Citing my friend who works in a "biometric security solutions" firm:
"yesterday on a training they told us what happened to one colleague: at Friday, he was leaving last from the offices, and his fingers were greasy, and so at Sunday, when sun shone stronger on the fingerprint scanner next to the door, he got logged in to work"
@tsaukpaetra said in Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device:
@anotherusername said in Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device:
@anonymous234 they could if they wanted to. Quite easily, really.
They just don't want to.
Probably because 9 times out of 10, Windows would have to tell you that it couldn't delete the file because Windows was using it.
Too bad there's no known method for Windows to tell itself, "Hey, can you stop using this file? Let me know if you don't wanna..."
this. it's high time OSes had something like "reflection mode"
"Windows, who is using this file on the usb drive?"
"I am."
"Can you please stop?"
"No. This file is critical to the correct running of the operating system."
"Tell me... how can it be critical for you to run if you were running okay even five minutes ago, BEFORE i plugged the drive with the file in?"
"... I cannot answer that, Dave."
@carnage said in Biometric/fingerprint securit...uh?:
@gąska said in Biometric/fingerprint securit...uh?:
@sh_code I don't know how fingerprint scanners are made, but I imagined that a device which is supposed to open doors only when the sensor is covered with finger blocking the outside lighting, wouldn't spontaneously trigger due to outside lighting being stronger than usual.
Some fingerprint scanners react on warmth, to foil the usage of dead digits amongst other things.
Fingerprint scanners also have to weigh false positives vs false negatives, and most prefer to accept false positives to dealing with false negatives for usability. Though it's been a couple of years since I checked the field out so they may have come up with better scanners.
Still plenty of other problems with the technology as a security measure though.
you could say this incident shines a new light on the field of biometrics...
update notes:
-built sunshade above the entrance door to improve security
My whole current story is a string of escalating WTFs which I have no nerves, or intention to write in full, as I've already wasted enough time.
Suffice to say I am now downloading 3dumpsOfShit to the Max (3ds Max) because besides from them being monopolistic assholes with their FBX, they're also incompetent idiots with their "FBX Converter" that can't spit out any format supporting bones and animations (even including THEIR OWN 3ds!!!), only to open a thing in it, and save it in a different format which doesn't make blender (as well as most other non-Assholedesk software) shit itself when trying to import it.
And this... THIS is the final crowning "are you fucking kidding me you disgusting bunch of fucks?!?"
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
Behold, in its full glory, a fucking .exe downloader/installer, which refuses to do anything if you had the AUDACITY to close the webpage which gracefully allowed you to download the downloader, after 2 pages of forms, because fuck you, you filthy peasant, unworthy of our godlike glory, how dare you EVER close our website, you should have it setup to auto-open with the highest priority on each start of your pc!
FUCK THOSE GUYS.
@jaloopa said in Someone writes "BOMB!" on a post it, and sticks it on a bin. Shopping centre evacuated as a result...:
So if I ever need to remotely detonate a bomb via a wifi network I'll make sure to call the network something that doesn't give the game away. Good to know
But what if THEY read this and start getting suspicious of "BT2134321"?
you need to make it "[store name] free" and SHA2. everyone will see it, assume it's guest wifi for a store, and that the store owners arw assholes, requiring everyone to ask them for a password =D
WHOSE FUCKIN MORONIC IDEA IT WAS TO PUT THE "Undo close tab" CONTEXT MENU ITEM...
...
...IN-BETWEEN "Close tab" and "Close (ALL) other tabs" items?
SERIOUSLY?! DO YOU NEED A SENIOR UX DESIGNER? CAUSE I'VE NEVER DONE THAT JOB BEFORE AND I'M ALREADY BETTER QUALIFIED THAN WHOEVER IS DOING IT NOW!
@gleemonk ... you know a wtf is going to be damn good when just reading the title makes you actually laugh out loud
@Groaner said in The Ten-Year-Old Tech Support/Developer/Project Manager:
You should be able to figure out that you never use bulk entry on a small customer! It screws everything up!
...but... why? how? 
?
@Gern_Blaanston the only correct answer to that question is "CAN YOU FUCKING READ YOU FUCKING JS MUPPET?!"
@Bulb offtopic, but this is exactly my problem with commandline tools - without proper documentation they are useless.
GUI tools are self-documenting by default, at least to some minimal (usually pretty high) degree.
@Kamil-Podlesak what utterly fascinates me is that i don't have even the slightest most surface-level idea how docker actually does its magic, but even i am aware that a better identifiers, such as checksums, or even filenames, exist.
@Atazhaia I have a song named "This song had wrong name".
Do i count as an artiiiste?
@Polygeekery set some script that will grab that mail every morning, quote it, add an "this is still happening on an already closed account. please fix" and will forward it to support email of the bank.
i'll bet it's gonna be resolved within 2 weeks.
@bgodot said in Overheard at Work:
there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, 32 bits for an RGBA color
i would say the data about each color channel is pretty useful ;)
@The_Quiet_One salesperson needs to file a tickez with whoever was amputating their brain. they removed almost all of it, but forgot to remove that lasz bit which allows salesperson to breathe and type brainless nonsense.
@blakeyrat said in YouTube's content ID system. AGAIN.:
Get pissed off, toss everything off YT, move to another video hosting service that doesn't suck shit (if one exists)
... rumble? as i understand they also have video monetization now, and they also still have youtube auto-sync
@blakeyrat try sending the mail again, except start it by full (textual) quotation of the content id notification.
and add some more "contentId" into the email text.
and a few "dmca", just for good measure.
and two or three more "fuck you, you fucking fucks", just to make us at tdwtf happy.
good luck
