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Why Upper Management Doesn't "Get" IT Security
Schneier is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has decided to delve into why upper management doesn't "get" IT security threats. The results aren't terribly surprising to those in the trenches, stating that most executives view security as something akin to facilities management. "Thankfully", the $495 report (if you aren't a "Conference Board associate") helps tell you how to handle the situation.
You think that the FDA should approve things simply based on the fact that people need them without considering whether or not they are actually safe?
The FDA will go through the process on anything that a company is willing to pay for the process on and is willing to go through all of the hassle of clinical trials. THe FDA does not decide what drugs are going to be put through the process, the drug companies do. In fact the FDA even has fast-track systems for things that are needed.
If the wrong things are comming to the system it is not the FDA at fault, but rather the drug companies chasing profit. (one could argue that that is what they are obliged to do as companies)
And what exactly would you consider the "appropriate ammounts" for welfare? I ask because that is not a trivial question. The fact that the current amounts are "wrong" is as much a function of there being no empirical way of determining the right amount as it is about disagreement about that amount.
But the foreign policy one I do agree with you on.