How can it happen that a bloody intern can leave the house with sensitive data?
Maybe it was his job to take the backups to off site storage. Thats what I spent a lot of my time doing early in my career. You wouldn't want to waste a skilled worker on that type of job but you really would want to be sure that steps were in place to ensure security of the data, and that the intern was properly supervised.
Why not take a weeks vacation from the guy who is responsible for the procedures?
They took the vacation time from the team leader of the person who lost the data. He may well be the person who writes the procedures. I know that I do in my team, and I have a mix of interns and experienced staff. Jobs with a heavy security implication I will give to the more experienced workers.
I had similar issues with the asteroid mission which is still running. Their press releases can be a bit hard to understand, but it is pretty clear that the Japanese have a lot of engineers working on these programs who really know their stuff.
But they do it all in Japanese, the way Australians like me do everything in English.
giving your employees with access to high-security areas a way to disable their keycards 24 hours a day by phone
At my workplace the security people combined the ID card with the RFID access card so now if you lose the RFID card the person who finds it can go directly to our site and walk in.
When the hell is someone going to sue the idiots with the car stereos I can hear a mile away?!!!
I wear industrial strength ear muffs in my van because the white noise in there kills my hearing and one day I stopped at a red light behind a car like that and the noise was uncomfortable even from where I was.
But I couldn't really understand it, so I suppose I am not liable.
Back when I worked for the state government road authority we ran a small call centre for breakdowns, etc. The audio switcher had an input for an on hold message and for a long time we fed in a signal from a commercial radio station.
The theory is that they are broadcasting N copies of their signal anyway, and a few extra listeners are also going to be hearing the advertisements which pay for the broadcast. It scales, so what is the problem?
More to the point, if I listen alone in my car and an advert comes on then I will change to a different station. If I am listening to somebody else's radio then I have to listen to the advert, so by that argument they should be encouraging people to share radios.
A port block on http would work just as well but serving only https would defeat all variants on this attack, assuming that the certificate is set up correctly.
The CISRT should know better than to use http without SSL.
Well its about twice as cold as the coldest place on Earth. But thats better as being twice as hot. Cold is much easier to engineer around.
With all that Methane in the atmosphere I wonder if you could get a modern vehicle using an internal combustion engine to work on the surface of Titan. Just put liquid oxygen in the fuel tank and feed it in through the fuel injection system.
Yes, every place I have worked this has been standard operating procedure. People like Coppola should be getting advice on that from the people who do their IT. I suspect those IT people spend most of their time advising on what virus scanner to use and how to cut down on spam.
I make a backup to take to work from my home system once a month. My wife doesn't like it. She is afraid of people accessing her stuff, and less worried about the house burning down or the server being stolen. Encyryption doesn't impress her and she is probably right. Its just DRM: the key is stored with the cyphertext or close enough, anyway.
To me, it sounds like either an equipment malfunction or something much more mundane
TFA:
The signal was spread out, with higher frequencies arriving at the telescope before the lower frequencies. This effect, called dispersion, is caused by the signal passing through ionized gas in interstellar and intergalactic space. The amount of this dispersion, the astronomers said, indicates that the signal likely originated about three billion light-years from Earth.
So its not just a burst of noise. It has characteristics which say something about where it came from.
Imagine how wonderful it would be to have such a system between, say, JFK airport and Grand Central Station
The one time I was in NYC I thought the train to JFK was pretty good by world standards. The real problem is the JFK can't cope with the current traffic load. A train which competes with air traffic from JFK would make more sense.
How about a fast train to Washington? If not a maglev then perhaps something like a TGV?
It won't be long until we know if Larry Niven was right about brain stimulation. If the current makes you feel better, will you be less likely to switch it off?
But only because the stupid Motie kept annoying the Masters by trying to stop the Cycles, when everyone knows that's impossible.
And by the end of the second book the Moties had expanded beyond their home system so the cycles were finished (or at least delayed) so the Crazy Eddie probe (which initiated contact with humans) was the right thing to do after all.
Not the people I normally associate with this type of application. Makes me wonder if they will deliver a flight control system adapted to work as a criminal justice information service.
But then, perhaps they are more diverse than I thought.
Maybe. There is an old meme over here about clever research work which only gets commercialised when it leaves the country. The classic example is the black box flight recorder which was invented in Australia, but never earned much money for this country.
Because we are a small country we do tend to hold on to assets like this a little bit tighter. Or try to, anyway.
As far as living here goes, I know a few people from the USA who have migrated to Australia. They seem happy with the environment, but they lose a lot in the transition. It can be hard to buy a good house in Australia now if you sell up in the US and bring your money with you.
It is hard for me to give a better comparison than that, because I have only ever lived in one country.
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I can't help thinking that one person who's ...image... is well known to the slashdot community could help in that regard. Now where's that link...
Maybe it was his job to take the backups to off site storage. Thats what I spent a lot of my time doing early in my career. You wouldn't want to waste a skilled worker on that type of job but you really would want to be sure that steps were in place to ensure security of the data, and that the intern was properly supervised.
They took the vacation time from the team leader of the person who lost the data. He may well be the person who writes the procedures. I know that I do in my team, and I have a mix of interns and experienced staff. Jobs with a heavy security implication I will give to the more experienced workers.
Its so stupid because its a one line fix.
Time to read the book again. It was the magnetic field which made it stand out, possibly maintained by current in a loop of superconductor.
There is a pretty good chance we would have found it by now.
I had similar issues with the asteroid mission which is still running. Their press releases can be a bit hard to understand, but it is pretty clear that the Japanese have a lot of engineers working on these programs who really know their stuff.
But they do it all in Japanese, the way Australians like me do everything in English.
At my workplace the security people combined the ID card with the RFID access card so now if you lose the RFID card the person who finds it can go directly to our site and walk in.
If we send Cassini down to investigate I doubt it will have the intelligence to blurt out that final message.
I wear industrial strength ear muffs in my van because the white noise in there kills my hearing and one day I stopped at a red light behind a car like that and the noise was uncomfortable even from where I was.
But I couldn't really understand it, so I suppose I am not liable.
So jam it. A nice, dirty, square wave oscillator should do the trick.
Back when I worked for the state government road authority we ran a small call centre for breakdowns, etc. The audio switcher had an input for an on hold message and for a long time we fed in a signal from a commercial radio station.
The theory is that they are broadcasting N copies of their signal anyway, and a few extra listeners are also going to be hearing the advertisements which pay for the broadcast. It scales, so what is the problem?
More to the point, if I listen alone in my car and an advert comes on then I will change to a different station. If I am listening to somebody else's radio then I have to listen to the advert, so by that argument they should be encouraging people to share radios.
Being in the movie business you should rescue the rights and try to get it made. The part of Louis Wu is yours!
A port block on http would work just as well but serving only https would defeat all variants on this attack, assuming that the certificate is set up correctly.
The CISRT should know better than to use http without SSL.
Well its about twice as cold as the coldest place on Earth. But thats better as being twice as hot. Cold is much easier to engineer around.
With all that Methane in the atmosphere I wonder if you could get a modern vehicle using an internal combustion engine to work on the surface of Titan. Just put liquid oxygen in the fuel tank and feed it in through the fuel injection system.
Yes, every place I have worked this has been standard operating procedure. People like Coppola should be getting advice on that from the people who do their IT. I suspect those IT people spend most of their time advising on what virus scanner to use and how to cut down on spam.
I make a backup to take to work from my home system once a month. My wife doesn't like it. She is afraid of people accessing her stuff, and less worried about the house burning down or the server being stolen. Encyryption doesn't impress her and she is probably right. Its just DRM: the key is stored with the cyphertext or close enough, anyway.
TFA:
The signal was spread out, with higher frequencies arriving at the telescope before the lower frequencies. This effect, called dispersion, is caused by the signal passing through ionized gas in interstellar and intergalactic space. The amount of this dispersion, the astronomers said, indicates that the signal likely originated about three billion light-years from Earth.So its not just a burst of noise. It has characteristics which say something about where it came from.
The one time I was in NYC I thought the train to JFK was pretty good by world standards. The real problem is the JFK can't cope with the current traffic load. A train which competes with air traffic from JFK would make more sense.
How about a fast train to Washington? If not a maglev then perhaps something like a TGV?
Actually I was thinking about the story where the Ramans do everything in threes.
Isn't that the same?
It won't be long until we know if Larry Niven was right about brain stimulation. If the current makes you feel better, will you be less likely to switch it off?
And by the end of the second book the Moties had expanded beyond their home system so the cycles were finished (or at least delayed) so the Crazy Eddie probe (which initiated contact with humans) was the right thing to do after all.
Clearly you don't rent DVD's from the same video library as me.
Not the people I normally associate with this type of application. Makes me wonder if they will deliver a flight control system adapted to work as a criminal justice information service.
But then, perhaps they are more diverse than I thought.
Maybe. There is an old meme over here about clever research work which only gets commercialised when it leaves the country. The classic example is the black box flight recorder which was invented in Australia, but never earned much money for this country.
Because we are a small country we do tend to hold on to assets like this a little bit tighter. Or try to, anyway.
As far as living here goes, I know a few people from the USA who have migrated to Australia. They seem happy with the environment, but they lose a lot in the transition. It can be hard to buy a good house in Australia now if you sell up in the US and bring your money with you.
It is hard for me to give a better comparison than that, because I have only ever lived in one country.
As far as the CSIRO is concerned it has never been any different under Labour.