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Journal Journal: Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP. 16

This journal entry isn't about customers that call in, despite the numerous ijits out there that deserve to be mocked.

No, it's about the company I work for, specifically the bosses.

Yesterday, I recieved an email saying that "Firefox is on the list of banned software, and there will be disciplinary repercussions if anyone is caught using it."

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Journal Journal: Day Three: Apathy 1

Well, I wonder if temporary bans last this long, or if my sarcastic email managed to get me an editor pimpslap.

Strangely, I don't miss it as much as I would have thought.

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Journal Journal: Day Two: Bannination.

Well, it's been well over 24 hours. May have to wait til I get my DSL before I can comment again. So all you losers that think you won our arguments... wrong, you've been protected from my stinging sarcasm and subtle wit by none other than the editors. They can't protect you forever. One day, you'll say something stupid on fark, or k5, and my vitriolic rebuttals will tear your wimpering souls to shreds. That, or you'll just ignore logic and continue blabbering on.

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Journal Journal: After getting a few flamebait mods.. 1

I recieved the:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org

So I decided to email them. Here is the gist of it.

Robert Rozeboom wrote:

Comment Detect Guessing and Act (Score 1) 614

Are ever-more-complex passcodes really the future of security? Guessing programs will keep getting faster and faster, after all. The real problem is login programs that don't notice guessing. A good login program should get cranky after a few dozen failed attempts, and log them all. Then 8-character passwords should be plenty. (eg, "get cranky" might mean "ignore the guessing IP or workstation for n++ minutes")

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