The UK has a highly competitive system for a limited pool of public funds, many students are self-funded in PhD programs. The UK has some great programs but unlike the US and continental Europe it is highly skewed towards the upper classes as the only requirements for entry are basic competence and money for the fees.
It depends on the subject. Amongst mathematics PhD students, at least, it seems that almost no one is self funded. But you're doing history or literature or something, that's another matter.
Since there are conserved quantities like energy and angular momentum it is impossible that everything just collapses. If something collapses, there is usually a large amount of matter which does not collapse to carry away the energy and momentum of the collapsing stuff.
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I found it quite interesting, that crowdstrike actually exclude a bunch of services explicitly. They also basically say, don’t use, if it needs to be reliable. I don’t know if this is standard for software, but for me this was quite surprising.
From crowdstrike terms and services [1]:
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THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THE OFFERINGS OR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS WILL BE ERROR FREE, OR THAT THEY WILL OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR WILL FULFILL ANY OF CUSTOMER’S PARTICULAR PURPOSES OR NEEDS. THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations. CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT WARRANT ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.
Because FBI CJIS requirements, adopted by state law enforcement bodies, require it. I support a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP, aka a 911 call center) and I push back on as many of the inane requirements as I can with compensating controls.
Example: As of right now I am still required to expire passwords every 90 days. My state is considering the current guidance from NIST but FBI CJIS policy still mandates the expirations.
I don't know what CJIS requirements entail precisely, but at a first glance, they seem reasonable. But it's weird that people then think they can comply by installing a product with a disclaimer against their intended use. It's just a token acknowledgment: "Yeah, we've read it, but we don't really care."
If that's also the interpretation of the courts, then each company would be invidivually liable, at least towards the government.
Holy shit I cannot stand the password expiration requirements. Like you said, NIST literally recommends against it but so many regulations require it. So aggravating.
Because no endpoint protection software exists that doesn’t have the same disclaimer clause. So you install this one and accept the lack of vendor liability.
(If such a thing did exist, it would cost a lot more!)
The data entry endpoints in a 911 dispatch center should not be running a general purpose consumer OS. They should be single purpose machines much closer to a dumb VT100 terminal than a personal computer. Maybe something like a stripped down hardened Chromebook. No internet connection. No personal email, web, or other use allowed or even possible. A product like crowdstrike should not be needed because it should not be possible to run anything but the dispatching software on those machines.
That's what computer aided dispatch (CAD, in the industry) software was 30 years ago (my PSAP had an AS/400). The market has rejected it. Also, see my other comment re: FBI CJIS policy.
In the PSAP I support we have three dedicated PCs at each workstation to run the CAD, phones, and radio. Each of those has a dedicated VLAN, separate physical servers and storage, separate Active Directory forest for CAD (no AD for radios or phones-- standalone PCs), and default-deny ACLs for inbound and outbound traffic on the hosts and at the borders.
A fourth dedicated PC (VLAN, ACLs, physical servers, AD environment) does email, web browsing, etc. (All of it is shackled together with a nice KVM that supports a single keyboard and mouse controlling up to 5 PCs.)
Not every PSAP does this and I think that's insane. The law and fire agencies we interface with absolutely do put a single PC on a desk (or in a cruiser) and use it for everything (and we filter and monitor the traffic coming in from them over our VPN heavily and block access at the first sign of anomalous traffic). Often their budgets don't support the notion of using dedicated computers for task-oriented work. The marketers have pushed general purpose devices for this kind of application.
In the last 5 years all three "hardened" systems we use (all companies acquired by Motorola) have started requiring Internet access for various APIs they use, and for integration with third-party vendors (mapping, public information databases, and task instructions for telecommunications). I think it's ridiculous, but I don't get to decide the direction of the product roadmaps or what the business stakeholders want from a feature perspective.
Motorola (who makes the CAD software used by some of the largest US municipalities) is pushing for hosted CAD and integrating hosted features into on-prem systems. (Of course, they have a managed security product offering that they want to sell along side it.)
Usually the largest of companies will have their own customized T&Cs governed in their Master Services Agreement (MSA) which are often very modified versions of these publicly available ones
My experience has been better legal counsel has the relevant terms struck before the deal is signed. In this case it would have been the terms around Aircraft and aviation
There often are limits to how much your can disclaim in your T&C. If under the same terms you cause damages deliberately you'll be held liable, and obvious gross negligence can be a factor as well.
There are often 3 opinions between any 2 lawyers so we have a chance to learn the outcome many months and millions of dollars later.
So you want to use only the richest and most sophisticated EU countries but then compare them against a federation of US states that includes the likes of Mississippi and West Virginia?
The difference between New York (the highest US state by per capita GDP, ~$91,000) and Ireland is larger than the difference between Mississippi and a per-capita GDP of literally zero.
Also, I forgot, it's a disingenuous comparison if you know anything about how life, subsistence, marginal savings rate & co work, which I assume you do if we're discussing these kinds of topics.
The scale of "GDP per capita and how people are living" is roughly this:
At a "GDP of literally zero" you're DEAD.
At a GDP of 1k, you can afford a cheap bicycle.
At a GDP of 10k, you can afford small, old, beat up and unsafe cars.
At a GDP of 30k, you can afford almost all modern amenities, they'll just be smaller, older, have fewer features.
At a GDP of 80k you can do whatever the hell you want if real estate expenses aren't killing you.
So no, you can't freely compare a country at 10k with one at 80k and try to bail out the comparison with PPP.
And the difference between 1 billion and 1 billion 30k is 1 billion. Percentages matter, thresholds matter. The person having 1 billion 30k doesn't have a materially different life to the person having 1 billion. The person having 30k is reasonably well off, the person having 0 is dead. The person having 40k is also reasonably well off while the person having 10k is poor (and NOT US poor, world standards poor; which BTW, is about the global average, which makes the average person in the world poor by modern development standards).
It's an average. You can average zero in with 140 and still have a higher average than the average of 90 and 40. And what do you expect if you don't average in the zero?
