I just asked in Worldbuilding how to stop intelligent races from discovering electricity and it was marked as to broad. I assume this is because I originally suggested two ways to solve my problem.
If I am correct and thats why it is to broad I would like to know why there is no possibility to ...
@Hosch250 a friend aligns his password changes with quarter boundaries too -- makes incrementing the password easier. :-) (SecurePassword18Q4, SecurePassword19Q1, etc.)
No, I don't intentionally align it with the boundaries--the email just came in.
It does make sense that it aligns, though, considering I started just before Memorial day, so changing it as soon as the 14-day warning comes in would lead to it pretty quick.
I do "correct-horse-battery-staple" type passwords, with a random word generator.
@Hosch250 our corporate policy is every 90 days, but they start the count from when you change it, not when the period expires, so it's not practical to keep them date-aligned.
(Well, that was the policy; we've recently been through some spinoff/merger stuff so I don't know if that's going to change.)
Ours is triggered from when you change it. I think it's actually a rule set up in Active Directory that's just "password must not be used for longer than N days".
I think ours is 90 too, although it might be 120 or something.
If someone gets access to a system by getting someone's password, but is just doing read-only attacks to reduce their chance of being caught, but still gleaning lots of useful information, a password change will lock them out again.
@Shalvenay Password expiration policies should be matched to the time it takes to brute-force attack a password with common complexity (common complexity as defined by the password requirements, say "1 upper case, 1 number, 1 symbol, 10 char minimum, etc)"
@Hosch250 this sort of thing worked better for me when I had two or three passwords I needed to remember. These days, just at work, I have 20-30 passwords I occasionally need, in addition to the two I frequently need. The two I can memorize; the rest I can't, and the systems have incompatible password rules so I can't always take the "mixin" approach. There are still corporate systems that set a ridiculous max length, too. :-(
@MonicaCellio I know about ridiculous password storage rules. why do you have so many occasionally-needed passwords though? does your work not have a SSO system?
@Hosch250 true, and there's one annual password that I always end up doing that with. Yeah, benefits-enrollment site had its own password until this year...
@Hosch250 Slow. I found one produce (OpenSCAD) that let me prototype reactor geometry really easily but couldn't embed/control the kinds of parameters I need to actually do simulations. I'm planning on using GMSH instead.
GMSH appears to be able to do what I need it to do but the complexity is a bit higher since there are far more knobs to turn.
@Shalvenay our IT is a jumble of disparate systems in a company that grows by acquisition. They are working on collapsing this; I can now use the same password for Windows login and benefits and recording time off and submitting expenses and a few other things. But I just had to book some travel and that involved a separate password. There's still work to be done...
@Hosch250 Running a simulation requires defined geometry (in my case, the reactor vessel itself) and it needs initial conditions (gas flow with these properties, moving at X m/s from these entry ports and leaving through these exit ports).
@Hosch250 I plan to spend a lot of time on safety controls on this thing. The goal is to have it run indefinitely without supervision. The degree of automation is going to be very high.
@Hosch250 Oh, I'm probably already on various watch lists. Last time I flew I was "randomly" selected for chemical residue testing, twice; at the same checkpoint.
Once on the way to the checkpoint and again after the x-ray.
But, since I'm not stupid, I buy the books on how to make dangerous things but I don't buy the ingredients. It's a hard case to make if there are no materials required to make the dangerous thing.
@Hosch250 I don't buy programming books anymore for that exact reason (and I'm not a developer anymore. It's finally sunk in that I shouldn't ever write code for real-zies.)
@Green strange plot: someone truckbombing an old, no longer used gov't building, on a NIJ grant, with the building wired for sound with sensors...."hey FBI, do you mind if we send your old building over there out with a bang, for science?"
@MonicaCellio FORTRAN77? That book is probably older than I am.
I finished a microservices book and half an F# book in about a month. I won a Python algorithm book that's next, and bought the next version on C# In Depth by Skeet, that I'm going to read after the Python and F# ones, since I already read the 3rd ed.
I want a book on deep learning, Go (game), and Python (language).
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I just asked in Worldbuilding how to stop intelligent races from discovering electricity and it was marked as to broad. I assume this is because I originally suggested two ways to solve my problem.
If I am correct and thats why it is to broad I would like to know why there is no possibility to ...
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