Security is simply a cost/benefit excercise at the end of the day. No one implements security just to feel better about themselves.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:25:15 EDT, Stack Smasher said:<br>> Like I said, shareholder value and profit plays a huge role in people<br>> getting off their ass and doing something to help the general public,<br>> seeing as how you have mostly worked at a university you don't have an
<br>> executive board screaming at you<br><br>Universities have their equivalent of executive boards, trust me.<br><br>And when you have almost 7,000 full time employees, the annual budget is $821M,<br>and the R&D budget alone is $268M, the management acts the same whether it's a
<br>university or a corporation. Trust me on this one too. And yes, I'm not<br>pulling those numbers out of a hat:<br><br><a href="http://www.vt.edu/aboutvt/universityataglance.html">http://www.vt.edu/aboutvt/universityataglance.html
</a><br><br>(And even at a quarter-billion a year, we're only #55 on the research list -<br>there's places where the money being tossed around is even bigger, and upper<br>management acts correspondingly....)<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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