The AP reports that the price of oil is causing a reduction of security in neighborhoods:
Some police chiefs think the moneysaving measures are not all bad, and might actually help them do a better job. But they worry about the loss of take-home cars, saying the sight of a cruiser parked in a driveway or out in front of a home deters neighborhood crime.
The “better job” part is apparently based on the theory that police will interact with the public more if they are walking around instead of sitting in their cruisers.
Energy security is fast becoming a hot issue in America.
Wikipedia says the Romans had a different use of the term:
a century was actually only 80 men
It is like the opposite of a “baker’s dozen”. Seriously, though, it looks like regulations modified the definition of a Centurion’s establishment.
Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century. Centuries were so-called because they originally numbered roughly 100 men. Just after that they numbered 60 men each and were paired into maniples, one with greater authority. After the Marian reforms, however, the standard establishment was set at 80 men.
The Guerilla CISO blog has some amusing points posted about the dismal (nine Fs) 2007 FISMA report:
I can’t believe it, but DHS scored a “B” against all odds. =) And of course, by now the response to the report card is all rote–everybody wonders what the letters really mean […] I guess it just goes to prove what we say about the classified world: the people who know don’t talk and the people who talk don’t know. In this case, everybody attacks the metric because, well, it’s a bad metric–what action are we supposed to take because of what the results are? It’s also pretty much ignored by this point anyway except for the witty sound bites from some of my “favorite people”, so it’s nothing to get all hot and bothered about.
I always felt the same way about my report cards. Go ahead, ask him what he thinks about SANS and Gartner opinions on the report.