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no lights. come on man, fancy stuff like that gonna add at least 2 more cents!
take my last 2 cents will leave me nothing to rub together. was a kind offer sir, but I'll have to pass.
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I visited the facility yesterday. It's on a DoD facility and the work is performed in a SCIF. I wasn't allowed to go into the SCIF during the visit. Each desk in the SCIF has three computers (dev, test, and production) connected to a KVM switch because the different environments are on different subnets.
The app (and I always use the term "app" loosely when talking about web sites) uses a mix of jquery and KendoUI. They don't use ASP.Net at all, nor MVC.
The database merely holds data, and is not instrumental at all in site topology or configuration. Eventually, the data will be moved to "the cloud" (Amazon).
I was told that I was being brought in to perform dual roles that include maintenance of the existing app, and designing/implementing a more maintainable/modern version of it.
There is currently one developer working on it.
There is another team of devs working on other parts of another app, and their lead said that "external documentation is pointless", and "code comments are a complete waste of time".
I accepted the job and start in two weeks.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Where is John Simmons Outlaw Programmer, and what have you done to him?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm gonna fix their sh*t (and it beats working in Qlikview).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Oh, come on! This is the DoD we are talking about, you won't be allowed access to your own desk drawers for six months until the security clearance has been re-run! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The password policy that annoys me. Must be at least 15 characters, must include upper and lower case chars, special chars, numeric chars, special/numeric chars cannot be adjacent, no part of the password can form a word found in the dictionary, you can't use a password from a list of the 24 most recent passwords, and you have to change the password every 30 days.
By the time you find a password you can use, it's time to change your password again.
You would think that I was going to have access to nuke launch codes...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And let me guess ... get it wrong three times and your account is frozen and Large Polite Men With Suspicious Bulges In Their Armpits arrive at your desk to ask a few penetrating questions?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And it isn't any fun programming the crap that checks that either. I think you also forgot you can't have more than 2 repeated characters in a row and you can't have progressions like 'bcde' in it.
I use the make up a dirty sentence about the wife and use the first letter of each word method and stick the year and a special at the end.
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No biometrics? A fingerprint scanner would be easier / quicker?
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A biometric scanner can be defeated rather easily.
At one company I worked for, they bought one of those shipping container data center pods, and installed a thumbprint reader for access. I bet the boss $500 that I could crack it in a week. The next day, I noticed that he drank from his coffee cup without using the handle, so I dusted his cup with graphite, and used a piece of scotch tape to lift his thumb print.
On the 2nd day, when he entered the pod, I was sitting there cruising the web on the "secure" machine.
He removed the biometric crap the next day, and installed a combination key-pad/card reader, and paid me $500 in cash.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There is an option on some readers for 'liveness detection' but that reduces ambient light rejection.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The password policy that annoys me. Must be at least 15 characters, must include upper and lower case chars, special chars, numeric chars, special/numeric chars cannot be adjacent, no part of the password can form a word found in the dictionary, you can't use a password from a list of the 24 most recent passwords, and you have to change the password every 30 days.
By the time you find a password you can use, it's time to change your password again.
0Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot0
0Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot1
0Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot2
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1Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot0
1Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot1
...
/trollface
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That password series contains words. No workee.
I've seen variations of this:
QWERTYUqwertyu!1
and this:
!QAZWSXEDCqazwsxedc1
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: no part of the password can form a word
so "I" is not allowed. Anything to keep you folks safe!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Time to start using GUIDs for passwords...
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He is setting sail on the Horizon[^]. What we did with him? Make him drunk and drag him aboard?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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He's gonna comment the code and then dare the lead to do something about it.
At High Noon.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: At High Noon.
Ever.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The compensation must be really attractive then. 
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Six figures - and that's sayin something for Texas.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: Six figures
Yeah, but I bet some of them are zeros!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Congrats, sounds intriguing!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: DoD facility
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: the data will be moved to "the cloud" (Amazon).
Excuse me, I'll respond to this post once I have finished digging my antinuclear bunker.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Eventually, the data will be moved to "the cloud" (Amazon)
Well, then I've got some good news for you!
AWS Case Study: Qlik[^] 
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I wasn't allowed to go into the SCIF during the visit.
Nor will you be allowed to start your job now that you have posted all this confidential information.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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