The cited incident wasn't theft of "mildly radioactive material". It involved a Cobalt-60 shielded radiation source used for cancer therapy. Exposure to the unshielded source for hours or a few days could result in radiation sickness and death.
I don't know what you mean by 'too late'. Time-wise, yes. PG&E might have been able to do something about communications redundancy. And its possible (but very expensive) to screen substations to keep people from aiming at critical hardware.
As far as cutting a hole in the fence and walking in: If you can do that to access an insecure serial line, you can manually open a valve or damage something. If that serial line runs outside of the facility, damage can be done without trespassing. So running such an insecure protocol beyond a physical security perimeter is like cutting a hole in your own fence.
Once the attacker can get at your serial lines, they are pretty much inside your plant.
So you treat serial lines from outside as untrusted and don't use the same line for stuff inside a secure perimeter. An outside switch status could be read over an unsecure line if that line only has the authority to report that one parameter. More sensitive stuff inside the plant can't be reached from that line.
So if an external device incorrectly reports its status and its effect is determined (by an FMEA) to have a low criticality level, then who cares?
The only solution is physical security. Or someone sneaks in and slaps a hunk of C4 on your transformers.
Where serial lines come into a master station,
You don't run serial lines outside of your physical security perimeter. Period. Only over some secure protocol. And where that protocol must be unpacked to talk to legacy serial equipment, the cabinet containing that short link must have physical security like locks and intrusion alarms.
But the corporate buyer is never going to be a strong point for Apple.
Really? Back in the 'old days', Boeing selected the Mac SE as the standard desktop for office employees. Networkable, with an easy to use GUI, it was a good enough for people whose jobs didn't involve a full blown workstation. These were Apollo, IBM, and Sun machines.
But then someone got the Microsoft bug and we were told to switch. Trouble was, the cost estimate justifying the switch priced a Mac complete with a full suite of software against a PC with a DOS prompt. So when the IT people delivered the PCs to our desks..... nothing. No budget for applications or utilities. And it stayed that way for about 6 months. PCs collecting dust until someone played the 'sunk cost' game and sprang for more budget. That ended up pushing the PC cost well above that of the Mac.
Meanwhile, I had this useless PC sitting on my desk which (for some strange reason) had been equipped with a second hard drive. I got permission from management to try out this new OS called Linux. Which was free, so no budget authorization required. And I never looked back. For the rest of my career there, I never ran Windows natively on my desktop (I could run a session on an NT server via an X11 display protocol).
Back to the Mac: When we were running Macs, we had a couple of guys with pagers that covered all support calls between Seattle and Renton engineering facilities. Once we had switched engineering to PCs with Windows, about 10% of the IT staff in our building was dedicated to keeping the PCs of the other 90% running. I suppose I could do the support cost math......
I suspect that whoever pushed the original switch to Wintel probably retired on his MS stock options.
Possibly because the 'heat bath' description is somewhat simplistic. The earth has environments where organisms, or more simply clumps of molecules can lose energy locally. You have a dark surface that absorbs sunlight more effectively than the puddle of water you reside in and you lose energy to that puddle.
The environments of Mercury and Venus lack temperature differentials that would drive such a process.
TFA says the open office concept originated in Germany in the 1950's. Take a look at the interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building (1906). But in those days, office work was a lot like assembly line work. Not very creative.
Cool. But that 'artsy' feeling wears off after a while. There's only so many times I can look at the decor (even the Mona Lisa) before it starts to get old. Put people in the Cistene Chapel and they'll be trying to stick pencils in the ceiling inside of a couple of months.
The best office art I've ever seen is the kind that changes frequently. Let people bring in their own pictures or knick knacks. I'll bet that management would have a fit if employees started messing around with the expensive, professionally designed interiors.
OTOH, that 'wall of books' look in the photos. I've had cubicles that looked like that. But it was our project documentation.
... individual offices with glass wall, a door (sliding glass would be nice) and blinds. Each worker can open close door and/or blinds to suit their current working requirements.
I've also found in my travels between individual offices and open bays of a few acres in size: The people that seem to love to continuous shoulder to shoulder contact with fellow workers are social creatures. They tend to come to work to make friends (no social life outside) rather than be productive. And they get upset if some people don't participate in their sports pools or go out drinking with them at lunch time. Closed offices drive them nuts. They either quit or start bothering people with closed doors and get canned. Either way, good for the company.
... but I've told the interviewer that I didn't think I'd be a good fit for a job due to their misperception of the problem that needed solving.
A local electric utility wanted me to put an engineering document configuration control system in place. They thought too many engineers were circumventing their manual processes out of laziness/obstinacy. It turns out that their construction crews hated management and engineering with a vengeance and would just build stuff the way they wanted. Engineering was struggling to produce as-built drawings of the work, which barely resembled the design documentation.
I told them that what they had was a culture problem within the organization that needed to be fixed first. And unless they were planning on offering me the utility superintendent's position, there wasn't much I could really do. Not 'blown off'. I told them what I thought they needed to do.
One of the staff I spoke to during the process filled me in on the organizational problems. He told me that all of the utilities problems could be fixed with one clip in a.45. I decided not to repeat that little nugget of wisdom to the hiring committee.
you put the merchandise on the trucks, but do not actually deliver it that day unless you get the order before drop off.
Seems to me, I've seen this marketing strategy somewhere already. Guy pulls up in parking lot with a van. "We have these speakers we couldn't deliver. Want a good deal?"
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Perhaps because members of the Russian Air Force don't like working in labor camps in Siberia.
So the Russians are learning lessons well from the decadent western capitalists.
Lets see you do this in a Prius.
Back when we used to be able to make a call even miles from a tower.
According to this, they were arrested and taken to a hospital with one individual showing signs of possible rad. poisoning.
The cited incident wasn't theft of "mildly radioactive material". It involved a Cobalt-60 shielded radiation source used for cancer therapy. Exposure to the unshielded source for hours or a few days could result in radiation sickness and death.
I don't know what you mean by 'too late'. Time-wise, yes. PG&E might have been able to do something about communications redundancy. And its possible (but very expensive) to screen substations to keep people from aiming at critical hardware.
As far as cutting a hole in the fence and walking in: If you can do that to access an insecure serial line, you can manually open a valve or damage something. If that serial line runs outside of the facility, damage can be done without trespassing. So running such an insecure protocol beyond a physical security perimeter is like cutting a hole in your own fence.
Once the attacker can get at your serial lines, they are pretty much inside your plant.
So you treat serial lines from outside as untrusted and don't use the same line for stuff inside a secure perimeter. An outside switch status could be read over an unsecure line if that line only has the authority to report that one parameter. More sensitive stuff inside the plant can't be reached from that line.
So if an external device incorrectly reports its status and its effect is determined (by an FMEA) to have a low criticality level, then who cares?
The only solution is physical security. Or someone sneaks in and slaps a hunk of C4 on your transformers.
Where serial lines come into a master station,
You don't run serial lines outside of your physical security perimeter. Period. Only over some secure protocol. And where that protocol must be unpacked to talk to legacy serial equipment, the cabinet containing that short link must have physical security like locks and intrusion alarms.
Talk to some older Boeing managers and they are still laughing over someone actually buying that Bomarc turkey.
But the corporate buyer is never going to be a strong point for Apple.
Really? Back in the 'old days', Boeing selected the Mac SE as the standard desktop for office employees. Networkable, with an easy to use GUI, it was a good enough for people whose jobs didn't involve a full blown workstation. These were Apollo, IBM, and Sun machines.
But then someone got the Microsoft bug and we were told to switch. Trouble was, the cost estimate justifying the switch priced a Mac complete with a full suite of software against a PC with a DOS prompt. So when the IT people delivered the PCs to our desks ..... nothing. No budget for applications or utilities. And it stayed that way for about 6 months. PCs collecting dust until someone played the 'sunk cost' game and sprang for more budget. That ended up pushing the PC cost well above that of the Mac.
Meanwhile, I had this useless PC sitting on my desk which (for some strange reason) had been equipped with a second hard drive. I got permission from management to try out this new OS called Linux. Which was free, so no budget authorization required. And I never looked back. For the rest of my career there, I never ran Windows natively on my desktop (I could run a session on an NT server via an X11 display protocol).
Back to the Mac: When we were running Macs, we had a couple of guys with pagers that covered all support calls between Seattle and Renton engineering facilities. Once we had switched engineering to PCs with Windows, about 10% of the IT staff in our building was dedicated to keeping the PCs of the other 90% running. I suppose I could do the support cost math ......
I suspect that whoever pushed the original switch to Wintel probably retired on his MS stock options.
long enough
Six days, according to scripture. So this should be a simple experiment to replicate. No successful results yet? So much for that theory.
Possibly because the 'heat bath' description is somewhat simplistic. The earth has environments where organisms, or more simply clumps of molecules can lose energy locally. You have a dark surface that absorbs sunlight more effectively than the puddle of water you reside in and you lose energy to that puddle.
The environments of Mercury and Venus lack temperature differentials that would drive such a process.
Now I can't get http://www.peopleofwalmart.com... out of my brain.
TFA says the open office concept originated in Germany in the 1950's. Take a look at the interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building (1906). But in those days, office work was a lot like assembly line work. Not very creative.
Cool. But that 'artsy' feeling wears off after a while. There's only so many times I can look at the decor (even the Mona Lisa) before it starts to get old. Put people in the Cistene Chapel and they'll be trying to stick pencils in the ceiling inside of a couple of months.
The best office art I've ever seen is the kind that changes frequently. Let people bring in their own pictures or knick knacks. I'll bet that management would have a fit if employees started messing around with the expensive, professionally designed interiors.
OTOH, that 'wall of books' look in the photos. I've had cubicles that looked like that. But it was our project documentation.
I've also found in my travels between individual offices and open bays of a few acres in size: The people that seem to love to continuous shoulder to shoulder contact with fellow workers are social creatures. They tend to come to work to make friends (no social life outside) rather than be productive. And they get upset if some people don't participate in their sports pools or go out drinking with them at lunch time. Closed offices drive them nuts. They either quit or start bothering people with closed doors and get canned. Either way, good for the company.
in the US where he currently resides
Not for long if he's found guilty of felony vandalism.
They cracked my password. Now I'll have to change my dog's name again.
The people that keep voting her into office are nuts. Give California back to Mexico.
A local electric utility wanted me to put an engineering document configuration control system in place. They thought too many engineers were circumventing their manual processes out of laziness/obstinacy. It turns out that their construction crews hated management and engineering with a vengeance and would just build stuff the way they wanted. Engineering was struggling to produce as-built drawings of the work, which barely resembled the design documentation.
I told them that what they had was a culture problem within the organization that needed to be fixed first. And unless they were planning on offering me the utility superintendent's position, there wasn't much I could really do. Not 'blown off'. I told them what I thought they needed to do.
One of the staff I spoke to during the process filled me in on the organizational problems. He told me that all of the utilities problems could be fixed with one clip in a .45. I decided not to repeat that little nugget of wisdom to the hiring committee.
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Don't you mean "on" instead of "or"?
you put the merchandise on the trucks, but do not actually deliver it that day unless you get the order before drop off.
Seems to me, I've seen this marketing strategy somewhere already. Guy pulls up in parking lot with a van. "We have these speakers we couldn't deliver. Want a good deal?"