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Have Terabytes of Enron Data Quietly Gone Missing? (muckrock.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz quotes MuckRock: Government investigations into California's electricity shortage, ultimately determined to be caused by intentional market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices by the now infamous Enron Corporation, resulted in terabytes of information being collected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This included several extremely large databases, some of which had nearly 200 million rows of data, including Enron's bidding and price processes, their trading and risk management systems, emails, audio recordings, and nearly 100,000 additional documents. That information has quietly disappeared, and not even its custodians seem to know why.
The web page where a defense contractor hosts the data has been down since 2013, and after a one-month wait they replied to a request by stating the data was "under review" and "currently not accessible," adding that it might never be available again. And while a U.S. government site also claims they offer a trio of datasets on CD, that agency "has not responded to repeated requests for these datasets sent over the past two months."
The site also instructs visitors to email Lockheed Martin, who maintains some of the data -- but the provided email address bounces.
The web page where a defense contractor hosts the data has been down since 2013, and after a one-month wait they replied to a request by stating the data was "under review" and "currently not accessible," adding that it might never be available again. And while a U.S. government site also claims they offer a trio of datasets on CD, that agency "has not responded to repeated requests for these datasets sent over the past two months."
The site also instructs visitors to email Lockheed Martin, who maintains some of the data -- but the provided email address bounces.
What difference does it make at this point? The case is closed, the company is gone, people have gone to jail. It's completely irrelevant today. There are also plenty of public records of the trials if anyone wants to know the details.
Like he never had deals with Russia, lol. What a dumb traitor.
simple answer
Freaking military industrial complex.
What difference does it make at this point? The case is closed, the company is gone, people have gone to jail. It's completely irrelevant today. There are also plenty of public records of the trials if anyone wants to know the details.
It may be due to the upcoming Mueller report and Sidney Powell, who wrote an expose book a couple of years back about the FBI.
She was recently interviewed on Mark Levin's show, and has some very condemnatory information about Mueller, some people on Mueller's team, and the FBI in general.
(NB: Sydney Powell is a former federal prosecutor, worked at the DOJ for 10 years, and lead counsel in over 500 federal appeals. Highly credible, whose information can't be dismissed out of hand.)
The Enron data might have been deleted because it might have been used to prove/disprove some of Sidney Powell's accusations.
Buh his taaaaax reeeeeeeeeturns!
Dumb fuck.
Why do we consistently see Defense Contractors doing non-defense work? The answer is obviously money, but wtf.
From this to Northrop Grumman horrifically managing the IT infrastructure for the Commonwealth (aka State) of Virginia, one might ask if it's time to have non-defense contractors doing large government bids as well as openly question the technical merits of all existing defense contractor efforts.
None of which will keep Trump from hanging at the gallows along with his bitch beta traitor faggot sons and bauble whore traitor daughter. The entire Drumpf clan is completely exposed as Putin's playthings. Strong rope required, Donald is fat.
Otherwise we could have blamed this on Trump!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
There's no reason for you to tapdance in defense of a traitor, faggot. Trump hangs either way, it's all over now. Mueller has his entire family on a leash.
If that was an act of destroying evidence, then perhaps more people would have gone to jail and for longer, which could also discourage similar future mischief.
Shhhhhh. This is slashdot. Facts, citations, and credible witnesses do not count unless the ultimate goal is to destroy Trump.
Why hide them then, traitor? He's not under audit which is a BS excuse anyway. What are you afraid of, Mr "No dealings with Russia ever" guy? Lol. See you at ADX Florence. bring lube traitor. You gonna need it. Bring some for Jr. too.
Perhaps you need help with fractions. I am aware that fractions are not popular in school these days but some people do study them
When Trump's tax returns are cited, you'll see what he's been such a desperate faggot trying to hide, lol. Surprise, he had dealings with Russia and lied to your faggot face, GOP traitors lol. What did you win? Prison for life and a dying party.
Go on, pretend Mueller is the real fake news again lol, faggot traitors. Strong rope is coming, Trump is fat.
You think because Powell wrote a book critical of the FBI that somehow gets Trump off the hook, and/or has something to do with ENRON's culpability in the crimes they've already been convicted of, because you say they lied?
Lol. You're a dumb apologist traitor faggot but this is a reach(around) even for you, coward Okie. See you at Trump's hanging. Wear a white dress you whore, that will be precious when you get up on the table to tapdance distractions.
Do you think Trump Jr. will be dating anybody? In prison I mean.
https://www.amazon.com/Government-Sourcebook-FOIA-released-Investigation-Indictments/dp/1592489915
PG&E among others are soon to be dealing with many trials surrounding various California wildfires they caused.
The timing of noticing this data loss could be that evidence of power companies' neglect can be found in decades old Enron docs.
Move along to the next coverup.
The feds and the big defense contractors worked hand-in-glove for many years forming very cozy relationships and as the years passed the lobbyists got rules and regulations written that mostly aligned with the practices these entities were using to interact. The result is that anybody doing certain types of work with the federal government needs to follow very complex procedures and paperwork compliance requirements which the big defense contractors have constructed the corporate infrastructure to do. This is very expensive, but they are happy to do it because it makes the cost prohibitive for any new entrants considering entering the market.
As a result, when government needs some new service, plenty of companies might consider offering it, but then they see the paperwork and legal requirements and they back off, leaving the pool of remaining bidders compose of mostly big firms already supplying the government with other stuff.
I wish I wasn't under a NDA, because I could speak truth to some really bad issues. Unless I'm under subpoena, I can't say any more.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
And our defense budget went up 50% since the time that was going to be a story?
It's the small things we focus on these days. Not big things like this.
I'm so used to smelling rat when it comes to corporations and the government and the connections and overseas accounts. Lately I've been smelling hundreds of rats.
The biggest rat so far was when, the day before 9/11, Rumsfeld reported $2.3 trillion missing at the DoD. Neatly done.
I'm beginning to suspect it's possible there are thousands of rats like this Enron rat stuffed into thousands of closets. Once the news has faded away, we forget. Too bad that isn't impossible.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
Thank you for confirming you don't know how to research a topic but feel fully confident to talk out your ass about it. Your opinions are BIGLY valuable.
Datasets are usually covered in any introductory course.
You would learn all kinds of useful deduction skills at university too. Apply today.. you can go beyond DeVry's TV/VCR Repair son!
You could pull a Yugo out of there and not even flinch it seems.
SAD traitor is sad. Enjoy your rich man cum.
You'll never get a job as a journalist with that attitude.
Just play a few rounds of six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Throw in some anonymous sources who are familiar with the kind of air freshener he once used in 2011. And bam! You got him!
Still with the Trump fixation... he is a symptom, not the cause. There have been Trumps running organizations into the ground since the beginning of time. But no, he wasn't personally involved here.
Well, I think the journalists got tired of playing Two Degrees of Putin, that one ended up being a lightning round.
That's obviously a conspiracy theory or something. /s
Obviously the Muller is a perfect guy, and none of his prior enron cases weren't thrown out because he was inventing evidence of crimes and ended up being lambasted by the appeals court for it.
Om, nomnomnom...
Everybody on slashdot knows now. Does anybody else matter?
Datasets are usually covered in any introductory course.
Given how much Enron was cooking the books (the scandal destroyed Enron's accounting firm), you can find out far more about Enron did by looking at their public records.
This is the lesson you take from Enron, that "the government is completely out of control"?
Enron Corporation went bankrupt, hurt millions of people (both before and after bankruptcy), their entire top executive were tried and went to jail (except for the one dude who died first). You are aware that Enron was a private corporation, right?
Government can be corrupt, sure. However jumping from Enron to government corruption, there's no logic to that. It suggests that you wish to bang the drum of government corruption and any conversation will serve to get you there.
No, the background of regulated utilities doesn't explain it either. Thousands of regulated utilities manage to do business without screwing over everyone in the process. Imagine that!