That's the context missing from this article summary: in any of the realistic security scenarios the article describes, use of multi-factor is mandatory. You can get really lazy about passwords when you've got a good secure MFA solution required as well.

If you read the standard though,they made a whole bunch of assumptions that are also unrealistic in the real world that make following this advice WITHOUT using MFA suicidal. Ex. they say just force password changes if you think the password's been compromised. Ok, fine. And how long is it before you realize that a password's been popped? Maybe not until someone's used a zero day to own your whole environment. Whoops.

Defense in depth is a thing.

Although that's not what he said, the idea is absolutely right. Except for a very very small minority of students AP should NOT be offered in HS and definitely not until jr. or sr. year.

I've watched this play out in our own school district. Kids are being told to pick their college majors while in middle school (oh and you can only select from STEM or you're a failure) and they're being forced into AP courses (which are for-real college level content) in freshman year and being told that if they don't they won't get into a 'good' school and that their life is basically over. This is a horrifically destructive lie.

These kids don't get a chance to grow up and mature and make as smooth as possible transition from child to young adult. They are coached that they can never fail in anything and so are discouraged from trying anything off the beaten path. AP has driven out 'college prep' track classes; now your choices are go to college while you're still in HS (AP courses) or take an on-level course. There is no middle ground. It's taking a huge toll on these kids' mental health.

Go back to letting kids take home ec and wood shop. Let kids try things and fail and then learn that failure isn't final. This drive everyone to AP initiative isn't getting kids to college any better prepared (the % of kids who have to take remedial courses keeps climbing) and it's seriously damaging their mental health in the process.

"Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said."

This is the story in a nutshell: "misinterpreted" meaning "correctly interpreted but leading to conclusions we'd really rather you not reach."

*snort* yeah your right. 2016-2020 you never heard a single bad thing about trump because of all the silencing of the critics.

In this you are completely correct. Unfortunately, the people who most needed to understand that, Facebook and Twitter, seem to be oblivious. So, short-sighted ignorant politicians are going to end up wrecking the protections of Section 230 to punish the bad behavior of two companies who thought they were too powerful to threaten and the rest of us get to live with the consequences. Someone remind me to send Zuck and Dorsey a Christmas basket full of coal.

I had a similar run like that: years with no mod points or meta mod, then suddenly a couple of years ago *poof* it was back. I didn't do anything differently so I also don't know why I was suddenly in good graces again. *shrug*

Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.

Muhahaha! There is no protection from me!

iPhones are for people with more money than brains.

I would be more interested in a correlation with intelligence. Or with tech skills.

1. repulsor beams are more energy efficient, so they are likely to be used first;
2. this device repels, so is kind of like a repulsor beam;
3. a true repulsor beam or tractor beam is gravito-magnetic, not sonic;
4. a true repsor beam will generate an off axis tractor beam of equal power, but with that power dispersed over a wider arc (most likely a full 360 degree dispersal in the plane perpendicular to the beam, with additional dispersal above and below that plane), so there is a small possibility of using that tractor beam for a secondary purpose. That is the most likely way tractor beams will be used.

I completely agree. If they were motivated to learn, they would have done still so on their own. That's the thing with IT, self teaching (especially when you already know the management frameworks and principles) is not only easy, but the most effective way to learn.

You are wasting your time. If the work is not there, they are redundant. Act accordingly.

(IAAL, but not your lawyer. See your own lawyer to make sure you do this right and don't risk a claim. I was in IT for 20 years before becoming a lawyer, including at executive management level, so my evaluation of that part comes from direct experience)