Or rather your sysadmins are not sysadmins and cannot help you in case of real problems anymore. A sure way to kill yourself economically in the long run and completely stupid. So, no, you cannot do that.
At least that is what I read from the summary. It sounds a bit like if you leave your web-browser open at Facebook, that counts as "time spent with major media". If so, then this figure is basically nonsense.
Great idea! And then do other things to make them entirely unfit for life, like no sex-ed, give some utterly stupid religious beliefs, limit their education in general, etc.
I mean, these people are in the advertising business, it does not get much more exploitative than that. The only surprise (maybe) is that they were stupid enough to get caught.
You cannot secure your operation against your admins. Anybody with any real security knowledge knows that. It is just not possible. Of course, a lot of wannabees think differently, but they are clueless about the actual realities. Often it is management that fantasizes they can buy cheap admins because they do not have to trust them. The actual reality is that a competent admin can do anything. (That there are many incompetent admins is another story...)
A fascinating level of naivety and non-knowledge you have there. Sounds very much to me like you made a really stupid decision and now cannot admit it.
Funny how you use the stupid thing as evidence and completely miss the extremely stupid thing (Trump). But I guess you are just one more example of the effect at work.
For variable values of "secure". In fact you have to be doing pretty dumb things to get any security benefit from "secure" boot and if you are doing these dumb things you will be compromised anyways, just by a different path. There is actually no good reason to turn on "secure" boot.
Since "secure" boot is anything but and basically just DRM on steroids, it does not matter much in real life. The only thing to do about it is to make sure to buy hardware were it can be turned off.
As to "heir of BIOS", well maybe. At this time it is still usually a step back. For example, I have an utterly stupid Acer UEFI implementation that cannot boot from memory stick in either mode. It can boot from USB CDROM (go figure), so for a new installation I have to keep an USB CDROM burner and some rewriteables around. That is not impressive at all. It also keeps its UEFI boot files in a non-standard location, just to make things more interesting.
Oh, I am not dismissing the 50% part. I think that one is pretty much assured and may even go significantly higher. My personal prediction is that at the end of the process, something like 10-15% will still have a job, most of them the independent thinkers whose jobs are not threatened at the moment either. What I dismiss is the 10 year figure which is just insane. Make that 20 years or longer, and it becomes realistic for the 50%. It has already started though and we may seem 20% or so in 10 years.
I think this is a _good_ idea! Since I will never used that Poettering-spawned abomination, I am all for making those that do use it suffer more. Stupidity should always come at a high price, even if many people will be willing to pay that price.
In short, once a group of people have agreed (even very reluctantly) on a course of action and expended resources in pursuit of the goal, nobody wants to openly admit it was a bad idea to begin with, and everyone will fight to defend it.
Sound very much like Trump, the Brexit, etc. The funny thing is that for most people explaining and even demonstrating this effect to them will have absolutely no positive effect.
Having "misgivings" afterwards, while still having reaped all the benefits from participating, is easy. Following order is easy too. An actual moral person will carefully think about decisions before and accept the consequences. But after thy have made one negative decision, they are usually out because there are tons of people willing to go the easy road despite "misgivings".
People are generally stupid. In groups, they become even more stupid, because they do not evaluate the ideas of others on merit, but on what they think the insight-level of the person is. As they screw up that evaluation as well, this whole effect has zero surprise value. Add to that that most people prefer to live in a bubble where they surround themselves with others with the same (usually bad) ideas, and you understand where the utterly moronic decisions some groups have made come from. It also becomes clear how to manipulate these groups and people that have no real skills beyond that manipulation can acquire immense power, which they then are unable to wield competently.
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Or rather your sysadmins are not sysadmins and cannot help you in case of real problems anymore. A sure way to kill yourself economically in the long run and completely stupid. So, no, you cannot do that.
The answer of a truly clueless moron. What are you, 12 years old?
Well, yes, I do agree to that. I do not think it is really doable though.
The trick for lying with statistics is to get people not to read the explanation. You just fell for that.
Here is news for you: In all major enterprises, productivity is very bad already. This will not make any difference.
At least that is what I read from the summary. It sounds a bit like if you leave your web-browser open at Facebook, that counts as "time spent with major media". If so, then this figure is basically nonsense.
Great idea! And then do other things to make them entirely unfit for life, like no sex-ed, give some utterly stupid religious beliefs, limit their education in general, etc.
Because targeting the weak is something only the truly immoral do? That you even have to ask is showing a significant problem on your side.
And what (obviously hypothetical) product could "remove the teens problem"? I think you are either stupid or a paid shill.
I mean, these people are in the advertising business, it does not get much more exploitative than that. The only surprise (maybe) is that they were stupid enough to get caught.
You cannot secure your operation against your admins. Anybody with any real security knowledge knows that. It is just not possible. Of course, a lot of wannabees think differently, but they are clueless about the actual realities. Often it is management that fantasizes they can buy cheap admins because they do not have to trust them. The actual reality is that a competent admin can do anything. (That there are many incompetent admins is another story...)
A fascinating level of naivety and non-knowledge you have there. Sounds very much to me like you made a really stupid decision and now cannot admit it.
As I happen to be an expert, if you want evidence you will have to pay for my time. But go head, be as stupid as you like to be.
Funny how you use the stupid thing as evidence and completely miss the extremely stupid thing (Trump). But I guess you are just one more example of the effect at work.
For variable values of "secure". In fact you have to be doing pretty dumb things to get any security benefit from "secure" boot and if you are doing these dumb things you will be compromised anyways, just by a different path. There is actually no good reason to turn on "secure" boot.
1. It is not "secure" at all
2. It is DRM, i.e. makes it less "your" hardware
Since "secure" boot is anything but and basically just DRM on steroids, it does not matter much in real life. The only thing to do about it is to make sure to buy hardware were it can be turned off.
As to "heir of BIOS", well maybe. At this time it is still usually a step back. For example, I have an utterly stupid Acer UEFI implementation that cannot boot from memory stick in either mode. It can boot from USB CDROM (go figure), so for a new installation I have to keep an USB CDROM burner and some rewriteables around. That is not impressive at all. It also keeps its UEFI boot files in a non-standard location, just to make things more interesting.
Oh, I am not dismissing the 50% part. I think that one is pretty much assured and may even go significantly higher. My personal prediction is that at the end of the process, something like 10-15% will still have a job, most of them the independent thinkers whose jobs are not threatened at the moment either. What I dismiss is the 10 year figure which is just insane. Make that 20 years or longer, and it becomes realistic for the 50%. It has already started though and we may seem 20% or so in 10 years.
And then there are those even _more_ stupid, that confuse a scientifically proven, hard fact with an "idea".
I think this is a _good_ idea! Since I will never used that Poettering-spawned abomination, I am all for making those that do use it suffer more. Stupidity should always come at a high price, even if many people will be willing to pay that price.
In short, once a group of people have agreed (even very reluctantly) on a course of action and expended resources in pursuit of the goal, nobody wants to openly admit it was a bad idea to begin with, and everyone will fight to defend it.
Sound very much like Trump, the Brexit, etc. The funny thing is that for most people explaining and even demonstrating this effect to them will have absolutely no positive effect.
Having "misgivings" afterwards, while still having reaped all the benefits from participating, is easy. Following order is easy too. An actual moral person will carefully think about decisions before and accept the consequences. But after thy have made one negative decision, they are usually out because there are tons of people willing to go the easy road despite "misgivings".
People are generally stupid. In groups, they become even more stupid, because they do not evaluate the ideas of others on merit, but on what they think the insight-level of the person is. As they screw up that evaluation as well, this whole effect has zero surprise value. Add to that that most people prefer to live in a bubble where they surround themselves with others with the same (usually bad) ideas, and you understand where the utterly moronic decisions some groups have made come from. It also becomes clear how to manipulate these groups and people that have no real skills beyond that manipulation can acquire immense power, which they then are unable to wield competently.
Indeed.
Ah, yes, cannot forget about those users that want to f*** themselves with a wire-brush is the slightest thing goes wrong during boot.