http://www.wired.com/2016/03/want-safer-passwords-dont-change-often/
I’m not asking you to take my word for it. In fact, don’t listen to me at all. Listen to science.
Anyway, yes, we know. There’s not a lot we can do about it though, thanks to silly PCI requirements and auditor requirements. They literally fail you if you *don’t* enforce a password change mechanism.
*sigh*
Via corenominal, who you should probably follow
Interesting article about how people handle resilience in the New Yorker. Curious to see how research filters into the mainstream. Sounds a little like CBT , though, focusing on how a person perceives and handles thoughts.
Werner also discovered that resilience could change over time. Some resilient children were especially unlucky: they experienced multiple strong stressors at vulnerable points and their resilience evaporated. Resilience, she explained, is like a constant calculation: Which side of the equation weighs more, the resilience or the stressors? The stressors can become so intense that resilience is overwhelmed. Most people, in short, have a breaking point. On the flip side, some people who weren’t resilient when they were little somehow learned the skills of resilience. They were able to overcome adversity later in life and went on to flourish as much as those who’d been resilient the whole way through. This, of course, raises the question of how resilience might be learned.
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience
Just a super-quick post here.
If you’re looking for addons or plugins for Microsoft Outlook to help you organize your emails and extend the functionality of Outlook
(note Outlook is very extensible, as with all Microsoft Office applications you can write Visual Basic code for Applications to hook into it’s functions. Absaloutely fantastic for hacking excel as I have been doing for the last few weeks – my work needs to invest in a proper database program for sure *sigh*)
You’d do no better than looking here
They have addons that are useful – and unlike most of the sites on i’ve found so far – up to date and compatible with recent versions (2003+) of Outlook.
Hope this helps folks!