you could always talk to your boss/HR/whoever and tell them you want to leave. there are a few things that could happen: 1) better offer to stay, 2) give you a letter/agreement to not sue over the noncompete, or 3) fire you, in which case the noncompete suit becomes hairier (you need to find work again, right?).
you could also tell the prospective company of the issue and see if they have a lawyer or anything to check it out.
I've been slowly trying to make myself eat healthier (ok, I lied, my wife is)...
Some of the things I've started eating regularly (and craving) that aren't all that bad:
- carrots and hummus. super cheap, filling, hummus makes it a little more exciting than plain carrots, but not as unhealthy as ranch.
- a jar of nuts. I prefer the lower-salt dry roasted peanuts to help satisfy my salty cravings.
- goldfish crackers. this is my splurge item. I usually get the whole grain ones to feel better about myself.
- i've also snacked on grapes, bananas, and other fruit as well.
- for "chocolate" cravings sometimes I'll have a fiber one/fiber plus bar. nutrition-wise, they're not all that good for you, but its better than a candy bar. and the repercussions of the fiber will at least make you think twice before eating it in the office...
Bottom line: Figure out what you actually _need_ and not just what you're craving. Your body is smarter than you think about knowing what you need. I can typically classify my cravings as either "protein" (hummus/nuts), "salty" (nuts/goldfish), "sweet" (fruit), or just empty (ie lunchtime and/or carrots/fruit). I don't need a whole lot of variety, so as you can see, my short list of regulars double-covers most of these which is just fine for me (and easy to keep handy at work).
There's really no point in restricting length or non-alphanumeric characters. They should be storing a salted hash, not the actual passwords, so the content of the password shouldn't matter.
It's really just laziness and incomptence on the part of the programmers.
And another thing that's incredibly irritating are these stupid sites that force you to type out your password (they don't let FF write it in the text field). How is that more secure! It just forces me to either use a simple password or write it down somewhere. My normal behavior is to use a totally different password for every site and let my browser manage it.
> There's really no point in restricting length or non-alphanumeric characters.
I agree, the only rationale I can think of for this is that these institutions don't want people to forget their passwords, but even then I don't understand why they would want that at the expense of security.
The irritating thing is that forbidding spaces discourages pass phrases. You can't use "the cat sat on my blue suede shoes", which is pretty secure yet easy to remember.
You could use "thecatsatonmybluesuedeshoes", but that may be harder to type accurately.
The argument I once heard for restricting length of a password (and possibly special characters) is that it would be harder to craft a buffer overflow (or SQL injection attack) with those limitations. I don't agree that this is a good solution, but it's not always good programmers/managers who are making these decisions. It at least sounds plausible.
That's a really bad argument. If password length is threatening to you, you have no business accepting passwords.
(Length also has almost nothing to do with SQL Injection, and you're plugging a raw password into an SQL query you're doing something very wrong anyways).
In order to get that hash you'd have to process the password in its entirety. But really, if they're that concerned about the buffer I see no reason to cap it at 8 or 10 rather than 1000.
Eh. That seems unlikely, assuming you're not writing your own routines. At most you'd get an out of memory error. I can calculate the SHA1 digest of a 1Bn character string without running into that problem.
So let's cap the length at 100k characters and call it a day.
wait... I thought you said "Cool Features" ? Since when is 1990s-style photoshop effects a cool feature? These effects are akin to the marquee element, I do NOT want my browser to have them. The only one that's nice is the text shadow, which is very nicely implemented in CSS3 and a part of Firefox. Not nearly as ugly as the one on this page...
What does 'value of units shipped' mean?? I'd beg the question that all they put out now is crap anyway, so I'd agree that the value is nothing compared to the old days.
I don't think I like that it's in billions of current dollars, seems a little misleading since they didn't actually have $8.1 billion in LP/EP sales in 1978.
Finally, the difference between CD and other digital media versus LPs and cassettes is that they don't wear out. You only have to buy it once, and if a bunch of your friends borrow it its not a big hassle.
So it seems this is just one of them.