Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Fucking web sites that make passwords a huge pain in the ass by:

- requiring they be changed every couple of months
- prohibiting use of previously-used passwords
- prohibiting the use of a character twice in a row
- prohibiting the use of special characters

My school's web site does 3 of these and Blue Cross/Blue Shield does another 3, which means I forget my password and either have to reset it every time I log in or I send myself an email with the password so I can look it up later (thereby compromising security).

tbf they don't send you an email with the password, they send you an email with the one-time key to reset your password. At least they do if they're not morons.

Also, requiring the password be a small range of number of characters. E.g., password must be between 6 and 9 characters long.

xp - I never said they send me a password.

I just want to log into a website and stay logged in forever. Security be damned.

In fact, neither my school nor BCBS do resets by email. Both do it by verifying info on their website.

xp - yes

Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (2 days ago) Permalink

Though not exactly on point, this reminded me of the first day of a college class on literature and spirituality in which the professor asked us to brainstorm examples of how religion seemed to be playing an increasing role in popular film. One kid raises his hand and says "I know this might not be the most obvious example, but Stigmata. I mean when you really think about it."

i started using keyboard patterns for work to save me having to think of passwords. so now mine are things like uIomNb654 and i can write them down cryptically. everything else is stored encrypted in a keystore on a usb stick (and emailed, encrypted, to webmail account)

- articles that include top 10/20/50 that insist on displaying the list as a goddamn slideshow.

just list the damn things.

I have two (2) sets of headphones - crappy apple buds I keep at home, and a pair of Sennheiser over-ears that I take with me to work and bring home on the weekends.

I left my sennheisers at home this morning so now I have zero (0) headphones at work.

I am now listening to music with my PHONE HEADSET plugged into my computer. It would be more pleasing to have the music transmitted through a tin can on a string.

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I left my earbuds on my coffee table and I know that my cat loves them for chewing and wrestling with. Hmm.

maybe the cat put a parasite in your brain that made you leave them on the coffee table

you need cat handcuffs innit?

I have headphones that I prefer to use, a set of crappy ear buds that I keep in my desk at work for emergencies, and a pair of (actually very nice) headphones that I keep in a case in my purse just in case. I don't use the nice ones daily because they don't have the little clicker mic on them, and that thing is handy.

I need to get spare-spares to keep at work.

Just heard a co-workers cellphone ring. He picked it up and said, "Hey, Roger. Are you feeling better?"

Makes me IA all the way. When you call someone, you shouldn't have to immediately answer a question without even saying "hello" first.

― pplains, Friday, March 2, 2012 4:50 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This from the guy who neither proffers nor acknowledges parting niceties at the completion of any telephone exchange.

He does say 'Sir' when addressing elders though so I guess that makes it even Steven.

By the time the phone call is concluding, you should know by now whether or not Roger is feeling any better. What else is there left to say?

And listen. It's not I just abruptly hang-up without warning or anything. It's not like you said "I am finished." in your last post.

M'amm.

So but I appreciate healthy fast lunch options and I like quinoa just fine but paying $8 for half a cup of quinoa and chili is straight bullshit.

I don't think the chili is $8, is it? $7 at the most. Unless they jack up the prices in the Loop.

In any event, I do feel you. Fwiw, the wraps are more filling than the bowls, I've found.

I agree, although I found the wraps to be dense and dry quinoa bombs. The work of chewing them wasn't worth the nutritional or taste enjoying I derived from them.

I stand by Freshii as the best new healthy lunch option in the Loop. Although Wao Bow now offers quinoa as an option with their rice bowls, so there's that, too, if you really fucking need to eat some quinoa like STAT.

I was just talking to coworkers about people who don't say the usual OK bye/Talk to you later/Thanks, bye. There is a lawyer I regularly talk to on the phone who is nice enough, but when the call is over, he just hangs up.

My dad used to do that and it terrified high school friends or people from work who called me. They were constantly asking why he was pissed at them or insisting that he hated them. (E.g. "Hi, is Jesse there?" "No." "OK, could you let him know that we're slow today and he can take the day off?" "Yah, OK." *CLICK*)

sorry Je55e, I misread it when you mentioned you email yourself the password

Ridiculous password requirements just encourage people to write down their passwords on post-it notes. That's the biggest security risk going imo.

But I keep that Post-It in a drawer! Off to the side!

haha, i kept sunny's ss# on a post-it for awhile, but it was written in this inscrutable way.

1 7 4
5 2 8
9 6 3

(if her ss was 123-45-6789)

sorry Je55e, I misread it when you mentioned you email yourself the password

NP. I don't remember if I was salty in my reply. If so, sorry.

Ridiculous password requirements just encourage people to write down their passwords on post-it notes. That's the biggest security risk going imo.

Yep. I have a document at work that contains a lot of top secret passwords.

I use KeePass.

I use that at home but not at work. And you have to subscribe to use it on iPhone which I am absolutely not going to do. I'll pay once, no problem, but not a subscription.

Keepass is free. Are you talking about one password?

No. I might be talking about LastPass though. Pretty sure I am.

Oh yeh. KeePass was the one I was using but I forgot the main - irretrievable - password. Loljfjfjenfksk

Should have written it down on a post it.

tee hee

I love KeePass, and keep it in my Dropbox so I can forget passwords at home and at work.

I like LastPass b/c it lives in my browser.

The problem today was that I wanted to log on to BCBS at work, whose password is on LastPass, but I uninstalled LastPass at work in a fit of paranoia during some inter/intra-office tensions and intrigue last summer, so I had to reset it.

usb key!

People that send 300+ page documents to our printer without warning anyone else.

People who send 300 page documents and don't refill the printer tray.

Yes, that too.

So many website I don't even bother to try and remember my password, I just click on the "forgotten password" link every time I want to log in.

the fact that some guy earns a living drawing these http://www.zowzz.com/celebs_gallery

gonna expand this to 'caricature artists' in general unless someone has a good reason I shouldn't

People who don't understand how Corner Bakeries work.

People who don't understand how comedy works.

How are people messing up Corner Bakery? Are they people like the terrified ones who aren't ready for the urgency and responsibilities of ordering at Panda Express?

People who over-understand how comedy works

Hi morbs!

People who hate comedy.

How are people messing up Corner Bakery? Are they people like the terrified ones who aren't ready for the urgency and responsibilities of ordering at Panda Express?

Going right to the cashier instead of getting in the group line, standing in the cashier area and clutching their number like terrified children instead of getting a table or proceeding to the take out waiting area.

I get v IA at people who disrupt the natural order of ordering things at delis/cafes etc

My biggest IA today is people who order coffee and immediately go and stand right where the drinks are handed out, as though there aren't 5 other people hanging back patiently waiting for the drinks they ordered BEFORE YOU who now have to EXCUSE ME past your ignorant ass to get our coffee. ASS.

I get kind of twitchy when I go to one of my regular haunts and someone doesn't know the usual way of interacting or does it "wrong." I also get anxious when I go somewhere and I'm not sure of the correct mode of interaction. Coffee shops that are more low-key (read: pre-Starbucks invasion) can be kind of cryptic. I asked for a refill and you got it and someone was busy at the cash register, or you brought me my order and I haven't paid, or... I don't know, do I go up and pay now? Do I pay before I leave?