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I don’t think it’s going to get much more broadly used than it is now. I work in cyber security and there have been password hacks like this since practically the beginning of the internet. It’s called a rainbow table attack, It mostly relies on the victims being complete idiots.

You don’t even need to have a particularly secure password to be safe from it, you just have to have a unique one from site to site. Even if in other respects it’s relatively weak it will still defeat a rainbow table attack.

The point is this stuff has been going on for decades and people are still making basic fundamental errors, so I can’t see how that’s going to change in the future. Maybe we should require everyone to take some sort of basic proficiency test before they’re allowed online.

I guess but if a shadowy company wanted my DNA they could get it easily enough even if I don’t hand it over to them so I’m not sure how much point there is in being protective of it. Anyway what are they going to do with it, that a medical company couldn’t do?

The government already has my blood from back when they were doing medical testing, so it’s all a bit of a moot point anyway. Also an insurance companies took some blood and they did an MRI scan so they have my brain as well. Jokes on them if they choose to clone me, I’m bloody useless.

The first time I heard about concord was when they shut it off. I don’t know how they expect a game to do well when they did absolutely zero advertising.

I kind of hope they retcon that at some point.

In my head the justification for all of that is that the queen arose as a necessity to have a single individual for the crew of the Enterprise to interact with. This required her to have a certain amount of autonomy from the collective consciousness, the end result was that she turned into a bit of a dictator and because she had control over the collective she essentially took over without much fight. This would have been obvious to anyone else that this was a possibility, but the Borg had no experience of individuality in the collective before that, so the concern never occurred to them.

Eventually she died and the collective were released from her, and now they are back to being a hive mind. A hive mind that has learned not to do that again.

The reason seven of nine did not become like that was because the queen knew that that was a possibility, and so kept her largely connected so she could to a large extent control her.

Nice try. I’m not on that website it’ll probably explode.

That’s what they have now exploding websites. I think it’s a CSS attribute.

Yeah this is what I’m confused about. In a lot of simpler devices like this the BMS is actually a daughter board and has no physical connectivity to the main circuits at all. And even if it had access you generally do not have the capacity to rewrite its code, because again code updating is not something that was ever expected.

Getting batteries to release energy isn’t very difficult, even getting them to release it quickly isn’t very difficult. What’s difficult is getting them to release it over the course of a few milliseconds. Which is what you would need for an explosion.

If the battery simply dumped all its power over the course of 30 seconds that’s basically just a fire that you can run away from.

Also I wouldn’t have thought a pager had that much charge, I wouldn’t have thought this sort of thing would be possible as they would tend to just go off with a loud bang, assuming you could even get them to release all the energy at once l, which again I wouldn’t have thought was possible.

For fairly obvious reasons I don’t think we’re ever going to find out how this was done.

You can just quotes the sections that are relevant. That is what everyone else does.

Every time you do stuff like this it always gives me a headache trying to follow what you’re trying to say, It always looks like you’re cutting words out of newspapers in order to form a ransom note.

if you ever feel like killing yourself, don’t

Oh definitely don’t kill yourself, there’s absolutely no future in it.

My cousin killed himself and I do not think it helped at all.

I have been in one relationship in my entire life. 8 years ago I was assigned the desk next to her at work, and now I I’m going to marry.

I’m so glad that I have to put up with this shit. One and done, and I’m perfectly happy with it.

So what they should have said is to make the image negative.

That’s being a standard image editing function since the days of film but you have to use the correct terminology.

If he’s ill and that’s why he’s working from home and this is not a usual thing then he’s not going to have a KVM is he

Give them a bad review on glassdoor. Really drive the knife in.

Work shouldn’t distrust employees this much

If he’s using an RDP connection then it’s not about work not trusting him, it’s about him leaving all the defaults on. Standard behavior for RDP connections is for the computer to essentially just take commands from a remote mouse and keyboard as if they are commands from the local peripherals.

The computer doesn’t know anything about the remote connection, so it’s just operating as usual which is why everyone can see the screen, because under normal operations that’s but a computer does.

The email is just advising him to maybe change some of the settings so that it doesn’t behave as default.

Nope. If I have to wander around going to various work sites and getting the laptop rained on, baked by the sun, sprinkled with dust and grass cuttings, and generally getting kicked about it’s going to be a work device not my own.

My manager did that but he had the porn side open on a different tab. He spent the entire presentation not noticing.

Remote connections have being a thing since before Windows, so they really don’t have “boomers” as an excuse. Lacking the critical thinking skills of a dung beetle is more what I was thinking

I work in the IT department for my company so I know for a fact that there’s no monitoring on the work laptops, which is super strange but whatever.

Still I wouldn’t use the work laptop for anything other than work activities because despite the fact I 100% know there’s no monitoring I still don’t trust it. Besides, It’s unprofessional, and although I don’t really care about that all that much, it’s good to get into the habit of not doing personal activities on a work laptop, because one day they might start monitoring, and this way I’m already in the habit of not doing anything personal.

Yeah this is a pretty weird setup they’ve got going on.

Like you say they’re going to be remoting onto their work computer and then having their remote connection remote onto another remote terminal server.

It’s a holographic holodeck all over again.

Wait they didn’t give you a laptop? If they want you to work remotely they really should be giving you a device.