Exit Strategy posted:

Any competently-made factory weapon won't discharge if dropped. Manufacturers test for that specifically.

I don't know if my workplace has a no-guns policy, and I don't think I care at this point. Not like it'll stop me from carrying if so.

Arquinsiel posted:

Halloween in Dublin is celebrated by drinking and blowing poo poo up. You just wander into the city center and ask a likely looking teenager where to buy some bangers and that's what you used to end up getting. Since the Good Friday Agreement it's mostly legal fireworks just carried across the border instead.
The only team building I was ever on involved building a go-cart on a €100 budget in Portugal so my bar is pretty high.

Sickening posted:

I feel like loving with email is career suicide.

ChubbyThePhat posted:

She kept her job... Why?

wolrah posted:

Here's the best part, it doesn't break in an obvious way, but the component that filters out stale data stops working. As with pretty much everything in a commercial airliner, this one failure alone doesn't really cause a problem on its own, but once this has occurred it leaves the system silently vulnerable to a number of sensor failures going undetected that could definitely cause problems.

Agrikk posted:

Maybe try condensing the steps in the doc?

Like instead of;

1. Do a thing
2. Do another thing
3. Do a third thing

Try

1. Do a thing then do another thing
2. Do a third thing


It’s pointless and stupid, but if you can say “we reduced the steps from twenty to fifteen “ then you can be rid of this exercise.

Entropic posted:

Deviant Ollam talks are always great. I love the one he did about doors.

Really though, the locks on so much stuff are not even really meant at all to stop a determined attacker who knows what they're doing, they're just there to stop random passers-by from touching your poo poo.
E.g. this was a hotel that has fairly low-ceilinged hallways without drop ceilings, their WAPs were just wall mounted up against the ceiling where someone walking by could easily reach up and touch them. So they all had these hard plastic cases covering them, which of course were keyed alike because they bought them in bulk. If someone goes in with the goal of messing with your access points, a proper lock would just delay them by a minute or so while they pick it, and would cost a lot more, while these are perfectly fine for the job "make sure a drunk guest doesn't slap the AP for fun as they're walking by and break it". It's kinda like how the locks on most filing cabinets probably come with a key you could find on ebay in 2 minutes, but they're not there to stop industrial espionage, they're there to stop an employee or guest who's wandering by from pulling the drawer open because they're bored and curious.
I mostly thought it was funny that they kept every single copy of the identical keys.

Entropic posted:

What are the most unfortunate/fantastic first-initial-plus-last-name corporate email address format victims you've all run into? I thought T. Watson was the best I'd seen, but today I was corresponding with an S. Kincannon.

Motronic posted:

Those are the same kinds of forums where there is a huge predominance of prolific posters who feel like every question being asked is directed to them, to the point of answering posts just to say they don't know. It's just baffling.

BallerBallerDillz posted:

"So they have the random ready when I manage to get the whole network crypto'd"?

wolrah posted:

10Base5 used vampire taps on thick cable that roughly resembles TV cable.

Weedle posted:

pretty much always. guy’s got a real onenote personality. always yammering about some poo poo

Data Graham posted:

Unbelievable

Seconding the "I could crap a better ticketing system" sentiment, why is it that the more zeroes they put on the price of a piece of "enterprise" software the more likely it is to have catastrophically stupid basic architecture and be unusably slow and bloated for no good reason

Thanks Ants posted:

One of the best lessons I've been able to hammer into people is that it's absolutely fine to tell clients that what they want can't be done - just say it quickly rather than dragging it out for two weeks saying "maybe" and then changing your mind.

CaptainJuan posted:

oh sounds serious. i'll follow the trail of fw:fw:fw back to the original source...

i just need to stop talking to management entirely

Knormal posted:

I had a new one last week. A user was working out of a different office that normal for the day, she plugged her laptop in at a docking monitor in that office and apparently everything went well until the monitor went to sleep, when she'd wake it back up the screen was full of errors from everything about not being able to restore connection to the network drives, not being able to talk to servers, basically it was behaving like something was yanking the network cord when it went into sleep mode. Fortunately early on in the troubleshooting process the user mentioned "There's a phone cord running from the wall to the back of the monitor, is that supposed to be there?" She asked around and apparently someone was "messing around" with that desk a few days ago and swapped out the network cable with a phone cord for who knows what reason. I'm so glad the user was tech savvy enough to notice that, because that would have been a nightmare to troubleshoot remotely if they weren't able to spot the difference.

I'm also surprised the network apparently worked at all over a CAT3, and it was only failing when power conditions changed. I would have thought those missing wires would have made more of a difference.

GreenNight posted:

Ancient grandpa spotted.

Data Graham posted:

Renegret posted:

My company should be thankful that I don't talk to customers because I usually end up saying "some dickhead with an excavator" or something

plz don't doxx

We service a major metropolitan region that, when the original fiber was laid by some long forgotten company some 25 or whatever years ago, they decided to try some new technology to bury it. The way it was described to me was that they used a trencher, laid the fiber, filled the hole with something called a slurry (best I can tell, it's like pitch or something), then laid asphalt on top in one smooth motion in order to get it done quickly to save time, money, and traffic impact. Problem was, the air in the fiber conduit caused the fiber to start floating inside the slurry and over the years we had major fiber trunks only a few inches below the ground. We inherited this shitstorm when my company bought them out.

We started using the phrase "fiber friday" because every loving week some dumb motherfucker with a diamond saw thought he didn't have to call 811 because he wasn't going very deep, sliced our fiber clean through, then left before we arrived on site. These cuts are hard to find since the OTDR just gives you a general idea of where to look and finding the exact site of the location typically involves driving around and looking for something obvious like a building fire or construction site. Because of this, I've seen more underground fiber cuts in my career than aerial which is completely insane. Plus, most of the customer impact for this was the HFC plant, which you can't build redundancy on. So poof, there goes a few thousand customers.

It's not like we weren't proactively re-burying the fiber, it's just a poo poo ton of very expensive work covering a huge area so it was a multi-year process that kept getting interrupted so crews could put out fires. I only mention this because it's been a few years since the project's been completed and, surprise, fiber cuts are incredibly rare now.


My favorite fiber cut, however, was a certain state's DOT just snipping our fiber because it was in the way of their (planned) roadwork project. We were never notified and never given a chance to relocate the fiber. This was a few months after Sandy so the redundant fiber was just straight up gone and was still in the process of being rebuilt from scratch. Apparently there was some sort of showdown between our fiber crews and the DOT workers once we got on site. Our fiber supervisor for that area was the nicest lady in the whole wide world and I swear she sounded like she was about to murder someone in cold blood that day.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

I’ve never heard of sending anyone thank you notes for interviews…

edit: Like, I always thank thank you when the interview ends and all that normal social niceties but never a “here’s your fruitbasket oh great interviewer king, please consider me” because that sounds stupid.

RFC2324 posted:

Hmm, yes, I'm sure my interviewer accepting an obvious bribe could never backfire

bell jar posted:

I had to google to see if you were being pranked or something. No, RealPlayer still exists and is (presumably) used by tens of people across the globe.

Thanks Ants posted:

SyNack Sassimov posted:

uhhhhhh

I feel like with this particular shitpile of a supreme court the case that would be brought would be more like deciding whether trans people are legally people.

Saw this morning that the five judges got doxxed, and y'know, doxxing is very bad and you should never do it and blah blah but my immediate thought was "GOOD, maybe they'll learn how valuable privacy is".

(they won't but they still deserve it for being absolute dickfaces)

Sickening posted:

I agree with where you are coming from and I could see myself handling the situation just like you did.

Saying that, when something like that is uncovered involving two children, you have to stop and understand that you now have something radioactive. You might be breaking laws by deleting it or by not disclosing it. This is where you reach out to your local authorities (which is the last thing I would ever advise to do because ACAB), because the situation might blow back on someone later on. You discover, you disclose, and you make it someone else's problem who is paid to have it be there problem.

Deleting and moving on leads to poo poo. What if someone in the need to know goes back and recovers the data and gets caught with it? What if someone tells someone else what happened and that person miscommunicates events to the authorities after the fact? Who wants to answer those questions then?

Protect yourself.