Trolling again, are we AC?

What are you doing on Slashdot if you only use the internet for business? Also, how does ./ not crash your outdated version of javascript?

I used to go to a University that would encourage you to use their VPN over dial-up (not as in, "use our VPN, but make sure you're dialing in", but more like, "if you're dialing in, make sure to use our VPN"). It was interesting because you would dial in to their server, and then start the VPN client. Why the dialed-in connection wouldn't just be in their network, I'm not sure.

The way one of my previous schools justified their non-recording rule was that it prevented any unauthorized learning (someone might share the recording and then someone might gain valuable information without paying for it). Yeah, I know. It just makes them look worse.

Great inclusion of the link to the service, samzenpus. I love how I didn't have to hunt for it at all.

That's why the agency is asking for the salt as well. They're trying to eliminate the parts of the formula that make it so that you can't figure out what the password is. Reverse engineer the impossible formula, so to speak.

Dang. So I was just trying to continue the joke, but apparently if you type the asterisk symbol enough times, it actually writes your password out. Weird...

Hmm, sounds like a good idea. Here's mine: absdXGH4420078jkl!@gy

So basically, you've got all your securely designed passwords stored in one keyring that if one person get the code to, they could use to gain access to all of your passwords. Much more secure storage area than your brain I'm sure.

I've noticed that most of the comments on this page are people being worried about Mozilla taking away functionality from the browser, but... wasn't the point of Firefox to reduce the amount of bloat in the default setup? Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey, previously Netscape Communicator) wasn't quite Emacs, but it included way more than what many required for their uses, and so Firefox was born to trim all of that stuff out, with the idea that you can add in back in with extensions.

That's where our javascript blocking needs to be happening. Extensions like NoScript, which you can use to block all javascript if you so desire. (Just install it and then don't enable anything.)

I remember arguing once with a cell phone salesman in the mall with something similar to this. This was back in the days when flip phones were the general fancy phone. Anyway, this guy was trying to sell me one of his service's phones and I asked him if I would be able to use the phone to get internet access to my laptop. His reply completely baffled me at the time (remember, flip phones). He asked, "Why would you want to get on the internet with your laptop when you could just browse it on your phone?"

At that point I figured there was nothing I could say to him to show him my point if he actually preferred to browse on a 2-inch screen by pressing arrow keys.