[quote=Goodenuff]A firefighting airplane was shot in northern MN. A bullet hole was obvious when the plane landed. They believe the AT 802F Fire Boss was shot around the time it was scooping water from a remote lake as it was fighting a fire in the far NE part of the state.
WTF is wrong with people?[/quote]Pretty much everything. That’s why dogs are so awesome.
A firefighting airplane was shot in northern MN. A bullet hole was obvious when the plane landed. They believe the AT 802F Fire Boss was shot around the time it was scooping water from a remote lake as it was fighting a fire in the far NE part of the state.
WTF is wrong with people?
"Sixth day of no work because of a cyber attack.
We got hit last Saturday with a cyber attack that brought down all of our systems. Still not up, although they say it will be by this afternoon."
Just last night in class, younger guy is doing his presentation and talks about not staying in IT after he finishes his AA.
He believes that AI will take our jobs, and the sector will bubble and collapse.
Therefore, he'd rather take a yr off and re-apply for the state troopers.
When IT Helpdesk, the Air Force and Navy have better long-term opportunities, in my humble opinion.
[quote=calcanfun2]"To be fair to Wayne....
...the thought of having a swingers site on one's IT resume may not not necessarily draw the highest caliber of DB analysts and coders."
That is a fair point! However, while the website is called SLS or Swing Lifestyle, the company name is "DashBoardHosting" and that would maybe not look AS bad on a resume? Who knows. Applying for tech jobs, I'm sure the prospective employers do a better than average job at internet sleuthing. :)[/quote]Depends on how much HR likes to play middleman, but on the whole...yep.
It's always good to make friends with IT; on the one hand, they can dig up things on folks you're looking to hire that you won't expect. It's also good to make friends with IT because they can dig up things on you too if they wanted.
8o)
"To be fair to Wayne....
...the thought of having a swingers site on one's IT resume may not not necessarily draw the highest caliber of DB analysts and coders."
That is a fair point! However, while the website is called SLS or Swing Lifestyle, the company name is "DashBoardHosting" and that would maybe not look AS bad on a resume? Who knows. Applying for tech jobs, I'm sure the prospective employers do a better than average job at internet sleuthing. :)
[quote=tbrmskss]Sixth day of no work because of a cyber attack.
We got hit last Saturday with a cyber attack that brought down all of our systems. Still not up, although they say it will be by this afternoon.
Also last week, Instructure, maker of the Canvas Learning Management Systems, was hit with a cyber attack that affected 275 million users worldwide. That also brought our Canvas system don, but it was restored by Friday.
And that is why I keep hounding my son to enroll in the cybersecurity Bachelor's degree at one of our colleges.[/quote]I graduate this coming Sunday for I. T. and Cybersecurity classes. I have pretty much been avoiding the news of the world so I could decompress from those studies. The school I went through uses Instructure and Canvas and I have heard of a recent cyber attack on universities, but have not looked into the whole story or event, as I wanted to continue to decompress from my studies. I just received the invite to schedule the CompTIA Security+ exam at a local PearsonVue branch. My eventual goal is to be a CEH and act as a white hat.
Cybersecurity is no joke... Once a crack in software is found or once a software backdoor is found, it is only a matter of how much information the bad actor wants to pilfer, before being discovered by the host company.
Good advice for your kid
Sixth day of no work because of a cyber attack.
We got hit last Saturday with a cyber attack that brought down all of our systems. Still not up, although they say it will be by this afternoon.
Also last week, Instructure, maker of the Canvas Learning Management Systems, was hit with a cyber attack that affected 275 million users worldwide. That also brought our Canvas system don, but it was restored by Friday.
And that is why I keep hounding my son to enroll in the cybersecurity Bachelor's degree at one of our colleges.
[quote=calcanfun2][quote=sls_WayneC]<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">I'm assuming SLS receives detailed invoices for work completed to substantiate each billing period. Seems easy enough to almost copy and paste and report to us what your contract developer is justifying in his or her billing?"</span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Everything is done internally. None of the above exists. Virtually nothing is written. I don't even always know what each developer is working on. </span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">For the last few months, they have been working on clubs and events. Clubs, events and podcasts have been added to the new site. That is the big, top priority project right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">They have been tweeking the UI based on feedback. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Some of our developers are working on the ability for you to change your profile name. That is not an easy thing to do because the database was designed by a swinger almost 25 years ago. Tables and relationships were not done consistently. It's actually an issue for a lot of the features you request and we would love to give you.</span></p>[/quote]Wayne, I appreciate your update and thank you. I was under the assumption the development team was 3rd party. It comes as a bit of a surprise to me that they are an in-house hire. For a site like this and the ownership, I would have bet money on 3rd party.
"For the last few months, they have been working on clubs and events. Clubs, events and podcasts have been added to the new site. That is the big, top priority project right now."
Part of this I have a problem with, and that's podcasts. The priority I think is fixing the features you already have that need fixing, not working on new features that will create another squeaky wheel.
"Some of our developers are working on the ability for you to change your profile name."
Another low priority compared to other things that simply don't function properly. Your competing sites all require contacting Admin to change your username. You were just talking about how problematic identity verification is, and now you want to prioritize a troll asshat's ability to change their profile name to increase confusion? WTH?
You can practically make a relational database out of a hand written note on a napkin if you want if your team is qualified for the job. I'm not buying this 25 years ago excuse. Sorry, not sorry.[/quote]To be fair to Wayne....
...the thought of having a swingers site on one's IT resume may not not necessarily draw the highest caliber of DB analysts and coders.
[quote=sls_WayneC]<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">I'm assuming SLS receives detailed invoices for work completed to substantiate each billing period. Seems easy enough to almost copy and paste and report to us what your contract developer is justifying in his or her billing?"</span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Everything is done internally. None of the above exists. Virtually nothing is written. I don't even always know what each developer is working on. </span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">For the last few months, they have been working on clubs and events. Clubs, events and podcasts have been added to the new site. That is the big, top priority project right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">They have been tweeking the UI based on feedback. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Some of our developers are working on the ability for you to change your profile name. That is not an easy thing to do because the database was designed by a swinger almost 25 years ago. Tables and relationships were not done consistently. It's actually an issue for a lot of the features you request and we would love to give you.</span></p>[/quote]Wayne, I appreciate your update and thank you. I was under the assumption the development team was 3rd party. It comes as a bit of a surprise to me that they are an in-house hire. For a site like this and the ownership, I would have bet money on 3rd party.
"For the last few months, they have been working on clubs and events. Clubs, events and podcasts have been added to the new site. That is the big, top priority project right now."
Part of this I have a problem with, and that's podcasts. The priority I think is fixing the features you already have that need fixing, not working on new features that will create another squeaky wheel.
"Some of our developers are working on the ability for you to change your profile name."
Another low priority compared to other things that simply don't function properly. Your competing sites all require contacting Admin to change your username. You were just talking about how problematic identity verification is, and now you want to prioritize a troll asshat's ability to change their profile name to increase confusion? WTH?
You can practically make a relational database out of a hand written note on a napkin if you want if your team is qualified for the job. I'm not buying this 25 years ago excuse. Sorry, not sorry.
<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">I'm assuming SLS receives detailed invoices for work completed to substantiate each billing period. Seems easy enough to almost copy and paste and report to us what your contract developer is justifying in his or her billing?"</span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Everything is done internally. None of the above exists. Virtually nothing is written. I don't even always know what each developer is working on. </span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">For the last few months, they have been working on clubs and events. Clubs, events and podcasts have been added to the new site. That is the big, top priority project right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">They have been tweeking the UI based on feedback. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:open sans,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Some of our developers are working on the ability for you to change your profile name. That is not an easy thing to do because the database was designed by a swinger almost 25 years ago. Tables and relationships were not done consistently. It's actually an issue for a lot of the features you request and we would love to give you.</span></p>
[quote=calcanfun2]Call this a request for more regular and scheduled progress reports to your board of directors. SLS's paying customers kind of act in that capacity. Or, WTH, call us your stakeholder advisory committee or whatever you want. But we deserve to know.
I'm assuming SLS receives detailed invoices for work completed to substantiate each billing period. Seems easy enough to almost copy and paste and report to us what your contract developer is justifying in his or her billing?
Please and thank you.[/quote]My WTF of the Day:
I posted this on the Swing dot com development forum within which you can't even quote the exact fucking name of the forum you're posting on without a word sensor slapping your hand. lmao.
For anyone with an interest, please chime in on that thread.
"Many states have passed laws requiring adult websites to verify identity. Supposedly, these laws were enacted to keep children from accessing adult websites. It has affected us as well."
As someone on multiple sites like this, I'm going to partially defend the compliance aspect of Wayne's response. Kind of a don't hate the player, hate the game scenario. Unfortunately. And as someone pointed out, this is all an effort to snuff this lifestyle out as immoral. Gloves off on tactics.
All of the sites, including this one, had to scramble on fairly short notice to deal with new requirements at the same time and we saw those changes happening real-time across all platforms. Now, were the changes made by each site, universal? Nope. There was a lot of interpretation and varying levels of risk mitigation concern implemented and some took it to the the extreme more than others. I'll leave it at that.
Call this a request for more regular and scheduled progress reports to your board of directors. SLS's paying customers kind of act in that capacity. Or, WTH, call us your stakeholder advisory committee or whatever you want. But we deserve to know.
I'm assuming SLS receives detailed invoices for work completed to substantiate each billing period. Seems easy enough to almost copy and paste and report to us what your contract developer is justifying in his or her billing?
Please and thank you.
It's framed as protecting the children, but it's just one stop in their neverending march to criminalize porn outright.
People don't want to share their IDs with these sites because when they are hacked- and they will be - people don't want every search term they entered or video they watched shared with the world.
Of course it won't work. It's taken some sites offline in states like Florida but they are still readily accessible through a VPN or even a free online proxy. And most sites are just ignoring it.
Pointless shit inspired by a book of fairy tales written by a bronze age camel fiddler.
[quote=sls_WayneC][quote=Goodenuff][quote=windowShopping7]Big Brother says no sexy stories for Good.[/quote]And I'm OK with that. I don't read Erotica here or anywhere for that matter but...
...we did watch porn. Not sure what happened but shortly after we changed our internet provider all of the sites we used to check out no longer let us see anything. We get an error message- something about Indiana and Tennessee not allowing anyone to visit the site after some date unless they prove they're 18 (21?).
About the time I noticed that our computer was telling us the temperature/weather in Tennessee or Indiana. I'd have to manually change our location to get the right time, weather, etc. but apparently our primary address/location is no longer Brooklyn Park, MN.
We weren't about to go through the hoops the sites wanted to prove out age.
No idea why our IP location is now Tennessee some days and Indiana others, but never Minnesota.[/quote]<p>Many states have passed laws requiring adult websites to verify identity. Supposedly, these laws were enacted to keep children from accessing adult websites. It has affected us as well.</p>[/quote]Children don’t have credit cards and are glued to social media. This is the result of project 2025.
They have cases going to SCOTUS.
#fcktheHeritageFoundation
[quote=Goodenuff][quote=windowShopping7]Big Brother says no sexy stories for Good.[/quote]And I'm OK with that. I don't read Erotica here or anywhere for that matter but...
...we did watch porn. Not sure what happened but shortly after we changed our internet provider all of the sites we used to check out no longer let us see anything. We get an error message- something about Indiana and Tennessee not allowing anyone to visit the site after some date unless they prove they're 18 (21?).
About the time I noticed that our computer was telling us the temperature/weather in Tennessee or Indiana. I'd have to manually change our location to get the right time, weather, etc. but apparently our primary address/location is no longer Brooklyn Park, MN.
We weren't about to go through the hoops the sites wanted to prove out age.
No idea why our IP location is now Tennessee some days and Indiana others, but never Minnesota.[/quote]<p>Many states have passed laws requiring adult websites to verify identity. Supposedly, these laws were enacted to keep children from accessing adult websites. It has affected us as well.</p>
<p>The Erotic Stories section is down right now for everyone. Our developers are aware and have been working to determine the cause and correct it.</p>
[quote=Goodenuff]"As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning. It is rectifiable by doing a couple of things, if you were to choose to do so, or if it becomes a nuisance. Let me know if you wish for help on it."
What can we do?
Currently if I delete our manually entered location, it defaults to Indianapolis. The first week or so it said somewhere in Tennessee. I'm guessing it has something to do with the wireless box modem thingy AT&T mailed us when we got rid of the Comcast/Xfinity cable. The people at the AT&T store nearby say they have no clue.[/quote]Read up on these two topics for an understanding of why such I. P. address misplacement can happen and how to work on mitigating the issue:
DNS cache poisoning
DNS cache flush
[quote=calcanfun2]"As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning."
Concerning too is tracking by ISPs and websites for reasons that have absolutely NOTHING to do with security, but rather information collection for profiteering.
Bad actors on both sides are why we can't have nice things...[/quote]The amount of spying on us via our phones is nuts.
[quote=calcanfun2]"As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning."
Concerning too is tracking by ISPs and websites for reasons that have absolutely NOTHING to do with security, but rather information collection for profiteering.
Bad actors on both sides are why we can't have nice things...[/quote]Help? Lol. Someone needs business. Cybersecurity is meant to protect everyone from guys like him.
"As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning."
Concerning too is tracking by ISPs and websites for reasons that have absolutely NOTHING to do with security, but rather information collection for profiteering.
Bad actors on both sides are why we can't have nice things...
"As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning. It is rectifiable by doing a couple of things, if you were to choose to do so, or if it becomes a nuisance. Let me know if you wish for help on it."
What can we do?
Currently if I delete our manually entered location, it defaults to Indianapolis. The first week or so it said somewhere in Tennessee. I'm guessing it has something to do with the wireless box modem thingy AT&T mailed us when we got rid of the Comcast/Xfinity cable. The people at the AT&T store nearby say they have no clue.
A what the fuck moment:
Entering the last quarter of April and have been using the central air conditioner on and off for a few weeks now, including a couple of sporadic days of using the heat and air conditioner in the same day. In the next couple of days, the temperature is going south and there is a freeze watch for the 21st, overnight.
What the fuck Mother Nature... Get your shit together!
[quote=Goodenuff][quote=windowShopping7]Big Brother says no sexy stories for Good.[/quote]And I'm OK with that. I don't read Erotica here or anywhere for that matter but...
...we did watch porn. Not sure what happened but shortly after we changed our internet provider all of the sites we used to check out no longer let us see anything. We get an error message- something about Indiana and Tennessee not allowing anyone to visit the site after some date unless they prove they're 18 (21?).
About the time I noticed that our computer was telling us the temperature/weather in Tennessee or Indiana. I'd have to manually change our location to get the right time, weather, etc. but apparently our primary address/location is no longer Brooklyn Park, MN.
We weren't about to go through the hoops the sites wanted to prove out age.
No idea why our IP location is now Tennessee some days and Indiana others, but never Minnesota.[/quote]As an I. T. and Cybersecurity student about to graduate, the geolocation of your I. P. address not matching your location, is concerning. It is rectifiable by doing a couple of things, if you were to choose to do so, or if it becomes a nuisance. Let me know if you wish for help on it.
Good luck!
