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Go for it, Griff. You know you want to... give in to it. Embrace your inner evil twin.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I think you've earned the right to be a bit evil !
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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OriginalGriff wrote: There's a QA question, wanting to know how he prevents his users from logging in more than once a day.
How much control do you have over the login process?
For they systems I maintain, I'd just add a column to the table where we keep the user name and password (encrypted of course) to hold the last date of login and when validating the login request add a check to see if the last date is not the current date.
Sorry for not following the other posts by giving you a serious answer. 
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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It's not very evil - except for the encrypted passwords of course, that is indeed the work of Cthulhu. Encrypted passwords are a major security risk - they should be hashed instead. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Encrypted passwords are a major security risk - they should be hashed instead.
Poor choice of words, they are hashed. I just wrote encrypted to note that they weren't in clear text.
It's always an amusing e-mail when clients ask to be reminded of their passwords and we come back with, here's your temporary new password, be sure to change it after you login with it. (And you know they won't)
I've had other fires to put out, so I've never gotten around to adding a password is temporary flag to the login table, although it has long been on my list of things to do, but convincing the sales office that the time should be taken has been a lost cause. They like to hit that big red panic button over every little thing. It doesn't help that the original system was developed by amateurs who barely knew what they were doing and so I find myself fixing problems that have been there since time began in an urgent manner since someone finally noticed the problem ysterday and will fixate on it until they see it changed.
It won't be an issue until some idiot leaves their temporary password in an e-mail for all to see without changing it and then of course it will be the programmer's fault that it was misused.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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BrainiacV wrote: here's your temporary new password, be sure to change it after you login with it. (And you know they won't)
My solution to that is simple: All temporary passwords are GUIDs...most people change it immediately after they log in for the first time... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Can anyone explain what defines an element?
I mean, this new one, just discovered breaks down in a few tenths of a second and is, thus, unstable. What's the use in taking it up in the periodic table?
Can you "build" something with it? Can you form new substances?
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Yes - but you've got to be really, really quick. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Maybe MS is going to use it for a new technology which is then deprecated and abandoned by them.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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I dunno - 18~40 milliseconds is quite a good life for Microsoft technology!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Elements are a classification of matter. Each element has chemical properties that all atoms of that element share (modulo minute differences between isotopes caused be the mass difference). There's no rule that says that an element has to be useful, even the rule that such a class of matter has to have at least one confirmed member in it is a little tenuous - though an element has to be confirmed to "exist for real" to be put on "The Periodic Table", the extended table[^] doesn't care about such trivialities and contains a lot of elements that no one has ever seen and perhaps some that no humans will ever see - and yet some properties of those elements can be predicted, which is exactly the point of the periodic table.
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 I thought elements = atoms and they make up matter?
eg.
H(ydrogen) and O(xygen) are able to bond and form the substance H20 or "reusable" groups like OH-.
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Atoms make up matter, elements are types of atoms (with isotopes as subtypes).
V. wrote: H(ydrogen) and O(xygen) are able to bond and form the substance H20 or "reusable" groups like OH-.
Ok, sure. But it's the actual instances, ie atoms, that end up doing it. The formulas say which types those atoms must have.
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Well...yes...but it's a little more complicated than that, in that an element can exist in a number of isotopes, each of which has a different atom - the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons.
And an atom is the smallest "part" of an element: if you split it any further, you don't have the element any more.
A pile of sand would be of Sand element, while the grains that made the pile would be atoms of Sand (but only if when you "broke" a grain of Sand you got two or more things, none of which are Sand)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I nearly forgot, there is also Dark Matter, which is about 96% of the matter in the universe - we can see only about 4%. If my memory serves correctly, it's made up entirely of AOL and Compuserve CDs...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I thought it was made up of unpaired socked and mobile phone chargers
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No, I can see a pile of unmatched socks, and have a drawer full of mobile phone chargers!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, the table itself, being 'periodic', looks 'unstable'.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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What's da matter here? Uus gotta problem wid it? If uus ask me, it's really heavy. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: What's da matter here? Uus gotta problem wid it? If uus ask me, it's really heavy.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
So Gluon the broken bit again...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Even if it's too short lived for us to build something with it, it might temporarily come into existance somewhere in extremely volatile and energetic environments, e. g. on a neutron star or quasar. Classifying it helps understand the chemical reactions that may happen under such extreme conditions.
Besides, even a few tenths of a second is in fact quite a long time from a scientific point of view: we wouldn't understand half of the subatomic physics if we weren't able to register and classify particles with a lifetime of less than a microsecond! Some of these are in fact so short-lived that they can't be witnessed/measured directly: their (temporary) existance can only be deducted by the traces of chemical reaction products measured by the detectors.
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My XP desktop is in need of an update (no really! ), as it is about 5yrs old. I definitely want to go to Win7 or 8, from 2GB memory to 6 or 8GB, I want to put an SSD in and increase my HDD capacity.
I'm debating a new motherboard / GPU.
I'd like to move to a 64bit system. But what about i5 vs i7? Are i7s worth the extra money? If I go there though, that's effectively a new machine - the price of which probably won't fly with the wife!
Typically I've been updating my machine to make it 'game-capable' for specific games - it was HL2 last time, this time Titanfall and (eventually) Elite:Dangerous.
What do recent updaters think? Will an updated OS, more memory and an SSD compensate for an old (dual core) CPU and GPU for a while longer? Or would money on those updates be 'wasted' being held back by the old components?
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At today's prices and given the age I would buy new.
Check out my upgrade article here[^].
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