Wow, I really wish I could give you more than one star. “White hat hacking”... I never really thought of it that way. As a white-hat (okay, maybe a little grey-hat) infosec engineer myself, I appreciate the new perspective.

I actually agree with you. I’ve learned (the hard way) that a battle of wills isn’t healthy or helpful. I do try to reason with my son and understand where he is coming from but it really is difficult as he is not very verbal. I’m sure it’s different with near-typical children.

Isn’t it all a matter of degrees? If their “attitude” is tempered with maturity, they may develop into emotionally secure, assertive, confident individuals. But if their defiance is so out of line that it affects their emotional development, they might even need medication.

Strong-willed is fine but we as parents *MUST* set the boundaries. I think it’s good parenting to encourage a child to test those boundaries because it helps develop their assertiveness. Of course if they defy the boundaries, then there needs to be consequences. I think once a child matures and learns that this…

“I believe—and hope—that this means strong-willed children are also less susceptible to peer pressure and more likely to stand up for themselves and others.”

Yep. It’s a shock. Fifteen years ago I had to take an ambulance to my hospital three blocks away when I threw my back out.

CHINOs. The word you’re looking for is CHINOs. Similar to RINOs, CHINOs are “Christians in Name Only”.

I think we’re twins. I’m the clean one and she’s the sloppy one. Once every couple months, she does what she calls a “30 minute blast” and then after that she hunkers down under the covers, watches Law & Order, plays Candy Crush, drinks rum and pops Xanax. Actually she does that almost every night, Saturday and Sunday…

I realize it’s probably a matter of personal taste, but that looks like an uncomfortable and cheap plastic chair. Surely a workspace this nice looking would deserve something better?

I hope he saved the bat!! That thing needs to go to Cooperstown!

Good recs here. He also has good articles on general privacy.

Great timing. I’m planning to build my very first DIY server next week.

I’ll be installing Windows Server 2012 R2 in order to run multiple virtual machines of a Windows Server domain controller, SQL server and various Windows 7/8.1/10 guests.

I’ve read your complete guide on building a computer and have specced out…

I used to interrupt my girlfriend constantly with my esteemed pronouncements on this and that. She got so fed up, she developed The Look. Now when I slip, I get The Look and (as they say in preschool), I instinctively do “whole body listening”. Heh. Sigh.

This is the tool that I like. Also simple to use, but it’s free.

He should be legally declared livestock.

Ten years ago for my 40th birthday, the love of my life and I went to Greece for 3 weeks (and then a week in London). We started first in Athens and then hopped from Crete to Santorini to Naxos and then back to Athens.

(I am, of course, talking about Microsoft.)

(I am, of course, talking about Microsoft.)

Funny you should say that. Here I am specking out a server setup for a home lab to run multiple VMs (Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2, SQL Server, a couple Win7 and Win10 images — all for teaching myself AD and SQL) and I realize that I need 32GB RAM.

Well it just so happens that I am in a laundromat right now waiting for my clothes to dry. I expect I’ll be cracking a breakthrough in quantum superconductivity when I fold up my bedsheets . :-)

Unless I read this thread, I didn’t know what the deal with all the “Fuck Konami” comments were. So of course I googled it and found this: