Originally posted here by jinxy
My 10 min 45 min analagy covers this. It takes seconds to write out a reciept and tare it off the pad.....more than 10 mins for a computer op to look up all the items add quantities to an invoice then print it.............Dont argue with me here, I have been at both sides of the counter.
I'll argue with you here, because I have had specifically the experiences you're talking about. Maybe they do things bass ackwards in the UK, but in Canada if I walk into a Home Depot and order a load of stuff right at the contractor's register, they open a book, grab their scanner, and scan barcodes for basically whatever I asked for, it takes a grand total of maybe 5 minutes with a trainee doing the sale. Perhaps your experiences are not everybody's experiences, and in the future you should refrain from spewing ultimately ignorant crap like "don't argue with me here". Just because your experiences are bad doesn't mean everyone's experiences are bad.

Weather the storm or go under...Thats business. The senario is the same if bad business desitions are taken.
So what contingency plans has your company got if the web does go down? and it can
Eggs one basket mean anything to you??.
While it's all well and good to simply spout cliches, in the real world it's a necessity for a lot of people. Not all businesses are multinational and have offices in every city, just as not all businesses are mom and pop operations. Of course the nature of business is to have its pitfalls and so forth, however just because a business has one point of access doesn't mean is it doing anything wrong.

Originally posted here by AngelicKnight
What we're looking at are two dangerous extremes of thought:
1) Terrorists from the Middle East are going to spam, DOS, and hack us into oblivion, or
2) cyber terrorism will never happen and is a silly fairy tale.

I think our job is to stand inbetween these two uneducated extremes. So often is the case with truth.

Saying "it can't happen", however, is perhaps the most dangerous blunder of all.
If one were to take the view that paranoia serves security, then it would certainly be safer to believe #1 than #2, so even in furtherance to securing your networks and software it is irresponsible to disbelieve it's a threat.