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Leave US Strategic Command Twitter account open for child to tweet from: "Canada: Totally okay, these things happen." Leave US Strategic Command Launch Portal open for child to launch missiles against Ontario, Canada: "United States: Totally okay, these things happen."
I think you mis-stated that last line: > Leave US Strategic Command Launch Portal open for child to launch missiles against Ontario, Canada: "Canada: Totally okay, these things happen."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement
Quebec is the Texas of Canada, if I recall correctly.
There was a third, though unlikely option of the target switching to Alberta, but it turning out to be okay, because it just happened to coincide with a sudden invasion of hyper-intelligent rats, and the human population had already evac'd.
That being said, thank you. You genuinely brightened my day.
I don't see how this is as big a deal as people make it out to be. The person in charge of this account probably has nothing to do with anything that remotely matters. You wouldn't worry about your 401k if the asset manager's twitter account posted some gibberish.
What if the child were a little older and typed something related to launching missiles as a joke?
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What if the child were a little older and typed something related to launching missiles as a joke?
Nothing would happen. Hawaii sent out an alert to every single cellphone in the state that an ICBM was imminently approaching Honolulu a few years back, and no one outside of Hawaii remembers that anymore today.
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What if the child were a little older and typed something related to launching missiles as a joke?
Nothing would happen. Hawaii sent out an alert to every single cellphone in the state that an ICBM was imminently approaching Honolulu a few years back, and no one outside of Hawaii remembers that anymore today.
Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason? Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
Here's the thing: sometimes the lock screen on Windows 10 doesn't work and you can get back to the desktop simply by swiping up even when you think you should have to re-enter your password or PIN. Note that I have face ID disabled because I got really fed up of my computer unlocking itself just because I'd gone back to my desk to pick up something I'd forgotten when I locked it and walked away. This always seemed in…
FWIW, this was a somewhat buggy install of Windows 10 (Settings->Devices->Add a Bluetooth device would crash reliably), so I don't particularly expect this to be widespread/reproducible.
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Here's the thing: sometimes the lock screen on Windows 10 doesn't work and you can get back to the desktop simply by swiping up even when you think you should have to re-enter your password or PIN. Note that I have face ID disabled because I got really fed up of my computer unlocking itself just because I'd gone back to my desk to pick up something I'd forgotten when I locked it and walked away. This always seemed in…
I've never been able to recreate it, but I have been dumped back at the desktop without entering my password on one occasion. The machine didn't appear to be responding at the lock screen, so I hit enter a couple of times then tried Ctrl-Alt-Del. The screen went blue (the same blue as the screen that normally shows Lock/Switch User/Task Manager after pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del at desktop), then after 3-4 seconds just put…
I don't remember ever experiencing it with other machines but the reality is that since 2015 I've only actually used Windows 10 with three other computers:
1. A Dell desktop machine with no touchscreen or camera back in 2016,
2. My Macbook Pro, in 2016/17, where I used Windows 10 as a Parallels VM,
3. An Intel powered Surface laptop that I used at work from 2017 - 2019.
I don't remember any issues with the desktop machine. With the Mac I used the OSX screen lock so it was a complete non-issue (of course Windows would still lock itself but I wasn't careful about locking it manually).
The Surface was so wrought with glitches and problems that the lock screen not working properly would have been the absolute least of them. It was one of the worst and least reliable computers I've ever had to tolerate, bested in this regard only by my ZX Spectrum 48K+ back in 1986/87, and the Spectrum +2A that followed it in 1988/89. An awful, overpriced, underspecced paperweight of a computer. Avoid.
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What if the child were a little older and typed something related to launching missiles as a joke?
Nothing would happen. Hawaii sent out an alert to every single cellphone in the state that an ICBM was imminently approaching Honolulu a few years back, and no one outside of Hawaii remembers that anymore today.