You obVIously misspelled "crusty".

but can you do "runas !!" to run the previous command in with administrator privileges?

"Oh look honey, look! The binoculars say that that's a penguin over there!" "Wow! Where?" "Right between that half eaten apple and multicolored window, next to the green robot!"

''First shalt thou write a story about Baby Shoes. Thou shalt use six words, no more, no less. Six shall be the number of words thou shalt use, and the number of the words shall be six. Seven shalt thou not use, neither use thou five, excepting that thou then proceed to six. Eight is right out. Once the word six, being the sixth word, be reached, then displayest thou thy Story of Baby Shoes to thy creator, who, being curious, shall evaluate it.'

Sure, that's your call to make. Just admit to being wrong (and learn new stuff because of it) instead of countering every valid argument with "yeah but not for you".

Yeah, because there's no such thing as corporate espionage. An infiltrator can easily be taught how to do this, especially since he already has physical access and knows the hardware being used in the company.

Those _are_ the people trying to break into laptops with valuable data.

And it has been asked before, can we mark it as a dupe? (Does that still exist?)
https://slashdot.org/poll/3224...

I think it would be interesting to look into the poll archives - they go way back to 1999 - and ask the same question now and link back to the original poll. Some answers may need to be changed but I think it would be interesting to see how tech, culture, etc has evolved (both in the poll results and the comments).

Oh wow, a goatse reference. That brings back memories, not all good ones though. However I feel that /. had much more significance and impact then.

US federal law does not apply in Australia. There is more in this world than the USA. You should visit it sometime if you have the chance, the (financial) means and your boss is generous enough to grant you a 2(!) weeks vacation because you put in all those extra work hours (not required but actually they are) and no vacation the last few years.
In the meantime we in Western Europe enjoy our yearly 3 weeks summer holiday (legally required in a lot of countries, or at least the choice must be given to the employee).

It still might have to do with cost, as around holidays the cost of the ingredients go up as well. That stick of butter you buy at the beginning of December might cost you 5-10% more in the week before Christmas. Other ingredients may have even higher cost increases (think strawberries, although I don't understand why someone on the northern hemisphere would want those in the middle of winter).

I agree, I was checking the cost out and its € 11.99 a month or € 17.99 for a family subscription. If they'd slash that in half I'd subscribe without a second thought, and I think a lot of people with me. Same goes for Spotify, Netflix, the account sharing on those platforms is simply because it's too costly for people to be subscribed to several services. A lot of people rotate their subscriptions because of this as well. I don't mind missing out, so I'm subscribed to a few services but those are all production services and/or a gateway to several services.

Youtube differs in that they're not only gateway to production services, but also for user generated content.

As true as this may be, I wish it wasn't. Because running a desktop is different from running a server.

Try convincing a dev that he can't just do this or install that in an enterprise environment, like he is used to on his vm or desktop.

I've seen too much stuff break or be incompliant with security policies: wrecking authentication methods, not understanding sudo, installing unnecessary packages (the tutorial said I needed to install iptables, nevermind that the distro is using UFW), installing out-of-date packages by pinning an already ancient java version, keeping up-to-date with patches/releases or just plain installing a DHCP server (OK, those are thrown off the network pretty quickly). And if you try to reason with them or explain why they shouldn't do this they get their manager involved just to get their way. And often a security exception is drafted and approved with a little help from said management.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind working with someone who wants to do stuff right and I'll do everything to help him or her getting to a compliant install. But usually they'll just tell us off and only come to us after they built everything and won't budge because of the endless commitment / sunk cost fallacy.

Don't know why I kept typing ChatGTP rather than ChatGPT. Wish I could edit my posts.

I've used ChatGTP for both coding and for writing text. Every single time I've used it, it's produced plausible, but wrong answers. When writing prose, the answers tend to be overly wordy. When coding, it produces decent looking but incorrect code, but normally gets the API parameters right.

It doesn't matter.

The hardest part of writing prose is getting started. The hardest part of coding is remembering all the API calls. ChatGTP provides a starting point for prose, and the API calls for code.

I take ChatGTP output and either edit it heavily, or just use it as a source for cut-and-paste snippets of code. Saves a ton of time.