Here it is. It was one mind-controlled robotic arm and the other was prosthetic and he had been successfully driving for an entire year before the accident.
They would have to implement some specific command sequence to actually commit the direction change. Rather than saying "turn left" and the car turning left, they would have to issue a preparatory command like, "polka-dot elephant, turn left", or something completely random that no one would just think on their own, at least not in combination with a direction. But you're right, our minds wander way too much. Even during the typing of this post I thought about my daughter coming home from CA, what to eat for lunch, the tattered, waving flag out my office window and wondering whether or not the fire-truck siren is going to rescue a cat from a tree or a kid trapped in the 30th floor apartment building.
No, I think that's 'technically'. Plus, the trigger doesn't actually cause the bullet to leave the chamber and travel down the barrel, it only starts the process. It also doesn't make the kill, the bullet does. Or, it at least causes the loss of blood that eventually leads to the death. Even then, the 'trigger assembly' is the sum of the many parts that cause the action of the bullet making its way to the victim, but at that point you may as well say 'gun'.
I agree to a certain point, but you'd still better be able to provide an audit trail of every system accessed by any given user at any given time. I'm sure there's a statistic out there of companies who are ripped off by supposedly trust-worthy employees. It happens every day and the competent IT manager has to make sure measures are in place to keep it from happening, or at least reduce the risk to a low factor.
I think it's great that you are able to trust people not to rip you off and I agree, most of them wont. Even if it's 99.9999% of the people that won't you'd be a fool to not protect yourself against the other.0001% because it's that one person that can make or break your business. Humans are falable and subject to emotions and generally bad things. If you don't recognize that you're in for a world of hurt in any world.
I was an auditor for a few months and I think I remember SOX and HIPAA requiring a yearly audit of access, though you might know better. So that's what most companies are going to do - the bare minimum to get that favorable SAS70 for their clients. Some of the bigger companies will perform monthly termination reviews and check that access was properly removed from all systems and I always felt like this was the best rule to follow.
Oh I completely agree with you, but rules like those put in place by Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA require such changes be mandatory and those are the ones that external auditors have to follow. Management could choose to not implement those changes but then the auditor will ding them on non-compliance and a negative mark will go down for all the public world to see.
Fuck no its not. And I'd have a hard time not getting behind some proxy and doing something bad, in your case. Unless I'm reading you wrong and it wasn't a sour situation for you.
That's not what he said. the real revealing thing about this is that the VAST majority of IT professionals are professional enough not to take advantage.
He was surprised at the number of logins left open, not that people didn't use them in malicious ways.
They made you disable the access?! That's either very lazy or...well, I don't know what else. Relying on the person leaving to kill their own access is a bit like leaving the wolf to tend the chickens, no? I'm sure there are audit trails that show that if certain places in the network are accessed it can be traced back to your username, but who's to say that your particular account didn't get hacked? This only creates headaches for the IT manager later down the road. This reminds me of my brother who is very good at not working, but at a cost where he actually works harder to not work, more so than he would if he actually just fucking worked.
This is why it's important to implement regular audits of systems. A financial or health-care institution should do user-access audits a minimum of every 90 days. Password changes should obviously be set to a fairly regular interval as well but, and even more important, there needs to be a checklist with dummy-proof instructions for the process of removing access of any terminated employee. As systems change the procedure should change, too.
I know you said "mostly", and maybe it is when compared to how many people were there and how long it lasted, but tell that to the almost 300 dead and 3000 injured. But I agree...completely news worthy, even to nerds.
I would agree with this. I'd also like to know how many of those Liberal/Libertarian readers are also Atheists. I read an interesting article about the political views that most Atheists hold and why it seems to be the majority leaning toward the left. Off topic here, I know.
I'm ok with people not really understanding. I feed my kids with money that comes from people who don't know much about computers and I, for one, hope it stays this way for a long time.
Of course, when I'm trying to get the desperately needed server virtualization project approved I wish they knew a lot more but hey, what are you gonna do?
I've often wondered if the transition from Dutch to English is easier than from other languages. It seems that the Dutch tend to speak English as well as, and sometimes better than English-speaking natives.
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Here it is. It was one mind-controlled robotic arm and the other was prosthetic and he had been successfully driving for an entire year before the accident.
They would have to implement some specific command sequence to actually commit the direction change. Rather than saying "turn left" and the car turning left, they would have to issue a preparatory command like, "polka-dot elephant, turn left", or something completely random that no one would just think on their own, at least not in combination with a direction. But you're right, our minds wander way too much. Even during the typing of this post I thought about my daughter coming home from CA, what to eat for lunch, the tattered, waving flag out my office window and wondering whether or not the fire-truck siren is going to rescue a cat from a tree or a kid trapped in the 30th floor apartment building.
No, I think that's 'technically'. Plus, the trigger doesn't actually cause the bullet to leave the chamber and travel down the barrel, it only starts the process. It also doesn't make the kill, the bullet does. Or, it at least causes the loss of blood that eventually leads to the death. Even then, the 'trigger assembly' is the sum of the many parts that cause the action of the bullet making its way to the victim, but at that point you may as well say 'gun'.
Actually, the gun is the kill switch, literally and figuratively.
I agree to a certain point, but you'd still better be able to provide an audit trail of every system accessed by any given user at any given time. I'm sure there's a statistic out there of companies who are ripped off by supposedly trust-worthy employees. It happens every day and the competent IT manager has to make sure measures are in place to keep it from happening, or at least reduce the risk to a low factor.
I think it's great that you are able to trust people not to rip you off and I agree, most of them wont. Even if it's 99.9999% of the people that won't you'd be a fool to not protect yourself against the other .0001% because it's that one person that can make or break your business. Humans are falable and subject to emotions and generally bad things. If you don't recognize that you're in for a world of hurt in any world.
..thinks it's there for that particular person or not.
There, Fixed that for me.
Trust has nothing to do with it. The whole idea is to mitigate the risk, whether you or anyone else thinks its there or not.
I was an auditor for a few months and I think I remember SOX and HIPAA requiring a yearly audit of access, though you might know better. So that's what most companies are going to do - the bare minimum to get that favorable SAS70 for their clients. Some of the bigger companies will perform monthly termination reviews and check that access was properly removed from all systems and I always felt like this was the best rule to follow.
Oh I completely agree with you, but rules like those put in place by Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA require such changes be mandatory and those are the ones that external auditors have to follow. Management could choose to not implement those changes but then the auditor will ding them on non-compliance and a negative mark will go down for all the public world to see.
Fuck no its not. And I'd have a hard time not getting behind some proxy and doing something bad, in your case. Unless I'm reading you wrong and it wasn't a sour situation for you.
That's not what he said. the real revealing thing about this is that the VAST majority of IT professionals are professional enough not to take advantage.
He was surprised at the number of logins left open, not that people didn't use them in malicious ways.
They made you disable the access?! That's either very lazy or...well, I don't know what else. Relying on the person leaving to kill their own access is a bit like leaving the wolf to tend the chickens, no? I'm sure there are audit trails that show that if certain places in the network are accessed it can be traced back to your username, but who's to say that your particular account didn't get hacked? This only creates headaches for the IT manager later down the road. This reminds me of my brother who is very good at not working, but at a cost where he actually works harder to not work, more so than he would if he actually just fucking worked.
This is why it's important to implement regular audits of systems. A financial or health-care institution should do user-access audits a minimum of every 90 days. Password changes should obviously be set to a fairly regular interval as well but, and even more important, there needs to be a checklist with dummy-proof instructions for the process of removing access of any terminated employee. As systems change the procedure should change, too.
I thought that was the answer to "What do old women taste like?".
Will they make the updates mandatory, or will we have the option of staying with the version that we like?
Only if he didn't set is status to "Off to the shower now...blood is messy :-p".
./bitchx
#exceed> /msg botsrv1 xdcc send the_cure_boys_dont_cry.rar
/good ol' days
Looks like a breathing eyeball to me.
The revolution has been mostly peaceful.
I know you said "mostly", and maybe it is when compared to how many people were there and how long it lasted, but tell that to the almost 300 dead and 3000 injured. But I agree...completely news worthy, even to nerds.
I would agree with this. I'd also like to know how many of those Liberal/Libertarian readers are also Atheists. I read an interesting article about the political views that most Atheists hold and why it seems to be the majority leaning toward the left. Off topic here, I know.
I agree with the WOW part. I know one actual child (my son) that plays WOW and the rest are adults. You can pretty much pick them out of a crowd, too.
I'm ok with people not really understanding. I feed my kids with money that comes from people who don't know much about computers and I, for one, hope it stays this way for a long time.
Of course, when I'm trying to get the desperately needed server virtualization project approved I wish they knew a lot more but hey, what are you gonna do?
I've often wondered if the transition from Dutch to English is easier than from other languages. It seems that the Dutch tend to speak English as well as, and sometimes better than English-speaking natives.
Every time I see Dutch in writing I assume someone is speaking Klingon.
That's just during the day...night-time is the adult swim.