Maybe it's different where you work, but where I am it's very very difficult to fire someone. You typically have to give them a formal warning - and keep employing them.
But anyway, any breakdown in employer/employee relations may cause a risk. For example, you wouldn't sack someone that asked for four months paternity leave - but you might upset them by saying 'no'.
How does your approach protect you against people joining with the intention of stealing your data?
How does your approach protect you against employees that you find yourself having to take action against over other (unrelated) issues (e.g. absenteeism, bullying, laziness, incompetence..)?
Person A implements control X. Person B independently reviews it, checks for backdoors, etc. Person C builds the software on machine Y. Person D deploys the software in production. Person E generates the necessary keys and puts them on machine Z and in the safe (to avoid inadvertent data loss).
Without the keys, nobody can get at the data. The only person with the keys is person E, but they don't have access to the code, and can't deploy code onto the production machine.
As an IT person I _want_ controls like these in place. I want to have to think very very hard about how I'd compromise my own systems, and then I want to put in place measures to prevent that.
Obviously the extent and cost of such measures is directly related to the value of the data in question.
Rubbish. You can not and should not trust your IT people, especially if you work for (e.g.) a large financial organisation.
Internal fraud is a significant percentage of the criminal losses suffered by such institutions. When you employ several thousand people, including several hundred in IT, you can't be certain your background checks have covered everybody, that you aren't upsetting someone, that a rival hasn't explicitly tried to plant someone on you, etc.
Good information security is not easy, and that's why it's my recommendation for anybody wanting a career in IT - it's interesting, it's a big big field, and there's ever increasing demand for people with those skills.
Shame the author of the article came across as such an amateur at it..
I'm sorry, why would getting into Orbit around Mars (which requires accuracy of direction and speed) be easier than landing in the sun (which requires less accuracy and has minimal speed restrictions).
We can send probes to the edge of the solar system, we can put satellites around major planets, we can crash (erm, land) probes on planets, moons, comets.. hitting the sun is relatively pretty easy.
I want that, but I also don't want to carry a separate computing device and mobile phone.
So I bought a Nokia E70. I need to upgrade the mini-SD card to a decent capacity, and I need to find/write a decent shell for it, but I can already use Putty over wifi and it's quite fantastic.
The keyboard isn't touch-type, but it is two-finger-touch-type, which is adequate, and I don't even notice the device in my pocket.
Anything larger would need specifically carrying - I'd need a bag or a coat (with large pocket) or spare hand. This doesn't.
The evidence of the election is that two-thirds of the voting public do not want Labour running this country.
So 1 million people march - that's well over 1% of the population, if you don't think that's significant then you've never tried mobilising a public campaign - and two thirds of the voting public vote Blair out of power. And yet he's still there, and the Government is still trying to increase police powers, reduce civil liberties and swing the balance of power between the state and the populace.
Just what would you have us all do? Lie down and take it?
Can you trust that the version of "battlefield map - american edition" was built using the source code the vendor showed to you?
Can you also trust that the signals you send to that device - which contain precise locations of all your soldiers/units - will only be displayed on that device, and not transmitted/relayed to a (potentially insecure) alternate system?
I'll be honest, I don't know whether TPM will necessarily assist in such matters. I would certainly expect it to..
I got the impression from the article that their current wiki offering is a Wikimedia mod, but that Deki is a new bespoke development based around their Dream development environment.
Which would make Deki something new and possibly different and definitely of interest.
I have mod points, but unfortunately there isn't a mod option for "trotting out the same old Ayn Rand quote whether it's applicable or not"
These people aren't being turned into criminals. They aren't breaking laws.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support what's going on. Hopefully it's another step towards the populace finally taking a stand against overly authoritarian government and saying 'no more'.
Most experienced online PVP gamers I know hate WoW PVP and battlegrounds in particular. They're just horribly (un)balanced.
Where's the fun in having spend a few months gathering equipment to avoid dying in 2 hits to someone that you need 10 hits to kill, purely because they have better equipment? Unfortunately that's all too common in WoW.
How does a casual player do PVP against an organised clan? In most online games, you join a public server and find a mix of skillsets. On WoW you join the BG queue and find yourself against a pre-set team (using the top-end equipment) with no hope of competing effectively.
The FPS market has little to fear from WoW, apart from (as mentioned by Brian Sullivan) people playing WoW have less time to spend playing other games.
Personally I'd say the legislation being proposed and passed by this government is making the UK look like a police state.
I grew up believing in the doctrine of "innocent until proven guilty". I still believe in it. The law as it stands does not, and is rapidly moving further away from that.
The police can already arrest you without cause "disturbing the peace", move you on without cause, prevent peaceful demonstrations, shoot you seven times in the head..
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Maybe it's different where you work, but where I am it's very very difficult to fire someone. You typically have to give them a formal warning - and keep employing them.
But anyway, any breakdown in employer/employee relations may cause a risk. For example, you wouldn't sack someone that asked for four months paternity leave - but you might upset them by saying 'no'.
How does your approach protect you against people joining with the intention of stealing your data?
How does your approach protect you against employees that you find yourself having to take action against over other (unrelated) issues (e.g. absenteeism, bullying, laziness, incompetence..)?
Fin? Nope, you've barely started.
Person A implements control X.
Person B independently reviews it, checks for backdoors, etc.
Person C builds the software on machine Y.
Person D deploys the software in production.
Person E generates the necessary keys and puts them on machine Z and in the safe (to avoid inadvertent data loss).
Without the keys, nobody can get at the data. The only person with the keys is person E, but they don't have access to the code, and can't deploy code onto the production machine.
As an IT person I _want_ controls like these in place. I want to have to think very very hard about how I'd compromise my own systems, and then I want to put in place measures to prevent that.
Obviously the extent and cost of such measures is directly related to the value of the data in question.
I certainly don't trust my IT staff.
Rubbish. You can not and should not trust your IT people, especially if you work for (e.g.) a large financial organisation.
Internal fraud is a significant percentage of the criminal losses suffered by such institutions. When you employ several thousand people, including several hundred in IT, you can't be certain your background checks have covered everybody, that you aren't upsetting someone, that a rival hasn't explicitly tried to plant someone on you, etc.
Good information security is not easy, and that's why it's my recommendation for anybody wanting a career in IT - it's interesting, it's a big big field, and there's ever increasing demand for people with those skills.
Shame the author of the article came across as such an amateur at it..
That sounds extremely unlikely. References? (or wind-up?)
You could for a while buy t-shirts in london that stated "Don't shoot! I'm not Brazilian!"
The good news is that killig armed police is now legitimate self defense..
I'm sorry, why would getting into Orbit around Mars (which requires accuracy of direction and speed) be easier than landing in the sun (which requires less accuracy and has minimal speed restrictions).
We can send probes to the edge of the solar system, we can put satellites around major planets, we can crash (erm, land) probes on planets, moons, comets.. hitting the sun is relatively pretty easy.
I learned to type by mudding and playing Angband.
Instant messaging hasn't hurt my spelling or grammar - I now type fast enough to use normal English when messaging.
Bah. That's not as much fun
I want that, but I also don't want to carry a separate computing device and mobile phone.
So I bought a Nokia E70. I need to upgrade the mini-SD card to a decent capacity, and I need to find/write a decent shell for it, but I can already use Putty over wifi and it's quite fantastic.
The keyboard isn't touch-type, but it is two-finger-touch-type, which is adequate, and I don't even notice the device in my pocket.
Anything larger would need specifically carrying - I'd need a bag or a coat (with large pocket) or spare hand. This doesn't.
>>That is as much insight as I can probably provide. My expertise these days is on the high temperature oxidation of Ni-based superalloys.
You're designing bomb casings?
I suspect data storage is one of the easier problems to solve when approaching teleportation - especially things as complicated as mammals.
>> ignore the evidence of the election
The evidence of the election is that two-thirds of the voting public do not want Labour running this country.
So 1 million people march - that's well over 1% of the population, if you don't think that's significant then you've never tried mobilising a public campaign - and two thirds of the voting public vote Blair out of power. And yet he's still there, and the Government is still trying to increase police powers, reduce civil liberties and swing the balance of power between the state and the populace.
Just what would you have us all do? Lie down and take it?
NO.
I'm not sure how many satellites are up so far - certainly 'not enough'.
It should hopefully help reduce that particular dependency though, yes.
You seem to be placing a lot of trust in the individual(s) using the device in question.
I'm sorry, I respect people that act on principle.
Leaving something he clearly has had strong ties to as a point of principle is not a small matter.
I wouldn't ask someone to act against their conscience just to boost an open source project.
>> I am, after all, a computer wizz kid..
I think even the youngest people with a slashdot user ID that low no longer qualify as 'kid'.
A significant number of NATO (and other) countries rely to a lesser or greater degree on GPS for their general operations.
That's something for which the US have an 'off' switch.
There's more to it than that.
Can you trust that the version of "battlefield map - american edition" was built using the source code the vendor showed to you?
Can you also trust that the signals you send to that device - which contain precise locations of all your soldiers/units - will only be displayed on that device, and not transmitted/relayed to a (potentially insecure) alternate system?
I'll be honest, I don't know whether TPM will necessarily assist in such matters. I would certainly expect it to..
I got the impression from the article that their current wiki offering is a Wikimedia mod, but that Deki is a new bespoke development based around their Dream development environment.
Which would make Deki something new and possibly different and definitely of interest.
I have mod points, but unfortunately there isn't a mod option for "trotting out the same old Ayn Rand quote whether it's applicable or not"
These people aren't being turned into criminals. They aren't breaking laws.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support what's going on. Hopefully it's another step towards the populace finally taking a stand against overly authoritarian government and saying 'no more'.
But please, enough of the Ayn Rand already.
Oh please. Muslims torture people too.
Most experienced online PVP gamers I know hate WoW PVP and battlegrounds in particular. They're just horribly (un)balanced.
Where's the fun in having spend a few months gathering equipment to avoid dying in 2 hits to someone that you need 10 hits to kill, purely because they have better equipment? Unfortunately that's all too common in WoW.
How does a casual player do PVP against an organised clan? In most online games, you join a public server and find a mix of skillsets. On WoW you join the BG queue and find yourself against a pre-set team (using the top-end equipment) with no hope of competing effectively.
The FPS market has little to fear from WoW, apart from (as mentioned by Brian Sullivan) people playing WoW have less time to spend playing other games.
You can't survive a 2 hour movie without eating?
Personally I'd say the legislation being proposed and passed by this government is making the UK look like a police state.
I grew up believing in the doctrine of "innocent until proven guilty". I still believe in it. The law as it stands does not, and is rapidly moving further away from that.
The police can already arrest you without cause "disturbing the peace", move you on without cause, prevent peaceful demonstrations, shoot you seven times in the head..