How do you know when you are valued for who you are—and not just because you provide “diversity”?

Honeypots: How do you know when you are inside one?

This paper will discuss honeypots and their use and effectiveness as a security measure in an IT environment. It will specifically discuss various methods of honeypot implementations. Furthermore, this paper will look into the weaknesses within a honeypot system. This will include attacks against honeypots and methods a hacker may use to detect the presence of a honeypot or the fact that he/she...

Requirements Engineering: How Do You Know How Good You Are?

Organisations are seeking to improve the way they undertake engineering activities. There are numerous ways of doing this, one of which is to undertake an on-going process, or capability, enhancement activity. Praxis Critical Systems Limited provides support for such activity based primarily around the REVEAL ® requirements engineering method. By providing customised training and coaching in RE...

Do you know what you are drinking?

Do you really know how tall you are?

Whereas it is customary for patients seen in ambulatory care settings to have their weights measured, heights are usually taken from the patient’s recollection. To see if this practice may result in incorrect estimates of body mass index for people with diabetes, 100 consecutive adult outpatients newly referred for consultation regarding diabetes (32 patients with type 1 diabetes and 68 patient...

How Do You Know?

Epistemology is traditionally classified as one of the fields of philosophy, and some psychologists have been content to leave it to the philosophers. In my opinion, the problem of how we know is an absolutely basic concern of psychology, but whether you consider my remarks to be psychology or philosophy I really do not care, as long as you are willing to grant me that the problem is a fundamen...