[SPAM] FW: RE: The logs could do with a courtesy flush

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Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

rafikki posted:

We had a guy who was doing something, I think putting his jacket on his chair or something, and a gun fell out onto the floor. Luckily it didn't go off.

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.

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Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Shut up Meg posted:

I've heard that quite a few companies are adopting the policy of burner laptops for travel to China.

Literally burners as they get destroyed after the trip, not just wiped and then put back into circulation. Which seems both wasteful/paranoid and yet perfectly sensible. Anyone doing that?

Yup. We issue from a pool of older but still usable machines for travel to hostile political environments, which are destroyed on return.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 13:29

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Zorak of Michigan posted:

I don't want to imagine someone who'd take a work asset with them on an international vacation.

I don't even take my work laptop HOME most days. My loyalty to The Company ends when I stop being paid. gently caress you, I'm not taking a work laptop on vacation. I'm also shunting my phone into family-and-close-friends-only mode.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 17:19

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Speaking of ticket closures, I just closed more than three quarters of our hardware reclamation queue. Turns out some dingus had been submitting hardware reclaim tickets for people who weren't issued hardware, using communal machines to do work. Co-ops and interns and the like.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2019 21:43

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Merijn posted:

Who the HELL thinks that is something to be proud of?

People who think that their password is so fuckin' good it can be used for EVERYTHING and nobody will EVER know, because NO ONE will guess CorrectHorseBatteryStaple.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2019 18:06

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

capitalcomma posted:

Is there a published Acceptable Use Policy for employees that prohibits poo poo like that? Cause that's the kind of thing I'd notify managers about.

I mean, here it's part of the basic security training, and if you use the same password for more than just one account and tell someone about it there's a bounty on that poo poo with our infosec staff.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2019 20:15

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

TinTower posted:

They really need to fix the healing item drop rates. Like, I get they want it to Team Rocket to be a challenge, but it's ridiculous spinning a few dozen stops and not even getting a single potion.

That's why microtransactions exist, man.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2019 16:33

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

The Macaroni posted:

Let me guess--this wasn't an easily readable address like First.Last@gmail.com, it was something like Hot4Students69@hotmail.com wasn't it?

Thanks for reminding me of my friend, an IT administrator for a school district here in Pennsylvania, who caught the middle school's principal with clandestine recordings from students' webcams.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 15:22

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Nth Doctor posted:

It Was In The News.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 16:43

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

dragonshardz posted:

A ticket came in to attempt to power on and FDR ~30 ancient BlackBerry 8830 & 8703e. And record whether or not these devices, which were found in a storage room, powered off, without batteries, will power on so they can be FDR'd.

I would think they're already FDR'd since they're disabled AND dead.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2019 23:40

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Looking forward to my first day of wfh on Monday.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2019 18:26

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

AlexDeGruven posted:

It's so good. I'm 3 days/week remote right now because I-75 is an unmitigated loving disaster, and I love it. My team lead doesn't know I'm going to lobby for 1 or 2 days/month in the office soon, instead of the other way around when construction wraps for the season.

I don't have an option, man. Mandatory work from home, 5 days a week.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 19:32

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Shut up Meg posted:

'Work date nights and weekends with me. You won't have a boyfriend'

Lemme tell you, starting off your help-wanted post with a quote from Eliezer "It's like religion, but with AI as god" Yudkowsky is a real quick way to generate derisive laughs.

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# ¿ Jan 3, 2020 18:24

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Sickening posted:

I just had an orientation today where it was clearly explained that
Modern mri machines are always on these days and to stay the gently caress away. They literally don�t turn them off due to liquid helium. Signs everywhere that say �the magnet is always on and it�s never wrong�

Get close to them with metal and you will probably die. The layout of modern hospitals have sections of escalating danger like it�s a nuclear reactor.

The hospital that maintains my internal hardware systems has a special, extremely-low-flux MRI just for people like me with huge amounts of metal buried inside us.

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Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

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