So we need to take the line item budget power away from Congress and the Administration and replace it with a first in/first out queue system. We can't spend money on the toys until the old work is done.
Yeah, but how long has the FOIA been effective? 50 years? At some point, the FBI's e-mail and document management systems need to be updated to handle the use cases that this legislation mandated. SGML or XML databases with entries pre-tagged (by the author) with attributes describing each passages classification level. One query to dump all entries applicable to the request, suitably filtered and redacted based on classification attributes. Job done.
Sure, the FBI doesn't have the budget for this. But look at all the other crap they have bought since 1967. Someone needs to put their (and every other gov't agencies) feet to the fire and spend funds on the first project in the queue before starting another one. Insufficient resources to process FOIA requests in a timely manner? Fine. All the Patriot Act toys will have to wait until the first job is done. We have a government that never had to answer face the childhood lesson: If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
And you can't rent your billboard out to the local drug dealer.
Yes you can. He just can't advertise drugs (or anything illegal*) on it. And if he does, all you have to do is to take his ad down following notification of the violation.
*WA State here. You can in fact rent your billboard out to the local drug dealer.
A lot of the push to get people into the office is made by those for whom the office is their social life as well. The repeated interruptions aren't always about work.
It's partly management's inability to measure output vs resources expended. All they know how to do is count butts occupying seats. And then there's management styles. When the meetings are run by Type A personalities, they need people present to dominate. Move the communication away from face to face and to text and it becomes more difficult for the Type As to 'win' in staff meetings.
Assuming that its a real emergency and they actually want it fixed in a timely manner. When I worked for Boeing and supported some shop floor IT systems, we had the occasional panic. A page and message to get in right away. Several times, I'd call the number back and try to ask the nature of the problem. Perhaps it was something I could do logged in from home, sitting in my pajamas in 20 minutes. That was usually met with rage on the calling manager's part, as the whole point was to mobilize as large a group of people as possible at odd hours for a little ego stroking and demonstration to upper management that massive crises were averted by throwing unlimited resources at them.
Nope. Telecommute to the Indian company and live a few miles from the client US company who could have hired you directly. Of course, you will have to adopt a pseudonym like Rajiv Virajnarianan.
that we expect to be present being hijacked for nefarious purposes. And even if I don't plug my TV set into my home network, what's to stop it from turning on its WiFi and establishing a mesh network through the neighbors' TV sets until it can reach some remote command server?
I've seen experiments done with small children that demonstrate the ability to comprehend that their 'world view' might not be the same as that held by someone else as far as the location of a hidden toy. This generally happens at around 18 months to two years of age. But I've seen adults that can't seem to comprehend that the world is made up of various groups of people who have different experience or knowledge sets than their own. So at some point, expanding the simple task (hiding an object, for example) to more complex social interactions breaks down.
... when the credit card companies moved from carbon paper card impressions to magnetic stripes? Technology moves on and so must you.
Not a small business operator, but I was under the impression that mag stripe readers and yes, even carbon paper imprints are still acceptable. You've just got to pay additional per transaction fees applicable to each non preferred method. To cover added processing costs and risk.
Time to bring all the people working with sensitive data or hardware back in house as direct employees. Also, the process of vetting them for clearances. Putting this part of the hiring process in the hands of private enterprise is the first step to contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton skimming the skilled people off the top and sending the knuckle-draggers to work as direct federal employees.
Actually, I've heard the term used in my distant past by some old timers. They referred to programs as codes. And as many of these were highly classified. DoD contractors had not yet begun outsourcing top secret work to India, Russia, and China, so it was an American usage.
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Oh, the irony!
"Mind the gap."
So do they get to split that 2.83 million between them? That would be 2830 years each.
Congratulations! You get to the next level and receive 72 sheep.
So we need to take the line item budget power away from Congress and the Administration and replace it with a first in/first out queue system. We can't spend money on the toys until the old work is done.
Yeah, but how long has the FOIA been effective? 50 years? At some point, the FBI's e-mail and document management systems need to be updated to handle the use cases that this legislation mandated. SGML or XML databases with entries pre-tagged (by the author) with attributes describing each passages classification level. One query to dump all entries applicable to the request, suitably filtered and redacted based on classification attributes. Job done.
Sure, the FBI doesn't have the budget for this. But look at all the other crap they have bought since 1967. Someone needs to put their (and every other gov't agencies) feet to the fire and spend funds on the first project in the queue before starting another one. Insufficient resources to process FOIA requests in a timely manner? Fine. All the Patriot Act toys will have to wait until the first job is done. We have a government that never had to answer face the childhood lesson: If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
The sheep are starting to ask questions.
Assistant: "Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10, 9..."
"Let's make that sixty percent."
Assistant: "Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock."
I'm just waiting for someone to point Watson at /b/.
And you can't rent your billboard out to the local drug dealer.
Yes you can. He just can't advertise drugs (or anything illegal*) on it. And if he does, all you have to do is to take his ad down following notification of the violation.
*WA State here. You can in fact rent your billboard out to the local drug dealer.
So, AT&T, Comcast, Backpage's web hosting company, etc?
So, something like this?
I'm going to depend on my neighbors knowledge of secure IT systems to protect my privacy? Yeah, right. He works for Microsoft.
Think of the office sports pool!
FTFY.
A lot of the push to get people into the office is made by those for whom the office is their social life as well. The repeated interruptions aren't always about work.
This.
It's partly management's inability to measure output vs resources expended. All they know how to do is count butts occupying seats. And then there's management styles. When the meetings are run by Type A personalities, they need people present to dominate. Move the communication away from face to face and to text and it becomes more difficult for the Type As to 'win' in staff meetings.
Assuming that its a real emergency and they actually want it fixed in a timely manner. When I worked for Boeing and supported some shop floor IT systems, we had the occasional panic. A page and message to get in right away. Several times, I'd call the number back and try to ask the nature of the problem. Perhaps it was something I could do logged in from home, sitting in my pajamas in 20 minutes. That was usually met with rage on the calling manager's part, as the whole point was to mobilize as large a group of people as possible at odd hours for a little ego stroking and demonstration to upper management that massive crises were averted by throwing unlimited resources at them.
Move to India and work for US company
Nope. Telecommute to the Indian company and live a few miles from the client US company who could have hired you directly. Of course, you will have to adopt a pseudonym like Rajiv Virajnarianan.
that we expect to be present being hijacked for nefarious purposes. And even if I don't plug my TV set into my home network, what's to stop it from turning on its WiFi and establishing a mesh network through the neighbors' TV sets until it can reach some remote command server?
We've got to march on Langely Virginia right now!
I've seen experiments done with small children that demonstrate the ability to comprehend that their 'world view' might not be the same as that held by someone else as far as the location of a hidden toy. This generally happens at around 18 months to two years of age. But I've seen adults that can't seem to comprehend that the world is made up of various groups of people who have different experience or knowledge sets than their own. So at some point, expanding the simple task (hiding an object, for example) to more complex social interactions breaks down.
Nothing but clowns.
Not a small business operator, but I was under the impression that mag stripe readers and yes, even carbon paper imprints are still acceptable. You've just got to pay additional per transaction fees applicable to each non preferred method. To cover added processing costs and risk.
Time to bring all the people working with sensitive data or hardware back in house as direct employees. Also, the process of vetting them for clearances. Putting this part of the hiring process in the hands of private enterprise is the first step to contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton skimming the skilled people off the top and sending the knuckle-draggers to work as direct federal employees.
the contractor (identified as male)
Pre or post op?
Actually, I've heard the term used in my distant past by some old timers. They referred to programs as codes. And as many of these were highly classified. DoD contractors had not yet begun outsourcing top secret work to India, Russia, and China, so it was an American usage.
I detest all these idiotic absolutist concepts
All of them?