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Comment Re:QWERTY Syndrome (Score 1) 131

or Nash Equilibrium. If EU wants to get away from MS and GOP's flakey tribalism, they have to agree to all (or most) moving at once, and accept a learning curve.

I'd go with Nash Equilibrium here. DVORK is not inherently better than QWERTY for typing speed, although it is less prone to causing RSI. The big downside is the learning curve and making shortcuts like Ctrl-V harder to press.

Comment Re:Users hate software changes (Score 1) 131

To that one user: "Tough shit. You're getting and using the updated software or you can find yourself a new job." Assuming you have that power, of course.

User: The annual report is nit ready because IT forced a software update and it broke the report generation. I tried to warn them but they did it anyway...

Comment Re:Fuck These Tests! (Score 1) 84

These organizations are offloading their technology deficiencies onto the poor and incapable user.

I, as a seasoned professional that has seen every trick email that has ever been sent, cannot determine if certain messages are malicious or not. The users will never be able to do it themselves. And punishing them, whether that's reprimand, scolding, mocking, making them resit training, is NOT the right way to do it.

Exactly. IT orgs should put defenses in place to catch the majority of fishing emsils, using sender info,AI to recognize patterns etc. You won’t catch everything but can greatly reduce the chan crew s they get through.

Comment Re:My CORRECTED link to his 2004 article, post-cof (Score 4, Interesting) 22

I meet Jerry at a computer show I was covering. I saw him in the press room, introduced myself, said I really like his style and said I copied it for my column. He looked at me and said steal, only amateurs copy, we professionals steal. Had an interesting conversation. Great guy who will be missed.

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