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Gamification is the name of the game, told you 
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I might change my focus but if I did it certainly wouldn't be for games. I had the opportunity to do that and I passed. It is the only area I am aware of that is more abusive of people than my one is so I saw little point in it.
What happened is I was formerly a member of game modding team and we put out a couple of really good mods and then the team decided to go pro. Several people did so and after about five years all but a few had bailed out and now not one of them have any interest in the genre of games we were making mods for. This is the second instance I have seen first hand whereby when your hobbies become a business they lose all attraction as a hobby. I tried that in a whole different area and seriously jaded me for that hobby too. Now I try my best to keep my hobbies and business separate and it has worked out pretty well. I enjoy my hobbies again.
FWIW, that game company is still going and only one person from the original team is involved. The curious thing is two people from my subsequent team also work for that company and they are still making well-received games.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Massage a red coin into messages. (14)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yep. Care to add the solution?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Not really, no! 
All I've got is Massage as an anagram indicator... COMM as red; bits of A COIN INTO add to the anagram; and COMMUNICATIONS is 14 letters and means MESSAGES...
So looking forward to the full solution 
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A + COMMUNIST + COIN => shuffle => COMMUNICATIONS.
You're up tomorrow, of course.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Let it change address (5)
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These anagrams are getting old. They are too easy. I liked it much better when your CCC would go unsolved for days.
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Speak for yourself!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You're entitled to your opinion
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep,
pkfox wrote: entitled
Simply reading the first five letters of the sentence in reverse gives the phonetic representation of the solution.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Probably googled "Plz urgent How to implement retrieving credentials when lost" and copied the code snippet.
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At the risk of appearing foolish I fail to see the problem...
I mean, I wonder why they tell your your password instead of letting you pick it, but hey, no biggy I'd say....
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Super Lloyd wrote: I wonder why they tell your your password instead of letting you pick it,
Well, perhaps they *did* let you pick it *and* then emailed you what you chose. Other than that scenario, I agree there isn't much harm in sending an auto-generated password out - as you should be changing those default ones immediately anyway.
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They did. I set the password, I know what it is, they needn't tell me. In plain text. In an e-mail.
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OH you mean someone (this intended recipient) forwarded you this/their email with password?
This was not obvious at all! Seeing the ... silly mistake now! ^_^
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What year is this, when people still accept unencrypted email?
It must be 25 years ago when I asked a certificate provider for a free X.509 email certificate. I received it as a small file I could doubleclick, and that was it: Encrypted email installed.
But I had only a small handful of friends who cared to do the same. Almost all of my contacts said: Encrypted email - what's that? I don't think I know how to do it.
Today it isn't much different. Except for one thing: A great share of users do not download their encrypted email to their PC, where it can be decrypted at the destination. Rather, their mail is kept at some remote web server, accessed through a web interface that accepts plaintext only; the browser is not capable of accessing my certificate for doing the decrypting.
I did keep my email certificate for a number of years. Then I switched to another ISP and mail service, which gave me a mail address with a domain part that differed from the mail server's domain. That lead to my mail client asking me every time I applied that certificate to confirm that the messages from that "strange" mail server was trustworthy. I asked the ISP for help with this; they ignored the request: Email is not one of our primary services. I could have gone to another email provider, a new email address again ... By that time, practically all my friends had abandoned encryption. It really wasn't worth the effort, with me as the only one caring for end-to-end mail encryption.
Why haven't we moved in the opposite direction? End-to-end email encryption was super-simple to set up. There were several providers of free certificates (as long as all it confirms is the validity of the email address, it doesn't require costly checks but can be automated). But appearently, nobody cares. Is it that satisfying to be able to complain about others sending us passords in plaintext email, when we could have offered the sender a safe way to send it, but we didn't care to?
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Your signature says it all.
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Right?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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