Last week, someone I didn't know from IT stopped by and checked to see whether I had some program installed. They had tried to push it through as an update, but it hadn't worked on mine, so they needed to install it manually. They didn't want to disrupt business activity, so they wanted to do it after hours, and they needed to do it under my login, so he asked for my password. It was expiring soon anyway, so I wrote it on a Post-It for him.
He was supposed to install it on Monday night, and when I checked Tuesday, I didn't see any new programs installed.
This morning, someone I did know from IT stopped by and asked me to change my password immediately. I told him I was waiting for someone to install some program.
He informed me that that had been a social engineering project. That man hadn't actually been from IT. I had given him my password. I had failed.
I GOT PUNKED BY IT.
I GOT PUNKED BY IT.
Dude. That sucks. Valuable lesson, and all that.
On a few occasions we've needed passwords for users at our big client's office. They make a big deal of it, and always change their password as soon as we're done. So they seem well-trained on this....
IT put my passwords on a postit yesterday too. But I knew it was official. I didn't like it.
IT calls me up an sometimes needs my password...but it's always the same guy who tries to hit on me, so I know it's him at least...
Another mindbogglingly inane argument for the existence of God (from PZ's blog): [link]
The gist of the argument is the Earth could not have existed for 3 billion years like science says. Because if it had, there'd be no water left on Earth. See, because people
drink
water. But if the earth is only 6,000 years old, there'd be plenty of water left.
Apparently the person who came up with this argument does not realize that water we drink does not stay in or bodies forever....
Has he not heard of the water cycle?
The gist of the argument is the Earth could not have existed for 3 billion years like science says. Because if it had, there'd be no water left on Earth. See, because people drink water. But if the earth is only 6,000 years old, there'd be plenty of water left.
This guy needs to see a urologist immediately.
(And ok, after reading through the comments thread this appears to be fake. Which is a relief.)
[eta - Yep, it's from Landover Baptist [link] ]
Speaking as a strong theist (but a comfortable and happy vast and ancient universe theist--poor sheltered me, I was all the way into college before I realized there were any other kinds still in existence), I gotta say to this guy...
Nope, can't say anything. His wrong is so big and powerful that I just walk all around it, marveling at its magnitude and unsure where even to begin.
eta: Only a joke? Whew. Also, kind of sad, because there was something perversely magnificent in having achieved such vast and multifaceted wrongness.
