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Isaac
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Posted - 11/03/2010 :  11:20:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

I guess its time to look for a job in another field job for me :) Can't compete with this ones.

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/when-the-tech-guy-is-12-or-even-10/?ref=technology

Mark Minasi
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Posted - 11/11/2010 :  08:15:15 AM  Show Profile  Visit Mark Minasi's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Heck, that's old news, Isaac. Remember Tom Lehrer's immortal lyric about New Math back in the mid-60s:

"It's so simple, so very simple... that ONLY a child can do it!"<g>
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JSCLMEDAVE
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Posted - 11/11/2010 :  08:49:38 AM  Show Profile  Visit JSCLMEDAVE's Homepage  Click to see JSCLMEDAVE's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Reminds me of showing my grandmother how to operate a Hotmail email account. Took almost 2 days of very patient instructions, while Loki (age 5) is sitting on a pillow in front of our home PC opening shortcuts on the desktop to his favorite online Disney games...
Tim-

“This too shall pass"
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Isaac
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Posted - 11/11/2010 :  08:52:45 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hehe, The idea is the important thing :)
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Posted - 11/13/2010 :  10:28:51 AM  Show Profile  Click to see spam spam bacon spam's MSN Messenger address  Look at the Skype address for spam spam bacon spam  Reply with Quote
Was at a friend's house for dinner...

His 5 year old grandson, Dominic, is sitting at the computer in the next room.

Dominic walks into the dining room, where we are sitting, and asks:

"Grampa. I need your credit card."

Grampa whips out his wallet and hands one to the kid, while asking, "What are you buying, Dominic?"

"nuthin', grampa. I need it to sign up for games. I can't get in without a credit card."

"Dominic. They're not free if you need a credit card."

"Yeah, they are, grampa. I can play for free until September before they need your card. I already made a link on the desktop for you to get on there and stop the games. I'll show you the picture to click on, grampa."
“One has to conclude that it is no great matter for someone with access to a PDP-11 to test all lower-case alphabetic strings up to length five and, given access to the machine for, say, several weekends, to test all such strings up to six characters in length.”
Password Security: A Case History
Robert Morris
Ken Thompson
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
April 3, 1978
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