On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:34:38PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:50 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:24:59 CDT, "Schmehl, Paul L" said: > > > >>No offense meant to the fine IT people at NASA, but do you seriously > >>believe that the one-percenters are securing the network? As opposed to > >>say, figuring out how to land a rover on Mars, how to keep astronauts > >>alive in space, how to overcome the long-term negative effects of zero > >>gravity, etc., etc.??? > > > >If the IT people are busy figuring out how to land a rover etc, then: > > > >a) What the f--k are the *scientists* doing? > >b) Who's busy keeping the IT going while the scientists aren't doing the > >stuff the IT people are doing instead of their jobs? > > I continue to be amazed at how misunderstood this was. The post to which I > was responding suggested that the "one percenters" were protecting the NASA > network. My response was that the one percenters would be the scientists, > working on space projects, not the IT people protecting the network. Not > that NASA wouldn't have good or even great IT people, but geniuses work on > space physics. They *don't* do the grunt work of securing networks.
I think there might be a little confusion about those "one percenters". Whoever said that a "one percenter" in astrophysics is also a "one percenter" in IT security? Couldn't it e that they have the very best for both of the jobs without any overlapping? Florian Streck -- Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
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