It's kinda arbitrary what's allowed and what's not. I was nearly tackled and pinned over a bottle of water, but they didn't have a problem with my lockpicks...
I have a hard time imagining the goofballs blowing themselves to kingdom come for the promise of goodies in some afterlife as anything resembling intelligent. Then again, I have a hard time giving anyone above the age of 8 with imaginary friends much credits in the mental department.
There are intelligent ones, no doubt about that. The whole planning and logistics is certainly run by people who use religion for what it was invented for, but the goons they send to redecorate the interior of airports are hardly Nobel Prize material.
The difference is maybe that getting past the lock is trivial and not a hour long procedure that costs me, besides time, any shred of dignity left. If it was, people would probably stop locking their doors.
Or, more likely, find a better way of securing their stuff.
But they don't reassure me. All they do is getting me really angry, actually angry enough to replace flying with trains if there is at least a remote option of doing so.
And I can't really think of anyone who actually feels "safe" with those checks. How could you feel safe if you knew that the Three Stooges are running security?
Unless you provide a test for it, from a scientific standpoint it's about as sensible as wondering whether there's a pink teapot in the middle of a black hole. Or wondering what was before the Big Bang. There is exactly no way to test it in any way, so any speculation is as good as any other and none of them can be tested or falsified.
If my gross negligence and utter ignorance caused thousands if not millions of people suffering?
If someone, to pick an individual at random, me, was to handle poisonous gas unsafely and causing a whole city to be evacuated, causing people to suffer and destroying their existence because their homes are now uninhabitable, would you say "oh c'mon, mistakes happen, that's what erasers are for"?
This. How is it even possible that they are still operating? Anyone else doing a fraction of what happened there would be in prison forever and his assets gone to compensate the victims. How are they not only still doing business but actually having to think whether to pay their C-Levels a bonus? I.e. how are they even still able to pay a bonus?
This is basically what's wrong with the law. He didn't break the law, I'd go to jail for eliminating this problem and he's not worth a second of jail time.
I honestly believe he put the cheapest idiot he could find into the CISO seat so he has someone to blame and fire. Some scapegoat, hoping that this would suffice.
It's pretty much all they do today. Find a studio that has a hit or even a hit series, buy them, crank out a few crappy knockoffs with micropayments or "keep paying if you want to get the whole game eventually", until the last fan of the series walks away in disgust, then throw it away and abuse and kill the next good idea someone else had.
For real. This gets worse and worse every time you get to hear about it. How can he NOT know this MONTHS after the breach? I could see that this isn't something he needs to know for everyday business, his background is probably in finance, legal or business administration, that's where most CEOs come from and that's also what they deal with in day-to-day business.
This isn't fucking day-to-day business!
How it is possible that MONTHS after the breach he obviously still doesn't know at least the crucial, important bits about the breach is beyond me! I know that I'm the odd idiot who does actually prepare for such situations, I created whole binders for PR to keep the press occupied until we're ready for a public statement so they can send them on a wild goose chase without us looking like we're stalling should something like this ever happen to us, with similar folders for the relevant C-Levels that could possibly be asked for statements, along with pretty much me only having to tell you which folder to pull out of their desk and learn (or at least read at the inevitable PK), I know that few go to those lengths but it is valuable. When the shit hits the fan, you do not have time for this bullshit.
But, FUCK, even after... what has it been now? 2 MONTHS? Two fucking months nobody bothered to brief the CEO so he doesn't look like a total and utterly worthless piece of junk with the only quality of being far too high maintenance to be kept alive because he might waste valuable O2 that someone could put to better use? For real?
I mean, ok, his CISO was what? An opera singer or someone equally qualified? Ok, one could argue that it's his own fault if he has no clue how to pick and choose his C-Levels, but FUCK, how the heck is that guy still outside of a prison cell? How is it even possible that directorate and board didn't rip him a new one up so far that even a turtleneck couldn't cover it anymore?
Well, bouncing the exact details to some VP of security (the CISO) is pretty much what will happen, out of necessity. But, and this is crucial, he must make sure that everyone knows that anything security related that comes out of the CISO is like it came from him himself and has to be implemented with an implied "or else".
Anything less means the next thing a sensible CISO does is hand in his resignation. The CEOs job is to define the strategic goal and the target what security should achieve. He needn't understand the details, that's what the CISO is there for, but he must back up the CISO. Else the CISO is just the scapegoat, to be fired when (not if) the shit hits the fan.
And I have this suspicion that this is exactly what went down in this case.
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Then put them into some corner and have them count the bumps in the road but put them where they aren't a nuisance to the rest of the world.
It's kinda arbitrary what's allowed and what's not. I was nearly tackled and pinned over a bottle of water, but they didn't have a problem with my lockpicks...
I have a hard time imagining the goofballs blowing themselves to kingdom come for the promise of goodies in some afterlife as anything resembling intelligent. Then again, I have a hard time giving anyone above the age of 8 with imaginary friends much credits in the mental department.
There are intelligent ones, no doubt about that. The whole planning and logistics is certainly run by people who use religion for what it was invented for, but the goons they send to redecorate the interior of airports are hardly Nobel Prize material.
The difference is maybe that getting past the lock is trivial and not a hour long procedure that costs me, besides time, any shred of dignity left. If it was, people would probably stop locking their doors.
Or, more likely, find a better way of securing their stuff.
But they don't reassure me. All they do is getting me really angry, actually angry enough to replace flying with trains if there is at least a remote option of doing so.
And I can't really think of anyone who actually feels "safe" with those checks. How could you feel safe if you knew that the Three Stooges are running security?
Do we really have to single out a religion or can we just off everyone with an imaginary friend?
Actually they were very respectful of the TSA goofballs. They depicted them as being able to talk in whole sentences.
What? Don't you trust the free market, the invisible hand and the intangible foot in the mouth to create a service if there is a market for it?
Unless you provide a test for it, from a scientific standpoint it's about as sensible as wondering whether there's a pink teapot in the middle of a black hole. Or wondering what was before the Big Bang. There is exactly no way to test it in any way, so any speculation is as good as any other and none of them can be tested or falsified.
Next question?
Now why would some advanced lifeform do that? Trolling the barbarians?
Technically? Certainly.
Legally? Legally, the code is property of his estate.
Open source means that the source code can be viewed by everyone, not that it has no owner and is up for the taking.
Hmm... when you look at murderers in jail, and the reason why they murdered, I wouldn't be so certain.
To make that desert a dessert?
If my gross negligence and utter ignorance caused thousands if not millions of people suffering?
If someone, to pick an individual at random, me, was to handle poisonous gas unsafely and causing a whole city to be evacuated, causing people to suffer and destroying their existence because their homes are now uninhabitable, would you say "oh c'mon, mistakes happen, that's what erasers are for"?
Someone please shoot those wankers already, they're just torturing themselves anymore.
And even more important, us.
If it was up to me it would be more like their last meal.
This. How is it even possible that they are still operating? Anyone else doing a fraction of what happened there would be in prison forever and his assets gone to compensate the victims. How are they not only still doing business but actually having to think whether to pay their C-Levels a bonus? I.e. how are they even still able to pay a bonus?
This is basically what's wrong with the law. He didn't break the law, I'd go to jail for eliminating this problem and he's not worth a second of jail time.
Smart I agree. Hard working, not so much.
I honestly believe he put the cheapest idiot he could find into the CISO seat so he has someone to blame and fire. Some scapegoat, hoping that this would suffice.
I on the other hand hope it won't.
You get to enjoy ripping those noobs starting out now a new one with your vast amounts of experience, is that nothing?
It is really asking too much of a program to store a list of the plugins it uses and load those and only those plugins?
Where game studios and franchises go to die.
It's pretty much all they do today. Find a studio that has a hit or even a hit series, buy them, crank out a few crappy knockoffs with micropayments or "keep paying if you want to get the whole game eventually", until the last fan of the series walks away in disgust, then throw it away and abuse and kill the next good idea someone else had.
For real. This gets worse and worse every time you get to hear about it. How can he NOT know this MONTHS after the breach? I could see that this isn't something he needs to know for everyday business, his background is probably in finance, legal or business administration, that's where most CEOs come from and that's also what they deal with in day-to-day business.
This isn't fucking day-to-day business!
How it is possible that MONTHS after the breach he obviously still doesn't know at least the crucial, important bits about the breach is beyond me! I know that I'm the odd idiot who does actually prepare for such situations, I created whole binders for PR to keep the press occupied until we're ready for a public statement so they can send them on a wild goose chase without us looking like we're stalling should something like this ever happen to us, with similar folders for the relevant C-Levels that could possibly be asked for statements, along with pretty much me only having to tell you which folder to pull out of their desk and learn (or at least read at the inevitable PK), I know that few go to those lengths but it is valuable. When the shit hits the fan, you do not have time for this bullshit.
But, FUCK, even after ... what has it been now? 2 MONTHS? Two fucking months nobody bothered to brief the CEO so he doesn't look like a total and utterly worthless piece of junk with the only quality of being far too high maintenance to be kept alive because he might waste valuable O2 that someone could put to better use? For real?
I mean, ok, his CISO was what? An opera singer or someone equally qualified? Ok, one could argue that it's his own fault if he has no clue how to pick and choose his C-Levels, but FUCK, how the heck is that guy still outside of a prison cell? How is it even possible that directorate and board didn't rip him a new one up so far that even a turtleneck couldn't cover it anymore?
What the hell is going on here?
Throw that asshole into a jail cell and you'll see how he suddenly has plenty of time.
And don't tell me there isn't PLENTY of reason for doing so.
Well, bouncing the exact details to some VP of security (the CISO) is pretty much what will happen, out of necessity. But, and this is crucial, he must make sure that everyone knows that anything security related that comes out of the CISO is like it came from him himself and has to be implemented with an implied "or else".
Anything less means the next thing a sensible CISO does is hand in his resignation. The CEOs job is to define the strategic goal and the target what security should achieve. He needn't understand the details, that's what the CISO is there for, but he must back up the CISO. Else the CISO is just the scapegoat, to be fired when (not if) the shit hits the fan.
And I have this suspicion that this is exactly what went down in this case.