What induces nerd rage in you?

Zylon · 2011-06-10T18:43:25.000Z

Sentences are easier to remember than strings of pseudorandom characters, but they aren’t as easy to remember as two or three words jammed together.

Now, for the height of account protection insanity-- A certain very large government information portal uses a knowledge-based authentication system (“What is your favorite movie?”, etc), but with the BOFH-tastic twist that the answers to these questions are set from a drop-down list. And there’s 15 of these questions. It pretty much guarantees that you’ll have write down all the answers somewhere.

Timemaster_Tim · 2011-06-10T19:44:33.000Z

Zylon:

Now, for the height of account protection insanity-- A certain very large government information portal uses a knowledge-based authentication system (“What is your favorite movie?”, etc), but with the BOFH-tastic twist that the answers to these questions are set from a drop-down list. And there’s 15 of these questions. It pretty much guarantees that you’ll have write down all the answers somewhere.

It would be great if you had to phrase your password hint in the form of a question after selecting an answer.

Quitch · 2011-06-11T03:34:34.000Z

Zylon:

Sentences are easier to remember than strings of pseudorandom characters, but they aren’t as easy to remember as two or three words jammed together.

Uh, sentences ARE two or three words jammed together… in a sentence!

I love cakes.

There, uppercase, lowercase, symbols, 13 characters, and no weird ass shit to remember.

This is for apps though, for the web you’re better using a decent password manager and putting a really good master password on it.

CheesyPoof · 2011-06-12T18:06:15.000Z

Electricity nerds.

Hans_Lauring · 2011-06-12T18:34:17.000Z

CheesyPoof:

Electricity nerds.

;-)

People that don’t use Facebook, but use Twitter all the time and feeds their tweets to their Facebook.

Facebook collecting all tweets in one huge dump “see more post by Twitter” even though they’re from several different people.

Nellie · 2011-06-13T08:49:32.000Z

Balasarius:

This just causes people to write down their pw. I know I do. But it lets us put a little checkmark in the SOX form that says we’re secure. Yay!

Our Sox Compliant password policy resulted in everyone using two numbers and the top line of the keyboard (qwery) to fulfil the requirement for a minimum of 14 characters including two numbers and two special characters. Yay for stupid complexity and lack of thought resulting in our “secure” system effectively reduced to 2 digit passwords for everyone.

But at least we could log in quick as swiping your fingers along the top row of the keyboard ends with you hitting enter.

Zeitgeist · 2011-06-13T09:14:27.000Z

On game consoles: Warning messages about health safety, hard disk access, language select or screen settings which have to be confirmed by a button press and reappear on every start of a game.

This is annoys me to no end… perhaps the secret hate of developers on gamers comes to light there or something.

Quitch · 2011-06-13T13:05:39.000Z

Nellie:

Our Sox Compliant password policy resulted in everyone using two numbers and the top line of the keyboard (qwery) to fulfil the requirement for a minimum of 14 characters including two numbers and two special characters. Yay for stupid complexity and lack of thought resulting in our “secure” system effectively reduced to 2 digit passwords for everyone.

But at least we could log in quick as swiping your fingers along the top row of the keyboard ends with you hitting enter.

Yeah, people say this but I think it’s like piracy, people are going to use stupid passwords no matter what. Without the requirements it would be “password”.

The problem is simply a requirement without the requisite training necessary to make it useful.

Speak_With_Bread · 2011-06-14T14:19:47.000Z

Supermarket fast checkout lanes. They’re marginally faster than waiting in line, true, but DON’T BITCH AT ME FOR PUTTING A BAG ON THE SCALE TO SAVE MYSELF A STEP. And, on another note, MAKE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS CLEARER so you don’t charge me $0.04 for onions because you never told me to weigh them, and then make me go back. GOOD LORD, SAFEWAY, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

Zylon · 2011-06-14T14:26:25.000Z

Trying to take anything without a bar code through a self-checkout lane is just asking for trouble.

That being said, they usually are faster in the sense that most people are afraid to use them, so there’s no waiting!

RobotPants · 2011-06-14T14:46:36.000Z

Not the people around here. We’ve got all sorts of dummies who aren’t afraid to stand at the self-checkout station, brows furrowed, for what seems like days.

Omniscia · 2011-06-14T14:58:35.000Z

I can get through the self-checkout in a matter of seconds. But I always feel a twinge of guilt for contributing to the mechanization of the workforce. If not for those things, who knows, there may be one, two, maybe even three more checkout clerks employed by my local supermarket!

RobotPants · 2011-06-14T15:27:20.000Z

But still only one open lane.

Omniscia · 2011-06-14T15:55:48.000Z

That’s the other market in town. The one with the terrible produce, spoiled fish, and rednecky clientele.

Ezdaar · 2011-06-15T05:16:45.000Z

Goddamn websites where there is a list of links (say to jobs or something) but they are javascript links so you can’t just middle click them all to open in separate tabs, you have to go through one by one.

dermot · 2011-06-15T05:27:48.000Z

When there’s a phantom page at the end of the thread and I don’t realise it until I’m halfway down the page that I’ve just finished reading.

Also, fixed.

TheTrunkDr · 2011-06-15T06:10:30.000Z

RobotPants:

Not the people around here. We’ve got all sorts of dummies who aren’t afraid to stand at the self-checkout station, brows furrowed, for what seems like days.

This applies to not just supermarkets but ATMs and those kiosks at movie theaters and other similar self service crap. These things aren’t hard people! Why is it I can be third in line with four damn ticket kiosks and my wait is still ten minutes when it takes about two minutes to buy my damn tickets… WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?

sinfony · 2011-06-15T20:04:16.000Z

Hi TV networks: could we maybe standardize on volume? I should not have to change the volume significantly every time I change the goddamn channel.

russellmz00 · 2011-06-15T22:18:19.000Z

sinfony:

Hi TV networks: could we maybe standardize on volume? I should not have to change the volume significantly every time I change the goddamn channel.

CALM down

Blips · 2011-06-19T21:01:05.000Z

MOAR RAGE:
Why the hell can’t people check their latest emails before spending time writing and sending me something that is now completely out of date. Read/check your latest emails first!!!