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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords |
| Date | 2019-06-12 08:49 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <gmbskrFs9q8U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <gm9b6cFbbonU2@mid.individual.net> <gm9e3mFbvibU1@mid.individual.net> <gm9g0rFcb3mU1@mid.individual.net> <874l4vri4j.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <qdpfhq$gep$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2019-06-12, Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> Generally speaking, management get to where they are by being "good"
>>> politicians (if there can be said to be any such thing) rather than
>>> by being good engineers.
>>
>> In the '80s & '90s I was doing annual blacksmithing seminars for a
>> particular freshman program at MIT and spent time chatting with the
>> humanities prof who ran it. He reported, with some puzzlement, that
>> many of his students had said (words to the effect that) "I'm just
>> here majoring in $STEM-WHATEVER because I'm good at it. So I'll have
>> to serve out a couple of years after graduation doing $STEM-WHATEVER.
>> But what I really want is management because that's where the money
>> is."
>>
>> The same professor also said "Lots of these kids are so bright it's
>> scary."
>>
>> Dunno what happens when you put those two observations together.
>>
> See N N Taleb: IYI -- intellectual yet idiot.
> https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.6ot3305bl
What a sad, bitter little man.
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[Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-02 21:55 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-03 20:28 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-03 20:35 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-09 09:10 -0400
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-09 14:22 +0100
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-09 14:39 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-09 20:33 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-06-10 11:22 -0500
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-06-10 11:42 -0500
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-10 18:05 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-10 22:28 +0100
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 16:42 +1000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 09:39 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 20:29 +1000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 11:01 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-11 17:18 -0300
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-12 00:04 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-12 01:49 -0300
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:49 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:57 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2019-06-11 17:57 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-11 18:05 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 21:08 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-12 00:10 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:50 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-11 11:03 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 21:55 +1000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 15:30 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-11 17:43 -0300
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:58 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-11 21:14 -0400
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:52 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-15 11:45 +1000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-15 15:46 -0400
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-06-11 12:19 -0500
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 18:21 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-11 21:12 -0400
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