According to the article, they're having NIST prepare the standards and controls, with a 5-year refresh. If this was the legislators coming up with standards, as they did with HIPAA, I think it would be doomed to fail. But NIST knows their stuff - the controls in Special Publication 800-53 rev 4 are pretty solid, and come with mappings for low, moderate and high security situations. Like FedRAMP for cloud providers, this will become a bar for entry into the public sector, and at this point, it has the potential for being a good one.
This is fairly common in the US for public sector workers as well. We're paid according to a published scale, so an IT Professional, level 4, in the position 6 years, makes whatever the scale says, period. Everyone's classification, grade and step is published in the state employee directory (in the interests of open government). Hell, there's even a site that publishes our W-2 earnings information every year.
Comes in handy, though. Whenever I hear someone talking about how overpaid government workers are, I point them to that site. Shuts them up quick.
Yeah, Microsoft definitely needs to be concerned about losing market share with end users. Why, if this trend continues, they may fall below 80% of all desktops worldwide!
But in all seriousness, this is taking niche marketing to a new level. I mean, "Spring Creators Update"? What about people who create other things, like shock absorbers or U-joints? What's so special about folks who create springs, for crying out loud?
Anytime someone says they support strong encryption but want to be able to bypass whenever they have the need, my head wants to explode. Any bypass, back door or master key, no matter how well designed, perfectly implemented, or zealously protected, fundamentally weakens the encryption they claim to support. If a way around the encryption exists, someone will find and exploit it. Pure and simple.
I'm all for law enforcement being able to do their job. But I'm also all for strong encryption - my job in information security depends on it, and the sensitive information of millions of people would be at risk without it. Encryption is a tool, like a hammer: people with bad intent can use it to build harm as well as upstanding citizens can use it to build good. I'm sorry, but law enforcement needs to find another way to get to those nails, rather than make hammers defective for everyone.
Working for a state government, it's not unusual for folks to talk openly about their retirement plans a few years in advance. I just had one of my staff retire; he provided the necessary paperwork 8 months before the date, and began training his interim replacement 2-3 months before he left. It was very orderly, which I appreciated. But it's also in state law that a permanent state employee can't be exited or summarily dismissed without going through a progressive discipline process; private sector mileage may vary.
You're the best judge of how your bosses will react to this situation. I know I would appreciate the heads up and the time to train your replacement, but that's me. Others might want to rush you out the door, or view you ask a risk to walk at any given moment. How has your management reacted to similar situations in the past? How comfortable are you talking about things like this with your boss? Or his/her boss, and on up the chain?
If you're unsure of how this will be greeted but still want to "do the right thing for the company", one thing you can do now is document the crap out of what you're doing. Put down every little trick or shortcut you've discovered, every nuance to the job, every piece of institutional knowledge you can think of. Then, talk to them, and if they decide to show you the door, you can rest easy in your retirement that you treated them better than they treated you.
So, we're going to develop and train AIs using a game that focuses on developing and processing resources, building weapons and defensive systems, and coordinating troops in an assault.
I sincerely hope both the HomeHub and "Always On" Welcome screen are disabled by default on non-Home version of Windows 10. If not, some idiot will say "Hey, Cortana, upload all files to dropbox" every time they enter an office.
Come on, Microsoft, the Lock screen (proper name for the Welcome screen) is there to help prevent abuse of the system. Allowing functionality in spite of the system being locked invites abuse.
Okay, that's at least 4 words, depending on how you feel about hyphens. But that little bit of awesome came out of Joss Whedon's strike-addled brain in 2008. If history repeats itself, I won't be crying...
According to several interviews with NASA astronauts, Gravity is most definitely science FICTION. Most of their comments begin with "there's just no way that...."
IANAL, but yeah. Installing software on my PC without permission should already be trespass or vandalism; encrypting my files and demanding money for the key should already meet the definition of extortion or blackmail. I guess the fact that these assumptions are apparently false just shows how non-intuitive the law is.
... but expecting the worst. Since this is on a non-premium channel, the abundant sex and nudity will have to be watered down, and since that's one of the central themes (the other being religion), I fear a bland, pale shadow of a sci-fi masterpiece. This concern is made greater by the fact that they're planning a "series," rather than a movie or miniseries. Stranger is a big book, and I could see source material for 6-8 episodes, but moving beyond that will be difficult without going on tangents or "extending the story."
Casting will be key, especially for Jubal Harshaw. The man is basically mentoring a god; if that character isn't larger-than-life enough, I fear the whole thing will fall flat.
I hope that I'm wrong, that the writers and producers truly grok what they're dealing with, and the whole thing is brilliant. But right now, I've got a bad feeling about this.
Check the app store for your smart phone of choice - the same one that's going to receive the SMS message. There are at least a dozen SecurID-style token apps that are easy to set up and use, work with multiple sites, and free. Google Authenticator is my token of choice. It meets your criteria: universally compatible (or nearly so - I haven't found a place were I can't use it yet, but YMMV), and in my experience, handles user failures gracefully.
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According to the article, they're having NIST prepare the standards and controls, with a 5-year refresh. If this was the legislators coming up with standards, as they did with HIPAA, I think it would be doomed to fail. But NIST knows their stuff - the controls in Special Publication 800-53 rev 4 are pretty solid, and come with mappings for low, moderate and high security situations. Like FedRAMP for cloud providers, this will become a bar for entry into the public sector, and at this point, it has the potential for being a good one.
All roads lead to bigotry, scatological humor, and sex.
Because taken as a whole, the Internet is a 12-year-old boy who has no filters, wants to see boobies, and thinks fart jokes are hilarious.
The spiders will have their party and will soon die.
Just like college...
Things that cause Edge to run poorly would be redundant.
This is fairly common in the US for public sector workers as well. We're paid according to a published scale, so an IT Professional, level 4, in the position 6 years, makes whatever the scale says, period. Everyone's classification, grade and step is published in the state employee directory (in the interests of open government). Hell, there's even a site that publishes our W-2 earnings information every year.
Comes in handy, though. Whenever I hear someone talking about how overpaid government workers are, I point them to that site. Shuts them up quick.
Yeah, Microsoft definitely needs to be concerned about losing market share with end users. Why, if this trend continues, they may fall below 80% of all desktops worldwide!
But in all seriousness, this is taking niche marketing to a new level. I mean, "Spring Creators Update"? What about people who create other things, like shock absorbers or U-joints? What's so special about folks who create springs, for crying out loud?
Anytime someone says they support strong encryption but want to be able to bypass whenever they have the need, my head wants to explode. Any bypass, back door or master key, no matter how well designed, perfectly implemented, or zealously protected, fundamentally weakens the encryption they claim to support. If a way around the encryption exists, someone will find and exploit it. Pure and simple.
I'm all for law enforcement being able to do their job. But I'm also all for strong encryption - my job in information security depends on it, and the sensitive information of millions of people would be at risk without it. Encryption is a tool, like a hammer: people with bad intent can use it to build harm as well as upstanding citizens can use it to build good. I'm sorry, but law enforcement needs to find another way to get to those nails, rather than make hammers defective for everyone.
Working for a state government, it's not unusual for folks to talk openly about their retirement plans a few years in advance. I just had one of my staff retire; he provided the necessary paperwork 8 months before the date, and began training his interim replacement 2-3 months before he left. It was very orderly, which I appreciated. But it's also in state law that a permanent state employee can't be exited or summarily dismissed without going through a progressive discipline process; private sector mileage may vary.
You're the best judge of how your bosses will react to this situation. I know I would appreciate the heads up and the time to train your replacement, but that's me. Others might want to rush you out the door, or view you ask a risk to walk at any given moment. How has your management reacted to similar situations in the past? How comfortable are you talking about things like this with your boss? Or his/her boss, and on up the chain?
If you're unsure of how this will be greeted but still want to "do the right thing for the company", one thing you can do now is document the crap out of what you're doing. Put down every little trick or shortcut you've discovered, every nuance to the job, every piece of institutional knowledge you can think of. Then, talk to them, and if they decide to show you the door, you can rest easy in your retirement that you treated them better than they treated you.
If a single piece of dust can spoil your "First!" post, don't you think that's kind of a problem?
So, we're going to develop and train AIs using a game that focuses on developing and processing resources, building weapons and defensive systems, and coordinating troops in an assault.
Yeah. That'll be fine.
Specifically books 6 and 7.
Also wish I'd played Half Life 3 sooner.
I sincerely hope both the HomeHub and "Always On" Welcome screen are disabled by default on non-Home version of Windows 10. If not, some idiot will say "Hey, Cortana, upload all files to dropbox" every time they enter an office.
Come on, Microsoft, the Lock screen (proper name for the Welcome screen) is there to help prevent abuse of the system. Allowing functionality in spite of the system being locked invites abuse.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog.
Okay, that's at least 4 words, depending on how you feel about hyphens. But that little bit of awesome came out of Joss Whedon's strike-addled brain in 2008. If history repeats itself, I won't be crying...
Leslie Nielsen being all serious. Theme music played on a theremin. Robbie the Robot. God, what a great movie.
According to several interviews with NASA astronauts, Gravity is most definitely science FICTION. Most of their comments begin with "there's just no way that...."
(Garage Door Operation As a Service--GDOAAS?)
My internal 12-year-old prefers Garage Opening Now A Delivered Service (GONADS).
Worst case scenario for the unions: what if nobody really notices?
No, that's Brian Curbs. I'm looking for "A Sale Of Two Titties" by Brian Kerbs, the well-known Dutch author.
As with anyone else, that just makes them mad.
... I can personally attest to the accuracy of this headline.
IANAL, but yeah. Installing software on my PC without permission should already be trespass or vandalism; encrypting my files and demanding money for the key should already meet the definition of extortion or blackmail. I guess the fact that these assumptions are apparently false just shows how non-intuitive the law is.
... but expecting the worst. Since this is on a non-premium channel, the abundant sex and nudity will have to be watered down, and since that's one of the central themes (the other being religion), I fear a bland, pale shadow of a sci-fi masterpiece. This concern is made greater by the fact that they're planning a "series," rather than a movie or miniseries. Stranger is a big book, and I could see source material for 6-8 episodes, but moving beyond that will be difficult without going on tangents or "extending the story."
Casting will be key, especially for Jubal Harshaw. The man is basically mentoring a god; if that character isn't larger-than-life enough, I fear the whole thing will fall flat.
I hope that I'm wrong, that the writers and producers truly grok what they're dealing with, and the whole thing is brilliant. But right now, I've got a bad feeling about this.
TIL "anomaly on the pad" is what "major malfunction" was in 1986.
Check the app store for your smart phone of choice - the same one that's going to receive the SMS message. There are at least a dozen SecurID-style token apps that are easy to set up and use, work with multiple sites, and free. Google Authenticator is my token of choice. It meets your criteria: universally compatible (or nearly so - I haven't found a place were I can't use it yet, but YMMV), and in my experience, handles user failures gracefully.
Yes, yes, that's all very nice, but did it have a Reliant Robin attached to it?
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