The CIA will reorganize to increase its focus on cybersecurity
The CIA is planning one of the largest reorganizations in the agency’s history, The Washington Post reports. CIA director John Brennan unveiled the plans in a press briefing today, saying the…
I’m sure nothing will go wrong here.
There’s an old engineering rule about fast, cheap, and reliable – choose two. If you’re at NASA and you’re sending something to the moon you need it to be fast and reliable, but you can throw away cheap. Throwaway medical instruments in an operating room need to have a different thing – doesn’t have to work for long, and since you’re going to throw it away it would be nice if it’s cheap, so you make your trade-offs.
That as a rule of thumb is mostly what engineering is about. You can have most things, but not everything. I think security engineering are about tolerable failure modes – are about what the tolerable levels of failure are. Determine what failure modes are tolerable and what are not and I can design around not having the intolerable ones. But the cost of »
I like the fact that there’s no guilt, you can just delete stuff. If something’s not worth the time that it took for everyone to say it, you can just go beep and it’s gone. So I like the plastic nature of how I’m able to work in digital.
…. Also, you have a giant monitor that everybody, from the boom operator to the makeup artist to the actors to the dolly grip – everybody’s looking at the same thing: this is the final, release print, it’s not going to change. And everyone can see, that shit’s out of focus, or her eyelash is coming off in the middle of that take, or she’s got a spot on her teeth.
…. And also, I hate voodoo. I hate the whole thing that you’re going to see seven out of eight takes that »