Re: "ability to play a harpsichord, not punch through it with their fists"
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." Who was this, Maslow? Anyway...
Clarkson: "every tool is a hammer."
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My advice is: don't share sensitive information via cloudy stuff.
It's difficult though to put blame on the users (I don't know docs.com). They will use whatever comes handy*. Not to say they are not responsible but systems targeted at world and dog should be engineered to a certain foolproof level**.
* ...Or rather is available for, e.g. Office 365 handy it certainly isn't.
** If you make it foolproof they'll invent a better fool. But at least make it safer for the common fool.
I wonder just how likely and how very significant those penalties are, when data breaches are committed persistently. Did some officer just get another very significant slap on the wrist?
I used to work for a company that monitored access to customer data records. If someone accessed data they were not supposed to query, an investigation was launched. If the access could be reasonably explained e.g. by typo, it was a slap on the wrist. If there wasn't such explanation it resulted in a written warning ("two warnings and you're out") or outright dismissal without notice - depending on the severity of the data breach. That is what I call significant penalties. But with such procedures there probably wouldn't be many police left...
Yes, but even more importantly: It should have had a written procedure in place which made it clear that any storage items removed from the office which may have contained personnel were thoroughly checked before disposal.
Unimaginable had someone been fallen asleep in there...
Jedit, the number of incidents that occurred out of hours dropped.
It was neither that they slacked off nor about actively faking incidents. What happened was, that they maintained the system at a certain level of instability where at one point an incident would occur, such as a predictable batch job abort (there was no proof of actively causing incidents though). After the incentives changed, they built more robust procedures and programs and also improved their monitoring system to get early warnings for predictable incidents.
Must have been a fun time though before. They got the huge extra pay and the praise ("the IT wizards saved the Bank. Again!")
It's not unheard of. In one of my former lives, at a large bank, the on-call personnel used to be paid extra per time for each incident during nights and weekends. Some of them got sports cars, extended their house, built swimming pools... Until the on-call compensation scheme was changed.
From the moment those guys got paid extra just for being on-call but didn't get any additional compensation for solving problems, the number of incidents dropped dramatically.
when was the last time you believed a fuel economy figure, top speed or acceleration number from any manufacturer?
The manufacturer states 16 mpg while in reality I do up to 26. It's a rare misstatement. Even more so from a Germanic manufacturer (an old G Wagon). So to answer your question: about 20 years ago.
Exactly what I thought. Then again, I probably don't fully understand the physics and chemistry involved in those battery fires. Isn't the fire just a result from the heat which will build rather independently of the environment? What's going to happen to the device when placed in a inert atmosphere? Will the heat help releasing some other stuff which can result in an exothermic reaction nevertheless? In such a case, the case may buy just enough time to fling the whole thing out of the window ;-)
I'm all for enthusiasm. But fully expected some tongue-in-cheek Reg stuff when starting to read the following sentence:
"Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration"
Yes. Yes! Yes!!! And then:
said SpaceX.
The anticlimax. Or rather the contrary, SpaceX being utterly ironic? Or just pathetic me being an old bag of cynicism. That's probably why I'll never circle the moon and have to settle for circling the sun. Lifelong.
"Mr President, you wanna go big, don't you? I mean very, very big. Tremendously big! Bigger than ever. We - you and I and all the people who love you, so in short: all the people - we are going to build the greatest building, we are going to build bigly. We are going to build YOUR 500km high tower! And you, only you, will lay its foundation stone right at the top of what will be the top of your building. Now grab this brick with your tiny hands, climb into this box lift elevator and wait for it to arrive at the top."
Well done, Jared! On a larger scale, in bigger companies, often organisations don't learn as quickly as your wife did. Then you end up talking to helldesk, half way across the world (in this case somewhere in Costa Rica) and watching a drone remote-controlling your mouse and keyboard for a full day of eight fucking hours. Without solving the issue. But at least resetting all my preferences in mail and office suite - of course, for a problem which had nothing to do with either of those programmes.
Anyway, some housewives might also want to apply your tactic. Rightly so.
"...if the blazes could be linked to “advanced civilizations” living far away in the cosmos."
I bet they can. It's those kind of advanced civilisation that wipe out other civilisations with high-energy radiation. What we detect here is probably the ricochet equivalent of electromagnetic radiation.
In my mind, if I do not get confirmation of something from a known authority, you can leave and come do your audit at a later date when I have been notified.
You're my hero! Seriously though, this is a rather rare beast in reality. Even though quite a few people would say exactly like you did, what they actually do is totally different.
Usually I don't conduct surprise audits and my 'victims' are mostly informed. It still happens regularly that they didn't know of forgot about the audit. But so far only once, about three weeks ago, a guy insisted to check with this boss and I had to return the next day.