Comment Can the Supreme Court efficiently rule here? (Score 1) 124
As a disclaimer I have to say I have worked for Financials IT for quite a while and SOX was quite literally the bane of our existence for over 3 years. Whether SOX is a true measure of compliance is still an open question on my mind
The implication here is that if the Justices do rule in favor of Beckstead, what does that say about other government organizations that "audit" citizen's affairs?
In other words, you are told that all your servers must be 1U, you know this for a long time and make an effort to make sure every server is 1U, you go as far as dedicating an entire year in ensuring that servers must be 1U, then you get audited and they happen to find that 4U box your support guys used to launch all that crap that no other box was capable of handling, simultaneously, so you fail that portion of the audit.
You just SUE the people who enforce these efforts in the hopes that the very laws you knew about and made a concise effort to abide to get disregarded or amended in the course of a hearing? that's it?