As a Computer Support Manager I was often asked to go personally to sort out problems with a Head of Group or Head of Section. Pretty senior people in my organisation. These guys had multi million budgets, yet had troubles logging on to the building network. And where was their password? Yup! written on a post it note stuck under the keyboard! Which of course any cleaner later could find.
I reckon the cleverer they are the less computer literate they are. Some sort of reverse intelligence logic there somewhere ...
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
But if no one needed anyone because everyone knew what they were doing whatever they were doing - what kind of world would that be? I'm so glad there are people out there who can help me when my computer illiteracy has reared its ugly head :)
edit for an anniet thought... I wonder if ants get confused and seek help from each other... they do need each other in the collective sense - but I wonder if some need guidance as to which end of a grub to feed etc... okay... yes. Good idea... I will shut up now... :)
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for an anniet thought... I wonder if ants get confused and seek help from each other... they do need each other in the collective sense - but I wonder if some need guidance as to which end of a grub to feed etc... okay... yes. Good idea... I will shut up now... :)
Yes. Put it this way Annie : ants are co-operative to the same extent that people aren't. So which species will rule the planet after all the nuke clouds have dispersed, eh ? :-}
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
As a Computer Support Manager I was often asked to go personally to sort out problems with a Head of Group or Head of Section. Pretty senior people in my organisation. These guys had multi million budgets, yet had troubles logging on to the building network. And where was their password? Yup! written on a post it note stuck under the keyboard! Which of course any cleaner later could find.
I reckon the cleverer they are the less computer literate they are. Some sort of reverse intelligence logic there somewhere ...
Yup alot of people put the password under their keyboard thinking NO ONE else would even think to look there!! At my old work we had to change the password every 90 days, most people just added a 1 to the end of their previous password, which kept the Servers happy because it did meet the requirements and WAS changed. After awhile the passwords became too long so they switched to a 2 instead and then kept adding more 2's every 90 days. Me I change the first part but kept the last part the same, it was easy for me to remember the last part, and the first part was pretty easy too, but it was still more than the required combination 6 capital letters, small letters, punctuation and numbers long and met the requirements. Often I just changed which letter was capitalized, which kept the Servers happy for awhile.
A long time ago, someone wrote a Star Trek novel called Enterprise. In Part 1, the crew were trying to just live their lives in disgrace. Part 2 jumped back in time to show how they got to be disgraced. Part 3 then showed them retaking their reputation.
Why do I bring this up? SPOILER ALERT! (If you think you might ever want to read it.)
What they find in Part 3 is that mechanical creatures about like coffee-table-sized ants had artificially created the political conditions on this planet (amazingly similar to the political conditions here on Earth in the latter half of the 20th century) until the people there nuked themselves. The ant creatures would then move in and feed on the nuclear radiation.
Aside: Spock has allied himself with a group of student protesters* at Berkeley, much to the surprise of most other people on Earth because that school is NOT known for political protests and unrest.
*Who later think that he somewhat screwed them.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
a group of student protesters* at Berkeley, much to the surprise of most other people on Earth because that school is NOT known for political protests and unrest.
You sure about that? :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
.... mechanical creatures about like coffee-table-sized ants had artificially created the political conditions on this planet (amazingly similar to the political conditions here on Earth in the latter half of the 20th century) until the people there nuked themselves. The ant creatures would then move in and feed on the nuclear radiation.
This is way better than The Illuminati. You don't even have to spruik up some terrible long-lens-out-of-focus-in-dim-lighting-later-photoshopped videos to justify a morphing narrative. They'd just be big butt-ugly ants in the middle of your living room from the get go. Much more believable.
I did meet a US secret service guy once. He was looking right at me while talking to his cuff links. I had to stifle the urge to raise my arms up ( and drop the slide rule I was carrying menacingly ). That was when the Nixon bag man Chuck Colson came to talk at Melbourne Uni, after his release from prison*. We were looking for some good West Wing gossip but all we got was religion. This may seem to be a non-sequitur from the first paragraph but I have seen some real lizards who are actually people to. To my knowledge none of them were Presidential bodyguards.
Cheers, Mike.
* He'd been convicted for lying about the bleedin' obvious. He stayed a whole seven months incarcerated and was elected as the best hall monitor in B-block for 1974.
... he'd been lying to the newspapers and the whole US public for some time before that. But he lied to a judge AND the judge didn't like him either, so that's how it went down. Plea bargaining often sucks more than it blows.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
As a Computer Support Manager
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As a Computer Support Manager I was often asked to go personally to sort out problems with a Head of Group or Head of Section. Pretty senior people in my organisation. These guys had multi million budgets, yet had troubles logging on to the building network. And where was their password? Yup! written on a post it note stuck under the keyboard! Which of course any cleaner later could find.
I reckon the cleverer they are the less computer literate they are. Some sort of reverse intelligence logic there somewhere ...
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
But if no one needed anyone
)
But if no one needed anyone because everyone knew what they were doing whatever they were doing - what kind of world would that be? I'm so glad there are people out there who can help me when my computer illiteracy has reared its ugly head :)
edit for an anniet thought... I wonder if ants get confused and seek help from each other... they do need each other in the collective sense - but I wonder if some need guidance as to which end of a grub to feed etc... okay... yes. Good idea... I will shut up now... :)
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RE: for an anniet
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Yes. Put it this way Annie : ants are co-operative to the same extent that people aren't. So which species will rule the planet after all the nuke clouds have dispersed, eh ? :-}
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: So which species will
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Cockroaches.
RE: As a Computer Support
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Yup alot of people put the password under their keyboard thinking NO ONE else would even think to look there!! At my old work we had to change the password every 90 days, most people just added a 1 to the end of their previous password, which kept the Servers happy because it did meet the requirements and WAS changed. After awhile the passwords became too long so they switched to a 2 instead and then kept adding more 2's every 90 days. Me I change the first part but kept the last part the same, it was easy for me to remember the last part, and the first part was pretty easy too, but it was still more than the required combination 6 capital letters, small letters, punctuation and numbers long and met the requirements. Often I just changed which letter was capitalized, which kept the Servers happy for awhile.
RE: RE: So which species
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*affronted blink* I was rather hoping for the ants, Gary.
Mind you... after a few mutations the cockroaches might turn out quite presentable...
:)
edit: hi Mikey :)
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RE: RE: RE: So which
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As you know ants go zombie and zombies are undead, not living. Of course I suppose the undead can rule ;~)
A long time ago, someone
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A long time ago, someone wrote a Star Trek novel called Enterprise. In Part 1, the crew were trying to just live their lives in disgrace. Part 2 jumped back in time to show how they got to be disgraced. Part 3 then showed them retaking their reputation.
Why do I bring this up? SPOILER ALERT! (If you think you might ever want to read it.)
What they find in Part 3 is that mechanical creatures about like coffee-table-sized ants had artificially created the political conditions on this planet (amazingly similar to the political conditions here on Earth in the latter half of the 20th century) until the people there nuked themselves. The ant creatures would then move in and feed on the nuclear radiation.
Aside: Spock has allied himself with a group of student protesters* at Berkeley, much to the surprise of most other people on Earth because that school is NOT known for political protests and unrest.
*Who later think that he somewhat screwed them.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: a group of student
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You sure about that? :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: .... mechanical
)
This is way better than The Illuminati. You don't even have to spruik up some terrible long-lens-out-of-focus-in-dim-lighting-later-photoshopped videos to justify a morphing narrative. They'd just be big butt-ugly ants in the middle of your living room from the get go. Much more believable.
I did meet a US secret service guy once. He was looking right at me while talking to his cuff links. I had to stifle the urge to raise my arms up ( and drop the slide rule I was carrying menacingly ). That was when the Nixon bag man Chuck Colson came to talk at Melbourne Uni, after his release from prison*. We were looking for some good West Wing gossip but all we got was religion. This may seem to be a non-sequitur from the first paragraph but I have seen some real lizards who are actually people to. To my knowledge none of them were Presidential bodyguards.
Cheers, Mike.
* He'd been convicted for lying about the bleedin' obvious. He stayed a whole seven months incarcerated and was elected as the best hall monitor in B-block for 1974.
... he'd been lying to the newspapers and the whole US public for some time before that. But he lied to a judge AND the judge didn't like him either, so that's how it went down. Plea bargaining often sucks more than it blows.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal