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While I was at a major petrochemical company (that shell remain nameless), recently, I was chuffed pink to see that the ITSec team was sending out e-mails not to preach about e-mail security, but to actually catch people out.
If you looked at the addresses they were sent from, or paid attention to the phrasing in the subject line, you could guess that they were phishing attempts, and there was a button for reporting selected e-mails as suspicious.
If you opened one (I drag suspect e-mails to a text editor), it contained a "gotcha!" and advice on how to not get caught out again, but if you reported it without opening it, you got a kudos e-mail as a follow up.
Now that is e-mail security training! Putting people to sleep in lecture rooms is nowhere near as effective.
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Mozilla just launched With Great Tech Comes Great Responsibility, a guide for college students and anyone wanting to enter the tech industry to help navigate ethical issues in the tech. "Grub first, then ethics."
It's sad that Uncle Ben had to die to teach us all this.
(that's a comic reference to those few who might not get it)
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Ethics and industry?
Only for the camera.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
(that's a comic reference to those few who might not get it) You are so last century... spiderman has already 5 films
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Some might still not know. There’s got to be some reason they keep writing that in, right?
Lazy writing? Naaaaaaaaah!
TTFN - Kent
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Does anyone else find it ironic that that Mozilla is delivering content as a PDF not html?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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pdf doesn't necessarily mean "adobe"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I never said it was adobe.
What it is is not html, and something that you either have to read in outside the browser, or with an in browser viewer that performs far worse than in browser html.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's sad that Uncle Ben had to die to teach us all this.
(that's a comic reference to those few who might not get it)
... and there I was thinking it was a rice reference.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. Just the thing for dipping in the Milky Way
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Well, if they'd cooked them at 175-180 degrees, like you're supposed to, it might have been a mite quicker.
What's their next experiment? Seeing how long it takes to cook spaghetti* in a fridge?
* Italian food selected in honour of Chillo, the ice-cream you cook in da fridge![^]
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They should've just laid them out on the solar panels to cook.
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If they timed it right, they could cook them outside and bring them in while on the dark side of the Earth, so they'd be cooked and then frozen, ready for transport back.
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There won't be a fee any longer associated with purchasing Komodo, the multilanguage IDE for Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, Perl, and a variety of other languages and frameworks. "If you love something, let it go."
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Black windows and multicoloured text as default?
Pass.
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You're such an old fart...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I thought it was #OkBoomer
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Hey!
Less of the "old!"
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Users of Google search on desktops may have noticed a slight change over the last week and that change is affecting what they perceive as an ad. This represents a further blurring of the lines between ads and organic sources in search. All of them?
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DigiDay said: after Google made its mobile search changes, mobile click-through rates increased 17% to 18% for two companies They probably see this as a great triumph, but it's still a scum-sucking scam, and pure misrepresentation.
This is something where the Advertising Standards Authority should get involved.
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The authors present a coating for electronics that releases water vapor to dissipate heat from running devices -- a new thermal management method that could prevent electronics from overheating and keep them cooler compared to existing strategies. Smells like high performance computing
I'm sure that extra water around the devices will have no bad effects.
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Jeeze, I thought the article would be about water-cooling for power tools, heavy stuff in well-ventilated environments, or something, but it starts right in talking about phones!
Great, yeah, I really want a sweaty phone in my pocket.
Besides, mammals don't only sweat, to regulate body temperature; the vast majority of them express excess heat by changing their breathing patterns -- so why not use something that gets rid of excess heat by increasing air convection, like, I dunno, a fan, or something?
Creating conduction patterns, so that heat could be "guided" out through earphone sockets, or other highly conductive elements on a phone's exterior, would be a trivial design matter -- if phones still had earphone sockets, that is. Guiding heat out through a charging port would be as ill-advised as letting the phone sweat all over the charging port.
But the best way to keep your phone cool is by not playing games on it for five minutes, ya lazy buggers! Put the damned things down and get some work done!
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Other animals, like iguanas, regular their heat with fins. Little razor blades that spring out of the side of the phone would help restrict usage to a reasonable length of time.
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That would also make a good spectator sport.
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Modern 'smart' hardware now comes with hidden expiration dates that encourage waste, piss off consumers, and put the entire internet at risk. This blurb will no longer be available after June 6, 2079
Unless Chris renews his subscription to the blurbbot 3000.
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