That is problem for the rest of the business not for a development team in IT. The IT team needs a system of classification and prioritization of projects that allows them to A) schedule and complete work and B) keeps their immediate manager, and the C-Level folks happy.
The fact that Jim in accounting is struggling with the same crappy spreadsheet + maco process he has fought with since the mid 90's and now has 5x the workload, with no other option than to drink himself into oblivion after work each day is not is not some developer in IT's problem. If upper management wants to treat their people that way, well its their company. This guy with a pile of projects all marked 'high' is just waiting to be made the scape goat for whatever goes wrong. His objective assuming he is putting on honest days work in on these projects really should be to get himself out of the firing line. An objective classification scheme does that, it gets him and his team out of middle managements power struggle and as long as their output looks reasonable, makes them safe from people trying to burn them by going to upper management; so long as its upper management that determined the priority scheme.
Nobody wants to hear their project is not a priority. Terms like High,Medium,Low etc are attached peoples ego. What you need to do is come up with some other system of classification. Ideally one that does not make it entirely clear what 'priority' is even attached. Use a system like "Customer facing, feature", "Customer facing cosmetic", "Internal process improvement", "Bug fix", "Regulatory Compliance", etc.
These things that have a more objective criteria, a requester project is customer facing or it is not, its cosmetic (I want this to be different font size) or its not. You get the idea. Next you get upper management to assign a "priority" to your project classification criteria, which you don't need to publish to the rest of the organization.
This way you don't Bob, feeling like he less important than Ted because his project was not classified at as high a priority. You avoid the whole power conflict aspect.
He is not debunking anything though, it's all pseudo science that is as harmful to real understanding as that which he is trying to debunk. The summary mentions Adam Savage so to compare with myth busters, which does not always get it right, is fair. Adam and Jame usually test something very specific, If you do X then Y will happen. They don't try to prove Y can happen or Y happened. There are always testable preconditions or actions.
This guy is not proving anything other than $Deity is not a required condition, not that $Deity was not present or responsible when the event is stories to have happened. Suppose I show you I can make girl disappear with smoke, mirrors, and a try door. That does nothing to prove they last guy did not use "real" magic.
See its that, at 15% above costs, part that is the problem. Government is terrible at controlling costs. The likely outcome is those generics won't be price competitive with the patent encumbered top line drugs.
The methotrexate problem exists because the FDA (Government) shutdown one of the largest producers. If your kid does not get his or her methotrexate you have Washington to blame. You can argue that you also have washing to thank for the fact that all the methotrexate that has been injected into your little cancer patient has not been tainted and you might be right. The short is government caused however; its a simple fact.
And a 3 year old has no understanding why you don't put your fingers in the electrical outlet either but can still obey its parents.
That is the point prior to the apple, all they did was seek pleasure, avoid pain and obey. Consumption of the apple empowered them to make their own judgements rather than simply accept that of the father; which is not so they lacked free will before simply judgement.
Well that us the problem bless the queues are empty at every interface you can't prioritize anything without degrading something else. What we really need to talk about is classification without regard to source. Ie you treat everyone's smtp the same and everyone's VoIP the same, etc. If you prioritize VoIP traffic for your service then you do it for google voice and vonage as well.
Something needs to change here, and the only thing I can think of is personal criminal liability of those that fail to put reasonable security on their IT installations.
I am sorry but that would be insanely unjust. Should you be held 'criminally' responsible if you house is burgled because you did not have deadbolt lock on all your doors? Obviously no. At the same time if all you have is light weight little knob locks you are not doing much to protect your own assets.
If you really want to see change the insurance industry needs to spine up. Just like your homeowners rates are higher if you don't do basic security like have deadbolts corporate insurance rates need to go up sharply for companies that can't demonstrate they have effective and actively maintained IT security controls. When that happens you will start to see change.
Does not matter what the credit rating of the USA is, its the reserve currency. Either lenders will lend to the US when asked, or will have their holdings confiscated through the use of the printing press. The US is unique in this given its accidental geographic location, and the outcomes of WWI and II, not that they were really separate wars.
Right if the debt held by China is an issue at all its a tiny one. The bigger problem is all the American business that have huge parts of their supply chain made of product sourced from China, or from subsidiaries and divisions in China.
20/20 hind sight and all but we should have slammed the door on China shortly after Nixon opened it. It was possibly a good opportunity to dump farm products and surplus industrial production like most of Africa and South American remain. The time to get out was the moment we spotted them developing their own industrial capacity, it should have been obvious their sheer numbers would make them formidable.
Ubuntu is dropping support for KDE. Why don't you just move to Debian? All the value of a distro is the polish. Scripts, canned configs with sane defaults, packages built with sane compile time options, dependencies if you are into that, etc. You will be getting none of that where KDE is concerned from Ubuntu in the future, actually it will all start to get in the way.
When you distro drops support for a major platform you like your best options are get with the program or go to one of the many many other places. Why fight with it. Especially when moving from Ubuntu to Deb would see few other real changes
I don't know that it needs to be fixed bandwidth. For things like speech were rates of pauses can yield information absolutely. I would expect most attacks like this one could be thwarted with noop commands padded with random number of enough random bytes to put them within a few standard deviation of the applications typical transaction size, sent at a random internal again within what would be an expected rate of human interactions for the protocol.
That still will result in the transmission of lots of junk but probably not nearly as much as a fixed stream, for apps like Google maps and online banking and should provide as much protection.
Everyone really ought to keep in mind this is not a case of censorship. This is the reddit people policing their own site. It's not like dear old uncle Sam came by and yanked their domain. Clearly the site owners realized the content was offensive to many, possibly harmful to some, of little artistic or political value and chose to remove it.
I am all for the freedom to say and do obscene things it has a place, however this was likely not one of those places. Responsible use of our rights and self restraint is the best way to keep them
An economist goes to visit a small South American country. As a visiting dignitary the a representative of the local government takes him to see the canal project the country is working on. Men are their laboring away in the heat amongst the pests with shovels and picks.
The economist asks, "Surely it would be cheaper to use power equipment even if you had to get loans and by the equipment abroad?"
The representative replies, "You misunderstand sir this a jobs program for the people."
The economist responds, "Then why the picks and shovels, would not spoons be better?"
The representative strokes his chin and says "Perhaps."
Umm what? The the most evil undertaking ever? I am sorry that is complete and utter BS. There have been far more evil deeds done. I will grant you the Crusades were not very 'Christian' but they were no more evil than any other way. Also its worth pointing out that popular idea the Christian powers started it is wrong, Islam had been spread to those areas mostly by force years before, if anything the Crusades were a counter attack.
Do you think war for the cause of national security is necessarily evil?
No I did not say that at all. I was simply saying a good movies and television can be good without modern special effects. The proof of that is good stuff existed in the past. I am not against progress, and I really enjoy some modern effects in movies.
I responding to the idea the someone how the art would die if the economics of the film industry shift to a model which will not support it. If the market won't support the production of multi-hundred million dollar movies because people are unwilling to pay $12 to see them screened or $25 to buy a copy then Hollywood should stop making them and instead produce something they can sell profitably at a price the market will bear.
Its lies and hyperbole from the industry when they say they can't; the truth is they simply won't.
Really to me it seems exactly the sort of thing I'd want to buy on line you know the measurements your home will take, that measurements of the unit would be published and it's pretty easy to know what you are getting from a photo. Oh and you almost certainly are going to have it delivered anyway. Seems perfect for buying online
management too concerned with store sales instead of margins and blatant disregard for quality customer service."
every time I see one of these stories about a business that might be struggling someone writes something similar to the above. Margin and same store sales are pretty important to retail. If management just ignored what has worked for decades because some guy on the web thinks they ougt to, do really think they'd be more successful? I don't what the secret to retailing in the new econiony is but ignoring margin is not it, remember the.comedy? They ignored margin, how did that work out?
Harry potter would be a simple movie to do. There is nothing in that could not be done with some plastic models, and a little time painting negatives. Would it look like it does today, nope, but it would perfectly clear to the audience what is happening and they would have no trouble understanding what stuff was "supposed to be".
Look at classic Star Trek, you don't need CGI to tell the story of man battles alien lizard man, a guy in a rubber suit works fine. You don't need CGI to have space ships firing energy weapons at each other, a little paint on the negatives works fine.
Yep that ship has sailed. The industry reps are the ones who started down the path of loaded and inflammatory until the publicly apologize to everyone they have called a "their", or "pirate" when they meant to say "intellectual property rights infringer" I don't think they can even begin to claim it the least bit unfair when the other side uses their language they want use.
What is reasonable? I not say its entirely right from an ethical or moral stand point but look at from Corporate Securities point of view.
You have broken into their system. Its possible you were just having a look around at what you could connect to on the Internets for the luz and its possible you are nice guy trying to be helpful and tell us about a problem they might want to address. It just as possible you have made off with their entire customer database, with the intent to sell it to the highest bidder you can locate, and now afraid they might catch you, and are contacting them in hopes of throwing them off your trail.
The only really safe thing they can do is try and put you away for a long time so whatever leaked can't harm them. It might be a disproportionate and totally unnecessary response but they have NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in what may or may not be good for you only for them.
You can hope but never really expect others who don't know you and don't have interest in you to respond with anything other than hostility when you do something they may perceive as threatening.
Its like you covering yourself in a white sheet and walking into a bar in the blackest neighborhood you can locate. While you may be perfectly innocent, its likely the other patrons won't see it that way. They might ignore you if you really lucky, demand you explain yourself possibly, but most likely just beat you senseless; which you would entirely have coming to you.
Outside consults have their place even if you have a strong in house security team. One of the problems IT security has is they are not as big as operations. Its really pretty hard for your security analysts to stay on every system component operations installs, and you really can't properly audit that which you do not understand. See the financial sector for proof of that.
So what most in house teams do is focus on the highest value, highest risk, and most frequently changed systems and processes. So they can keep with auditing and authoring policy for operations.
Technical means are not the only component to security posture. IT security should be engaged in Security awareness training and all employees who access information systems should get some amount of said training related to the value of the information they can access.
Yes people like to pretend otherwise for some reason but yes; and its the correct attitude. I am not saying its justifiable to actually pursue nonmilitary targets in most cases but as collateral damage goes absolutely better them than us. Its sorta the whole point of a war. If you sacrifice your military assets to protect enemy civilians than you risk compromising your war effort.
In extreme conflicts like WWII there is the concept of "total war" again you don't go and bomb a bedroom community but you sure as hell target factories full of civilians which might be producing goods used to combat you and you certainly go after farm production feeding the enemy troops, and civilians alike.
I am sorry once you are in a state of war you need to be in it win it. Otherwise lots of lives are just being wasted. You minimize casualties and loss of assets military and civilian on your side, maximize loss of assets on their side, reducing enemy civilian casualties is a secondary concern, and minimizing enemy combatant casualties should be a tertiary concern.
If its not worth that, you don't go war in the first place!
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That is problem for the rest of the business not for a development team in IT. The IT team needs a system of classification and prioritization of projects that allows them to A) schedule and complete work and B) keeps their immediate manager, and the C-Level folks happy.
The fact that Jim in accounting is struggling with the same crappy spreadsheet + maco process he has fought with since the mid 90's and now has 5x the workload, with no other option than to drink himself into oblivion after work each day is not is not some developer in IT's problem. If upper management wants to treat their people that way, well its their company. This guy with a pile of projects all marked 'high' is just waiting to be made the scape goat for whatever goes wrong. His objective assuming he is putting on honest days work in on these projects really should be to get himself out of the firing line. An objective classification scheme does that, it gets him and his team out of middle managements power struggle and as long as their output looks reasonable, makes them safe from people trying to burn them by going to upper management; so long as its upper management that determined the priority scheme.
Nobody wants to hear their project is not a priority. Terms like High,Medium,Low etc are attached peoples ego. What you need to do is come up with some other system of classification. Ideally one that does not make it entirely clear what 'priority' is even attached. Use a system like "Customer facing, feature", "Customer facing cosmetic", "Internal process improvement", "Bug fix", "Regulatory Compliance", etc.
These things that have a more objective criteria, a requester project is customer facing or it is not, its cosmetic (I want this to be different font size) or its not. You get the idea. Next you get upper management to assign a "priority" to your project classification criteria, which you don't need to publish to the rest of the organization.
This way you don't Bob, feeling like he less important than Ted because his project was not classified at as high a priority. You avoid the whole power conflict aspect.
He is not debunking anything though, it's all pseudo science that is as harmful to real understanding as that which he is trying to debunk. The summary mentions Adam Savage so to compare with myth busters, which does not always get it right, is fair. Adam and Jame usually test something very specific, If you do X then Y will happen. They don't try to prove Y can happen or Y happened. There are always testable preconditions or actions.
This guy is not proving anything other than $Deity is not a required condition, not that $Deity was not present or responsible when the event is stories to have happened. Suppose I show you I can make girl disappear with smoke, mirrors, and a try door. That does nothing to prove they last guy did not use "real" magic.
See its that, at 15% above costs, part that is the problem. Government is terrible at controlling costs. The likely outcome is those generics won't be price competitive with the patent encumbered top line drugs.
The methotrexate problem exists because the FDA (Government) shutdown one of the largest producers. If your kid does not get his or her methotrexate you have Washington to blame. You can argue that you also have washing to thank for the fact that all the methotrexate that has been injected into your little cancer patient has not been tainted and you might be right. The short is government caused however; its a simple fact.
And a 3 year old has no understanding why you don't put your fingers in the electrical outlet either but can still obey its parents.
That is the point prior to the apple, all they did was seek pleasure, avoid pain and obey. Consumption of the apple empowered them to make their own judgements rather than simply accept that of the father; which is not so they lacked free will before simply judgement.
Well that us the problem bless the queues are empty at every interface you can't prioritize anything without degrading something else. What we really need to talk about is classification without regard to source. Ie you treat everyone's smtp the same and everyone's VoIP the same, etc. If you prioritize VoIP traffic for your service then you do it for google voice and vonage as well.
Something needs to change here, and the only thing I can think of is personal criminal liability of those that fail to put reasonable security on their IT installations.
I am sorry but that would be insanely unjust. Should you be held 'criminally' responsible if you house is burgled because you did not have deadbolt lock on all your doors? Obviously no. At the same time if all you have is light weight little knob locks you are not doing much to protect your own assets.
If you really want to see change the insurance industry needs to spine up. Just like your homeowners rates are higher if you don't do basic security like have deadbolts corporate insurance rates need to go up sharply for companies that can't demonstrate they have effective and actively maintained IT security controls. When that happens you will start to see change.
That simply is not true. China's economy would come utterly unglued in the West did not provide an consumptive outlet for all that production.
Does not matter what the credit rating of the USA is, its the reserve currency. Either lenders will lend to the US when asked, or will have their holdings confiscated through the use of the printing press. The US is unique in this given its accidental geographic location, and the outcomes of WWI and II, not that they were really separate wars.
Right if the debt held by China is an issue at all its a tiny one. The bigger problem is all the American business that have huge parts of their supply chain made of product sourced from China, or from subsidiaries and divisions in China.
20/20 hind sight and all but we should have slammed the door on China shortly after Nixon opened it. It was possibly a good opportunity to dump farm products and surplus industrial production like most of Africa and South American remain. The time to get out was the moment we spotted them developing their own industrial capacity, it should have been obvious their sheer numbers would make them formidable.
Ubuntu is dropping support for KDE. Why don't you just move to Debian? All the value of a distro is the polish. Scripts, canned configs with sane defaults, packages built with sane compile time options, dependencies if you are into that, etc. You will be getting none of that where KDE is concerned from Ubuntu in the future, actually it will all start to get in the way.
When you distro drops support for a major platform you like your best options are get with the program or go to one of the many many other places. Why fight with it. Especially when moving from Ubuntu to Deb would see few other real changes
I don't know that it needs to be fixed bandwidth. For things like speech were rates of pauses can yield information absolutely. I would expect most attacks like this one could be thwarted with noop commands padded with random number of enough random bytes to put them within a few standard deviation of the applications typical transaction size, sent at a random internal again within what would be an expected rate of human interactions for the protocol.
That still will result in the transmission of lots of junk but probably not nearly as much as a fixed stream, for apps like Google maps and online banking and should provide as much protection.
Everyone really ought to keep in mind this is not a case of censorship. This is the reddit people policing their own site. It's not like dear old uncle Sam came by and yanked their domain. Clearly the site owners realized the content was offensive to many, possibly harmful to some, of little artistic or political value and chose to remove it.
I am all for the freedom to say and do obscene things it has a place, however this was likely not one of those places. Responsible use of our rights and self restraint is the best way to keep them
There is old story.
An economist goes to visit a small South American country. As a visiting dignitary the a representative of the local government takes him to see the canal project the country is working on. Men are their laboring away in the heat amongst the pests with shovels and picks.
The economist asks, "Surely it would be cheaper to use power equipment even if you had to get loans and by the equipment abroad?"
The representative replies, "You misunderstand sir this a jobs program for the people."
The economist responds, "Then why the picks and shovels, would not spoons be better?"
The representative strokes his chin and says "Perhaps."
Umm what? The the most evil undertaking ever? I am sorry that is complete and utter BS. There have been far more evil deeds done. I will grant you the Crusades were not very 'Christian' but they were no more evil than any other way. Also its worth pointing out that popular idea the Christian powers started it is wrong, Islam had been spread to those areas mostly by force years before, if anything the Crusades were a counter attack.
Do you think war for the cause of national security is necessarily evil?
No I did not say that at all. I was simply saying a good movies and television can be good without modern special effects. The proof of that is good stuff existed in the past. I am not against progress, and I really enjoy some modern effects in movies.
I responding to the idea the someone how the art would die if the economics of the film industry shift to a model which will not support it. If the market won't support the production of multi-hundred million dollar movies because people are unwilling to pay $12 to see them screened or $25 to buy a copy then Hollywood should stop making them and instead produce something they can sell profitably at a price the market will bear.
Its lies and hyperbole from the industry when they say they can't; the truth is they simply won't.
Really to me it seems exactly the sort of thing I'd want to buy on line you know the measurements your home will take, that measurements of the unit would be published and it's pretty easy to know what you are getting from a photo. Oh and you almost certainly are going to have it delivered anyway. Seems perfect for buying online
management too concerned with store sales instead of margins and blatant disregard for quality customer service."
every time I see one of these stories about a business that might be struggling someone writes something similar to the above. Margin and same store sales are pretty important to retail. If management just ignored what has worked for decades because some guy on the web thinks they ougt to, do really think they'd be more successful? I don't what the secret to retailing in the new econiony is but ignoring margin is not it, remember the .comedy? They ignored margin, how did that work out?
Harry potter would be a simple movie to do. There is nothing in that could not be done with some plastic models, and a little time painting negatives. Would it look like it does today, nope, but it would perfectly clear to the audience what is happening and they would have no trouble understanding what stuff was "supposed to be".
Look at classic Star Trek, you don't need CGI to tell the story of man battles alien lizard man, a guy in a rubber suit works fine. You don't need CGI to have space ships firing energy weapons at each other, a little paint on the negatives works fine.
Yep that ship has sailed. The industry reps are the ones who started down the path of loaded and inflammatory until the publicly apologize to everyone they have called a "their", or "pirate" when they meant to say "intellectual property rights infringer" I don't think they can even begin to claim it the least bit unfair when the other side uses their language they want use.
What is reasonable? I not say its entirely right from an ethical or moral stand point but look at from Corporate Securities point of view.
You have broken into their system. Its possible you were just having a look around at what you could connect to on the Internets for the luz and its possible you are nice guy trying to be helpful and tell us about a problem they might want to address. It just as possible you have made off with their entire customer database, with the intent to sell it to the highest bidder you can locate, and now afraid they might catch you, and are contacting them in hopes of throwing them off your trail.
The only really safe thing they can do is try and put you away for a long time so whatever leaked can't harm them. It might be a disproportionate and totally unnecessary response but they have NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in what may or may not be good for you only for them.
You can hope but never really expect others who don't know you and don't have interest in you to respond with anything other than hostility when you do something they may perceive as threatening.
Its like you covering yourself in a white sheet and walking into a bar in the blackest neighborhood you can locate. While you may be perfectly innocent, its likely the other patrons won't see it that way. They might ignore you if you really lucky, demand you explain yourself possibly, but most likely just beat you senseless; which you would entirely have coming to you.
Outside consults have their place even if you have a strong in house security team. One of the problems IT security has is they are not as big as operations. Its really pretty hard for your security analysts to stay on every system component operations installs, and you really can't properly audit that which you do not understand. See the financial sector for proof of that.
So what most in house teams do is focus on the highest value, highest risk, and most frequently changed systems and processes. So they can keep with auditing and authoring policy for operations.
Technical means are not the only component to security posture. IT security should be engaged in Security awareness training and all employees who access information systems should get some amount of said training related to the value of the information they can access.
Yes people like to pretend otherwise for some reason but yes; and its the correct attitude. I am not saying its justifiable to actually pursue nonmilitary targets in most cases but as collateral damage goes absolutely better them than us. Its sorta the whole point of a war. If you sacrifice your military assets to protect enemy civilians than you risk compromising your war effort.
In extreme conflicts like WWII there is the concept of "total war" again you don't go and bomb a bedroom community but you sure as hell target factories full of civilians which might be producing goods used to combat you and you certainly go after farm production feeding the enemy troops, and civilians alike.
I am sorry once you are in a state of war you need to be in it win it. Otherwise lots of lives are just being wasted. You minimize casualties and loss of assets military and civilian on your side, maximize loss of assets on their side, reducing enemy civilian casualties is a secondary concern, and minimizing enemy combatant casualties should be a tertiary concern.
If its not worth that, you don't go war in the first place!