The first problem is that this is not about correlation or causation. TFA is just a mess. Here's an example:
There were quite a few other striking differences in leadership:
Men tended to achieve better results than women in companies with up to 1,000 people, however in larger companies, female CEOs averaged 18% higher revenue per employee than their male counterparts
Companies with female CEOs were more likely to work in the B2C space, while male CEOs were more likely to work in B2B
There are more women in healthcare and non-profit organizations, while men dominated the manufacturing and construction space.
None of those three examples have anything to do with leadership.
That's "apples vs oranges" not "correlation vs causation".
Has anyone else been through those "motivational" seminars that were popular back in the 80's and 90's?
They were all about YOU being "invested" in the company. YOU should be open with management about anything and everything. YOU should be 100% committed to your job.
But it was never about management being invested in YOU.
If management decided to ship production to China, the workers would be the last to know. And the workers would be escorted off the premises by security. But as long as they were giving 100% to their jobs right up to that point...
A shorter version of TFA would be "if you want good people then treat them like good people AND BE A GOOD PERSON YOURSELF". Don't make excuses for why you "have to" be an asshole to the workers. They aren't stupid. They will know when increasing your profits are more important to you than investing in your workers.
The truth is that many firms simply don't have the staff and budget needed to support an internal SOC. They also don't have the budget for an MSSP. With that, Mike Rothman of Securosis noted that these firms are "trapped on the hamster wheel of pain, reacting without sufficient visibility, but without time to invest in gaining that much-needed visibility into threats without diving deep into raw log files".
In my experience it is not the budget but the politics.
Is your company's security worth the expense of an additional tech? Or are office politics the reason you cannot get an additional tech?
Does whomever is in charge of your technology have the authority to say "no" to requests from other departments? And the political capital to make it stick?
I've seen too many examples of companies "suffering" from the problems their own decisions/environment created.
The Army alone has about 500,000 soldiers. A lot of them are in support roles but a private military also needs support.
Where are the families of the people in the private military? Because if they have to go back to the USofA (the "enemy" in this scenario) to visit Mom and Dad then there's going to be a problem. So you'll need room on the uber rich estate for the families of your military. And your support personnel.
Which brings up the infrastructure to support those families. Schools, hospitals, etc. Which means more support personnel.
Which means more schools and hospitals, etc.
Of course you can skip that if you want to. But remember who has the guns.
Once you accept that there is a conspiracy, there is no end to it.
If they were just interested in cataloguing the various cases then that could be done by scripts and Google news. If something is not getting media exposure then it is more likely to be because of lazy "journalists" than because someone is trying to bury the story.
So, in their quest to be like Facebook and Google by snapping up technology for obscene money, they forgot to do "due diligence", and now they are pissed?
At $10 BILLION I don't think there is any "forgot" here.
Even at the time of the deal the price was questionable. It was 10x more than Autonomy was possibly worth.
I would say "follow the money" but it is sounding like someone did not complete their part of the deal.
HP used to be such a great technology company, until they switched to the printer ink scam.
Yeah. This sounds more like an attempt to loot the company that didn't pan out.
If you live in the USofA, you are in more danger of being killed by someone in your family than by a terrorist.
But there comes a point where I need to balance that with other things such as seeing my daughter grow up.
The question is whether you believe there are more terrorists in the USofA or more bad cops/contractors/other-people-with-access-to-track-your-daughter.
Once you sign away her privacy she probably won't be getting it back.
And she will still be in more danger from her boyfriend/husband (and ex-boyfriends/husbands) than she is from any terrorist in the USofA.
Thor is in jail because he's a hacker. But the bad guys are doing bad things and Thor is the only one who can stop them.
So people who want to help Thor stop the bad guys get Thor out of jail.
And a really hot Asian woman falls in love with Thor.
And Thor and the Asian woman race around the world fighting the bad guys. Literally fighting. Thor kicks physical ass. And he has a hot Asian girlfriend.
No "restore from backup" or "patch your servers" or "fix your firewall's DMZ". This is REAL hacking.
Now, instead of just posting a graphic of a flag, how about posting some justification? Explain what you are objecting to and why you find it objectionable.
You have the attention of the media.
Unless you're a bunch of teenage script kiddies doing this for the lulz.
The Meitivs say that on Dec. 20, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan pledging he would not leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. At first he refused, saying he needed to talk to a lawyer, his wife said, but changed his mind when he was told his children would be removed if he did not comply.
The important part is use this as part of YOUR plan for YOUR education. Like you did.
Community Colleges are great for taking care of the 100 level pre-requisites prior to University.
Community Colleges are great at expanding your knowledge WITHOUT going for a degree.
Community Colleges are great for bringing up your Grade Point Average (GPA) if you had problems in High School but still want to pursue an advanced education.
Etc.
This program should NOT be the FINAL step in your education.
And people like you will evidently give it to them under the guise of political correctness.
So first you make claims about what Islam teaches because you know more about it than a million Muslims living in the USofA right now.
Then you make claims about what I believe. You don't know me any more than you know any Muslim living here.
After all, you don't want to Offend a Muslim, or he might cut your head off or shoot you while you're in a meeting.
Again, you don't know me any more than you know any Muslim. I spent 7 years in the Army. I've watched people whose job it was to shoot me watching me. As it was mine to shoot them.
And because I understand math, I know that if a million of them have not tried to shoot me yet then they probably won't. Because despite your claims, they do NOT believe what you claim they do.
And you 'd know that if you knew any Muslims.
However, it is blind political correctness that is allowing most liberals to cede their ideals in the name of tolerance.
What ideals have been ceded?
Because the fact remains, Western values are not valued by Muslims.
Except for the million Muslims who live here right now.
I've heard it all before. It's always about "them" and how "they" are "bad" because of "their" culture or religion or whatever.
Whether "they" are Muslims or blacks or Hispanics or "gooks" or "Japs" or...
Maybe you should read George Takei's writings on his experience in an internment camp.
If you're in the local minority, it is wise to shut up and nod.
So you're saying that the GP was wrong about Islam and it actually teaches a pragmatic approach to democratically elected representative government?
Muhammad Ali is a Sunni. He refused to fight in Vietnam as a conscientious objector. Yet he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bush in 2005. So.... bad Muslim? Or maybe your understanding of Muslims could be expanded upon by meeting more of them?
If you remain silent, because of fear, they have already won.
Yes.
1) Islam, is not a peaceful religion. There is no major Muslim outcry over any of the acts committed by Muslims. I didn't say there was none, I said there was no major outcry.
Just because you haven't seen them does not mean that they haven't happened. Have you gone looking for them? The media usually skips them because blood gets more views.
2) Islam, does take offense at things that Western Culture deems acceptable for the purposes of liberty, even tasteless crude humor. Muslims in general haven not expressed any desire to curb their rhetoric.
There are at least a million Muslims living in the USofA. The majority seem to be okay with it.
3) Islam doesn't teach co-existence, it teaches domination.
What you claim Islam teaches and how a million Muslims live, every day, in the USofA... well there seems to be a disconnect there.
Western cultures do no need Islam. We don't want Islam. We don't like Islam. Muslims need to go back the their asswipe countries in the desert and stay there.
I've heard the same rhetoric about blacks. And Hispanics. It's easy to hate someone you've never met.
But then, I live in Seattle and there are two halal markets within a mile of me.
And the reason is... because the stuff used to be BUILT by people. If a guy on the assembly line had to be able to get his hands onto a bolt to install it then someone replacing it would also be able to reach it.
Once we switched to robots for manufacturing it became a lot more difficult. A robot can reach where a person cannot.
Which means you save a lot of "wasted" space and materials... but you have to take apart X, Y and Z to be able to read the headlight.
The threat of punishment sure keeps me paying my taxes...
I'll say that it is not because you worry that you will be executed but that you will lose your possessions / job / freedom. Once you've bought into the system then the system has ways to keep you invested.
Once you leave the system then the punishments don't matter.
Either someone doing something "wrong" is going to change their behavior or they are not.
Yeah. Although I see it as whether they have the option to join the system again. If they're paying a mortgage and putting their kids through school then they have an interest in following the rules.
If not, then kill them, they aren't worth the food and air used to keep them alive.
The problem with that approach is that the system is run by people. And those people are flawed.
You can (even in uniform) refuse an "unlawful" order, according to the UCMJ.
Yes. You will have to justify it though.
Anyway, back to the previous comment:
there's a magical difference between sworn and unsworn.
It's not magical. It's "military" and "civilian". If you're military then the UCMJ replaces the civilian laws.
if they ask a hacker to create a virus....
The military does not create the weapons that it uses. It buys them from civilians. The M-16? Parts made by Mattel. The same company that makes Barbie dolls. So a soldier would probably NOT be writing that virus. It would be a civilian contractor or other government agency (NSA).
I think the concept here has gotten lost.
The problem is that if your INITIAL sorting is based upon who can pass Basic Training and such, you will probably exclude people with more valuable skills.
There is nothing stopping the Army from creating a new field and assigning some lieutenants to it. Those lieutenants are the ones that "pull the trigger".
But the network scans, evaluations, compromises and such can all be done by GS contractors. The lieutenants would be the equivalent of "script kiddies" at worst.
It's not so much the VPN technology as it is the failure to correctly implement and secure it.
TFA leaves the real content until the end of the article:
The data is then replayed from the repositories through a set of attack scripts, which use sets of preshared keys (PSKs) harvested from sources such as exploited routers and stored in a key database...
So if the NSA wants to "crack" your VPN session they first record it (we know how they do that) then they try to brute force that recording using what is, essentially, a dictionary attack.
TFA seems more entranced by the cutesy names than by the technology.
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The first problem is that this is not about correlation or causation. TFA is just a mess. Here's an example:
None of those three examples have anything to do with leadership.
That's "apples vs oranges" not "correlation vs causation".
I suggest you check what that actual advice was.
Sugar is a carbohydrate. You are not going to be healthy on a diet of "Twizzlers" even though they are low fat, high carb and vegan-friendly.
You CANNOT go by what some article says about what "science" has now "found" about X.
The idiots writing the articles are idiots AND they're writing the articles for maximum sensationalism.
Dude! Use your BRAIN!
Seconded.
Has anyone else been through those "motivational" seminars that were popular back in the 80's and 90's?
They were all about YOU being "invested" in the company. YOU should be open with management about anything and everything. YOU should be 100% committed to your job.
But it was never about management being invested in YOU.
If management decided to ship production to China, the workers would be the last to know. And the workers would be escorted off the premises by security. But as long as they were giving 100% to their jobs right up to that point ...
A shorter version of TFA would be "if you want good people then treat them like good people AND BE A GOOD PERSON YOURSELF". Don't make excuses for why you "have to" be an asshole to the workers. They aren't stupid. They will know when increasing your profits are more important to you than investing in your workers.
This is my sockpuppet. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My sockpuppet is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My sockpuppet, without me, is useless. Without my sockpuppet, I am useless.
In my experience it is not the budget but the politics.
Is your company's security worth the expense of an additional tech? Or are office politics the reason you cannot get an additional tech?
Does whomever is in charge of your technology have the authority to say "no" to requests from other departments? And the political capital to make it stick?
I've seen too many examples of companies "suffering" from the problems their own decisions/environment created.
Retrofitting security is not the answer.
The Army alone has about 500,000 soldiers. A lot of them are in support roles but a private military also needs support.
Where are the families of the people in the private military? Because if they have to go back to the USofA (the "enemy" in this scenario) to visit Mom and Dad then there's going to be a problem. So you'll need room on the uber rich estate for the families of your military. And your support personnel.
Which brings up the infrastructure to support those families. Schools, hospitals, etc. Which means more support personnel.
Which means more schools and hospitals, etc.
Of course you can skip that if you want to. But remember who has the guns.
I'm sure that they have the best of intentions. The problem is with the underlying assumption that there is some kind of conspiracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenatchee_child_abuse_prosecutions
Once you accept that there is a conspiracy, there is no end to it.
If they were just interested in cataloguing the various cases then that could be done by scripts and Google news. If something is not getting media exposure then it is more likely to be because of lazy "journalists" than because someone is trying to bury the story.
The problem with that is whether your promise would also apply to your heirs.
Once something becomes worth $X there will always be people trying to make money off of it. The larger X is, the more people like that there will be.
At $10 BILLION I don't think there is any "forgot" here.
Even at the time of the deal the price was questionable. It was 10x more than Autonomy was possibly worth.
I would say "follow the money" but it is sounding like someone did not complete their part of the deal.
Yeah. This sounds more like an attempt to loot the company that didn't pan out.
Maybe you can do a little research (Google) on cops accused of rape.
Or just look at cops sentenced to life imprisonment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eppolito_and_Stephen_Caracappa
No, you do not.
Not being interesting to the authorities is not the same as having your privacy intact.
If you live in the USofA, you are in more danger of being killed by someone in your family than by a terrorist.
The question is whether you believe there are more terrorists in the USofA or more bad cops/contractors/other-people-with-access-to-track-your-daughter.
Once you sign away her privacy she probably won't be getting it back.
And she will still be in more danger from her boyfriend/husband (and ex-boyfriends/husbands) than she is from any terrorist in the USofA.
Thor is in jail because he's a hacker. But the bad guys are doing bad things and Thor is the only one who can stop them.
So people who want to help Thor stop the bad guys get Thor out of jail.
And a really hot Asian woman falls in love with Thor.
And Thor and the Asian woman race around the world fighting the bad guys. Literally fighting. Thor kicks physical ass. And he has a hot Asian girlfriend.
No "restore from backup" or "patch your servers" or "fix your firewall's DMZ". This is REAL hacking.
It's a step in the right direction.
Now, instead of just posting a graphic of a flag, how about posting some justification? Explain what you are objecting to and why you find it objectionable.
You have the attention of the media.
Unless you're a bunch of teenage script kiddies doing this for the lulz.
From TFA:
I think the whole family just learned that.
The important part is use this as part of YOUR plan for YOUR education. Like you did.
Community Colleges are great for taking care of the 100 level pre-requisites prior to University.
Community Colleges are great at expanding your knowledge WITHOUT going for a degree.
Community Colleges are great for bringing up your Grade Point Average (GPA) if you had problems in High School but still want to pursue an advanced education.
Etc.
This program should NOT be the FINAL step in your education.
So first you make claims about what Islam teaches because you know more about it than a million Muslims living in the USofA right now.
Then you make claims about what I believe. You don't know me any more than you know any Muslim living here.
Again, you don't know me any more than you know any Muslim. I spent 7 years in the Army. I've watched people whose job it was to shoot me watching me. As it was mine to shoot them.
And because I understand math, I know that if a million of them have not tried to shoot me yet then they probably won't. Because despite your claims, they do NOT believe what you claim they do.
And you 'd know that if you knew any Muslims.
What ideals have been ceded?
Except for the million Muslims who live here right now.
I've heard it all before. It's always about "them" and how "they" are "bad" because of "their" culture or religion or whatever.
Whether "they" are Muslims or blacks or Hispanics or "gooks" or "Japs" or ...
Maybe you should read George Takei's writings on his experience in an internment camp.
So you're saying that the GP was wrong about Islam and it actually teaches a pragmatic approach to democratically elected representative government?
Muhammad Ali is a Sunni. He refused to fight in Vietnam as a conscientious objector. Yet he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bush in 2005. So .... bad Muslim? Or maybe your understanding of Muslims could be expanded upon by meeting more of them?
Yes.
Just because you haven't seen them does not mean that they haven't happened. Have you gone looking for them? The media usually skips them because blood gets more views.
There are at least a million Muslims living in the USofA. The majority seem to be okay with it.
What you claim Islam teaches and how a million Muslims live, every day, in the USofA ... well there seems to be a disconnect there.
I've heard the same rhetoric about blacks. And Hispanics. It's easy to hate someone you've never met.
But then, I live in Seattle and there are two halal markets within a mile of me.
http://xkcd.com/576/
And the reason is ... because the stuff used to be BUILT by people. If a guy on the assembly line had to be able to get his hands onto a bolt to install it then someone replacing it would also be able to reach it.
Once we switched to robots for manufacturing it became a lot more difficult. A robot can reach where a person cannot.
Which means you save a lot of "wasted" space and materials ... but you have to take apart X, Y and Z to be able to read the headlight.
I'll say that it is not because you worry that you will be executed but that you will lose your possessions / job / freedom. Once you've bought into the system then the system has ways to keep you invested.
Once you leave the system then the punishments don't matter.
Yeah. Although I see it as whether they have the option to join the system again. If they're paying a mortgage and putting their kids through school then they have an interest in following the rules.
The problem with that approach is that the system is run by people. And those people are flawed.
Convicts who are on death row are being released because of DNA evidence.
http://codysinvestigations.com/NorCalPrivateInvestigatorBlog/corrupt-justice-texas-state-bar-seeks-to-discipline-prosecutor-for-concealing-evidence-in-wrongful-conviction-of-michael-morton/
And it is even worse if you are a minority.
Yes. You will have to justify it though.
Anyway, back to the previous comment:
It's not magical. It's "military" and "civilian". If you're military then the UCMJ replaces the civilian laws.
The military does not create the weapons that it uses. It buys them from civilians. The M-16? Parts made by Mattel. The same company that makes Barbie dolls. So a soldier would probably NOT be writing that virus. It would be a civilian contractor or other government agency (NSA).
I think the concept here has gotten lost.
The problem is that if your INITIAL sorting is based upon who can pass Basic Training and such, you will probably exclude people with more valuable skills.
There is nothing stopping the Army from creating a new field and assigning some lieutenants to it. Those lieutenants are the ones that "pull the trigger".
But the network scans, evaluations, compromises and such can all be done by GS contractors. The lieutenants would be the equivalent of "script kiddies" at worst.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_(US_civil_service_pay_scale)
100% agreement.
If they are NOT going to be deployed then hire them as GS whatever.
If they ARE going to be deployed to a situation where they can be shot then they need combat training.
It's not so much the VPN technology as it is the failure to correctly implement and secure it.
TFA leaves the real content until the end of the article:
So if the NSA wants to "crack" your VPN session they first record it (we know how they do that) then they try to brute force that recording using what is, essentially, a dictionary attack.
TFA seems more entranced by the cutesy names than by the technology.