THE RANT THREAD!

[FantasyWitch]

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And I STILL haven't been able to hang my paintings because the place is STILL closed.
I swear to god the words I will shout at the owner will be... not nice.

[volcaniclastic]

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Okay, so I am vegetarian and lactose-intolerant. In the smaller camp I was in for most of the summer, this wasn't even an issue, and I ate really well, healthy balanced meals. I'm in the big camp this rotation, and I had the cook tell me today at dinner (when I asked after a vegetarian option) that, and I quote "am impossible to cook for, because you can't have vegetarian meals without dairy in them."

So...she said she has been trying to make a vegetarian salad every night, so I would have something to eat.

A vegetarian salad? Who the fuck puts MEAT in SALAD? It's leaves and vegetables, and quinoa and beans and shit. Seriously.

So my dinner was broccoli, a potato, and a salad. Just like last night's dinner. And lunch the day before....

/dies

[Ophidia]

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I know that all prevailing wisdom goes against it, but I'm going to start writing down all my freaking passwords. And e-mail addresses. And other random online registration crap. I have major identity issues when I'm on the internet - I can't remember who I told what website I am...

/headdesk /headdesk /headdesk

[Denarius]

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writing down all my freaking passwords.

That's how you are supposed to do it, have complex random passwords and write it down so you don't forget. No one is breaking into people's houses for their passwords, and if you are careful about how you write them anyone who finds the passwords won't be able to do anything with them.

[MaskedOne]

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just don't do silly sh** like leave them on post-it notes stuck on work computers ( some local school staff have left account information in all kinds of fun places, it's not a trait to emulate)

[Hawkfeathers]

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Mine are written down. But which password goes to what account is encoded, as are other factors, in a way only I would understand.

[ThorsSon]

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I know that all prevailing wisdom goes against it, but I'm going to start writing down all my freaking passwords. And e-mail addresses. And other random online registration crap. I have major identity issues when I'm on the internet - I can't remember who I told what website I am...

/headdesk /headdesk /headdesk

Enter LastPass

That's how you are supposed to do it, have complex random passwords and write it down so you don't forget. No one is breaking into people's houses for their passwords, and if you are careful about how you write them anyone who finds the passwords won't be able to do anything with them.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no... in fact, just last week was a case of a Guardian reporter that was going through customs with encrypted hard drives containing extremely sensitive data. Airport security searched him, and found the password for the encryption written on a piece of paper. Regardless of his rights to free press, they decided that the sensitivity of the data was too high, and destroyed the equipment.

Beyond that... people may or may not break into your house or place of business to obtain passwords... but people who already have access to your house might get curious. (snooping family member or guest).

IF you must write down passwords, obscure them in some way... such as using some type of cypher, or leaving off a part of the password that you can remember, or having a system for rearranging the password (such as reversing it, or using the second half first)... something. But, I'd recommend using something like LastPass, which is an encrypted vault for your passwords... then I'd recommend using a VERY strong password to access that vault (and don't write it down, just commit yourself to remembering one very difficult password)... AND I suggest using a second form of authentication to access that vault. Personally, I use a YubiKey.

All of my passwords are unique, impossible to remember, 16 character random strings of gibberish. They are all stored in LastPass. To access my LastPass vault, you must know my (even longer) password, plus have access to my YubiKey.

[RainbowDemonic]

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I can't remember who I told what website I am...

So in reality you're like a 50 year old guy living in the woods somewhere stealing the neighbor's internet with an ungodly long ethernet cable?

[anunitu]

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There are programs called password safes,the program itself has a password. There are many free ones,and you can keep all your passwords in them. With a program like this you can use passwords with maybe 20 chars,and they allow you to retrieve your password as you are online. Do a search for sourceforge,and also Portable apps,the portable apps one can be kept on a memory stick and you can take it with you.

[MaskedOne]

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That's an interesting system, ThorsSon. Thanks for the link.

Your post has an edit because the url tag was slightly off. I changed the code to make it work. Left everything else alone.

[FantasyWitch]

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This woman I'm doing a commission for is being a pain in the ass. I'm not leaving that restuarant tonight until the damn thing is done! So she can gtfo! x

[ChainLightning]

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I write my passwords down because every time I sign up for something, the page tells me to write it down and put it in a safe place. Right along with confirmation numbers, security codes, verification codes and numerous other mumbo jumbo that I can never make heads or tails of, when I go back to it, for some reason. No indications of which type of code they are nor what they belong to. But I DID write them down like I was told to.

[Hawkfeathers]

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If one more of my facebook friends introduces their new page, "Joe Shmoe Photography", I'm gonna scream. Most of these folks have never even held a roll of film in their hand. Everybody's a photographer these days - the art has gone the way of typesetting. I'm not even gonna continue making calendars, etc., other than for gifts, and I'm gonna let my website expire.

[Willow]

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Gahh every job I can feasibly get is only part time and pays what I'm getting paid now, or it's a job that I can do but I lack the credentials to get and those credentials will cost me at least $6k. -.-

[ChainLightning]

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If one more of my facebook friends introduces their new page, "Joe Shmoe Photography", I'm gonna scream. Most of these folks have never even held a roll of film in their hand. Everybody's a photographer these days - the art has gone the way of typesetting.

Totally agreed. I barely know a handful of professional photographers. I seem to know hundreds of amateurs that THINK they're professional.

I own, and have owned, many cameras at the same time. (Cell phone cameras are not cameras. They're cell phones.) Right now I have three; two film and one digital. All three are SLR's with several different lenses, each.

I am NOT a professional "photographer". Even having taken hundreds of thousands of pictures, I'm still a hobbyist, an amateur, at best.

Today, someone can stop at Walmart, buy a 12 megapixel point and shoot, w/zoom, for less than a hundred bucks, and suddenly they're a photographer. If I had to guess, I'd say I've spent well over five grand on cameras and accessories, over the years. I put time into setting up a shot, I do snapshots, I capture so-called "Kodak moments", I look for interesting ways to interpret a setting to create a unique view, and I let pictures tell a story.

Apparently, I put way to much thought (and money) into snapping a few pics to annoy all my friends with. Amateur!