I kind of miss the crazy hotties that used to pervade the network sales arena. I won't even name the worst offenders, although the worst started with the word cable. They would go to job fairs and hire the hottest birds, put them in the shortest shirts and low cut blouses, usually white with black push-up bras - and send them in to sell you switches.
It was like watching the cast of a porn film come visit. Complete with the sleazebag regional manager, some of them even had gold chains on. Pimps up, big daddy!
They would laugh at whatever the customer said wildly, even if it wasn't really funny. The girls would bat their eyelashes and drop pencils. It was so ridiculous it was funny, it was like a real life comedy show skit.
I wonder how much skimming went on in those days. Bogus purchase orders, fake invoices. Slap and tickle. The WORST was if your company had no money to afford any of the infratsructure and the networking company would get their "capital finance" team involved. Some really seedy slimy stuff went down in the dot-com boom. And not just down pantlegs, either.
It sounds like somebody speaking Engrish on the streets of Hong Kong, hawking pirated DVDs of "Hot Nurses 4". "You there, you want Medicine Porn Story!"
Val Noorda Kreidel, Ray Noorda's only daughter, shot herself to death at her home in Huntington Beach, California at 8am last Thursday morning, March 17, according to Orange County supervising deputy coroner Cullen Ellingburgh.
She shot herself in the head with a handgun, Ellingburgh said. He ruled out murder.
Ms. Kreidel committed suicide less than a week after the fracas over the management of the Canopy Group, her father's venture capital operation, was settled.
She was 49 and leaves a husband, four daughters and a son in addition to her parents and brothers.
The settlement transferred Canopy's 32% position in the infamous SCO Group and an undisclosed amount of money to former Canopy CEO Ralph Yarro.
The Yahoo message board related to SCO's stock wasn't content with the initial report that Ms. Kriedel died of an apparent heart attack and placed calls to the coroner that tore away the protective euphemism.
Given Ms. Kriedel's conservative Mormon roots, one can understand why the family might be giving it out that she died of natural causes.
The Inheritance, by David Sanger. A terrific book, I read it from cover to cover in three sittings. It's basically what Obama was sat down and told about the world and global nuclear proliferation and what his options are. It details some fascinating history, esp. around Khan in Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan) that will be making you shake your fist and say "Khaaaaaaaaaannn!". (He gave the Iranians much of what they needed to build a nuclear program).
Posturing aside, giving the talking heads and think tankers something to chirp about on CNN - the real threat isn't Iran. Pakistan is the threat. Iran has uranium and reactors. They don't have a warhead. Pakistan has LOTS of warheads, and they MAY or MAY NOT meet your definition of "secure". They could very easily go missing, as the programs in place to account in such matters sort of don't work in Pakistan.
Again - the book lays all this out in exacting detail. I recommend the book to everyone.
Why don't the Germans work toward preventing fascism from taking over Democracy. It's harder than it seems, witness the USA's own GW Bush and the powers under the Patriot Act and Patriot Act II.
The Japanese Rising Sun flag has no such power,so why don't they give it a rest.
In the Godfather 7: Godfather TRON what we see is that after the murder of a local police captain, Michael retreats to Sicily and meets a local woman. He asks her hand in marriage, and there is much rejoicing. On their honeymoon, they swim in the warm waters off the coast. Michael suspects there is a bomb in his car, ready to kill his new innocent bride.
But as the bomb explodes, she is burned badly. However, having become a mutant with healing powers, she recovers and grows adamantium claws! Michael makes her an offer she cannot refuse and she has an epic battle with Godzilla at the end. Her mutant name becomes "Olive Slicer"!!!!
U not my girl
U not my wife
Got a couple tips from Mike
I'm moonwalkin outcha life
I close my eyes, you outta site
Now she wanna call me conceited
Cause I'm a Smooth Criminal
I told her to Beat It
When a lil' love was all I needed
U talkin'? I call it how I see it
And now I mean it
I'm out for good
Like a lot of u into movin out the hood
But if I told u take me back u would
Too late me and P like Pac & Suge
Had you into cars with a metro
With a couple superstar from the ghetto
Now you feelin so soft and u let go
Of da T.E.M.P.A Mental
What u gonna do
U aint no friend of mine
Look what u put me through
I'm the new Gangsta
What u gonna do
U ain't no friend of mine
I can never fall in love
The new Gangsta
What u gonna do
U ain't no friend of mine
(Whatchu Gooooonnnnnna Do)
Look what u put me through
Just in legal fees. Not to mention being stigmatized even if cleared of all charges. And unable to earn a living during this trial. If he had a family, his wife would have probably divorced him and taken the kids. They wrecked his life, because they are corrupt. Because they were embarrassed by him, by the press around it.
To honor the deeply corrupt SF government, the real life Hal Holbrooks who think they ARE the law, I give you Dirty Harry...
Poor Beate. He now knows he's only the 3 millionth thing people got around to caring about.
Beate baby - gotta work on your rep! Get a new agent. Have a scandal with an underage girl. No wait, this is Norway, make it a boy. You'll never make it into the post-apocalyptic ark that Norway is building in the Fjords at this rate!
Jose and those guys at Arbor are doing really concrete things to curb botnets and malware contagion. They have their gear in a great number of peering points around the world, and are correlating huge amounts of data into discrete patterns. I've seen Jose speak a couple of times, and I am impressed by the manner in which they are finding the ghosts who think they can't be found.
"Bringsjord acknowledges that the endeavor to create pure evil, even in a software program, does raise ethical questions, such as, how researchers could control an artificially intelligent character like E if "he" was placed in a virtual world such as Second Life, a Web-based program that allows people to create digital representations of themselves and have those avatars interact in a number of different ways."
Damn, imagine that. E running around in Second Life's Wild West park, ganking n00bs and getting all Charlie Manson with the other players. E says: Helter Skelter is here, man!
I think you can see, it looks and feels like a real game on tv. I think if you made Football 11 v 11 - people would sign on and play OG. I really do. I would play Madden online 11 v 11 and just work on being the best pass rusher in the game. I think online sports, where all the players are played by real people is the "next big thing" in gaming. In Football, there could even be a slot for coach, and that person gets to pick the play called. Then you could have 12 v 12. Real flamewars between Coach and QB's who go off script. I think it would be extremely popular, although some selfish people would refuse to play unless they could QB, that's how it is in real life too. It's whatever works.
Karl Denninger (who now makes his living from his Florida retirement home, trying to break the story on how Goldmann-Sachs used network taps to frontrun all trades on Wall Street, and runs his Market Ticker blog) and Kashpureff tried to break these guys and establish alt roots in 97. Anyone remember that eDNS fiasco? It didn't last long, nobody followed their pied-piper song.
These guys made a fortune, grabbing Net Solutions when it was obviously mismanaged, and used their background as junior grade Ross Perots to establish the world DNS order.
I found a pretty good PPT on the history of all this, including how Jon Postel worked for ICANN as one of his last works before he passed, RIP.
Here you go:
www.byte.org/ispbe2002/building-a-better-dns-r2.ppt
That gives the back story on what a soap opera DNS has been as well as this article. No small wonder that Verisign is the company that bought them. Verisign saw Tron in the early 1980s, looked at ENCOM, and said "yeah, we want to be JUST LIKE THAT."
Remember TPB had a link right off the home page of correspondence? It was with lawyers from Sony BMG, and other places. Usually it was a legalize Cease and Desist type letter.
The TPB guys would usually respond with some really funny snarky shit. Like "Dear Sirs, here in Sweden we think your shit attitude needs to get bent over a stool."
In some cases, they would piss the other side off so much they would drop the formal language and start spewing, like "you little shits, we're gonna find you and shut your asses down." It was hilarious to read them simply pissing on the leather shoes of expensive lawyers and telling them to fuck off.
Well, you do that enough and you get high on powerful enemy hit lists. Don't kid yourself, power multinationals bought off that Swedish judge and make this into a kangaroo court. It's probably one of the biggest travesties of justice of all time, the slope is so fucking slippery. They may as well sue the IETF or ARIN for giving out IP addresses to enable piracy. That's how egregious the law was twisted for the interests of powerful capitalists.
Now? Now they are laying on the hurt to teach the world a lesson.
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UE3 is the FPS that invented the sniper head shot, now considered de rigueur for all shooters.
I kind of miss the crazy hotties that used to pervade the network sales arena. I won't even name the worst offenders, although the worst started with the word cable. They would go to job fairs and hire the hottest birds, put them in the shortest shirts and low cut blouses, usually white with black push-up bras - and send them in to sell you switches.
It was like watching the cast of a porn film come visit. Complete with the sleazebag regional manager, some of them even had gold chains on. Pimps up, big daddy!
They would laugh at whatever the customer said wildly, even if it wasn't really funny. The girls would bat their eyelashes and drop pencils. It was so ridiculous it was funny, it was like a real life comedy show skit.
I wonder how much skimming went on in those days. Bogus purchase orders, fake invoices. Slap and tickle. The WORST was if your company had no money to afford any of the infratsructure and the networking company would get their "capital finance" team involved. Some really seedy slimy stuff went down in the dot-com boom. And not just down pantlegs, either.
Mmmmmm..... maid sandwich.
Those are the keywords for this article.
It sounds like somebody speaking Engrish on the streets of Hong Kong, hawking pirated DVDs of "Hot Nurses 4". "You there, you want Medicine Porn Story!"
From: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19229004_ITM
Val Noorda Kreidel, Ray Noorda's only daughter, shot herself to death at her home in Huntington Beach, California at 8am last Thursday morning, March 17, according to Orange County supervising deputy coroner Cullen Ellingburgh.
She shot herself in the head with a handgun, Ellingburgh said. He ruled out murder.
Ms. Kreidel committed suicide less than a week after the fracas over the management of the Canopy Group, her father's venture capital operation, was settled.
She was 49 and leaves a husband, four daughters and a son in addition to her parents and brothers.
The settlement transferred Canopy's 32% position in the infamous SCO Group and an undisclosed amount of money to former Canopy CEO Ralph Yarro. The Yahoo message board related to SCO's stock wasn't content with the initial report that Ms. Kriedel died of an apparent heart attack and placed calls to the coroner that tore away the protective euphemism.
Given Ms. Kriedel's conservative Mormon roots, one can understand why the family might be giving it out that she died of natural causes.
...too incredulous to believe. Especially in New York.
Mash-Up time!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVkEk-ci8xk
fascinating video from inside Dell's phone sales team....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY
The Inheritance, by David Sanger. A terrific book, I read it from cover to cover in three sittings. It's basically what Obama was sat down and told about the world and global nuclear proliferation and what his options are. It details some fascinating history, esp. around Khan in Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan) that will be making you shake your fist and say "Khaaaaaaaaaannn!". (He gave the Iranians much of what they needed to build a nuclear program).
http://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-World-Confronts-Challenges-American/dp/0307407926
Posturing aside, giving the talking heads and think tankers something to chirp about on CNN - the real threat isn't Iran. Pakistan is the threat. Iran has uranium and reactors. They don't have a warhead. Pakistan has LOTS of warheads, and they MAY or MAY NOT meet your definition of "secure". They could very easily go missing, as the programs in place to account in such matters sort of don't work in Pakistan.
Again - the book lays all this out in exacting detail. I recommend the book to everyone.
Why don't the Germans work toward preventing fascism from taking over Democracy. It's harder than it seems, witness the USA's own GW Bush and the powers under the Patriot Act and Patriot Act II.
The Japanese Rising Sun flag has no such power,so why don't they give it a rest.
In the Godfather 7: Godfather TRON what we see is that after the murder of a local police captain, Michael retreats to Sicily and meets a local woman. He asks her hand in marriage, and there is much rejoicing. On their honeymoon, they swim in the warm waters off the coast. Michael suspects there is a bomb in his car, ready to kill his new innocent bride.
But as the bomb explodes, she is burned badly. However, having become a mutant with healing powers, she recovers and grows adamantium claws! Michael makes her an offer she cannot refuse and she has an epic battle with Godzilla at the end. Her mutant name becomes "Olive Slicer"!!!!
U not my girl
U not my wife
Got a couple tips from Mike
I'm moonwalkin outcha life
I close my eyes, you outta site
Now she wanna call me conceited
Cause I'm a Smooth Criminal
I told her to Beat It
When a lil' love was all I needed
U talkin'? I call it how I see it
And now I mean it
I'm out for good
Like a lot of u into movin out the hood
But if I told u take me back u would
Too late me and P like Pac & Suge
Had you into cars with a metro
With a couple superstar from the ghetto
Now you feelin so soft and u let go
Of da T.E.M.P.A Mental
What u gonna do
U aint no friend of mine
Look what u put me through
I'm the new Gangsta
What u gonna do
U ain't no friend of mine
I can never fall in love
The new Gangsta
What u gonna do
U ain't no friend of mine
(Whatchu Gooooonnnnnna Do)
Look what u put me through
Just in legal fees. Not to mention being stigmatized even if cleared of all charges. And unable to earn a living during this trial. If he had a family, his wife would have probably divorced him and taken the kids. They wrecked his life, because they are corrupt. Because they were embarrassed by him, by the press around it.
To honor the deeply corrupt SF government, the real life Hal Holbrooks who think they ARE the law, I give you Dirty Harry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFnOaPDerw&feature=related
Dammit, the PAIN! My eyes! I watched "Do you Want to Date my Avatar?" !
WASPs always look old for their age!
BADA BOOM!
I'll be here all week. Please tip your waiters...
I bet Larry Flynt has already offered them a 100k each to make a porno. Where they do each other.
Poor Beate. He now knows he's only the 3 millionth thing people got around to caring about.
Beate baby - gotta work on your rep! Get a new agent. Have a scandal with an underage girl. No wait, this is Norway, make it a boy. You'll never make it into the post-apocalyptic ark that Norway is building in the Fjords at this rate!
I think you greatly underestimate the effect that 'See Emily Play' had on the British music scene at the time.
Tim Howes is also the inventor of the LDAP Protocol, when he was a grad student at UMich studying DAP and DIT under X.500 of OSI fame.
Jose and those guys at Arbor are doing really concrete things to curb botnets and malware contagion. They have their gear in a great number of peering points around the world, and are correlating huge amounts of data into discrete patterns. I've seen Jose speak a couple of times, and I am impressed by the manner in which they are finding the ghosts who think they can't be found.
Suddenly, I am seeing Yul Brenner in WestWorld:
"Bringsjord acknowledges that the endeavor to create pure evil, even in a software program, does raise ethical questions, such as, how researchers could control an artificially intelligent character like E if "he" was placed in a virtual world such as Second Life, a Web-based program that allows people to create digital representations of themselves and have those avatars interact in a number of different ways."
Damn, imagine that. E running around in Second Life's Wild West park, ganking n00bs and getting all Charlie Manson with the other players. E says: Helter Skelter is here, man!
Katie Sackoff Full Frontal
Here is a Youtube of 2K Sports NBA 2009. Played online, 5v5:
http://nba-tube.com/nba-2k9-online-5v5-teamup-lakers-vs-rockets-4th-quarter/
I think you can see, it looks and feels like a real game on tv. I think if you made Football 11 v 11 - people would sign on and play OG. I really do. I would play Madden online 11 v 11 and just work on being the best pass rusher in the game. I think online sports, where all the players are played by real people is the "next big thing" in gaming. In Football, there could even be a slot for coach, and that person gets to pick the play called. Then you could have 12 v 12. Real flamewars between Coach and QB's who go off script. I think it would be extremely popular, although some selfish people would refuse to play unless they could QB, that's how it is in real life too. It's whatever works.
Karl Denninger (who now makes his living from his Florida retirement home, trying to break the story on how Goldmann-Sachs used network taps to frontrun all trades on Wall Street, and runs his Market Ticker blog) and Kashpureff tried to break these guys and establish alt roots in 97. Anyone remember that eDNS fiasco? It didn't last long, nobody followed their pied-piper song.
These guys made a fortune, grabbing Net Solutions when it was obviously mismanaged, and used their background as junior grade Ross Perots to establish the world DNS order.
I found a pretty good PPT on the history of all this, including how Jon Postel worked for ICANN as one of his last works before he passed, RIP.
Here you go:
www.byte.org/ispbe2002/building-a-better-dns-r2.ppt
That gives the back story on what a soap opera DNS has been as well as this article. No small wonder that Verisign is the company that bought them. Verisign saw Tron in the early 1980s, looked at ENCOM, and said "yeah, we want to be JUST LIKE THAT."
Remember TPB had a link right off the home page of correspondence? It was with lawyers from Sony BMG, and other places. Usually it was a legalize Cease and Desist type letter.
The TPB guys would usually respond with some really funny snarky shit. Like "Dear Sirs, here in Sweden we think your shit attitude needs to get bent over a stool."
In some cases, they would piss the other side off so much they would drop the formal language and start spewing, like "you little shits, we're gonna find you and shut your asses down." It was hilarious to read them simply pissing on the leather shoes of expensive lawyers and telling them to fuck off.
Well, you do that enough and you get high on powerful enemy hit lists. Don't kid yourself, power multinationals bought off that Swedish judge and make this into a kangaroo court. It's probably one of the biggest travesties of justice of all time, the slope is so fucking slippery. They may as well sue the IETF or ARIN for giving out IP addresses to enable piracy. That's how egregious the law was twisted for the interests of powerful capitalists.
Now? Now they are laying on the hurt to teach the world a lesson.