesley

@douglasac said in Woolworths Rewards: It appears that the card numbers on the barcode on the card are simply generated in sequence And there we have the core issue. Sequences are supremely guessable, and that's bad whenever there's money involved.

@coderpatsy Is that where you hunter someone who isn't a willing creature, but allowing a save to resist? Filed under: DnD joke

@Watson Someone drank too much Haskell today.

@rc4 said:I've never seem a "CGI is TRWTF" story here. Some fish barrels are just too easy to shoot, even for here.

If you can't afford to up everyone's pay by a few orders of magnitude you don't deserve to be in business.

@TwelveBaud said in Microsoft introduces Firmware as a Service: the largesse of the government that we were allowed to use Tor, the Interstates, and the Internet. Well we fucking paid for 'em. Largesse?

@ben_lubar said in The game of "Spaghetti Servers": @tsaukpaetra said in The game of "Spaghetti Servers": @boomzilla said in The game of "Spaghetti Servers": @tsaukpaetra said in The game of "Spaghetti Servers": Can you legitimately send and receive UDP packets from a browser-based ad? That strikes me as a very loaded word in context. Well, I mean, I don't want to intentionally utilize CPU flaws to escape sandboxes and start arbitrary code execution glitches just for this simple task... WebRTC uses UDP by default, so yes. But is it raw "you get to build the datagram from scratch!" UDP? Or "yeah we handle the nitty gritty details for you under an encapsulation"?

@Jaloopa said in Samsung Battery Factory Catches Fire: Especially the one where they submerge it in water Ah, so it's a Samsung cigar Bender was smoking!

@mott555 said: : But that's what the Schrader valve is for... : The valve wasn't good enough. : ... Why not? : grumbles Raisins grumbles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGsE17d_VYs&t=1m15s

The Popular Gmail-address thread.

@asdf said:Apple simply refuses to even acknowledge that developers might want to support iOS versions other than the latest one Why would people be using an old version of iOS? We make it very easy to upgrade, you just have to buy the latest iPhone

@blakeyrat said:Steam tunnels are geek nirvana? I toured those at my university and I just thought they were cramped and smelly. It's an established fact that you're not a real geek and are completely unable to appreciate geekiness. I mean, come on, you don't even like command lines!

@Gąska said in Slack to replace IRC...: @Dragoon I wonder how many of those 13 million users are even aware that Microsoft Teams exists. It was pre-installed on my machine at my new company and auto-started. And we use Slack. And I develop on Ubuntu. (Well, got a 2nd machine, so now Outlook can run natively)

@Tsaukpaetra I swallowed... 1/8 teaspoon of reaper powder (after making sure to get it all around in my mouth) and I'm in minor discomfort now. It's mostly a good hurt at the moment though. Also there was a heaping 1/8 teaspoon of reaper powder in the ramen I had for supper. It was moderately spicy.

@tsaukpaetra said in "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents: I could make similar statements about spam emails. "Well, they can't spoof the originating server headers, so the internet cops can get the real originating server!" Why is spam still a thing then, eh? International emailing is (essentially) free, calling isn't.

@ben_lubar said in The benefits of using biometrics instead of passwords...: @cheong said in The benefits of using biometrics instead of passwords...: Using voice recognition as biomatric authentication is never secure. At the same time, writing your password on a post-it note and sticking that to the frame of your monitor is probably as secure as most people need for a desktop computer. I have yet to see a method of hacking post-it notes remotely. Telelenses help...

@heterodox said in Draggable Title Bar!!!: @Parody said in Draggable Title Bar!!!: The only problem is that Windows doesn't tell you which hold(s) it is worried about for your machine. It will if you run the Update Assistant. Yes, it's stupid you have to download something else to have it disclose what it obviously already knows. https://i.imgur.com/s1vDMxC.png

@Atazhaia said in Best anti-SQL-injection protection: removing the physical Home button *misses his physical back, home, and context-menu physical actual this-uses-mechanical-actuation buttons*

Found this in the mail today, brilliant! I love that the cheque is dated 26 April and yet the postal stamp on the envelope is 21 June...

@cursorkeys said in A Crime a Day: The Helvetica Medium one makes a lot of sense as well. I do quite a bit of hardware compliance and certification work, frequently a standard requires a certain font, minimum size, colour etc... on labels and documentation. Makes sense really, if you just put 'must be readable' some asshole would do it in hot-pink wingdings 6pt high and claim it's technically 'readable'. Some of the Twitter comments indicated that Helvetica can only be licensed from one vendor, though. No idea if that's true, but if it is, I agree with the caveat that regulation shouldn't lock you to a particular vendor.

@Tsaukpaetra said in The split: But apples are chick!