If PGP got the panties in a twist over at the NSA, and this stuff caused them to sauce their trousers, Meganet has to be doing something right. Government doesn't just go out and buy vaporware, er, at least not very often anyway.
Meganet is winning government contracts left & right. 90% of cryptologists that are worth their salt work for the government agencies, If it passes their muster -- I would put my faith in it.
Usually, except for very large companies, employers farm out the background checks to an outside agency that comes back with a fairly comprehensive report that includes your driving record, criminal convictions, and your current credit rating (or rather your FICO score).
I think the story the COO told you was a bit bogus, usually companies that are requesting the background check care little about your credit history.
The real purpose for the credit check is that the credit companies, Experian, TransUnion & Equifax, keep all your previous addresses that you've used over the past 7 years to apply for credit. (Side note: you can dispute this information just like you can dispute anything else on your credit report)
What the background investigation company does is take those addresses and run a local records check in those cities where you've lived previously (or rather applied for credit in). They can also search in surrounding cities and possibly even the counties - but the cost of the check goes up with the more in-depth they search.
The obvious result is a more comprehensive criminal background check. They can see that you've got an outstanding warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket in the state you used to live in, for example. Or you moved from a certain state because you had a criminal record. Or you are a parolee that was convicted of murdering your mother, and moved to a new state to evade your probation as was discovered by a company I used to work for. They got rid of him pretty quick.
I used to work for our state government. We used to have the IBM 600e series, had about 200 of them. We had nothing but problems and complained constantly to IBM.
We later went out to purchase another 1000 laptops and desktops (a $2 million dollar order). We told IBM to not even bother bidding because they refused to take care of the laptop problem. It was then that they FINALLY acknowledged that they had a problem with their batteries and offered to take care of it by sending us out 200 new batteries!
We told them to stick it because we were replacing the laptops, they had lived their life. Our end users were upset and didn't want IBM ever again, laptop or desktop. IBM wound up losing a major account due to those stupid batteries.
The irony of the situation is IBM's website that states:
Thanks to IBM's advanced power management systems, the ThinkPad's battery life has earned a powerhouse of a reputation. [HA!] But as all travelers know, extra batteries can still be your best friend. [In this case, PLENTY of extra Batteries] With ThinkPad's battery and power options, you can ensure that your notebook is always ready when you are.
I applied for a patent back in 1994 on embedding a link to a document within another document. A truly novel concept.
As soon as my patent is issued, you're all screwed! I'm going to sue the entire internet!
HA HA HA HAHA!
I'll be richer than Gates!
Consulting; Build your own or work with others?
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I notice that you are intending to start a security consulting practice of your own. You are also going to be hosting a webinar in conjunction with NetIQ, a security company, on February 18th. I believe the title of that webinar is "People & Policies: Turning
Your Weakest Security Link into a First Line of Defense"
My question is two part.
First: Are you starting your own consulting firm -Defensive Thinking- to work independantly or are you planning to work for/with other security companies such as NetIQ?
Second: Do you feel that your criminal conviction will limit you when working with companies that require background checks/clean backgrounds?
Research states that once you learn a language, you then have the "Keys" necessary to store memories and recall them. If you speak english, you think in english. If you think of your mind as a filing cabinet, it's tough to file anything away and recall it if there is no filing system.
With this limited information, and from what I recall from my college psychology classes, if you do relearn a forgotten language, you should be able to recall more of your past. Additionally, if you speak to someone who knew you back then, they can quite often trigger memories that you thought you'd long forgotten.
A second tenet of memory is pictures and images. If I say the word "Carrot" your mind recalls a carrot, you may picture the orange carrot with the green top, and that image may be linked to something like Bugs Bunny, and so on...
With this type of memory, you cannot remember anything you do not know. What I mean is you cannot remember a Carrot if you don't know what a carrot is. So, when you are young - say a toddler, you have no basis for memory. That is why toddlers (12mos - 3yrs old) will walk around and put everything in their mouths. This is to familiarize themselves with their surroundings and as they learn the language, map the name to the object they have handled.
Once you have associated the name of an object with that object - such as the word Carrot with an orange vegetable, you can then recall those items as they have been stored together in your mind.
drDugan wrote ...here is a snapshot on how these fucks think:
"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job," said one official who has supervised the capture and transfer of accused terrorists. "I don't think we want to be promoting a view of zero tolerance on this. That was the whole problem for a long time with the CIA."
found this in a quick search in TODAY's news. if you are not paranoid about our government, you're not listening.
Do you have a problem of being safe? We haven't had any more terror attacks, so what do I care if the government turns their heads while other governments torture the shit out of creeps and scumbags. At least my family can sleep here at night in the gretest nation on gods green earth.
Why do people think that ALICE is so smart?
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Every time I've conversed with the A.L.I.C.E. bot, it became quite apparent that I was speaking to a computer. When holding any conversation, it becomes quite apparent that the responses are all canned. I just don't get why so many people just rave about it being like you're talking to a real person.
Any question that you ask that involves some depth of thought, the ALICE bot responds with superficial answer, trying to keep the conversation simple. Ask another intellectual question and ALICE will simply change the subject.
While some might say that this illustrates the advanced artificial intelligence of the ALICE bot, I would have to say that I disagree.
Here are some pictures of the Linux Networx cluster that were taken as the unit was being assembled at the Center/7 facility in Utah. This is the cluster that has been delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
It's a pretty awesome machine, each blade has two 1.4ghz Xeon processors and 4gigs of Ram.
This machine makes the best Counter Strike server I've ever played on!
In my career in IT, I have managed to avoid getting into the Programming Rat Race. I have vested my time into Routing & Switching, a technology that grows more and more complex day by day. With new technologies such as VoIP & QoS emerging and becoming more and more important I know that I will never be out of a job because I'm the one that gets all the computers on all the networks to communicate with each other.
I have been laid off but I have never been out of a job for long. When I'm not configuring wans/lans then I'm teaching classes on how to secure them which there will always be a need for.
I would have to say that picking a technlology that has been around since the 60's such as unix (linux), routing & switching [connectivity] is where I never see people seeking a meal.
Yup, that's it.
The system was housed/assembled at Center 7 in Lindon, Utah (Between Orem & Pleasant Grove, if anyone cares).
I know that it's not classified, but they kept it under pretty strict guard and wouldn't let anyone take pictures of it. I'm kinda suprised that those pictures are just posted out on the web. Well, I don't see why I should be suprised.
I've seen it, and I have the pictures to prove it.
Its a pretty cool system.
Wanna see the pics? Email me at jrhelgeson@hotmail.com with the subject of TFLOP and I'll forward the supposedly classified pics to you.
The pics were taken at the NOC where the supercomputer was assembled prior to shipment to the Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Labs.
I do security audits all the time. I have done security audits for Banks, Colleges, manufacturing plants, and yes - even government institiutions. I can give you all the detail you need on what to look for in an auditor and more.
Feel free to email me directly at jrhelgeson@hotmail.com.
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Meganet is winning government contracts left & right. 90% of cryptologists that are worth their salt work for the government agencies, If it passes their muster -- I would put my faith in it.
I think the story the COO told you was a bit bogus, usually companies that are requesting the background check care little about your credit history.
The real purpose for the credit check is that the credit companies, Experian, TransUnion & Equifax, keep all your previous addresses that you've used over the past 7 years to apply for credit. (Side note: you can dispute this information just like you can dispute anything else on your credit report)
What the background investigation company does is take those addresses and run a local records check in those cities where you've lived previously (or rather applied for credit in). They can also search in surrounding cities and possibly even the counties - but the cost of the check goes up with the more in-depth they search.
The obvious result is a more comprehensive criminal background check. They can see that you've got an outstanding warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket in the state you used to live in, for example. Or you moved from a certain state because you had a criminal record. Or you are a parolee that was convicted of murdering your mother, and moved to a new state to evade your probation as was discovered by a company I used to work for. They got rid of him pretty quick.
Good Luck!
We later went out to purchase another 1000 laptops and desktops (a $2 million dollar order). We told IBM to not even bother bidding because they refused to take care of the laptop problem. It was then that they FINALLY acknowledged that they had a problem with their batteries and offered to take care of it by sending us out 200 new batteries!
We told them to stick it because we were replacing the laptops, they had lived their life. Our end users were upset and didn't want IBM ever again, laptop or desktop. IBM wound up losing a major account due to those stupid batteries.
The irony of the situation is IBM's website that states:
Thanks to IBM's advanced power management systems, the ThinkPad's battery life has earned a powerhouse of a reputation. [HA!] But as all travelers know, extra batteries can still be your best friend. [In this case, PLENTY of extra Batteries] With ThinkPad's battery and power options, you can ensure that your notebook is always ready when you are.
As soon as my patent is issued, you're all screwed! I'm going to sue the entire internet!
HA HA HA HAHA!
I'll be richer than Gates!
My question is two part.
First: Are you starting your own consulting firm -Defensive Thinking- to work independantly or are you planning to work for/with other security companies such as NetIQ?
Second: Do you feel that your criminal conviction will limit you when working with companies that require background checks/clean backgrounds?
Whenever I've needed higher throughput on a high end desktop or server I just went out and put in an Adaptec SCSI card and SCSI drive.
I can see the benefits of the new cable design but don't see how the SATA architecture really benefits over SCSI.
With this limited information, and from what I recall from my college psychology classes, if you do relearn a forgotten language, you should be able to recall more of your past. Additionally, if you speak to someone who knew you back then, they can quite often trigger memories that you thought you'd long forgotten.
A second tenet of memory is pictures and images. If I say the word "Carrot" your mind recalls a carrot, you may picture the orange carrot with the green top, and that image may be linked to something like Bugs Bunny, and so on...
With this type of memory, you cannot remember anything you do not know. What I mean is you cannot remember a Carrot if you don't know what a carrot is. So, when you are young - say a toddler, you have no basis for memory. That is why toddlers (12mos - 3yrs old) will walk around and put everything in their mouths. This is to familiarize themselves with their surroundings and as they learn the language, map the name to the object they have handled.
Once you have associated the name of an object with that object - such as the word Carrot with an orange vegetable, you can then recall those items as they have been stored together in your mind.
"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job," said one official who has supervised the capture and transfer of accused terrorists. "I don't think we want to be promoting a view of zero tolerance on this. That was the whole problem for a long time with the CIA."
found this in a quick search in TODAY's news. if you are not paranoid about our government, you're not listening.
Do you have a problem of being safe? We haven't had any more terror attacks, so what do I care if the government turns their heads while other governments torture the shit out of creeps and scumbags.
At least my family can sleep here at night in the gretest nation on gods green earth.
Any question that you ask that involves some depth of thought, the ALICE bot responds with superficial answer, trying to keep the conversation simple. Ask another intellectual question and ALICE will simply change the subject.
While some might say that this illustrates the advanced artificial intelligence of the ALICE bot, I would have to say that I disagree.
Joel
"Does Fuzzy Logic Tickle?"
It's a pretty awesome machine, each blade has two 1.4ghz Xeon processors and 4gigs of Ram.
This machine makes the best Counter Strike server I've ever played on!
I have been laid off but I have never been out of a job for long. When I'm not configuring wans/lans then I'm teaching classes on how to secure them which there will always be a need for.
I would have to say that picking a technlology that has been around since the 60's such as unix (linux), routing & switching [connectivity] is where I never see people seeking a meal.
Yup, that's it. The system was housed/assembled at Center 7 in Lindon, Utah (Between Orem & Pleasant Grove, if anyone cares). I know that it's not classified, but they kept it under pretty strict guard and wouldn't let anyone take pictures of it. I'm kinda suprised that those pictures are just posted out on the web. Well, I don't see why I should be suprised.
I've seen it, and I have the pictures to prove it. Its a pretty cool system. Wanna see the pics? Email me at jrhelgeson@hotmail.com with the subject of TFLOP and I'll forward the supposedly classified pics to you. The pics were taken at the NOC where the supercomputer was assembled prior to shipment to the Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Labs.
I do security audits all the time. I have done security audits for Banks, Colleges, manufacturing plants, and yes - even government institiutions. I can give you all the detail you need on what to look for in an auditor and more. Feel free to email me directly at jrhelgeson@hotmail.com.