They filmed the thing in an actual facility - one that I have been in, and that is no joke. Ridiculous clouds painted on the light fixtures and all. I even recognized the woman behind the desk.
I believe they used actual employees, why wouldnt they it is far cheaper anyway.
The weird beach scenes painted on the walls are uncanny. That alone seems like some sort of psychological thing.
It is a really really weird place, but no way are they using porn actresses.
PS I don't know what they told you but they told me the results would be shared with other government agencies, and that evidence of any criminal activity would be passed on to the proper law enforcement authorities... please sign here.
All voluntary. All very open. If you don't like it, don't sign get up walk out.
THAT step alone is enough to weed out a lot of folks (and apparently does).
I can see why people who fail are bitter, but there is nothing to be bitter about. I swear I didn't get a job once because I am white male and they needed a black or a woman to fulfill some damn EO crap. Now THAT I am bitter about.
Look, they are trying to weed out the enemy. As a candidate, you are possibly an enemy trying to infiltrate.
The only problem is that a guy who goes has the balls to be a spy or whatever probably is the type of guy who can stand up to that sort of BS. A software nerd such as myself, not so much.
Dude I walked in there pondering how I could optimize V4L and roll that into a custom tiny kernel (and also considering rewriting some C++ MPEG parsing routines in C when I got through with the exam) then the next thing you know some douche who at first claimed he wanted to go mountain biking with me at a local state park (to my credit I saw right through that drivel and was just waiting for him to morph into a cock which he did in short order) is yelling at me.
So I knew he would turn into a cock. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever envision a cock that big!
That came out wrong, but that is just the sort of thing they would latch onto, context be damned.
I was all freaked out thinking this definitely has nothing to do with my plans of migrating away from autotools.
Whatever. It is a job interview. We didn't get the job. Shit happens. And guess what: of the several friends I have who are in there - most are unhappy. Their office does not have windows (most do not have an office). They cannot surf the net during the day. Some have communal computers in another room so they can check email. They can't leave work out on their desk at night. The technology is in some ways outdated: accreditation is a slow process, and new tech takes a long time to seep into that community (unless of course they invent it).
So be happy! I don't have an artificially inflated salary (no H1B's need apply to drive down the paychecks and this will never ever change), but on the other hand I can bring my iPad into work, and talk on my cell phone at my desk.
Should your butt hole flutter a little too much during the exam they will send you home and tell you to come back a couple of weeks later.
If it happens again they simply flunk you because 1) you are trying to game their test and regardless of the stupidity of the test the examiners themselves are not stupid even though you would like them to be (but they are douchebags or atleast mine was), and 2) who wants to sit next to a dude who constantly farts?
Ah but here's the rub... regardless of what you read there is no evidence to the fact that it doesn't work. You will not read about instances where it did work. Period.
My 2 cents.... I believe that the machine is simply theater, or close to it. I think that the whole process is stupid - but that is my point of view.
My firm belief is that the whole process is not what they claim it to be. I don't know what the real point of it is, but it isn't to ascertain credibility because I know that part doesn't work. Not sure what the real point of the test is, but I am convinced there is an unstated motive behind the test.
And oh by the way while I am bound by what is essentially an NDA and can't go into specifics, I can tell you that the vast majority of most posts on this topic describing the process are less accurate than the video itself.
95% of what you read on antipolygraph.org (gee they sound fair and balanced) is crap - at least as far as NSA poly goes.
For the most part the facts presented were accurrate. Most not all.
They do practice BS interrogation techniques. Figure this out for yourself.
However on the surface the video was accurate. It was filmed at an actual NSA polygraph examination site in Linthicum, Maryland (Airport Square). They DO review the questions before and after the actual questioning phase of the test.
I failed horribly (well, I think horribly, I have no comparison to go on)... that said I was honest and did not lie. I believe I was an edge case (I am very dramatic and expressive, and tend to worry). However they also ask that you not discuss the specifics of the test.
I think most people who fail and complain are simply malcontents.
I don't think the test works - I know it failed in my case. However consider this: the stakes are high. Very high. If they end up culling 25% (my guess) of candidates who are no security threat whatsoever then so be it - acceptiable loss. That is life suck it up and move on. But did it fail? Do they simply run several separate tests to get a good baseline and tell you it failed when it didn't? Is the whole thing really just some sort of psychological screening to see how easy it wold be to interrogate YOU in the event that they have to? Who knows. Who cares! This is what they feel they need to do to safeguard their workforce and if you don't like it go work somewhere else (like I ended up having to do). If you are applying for a job there then likely you are technical enough and good enough to easily find other work.
Mainframe tech has made a huge comeback in recent years.
Sure it is sexily bundled up, called Vmware, Xen, what not... but that's what it is - updated mainframe technology running on your PC (which btw is orders of magnitude more powerful than many corporate mainframes from the 80's). Even the term "hypervisor" harkens back from the mainframe days.
There are pleanty of other resources out there, why come all they way here to get them?
It would be like filling your car full of fuel, driving to the airport (past several orchards, forests, landfills, and supermarkets), filling up a 767, flying to Tahiti in it, then raiding a village for its produce.
It just wouldn't be worth it. Not saying they wouldn't be interested, just that the expense and effort to take our stuff would not even be close to break even.
The only reason I could see for them to actually come here are for biologicals. Perhaps petroleum which is also biological actually. Basically us, the plants, all of the bugs, the germs. And that is only useful to them if the biomass is is similar and compatible to theirs.
Quite frankly they could probably produce their own Earth sized biomass with less energy than it would take for them to to transport such infrastructure here.
Unfortunately, the fact that the school could and would remotely active te web cam for any reason at all, was not in an AUP or in fact any type of document that the parents and/or child signed, read, or was given.
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Why no classified Russian or Chinese documents on Wikileaks?
Oh that's right.
The Russians and Chinese would hunt them down and kill them.
Which is not out of the question, btw. It will be a real tragedy when Julian is knifed in a botched robbery attenpt.
They filmed the thing in an actual facility - one that I have been in, and that is no joke. Ridiculous clouds painted on the light fixtures and all. I even recognized the woman behind the desk.
I believe they used actual employees, why wouldnt they it is far cheaper anyway.
The weird beach scenes painted on the walls are uncanny. That alone seems like some sort of psychological thing.
It is a really really weird place, but no way are they using porn actresses.
PS I don't know what they told you but they told me the results would be shared with other government agencies, and that evidence of any criminal activity would be passed on to the proper law enforcement authorities... please sign here.
All voluntary. All very open. If you don't like it, don't sign get up walk out.
THAT step alone is enough to weed out a lot of folks (and apparently does).
I can see why people who fail are bitter, but there is nothing to be bitter about. I swear I didn't get a job once because I am white male and they needed a black or a woman to fulfill some damn EO crap. Now THAT I am bitter about.
Look, they are trying to weed out the enemy. As a candidate, you are possibly an enemy trying to infiltrate.
The only problem is that a guy who goes has the balls to be a spy or whatever probably is the type of guy who can stand up to that sort of BS. A software nerd such as myself, not so much.
Dude I walked in there pondering how I could optimize V4L and roll that into a custom tiny kernel (and also considering rewriting some C++ MPEG parsing routines in C when I got through with the exam) then the next thing you know some douche who at first claimed he wanted to go mountain biking with me at a local state park (to my credit I saw right through that drivel and was just waiting for him to morph into a cock which he did in short order) is yelling at me.
So I knew he would turn into a cock. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever envision a cock that big!
That came out wrong, but that is just the sort of thing they would latch onto, context be damned.
I was all freaked out thinking this definitely has nothing to do with my plans of migrating away from autotools.
Whatever. It is a job interview. We didn't get the job. Shit happens. And guess what: of the several friends I have who are in there - most are unhappy. Their office does not have windows (most do not have an office). They cannot surf the net during the day. Some have communal computers in another room so they can check email. They can't leave work out on their desk at night. The technology is in some ways outdated: accreditation is a slow process, and new tech takes a long time to seep into that community (unless of course they invent it).
So be happy! I don't have an artificially inflated salary (no H1B's need apply to drive down the paychecks and this will never ever change), but on the other hand I can bring my iPad into work, and talk on my cell phone at my desk.
Should your butt hole flutter a little too much during the exam they will send you home and tell you to come back a couple of weeks later.
If it happens again they simply flunk you because 1) you are trying to game their test and regardless of the stupidity of the test the examiners themselves are not stupid even though you would like them to be (but they are douchebags or atleast mine was), and 2) who wants to sit next to a dude who constantly farts?
One thing I got out of the experience - if for some messed up reason I am ever accused of a crime... I am NOT taking a poly to clear my name.
No way - as a truth measuring device that POS does not work at all.
Ah but here's the rub... regardless of what you read there is no evidence to the fact that it doesn't work. You will not read about instances where it did work. Period.
My 2 cents.... I believe that the machine is simply theater, or close to it. I think that the whole process is stupid - but that is my point of view.
My firm belief is that the whole process is not what they claim it to be. I don't know what the real point of it is, but it isn't to ascertain credibility because I know that part doesn't work. Not sure what the real point of the test is, but I am convinced there is an unstated motive behind the test.
And oh by the way while I am bound by what is essentially an NDA and can't go into specifics, I can tell you that the vast majority of most posts on this topic describing the process are less accurate than the video itself.
95% of what you read on antipolygraph.org (gee they sound fair and balanced) is crap - at least as far as NSA poly goes.
For the most part the facts presented were accurrate. Most not all.
They do practice BS interrogation techniques. Figure this out for yourself.
However on the surface the video was accurate. It was filmed at an actual NSA polygraph examination site in Linthicum, Maryland (Airport Square). They DO review the questions before and after the actual questioning phase of the test.
I failed horribly (well, I think horribly, I have no comparison to go on)... that said I was honest and did not lie. I believe I was an edge case (I am very dramatic and expressive, and tend to worry). However they also ask that you not discuss the specifics of the test.
I think most people who fail and complain are simply malcontents.
I don't think the test works - I know it failed in my case. However consider this: the stakes are high. Very high. If they end up culling 25% (my guess) of candidates who are no security threat whatsoever then so be it - acceptiable loss. That is life suck it up and move on. But did it fail? Do they simply run several separate tests to get a good baseline and tell you it failed when it didn't? Is the whole thing really just some sort of psychological screening to see how easy it wold be to interrogate YOU in the event that they have to? Who knows. Who cares! This is what they feel they need to do to safeguard their workforce and if you don't like it go work somewhere else (like I ended up having to do). If you are applying for a job there then likely you are technical enough and good enough to easily find other work.
That would be interesting.
Seriously? Anyone who has developed airborne systems using COTS hardware has encountered this issue with spinning media.
Program trading was a big issue back int he 80's, but "supposedly" there are now safeguards against an automated sell off.
Or so they say.
Use the codecs, adopt the standards, and don't pay a red cent to anyone.
Does just about everything I need. I did stand up an OpenVPN-AS for the rest of the herd - they seem to like it.
Petroleum is plants / old forests / dead animals / etcetera that have been crushed and subject to insane temperatures pressures for years and years.
Seems biological to me.
He wants his story back.
Well they wouldn't go back, just on to the next planet. But even still it would be pointless.
Mainframe tech has made a huge comeback in recent years.
Sure it is sexily bundled up, called Vmware, Xen, what not... but that's what it is - updated mainframe technology running on your PC (which btw is orders of magnitude more powerful than many corporate mainframes from the 80's). Even the term "hypervisor" harkens back from the mainframe days.
Where have you been?
There are pleanty of other resources out there, why come all they way here to get them?
It would be like filling your car full of fuel, driving to the airport (past several orchards, forests, landfills, and supermarkets), filling up a 767, flying to Tahiti in it, then raiding a village for its produce.
It just wouldn't be worth it. Not saying they wouldn't be interested, just that the expense and effort to take our stuff would not even be close to break even.
The only reason I could see for them to actually come here are for biologicals. Perhaps petroleum which is also biological actually. Basically us, the plants, all of the bugs, the germs. And that is only useful to them if the biomass is is similar and compatible to theirs.
Quite frankly they could probably produce their own Earth sized biomass with less energy than it would take for them to to transport such infrastructure here.
My attitude would have been "a little late bitches! Hasta la vista!"
Let's conveniently leave out any mention of OS 9, NeXT Step, and the fact that for a while it looked like Apple was going the way of the Dodo.
Everything has "changed" under Obama!
Go get your quantum computer - NSA will just build a 10 bazillion node cluster of them.
They will just brute force your solution into the mud if it comes to that.
Well their legal bills will far exceed $78,000 in the first year alone, which you seem to have left out of your calculations.
Unfortunately, the fact that the school could and would remotely active te web cam for any reason at all, was not in an AUP or in fact any type of document that the parents and/or child signed, read, or was given.
You have a bright future in management.