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Easy. Is it from Redmond? It will halt.
(Hello, Mr. Turing! Do you know how soon Mr. Godel will arrive?)
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Please block all undesirable e-mail. I insist on a 0% false positive rate as well.
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Well?? Don't you have a solution yet? Come on, man! It's a clearly defined problem!
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I don't really see the WTF here. The client got what they wanted, the company got loads of billed hours AND a new fancy feature to sell and best of all, the one user doesn't have to remember another password now!
I'll admit I facepalmed when reading the final sentence, but if the client wants to pay and is happy at the result, WHY NOT!?
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Because, deep in one's tiny black developer heart, everyone wishes to believe they make a difference with their effort. And when it's for, erm... almost nothing -- the fact is demoralizing =)
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Now your company's DHCP server has to compete with the rogue DHCP server for speed (response time).
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TDWTF is TRWTF. A story about incompetent programmer, and four pages of idiotic comments. User too lazy to remember a password? Logins suck, most people use the same login for every site and/or write their login info on postit notes left on their monitors. Using the same password for every site is almost as secure as having no login whatsoever... Get user's login for some random site and you can access confidential medical information. Certificates are the way to go, especially in this case. Passphrases are ok too. Making users memorize countless logins MUST STOP. It's as ancient an idea as making users click on "save" button. Get on with the times.
CAPTCHA: jumentum - wtf is jumentum?
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I bet that was Lotus Notes
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For those who haven't realised the captchas are Latin: Latin, jumentum, neuter, meaning beast of burden.
For those who want to stay on topic: Jumentum-SOC is a programming environment for LPC2000-based microcontrollers. (That's used in embedded systems, and no I won't finish the meme).
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You're forgetting the Marketers. They will be the 1st up against the wall in my revolution.
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How is a pound supposed to help you?
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Thanks for gracing us with another.
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What was so inaccurate? They asked for a solution for a single signon, and got it.
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a tachometer
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Dunno about that: the various NHS IT clusterWTFs over the last few years and ongoing could keep this site going for years.
Captcha: augue. Community Server showing incipient signs of sentience?
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My lesson is that this programmer needed to ask way more questions.
Both RSA and a dozen other companies have 'Secure USB Tokens' available.
http://www.swekey.com/ http://www.rohos.com/welcome-screen/usbflash.htm
If you know before hand that the system is NOT open ended w.r.t. the number of users, then hardware solutions become quite viable.
Any enterprise system that is sold on the basis of number of seats (the common unit charge in SAAS apps) by definition does NOT have an open ended number of users.
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No it's not. You haven't defined undesirable.
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I didn't actually think that, but I do use Keepass religiously. Only actually remember 2 passwords: my master pw and my university pw (which is just a subset of the master pw).
Keepass remembers the rest.
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[quote user="Steve the Cynic"]No, it's not impossible. It's software, of course it's possible. (I'm being deadly serious here. Code is the most flexible and adaptable construction material known to man.) [quote] So is glue, but I have yet to see skyscrapers made with nothing but!
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[quote user="KnightSword"][quote user="Steve the Cynic"]No, it's not impossible. It's software, of course it's possible. (I'm being deadly serious here. Code is the most flexible and adaptable construction material known to man.) [quote] So is glue, but I have yet to see skyscrapers made with nothing but![/quote] So is glue? No it isn't :) It's only useful for one thing...
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I've had to deal with similar 'of course we can disobey the laws of physics' salesmen - the kind that promise everything including time travel.
One place I worked at promised the ability to control access to resources on the internet - even on servers that we didn't own and had no access to. I lost my temper trying to explain why it was impossible and exactly how far the salesman could stick his head up his a$se.
I was quite shocked when they outsourced the work to some shady back street company for 6 figures, and eventually purchased a mysterious box with lights.
I wasn't shocked to be included in the first round of redundancies when the company found itself short of customers and money.
I really wasn't shocked when the entire company went to the wall a few months later. Incompetence knows no bounds it seems.
And the salesman? He found he'd lost his job while at a conference, and the sneaky turds repossessed his company car, cancelled his credit card and texted him his 15 minutes notice. How we laughed.
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Yes. Positively.
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Sellotape
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Maybe you have some third-party DHCP client service that prevents this?
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... and hence pointed out the fallacy in the original assertion.
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Fake
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I somehow remember that even the local security policy is loaded AFTER the device drivers are loaded (so you don't see settings on blocking non-pre-approved driver from loading), and domain security is loaded even later (how if the user is logging in different domain?). There's no way such thing can actively affect how DHCP works, except you got some DHCP clients that read the settings from specific places in registry.
The usual solution I've seen is to use GP script to force using DHCP server and renew IP after login to domain.
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Actually, it isn't. Just don't expect to receive any replies from the other side, as they will be sent to the fake source address. :)
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"He backed off when his brother and business partner told him it was impossible for such a small company as theirs, but I surely wanted to attend the reunion where he told it to the customer.And I always wondered how he would suggest us to create our own GPS. Maybe we should start by launching our own satellite?"
Mobile phone, sending data over GPRS/Edge/3G? Would likely have been cheaper than a sattelite system, and could have provided the "real-time" data transfer...
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One of the applications we develop for a client has machine names hard-coded in to the login system so that Mr Big Cheese at our client never has to login.
When I started working here and found this I asked why we didn't just use SSPI; all I got were blank looks.
That application makes me cry every time I have to look at it; that's just one example out of many of the WTFery in it.
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Strong hash is the ultimate cure.
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Hint: [url=http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/5_years_C-pound_experience.aspx]Pound{/url]
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Stop spreading lies. Stephen Hawking would be dead now, if it wasn't for the NHS.
Perhaps not the most reliable of sources, but try the links on to the Guardian with a quote from Hawking himself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/stephen-hawking-enters-us_n_257343.html
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Dude thats the only way to go. It just doesnt get any better.
Lou www.big-brother-watching.net.tc