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Comment Yes, but what if I impersonate a 100 y/o woman? (Score 1) 137

Togged to the bricks, and all they offer me is a trip for biscuits. Just wanted a ring-a-ding ding and some Bruno slips me a Micky Finn in a clip joint. Next thing I know, I'm waking up in a flop with some Lunger wearing iron who suddenly runs to the window and starts drilling beans at a tin can full of Joes. So I make tracks before the coppers turn up with a meat wagon and someone ends leaving in a Chicago overcoat.

Comment Sexist much? (Score 1) 389

'... your computer illiterate little sister, ...'

My little sister is very computer literate, and so are her kids. My computer illiterate parents however might have been a better group to design the interface for, because I'm sure most of our younger siblings, regardless of sex, are very adept at picking up technology.

Comment Every Company I've Worked For ... (Score 1) 236

I can related many specific examples of companies I've worked for that have done exactly this. From:

  • Managers who wanted to get rid of 'passwords' so that people only needed to come in and type their username into the machine.
  • Infrastructure team leaders who wanted to make 'password' a legitimate password that users would have as he claimed users were too stupid to remember passwords with numbers or other characters in them.
  • Managers who wanted to get rid of the firewalls, as they did nothing and were an unwarranted expense (even AFTER someone from South Korea tried to hack into our network and was stopped by the firewall).
  • Managers who wanted to send financial information across the internet unencrypted, claiming only hackers would be able to see it.
  • Managers who claimed that IT security just causes problems for the users and that the IT security team invents these 'security issues' to deliberately justify their positions and make it difficult for normal workers to do their jobs.
  • Managers who asked for the firewalls to be turned off as they couldn't get to certain blocked sites. (pr0n)
  • Managers who told us off for finding security holes in our system, (which we brought to their attention as we wanted the resources to patch them), and they made the claim we were 'making' those holes.

The list goes on. IMHO, IT security would be a lot easier and more secure if they got rid of an awful lot of managers.

Comment Re:maybe its good... (Score 1) 172

I have to agree. I'd assume flamingo would taste like chicken and giraffe probably tastes like water buffalo/cows. I think the Chinese and Japanese eat sea urchins to this day, so that isn't nec. too exotic except by western standards.

I grew up in Malaysia from 4yo to 7yo, and didn't have a problem with durian. My father used to bring home lots of different fruits etc that were available in Malaysia that are not available in Australia. I think durian might be worse for grown ups, but like a lot of foods, if you start a child on it young enough they grow to like it (acquitted rase) if they don't like it to begin with. I don't mind durian flavoured lollies (Had some in Indonesia) but when I tried durian flavoured ice cream in Malaysia last time I was there it didn't work for me.

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