Oh, be fair. These infamous 9 have a lot of data centers, and you can't expect the CEO to know which equipment from whom is in every corner there? I mean, just walk up to one of their data centers with a router in your hand, and tell them that you need an Internet connection. I'm sure that they'll let you waltz in and connect wherever equipment you want . . .
. . . when monkeys fly out of my ass.
The FBI probably has technical offices and agents in each data center, to maintain all this stuff. Ask them about that!
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they could claim that the FBI installed the stuff clandestinely. You know, a rack in a corner, with a note taped to it: "Do NOT touch. This rack does something important!" Of course, these companies might perform audits once in a blue moon on their data centers . . . but, naw, why bother . . . ?
Cutting the IT budget means one of two things - someone is looking for a promotion or the company is going bad.
Not necessarily. Even quite healthy companies are obsessed with cost cutting these days. The problem is, some management folks can't see that some costs are buying something of extreme value to the company. And they are cutting long term value for short term cost reduction
In both cases it's time to look around for a new job.
I take a different approach. Whenever I get higher level management who are out of their waters and inept at the helm, I just batten down the hatches and weather out the storm. They will soon be replaced. This method has never failed me, and I've been at my company for a long time. I've seen good executive move up . . . and bad ones getting the boot.
A younger colleague was asking me about an executive's plan of growth until 2015. The colleague was concerned that we could not reach this goal. I told him that the executive won't be around in 2015 anyway, and not to worry about it.
Obama's initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will attempt to double the number of people with access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, White House officials said. The president will announce an initial commitment of $7 billion over five years, federal money that will add to private investment and partnerships in six African countries.
He's explaining to Europe who his true allies are . . .
. . . or . . . the NSA told him that they couldn't spy in Africa without electricity!
1) How did they gentrify the street gangs? A lot of other cities would like to know how to do this.
2) Where did the ungentrified folks move to? Just down the road, or some place else? I'm thinking of the "Law of Conservation of Gentrifity", which states that if one place gets gentrified, some other place must get ungentrified.
. . . and I was thinking that they were looking for someone for Australia's Area 51, someone whose father was an alien, who met a lovely, lonely Australian girl on a brief stopover on his travels through the cosomos, with alien math problem solving ability, who can fly the spaceships buried by the Aborigines during The Dreamtime, etc . . .
. . . does Australia have an Area 51 . . . and will iMaps take you there . . . ?
You know, like, sending NSA agents to get cover jobs in Microsoft, and purposely plant in obscure security bugs, that can only be exploited by the NSA . . . ? I know that they are not supposed to do that, but the new description of work for the NSA seems to be something like:
RISD is just a place where stupid hipster kids with rich parents go to film themselves masturbating in bath tubs then go in front of the class and spout a line of b.s. about how it's the most original and unique thing ever created.
I dunno. The Talking Heads came out of the RISD, and they were pretty cool back in the 80's.
Of course, maybe the RISD only produces a band like that once in a lifetime . . .
I feel funny defending Facebook, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't sell personally-identifiable information to others. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
I feel funny defending the NSA, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't spy on US citizens. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
Well, now we know that all Internet communications are exposed down to the wire or fiber to deep packet inspection systems. Is the IETF working on any counter-measures against this? Like, some new kind of protocol to thwart our friendly feathered government snoop-dooper friends?
I was thinking of something that would leave IP packets alone, so that they could still be routed correctly through the existing Internet. But . . . scramble the IP fragmentation sequence somehow, so that only the sender and receiver would know the correct order of the packets to reassemble them in the right order correctly. This could makes things much more difficult for our deep packet inspector detector pals.
I haven't really given much thought to the idea, but when I am using Wireshark to debug problems, I always use the "follow TCP stream" option. The lack of that option would certainly make my life more difficult.
This was a serious problem, and IBM knew it. I had a talk about this with Paul Giangarra, who was later the chief architect of OS/2. The OS/2 service group had to get volunteers from other IBM organizations to work their RETAIN queues; their customer support system. The normal crew was totally overwhelmed.
Paul told me that one customer called, and said that he dropped the diskettes, and they were now out of order, and did not know what to do. During that conversation, someone came into the office and told Paul that the IBM-Microsoft shared source server link had been cut. Great moments in history.
The IBM group that did OS/2 later went on to develop an IBM Microkernel, or Workplace Operating System. That was supposed to run on all their systems, even their mainframes. So that was also a part of Ed Iacobucci's legacy.
It never saw the light of day, though. When Lou Gerstner came to IBM, he brought in Jerome York to be the CFO. When York saw that IBM was $2 billion in the red with OS/2, he wanted to scrap it immediately. However, the IBMers who said that IBM would lose face by walking away from it won out.
Team OS/2 went external that spring, when the first Team OS/2 Party was held in Chicago. The IBM Marketing Office in Chicago created a huge banner visible from the streets. Microsoft reacted when Steve Ballmer roamed the floor with an application on diskette that had been specially programmed to crash OS/2; and OS/2 enthusiasts gathered for an evening of excitement at the first Team OS/2 party.
After hearing that story, soon after it happened, I was never surprised by anything else that he has done since then. It just showed me the "content of his character", as MLK used to say.
You do not discuss an abstruse academic point in a bar until late.
. . . if you do . . . you wake up the next morning as a permanent guest at the Ecuadorean Embassy!
On the other hand, with a male colleague, you find a common social activity and bond.
Yes, those female academics tend to talk on endlessly, fawning over ponies, shoes and Justin Bieber . ..
Good social relationships open the doors that make good professor's famous.
So male academics form "Old Boys' Networks". Actually, I would expect females academics to do the same, and form "Old Girls' Networks".
That should even things out again.
But then again, just look at the Slashdot community. We don't accept or invite posts from female biologists either . . .
It costs $134.50 to fill up a 15 gallon tank here.
. . . most of that $134.50 is probably taxes . ..
However this isn't even the U.S.(, thank God?).
American folks had some rather unpleasant experiences with England over taxes. Americans of all political colors tend to frown on excessive taxes, for something that is seemed as a basic necessity.
Electric cars are subsidized now by governments. As soon as they start being successful, the governments will start taxing them, too!
While you are playing your games, the clock ticks down it the upper right hand corner, reminding you that need to play that other game in the background. Your quest is to find an internet connection before the "24" clock runs out.
And you get tortured and hounded by government creeps in the process. Feels real.
Actually, maybe that's not a bad idea. The Improv Everywhere folks could organize a "Julian Assange" subway day, instead of their "pantsless" subway day. Everyone dresses up like Julian Assange, and claims to have escaped via a tunnel.
Then see how the police react . . .
Maybe the real one could slip out in all the confusion, like Thomas Crown . . . ?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, be fair. These infamous 9 have a lot of data centers, and you can't expect the CEO to know which equipment from whom is in every corner there? I mean, just walk up to one of their data centers with a router in your hand, and tell them that you need an Internet connection. I'm sure that they'll let you waltz in and connect wherever equipment you want . . .
. . . when monkeys fly out of my ass.
The FBI probably has technical offices and agents in each data center, to maintain all this stuff. Ask them about that!
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they could claim that the FBI installed the stuff clandestinely. You know, a rack in a corner, with a note taped to it: "Do NOT touch. This rack does something important!" Of course, these companies might perform audits once in a blue moon on their data centers . . . but, naw, why bother . . . ?
Cutting the IT budget means one of two things - someone is looking for a promotion or the company is going bad.
Not necessarily. Even quite healthy companies are obsessed with cost cutting these days. The problem is, some management folks can't see that some costs are buying something of extreme value to the company. And they are cutting long term value for short term cost reduction
In both cases it's time to look around for a new job.
I take a different approach. Whenever I get higher level management who are out of their waters and inept at the helm, I just batten down the hatches and weather out the storm. They will soon be replaced. This method has never failed me, and I've been at my company for a long time. I've seen good executive move up . . . and bad ones getting the boot.
A younger colleague was asking me about an executive's plan of growth until 2015. The colleague was concerned that we could not reach this goal. I told him that the executive won't be around in 2015 anyway, and not to worry about it.
Our Solar System lies about it's age, like a Hollywood starlet . . . it uses the Biblical estimate and claims that it is under 10,000 years old.
So it is a relative hipster on the Universe block.
Obama is explaining right now: "Obama aims to spread electricity to more Africans", http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-obama-electricity-africa-20130630,0,1234807.story
Obama's initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will attempt to double the number of people with access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, White House officials said. The president will announce an initial commitment of $7 billion over five years, federal money that will add to private investment and partnerships in six African countries.
He's explaining to Europe who his true allies are . . .
. . . or . . . the NSA told him that they couldn't spy in Africa without electricity!
I'll start by asking: what do you with the kid if Hitler is cloned?
The film and music industry is prepared for that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Saved_Hitler's_Brain
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/angrysamoans/theysavedhitlerscock.html
So, a couple of questions:
1) How did they gentrify the street gangs? A lot of other cities would like to know how to do this.
2) Where did the ungentrified folks move to? Just down the road, or some place else? I'm thinking of the "Law of Conservation of Gentrifity", which states that if one place gets gentrified, some other place must get ungentrified.
. . . and I was thinking that they were looking for someone for Australia's Area 51, someone whose father was an alien, who met a lovely, lonely Australian girl on a brief stopover on his travels through the cosomos, with alien math problem solving ability, who can fly the spaceships buried by the Aborigines during The Dreamtime, etc . . .
. . . does Australia have an Area 51 . . . and will iMaps take you there . . . ?
Sweet I can finally watch my neighbors T.V. And to think people used to use WINDOWS! hah! so crude.
No, we use TEMPEST for that.
WMD = Weapons of Muslims for Destruction . . . ?
That would cover my cigar cutter, that baffles airport security . . .
AFAIK they are still an arm of the US DOJ.
. . . and the US DOJ seems to be an arm of Hollywood . . .
You know, like, sending NSA agents to get cover jobs in Microsoft, and purposely plant in obscure security bugs, that can only be exploited by the NSA . . . ? I know that they are not supposed to do that, but the new description of work for the NSA seems to be something like:
Question: "What does the NSA do?
Answer: "Things that it is not supposed to do."
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, that horsey DNA will end up in our frozen lasagne, here in scenic, and quite rainy, Europe . . .
Old spy escape wisdom . . . never run in a straight line . . . and never stop too long in one place.
However, if Snowdon is actually a "spy" or a more a "whistleblower", is up for debate.
RISD is just a place where stupid hipster kids with rich parents go to film themselves masturbating in bath tubs then go in front of the class and spout a line of b.s. about how it's the most original and unique thing ever created.
I dunno. The Talking Heads came out of the RISD, and they were pretty cool back in the 80's.
Of course, maybe the RISD only produces a band like that once in a lifetime . . .
Your SSL traffic is safe, and those who use encrypted email are safe.
Would the NSA tell us about it, if they had methods to crack SSL and encrypted email . . . ?
I feel funny defending Facebook, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't sell personally-identifiable information to others. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
I feel funny defending the NSA, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't spy on US citizens. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
Well, now we know that all Internet communications are exposed down to the wire or fiber to deep packet inspection systems. Is the IETF working on any counter-measures against this? Like, some new kind of protocol to thwart our friendly feathered government snoop-dooper friends?
I was thinking of something that would leave IP packets alone, so that they could still be routed correctly through the existing Internet. But . . . scramble the IP fragmentation sequence somehow, so that only the sender and receiver would know the correct order of the packets to reassemble them in the right order correctly. This could makes things much more difficult for our deep packet inspector detector pals.
I haven't really given much thought to the idea, but when I am using Wireshark to debug problems, I always use the "follow TCP stream" option. The lack of that option would certainly make my life more difficult.
it was a PITA to install
This was a serious problem, and IBM knew it. I had a talk about this with Paul Giangarra, who was later the chief architect of OS/2. The OS/2 service group had to get volunteers from other IBM organizations to work their RETAIN queues; their customer support system. The normal crew was totally overwhelmed.
Paul told me that one customer called, and said that he dropped the diskettes, and they were now out of order, and did not know what to do. During that conversation, someone came into the office and told Paul that the IBM-Microsoft shared source server link had been cut. Great moments in history.
The IBM group that did OS/2 later went on to develop an IBM Microkernel, or Workplace Operating System. That was supposed to run on all their systems, even their mainframes. So that was also a part of Ed Iacobucci's legacy.
It never saw the light of day, though. When Lou Gerstner came to IBM, he brought in Jerome York to be the CFO. When York saw that IBM was $2 billion in the red with OS/2, he wanted to scrap it immediately. However, the IBMers who said that IBM would lose face by walking away from it won out.
Speaking of Chicago . . .
Team OS/2 went external that spring, when the first Team OS/2 Party was held in Chicago. The IBM Marketing Office in Chicago created a huge banner visible from the streets. Microsoft reacted when Steve Ballmer roamed the floor with an application on diskette that had been specially programmed to crash OS/2; and OS/2 enthusiasts gathered for an evening of excitement at the first Team OS/2 party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_OS/2
After hearing that story, soon after it happened, I was never surprised by anything else that he has done since then. It just showed me the "content of his character", as MLK used to say.
You do not discuss an abstruse academic point in a bar until late.
. . . if you do . . . you wake up the next morning as a permanent guest at the Ecuadorean Embassy!
On the other hand, with a male colleague, you find a common social activity and bond.
Yes, those female academics tend to talk on endlessly, fawning over ponies, shoes and Justin Bieber . . .
Good social relationships open the doors that make good professor's famous.
So male academics form "Old Boys' Networks". Actually, I would expect females academics to do the same, and form "Old Girls' Networks". That should even things out again.
But then again, just look at the Slashdot community. We don't accept or invite posts from female biologists either . . .
It costs $134.50 to fill up a 15 gallon tank here.
. . . most of that $134.50 is probably taxes . . .
However this isn't even the U.S.(, thank God?).
American folks had some rather unpleasant experiences with England over taxes. Americans of all political colors tend to frown on excessive taxes, for something that is seemed as a basic necessity.
Electric cars are subsidized now by governments. As soon as they start being successful, the governments will start taxing them, too!
. . . it auto-completes with "The National Association of Attorneys General" . . .
Ok, I'll bite . . . so is there anything that you do like . . . ?
While you are playing your games, the clock ticks down it the upper right hand corner, reminding you that need to play that other game in the background. Your quest is to find an internet connection before the "24" clock runs out.
And you get tortured and hounded by government creeps in the process. Feels real.
Actually, maybe that's not a bad idea. The Improv Everywhere folks could organize a "Julian Assange" subway day, instead of their "pantsless" subway day. Everyone dresses up like Julian Assange, and claims to have escaped via a tunnel.
Then see how the police react . . .
Maybe the real one could slip out in all the confusion, like Thomas Crown . . . ?