Back then, didn't have to lie about it. People where more interested in what you knew, as opposed to how much money you paid for a piece of paper. But yeah, it was right around the time that was changing, so maybe that's it.
This is total BS. The Slashdot summary of the article anyhow.
As a senior, but with practical security experience, plenty of it, I can tell you what is happening is the younger crowd are FAR more likely to lie about having sent business information. The older one gets, the less they care about lying to cover their ass.
Secondly I will say that in every job I worked, I knew a lot more about security than the company did. An exception might be the companies that specifically hired me, to breach security at their companies, as proof their college educated certified IT people were clueless. Someone on the board of those companies knew the difference between book smart and actually smart.
Great example; the white house;
me: why does CICS have all these storage violations everyday?
OPM: oh they are nothing, just program bugs
me: no, they are storage violations. You can't tell the difference between a program bug and someone intentionally going after info.
OPM: your fired.
Guess what news story was next to be covered up and swept under the rug?
Bosses, senior or not, who do not want to hear bad news is what leads to things like the Healthcare rollout fiasco. And they are the #1 security problem in I.T. as well.
"Consumer robotics started off closed, which helps to explain why it has moved so slowly"
No, exactly the opposite. Open ROS is why robotics has moved so slowly. No profit, no motive. MS left the game a long time ago (and MS Robotics Studio was just incubator for other.Net components anyhow).
Robotics will lead to joblessness and unemployment beyond anything the world has seen before. Get used to it, and figure out how to deal with it now, instead of waiting until it becomes a crisis.
Look at US progress in less than 300 years. From horse drawn carts to self driving cars. We will make at least that much a change in the next 100 years. Anyone who can think enough to breathe, knows Robotics will revolutionize at least blue collar work, and possibly (when is the question) white collar work as well.
No doubt, weaponizing will be one of the first uses. But is that a game changer? I mean the US can bomb you at night from an autonomous drone already, so I don't think so.
But the real issue I have is why does being open have anything to do with progress? When the PC came out, and Windows established the market lead, good or bad, you have to acknowledge that closed software enabled the PC commodity market. I look at ROS and robotics, with the biggest supporter dropping out (willow garage) and I seriously doubt if open vs closed has anything to do with success.
No, like PCs, it takes vision, where things are going and who wants to be the pivot. Look to Google. Whatever they do, open or closed, will be the hub for robotics.
I always have routed for robotics. And I have always been disappointed by them.
Let's talk basics, pre-robotics. Video production 101 at the community college. Whoever put the show on could not sync audio and video, and the final 'closing ceremony' was nothing but a 'technical difficulty' screen. Face it, when we can't use technology to broadcast an event, 60 years after TVs invention, we can not do anything that resembles rescue oriented robotics.
The robots themselves, were lacking. Not the hardware platforms, they seemed ok, but the software sucked. Dabbling around robotics myself, I understand why, and acknowledge the teams efforts. But the fact remains; even for a first attempt, I saw nothing 'promising'. We (as a planet) spend too much emphasis on blinking light arduinos, and far too little time encouraging software skills. Again, from personal experience, I can see how the teams had to use compilers with no remote debugging, probably archaic monolithic code ('C' and Assembler), hard to use cross compiling, and basically the kind of stuff you would only force on a development team if you wanted them to fail.
And while I said I thought the hardware looked OK, I will make an observation; 90% of the time the robots stood there doing nothing, that stupid single LIDAR was spinning its ass off. Was that just to keep its grease warm, or was it indeed a huge bottle neck to have only 1 apparently limited LIDAR? To me, the chassis builder (BDI) should have provided at least 3 LIDARS at varying elevations, and the software to analyse point cloud data and provide solid models of the environment should have been on their own independent processors. I get the feeling entirely too much time was required for the developers to do that themselves. Its something everybody needed to do, it should be provided with the hardware.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. I looked at the simulator code back when it was released but have long since forgotten it. Government funded, intended to be open, but I haven't seen where anyone has published anything. Maybe just too early.
Mixed feelings. I too followed a similar past, moved from Washington, DC to sticks of Tennessee. Got sick and moved to Seattle because healthcare is so poor in Tennessee.
I'm torn on the wussification factor. In a way, I appreciate the gentler kinder spirit, and in other ways I feel like people here would rather kill themselves than stand up for something they believe in.
And those gay MS surface commercials? (not to offend gays, but it is the best fitting description) Well that is how people really are here. Its like a big Glee episode.You know, guys wearing girls pants, etc. There was some of that in other places, but it is the norm here. Guys care about their hairstyle. Again, not trying to bash feminine men, I actually prefer gay friends, even though I'm pretty much classic non-gay redneck.
But there is a phrase, 'Seattle freeze', look it up on google. It is accurate. "hello, how are you? I hope you have a wonderful day, just please do it somewhere else"
This is the one thing I have always hated about reality.
One experience comes to mind; A new project comes up, I tell my boss that "it is impossible to do it that fast." His response "we will need to manage it tightly then."
I mean WTF?
Similar, job interview; "how long will it take you?" "3 weeks" "we need it done in 2. Joe says he can do it in 2, so we hired Joe" 6 weeks later the jobs gets finished and Joe is awarded a raise because he has a "positive attitude"
Fuck Joe, he lied at the start and he knew it. Joe is being rewarded for his attitude and not his skill. I wouldn't want to work for that company anyhow. (side story, that boss was convicted of embezzlement 6 months later)
So, yeah anyhow, 2 observations; Every situation is unique, but you have 20 written applications, it sure should not take 4 programmers to maintain them, unless they are crap to begin with, if so that is part of the problem. I can see 130 desktops+servers keeping one guy busy, sounds like someone should have free time to be of assistance, dedicated help desk for a time, at a minimum. Work smart, don't cause your own workload, ie by buying cheap hardware that has to be maintained all the time. That is a case where basic analysis skills will verify or refute a real problem.
If it is really as bad as you say, first post wins; quit.
Sadly, and reality; if you can't find another job, you are probably part of the problem.
Well actually, forgive me, too bored to read your entire post, but;
No, I was never a marine. I do not have a twitter, or facebook account, and I am smart enough to know those who have been tagging their friends in photographs on facebook for the last 5 years have done a wonderful job of priming the NSA facial recognition database.
But, I have worked around and for the NSA. I have no false beliefs that I or anyone else has privacy, and I frankly do not care.
And my name is Mike, Mike Partain to be exact, more commonly known as Spiked3 but i think that was unavailable on slashdot. So good accidental guess.
Haha, look at all the AC posts. You guys are fricken cowards. Like posting anonymously is somehow going to prevent the government from knowing who you are.
Look, you give an agency the task of preventing damage to your country - that is what they are going to try and do, any way they can or have to. And lets be real, laws are just a game. Everyday we see how loopholes, misinterpretations etc are used to get around anything. You think ANYONE at ANYTIME expected GE, Apple, Microsoft to pay 0 taxes? And yet they do, year after year, because with the right efforts, all laws can be gotten around. Laws are what naive people follow, like religions (and religious laws).
If you want the NSA/FBI/CIA to stop spying on everyone, abolish them. Then enjoy your free country for about a year, because that is as long as it will last.
Otherwise understand it is a balance. A balance that people in those positions understand much better than the general public. Let them do their job.
Well at least I got the information out there, regardless of this douchebag and the douche bag moderators.
Hopefully some readers can comprehend the difference between e Credit Reporting Agency, and a 'Creditor'.
What ageoffri has posted is bullshit. He never 'spoke' to a credit agency. He never threatened anyone. You never get past a $.50 a day operator in India.
I went through all of this. Got laughed out by the clerk. Got laughed at by the Rental company that refused me housing because of inaccurate data, and was refused living. Got the standard 'we don't understand' letter from the CRA. And can not do dick myself about reporting so flakey it does not even provide contact information.
The only option is to hire a lawyer who does not really give a crap about you but who is ALSO only interested in how much money they can make from credit reporting fraud. It is a fucked up government supported and encouraged system.
Look asswipe, it doesn't happen that way. You go to the clerk, say you want to sue a CRA and they laugh you out of the building. Some folks were pissed enough to pay a lawyer big bucks, and sue the 'reporters' of the credit information for defamation, but you can't sue the CRA. I don't care how many fantasy sucking followers you have, it doesn't happen to regular folks.
"Credit bureaus won't help you much under those circumstances. They'll continue to report what creditors tell them. It's up to you to work things out with the bank, mortgage company, credit-card company or department store that messed up your credit record in the first place.
You can have statements attached to your file disputing the information, but it still will turn up on your credit report. But that was pretty much assumed to be as far as a wronged consumer could go.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act, which governs credit reporting, says that only a state's attorney general can sue a creditor for furnishing inaccurate information. But if the creditor doesn't fix the inaccuracy permanently and in a reasonable time, you can sue, even though the Fair Credit Reporting Act doesn't explicitly give you that option."
So yeah, if you pay a lawyer enough, he can use a loophole for slander/libel, but you can NOT sue the CRA for reporting inaccurate information, as a result of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Got it?
Do you realize that credit reporting agencies are 'regulated' and that means absolutely nothing?
All that smoke and mirrors they put out about checking your credit report, and fixing errors, doesn't really happen. It is there ONLY so the consumer thinks credit reporting is fair. The fact is the credit reporting agency 1) makes more money from you 2) ignores your request to fix items. Why should they care? You CAN NOT sue them. Bet you didn't know that did you? Only a state's attorney Generals can sue a credit reporting agency. That is part of the deal they got to support fair credit laws in the first place. Like just about everything else in this country lately, they had a huge lobbying effort to exclude themselves from lawsuits, took all your representatives to steak and lobster dinner, and called it something that sounded like it was made to protect the consumer. IT IS NOT!
If you go through the trouble of writing them to correct something, they just send you a generic letter; "We do not understand your request." Since you can not sue, that is the end of it.
So the root of this problem is both the slimey business, but as much the slimey credit reporting agencies that make it a viable business model. Experian will even sell social securrity numbers to crooks now to make money;
The sr-71 was retired, but then brought out of retirement, which many people thought strange since it's rplacement, the aurora had already been made as a revel model.
But now, it (the sr-71) is being replaced? If history is any indication, there have been at least 3 new spy planes since the sr-71 already. What about the top secret shuttle like orbit capable craft that has been covered? I have to ask WTF do we need with another plane. Probably answer is this is just mis-direction.
Ever hear the phrase 'the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing' ?
Something tells me you are an expert at it's implementation.
Nothing of any significance gets built without chopping it up into smaller pieces and distributing the work. If you think that it is magically going to work together you are crazy. Smart meetings are the ones that pick the leaders and allow them to discuss and agree on an approach.
I will agree dragging some low life insignificant code writer into them is probably a waste of everyone's time. It is more often done to try and prevent them from whining about how something was decided on later. "Who's the idiot that came up with this?" - harder to say that when you were involved. The point being if you are dragged into a meeting, it is probably because you are a 'leader' or a 'whiner'. At least that has been my experience.
They are only a waste of time because of people who arrive late, do not prepare, and spend too much time babbling about stuff that is unimportant.
Meeting can and should be about collaboration, with group participation, and getting something done. If you can not get that out of a meeting, fire the participants.
Slashdot Mirror
oh, ok, i get it.
me=me, you=someone else
me=not terrorist, you=terrorist
Sorry, his statement is about as important as goat cheese is too a hockey team.
Well, I do define terrorism as 'that which opposes me'. But I could not make any sense of the rest of your post.
Do you think the fear of being bombed at 2am is not a terror?
Wtf does this have to do with communism?
This is modded informative. I think this a perfect example of how the slashdot moderation system has become a total farce.
Back then, didn't have to lie about it. People where more interested in what you knew, as opposed to how much money you paid for a piece of paper. But yeah, it was right around the time that was changing, so maybe that's it.
low frequency wall penetrating sound waves that scramble the brain, are the method of choice these days.
This is total BS. The Slashdot summary of the article anyhow.
As a senior, but with practical security experience, plenty of it, I can tell you what is happening is the younger crowd are FAR more likely to lie about having sent business information. The older one gets, the less they care about lying to cover their ass.
Secondly I will say that in every job I worked, I knew a lot more about security than the company did. An exception might be the companies that specifically hired me, to breach security at their companies, as proof their college educated certified IT people were clueless. Someone on the board of those companies knew the difference between book smart and actually smart.
Great example; the white house;
me: why does CICS have all these storage violations everyday?
OPM: oh they are nothing, just program bugs
me: no, they are storage violations. You can't tell the difference between a program bug and someone intentionally going after info.
OPM: your fired.
Guess what news story was next to be covered up and swept under the rug?
Bosses, senior or not, who do not want to hear bad news is what leads to things like the Healthcare rollout fiasco. And they are the #1 security problem in I.T. as well.
We ONLY need these weapons to defend ourselves from foriegn attack and invasion .....
Or when protecting our 'strategic interests' become very important. For instance in order to protect Israel, a nation we can not live without.
Oh, and also in case any one pisses us off and does anything we do not like.
Heck I will even revise my comment
.Net components anyhow).
"Consumer robotics started off closed, which helps to explain why it has moved so slowly"
No, exactly the opposite. Open ROS is why robotics has moved so slowly. No profit, no motive. MS left the game a long time ago (and MS Robotics Studio was just incubator for other
Robotics will lead to joblessness and unemployment beyond anything the world has seen before. Get used to it, and figure out how to deal with it now, instead of waiting until it becomes a crisis.
Look at US progress in less than 300 years. From horse drawn carts to self driving cars. We will make at least that much a change in the next 100 years. Anyone who can think enough to breathe, knows Robotics will revolutionize at least blue collar work, and possibly (when is the question) white collar work as well.
No doubt, weaponizing will be one of the first uses. But is that a game changer? I mean the US can bomb you at night from an autonomous drone already, so I don't think so.
But the real issue I have is why does being open have anything to do with progress? When the PC came out, and Windows established the market lead, good or bad, you have to acknowledge that closed software enabled the PC commodity market. I look at ROS and robotics, with the biggest supporter dropping out (willow garage) and I seriously doubt if open vs closed has anything to do with success.
No, like PCs, it takes vision, where things are going and who wants to be the pivot. Look to Google. Whatever they do, open or closed, will be the hub for robotics.
No, not at all.
From the DARPA page at http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/about
"development of robots featuring task-level autonomy that can operate in the hazardous, degraded conditions "
and
"Task-level autonomy is the opposite of tele-operation"
The tele-operation was something like "open door", no team used game controllers for tele-operations.
I always have routed for robotics. And I have always been disappointed by them.
Let's talk basics, pre-robotics. Video production 101 at the community college. Whoever put the show on could not sync audio and video, and the final 'closing ceremony' was nothing but a 'technical difficulty' screen. Face it, when we can't use technology to broadcast an event, 60 years after TVs invention, we can not do anything that resembles rescue oriented robotics.
The robots themselves, were lacking. Not the hardware platforms, they seemed ok, but the software sucked. Dabbling around robotics myself, I understand why, and acknowledge the teams efforts. But the fact remains; even for a first attempt, I saw nothing 'promising'. We (as a planet) spend too much emphasis on blinking light arduinos, and far too little time encouraging software skills. Again, from personal experience, I can see how the teams had to use compilers with no remote debugging, probably archaic monolithic code ('C' and Assembler), hard to use cross compiling, and basically the kind of stuff you would only force on a development team if you wanted them to fail.
And while I said I thought the hardware looked OK, I will make an observation; 90% of the time the robots stood there doing nothing, that stupid single LIDAR was spinning its ass off. Was that just to keep its grease warm, or was it indeed a huge bottle neck to have only 1 apparently limited LIDAR? To me, the chassis builder (BDI) should have provided at least 3 LIDARS at varying elevations, and the software to analyse point cloud data and provide solid models of the environment should have been on their own independent processors. I get the feeling entirely too much time was required for the developers to do that themselves. Its something everybody needed to do, it should be provided with the hardware.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. I looked at the simulator code back when it was released but have long since forgotten it. Government funded, intended to be open, but I haven't seen where anyone has published anything. Maybe just too early.
Mixed feelings. I too followed a similar past, moved from Washington, DC to sticks of Tennessee. Got sick and moved to Seattle because healthcare is so poor in Tennessee.
I'm torn on the wussification factor. In a way, I appreciate the gentler kinder spirit, and in other ways I feel like people here would rather kill themselves than stand up for something they believe in.
And those gay MS surface commercials? (not to offend gays, but it is the best fitting description) Well that is how people really are here. Its like a big Glee episode.You know, guys wearing girls pants, etc. There was some of that in other places, but it is the norm here. Guys care about their hairstyle. Again, not trying to bash feminine men, I actually prefer gay friends, even though I'm pretty much classic non-gay redneck.
But there is a phrase, 'Seattle freeze', look it up on google. It is accurate. "hello, how are you? I hope you have a wonderful day, just please do it somewhere else"
This is the one thing I have always hated about reality.
One experience comes to mind; A new project comes up, I tell my boss that "it is impossible to do it that fast." His response "we will need to manage it tightly then."
I mean WTF?
Similar, job interview; "how long will it take you?" "3 weeks" "we need it done in 2. Joe says he can do it in 2, so we hired Joe" 6 weeks later the jobs gets finished and Joe is awarded a raise because he has a "positive attitude"
Fuck Joe, he lied at the start and he knew it. Joe is being rewarded for his attitude and not his skill. I wouldn't want to work for that company anyhow. (side story, that boss was convicted of embezzlement 6 months later)
So, yeah anyhow, 2 observations; Every situation is unique, but you have 20 written applications, it sure should not take 4 programmers to maintain them, unless they are crap to begin with, if so that is part of the problem. I can see 130 desktops+servers keeping one guy busy, sounds like someone should have free time to be of assistance, dedicated help desk for a time, at a minimum. Work smart, don't cause your own workload, ie by buying cheap hardware that has to be maintained all the time. That is a case where basic analysis skills will verify or refute a real problem.
If it is really as bad as you say, first post wins; quit.
Sadly, and reality; if you can't find another job, you are probably part of the problem.
Well actually, forgive me, too bored to read your entire post, but;
No, I was never a marine. I do not have a twitter, or facebook account, and I am smart enough to know those who have been tagging their friends in photographs on facebook for the last 5 years have done a wonderful job of priming the NSA facial recognition database.
But, I have worked around and for the NSA. I have no false beliefs that I or anyone else has privacy, and I frankly do not care.
And my name is Mike, Mike Partain to be exact, more commonly known as Spiked3 but i think that was unavailable on slashdot. So good accidental guess.
haha, well played.
I guess that makes sense if you are ashamed and/or embarassed about your position.
Haha, look at all the AC posts. You guys are fricken cowards. Like posting anonymously is somehow going to prevent the government from knowing who you are.
Look, you give an agency the task of preventing damage to your country - that is what they are going to try and do, any way they can or have to. And lets be real, laws are just a game. Everyday we see how loopholes, misinterpretations etc are used to get around anything. You think ANYONE at ANYTIME expected GE, Apple, Microsoft to pay 0 taxes? And yet they do, year after year, because with the right efforts, all laws can be gotten around. Laws are what naive people follow, like religions (and religious laws).
If you want the NSA/FBI/CIA to stop spying on everyone, abolish them. Then enjoy your free country for about a year, because that is as long as it will last.
Otherwise understand it is a balance. A balance that people in those positions understand much better than the general public. Let them do their job.
Well at least I got the information out there, regardless of this douchebag and the douche bag moderators.
Hopefully some readers can comprehend the difference between e Credit Reporting Agency, and a 'Creditor'.
What ageoffri has posted is bullshit. He never 'spoke' to a credit agency. He never threatened anyone. You never get past a $.50 a day operator in India.
I went through all of this. Got laughed out by the clerk. Got laughed at by the Rental company that refused me housing because of inaccurate data, and was refused living. Got the standard 'we don't understand' letter from the CRA. And can not do dick myself about reporting so flakey it does not even provide contact information.
The only option is to hire a lawyer who does not really give a crap about you but who is ALSO only interested in how much money they can make from credit reporting fraud. It is a fucked up government supported and encouraged system.
and again your dick sucking moderator mods you up
Look asswipe, it doesn't happen that way. You go to the clerk, say you want to sue a CRA and they laugh you out of the building. Some folks were pissed enough to pay a lawyer big bucks, and sue the 'reporters' of the credit information for defamation, but you can't sue the CRA. I don't care how many fantasy sucking followers you have, it doesn't happen to regular folks.
"Credit bureaus won't help you much under those circumstances. They'll continue to report what creditors tell them. It's up to you to work things out with the bank, mortgage company, credit-card company or department store that messed up your credit record in the first place.
You can have statements attached to your file disputing the information, but it still will turn up on your credit report. But that was pretty much assumed to be as far as a wronged consumer could go.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act, which governs credit reporting, says that only a state's attorney general can sue a creditor for furnishing inaccurate information. But if the creditor doesn't fix the inaccuracy permanently and in a reasonable time, you can sue, even though the Fair Credit Reporting Act doesn't explicitly give you that option."
So yeah, if you pay a lawyer enough, he can use a loophole for slander/libel, but you can NOT sue the CRA for reporting inaccurate information, as a result of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Got it?
WTF? You post and article that says just about the exact thing I said, call me wrong and get modded informative.
Did any of you idiot moderators even read the linked articles or do you just enjoy sucking this guys diick?
Do you realize that credit reporting agencies are 'regulated' and that means absolutely nothing?
All that smoke and mirrors they put out about checking your credit report, and fixing errors, doesn't really happen. It is there ONLY so the consumer thinks credit reporting is fair. The fact is the credit reporting agency 1) makes more money from you 2) ignores your request to fix items. Why should they care? You CAN NOT sue them. Bet you didn't know that did you? Only a state's attorney Generals can sue a credit reporting agency. That is part of the deal they got to support fair credit laws in the first place. Like just about everything else in this country lately, they had a huge lobbying effort to exclude themselves from lawsuits, took all your representatives to steak and lobster dinner, and called it something that sounded like it was made to protect the consumer. IT IS NOT!
If you go through the trouble of writing them to correct something, they just send you a generic letter; "We do not understand your request." Since you can not sue, that is the end of it.
So the root of this problem is both the slimey business, but as much the slimey credit reporting agencies that make it a viable business model. Experian will even sell social securrity numbers to crooks now to make money;
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/10/25/experian_data_broker_social_security_numbers_sold_to_identity_thieves.html
The sr-71 was retired, but then brought out of retirement, which many people thought strange since it's rplacement, the aurora had already been made as a revel model.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lockheed+aurora&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS531US531&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=JQZ4UrbZLomEiwKxiYHQBg&ved=0CDsQsAQ&biw=1547&bih=969
But now, it (the sr-71) is being replaced? If history is any indication, there have been at least 3 new spy planes since the sr-71 already. What about the top secret shuttle like orbit capable craft that has been covered? I have to ask WTF do we need with another plane. Probably answer is this is just mis-direction.
Ever hear the phrase 'the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing' ?
Something tells me you are an expert at it's implementation.
Nothing of any significance gets built without chopping it up into smaller pieces and distributing the work. If you think that it is magically going to work together you are crazy. Smart meetings are the ones that pick the leaders and allow them to discuss and agree on an approach.
I will agree dragging some low life insignificant code writer into them is probably a waste of everyone's time. It is more often done to try and prevent them from whining about how something was decided on later. "Who's the idiot that came up with this?" - harder to say that when you were involved. The point being if you are dragged into a meeting, it is probably because you are a 'leader' or a 'whiner'. At least that has been my experience.
They are only a waste of time because of people who arrive late, do not prepare, and spend too much time babbling about stuff that is unimportant.
Meeting can and should be about collaboration, with group participation, and getting something done. If you can not get that out of a meeting, fire the participants.
I blame KSP.
Seriously, orbit physics is now part of a computer entertainment game.
And yet, US children keep getting dumber on average, WTF?
Hell no.
Personal experience; Ask Bruce to evaluate our product. His reply "The more you pay, the more I like it."
He is a crypto savvy person, who can manipulate his opinion however it needs to, to generate the most income.
Do you trust a dentist to tell you how often you need dental checkups? Or an oil change company to tell you how often to change your oil?
Oh wait, you probably do, don't you?