• whoey (unregistered) in reply to ...

    To monitor if anyone's wasting company resources printing up 100s of pages of (personal) crap. I used to teach English when I first moved to Spain, they had user codes on the photocopier for such reason... (the copier wasn't in a public area...)

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Boobies!!

    captcha: stinky

    bahahahaahhahaha

  • 28% genius (unregistered) in reply to Dude
    Dude:
    Ok, now what the hell does "captcha" mean??!!!

    Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

  • Oravanpyörä (unregistered) in reply to GreatPretender
    GreatPretender:
    ... and I imagine its no better with civil, chemical, or electrical engineering either.

    In those fields the idiots end up killing people with their incompetence (and sued six ways to Sunday as a result).

  • gygax (unregistered) in reply to Oravanpyörä
    Oravanpyörä:
    GreatPretender:
    ... and I imagine its no better with civil, chemical, or electrical engineering either.

    In those fields the idiots end up killing people with their incompetence (and sued six ways to Sunday as a result).

    Kindof holds true for software dev in some fields as well. Imagine running nuclear sites with some of the software we've seen here. ;) Big booms!

  • F (unregistered)

    I find the captchas to be funny...

    darwin - did us code-monkeys evolve..?

  • DrCrumb (unregistered)

    How is it that this company can afford oracle licensing and can't afford decent hardware to run it on?

  • (cs) in reply to DrCrumb
    DrCrumb:
    How is it that this company can afford oracle licensing and can't afford decent hardware to run it on?

    Exactly.

  • jk (unregistered) in reply to llama64

    the next wtf competition maybe?

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to spxza
    spxza:
    llama64:
    ParkinT:
    Storme:
    What IF you make a decent first post, and use "first" as your captcha ?

    captcha: last (for now)

    I vote for an automated discard of EVERY first post. Run it as a cron job; every hour. <g>

    I have visions of this script becoming a true WTF in it's own right!

    Oh, oh! Something that'll iterate through every post (150,000 ATM) each night, deleting the first post of every WTF. It'll either take longer and longer as time goes by, or a every article ever will lose a comment each day. Can't wait to see what happens when it runs on an article that has no comments.

    DELETE FROM MyTable WHERE Comment LIKE '%captcha%' will only delete rows where "captcha" is in the comment. When nothing is found, nothing is deleted. Anyway, there is no error message because there was no error, just no matching rows.

    QED

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to yetihehe
    yetihehe:
    Quietust:
    It's easy: you don't put your #$%@ing captcha in your message. It's annoying, and nobody cares what your captcha is.
    I care.

    On networks: I'm in campus, where there are about 2k computers on one lan, with B class adresses. Just netbios and other random boradcasts take about 1MB/s. It's good now everyone has cat5e and every building has own fiber to central switch (12 buildings). Overall 100mbit for 2000 students is a little small.

    What does that have to do with the quote or at least how does this relate to "I care about captchas"?

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to gygax
    gygax:
    Oravanpyörä:
    GreatPretender:
    ... and I imagine its no better with civil, chemical, or electrical engineering either.

    In those fields the idiots end up killing people with their incompetence (and sued six ways to Sunday as a result).

    Kindof holds true for software dev in some fields as well. Imagine running nuclear sites with some of the software we've seen here. ;) Big booms!

    Don't shout that too loud. We have not yet seen the kind of software THEY use. When I think of IT in a bank (and with all the money involved the risk is - in a way - comparable) I can easily immagine quite a number of WTFs in their soft

  • (cs) in reply to wait what
    wait what:
    Using "onomatopoeia" as a captcha is too. If a robot can read a small word why can't it read a big one?

    That one's not to get rid of robots. It's to get rid of the /.-kiddies with their frist poasts. Not a chance in hell any of them could spell any word much longer than four letters...

  • (cs) in reply to Drone
    Drone:
    Zylon:
    CAPTCHA:
    Actually, the CAPTCHAs aren't completely random, they come from a set defined by Alex that contain a high percentage of words that could relate to any given WTF. So the stupid thing would be being amused that a word related to the current WTF came up. And telling everyone your CAPTCHA.
    Exactly. There's a relatively tiny list of them, and once you've seen them all about a dozen times each, one really doesn't care to see them again.

    Yet we still have the retarded monkeys here posting them again and again as if they're playing Bingo.

    Captcha Bingo... that's billant!

    It's even better than that. It's Captcha Bingo played by retarded monkeys! Imagine the chaos! Imagine the comedy! Imagine the handfuls of crap flying through the air!

    I think it would make a great video game.

  • (cs) in reply to Cloak
    Cloak:
    yetihehe:
    Quietust:
    It's easy: you don't put your #$%@ing captcha in your message. It's annoying, and nobody cares what your captcha is.
    I care.

    On networks: I'm in campus, where there are about 2k computers on one lan, with B class adresses. Just netbios and other random boradcasts take about 1MB/s. It's good now everyone has cat5e and every building has own fiber to central switch (12 buildings). Overall 100mbit for 2000 students is a little small.

    What does that have to do with the quote or at least how does this relate to "I care about captchas"?

    It doesn't. Wow! Boggle as your mind wrestles to grasp the concept of a single post containing two topics!

    The "On networks:" bit, particularly the colon, is meant to give you the clue that he's changing subject.

    This post brought to you by Reading Comprehension 101.

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    Ok, this whole story has got to be false. No company could possibly screw up so many processes simultaneously, right?

    ... Right?

  • (cs) in reply to spxza
    spxza:

    I was at my varsity for six years. We were given a network login/password that gave us access to all the student computing systems. The network was configured to expire the passwords after 90 days. And it remembered every password you have ever used. I appended random chars onto the end of the one, but often forgot it. So, I eventually started going through the days of the week, then months of the year. Talk about security.

    Get used to it. Every sizable company will expire the passwords every 30 to 180 days and not allow repeats (I think it's in the SOX requirements). Just use a number at the beginning or end and increment every time you need to change it.

  • Jamie (unregistered) in reply to Joel

    "It's probably time software standards be made manditory."

    Just what do you want to standardize on? Data Access, Encryption, UI Look -n- Feel, etc.

    Good luck standardizing in a field where even our tools never move out of beta.

  • (cs) in reply to Storme

    Your captcha should be 'p2n' and then your user number.

  • Andrew Mackay (unregistered)

    I just stumbled upon this (using stumpleupon)! Look at my name.... Is it a sign... probs not I don't have anything to do with IT departments....but I might soon ....

  • Corey (unregistered)

    If you delete all the posts with "captcha" in them, what happens when there's a WTF story about a broken captcha system? How will we discuss it?

    (Something like that happened to me once, when I emailed my wife asking her to pick up a Strattera scrip I'd gotten called in, and her reply was plonked into a spam folder by the company email system because it mentioned a drug...)

    Of course, sometimes this can be funny. On Fark, any mention of "first post" is changed to "Boobies" and the timestamp pushed a few hours into the future (so the post is no longer first). Occasionally you'll see someone who writes e.g. "Bob's first post in this thread says it all", which gets translated by the same filter.

  • (cs) in reply to Corey
    Corey:
    Of course, sometimes this can be funny. On Fark, any mention of "first post" is changed to "Boobies" and the timestamp pushed a few hours into the future (so the post is no longer first). Occasionally you'll see someone who writes e.g. "Bob's first post in this thread says it all", which gets translated by the same filter.
    You're absolutely right: sometimes this can be funny. In an alternative universe. Populated exclusively by five year olds.

    "Bob's Boobies post in this thread says it all."

    Res ipsa loquitor.

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to Corey
    Corey:
    If you delete all the posts with "captcha" in them, what happens when there's a WTF story about a broken captcha system? How will we discuss it?

    (Something like that happened to me once, when I emailed my wife asking her to pick up a Strattera scrip I'd gotten called in, and her reply was plonked into a spam folder by the company email system because it mentioned a drug...)

    Of course, sometimes this can be funny. On Fark, any mention of "first post" is changed to "Boobies" and the timestamp pushed a few hours into the future (so the post is no longer first). Occasionally you'll see someone who writes e.g. "Bob's first post in this thread says it all", which gets translated by the same filter.

    'Bob had bitch tits...'

  • CoolHandPuke (unregistered)

    Sounds like another place full of Cheap I.T. Bastards

  • ASAP (unregistered) in reply to FlorisDenHeijer

    FAIL!

    chaptca:

  • MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA (unregistered)

    captcha: stinky

  • miles32 (unregistered) in reply to FlorisDenHeijer

    10 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

  • anon cow (unregistered) in reply to felixnine
    felixnine:
    Here's the full explanation to the extent of my knowledge: every employee had their own workstation on which I'm pretty sure we were all administrators. Everyone could have an arbitrary login and password if they so chose. I guess everyone was assigned an employee number or something; this is where it gets fuzzy for me. If we wanted to print, our local passwords had to be the same as our server passwords. So, for example, on my local workstation where I didn't have to log in to any domain, my username was "andrew" and I had an arbitrary password. I couldn't print. If I changed it to "abc72", I could. Every employee's password was formatted as such. Pretty secure, right? I have no idea how this was actually implemented.

    sounds like windows w/o the domain options. you can have the same local usernames on two wintel boxes and if the passwords match, u can gain access to the other box with all of the remote user's authority. totally horrible security = captcha = smile

  • (cs) in reply to yetihehe
    yetihehe:
    On networks: I'm in campus, where there are about 2k computers on one lan, with B class addresses.
    Hmmm... with CIDR, I can't imagine why address class would make a difference... unless... you're not saying *all* 2000 computers are in the same broadcast domain?! 'Cause, well, that'd just be stupid.
    yetihehe:
    Just netbios and other random broadcasts take about 1MB/s.
    Sounds like someone needs a router.
    yetihehe:
    It's good now everyone has cat5e and every building has own fiber to central switch (12 buildings). Overall 100mbit for 2000 students is a little small.
    It really depends on the final destination of the majority of traffic. If it's spread out across resources & final destinations (e.g. every department has their own servers & the servers are close to their users), 100mbit *could* be enough for day-to-day stuff. If it's 2000 people watching pr0n on the intertubes, you may have a point ;)
  • ysth (unregistered) in reply to Joel
    Joel:
    It's probably time software standards be made manditory.

    And we'll start with speling.

  • Maleldil (unregistered)

    This sounds disturbingly like the company I work for. While not quite so bad in the network or old-computer department, we pretty much have to jump through a lot of hoops to get any work done. Also, we don't have a bug-tracking database, so any issues are emailed from our QC department to the build-master, who has to tell each of us what went wrong. Also, our QC department doesn't really do any testing, except for what we tell them to test. They don't test the whole thing, just the little features we add, so there are scores of unknown bugs just waiting to take the system down (or at least anger the end users, of which there are many).

  • Sin Tax (unregistered) in reply to AnnCoulter

    Yeah, probably. I either forget to change it, or forget the password itself (if it's for an app that offers to save it, but won't show it to you.) Instead I waste company time calling IT services to get a reset done. I have tried to keep my passwords in sync and just change a number, but different services have different policies, and some don't allow this method. Then they get out of sync, and I get locked out after trying the first three likely candidates. Hello IT?

    I believe I read somewhere that a password only needs to be changed if there is a real risk that it has been compromised. Sounds plausible to me, although I'm no security expert. So why all the fuss? For Unix systems, at least I can put in my public key for ssh, and just have to remember one passphrase - and I can control the change frequency of that one myself. It's nontrivial, strong, yet easy to remember. I use it for nothing else, don't share it (obviously!), and it will never change.

    -Sin Tax

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