From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:03:02 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Greenspan was sleeping as too big to fail were piling on toxic assets
off-book ... there was still $5.2T the end of 2008 at just the four
largest too big to fail (enough to declare the institutions insolvent
and force their liquidation)
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
that had been going for 22cents on the dollar (would be total loss of a
little over $4T) ... one 22cents reference (but there was also
$60B toxic asset sale by citibank to pimco at 22cents on the dollar
before ye2008)
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121763136297705935.html
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Gerstner is in competition to be future CEO of Amex. The looser leaves, taking his protege Jamie Dimon and they go to Baltimore and acquire what has been described as loan sharking business. They make some number of other acquisitions and eventually acquire Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby washington for repeal of Glass-Steagall (creating too big to fail). Besides critical role of Gramm (in GLBA) ... there is also Robert Rubin and others. With repeal of Glass-Steagall assured, Rubin resigns and becomes co-CEO of Citibank. Jamie Dimon leaves and then becomes CEO of JPMorgon.
past posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
as aside, I once met Rubin at financial industry critical infrastructure
meeting in the white house annex while he was still treasury sec.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Infrastructure_Protection
Former Treasury Secretary to Help Lead Citigroup Finance: Robert
E. Rubin will join the firm's chairmen and co-CEOs in an unusual
power-sharing arrangement.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/27/business/fi-26680
GLBA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
Rubin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
in the top 25 of time's list of those responsible, ceo of citibank
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877329,00.html
above lists citi as the biggest problem bank ... in part because citi had the largest share of the $5.2T in toxic assets still held off-book at the end of 2008 ... and the gov. has spent much more than what is listed in the article.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:23:55 -0500"2671" <2671@gmail.com> writes:
in the OCT2008 congressional hearings into the role that rating agencies played in the problem they had testimony from various people that the people in the rating agencies were being paid to give triple-A and knew they weren't worth triple-A (and people paying them knew they weren't worth triple-A ratings) ... including people from other departments at the rating agencies that had previously alerted what was going on (and their warnings ignored)
tv news covering the congressional hearings would even make cynical comments that the rating agencies would be able to avoid federal prosecution by threatening to downgrade the US gov. credit rating.
one of the (print) news coverage from the hearings
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/rating-agencies-draw-fire-capitol-hill/
Then the muni-bond market froze as investers realized that they possibly aren't able to trust any rating ... which prompted Warren Buffett's insurance to unfreeze the muni-market.
Earlier sarbanes-oxley had required SEC to do something about
rating agencies ... but as seen by GAO reports showing that
the major focus of SOX ... fraudulent financial reports ...
they not only continued, but were even increasing ... and SEC
doing nothing ... the only thing that I could find that SEC
did in response was this report
http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/credratingreport0103.pdf
and any expectation that congress was willing to do something ... in response to the Oct2008 hearings or any of the other investigations ... were sort of exemplified in spring2009 when I was told to not bother with the work on Pecora hearings because of the massive amounts of wallstreet money that was blanketing capital hill.
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
posts mentioning fraudulent financial reporting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
posts mentioning Pecora hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:47:53 -0500re:
other testimony in the Oct2008 hearings was that the rating agency business model had become mis-aligned in the early 70s when they switched from the buyers paying for the rating to the sellers paying for the ratings (aka the rating agencies interests were not alighned with the buyers relying on the ratings ... but were aligned with the sellers paying for the ratings) ... creating environment for conflict of interest.
one of the original virtual machine online service bureaus shows up in this. I've referenced in the past that they were briefly mentioned in jan2009 in news reports when there was still some fiction that TARP funds would be used to purchase the off-book toxic assets ... and using this company to help value the toxic assets.
both of the original virtual machine online service bureaus had fairly
quickly moved up value stream and started offering financial
information and other services targeting the financial industry. some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
in the case of this particular company ... they bought the "pricing
services" division from one of the rating agencies in 1972 ... which
corresponds to the reports about rating agency business model became
mis-aligned (implying the rating agencies no longer felt they needed to
"price" products that they were rating). disclaimer: I had interviewed
with this company when I was getting ready to graduate ... but went to
the science center instead ... however, I continued to have lots of
interactions with people at the company. posts referencing science
center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Here are posts from Jan2009 mentioning IDC buying "pricing services"
division from one of the rating agencies in 1972 ... and there was TV
business news show earlier in the month mentioning that IDC was helping
price the toxic assets that gov. was looking at buying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#21
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#31
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#32
I continue to see some number of the people from this company ... one is
mentioned in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#21 CTSS DITTO
having contacted me about some additional history information about lineage for article on HTML5 ... he had been at IDC and then went on to be one of the people responsible for visicalc
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:51:51 -0500re:
the testimony in congress was specific that other people in the rating agencies were raising warnings that they were giving out triple-A ratings for products that it was known that they weren't worth triple-A ... at the time it was being done and well before anything hit the fan ... even the quotes in the nytimes and other articles from the period captures that fact.
the #1 on time's list of those responsible was especially egregious in
production of toxic CDOs and paying the rating agencies for triple-A (when
both institutions knew they weren't worth triple-A).
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
other testimony was that the rating agencies were also being gamed by the sellers threatening to take their business to other rating agencies unless they got the triple-A rating they wanted.
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
in several accounts about litigation since then, one of the scenarios is rewriting history ... including "captured" economists.
reference to economist being paid to testify on behalf of the institution that was especially egregious in production of the triple-A rated toxic CDOs.
Glenn Hubbard, Leading Academic and Mitt Romney Advisor, Took 1200 an
Hour to Be Countrywide's Expert Witness (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140504010711/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/glenn-hubbard-leading-academic-and-mitt-romney-advisor-took-1200-an-hour-to-be-countrywides-expert-witness-20121220?print=true
"Inside Job" references how leading economists were captured similar
to the capture of the regulatory agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
and
"Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards" goes into the capture of economists in more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74:
"Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside
Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to
adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared
with other disciplines."
... and loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective companies.
Many of these have written on financial regulation in the media or in
scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their affiliations
to the financial industry in their writing or in their testimony in
front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict of interest.
... snip ..
this has resurfaced recently
Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/business/academics-who-defend-wall-st-reap-reward.html
other recent:
Noam Chomsky: We're no longer a functioning democracy, we're really a
plutocracy
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/27/noam-chomsky-were-no-longer-a-functioning-democracy-were-really-a-plutocracy/
World Bank a security risk to the world order?
http://www.larsschall.com/2013/05/08/governance-issues-at-the-world-bank-a-security-risk-to-the-world-order/
some older reference:
The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street; Academics get paid by
financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What's
wrong with this picture?
http://www.thenation.com/article/176809/scholars-who-shill-wall-street
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:08:54 -0500IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
One of many Google megadatacenters is over $1.5B
In Iowa, A Field Becomes a Billion-Dollar Google Server Farm
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/02/in-iowa-a-field-becomes-a-huge-google-server-farm/
Facebook also has $1.5B in Iowa (also one of many)
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/facebook-iowa-2014/
Trivia ... in the mid-80s Enrico Clementi (different from IBM cloud Erich) ran a E&S center in Kingston (separate and different from the supercomputer group in Kingston). It had a bunch of FPS boxes. I was working with the guy that ran Clementi's E&S datacenter to put in 1.5mbit T1 link (he had previously been in Boulder where we put in a 1.5mbit T1 there)
Old post referencing that in 1986, the E&S center had 20 x64 FPS boxes
with peak processing of 1.5gflop ... FPS boxes included 40mbyte/sec RAID
disks.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#61
we were also working with NSF and the NSF supercomputer centers and were
suppose to get $20M to tie together the centers. Then congress cut the
budget and some number of other things happened. Eventually NSF came out
with RFP but internal politics prevented us from bidding. The director
of NSF tried to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just made the internal politics worse (as did comments
that what we already had running was at least five years ahead of all
RFP responses). The "winning" bid puts in 440kbit links (not 1.5mbit T1
called for in the RFP, RFP specified T1 links in part because we already
were running T1 internally). This morphs into the NSFNET backbone,
precursor to the modern internet. some old NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
This also morphs into the basis for grid (and cloud) computing:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
IBM Los Gatos VLSI lab had developed the LSM ... that ran logic
simulation at 50,000 times faster than 168 (as part of chip
development). Later an EVE was put into bldg.86 computer room (disk
enginneering termporary offsite bldg while bldg. 14 got seismic
retrofit) ... also a logic simulation engine. We had a T1 link from
Austin to Los Gatos ... and a T1 tail-circuit from Los Gatos to
bldg. 86. Daily turn-around of RIOS (RS/6000 risc chip set) design on
LSM and EVE (over the T1 links) is credited with helping bring in RIOS
a year early. past posts mentioning 801, risc, iliad, ROMP, RIOS,
power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
past posts mentioning internal "high-speed data transport" project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
slightly related ... original IBM mainframe tcp/ip product was
implemented in vs/pascal and ran about 44kbytes/sec using nearly 3090
processor. I did the changes to support RFC10444 and in some tuning
tests at Cray Research got sustained channel thruput (about
1mbyte/sec) between 4341 and cray, using only modest amount of 4341
processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
other past posts mentioning FPS boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#5 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#56 Why SMP at all anymore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#32 Imitation...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#25 ESCON Data Transfer Rate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#31 Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#12 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#30 Weird
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#29 360/370 disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#68 IBM zSeries in HPC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#20 360 Microde Floating Point Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#4 The Power of the NORC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#1 harris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#54 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#72 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#61 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#74 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#36 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#28 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#41 A History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#44 What Makes code storage management so cool?
past posts mentioning LSM:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#20 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#3 Chip Emulators - was How does a chip get designed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#55 Multics hardware (was Re: "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#77 Pipelining in the past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#82 Future architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#26 LSM, YSE, & EVE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#44 Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#31 asynchronous CPUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#14 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#38 When nerds were nerds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#16 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#25 CKD Disks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#65 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#33 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#17 Ethernet, Aloha and CSMA/CD -
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#29 IBM microwave application--early data communications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#42 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#20 real core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#73 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#61 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#53 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#58 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#61 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#22 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#67 1401 simulator for OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#68 CA to IBM TCP Conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#68 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#75 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#63 What happened to computer architecture (and comp.arch?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#71 using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#83 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#52 Basic question about CPU instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#81 Nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#50 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#0 By Any Other Name
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:54:39 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
logic simulation/verification for chip design predate chips getting too
big to handle this way ... and this mention of genetic algorithms
mid-90s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
one of the first HSDT was the channel extender support done originally
in 1980 ... recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
I mentioned that the vendor tried to get IBM to release my
channel-extender software so it could be shipped to customers. However,
there was a group in POK that had been playing with some serial stuff
that managed to block the approval .... they were afraid if it was in
the market, it would affect justification for releasing their
stuff. Note that it wasn't until a decade later that they managed to get
their stuff released as ESCON in 1990 with ES/9000. However, by
that time it was already obsolete ... getting only 17mbytes/sec
throughput. some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#78 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#94 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#96 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
big motivation for LLNL for their serial stuff (I got asked in 1988 to
help them get it standardized) is the upswing in RAID disks with
multi-score mbyte transfer rates (even FPS boxes in 1986 with
40mbyte/sec). FCS initially comes out with 2gbit/sec aggregte,
1gbit/sec concurrent in each direction. recent refs.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#73 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:24:07 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
I've posted before piece of article about somebody in 2003 warning in
their annual report that process of immediately selling off loans (using
triple-a rated securitized process to "gullible" investors) would come
to a bad end ... since the people making the loans no longer had to care
about the loan quality or borrowers' qualifications. The article
describes wallstreet hammering his stock afterwards with shorts ...
apparently trying to punish him for the observation (that URL gone 404)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#68 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
"The Man Who Beat The Shorts", from article:
Watsa's only sin was in being a little too early with his prediction
that the era of credit expansion would end badly. This is what he said
in Fairfax's 2003 annual report: "It seems to us that securitization
eliminates the incentive for the originator of [a] loan to be credit
sensitive. Prior to securitization, the dealer would be very concerned
about who was given credit to buy an automobile. With securitization,
the dealer (almost) does not care."
... snip ...
the original URL "www.forbes.com/finance/global/2008/1124/042.html"
but there is still this URL (which includes some of the same at the end)
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1117/114.html
wallstreet likes it because it reroutes mortgage transactions through
their process where they can skim enormous commissions and fees ...
over $27T done durring the bubble ... claims to have been major factor
in wallstreet tripling in size, as percent of GDP, during the bubble.
However, people on wallstreet were also helping package triple-A rated
CDOs specifically designed to fail, selling them to their customers, and
then taking out CDS bets that they would fail. posts referencing toxic
CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
So not only did a lot of people know that really bad stuff was going
on ... some of them were even making the situation worse and profiting
on it with CDS bets (taking advantage of being able to pay rating
agencies for triple-A ratings ... not only that the parties knew
weren't triple-A ... but also had been specifically constructed not to
be worth triple-A). Discussion about Paulson designed triple-A
rated toxic CDOs to fail (in conjunction with Goldman Sachs)
and then struck it really big on his CDS bets that they would fail
http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/bill-black-interview-great-global-bank-robbery-part-2
from above:
The SEC complaint says that Goldman therefore defrauded its own
customers by representing to them that the CDO was "selected by ACA
Management."
... snip ...
a couple past posts mentioning the Abacus scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#68 Our Pecora Moment
posts mentioning article (gone 404) about securitizing was going to end badly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#69 if you are an powerful financial regulator , how would you have stopped the credit crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#36 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#67 What is securitization and why are people wary of it ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#18 What next? from where would the Banks be hit?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#1 Are Both The U.S. & UK on the brink of debt disaster?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#37 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#52 What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, it's Governments and Decision Makers, and how should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#61 Accounting for the "greed factor"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#37 NEW SEC (Enforcement) MANUAL, A welcome addition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#62 Is Wall Street World's Largest Ponzi Scheme where Madoff is Just a Poster Child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#31 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#38 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#49 Is the current downturn cyclic or systemic?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#25 The Paradox of Economic Recovery
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#49 IBM to Build Europe, Asia 'Smart Infrastructure'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#34 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#48 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#58 S.E.C. Moves to Tighten Rules on Bonds Backed by Consumer Loans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#48 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#55 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:51:06 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the other Paulson, secretary of treasury Paulson (and former head of Goldman) also gets into the act ... eliminating the fiction that TARP funds would be used to by toxic assets ... it is being "loaned" to too big to fail ... including AIG.
Previous posts references one of Gramm's favors (also #2 responsible for
the was keeping CDS from being regulated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
#2 on times list ... doesn't mention the ENRON part ... but
does mention the lack of CDS regulation has resulted in
$150B to AIG so far
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
However, AIG was in the process of negoatiating to payoff CDS bets at
50-60 cents on the dollar. Sec. of treasury Paulson steps in and says
that AIG legally has to pay off at 100cents on the dollar and forces it
to take TARP funds ... as well as forcing AIG to sign an agreement that
includes a clause that it can't sue any of the entities that it is
paying off (at 100cents on the dollar). Oh, and the major recipient of
AIG CDS money just happens to be Goldman (who Paulson had previously
been head of). past posts mentioning AIG payouts.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#74 Why is everyone talking about AIG bonuses of millions and keeping their mouth shut on billions sent to foreign banks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#71 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#81 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#2 Big Bonuses At Goldman Should Be Applauded, Not Criticized
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#31 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#40 Delinquent Homeowners to Get Mortgage Aid from Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#76 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#77 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#18 U.S. Treasury, AIG are poised to sever ties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#21 AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:17:46 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
and before Paulson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
Rubin had runGoldman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
before he became sec. of treasury
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
part of the reason that Treasury started to be called Goldman's branch office in washington ... that and all the former goldman employees they brought into washington.
While Geithner was at fed in ny (not goldman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner
but above refers to him as Rubin protege ... in part based on his earlier time in treasury under rubin.
this reference to Treasury being Goldman's branch office in washington (really long with lots of gory detail about Goldman/Treasury practices):
AIG: Collusion Of Epic Proportions Between Goldman's US Treasury Branch
And Goldman Sachs Proper
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/aig-collusion-epic-proportions-between-goldmans-us-treasury-branch-and-goldman-sachs-proper
from above:
How Paulson's People Colluded With Goldman To Destroy AIG And Get A
Backdoor Bailout
Too Big To Fail
https://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Inside-Battle-ebook/dp/B003XQEVUI/
is revelatory, though not in the way Andrew Ross Sorkin intended. The
book offers startling evidence that Hank Paulson and his deputies
colluded with Goldman to create a liquidity crisis at AIG, and to
manipulate the government funding a backdoor bailout of AIG's CDO
counterparties, most notably Goldman. It's not that Sorkin's sources
recounted the truth. Quite the opposite. Rather, they told him stories
that were so transparently dishonest that the truth emerges by way of
negative implication.
... and
Later, around the time Tim Geithner was brought in to settle the CDO
matter, Goldman pulled another stunt to make it appear as if its CDO
exposure to AIG was smaller than it actually was. The transaction is
alluded to in a couple of obfuscatory paragraphs (pages 16 and 17) in
Neil Barofsky's SIGTARP report
... snip ...
past posts reference treasury being goldman's branch office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#81 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#19 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#79 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#63 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#71 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
Current sec. treasury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew
and also another Rubin pick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#5 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
references
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323384604578324442830547044.html
from above
Mr. Rubin was Mr. Lew's patron at the bank. Mr. Lew's contract suggests
that Citi knew from the start that Mr. Lew was headed back to a powerful
job in Washington, and that it wanted him to remember the bank fondly
when he left.
... snip ...
other recent posts mentioning current sec. treasury
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#13 Jack Lew Shows His True Colors By Forcing Deregulation of Derivatives on the CFTC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#16 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#71 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#13 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:48:56 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
included in the $6T increase in spending was little over $2T for DOD, $1+T for the two wars and another $1+T that couldn't account for.
posts mentioning fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regarding the military industrial complex, posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
It has been pointed out that the claimed disastrous reductions in DOD budget has it reverything to 2007 level ... when war spending was at its peak. Recent article about some of DOD budget process by one of Boyd's "acolytes"
Defense Spending: Putting Toys Before Boys
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/17/defense-spending-putting-toys-before-boys/
in the past I've referenced this by the same person
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
in conjunction with the spreading Success of Failure culture
in beltway bandits and gov. contractors
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
that they've possibly have been using gaming technology to investigate maximizing revenue and quarterly profits. for instance it has been periodically pointed out that it isn't in their interest to have early decisive victory (like 1st round knock-out).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:32:22 -0500Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front; As an admirer of the Mac from its early days, working in IT support instilled some frustration as well.
mentioned a number of times, my brother was apple regional marketing rep and i could go to business dinners periodically with him when he came into town ... even arguing mac design with mac developers (before mac was announced).
How the Mac made a hacker out of me
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012014-mac-zeus-277848.html
Mac and Windows compatibility through the decades
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012014-mac-paul-277834.html
The accidental Mac user
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012014-mac-shaw-277833.html
Macs revolutionized desktop publishing
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012014-macs-newman-277742.html
Apple's Mac: the Post-PC PC?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012114-apple-mac-277845.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:34:42 -0500Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> writes:
at the time there was little software ... but they were adamant that it would only be used on the kitchen table. I argued that they needed (business) terminal emulation to get sales ... but they were against anything that smacked of business. I've claimed that one of the things that help save it was when (business) desktop publishing came along (and they could sort of pretend that didn't involve business).
trivia ... at the time apple ran its business on ibm system/38 ... my brother figured out how to login remotely with apple/ii into the s/38 to track manufacturing schedules and deliveries.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:16:25 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
at hackers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference
... in the 80s the silicon valley culture was somewhat different ... people would still bring unannounced corporate products for people to play with ... including at various times apple stuff.
i've gotten into habit of stopping by and staying at asilomar for couple days after hackers ... long after moving out of the bay area.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:31:46 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
this contributed to rise of the "moral hazard" of risk takers viewing little downside in extremely risky unregulated activity ... with being able to keep all profits and the losses offloaded to the gov. and tax payers.
repeal of glass-steagall didn't create the risky, unregulated behavior ... but it significantly contributed to "moral hazard" that there is little or no consequences, accountability, and/or downside in very risk activity.
posts mentioning glass-steagall and/or pecora hearings:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#39 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#64 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#66 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#70 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#72 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#74 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#75 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#76 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#83 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#84 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#87 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#88 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#91 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#92 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#93 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#95 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#1 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#2 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#6 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#7 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#8 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#9 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Jan 2014 10:42:01 -0800zedgarhoover@GMAIL.COM (zMan) writes:
some of this may also be PR offsetting some other news on IBM spending:
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company spent
a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure that was
equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
note the $1.2B compares with google spending over $2B per quarter on cloud
datacenters
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/02/in-iowa-a-field-becomes-a-huge-google-server-farm/
other cloud operators are investing similar amounts. One of the long-time issues is that the large cloud operators have claimed they have been assembling their own servers for 1/3rd of the price from brand named vendors (aka they view the servers as cost/expense as opposed to profit) ... and server chip manufacturers saying they now ship more chips directly to cloud operators than to brand name vendors (all of which putting lots of downward price pressure on x86 servers).
and this came up last year in stories about IBM trying to sell off its x86 server business ... and just recently resurfaced:
IBM resurrects plans to sell low-end server business
http://www.zdnet.com/ibm-resurrects-plans-to-sell-low-end-server-business-7000025344/
Dell in talks with IBM to buy Big Blue's x86 server business; After
talks with Lenovo broke down last spring, IBM tries again.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/dell-in-talks-with-ibm-to-buy-big-blues-x86-server-business/
Rumor was that Dell was one of the vendors possibly doing large volume
low margin server assemblies for cloud customers.
IBM Revives Effort to Sell Low-End Server Business; Dell Among Those
Interested in Acquiring Business With Thinner Margins
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304757004579331232169084684
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:28:15 -0500Dave <g4ugm@btinternet.com> writes:
about the 3390 era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3390
late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at internal world-wide annual communication group conference ,,, supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opened with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division (which has since come to past). The description was that the communication group had corporate stragegic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls and was strongly fighting off distributed and client/server computing ... trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. They had come up with a number of solutions to address the problem ... which were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
a few short years later, the company goes into the red and is reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company.
Part of that preparation is the disk division has been renamed "adstar" ... and bldg. 12 on the san jose plant site has been extensively remodeled to become adstar's corporate hdqtrs (which would have at least eliminated interference from the communication group).
However, prior to that, adstar was attempting to get around the communication group by investing in other companies to produce solutions (that the communication group was preventing adstar from directly producing).
one example was that NCAR had supercomputer network filesystem controlled by IBM mainframe and IBM disks all interconnected with NSC Hyperchannel ... which NCAR had spinning off as "Mesa Archival" to commercialize with Adstar funding. I was sort of the corporation expert on Hyperchannel ... so adstar asked me to periodically visit them and try to help them with their effort (supercomputer would do file request over hyperchannel to ibm mainframe, the ibm mainframe would locate file ... and if necessary stage it to disk ... and then download ibm disk channel program to hyperchannel a512 channel emulator ... and then mainframe would respond to the supercomputer ... then the supercomputer would use hyperchannel to invoke the a512 disk channel program for actual data transfer).
recent posts mentioning reference to demise of disk division and/or
"baby blue" reorganization:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldg. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
posts mentioning hyperchannel &/or high-speed data transport
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
posts mentioning CKD DASD, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Jan 2014 16:29:35 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt
Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:46:11 -0500re:
3390
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3390
storage calculations
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zvm.v54.hcpa5/hcsg0b31221.htm
3390 12pg/track, 15 tracks/cyl, 180pg/cylinder .. 737,280bytes/cylinder
3390-1 1113cyls 820mbytes 3390-2 2226cyls 1.6gbytes 3390-3 3339cyls 2.5gbytes 3390-9 10017cyl 7.4gbytes
... now they have definitions of emulated/fictional 3390s like 3390-27 & 3390-54 and such.
more 3390 calculations (full track record, as opposed to 4kbyte records)
aka capacity increase with more cylinders
http://www.lascon.co.uk/hwd-3390-disks.php
3390-1 946mbytes 3390-2 1.89gbytes 3390-3 2.84gbytes 3390-9 8.51gbytes ... 3390-27 27.84gbyte 3390-54 55.68gbyte
above also mentions escon & ficon channels ... ficon posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
for random old email ... person responsible for 801/risc
wants me to help him with proposal for head that handles
16+2 tracks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#email871230
recent posts mentioning above email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#39 A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#103 Hard Disk Drive Construction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#58 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#60 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#3 The Big, Bad Bit Stuffers of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#41 A History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#92 Cylinder buffer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:10:08 -0500re:
oh formulae calculations (up thru 3380) from emulated green card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html#26.3
3380 was high end disk and 3370 FBA was mid-range disk. The explosion in 4300 machines going out into non-datacenter was all using 3370 midrange disk. W/o ckd disk, mvs was effectively locked out of this market ... so they came out with 3375 which was ckd emulated on 3370 fba disk.
however even "real" 3380 (and later 3390) was a flavor of emulation with 32byte "cells" (track capacity calculations required rounding up size to multiple of 32).
I periodically mention being told that even if i provided MVS with fully tested and integrated FBA support ... I still had to make a $26M business case to cover documentation and training ... and I couldn't efficiency or lifecycle savings ... i could only use incremental disk sales ... and they claimed that since customers were already buying disks as fast as it could be made ... FBA support would only result in customers switching to buy the same amount of FBA (as they had been buying CKD disk).
Note in discussions about mainframe with ficon and emulated CKD disks having much lower throughput than native FCS and native fixed block (w/o the heavyweight ficon channel simulation on fcs and the ckd simuation on fixed block)
one of the people in the discussion mentioned that they were moving from VS1 with emulated CKD to native fixed-block (which is supported natively by VS1) ... and expecting to see higher throughput (but i haven't seen any actual numbers yet).
on the ficon side, ibm's peak z196 i/o benchmarks uses 104 FICON
(simulated on 104 FCS) is 2M IOPS. by comparison a single FCS announce
for e5-2600 claims over 1m IOPS (aka 2 such FCS beat 104 FICON).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:01:21 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
they then do some other take-overs, eventually acquiring citi in
violation of glass-steagall; greenspan gives them an exemption while
they lobby congress for repeal ... post mentioning glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
enabling too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
protege goes on to become head of another too big to fail ... some recent articles
JP Morgan's Frauds are Epic,Unprecedented in World History
http://usawatchdog.com/jp-morgans-frauds-are-epicunprecedented-in-world-history-william-black/
In wake of JPMorgan settlement, big banks add to defense funds
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-usa-banks-reserves-idUSBREA0G1PN20140117
there are also past articles that too big to fail facilitated "payday loan" operators by providing their funding (possibly even setting them up and taking their profits)
Bad Credit: How Payday Lenders Evade Regulation
http://www.thenation.com/article/159750/bad-credit-how-payday-lenders-evade-regulation
Bailed-Out Banks Finance Predatory Payday Lenders
http://ourfuture.org/20100916/Bailed-Out_Banks_Finance_Predatory_Payday_Lenders
Big Banks Accused Of Promoting Predatory Payday Lending
http://problembanklist.com/big-banks-accused-of-promoting-predatory-payday-lending-0194/
Bailed-Out Banks Finance Predatory Payday Lenders
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/16-10
and
Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/business/major-banks-aid-in-payday-loans-banned-by-states.html
Follow the Money: Payday Laundry Edition
http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2013/09/follow-the-money-payday-laundry-edition.html
Making 'Too Big To Fail' Banks Help Poor Borrowers
http://www.nationalmemo.com/making-too-big-to-fail-banks-help-poor-borrowers/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:09:22 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
part of the scenario is shifting the profit to a business entity that is heavily computerized (like finance or ticketing) that would have proportionally few employees.
one of the financial gimmicks was buying an existing Utah ILC ... which
had been grandfathered in the 90s and allowed to do business in other
states. so for lending ... rather than getting 50 individual state
charters for auto loans ... just needed to acquire an Utah ILC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_loan_company
note that the rhetoric on the floor of congress as to the primary
purpose of GLBA was that if you already had a bank charter, you got to
keep it, however if you didn't have a bank charter ... you wouldn't be
able to get one (targeted at eliminating new entries into banking
... specifically mentioning walmart and microsoft) ... of course
now GLBA is better known for repeal of glass-steagall ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
then in the early part of the century ... there was massive publicity campaign when walmart announced it was going to buy a Utah ILC so that it could be its own acquiring bank (basically eliminating the acquiring bank part of payment transaction interchange fees). Walmart accounts for 25-30% of transactions and chase is their acquiring bank.
payment fees have accounted for 40-60% of US banking bottom line ... if Walmart became its own acquiring bank ... it would represent a big hit to chase bottom line. the publicity campaign was letters were written to all the community banks to get them to contact their congressmen to oppose Walmart acquisition of the Utah ILC (which would actually have little effect on them ... just a lot of obfuscation and misdirection).
trivia: ... as part of the behind the scenes Federal Reserve bailouts
... it was giving bank charters to big investment banks (so they
could feed at the federal reserve trough) ... which should have
been prohibited under (the primary purpose of) GLBA.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some past posts mentioning Utah ILCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#36 3 of the big 4 - all doing payment systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#42 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#47 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#58 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#12 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#25 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#19 Does anyone know of merchants who have successfully bypassed interchange costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
for other drift ... analogous to the campaign mounted to block Walmart buying a Utah ILC:
Triumphant plutocracy;
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc754-62
In 1872, the ring of bankers in New York sent the following circular to
every bank in the United States: "Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all in
your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly newspapers,
especially the agricultural and religious press, as will oppose the
issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also withhold patronage
or favors from all applicants who are not willing to oppose the
Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the coin and the
banks issue the paper money of the country, for then we can better
protect each other. To repeal the law creating National Bank notes, or
to restore to circu lation the Government issue of money, will be to
provide the people with money, and will therefore seriously affect your
individual profit as bankers and lenders. See your Congressman at once,
and engage him to support our interests that we may control
legislation."
... similar ...
note the above is somewhat related to past news stories about the government issuing a trillion dollar platinum coin.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:18:38 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
for a while, my wife and I did some stuff for a company that outsourced electronic funds transfer for federal taxes ... corporate taxes, withholding, etc ... something like 95% of all federal funds. everybody that might have access to the datacenter had to be fingerprinted and have FBI bankground check.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:50:27 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
trillion dollar coin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin
note that the federal reserve has *printed* several trillion dollars that it used to infuse the too big to fail as part of the bailout ... and other trillions used to buy triple-A toxic CDOs being held off-book for 98cents on the dollar (when they had been going for 22cents on the dollar).
A little bitcoin from today:
Who invented the shared repository idea: Bitcoin, Boyle, and history
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001469.html
note, sometimes he even mentions Boyd & OODA-loop in his blog
he mentions having worked on crypto currency in 1995 ... about
that time, we were brought in to the x9a10 financial standard
working group ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
he also quotes Marc Andressson ... who was at a small client/server startup in the early 90s that we were brought in to consult becuase they wanted to do payment transactions on their server.
semi-related ... another AADS patent was issued 31Dec2013 for authentication
in payment transaction ... over decade after it was applied for
(and nearly a decade after we were asked to move on)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
I've mentioned before that we were working with botique patent firm and there were nearly 50 draft patents and they said it would be arorund 100 before we were done. Then some executives look at the filing cost and directed that all the claims be repackaged as 9 patents. After they were filed, the patent office came back and said they had to be repackaged in at minimum of two dozen patents ... they were getting tired of the humongous patents where the fees didn't even cover the cost of having somebody read all the claims.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:12:22 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
we had been brought in to small client/server to consult about doing
payment transactions on their server ... they had also invented this
technology called "SSL" they wanted to use ... the result is now
frequently called "electronic commerce" ... recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#22 Roayl Pardon For Turing
as part of it ... we had to go around and "audit" the major SSL domain nam
certification authorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority
one of my questions was how would they handle spetsnaz team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz
fastrope from helicaptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-roping
lots of scenarios are dealing with crook getting in&out undetected ... but there are also a few scenarios where a CA is destroyed and possibly have to assume all the certificates have to be revoked ... and things have to fall back to less secure processes (a play on swarming attacks where early attacks are enablers for latter attacks).
however ... also as part of the activity there was also a "payment
gateway" that sat between the internet and the payment networks ... I
had absolute authority over the webserver to gateway implementation (but
could only make recommendations about the client to webserver
implementation). I started out by mandating that there needed to be SSL
symmetrical authentication (which hadn't yet been designed or
written). however, by the time everything was done that digital
certificates were redundant and superfluous. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
originally digital certificate design point were first time communication between strangers where there wasn't any other mechanism (offline electronic mail, dialup download mail, hangup, validate first time email communication from stanger) ... sort of the letters of credit/introduction from sailing ship days. However, by the time things really started rolling, offline was an invalid assumption.
the other part was some of my recommendations for server ssl configuration for client communication were almost immediately violated ... leading to many of the exploits that continue to this day. somewhat as a resort I started referring to "merchant comfort (digital) certifcates" ... aka providing a sense of comfort with the appearance of security.
what was left was the low-end niche market segment that couldn't justify the (rapdily declining) cost of online authentication ... slippery slope going for zero cost digital certificates ... but not charging for digital certificates makes it hard to pay for all the high-level security processes.
some past posts about SSL domain name certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
the industry tried to get around all the objections by heavily lobbying
for laws that mandated use of digital certificates. we were brought
in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act ... and
they were really heavily involved trying to get a digital certificate
mandate written into the law ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
At one RSA show, an IBM executive (that I had known from IBM days) was escorting the CEO of a now defunct digital certificate company and wanted to introduce me. The CEO asked what I did. I told him my duty was to eliminate all digital certificates from the face of the earth.
Early SSL days, most of the CAs were happy to have us in to give blessings ... but they became less so as I became more vocal about digital certficates are redundant and superfluous.
at this conference
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/conference-paper/1998/10/08/proceedings-of-the-21st-nissc-1998
there was panel of the major CA CTOs and me playing to packed standing room only ballroom ... afterwards I was told the body language had all the others moved down to far end of the table to get as far away from me as possible.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:13:28 -0500re:
more greenspan & rubin:
The Damage From the Housing Bubble: How Much Did the Greenspan-Rubin
Gang Cost Us?
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-damage-from-the-housing-bubble-how-much-did-the-greenspan-rubin-gang-cost-us
from above:
If we just take the dollar losses through 2013 we get $7.6 trillion, in
2013 dollars. This is just economic losses, it does not include any
effort to quantify the pain that workers or their families have suffered
from being unemployed or losing their homes. This comes to roughly
$25,000 for every person in the country
... and
The loss over the infinite horizon due to the Greenspan-Rubin bubble
would be over $140 trillion, or more than $400,000 for every man, woman,
and child in the country.
... snip ...
note in the Rubin case ... goes from running Goldman to secretary of
treasury to jointly running citibank (after helping ceo of citibank get
glass-steagall repealed).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
at end of 2008, the four largest too big to fail are carry $5.2T in triple-A rated toxic assets off-book ... with citi carrying more than the other three. Earlier oct2008, citibank had sold $60B in toxic assets to PIMCO for 22cents on the dollar (Merril also unloaded all of its toxic assets for 22cents on the dollar, in aggregate establishing "mark-to-market" of the $5.2T toxic assets at just a little of one trillion ... for $4T loss).
now this is old post from Jan1999 which gets into the S&L crisis and
other problems including Citi almost going under in the early 90s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
In the early 90s, citi realized its ARM mortgage portfolio could take the institution down ... and unloaded the mortgage portfolio, got out of the business (at the time was the largest player in the mortgage business) and required a private bailout to continue operating.
The toxic CDOS were mostly a convoluted form of an ARM mortgage portfolio ... one of the issues is what happened to the CITI mortgage institutional knowledge between the late 90s and the early part of the century (after having been taken over and run by new management).
the post also goes into some detail about the S&L bailout carried offbook and ammounted to $100k per pereson.
with repeal of glass-steagall and rise of too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
citi now has mostly unregulated risky investment banking arm ... regulators in the habit of fines for show ... but not putting anybody in jail ... in this case, in 2002 citi is fined $400M and
Did Spitzer get a little help in hanging himself?
http://news.muckety.com/2008/03/12/spitzer-falls-farther-and-faster-than-his-targets/1121
from above:
Sanford Weill, who had built Citigroup into a global financial titan,
but whose final months as chief executive officer were overshadowed by
Spitzer's probe into the relationships between equity research
analysts and investment bankers during the internet boom years. Under
a 2002 settlement with Wall Street banks, Citigroup paid a $400
million fine, and Weill was forbidden to communicate directly with his
company's equity research analysts.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks Date: 22 Jan 2014 Blog: IBMersIBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
Hardware torpedoes IBM's Q4 revenue
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089960/hardware-torpedoes-ibms-q4-revenue.html
IBM's Shares Slip After Its Q4 Revenue Falls On Weak Hardware Performance
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/ibms-shares-slip-after-its-q4-revenue-falls-on-weak-hardware-performance/
Hardware torpedoes IBM's Q4 revenue
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/hardware-torpedoes-ibms-q4-revenue-234708
IBM's Q4 mixed, hardware unit tanks
http://www.zdnet.com/ibms-q4-mixed-hardware-unit-tanks-7000025414/
Hardware torpedoes IBM's Q4 revenue
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245599/Hardware_torpedoes_IBM_39_s_Q4_revenue
Hardware torpedoes IBM's Q4 revenue
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/012214-hardware-torpedoes-ibm39s-q4-277928.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:37:19 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a little x-over from this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#23 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
some recent news that existing tech marketing is showing signs of 1999 internet bubble ... at that time we were severely criticizing some technology (PKI) being used in various tech IPOs. one day we were in financial standards meeting hosted by large financial lobbying organization hdqtred in wash dc.
During the meeting, we were asked to step out, there was somebody there to see us. we were taken to an office and the door closed. the person introduced himself as from a NJ "family" and had been asked by some investment bankers to talk to us about stop criticizing the technology. They were expecting $2B from upcoming IPO and figured our criticism could lower that by 10% ... the visit was nothing personal ... purely business.
We then went to some LEOs to report the incident. They said they see it frequently. That investment bankers were pretty much amoral and were at the time running IPO mills ... invest a little bit ... hype it for two years and then IPO. Whatever it was, needed to fail afterwards to leave the field open for the next round of IPOs. It was pointed out that many of them had waked away unscathed from the S&L crisis and were predicted to move into mortgage market after the internet bubble bursts. Failing IPOs sound awful lot like triple-A rated toxic CDOs designed to fail after being sold to their customers ... in the CDO case, CDS bets were also being made that those CDOs (they designed to fail), would fail.
posts about toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
recent posts mentioning Abacus ... a particular notorious case
of designing toxic CDO to fail, selling to their customers
and making CDS bets that it would fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#68 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#6 Royal Pardon For Turing
past posts mentioning (internet) IPO mills:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#62 A mighty fortress is our PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#38 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#78 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#59 SSL digital certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#50 Bubble? What Bubble?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#84 A Conversation with Peter Thiel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#54 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#55 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Levono Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2014 09:04:48 -0800aledlhughes@AOL.COM (Aled Hughes) writes:
part of this is lots of x86 in clouds ... x86 server chip manufactures claiming more x86 server chips shipping to cloud operators (that assemble their own servers) than to brand name server vendors.
for decade or more, large cloud operators claim that they assemble servers for 1/3rd of price from brand name vendors.
also there are various rumors of some of the brand name vendors doing complete clouds for smaller businesses (both public and private clouds) that can't justify doing their own assemblies) ... and per system price is close to the 1/3rd quoted by large cloud operators.
In aggregate it has been putting significant downward pressure on x86 server system profit margins.
as i've periodically mentioned, a single large cloud megadatacenter has more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today at possibly a millionth of the cost/BIPS
IBM also announces it is aggresively moving into cloud operation and
services ... IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/ibm-plans-big-spending-for-the-cloud/
for comparison, this article claims google is spending over $2B per
quarter on cloud megadatacenters (say $9B-$10B annually)
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/02/in-iowa-a-field-becomes-a-huge-google-server-farm/
and other large cloud operators are doing something similar. For the
large cloud operations ... hardware & systems are expense/cost ... not
profit. there are predictions that large cloud operators may move off
x86 server chips to ARM chips ... while not as powerful processing per
chip ... are characterized as may having lower costs per unit of
processing. This possibly contributes to news that Intel will
fabricate/manufacture ARM chips.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/169853-hell-freezes-over-intel-announces-plan-to-fab-arm-processors
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon for credit unions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:05:37 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
however HFT is becoming so egregious that there are articles
that it is threatening to drive investors away ... recent
posts about egregious HFT behavior
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
triple-A toxic CDOs moved mortgages into wallstreet ... effectively new "business" (over $27T did during the bubble) ... claim that the triple-A toxic CDOs (along with CDS bets on their toxic CDOs that they were selling ... would fail) tripled the size of wallstreet (as percent of GDP) during the bubble ... aka increasing significantly faster ... so not only did it track the increase in bubble economy ... it became three times larger in terms of portion of absolute size of the bubble.
part of the triple-A for being toxic CDOs, was being able to sell to large funds (retirement/pension and sovereign wealth) that are restricted to dealing in "safe" instruments. Pension funds have been attractive targets for lots of interests. The other wallstreet strong push is then move to individual 401Ks ... because they can make much more from indivdiaul 401Ks in aggregate than large pension funds (not able to frequently repeat the triple-A rating scheme).
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
article about over $27T done during bubble:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
past posts referencing wallstreet tripled in size (as percent of gdp)
during the bubble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#15 The Revolving Door and S.E.C. Enforcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#47 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#24 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#40 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#34 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#43 Massive Fraud, Common Crime, No Prosecutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#22 Is BitCoin a triple entry system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#65 Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#42 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#26 Why bankers rule the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#35 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#25 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#45 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#86 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon for credit unions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:23:04 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
past reference that much of wallstreet is done with non-level playing
field and/or other ways for gaming the system ... quote from economics nobel prize
winner in "Thinking, Fast and Slow",
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA
pg212:
"Since then, my questions about the stock market have hardened into a
larger puzzle: a major industry appears to be built largely on an
illusion of skill. Billions of shares are traded every day, with many
people buying each stock and others selling it to them"
... snip ...
I've mentioned before that in late 90s, I was asked in to NSCC ... before
it merged with DTC to become DTCC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
to look at improving the integrity of exchange transactions. after I worked on it for awhile, I was told that the work was suspended ... a side-effect of the integrity work was that it made transactions much more transparent and visible ... an anathema to wallstreet culture (supposedly something like 30% of offers and acceptances wouldn't stand the light of day).
later in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had testimony from the
person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do
something about Madoff (their hands were finally forced when he turned
himself in). The person was asked if he thought new regulations were
needed ... and he replied that while new regulations might be needed
(although there has been lots of regulations requiring SEC to do
something and nothing changed), he said that much more important was to
make the infrastrucutre more transparent and visible. posts mentioning
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
posts mentioning SEC doing little or nothing about financial reporting
fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
even though required by Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
in the wake of enron & worldcom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
past posts mentioning "thinking fast and slow"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#138 Thinking, Fast & Slow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#29 The speeds of thought, complexities of problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#35 Entropy and #SocialMedia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#65 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#74 What voters are really choosing in November
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#64 Guest Post: Beakley on Boyd, Aerial Combat and the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#72 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
past posts mentioning NSCC, DTC, and/or DTCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#14 Security glossary available
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#47 Multics_Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#25 garlic.com
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#41 DEC and news groups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#28 Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#31 FC5 Special Workshop CFP: Emerging trends in Online Banking and Electronic Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#69 ATM PIN through phone or Internet. Is it secure? Is it allowed by PCI-DSS?, Visa, MC, etc.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#63 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#35 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#80 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#1 Audit II: Two more scary words: Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#47 Bernard Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty -- are there more "Madoff's" out there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#75 Whistleblowing and reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#15 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#36 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#45 Artificial Intelligence to tackle rogue traders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#67 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#29 Transparency and Visibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#57 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#47 Audits VII: the future of the Audit is in your hands
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#33 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#43 What was old is new again (water chilled)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#54 Trust Facade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#69 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#49 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#63 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#53 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#26 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#39 Back to architecture: Analyzing NYSE data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#38 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#37 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#21 HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#16 John Robb on the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#29 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#5 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#87 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#56 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#23 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#41 Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street's Secrets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#10 Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#13 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#39 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#63 Is it possible to hack mainframe system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#38 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#41 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#30 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:00:00 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
one of the issues congress seems to have hit on ... 1) have sunset provisions on special tax provision so they have to come back and pay more to get it renewed and/or 2) kabuki theater ... the facade/appearance of conflict with two sides ... one for and one against revoking provision ... drumming up lots of funding for both sides.
there was 2008 economist conference reference about going to a flat-tax to eliminate the enormous congressional fraud swirling around special tax provisions (unrelated to any possible direct benefits from flat-tax).
also mentioned that (at the time) the tax-code was 65,000 pages (now well over 70,000 pages) costs the economy 3% in GDP dealing with the complexity. Going to flat-rate (reducing tax code to 400-500 pages) would gain 5%-6% in GDP ... 3% benefit eliminating difficulty in dealing with the complexity and 2-3% in entities currently making sub-optimal economic decisions (from the standpoint of the country) trying to take advantage of special provisions.
posts mentioning congress as kabuki theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
past posts mentioning tax-code:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#43 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#34 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#37 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#71 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#87 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#43 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#44 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#83 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#20 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#31 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#39 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#48 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#49 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#40 F.B.I. Faces New Setback in Computer Overhaul
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#36 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#37 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#40 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#58 History--automated payroll processing by other than a computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#69 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#73 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#15 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#74 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#46 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#18 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#20 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#8 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#9 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#20 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#73 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#68 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#8 America needs a 2-page tax code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#17 Let the IRS Do Your Taxes, Really
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#38 UK firms need to 'fess up to security boobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#61 Zakaria: by itself, Buffett rule is good
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#47 How Selecting Voters Randomly Can Lead to Better Elections
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#34 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#74 What voters are really choosing in November
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#32 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#35 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#2 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#80 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#81 Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#86 How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#25 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#55 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#0 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#9 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#38 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: An insider's story of the global attack on climate science Date: 23 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
An insider's story of the global attack on climate science; An epic
saga of secretly funded climate denial and harassment of scientists.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/01/an-insiders-story-of-the-global-attack-on-climate-science/
note "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
traces similar activity back to the tobacco industry ... but also used
by MICC described in "Prophets of War" (even some of the same
companies involved)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
recent posts mentioning "Merchants of Doubt" &/or "Prophets of War"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#54 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#21 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#32 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#7 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#52 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#44 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:51:48 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
lots of complaints about us corporate 35% tax rate ... lots of it pure obfuscation and misdirection by various special interest since ....
GAO: U.S. corporations pay average effective tax rate of 12.6%
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/economy/corporate-tax-rate/
and several large corporates pay less
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/20/1195554/-64-Major-U-S-Corporations-Only-Paid-8-1-in-Taxes
corporate tax in us has effective rate & share of GDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States
GAO report mentions use of offshore tax havens, posts mention offshore tax
havens/tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
some past posts mentioning corporate tax:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#59 History--automated payroll processing by other than a computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#69 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#23 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#20 Million Corporation march on Washington
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#35 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#25 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:12:09 -0500Ibmekon writes:
as an aside ... the 5-6% GDP came from round table discussion of annual
economist conference in 2008 discussing huge corruption in congress and
lobbiests. flat tax was put forward as addressing the enormous
corruption associated with existing paradigm ... and also dealing with
the resulting enormous tax code ... effectively cost 5-6% of GDP. They
pointed out that one of the entities lobbying heavily against any major
tax code reform ... was the country of ireland (remember this is
2008). some posts mentioning the reference to ireland lobbying against
us tax reform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#49 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#87 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#20 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#31 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
posts mentioning tax evasion / offshore tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
in the past couple years ... there has been several news stories about ireland being major tax haven and very high profile companies using off-shore tax haven loopholes with store-front office in ireland (sometimes as little as shoebox on shelf in office with hundreds of other shoeboxes) article from this month
Global tax avoidance: the long war against tax havens
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/global-tax-avoidance/5146462
news item from 2010 ... economists were discussing it in 2008
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201043146825.htm
from above:
Ireland's transformation into a hub for tax avoidance can be
seen in U.S. Commerce Department data. In 2010, U.S. companies
attributed $95 billion in profits to Irish subsidiaries, up more than
sevenfold from $13 billion in 2000. Actual employment at those units
barely grew during that decade, and the companies' reported tax
rate plummeted to 3 percent from 9 percent.
... snip ...
aka not actually doing more business in ireland but cooking the books to make it appears as if it was irish revenue.
tax haven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven
from above:
A 2012 report from the Tax Justice Network estimated that between USD
$21 trillion and $32 trillion is sheltered from taxes in unreported tax
havens worldwide
... snip ...
news items from last year
How Apple and the Rest of the Tech Giants Avoid Billions in Taxes
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-apple-and-the-rest-of-the-tech-giants-avoid-billions-in-taxes--2
Fortune pays a visit to Apple's Irish tax haven
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/01/apple-ireland-cork-taxes/
Ireland: A tax haven for American tech companies like Google, Twitter
and Apple but without the sun
http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/ireland-a-tax-haven-for-american-tech-companies-like-google-twitter-and-apple-but-without-the-sun-209636591-238184181.html
(The) Fighting Irish tax reform for Hi-Tech Giants
http://www.geektime.com/2013/10/16/fighting-irish-tax-reform-for-hi-tech-giants/
Man Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-28/man-making-ireland-tax-avoidance-hub-globally-proves-local-hero.html
Facebook 'Likes' Tax Schemes to Avoid Paying Uncle Sam
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-likes-tax-schemes-avoid-104500083.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jan 2014 10:38:36 -0800dasdbill2@COMCAST.NET (DASDBILL2) writes:
reference to corporate governance doesn't ever mention maximizing
shareholder value (... but tends to be a rallying cry behind which
maximizing executive compensation occurs)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-shareholder-value-theory-of-corporate-governance-is-bogus.html
from above:
If you review any of the numerous guides prepared for directors of
corporations prepared by law firms and other experts, you won't find a
stipulation for them to maximize shareholder value on the list of
things they are supposed to do. It's not a legal requirement. And
there is a good reason for that.
Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty
of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific
obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those
responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in
particular.
... snip ...
a couple past posts referencing above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#84 3Q earnings are becoming the norm at IBM. What is IBM management overlooking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
analysis of IBM's most recent numbers
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
recent posts referencing above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#16 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
past posts mentioning selling x86 server business to lenovo (most
from last spring)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#28 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#38 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#45 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: OODA Date: 24 Jan 2014 Blog: Boyd & Beyonddoesn't have separation ... all things running concurrently in parallel ... language doesn't have single word ... OODA-loop sort of fills that void.
An analogy comes up in computers with sequential
computer processing language and the transition from single core chips
to large numbers of cores ... parallel programming paradigm has been
holy grail ever since increasing number of cores ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
oh, disclaimer i did operating system multi/parallel processing in the 70s on large mainframes ... the transition from purely sequential to large concurrent was difficult for many people
Fast & Slow was somewhat that the brain was major resource usage in the body ... and techniques evolved to minimize energy use. Circuits got smaller and smaller so there could be billions of circuits per chip ... but there wasn't a corresponding increase in speed of circuits ... in part because of synchronous logic resulted in the growing number of circuits operating in sync (and speed of circuits were already approaching limit where signal thru the chip was becoming significantly latency). This drove/evolved to organizing as multiple independent cores. Problem is that programming paradigm hasn't kept up ... still oriented towards single serial process. Some left over from large multiprocessor mainframes of the 70s keeping multiple independent sequential programs running concurrent. More evolution has been with graphics GPU chips that have thousands of very small cores and graphics applications partitioned into running in parallel. There is increasing work on adapting other kinds of applications to thousands of GPU cores ... for instance crypto code breaking. Big supercomputers now have tens of thousands, frequently with combination of CPU chips (with dozen cores/chip) and GPU chips (with thousands cores/chip).
disclaimer: I had working with national labs back to late 70s on
compute farms with large number of independent systems ... as well
with commercial DBMS systems with large number of systems doing
massive number of transactions. Old reference to early Jan1992 meeting
in Ellison conference room about having 128way system for commercial
DBMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
other old email (from late '91, Jan92) about both compute farms for
national labs as well as DBMS scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
within hrs of last email, scale-up was transferred and we were told we
couldn't work on systems with more than four processors. It is then
announced as IBM supercomputer for numeric intensive and scientific
*only* ... press 17Feb92
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
then they say that the national labs interest in clusters caught them
by surprise (except I had been working with them back to late 70s)
press 11May92
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
one of the scenarios for the transfer was trying to protect their large & very profitable mainframe commercial DBMS business
for the fun of it: The Unexpected Power of Baby Math: Adults Still
Think About Numbers Like Kids
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140122134231.htm
Boyd had similar but different story about original heads-up display (HUD) for F16 that had scrolling digital numbers ... which took lots of pilot attention to process into meaning (various analog representation took much less human processing to convert into meaning).
Culture could be assumed to be inherent in orientation ... and Boyd would talk about constantly viewing from every possible facet (somewhat as countermeasure to fixed orientation). Also "Raising the Bar" loc774-75 Boyd refers to this as an "examining of the world from a number of perspectives so that we can generate mental images or impressions that correspond to the world."
the other line ... its not done when there is nothing left to add, its done when there is nothing left to take away.
re: emails (more than you might want to know); we didn't have good relations with the guy running the kingston supercomputer group dating back to at least the mid-80s (in part because had lots of contacts with national labs). Oct1991 the senior executive that backed Kingston retires and his pet projects are audited. They put a new executive in charge of Kingston supercomputer and begin scouring the company for supercomputer technology ... including announcing a symposium for mid-jan1992. One of the engineers working on Medusa wants to make a presentation. We warn him not to because they are just trolling and its likely to end very badly. He goes ahead and it ends badly.
Also one of the executives put in charge of kingston (after oct1991)
was also involved in preventing us from bidding on NSF backbone
(precursor to modern internet). Mid-80s, we were originally suppose to
get $20m from NSF to tie together all the NSF supercomputer centers,
then congress cuts the budget and several other things happen. Finally
NSF releases an RFP but internal politics prevent us from bidding. The
director of NSF tries to help ... including writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO)... but that just
makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we
already have running is at least five years ahead of all RFP
responses). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
other trivia ... corporate hdqtrs blamed me for online computer
conferencing on the internal network in late 70s and early 80s
(internal network larger than arpanet/internet from just about the
beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
Folklore is that when the corporate management committee (chairman,
ceo, cfo, pres, etc) was told about online computer conferencing (and
the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
trivia simple/complex ... when electronic commerce was first being
deployed ... the flat file based webservers had much lower exploits
than the RDBMS based webservers. The RDBMS based webservers were
significantly more complex and there was high incidence of mistakes
... mistakes that spilled over to security arena ... part of the
rule-of-thumb that security exploits are proportional to
complexity. disclaimer: I was involved in the original SQL/RDBMS
implementation (system/r)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
and also much later was brought in to consult with small client/server
startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they
had also invented some technology they called "SSL" ... the result is
now frequently called "electronic commerce". note: the two people
responsible for the startup's commerce server ... we had previously
worked with when they were at oracle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
past article about NSFNET backbone evolving into modern internet, grid
computing and cloud computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
... more blather ...there was some amount of rivalry between Multics
on 5th flr (mit project mac) and the science center on the 4th flr
(some of the ctss people had gone to 5th flr and others gone to 4th
flr). Multics had a number of premier gov. accounts including air
force data systems. Old email about air force data systems wanting to
come out and talk about 20 vm/4341 machines (by that time I had
transferred from science center to san jose research)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
I was also doing national labbenchmarks that was looking at doing 70 machine
compute farm ... old email about vm/4300s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
by the time AFDS got around to coming out, their plans had increased
to 210 vm/4341s ... I wasn't above tweaking the Multics people about
it ... list of multics sites (AFDS #71, also dockmaster #77, also
several for navy war gaming)
http://www.multicians.org/sites.html
the disk engineering lab across the street tended to get the 3rd or
4th engineering model of a new computer, for disk testing ... they
were frequently after me to come over and play disk engineer ... and
in return they allowed me lot of latitude in using their new
computers. One of the things I was doing was using engineering 4341
for various customer benchmarks (when nobody else could get access to
a machine).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
past mentioning fast&slow:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#138 Thinking, Fast & Slow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#143 Wall Street's Big Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#144 Fingerspitzengefühl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#147 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#3 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#29 The speeds of thought, complexities of problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#35 Entropy and #SocialMedia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#18 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#27 Indirect Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#48 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#66 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#65 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#95 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#74 What voters are really choosing in November
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#91 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#64 Guest Post: Beakley on Boyd, Aerial Combat and the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#41 Computer Simulations Reveal Benefits of Random Investment Strategies Over Traditional Ones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#72 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#72 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#17 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#63 Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:06:11 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
from the law of unintended consequences ... the invading forces going into Iraq were told to bypass ammo/weapon dumps and go directly for the (nonexistent) WMDs ... when they got around to going back ... an estimatad million metric tons had evaporated. Then you find the IEDs made with large artillary shells ... capable of taking out largest armored vehicles including Abrams M1 tanks.
there were stories wondering were the insurgants were getting sophisticated explosives for IEDs ... but they actually knew where it was coming from.
there are recent stories that if iraq learned from desert storm about tactics for the coming invasion ... why didn't the US military learn anything from desert storm and/or expect that things might be different.
other recent posts mentioning the estimatad million metric tons and law
of unintended consequences
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#38 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#64 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#80 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:11:28 -0500"rex" <rexjohns@nospam.com> writes:
associated article discussed that household income continued to increase as families were increasingly forced to transition to two wage earners &/or multiple jobs.
past posts mentioning above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#3 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#38 Other Than In Computers, Civilization Basically Stopped Progressing In The 1960s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#39 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#46 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#10 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#48 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#13 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#53 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#85 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#39 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#65 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#44 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#15 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#15 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#77 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#91 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#33 Management Secrets From Inside GE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#50 IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#51 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#60 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#42 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Can America Win Wars Date: 24 Jan 2014 Blog: Slightly East of Newre:
from the law of unintended consequences, the justification for the invasion was fabricated WMDs ... during the invasion they were told to bypass military/ammo bunkers and go directly for the (fabricated) WMDs. When they got around to going back, an estimated million metric tons had disappeared. Heavily reinforced trucks were eventually introduced as countermeasure to (smaller) IEDs, insurgents then started adding large artillery shells (from the bunkers) to the IEDs
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-Iraq-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
my son-in-law was Fallujah 2004-2005 and then Baqubah 2007-2008 ... Baqubah described as worse than Fallujah ... IEDs taking out Bradleys and Abram M1s ... so many Bradleys were lost that they started getting retired Bradleys from desert storm as replacements. Abrams were so vulnerable that they would try and do sweeps of the route before letting Abrams out.
Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
also
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/index.php?option=com_content
(at the bottom hit the "previous" button to get the other parts)
so another description is they melted away in face of large concentrated force to fight another day.
as an aside ... Robbs Brave New War
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of
Globalization
https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization-ebook/dp/B00H2VFGZ4/
details that Iraq's actions in the invasion was specifically planned that way based on what they had learned during desert storm. There was no plan to oppose the invasion ... then the law of unintended consequences bypassing the ammo dumps with estimated million metric tons ... looking for nonexistent wmds played exactly into their plans
Robb's book has between 40,000 and 100,000 "insurgents" were organized under Saddam's son Uday before the invasion ... and that with other organizations, total insurgents were much greater (150,000 active on any given day) ... that they had learned from Desert Storm and knew some other strategy was required. Iraq was not going to participate in the US military war plan ... and along with all the other stories about fabricated justification for the invasion ... a possibility is that it was just one of Spinney's Perpetual War. One 2010 analysis of the DOD budget was that it had been increased a little over $2trillion over baseline ... $1+trillion budgeted for the wars and another $1+trillion couldn't be accounted for
With regard to Iraq had learned in desert storm and wasn't going to oppose the invasion ... for the fun of it from Hart: Why Don't We Learn from History? (only a $1.99)
Why Don't We Learn from History?
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-We-Learn-History-ebook/dp/B00792M6H2/
loc590-93:
On approaching Vilna, Napoleon found that the Russians had abandoned
the city. "It was truly heartbreaking for him to have to give up all
hope of a great battle before Vilna and he voiced his bitterness by
crying out upon the cowardice of his foes." After five weeks'
campaigning, despite his deep advance, he had inflicted little damage
on the enemy, while his own army had been reduced by at least a third
in numbers and still more in efficiency.
... snip ...
Chuck's Perpetual War
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
coupled with Success of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
would have any real victory limiting the flow of funds. I've wondered if they haven't been using gaming techniques exploring the ways of maximizing flow of funds and quarterly profits.
Thoughts about Fallujah: I am worried that we're just not built to win
anymore
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/21/thoughts_about_fallujah_i_am_worried_that_were_just_not_built_to_win_anymor
there was recent post about marine small wars manual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wars_Manual
based on experience dealing with small scale conflicts ... and this
was written about the same time, based on same experience in support
of wallstreet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
characterizing same events done in support of MICC and wallstreet ... which references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
and above references Spinney's theme
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
this is by congressman (contemporary of Mahan, also mentions Mahan
aligned with Roosevelt on US imperialism in Pacific)
"Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from
1870 to 1920"
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long as
the conditions endure which produce these documents.
... snip ..
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
these talk about what has been going on more recent
"Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism"
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-Media-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/r
"Prophets of War"
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
and then there is economic hit man ... some parts of wallstreet wants
to attempt extract wealth w/o having to send in the military
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins-ebook/dp/B001AFF266/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
which can put them in conflict with MICC that wants any excuse to be sent in.
one of their MICC stories is that they went to former soviet block countries and told them that they would back their membership in NATO and USAID to buy (US made) NATO compatible weapons ... if they voted for invasion of Iraq
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Resistance to Java. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 Jan 2014 07:41:48 -0800dcrayford@GMAIL.COM (David Crayford) writes:
He had been in the los gatos vlsi chip design group and was one of two people responsible for implementing mainframe pascal ... which was used internally for lots of chip design tools (requiring significant performance) ... eventually being released to customers as vs/pascal. the original mainframe tcp/ip product was also implemented in vs/pascal (and had none of the buffer length exploits that have been epidemic in c language implementations).
He then left to do a 3270 clone controller startup ... TSO operation was so bad that they had a bunch of TSO stuff implemented in the controller ... which they figured would have big market ... but the IBM/PC overtook them. He then went on to be VP of MIPS software development ... and when SGI bought MIPS ... went to SUN.
This was age when everybody seemed to be doing object-oriented operating systems ... apple had "pink" and sun had "spring". Before "spring" was shutdown ... we were approached about running the group and commercializing spring and turning it out as product ... but declined. When "spring" was shutdown ... all the people were moved over to JAVA.
There was some amount of synergy between spring and green (which morphs
into JAVA) ... a major objective of spring was highly distributed
computing model
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/History
from spring papers, gone 404, but live on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030404182953/http://java.sun.com/people/kgh/spring/
A Client-Side Stub Interpreter
We have built a research operating system in which all services are
presented through interfaces described by an interface description
language. The system consists of a micro-kernel that supports a small
number of these interfaces, and a large number of interfaces that are
implemented by user-level code. A typical service implements one or
more interfaces, but is a client of many other interfaces that are
implemented elsewhere in the system. We have an interface compiler
that generates client-side and service-side stubs to deliver calls
from clients to services providing location transparency if the client
and server are in different address spaces. The code for client-side
stubs was occupying a large amount of the text space on our clients,
so a stub interpreter was written to replace the client-side stub
methods. The result was that we traded 125k bytes of stub code for 13k
bytes of stub descriptions and 4k bytes of stub interpreter. This
paper describes the stub interpreter, the stub descriptions, and
discusses some alternatives.
... snip ...
125kbytes of code was significant percent of real storage on many machines of the period.
there were a couple operations in silicon valley that did a lot of work
on JIT (just in time) compiling for various mainframe 370 emulators (on
the fly translating 370 code segments into native code) ... eventually
similar techniques start to appear for JAVA ... with increasing levels
of performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:51:07 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
posts mentioning lots of congress facade obfuscating what goes on
behind the scenes ... resulting in congress being periodically
referred to as kabuki theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
posts mentioning tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:01:39 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
there has been several things written about US horrible army promotion system ... one was westmoreland after vietnam comissioned study of the army system (OPMS 71, done in response to 1970 study at the Army War College) ... and it was so damning that it was classified for next 14 years ... part of it was huge, bloated officer core, enormously top-heavy with flag officers ... that continues to this day.
part of boyd briefings was he would contrast the German military with 3%
officers with the bloated US military that had 11% officers growing to
20% (needed for rigid, top-down, command&control system)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:05:39 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
lots of news quoting recent study and phrase that worker wages have stagnated for decades
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon for credit unions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:10:57 -0500one of the illegal activity in HFT is "frontrunning" in this case institution getting an investor trade ... but knowing that trade will slightly move the market in certain direction ... execute an institution trade before executing the investors trade
Exclusive: Bank of America's trading practices have been probed, filing shows
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/25/us-bankofamerica-probe-idUSBREA0O0DC20140125
Bank Of America Caught Frontrunning Clients
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-25/bank-america-caught-frontrunning-clients
from above
In summary, so far in 2013, Bank of America lost money on 9 trading days
out of a total 188. Statistically, this result is absolutely ridiculous
when one considers that the bulk of bank trading revenues are still in
the form of prop positions disguised as "flow" trading to evade Volcker
which means the only way a bank could make money with near uniform
perfection is if it either i) consistently has inside information that
it trades on or ii) it consistently front-runs its clients.
...
Finally, our question for the regulators: in a Volcker world in which
banks are supposedly not allowed to trade ahead of their clients, why
are banks, well, trading ahead of their clients!?
... snip ...
mentions Nobel prize winner in economist about no skill in the market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
unless of course it is insiders that are gaming the system ... mention
insiders gaming the system even before HFT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
and they don't have anything to worry about from the SEC (which does little or nothing ... or periodic fines that are such a small percentage of the overall business that it has come to be viewed as cost of doing business fraud).
too big to fail are also too big to prosecute and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some past posts mentioning fines have just become part of "cost of doing
business"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#73 Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#110 Loan Originators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#55 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#86 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#1 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#2 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Resistance to Java. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Jan 2014 07:57:09 -0800edjaffe@PHOENIXSOFTWARE.COM (Ed Jaffe) writes:
a primary communication group effort fighting off distributed computing
and client/server was SAA (I've periodically mentioned senior disk
engineer getting talk at annual worldwide internal communication group
conferencing and opening with the statement that the communication group
was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division ...
among other things the disk division was seeing drop in disk sales with
data fleeing the datacenter for more distributed computing friendly
platforms ... and communication group veto'ing all the solutions the
disk division would come up ... the communication group had strategic
"ownership" for everything that crossed data center wall).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Systems_Application_Architecture
"Father of SAA" was no relation ... but the executive put in charge of doing SAA in the early 90s ... I had worked with many years earlier on 138/148 microcode assist and would periodically drop by his office on top floor of somers and ridicule SAA.
part of the issue was we had come up with 3-tier architecture ...
initially written into response for large, distributed, super-secure
government program ... and then out making pitches to customer
executives ... and getting lots of arrows in the back (and other FUD)
from the communication group. past posts mentioning 3-tier (and SAA)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
part of the issue was 3tier was all tcp/ip (and not SNA).
at the same time SAA was kicked off, the communication group was also
out distributing a lot of misinformation inside the corporation about
how SNA could be used for the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern
internet). old NSFNET backbone email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
and other misinformation that if the internal network wasn't converted
to SNA, the internal network would stop working. internal network old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:21:02 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
2010 CBO report that after that, tax revenues were cut by $6T (compared to the earlier baseline) and spending increased by $6T (compared to earlier baseline) for $12T budget gap
posts mentioning fiscal reponsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
posts mentioning that much of what goes on is congress
is all facade ... periodically referred to as kabuki theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Resistance to Java. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Jan 2014 08:49:08 -0800PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86. Part of the reason was that the (vm370 vnet-based) internal network had a form of gateway in everynode (which didn't exist in the arpanet host protocol, sna, and/or osi model). Arpanet/internet got internetworking protcol as part of the great change-over to tcp/ip on 1jan1983.
this "ibm-main" discussion group originated on univ. "bitnet" which used
technology similar to the internal network ... and about the same time
the communication group was forcing the internal network to convert to
SNA ... bitnet was converting to tcp/ip for bitnet2 ... which is what
the internal network should have done also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
i had project i called hsdt with T1 (1.5mbit/sec) and faster speed
links ... started doing T1 in 1980.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
the initial mainframe tcp/ip product (mentioned upthread, implemented
in vs/pascal) has some performance issues .... getting about
44kbytes/sec effective using nearly full 3090 processor. I did the
enhancements to support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at cray
research got 1mbyte/sec channel sustained throughput between
4341 and cray using only modest amount of 4341 processor (possibly
500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
standard mainframe 37xx product only supported up to 56kbits/sec. communication group prepared a report for corporate hdqtrs that customers didn't want much more than 56kbits/sec and wouldn't need T1 (1.5mbits/sec) until well into the 90s. At the same time, HSDT didn't superficial customer survey and found 200 customer T1 links connected to IBM mainframes (but using non-ibm controllers).
The communication group kept up the facade for a time ... but eventually
was forced to came out with the rube-goldberg 3737 hack supporting
T1. SNA/VTAM had a separate problem with latency handling in
communication links. It was unable to get only a very small fraction of
T1 throughput capacity. To get around it the 3737 simulated a CTCA link
to another local mainframe. Inside the 3737 it had a bunch of processing
and enormous amount of buffering (including four 68k, 100k lines of
code) ... it would simulate ACK on data RUs to the local VTAM (as if the
data had already arrived at the remote end) trying to compenstate for
the lack of latency handling in SNA & VTAM. some past posts
detailing 3737
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#75 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#77 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
with these old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
the claims were the 3737 could just barely support 1.5mbit/sec throughput ... even though full-duplex T1 is 3mbits/sec aggregate (1.5mbit/sec concurrent in both direction) and european T1 is 4mbits/sec aggregate
other trivia ... I had been blamed for online computer conferencing on
the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s. folklore is that
when the corporate executive committee was informed of computer
conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
old email from person charged with setting up EARN (bitnet in europe)
looking for network apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
posts mentioning bitnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
as part of HSDT, we was also working with NSF and NSF supercomputer centers. We were suppose to get $20M from NSF to tie together the supercomputer centers, then congress cut the budget and several other things happened. Finally NSF releases an RFP ... but internal politics (large amount from communication group) prevent us from bidding. The director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was at least five years ahead of all bid submissions).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Resistance to Java. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Jan 2014 11:20:46 -0800re:
part of the issue SNA was pretty much dictated by VTAM/NCP ... which was
a low-speed, dumb terminal communication paradigm. It was a herculean
task to do anything approaching networking. it was one of the
reasons I called HSDT (high-speed data transport) to differentiate
from SNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
also, arpanet IMP networking (before 1jan1983 internetworking tcp/ip), sna, and OSI were pretty much all single administrative domain (no internetworking).
note that it wasn't just sna that lost out to tcp/ip in the late 80s ... also in the late 80s the federal government had mandated the elimination of the internet and move over to GOSIP (aka OSI) which also didn't happen.
old email mentioning NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
NSFNET backbone related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
past article from MIT that the original purpose of NSFNET backbone was to
hook together the NSF supercomputer centers ... sort of the foundation
of GRID computing and modern cloud computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
other trivia ... before he passed, the long time RFC (aka internet
standards) Editor (Postel) use to let me do some of STD1 ... based on
some of the stuff i do for RFC index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B Date: 26 Jan 2014 Blog: IBMeresIBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
As Google Remakes the Server Game, IBM Sells Out to China
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/google-ibm-servers/
from above:
Thanks in large part to Facebook freely sharing its designs and
methods through its Open Compute Project, others are following suit,
leaving IBM, Dell, and HP on the wrong side of history. In late 2012,
Intel bigwig Diane Bryant told us 75 percent of the company's
server chip revenue now comes from eight companies and that one of
them is Google. Four years before, she said, 75 percent came from
Dell, HP, and IBM.
... snip ...
note that most stuff has been whatever boosts executive compensation:
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
lots of details about different ways corporations came up with
for raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
recent posts mentioning selling server business &/or ibm stock buyback
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#16 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:39:57 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
ported apl\360 to cms\apl ... a major problem was apl\360 storage allocation and garbage collection. apl\360 swapped a complete workspace each time ... so access patterns inside of workspace had little external effect. every assignment statement resulted in new workspace area being allocated ... until it had exhaused the complete workspace area and then did garbage collection that consolidated together at one end of the workspace. typical workspace size was also 16kbytes (sometimes 32kbytes).
move to cms\apl ... it was (4kbyte) demand page and workspace was as large as virtual memory ... the apl allocation/garbage collection strategy throws the machine into page thrashing constantly touching every available virtua page (very little locality of reference).
so part of port to cms\apl required redoing the whole apl storage allocation and garbage collection mechanisms.
note one of the justifications for move from os/360 mvt to os/vs2 svs
with virtual memory was the poor storage allocation mechanism in MVT
... typical region tended to use only around 25%. Supposedly the move to
virtual memory met that os/vs2 svs could run 16 concurrent regions in
1mbyte real machine. past posts discussing justification for os/360
virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
above also makes reference to FS ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
implicit in this was that processors were getting faster, much faster than disks were getting faster ... so processors were spending increasing percentage of time waiting for disk. One way to compensate was to trying and have a larger number of concurrent things to do (multiprogramming level) so it might be possible to switch to something else ... when there was wait on disk.
past references to claiming that over a period that disks had order of
magnitude decline in relative system throughput (systems got 40-50 times
faster, disks got 3-5 times faster)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#10 Virtual Memory (A return to the past?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#46 The god old days(???)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#4 IBM S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#62 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#40 MVS History (all parts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#61 MVS History (all parts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#23 Smallest Storage Capacity Hard Disk?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#5 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#11 Microcode? (& index searching)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#20 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#8 What are some impressive page rates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#9 What are some impressive page rates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#39 100% CPU is not always bad
disk division executives then directed their performance department to
refute my claim ... after several weeks they came back and essentially
said that I had slightly understated the problem. their analysis then
turns into share presentation b874 (with slightly different spin ... aka how
to optimize disks to make your system run faster)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#18
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:00:16 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low
http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2014/01/24/why-are-us-corporate-profits-so-high-because-wages-are-so-low/
Raw Data: It's Elites Who Drive Polarization, Not the Working Class
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/raw-data-its-elites-who-drive-polarization-not-working-class
We Can't Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/we-cant-afford-to-leave-inequality-to-the-economists/
there have been number of articles and expose about on how many
economists have been "captured" by wallstreet and special interests (in
manner similar to the way regulatory agencies have been captured) to do
their bidding. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#48 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#76 The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#81 Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
also super rich and corporations have stashed something between $22T and
$30T (or more) in off share tax havens ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:19:35 -0500re:
Super rich hold $32 trillion in offshore havens
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/offshore-wealth-idINL6E8IKF6120120722
Rich hide up to $32 trillion in offshore tax havens, report contends
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/23/business/la-fi-mo-tax-havens-20120723
Super-Rich Hold Up To $32 Trillion In Offshore Havens: Report
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/super-rich-offshore-havens_n_1692608.html
Billionaires Flee Havens as Trillions Pursued Offshore
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/billionaires-flee-havens-as-trillions-pursued-offshore.html
Check Out Who's Hiding $32 Trillion in Offshore Accounts
http://moneymorning.com/2013/05/01/check-out-whos-hiding-32-trillion-in-offshore-accounts/
2 Richest Global 1 Percent Hide Trillions in Tax Havens - Top 25 Censored
Stories from 2012-2013
http://www.projectcensored.org/2-richest-global-1-percent-hide-trillions-tax-havens/
from above:
Domestically, the Federal Reserve reported that the top seven US banks
hold more than $10 trillion in assets, recorded in over 14,000 created
"subsidiaries" to avoid taxes.
... snip ...
off-share tax havens and tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: US Army hopes to replace 25% of soldiers with robots by 2040 Date: 26 Jan 2014 Blog: Boyd & BeyondUS Army hopes to replace 25% of soldiers with robots by 2040
"Raising the Bar" loc1166-68:
This situation leads to underdeveloped tactical expertise. Commanders
treat subordinates less like "thinking beings" and more like slavish,
robotic servants. The creative and intellectual ability of individual
commanders is underutilized, generating dissatisfaction, cynicism,
frustration and low morale.
... snip ...
Air Force had fabricated a "bomber gap" with the Soviets as part of
justifying a 20% increase in DOD budget for building bombers. The
important thing about the CIA U2, was that Eisenhower was able to use
the photo recon to debunk the Air Force fabrication ... which
contributes to his warning about the Military Industrial
(congressional) Complex in his goodby speech. posts mentioning
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Later rounds, head of CIA Colby was rejecting (team b) analysis ... so
the president needed to replace the head of CIA with somebody that
would go along with Team B. The stories have the selection two-fold
1) needing somebody that would agree with team b analysis and 2)
sideline a political rival. recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#46 What Gates Didn't Get Done
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
(other) posts mentioning team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:03:21 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
aka congress allowed the fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002
(require that spending not exceed tax revenue) and proceeded to reduce
tax revenues by $6T and increase spending by $6T for $12T budget gap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
in the middle of last decade, comptroller general was including
in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school
arithmetic (for how they were savaging the budget)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
from recent facebook discussion getting into linear/non-linear www.amazon.com/Pure-Strategy-Principle-Information-History-ebook/dp/B000OT7V3G/
Hedge fund industry has been using linear projection over very short
term horizon .. but is known to be non-linear ... goes along with
Kahneman's comment about the industry is pure illusion of skill in "Fast
& Slow". Late 90s there is event and Greenspan orchestrates a bailout
(holds sat. meeting in NYC) ... sort of precursor to too-big-to-fail a
decade later ... goes along with the industry takes the profit and the
tax-payers are left with the risk and losses (to add insult to injury,
the industry lobbies congress to cut their taxes in half ... for what
isn't being stashed offshore in tax havens).
http://www.pbs.org/.../frontline/shows/crash/etc/cron.html
They may even realize that it is pure fabrication ... counting on the FED & gov will backstop them when things go down.("moral hazard")
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
tax havens and evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:34:45 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
one of the issues is that the military-industrial(-congressional)-complex is looking for ever increasing quarterly profits and just announced one of the best profit every (even if there is big military drawdown because ending of wars ... MICC still insists on their profits going up).
when lockheed was complaining that if spending returned to 2007 levels that it would mean job cuts ... somebody pointed out that lockheed had increasingly cut workers since 2007 while increasing profits and executive compensation ... if things were really return to 2007 levels ... they should add back in all the workers that have been cut.
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
part of the MICC gimmicks employed for iraq invasion (besides the fabricated WMDs) was MICC went to former eastern block countries and told them that if they would vote for the invasion ... MICC would back their entry into NATO and USAID for military make-over puchasing "NATO-compatible" weapons (from US MICC) ... MICC funding that doesn't directly show up in DOD budget.
congressional "directed appropriations" is another favorite of special interest groups ... congressional budget that can only be spent on prescribed purchases (even when it is USAID).
the important thing to remember about CIA U2 photo recon ... is that the US Air Force had fabricated a "bomber gap" justifying 20% increase in DOD budget for strategic bombers. Eisenhower used the CIA U2 photo recon to dubunk the Air Force fabrications ... contributing to the warnings about MICC in Eisenhower's farewell speech.
then there is team b ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
roll forward and CIA directory Colby was rejecting the team b analysis (justifying huge MICC budget increases). The administration then needs to replace Colby with somebody that would go along. The stories have the selection (at least) two fold 1) somebody that would go along with team b and 2) sideline a political rival.
some discussed here:
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
but even here ... parties going back to supporting tobacco industry
efforts to subvert cancer studies ... but later even getting involved
in team b efforts
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
public relations and scientists "guns for hire".
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:14:53 -0500hancock4 writes:
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed
Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II loc842-44
Though only a minority of all American officers attended the United
States Military Academy at West Point, they later constituted a majority
in the highest ranks and the most important positions in the
U.S. Army. During World War I, West Point graduates made up a mere 1.5
percent of the whole officer corps yet comprised 74 percent of the 480
general officers.
... snip ...
Book really criticises "hazing" at West Point ... unlike anything in European institutions and how unproductive it is. Also curriculum was almost totally unrelated with what the Army needed.
recent talk at first division museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7unu0fLYvc
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon for credit unions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:26:36 -0500Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
a little HFT ...
The Trades That Broke The Nasdaq
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-27/trades-broke-nasdaq
other recent HFT:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:17:51 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
in the 90s, congress and the administration did balanced budget and had
the fiscal responsibility act (spending could not exceed revenue)
... which would have had all federal debt retired by 2010.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
in 2002, the administration and congress allowed the fiscal responsibility act to expire ... a major motivation was congress selling tax loopholes. Articles claim that buying tax loopholes has the highest business ROI of any investment ... i.e. a factor of 1000 times ... aka $6T would have cost them around $6B.
this reports has all countries with above avg. corporate tax rates, with
the US at the highest.
http://www.cato.org/blog/tax-reform-first-step-simple
while GAO reports the effective rate is 12.6%
GAO: Big Companies Paid A 12.6% Effective Federal Income Tax Rate
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2013/07/01/gao-big-companies-paid-a-12-6-federal-income-tax-rate/
the difference being the money congress can make selling tax loopholes
to businesses. this is the 2008 economist roundtable discussion about
the enormous congressional corruption that comes from being able to sell
tax loopholes ... couched as flat tax but really all about the enormous
corruption around the sale of tax loopholes and the disastrous
side-effect as it perculates through the rest of the economy (even
joking about Ireland doing major lobbying against US tax reform ...
because Ireland is major offshore tax haven for US companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
recent posts mentioning flat-tax and/or the 2008 economist roundtable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#30 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
one of the other issues was that in the wake of the financial meltdown,
there was recommendation to walstreet to "capture" as many academics
and economists as possible (similar to the way they had captured
regulatory agencies) for use in spinning data about need for financial
regulatory reform. a few past references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#48 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#76 The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#81 Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#50 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:33:52 -0500Ibmekon writes:
past news reference ... including supposedly suspensions for various
violations including using classified information to win gov. contracts
(comment in article about people having been told of the suspensions
observed that it didn't seem to have any impact on their revenue flow
from the gov)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/snowden-case-not-the-first-embarassment-for-booz-allen--or-washingtons-burgeoning-contracting-industry/2013/07/08/30440b0a-d9b3-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html
one of the stories making the rounds is the person (spotlighted in the current news) troubles started when they were working at another agency ... they identified a gaping security hole and reported it to their gov. supervisor ... who didn't understand. The person then created an example exploit and took it to the agency inspector general ... and told the inspector general that it would demonstrate the gaping security hole by executing the exploit. The person was then "fired" on the excuse they violated security because they executed the example exploit (which they had never actually executed ... just provided it to the agency inspector general to execute).
at one point news was referencing that the person had been fired from previous job at another agency ... w/o any additional background info.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: write rings Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:43:05 -0500Lawrence Statton <lawrence@perl.mx> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:21:59 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
allowing the fiscal responsibility act to expire in 2002 (which required
spending not exceed tax revenue) had little to do with any motivation
they got out of seeing spending exceed revenue (and would have all
federal debt retired in 2010)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
motivation was that members of congress actually get paid when they sold tax loopholes ... they probably view it as incidental that there is no longer enough revenue to pay for government business.
there is the issue that they also get paid by MICC, beltway bandits and other special interests to pass huge gov. appropriations that line the pockets of for-profit corporations. However, it is somewhat incidental that getting paid for huge gov. appropriations to line pockets of for-profit corporations and also getting paid for the special interest tax loopholes ... happens to result in the appropriations have to be covered by debt.
for instance the 70% intelligence budget going to for-profit companies ... i've heard claims that congress expects 5% kickback on those contracts. other claims are lobbyists expect 10% of directed appropriations (congressional spending bills that can only be spent on directed purposes, usually involving specific business interests) which the lobbyists have to split with members of congress.
congress has huge financial motivation for passing large number of special interest tax loopholes (reducing tax revnue) as well as huge financial motivation to pass approprations that line the pockets of for-profit corporations (as well as increasing privatizing the federal government ... since there are pretty strict controls on congress getting kickbacks from gov. agencies).
all the stuff about enormous congressional corruption ... being paid for the special interest tax loopholes (reducing revenue) and well as being paid for spending that lines the pockets of for-profit companies happens to also result in exploding gov. debit.
While examples of congressional corruption can be found in all ages, the most recent period is much worse and dates from allowing the fiscal responsibility act to expire in 2002.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:13:31 -0500hancock4 writes:
for the states they have tended to be restricted to having "balanced"
budgets ... even written into state consitutions ... the only
gimmick was to raid the various trust funds. they didn't have
the luxury of letting the fiscal responsibility act expire
enabling their financial corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
in the case of pension funds ... lots of parties were after them, as i've noted ... one of the major wallstreet motivations for being able to pay for triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs (when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A ... from testimony at the oct2008 congressional hearings by employees from other departments at these rating agencies) ... was wallstreet being able to sell them to the large pension funds (restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments).
some of the gov. operations have been able to recover from too big to
fail ... showing fraud based on false wallstreet represenetations
and/or collusion between wallstreet and fund managers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:36:24 -0500Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
some of this may behind the recent leaks that the agency being involved
in industrial/economic espionage ... it may not be the agency itself
... it may be the for-profit companies using intelligence assets.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/27/snowden-says-nsa-engages-in-industrial-espionage.html
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/26/snowden_the_nsa_is_also_engaged_in_industrial_espionage/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/28/the-nsa-cia-and-the-promise-of-industrial-espionage/
note also previous references about Gerstner leaves IBM to head Carlyle
and then Carlyle does reverse-IPO, private equity buyout of Booz Allen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
and private equity buyout companies are on intense pressure to service
their debt ... including cutting all sorts of companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
over half of corporate defaults have been companies currently or
formally held by private equity companies (all sorts of value is
extracted by borrowing and putting the debt load on the company)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
however, this book claims gov. agencies and major corporate interests
have had long relations ... including monotizing intelligence
information
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins-ebook/dp/B001AFF266/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
dates back to at least the "banana republics" stories and US imperialism
in the 1800s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
above is more oriented towards support from the military ... but
"economic hitman" makes references that wallstreet tended to view
military action somewhat as last resort ... however there is wallstreet
part of military-industrial-complex that draws revenue from having
military operations.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:13:23 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
ibm 3350 had fixed-head option (70s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3350
I tried to get add-on feature added for "multiple-exposure" ... psuedo
device addresses ... similar to what was available on 2305 fixed-head
disks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_2305
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Block_multiplexer_channel
... that would enable data transfer from the fixed-head area overlapped
while device disk arm was moving. past posts mentioning getting to play
disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
i got blocked by group in pok that was working on electronic memory paging device (code-name vulcan) ... and they were afraid that if I got my feature in the market ... it could be used for improved paging throughput and undercut the market demand for their product.
as it happened, their product never shipped ... customer demand for processor (electronic) memory increased to the point where it was consuming all the manufacturing capacity ... and sold for higher price/mbyte ... so they couldn't justify selling scarce commodity at lower price/mbyte.
past posts about 3350 fixed head:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#104 Fixed Head Drive (Was: Re:Power distribution (Was: Re: A primeval C compiler)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#45 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#73 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#3 Expanded Storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#45 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#59 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#18 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#61 Z/VM support for FBA devices was Re: z/OS support of HMC's 3270 emulation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#75 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#11 Secret Service plans IT reboot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#11 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#55 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#106 Hard Disk Drive Construction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#74 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:28:00 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
for other drift ... not long after my run in with the vulcan group ... internal IBM got a large supply of electronic memory devices ... referred to as 1655 ... that could be run in 2305 emulation mode. It turns out that the vendor had a bunch of memory that would fail tests for use as processor memory but still could be used for electronic device (IBM memory process didn't have that characteristic).
past posts discussing 1655s:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#17 database (or b-tree) page sizes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#53 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#31 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#17 AS/400 and MVS - clarification please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#40 Do any architectures use instruction count instead of timer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#15 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#17 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#55 HASP assembly: What the heck is an MVT ABEND 422?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#39 S/360 undocumented instructions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#73 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#3 Expanded Storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#5 He Who Thought He Knew Something About DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#51 winscape?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#1 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#46 using 3390 mod-9s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#57 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#36 REAL memory column in SDSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#30 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#59 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#26 Tom's Hdw review of SSDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#9 Poster of computer hardware events?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#4 Remembering the CDC 6600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#15 Flash memory arrays
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#54 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#11 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#22 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#55 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#82 [OT] What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#78 Software that breaks computer hardware( was:IBM 029 service manual )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#75 I'd forgotten what a 2305 looked like
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#9 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#43 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#0 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:51:42 -0500Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
recent posts mentioning HFT ... especially used to obfuscate the
gaming/manipulating the market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#56 Royal Pardon for credit unions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:15:09 -0500hancock4 writes:
When I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM in the early 80s, he would talk
about US corporate culture being contaminated by former military
officers climbing the corporate ladder ... coming from a background of
rigid, top-down command structure. More of Boyd is starting to show up
in business ... upcoming conference at UCSD School of Management
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
This is comparison between German and US Army military schools ... with
US turning out nearly the antithesis of leader ... aka what not to do
(in contrast to German military Schools)
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
recent talk the author gave at first division museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7unu0fLYvc
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed
Forces:
German junior officers were regularly asked for their opinions and they
would criticize the outcome of a large maneuver with several divisions
before the attending general had the floor. The American army culture in
contrast has historically had a great problem with dissenters and
mavericks and just speaking one's mind to a superior officer,
disagreeing with or criticizing him could easily break a career.
... snip ...
from "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on failure of
Future System:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became
politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed
Forces:
As a young officer, Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote an article favoring
mechanization of the cavalry.87 The article displeased the chief of
infantry greatly and Ike was commanded not only to cease such heretical
activities but also to publicly reverse his opinion. He was threatened
with a court-martial.88 His superiors expected a fellow officer to
become a sycophant.
... snip ...
One of Boyd's briefings at IBM was Organic Design for Command and Control ... which ends with what is really needed is "Appreciation and Leadership". Part of the briefings was observation that US corporate culture was becoming contaminated by former military officers climbing corporate ladder.
Boyd posts & web URLs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:37:58 -0500Lawrence Statton <lawrence@perl.mx> writes:
was ku-band tdma system with transponder on sbs4 (went up on 41d,
got invited to launch party at the cape)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-41D.html
hsdt included a 4.5m dish in los gatos and 7m disk in austin (more humidity and longer path through atmosphere). use of the link for chip design was credit with help bring in the rios chipset (used for power, rs/6000) a year early.
Los gatos had the LSM (losgatos simulation machine or logic state
machine) that did verification 50,000 faster than 370/168 software
... and there was also a tail circuit from los gatos to bldg.86
... which had an EVE (endicott verification engine). recent posts
mentioning LSM and EVE use for rs/6000 chipset
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#5 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
posts mentioning 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
in the 90s i got a 9600baud satellite dish in backyard (later upgraded
to 19.2) with full usenet broadcast (one-way) feed ... in return for
doing a couple drivers for their modem and co-authoring an article in
boardwatch magazine ... a few past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#38 Vanishing Posts...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#39 I'll Be! Al Gore DID Invent the Internet After All ! NOT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#66 UUCP email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#16 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#11 An Out-of-the-Main Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#17 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#16 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#19 Another one bites the dust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#84 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#74 bulletin board
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#75 Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#92 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#26 Anyone here run UUCP?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:22:48 -0500hancock4 writes:
F/S had very complex hardware and one-level-store design ... plus
a lot of complex/bluesky stuff. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
one of the final nails in F/S coffin was analysis by IBM Houston Science Center that if Eastern's System/One res system (which ran on 370/195) ran on fastest FS machine (made out of same technology as 370/195), it would have throughput of 370/145 (between 15-30 times slowdown).
One-level-store was somewhat brought forward from tss/360 paged-mapped infrastructure. I had seen some amount of tss/360 paged-mapped filesystem at the univ. in the 60s ... I was playing with cp67/cms and IBM SE was playing with tss/360 on the same 360/67 hardware. We put together an emulated student fortran edit, compile and execute benchmark ... with think times and other characteristics. I ran it on cp67/cms with 35 emulated users and got better response time and throughput than he did with tss/360 with four emulated users.
I had learned quite about paged-map filesystem problems (and what not to
do) from the tss/360 and attempted to address them all when I did a
paged-map cp67/cms filesystem at the science center in the early 70s
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
I would periodically ridicule the FS people as not really knowing what they were doing.
Folklore is that when FS imploded, some numbers retreated to Rochester and did system/38. It had high-level interface and single-level-store that simplified the programming and operations ... but significantly impacted throughput ... however in the entry level market, hardware could somewhat be thrown at throughput issues.
An example of their single-level-store was that they treated all
available disks as a single pool and did scatter allocation across all
available disks. As a result all disks had to be treated as a single
filesystem/entity and backed up as such. When there was a single disk
failure ... the one disk would be replaced, but then the whole
filesystem had to be completely restored ... which could take a day or
more (even for small s/38 configuration).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/38
IBM san jose got patent for raid in 1977 ... and s/38 was the early
adopter ... as countermeausre for single disk failure ... which was so
tramatic for s/38 environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
i did some work with ken when I got to play disk engineer in bldgs.
14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
as/400 was follow-on to combination of s/38 and s/36
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
and relaxed some of the FS purity that was in s/38
... including capability-based addressing ... one of the
things that cost high-end FS a lot in throughput
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#History
note that the executive we reported to when we started our ha/cmp
product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
then went over to head-up somerset for AIM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
to do the single-chip 801/risc that would be used for
power/pc, as/400, apple, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
past 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards? Date: 30 Jan 2014 Blog: securityin the 80s & 90s, europe had "stored value" chip cards ... where electronic point-of-sale transactions could be done offline ... in large part because of the lack or expense of telco connectivity in Europe.
By the mid-90s that was starting to significantly change in Europe. At the same time in the US started to introduce online magstripe "stored value" cards (gift cards and merchant cards) which used the same POS terminals as credit cards ... but account number routed the transaction to different back end.
There was some attempt to introduce (EU) stored-value chipcards in the US in this time-frame. I was asked to design, scale, size, and cost the backend dataprocessing to support one such national rollout. However, as part of that I also did the business analysis and came up with almost all the justification was based on having the float on the stored-value. About this time, European central banks decreed that the "stored-value" chipcards would have to start paying interest on unspent value ... and all of the offerings evaporate (combination of loosing float and the increasing availability of telco connectivity).
A large chip&pin pilot was done in the US a little over a decade ago ... but it was during the YES CARD vulnerability. At an ATM Integrity Task Force meeting, secret service described the problems in some detail ... which prompted somebody in the audience to comment that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less secure than magstripe. In the wake of that all evidence of the pilot appeared to disappear w/o a trace. There has been some conjecture that US will wait awhile longer to make really sure that there still aren't lurking problems.
Also note that in some countries the incentive to deploy including reversing the burden of proof in dispute (which violate reg-e in the US). In one case I was contacted by legal representative where the individual was expected to prove that they hadn't done an ATM transaction ... in effect it fell on the individual to produce the video surveillance showing they hadn't done the transaction (the bank claimed that it couldn't find that particular video surveillance ... and wasn't obligated to prove it was the individual ... it was up to the individual to prove they weren't guilty).
oh, this is old trip report to cartes2002 (gone 404, but lives on at
the wayback machine) ... at the bottom it discusses a little of a
presentation on the YES CARD problem
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
I had tried to pass the information on the people doing the pilot in the US ... but they were myopically focused on lost/stolen card vulnerability. The YES CARD vulnerability is basically using same skimming technique for magstripes ... but load the information into a counterfeit chip ... rather creating a counterfeit magstripe. The fraud turned out to be worse than magstripe, since all magstripe transactions are online ... and turning off the account stops new transactions ... in the chip&pin case, business rules are programmed into the chip ... and a counterfeit YES CARD chip was able to continue doing transactions long after any account had been disabled.
posts mentioning YES CARD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:48:36 -0500re:
as mentioned before ... part of internal politics during FS was shutting
off anything that might be competition ... including shutting down &/or
suspending 370 activity. The dearth of new 370 stusff during this period
is then credited with giving clone processors a market foothold.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
now this references that major motivation for FS was the rise of clone
controllers (... but then FS gives rise to clone processors)
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
from above (with reference to react to clone controllers):
IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its 'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its rivals.
... snip ...
past posts about having been involved in doing a clone controller as
undergraduate in the 60s ... also sometime references to extreme
complexity of SNA VTAM/NCP interface was trying to perpetuate the FS
goals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
but SNA wasn't networking it was centralized communication supporting
large number of dumb terminals ... attempting to protect this market in
the late 80s (and fight off client/server and distributed computing)
... then contributes to downard slide of ibm mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
recent thread over in ibm-main
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#39 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#44 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#46 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#47 Resistance to Java
in the wake of FS failure, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the
370 product pipelines ... in part trying to play catchup with the clone
processors ... some reference to the Q&D 3033 and 3081 efforts (which
didn't come off really well compared to clones)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
as I've periodically referenced, I continued to do 360/370 stuff during
the FS period ... even ridiculing FS ... which possibly wasn't a
particularly career enhancing activity. reference to converting from
cp67 to vm370 (during the FS period) ... with lots of enhancements and
hobby of providing production operating systems for internal
datacenters.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:12:51 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
ibm had two models of fixed-head 2305 ... one with about 11mbyte capacity, 1.5mbyte/sec transfer ... and another with half the capacity, 3mbyte/sec transfer and half the rotational delay.
for the faster one, they took half the heads so there were two heads per track, offset 180degrees ... and concurrent transfer from both heads (but only half as many tracks and half the capacity). however, since transfer could start as soon as record was under either head ... it was only quarter rotation for avg. rotational delay (instead half revolution). The 3mbyte transfer was somewhat problematical two-bytes in parallel and had channel cable distance limitations and the machines that it could connect to.
i never saw any of the 3mbyte/sec 2305s.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_2305.html
announced 28Jan1970, withdrawn 30jan1980
2305-1 avg access (rotational delay) 2.5milliseconds 2305-2 avg access (rotational delay) 5milliseconds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:40:55 -0500hancock4 writes:
from ibm annual reports, annual mainframe processor sales have been the equivalent of 180 max. configured z196 processor (or larger number of less powerful configurations). for past ten years that comes out to around 1800. other estimates are there are no more than 10,000 worldwide (lots of small/entry configurations and/or lots more than 10yrs old).
from a decade ago, i visited a financial datacenter that constantly upgraded their mainframes ... none order than 18m ... and had over a billion dollars worth. it was possibly in the top ten ... but there were a few that was multiple times larger. these few financial datacenters would account for more than half of IBM's annual mainframe revenue.
I've periodically claimed that a single large cloud megadatacenter has more processing power than all of the mainframes in the world today.
recent posts mentioning megadatacenters:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:15:42 -0500hancock4 writes:
recent from stanford is book on the railroad robber barons (some articles
that stanford was right up there with the worse ... one ref. was that
economist that had tried to write about the subject a century ago
... was blackballed and had hard time finding a job).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
book
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
artile about book
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
amtrack and bunch of other stuff was there when "their" party did the
balanced budget in the 90s (which would have had *ALL* federal debt
gone in 2010). Then the last decade, "they" (same party) let the fiscal
responsibility act expire (required spending not exceed revenue)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
got paid for enormous number of tax loopholes ... between then and 2010, cut federal revenue by $6T ... and enormous increase in spending which heavily involved privatising gov., beltway bandits, and gov. contractors ... increase of $6T ... for $12T budget gap ... majority of the revenue cuts and spending increases continuing to this day.
Nearly all of the cuts now on the table involve programs that 1) predate letting the fiscal responsibility act expire and 2) don't involve enormously corrupt special interests providing funds to congress
those cuts are also mostly obfuscation and misdirection ... besides
being rounding error in the federal budget ... lots of kabuki theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
and special interests not solely limited to the military industry
complex (who are reporting record profits)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
other past mention of robber barons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#80 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#86 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#87 IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#13 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#66 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#51 The Truth About the "Robber Barons"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#60 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#21 What Makes weapons control Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:00:30 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
recent news about record fines for graft and corruption at too big
to fail ... but since the fines are such a small part of the actual
amounts involved ... too big to fail are announcing record executive
raises and bonuses.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/jamie-dimons-raise-proves-u-s-regulatory-strategy-is-a-joke-20140130
older
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-rumored-chase-madoff-settlement-is-another-bad-joke-20131216
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2014/0108/JPMorgan-s-Madoff-settlement-Are-banks-too-big-to-manage-video
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
other
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/news/companies/libor-europe-fines/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-04/too-big-fail-banks-are-taking-over-number-us-banks-falls-record-low
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-31/theft-deflationary-especially-crony-capitaliststate-kind
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-05/those-too-big-stay-jail-walk-ge-three-go-free
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:59:13 -0500re:
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Fraud-Ridden Banks Are Not L.A.'s Only Option
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/31/fraud-ridden-banks-are-not-l-a-s-only-option/
from above:
So why, asks Chicago Alderwoman Leslie Hairston, are we still doing
business with them? She plans to introduce a city council ordinance
deleting JPM from the city's list of designated municipal depositories.
... snip ...
references
JP Morgan's Frauds are Epic, Unprecedented in World History
http://usawatchdog.com/jp-morgans-frauds-are-epicunprecedented-in-world-history-william-black/
Sneed exclusive: Ald. Leslie Hairston wants city to stop doing business
with Chase
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/24961057-452/sneed-exclusive-ald-leslie-hairston-wants-city-to-stop-doing-business-with-chase.html
There's no profit in L.A. bashing JPMorgan Chase
http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/19/opinion/la-ed-jpmorgan-20140119
Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/winner-takes-all-the-supe_b_3054522.html
Judge Challenges Bankrupt Detroit's Secretive Deal With Banks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/bankruptcy-judge-orders-detroit-swaps-deal_n_4468766.html
Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/green_light_for_city-owned_san_francisco_bank_20130802
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: In the palm of your hand? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:24:57 -0500Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
... after ww2, it was whether US or soviets had the best germans.
Muth in Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the
German Armed Forces, 1901-1940:
The decline of reputation for the German Army did not last too long, at
least not at the American military schools. One reason might have been
that so much material about Prussian and German battles was available;
another, the late acknowledgment that the First World War against the
Germans had indeed been a close thing. This led to the odd reality that
the German operations were more discussed than those of the other Allies
or of the Americans themselves.
... snip ...
One of the issues was while some of the make-over of US military institutions was supposed to be in the image of germany ... they got several things wrong.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:39:44 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
latest Spinney's tome on machinations of MICC
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-is-real-price-of-starting-another.html
and
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/31/what-is-the-real-price-of-starting-another-cold-war/
previous ... effectively cut budget every where else in order to
increase budget (as well as eliminate projects that are embarrassments)
for major military industry projects
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2014/01/toys-before-boys.html
and
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/17/defense-spending-putting-toys-before-boys/
boyd posts and web urls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Chuck is scheduled for:
http://rady.ucsd.edu/exec/open/boyd-conference/
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 31 Jan 2014 21:02:08 -0800Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
vm370 did accurately track time used ... but mvs is quite a bit
sloppier ... which gives rise to "capture ratio" ... ratio cpu accounted
for compared to total cpu busy.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TDS390/SH19-6818-08/en_US/HTML/DRLM9mst48.htm
and
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/topic/com.ibm.zos.r12.erba900/erbzpm9030.htm
and could even be as low as 40% ... really old email discussing capture
ratio
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email800717
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do Date: 31 Jan 2014 Blog: Slightly East of Newre:
The Prophet of No Profit; How Jeff Bezos won the faith of Wall Street.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/01/amazon_earnings_how_jeff_bezos_gets_investors_to_believe_in_him.single.html
I've posted several times recently with regard to IBM
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
lots of details about different ways corporations came up with for
raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 06:45:44 -0800tedmacneil@BELL.BLACKBERRY.NET (Ted MacNEIL) writes:
it may not be reproducible because of things like cache effects ... which would affect hardware monitors also. its not a software monitor issue ... it is whether the kernel diligently does the clock operations for every piece of work.
MVS (and vm370) gets total cpu busy by clocking in and out of wait state and subtracting it from elapsed. however vm370 does that also for every other thing it does also ... so all the accounted for time plus wait state time should come up to elapsed time (there may be tiny slop doing the clock instructions ... or if PR/SM underneath is doing something)
the detailed MVS capture ratio discussions imply that MVS isn't even bothering to do the clock accounting for large parts of the kernel (and in some cases has been as high as 60%).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 07:24:23 -0800edgould1948@COMCAST.NET (Ed Gould) writes:
not accounting ... but performance ... for ecps microcode assist, originally for 138/148 ... we were told that the machine had 6kbytes of available microcode space ... and 370 kernel instructions mapped approx. 1:1 in no. bytes into microcode instructions ... and we were to find the highest used 6k bytes of vm370 kernel.
two approaches were done ... modification of 370/145 microcode to sample
the psw address and increment a counter for the corresponding address
range (had counter for every 32bytes). the other was special vm370
kernel was built that generated time-stamp at entry and exit of every
module (intra-module paths could be time between calls to other
modules). this is old post with the results of this ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
which showed the highest 6kbytes of kernel code accounting for 79.55% of kernel execution time.
note that in the early 70s, the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
had done something similar to the microcode monitor but with a software full instruction simulator ... which tracked every instruction executed and every data fetch and every data store. an application was then written that took all the addresses and did semi-automated program reorganization optimizing for running in virtual memory paged environment ... and of course ... it could also be used for hot-spot identification. A lot of the internal development groups began using it as part of the transition to 370 virtual memory operation. It was also released as a product in 1976 as VS/Repack.
I did a special data collection for VS/Repack ... a vm370 kernel option that would run an application in 10 real pages and record virtual page faults. The granularity wasn't as good as full instruction simulation ... but it ran significantly faster and was nearly as good for the purposes of program reorganization for paged environment.
note that the science center besides doing virtual machines, the internal network (also used for bitnet), inventing GML (which morphs into SGML and then HTML) ... also did extensive work on performance montioring, performance tuning, system modeling and workload profiling ... which then morphs into capacity planning.
One of the system models was an APL system analytical model which was
made available on (world-wide sales&marketing support) HONE called the
performance predictor ... customer SEs could provide customer system
and workload characteristics and then ask what-if questions about what
happens if the hardware and/or workload was changed.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
somebody in europe obtains the rights to a descendent of the performance predictor in the early 90s (in the period that the company had gone into the red, had been reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company) and had ran it through a APL to C-language translator. I run into him last decade doing consulting work at large mainframe financial datacenters (operations with 40+ maxed out mainframes, billion dollar+, machines constantly being upgrade, none older than 18m ... these operations account for major portion of annual mainframe revenue). I had found 14% improvement in application that ran every night on 40+ maxed out (MVS) mainframes (the number of machines sized so the application finishes in the overnight batch window).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 08:27:20 -0800edjaffe@PHOENIXSOFTWARE.COM (Ed Jaffe) writes:
thats what I would have thot ... but I checked the ibm references for capture ratio ... and the references cited in the original post still goes into discussion about "capture ratio" (up through zos r12)
detailed discussion of smf type 70, 72, and 30 records
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TDS390/SH19-6818-08/en_US/HTML/DRLM9mst48.htm
this "analyzing processor characteristics" gets into more discussion of
"capture ratio"
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/topic/com.ibm.zos.r12.erba900/erbzpm9030.htm
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 08:42:22 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
trivia ... this particular application had couple decade history (at the time some 450k cobol statements) and a dedicated performance group of possibly 100 people. the issue was that they had gotten quite myopic in the techniques they used for looking at performance and throughput ... including lots of low-level hotspot.
the science center in the 70s used numerous techniques, system modeling, hot-spot, multiple regression analysis, simulation, workload profiling, etc. turns out the 14% was in a macro characteristic that wasn't evident in the low-level hotspot micro-level (but represented a couple hundred million savings because of the large number of mainframes involved).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 09:06:52 -0800tedmacneil@BELL.BLACKBERRY.NET (Ted MacNEIL) writes:
tymshare was one of the virtual machine-based online commercial
service bureau ... among other things they made their online
computer conferencing system available free to *SHARE* starting
in aug1976 ... vmshare archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
they also wrote a capability-based 370 operating system GNOSIS ... a major objective was to do detailed accounting for detailed user use of 3rd party applications, databases, files, etc ... to be able to remit to the 3rd parties, pro-rated revenue based on user use of each resource.
in the 80s, M/D bought tymshare and spun off a number of things, including GNOSIS (into new company key logic). I was brought in to audit/evaluate GNOSIS as part of the spin-off. It turns out all the accounting in the capability boundary crossing was using 30% of the processor.
After the spin-off, they removed all the 3rd party accounting from the capability interfaces that significantly speeded up things. They were able to show KeyKOS (aka GNOSIS) running various kinds applications faster than IBM's TPF ... and with significantly higher security than any other operating system.
The high level capability abstraction allowed a lot of performance optimization that isn't possible in traditional operating system ... and at the same time significantly increased the performance. It is too bad that they weren't able to interest any IBM mainframe customers. However a number operations have taken the KeyKOS/GNOSIS design and moved them to other hardware platforms ... aiming for EAL7 level security ... *AND* high performance.
Note that capability was part of the IBM Future System design ... but
done in the hardware which resultetd in horrible performance (no
benefits of higher level abstraction optimization). A major factor in
performance analysis that 370/195 applications run on an FS machine made
from 370/195 components would have throughput of 370/145 (factor of
15-30 times slowdown), which contributed to its eventual failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Capabilty was also part of the IBM's s/38 (folklore that after FS failure, some FS people retreated to rochester and did the s/38). The as/400 which was combination of s/38 & s/36 follow-on dropped the capability stuff.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2014 10:55:32 -0800edjaffe@PHOENIXSOFTWARE.COM (Ed Jaffe) writes:
still in r13, this mention what to do if your capture ratio is below
80%
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.erba900/erbzpm9056.htm
definately better than the days when it could be less than 40%
and the "analyzing processor characteristics" in r13 doesn't appear to
have changed
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.erba900/erbzpm9029.htm
although this reference in r13 documentation has refs from r11 system
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.erba900/erbzpm9041.htm
but the capture ratio section seems to be r13 system and has example of 71% ... but comment is that most systems should be better than 80% ... again lot better than the days of 40%
"Capacity Planning" SHARE presentation still discusses that low and/or
varying capture ratio is problem
https://share.confex.com/share/119/webprogram/Handout/Session11598/capplan_mistakes.pdf
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Can America Win Wars? Date: 01 Feb 2014 Blog: Slightly East of Newre:
For-profit MICC companies want constantly increasing quarterly profits as part of executives compensation objectives. The nature of a lot of MICC funding would ebb & flow with conflicts. Spinney and others' theme about MICC objective of continuous conflict (perpetual war) is efforts by MICC maintaining their ever increasing profits objectives. Other fallback plans are shifting budget from gov. payroll and projects to for-profit companies. This shows up in intelligence with claim that at least 70% of the intelligence budget now goes to for-profit companies and over half the people are from for-profit companies (along with for-profit companies have enormous motivation to cut corners to meet profit objectives).
One of the scenarios from Lockheed was that the disastrous cut in
pentagon budget (back to 2007 levels at peak of the 2 wars), would
result in loss of jobs. Somebody pointed out that in the interval
since 2007, Lockheed's profit increased, executive compensation
increased ... at the same time they were laying off employees
(Lockheed was constantly reducing employees regardless). They would be
perfectly happy if returning to 2007 funding levels also met that they
returned to 2007 employee levels.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd's briefings about WW2 was US strategy was overwhelming resources
and logistics ... sometimes 10:1. Muth's comparison of German and US
military schools references lack of leadership and tactics in the
US. Since then conflicts have had opponents resorting to tactics that
attempts to nullify the enormous resource advantage (and with the
enormous resources nullified, there was little or no tactics to fall
back on). In Vietnam it was "grab them by the belt" ... get so close
that heavy artillery bombardment and air strikes were ruled out. Muth
references German military exchange students in the US during 20s&30s
visiting large manufacturing facilities (like Ford) ... but they had
difficulty leveraging that knowledge.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
One history of fall of Rome (The Fall of the Roman Empire : A New History of Rome and the Barbarian) was that North Africa was its economic powerhouse that provided resources to pay for foreign soldiers protecting the borders in Europe (and allowing taxes on the wealthy to be eliminated). It was believed North Africa was not at risk and they didn't station sufficient forces there and it fell by sneak attack. With the loss of the North Africa economic powerhouse all the rest eventually unravels.
linkedin now has ibm group specifically on subject of watson's "wild ducks" ... recent post on leadership
This is comparison between German and US Army military schools ...
with US turning out nearly the antithesis of leader ... aka what not
to do (in contrast to German military Schools)
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
recent talk the author gave at first division museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7unu0fLYvc
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Armed Forces:
German junior officers were regularly asked for their opinions and
they would criticize the outcome of a large maneuver with several
divisions before the attending general had the floor. The American
army culture in contrast has historically had a great problem with
dissenters and mavericks and just speaking one's mind to a superior
officer, disagreeing with or criticizing him could easily break a
career.
... snip ...
from "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on failure
of Future System:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Armed Forces:
As a young officer, Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote an article favoring
mechanization of the cavalry.87 The article displeased the chief of
infantry greatly and Ike was commanded not only to cease such
heretical activities but also to publicly reverse his opinion. He was
threatened with a court-martial.88 His superiors expected a fellow
officer to become a sycophant.
... snip ...
One of Boyd's briefings at IBM was Organic Design for Command and Control ... which ends with what is really needed is "Appreciation and Leadership". Part of the briefings was observation that US corporate culture was becoming contaminated by former military officers climbing corporate ladder.
...
note that Boyd's briefings at IBM was also during the period that there was starting to be a lot of blame laid at the door of the rise of MBAs and myopic focus on quarterly numbers/profits. More recently there has been a lot written that myopic focus quarterly numbers as basis for top executive compensation has severely perverted how companies are run.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:01:55 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, Kendall Square Pioneer Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:49:51 -0500I was there during much of the 70s
Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, Kendall
Square Pioneer
http://angelinvestingnews.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-50th-birthday-to-ibm-cambridge.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:23:49 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
on friday's after work they let us have the overflow room and pitchers of anchor steam for 1/2 price.
erics is still there but many of the bldgs that were on the ibm disk
plant site are gone ... empty lots, bldgs plowed under... including bldg
28.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=erics,+Cottle+Rd,+San+Jose,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.248214,-121.803113&spn=0.008805,0.005933&sll=37.249965,-121.803419&sspn=0.00442,0.008256&t=h&z=17
posts mentioning plant site on cottle rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#56 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#4 YKYGOW...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#39 Why Use *-* ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#36 So I tried this //vm.marist.edu stuff on a slow Sat. night,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#45 ibm time machine in new york times?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#56 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#7 An informed populace
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#34 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#24 Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#17 Communications Computers - Data communications over telegraph
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#21 IBM up for grabs?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#22 IBM up for grabs?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#24 IBM up for grabs?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#29 Historic IBM Building 25 in San Jose destroyed by fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#30 Historic IBM Building 25 in San Jose destroyed by fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#34 Historic IBM Building 25 in San Jose destroyed by fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#19 CA ESD files Options
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#45 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#76 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#63 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#20 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#5 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#84 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#77 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#26 The Big, Bad Bit Stuffers of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#27 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#44 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Can America Win Wars? Date: 02 Feb 2014 Blog: Slightly East of Newre:
5 years after a classified report, Virginia-class subs have no proof
of full combat worthiness
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/5-years-after-classified-report.html
references
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2013/pdf/navy/2013ssn774.pdf
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2013/pdf/navy/2013arci.pdf
and Lessons Not Learned
http://rogerthompson.info/Lessons_Not_Learned_MR23.html
which mentions Raising the Bar: Creating and Nurturing Adaptability to
Deal with the Changing Face of War.
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-the-Bar-ebook/dp/B00EGST4FO/
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:29:24 -0500Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
Liechtenstein was on FED's money laundering blacklist ... apparently swiss bankers were having the actual transactions done across the border. I got invited to Liechtenstein financial conference (at the schloss halfway up the hill) for european CEOs and exchange presidents ... apparently part of trying to get off money laundering blacklist. Stayed at inn ... originally built in the 1300s(?). Innkeeper would make jokes about constantly getting lots of people that had business cards which said dept. of money laundering (instead of anti-money laundering)
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
posts mentioning tax evasion & tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
past posts mentioning Liechtenstein
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#62 Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#64 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#42 The Godfather of Kathmandu
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#34 Mitt Romney avoids U.S tax by using Offshore bank accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#45 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#64 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#80 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#84 spacewar
Part of the conference was about Sarbanes-Oxley audits leaking into
europe. I pontificated about the audits weren't going to be able
to improve financial reporting fraud ... aka Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
claims in congress was SOX was going to guarantee executives
and auditors would do jail time and prevent future enrons
& worldcoms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
jokes at the time were that the SOX audits were just a full employment program for auditors.
then apparently GAO even thought that SEC wasn't doing anything and in
the middle of last decade starting doing reports on public company
financial report fraud ... even showing uptic after SOX ... and nobody
doing jail time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
then in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff. Part of his testimony was that tips turn up 13 times more fraud
than audits ... and that SEC didn't have tip hotline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: write rings Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 21:45:07 -0500"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
part of having done the original cmsback ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
I wrote my own tape label processing routine. It became increasingly
used at internal datacenters. For version2, i got help .... from the
person mentioned here ... before he left ibm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
it mentions him doing port of AT&T C to cms ... and ported a bunch of engineering design tools. however before that ... after leaving ibm ... it did work for two vm370 software companies implementing backup and archives systems.
then some other people were brought on board to do later versions of
cmsback ... which eventually is released to as workstation datasave
facility (wdsf). WDSF then morphs into ADSM (adstar storage manager)
... then when adstar was being offloaded, ADSM was transferred to
tivoli and became TSM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager
the above mentions cmsback at almaden data center around 1988, but i had done the original implementation nearly a decade earlier.
I've mentioned that in the wake of Future System failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines. Part of that was head of POK convince corporate to kill vm370 product, shutdown the burlington mall development group and transfer all the people to POK to support mvs/xa development (or otherwise it wouldn't make ship date some 6-8yrs later). Endicott managed to save vm370 product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch. In the burlington mall shutdown some amount of stuff was lost ... including the source for VMFPLC ... the standard product distribution program.
It turns out that I did manage to find a version of source for them.
For cmsback i did a lot of modifications for vmfplc that i called vmxplc ... the format used for several generations of cmsback. Standard cms tape used 800bytes physical tape data blocks preceeding by a small "FST" (file status) physical block per file. vmfplc increase max physical tape data block to 4kbytes ... but for lots of small files, tape was still half interblock gaps (because of the separate FST physical block). For vmxplc i merged the FST physical block with the first data block ... eliminating the additional tape interblock gap per file (for small files, doubled capacity per tape) and increased max. data block size to 12kbytes. as tape went from 800bpi to 6250bpi ... tape became increasing populated with interblock gaps ... if there wasn't increasing physical block size.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America Date: 03 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksMaximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
IBM's core business is maximizing executive compensation ... which translates into whatever the executive compensation plan calls for.
reference to corporate governance doesn't ever mention maximizing
shareholder value (... but tends to be a rallying cry behind which
maximizing executive compensation occurs)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-shareholder-value-theory-of-corporate-governance-is-bogus.html
from above:
If you review any of the numerous guides prepared for directors of
corporations prepared by law firms and other experts, you won't find a
stipulation for them to maximize shareholder value on the list of
things they are supposed to do. It's not a legal requirement. And
there is a good reason for that.
Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty
of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific
obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those
responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in
particular.
... snip ...
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
lots of details about different ways corporations came up with for
raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
however, that doesn't stop a multinational company from raiding
pension plans in countries where it is allowed to ... from Retirement
Heist:
IBM couldn't just pull the plug on the subsidy, because pension law
doesn't allow a company to take away a benefit a person has already
earned or take away a pension right or feature the company has
granted. "So we had to design something different," Sauvigne
said. Enter Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's new president. He'd headed
RJR Nabisco in 1993 when it faced a similar dilemma: how to reduce
pensions and remove the retirement subsidy without obviously violating
the law or provoking an employee backlash. Gerstner and IBM turned to
Watson Wyatt, the same consulting firm that had helped Nabisco solve
its pension problem.
... snip ...
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Gerstner "wins" competition to be next CEO of AMEX. The looser leaves and takes his protege Jamie Dimon. AMEX is in competition with KKR to do private equity take-over of RJR, KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner away to do turn around of RJR. Then the IBM board hires Gerstner away to resurrect IBM and reverse the planned breakup (IBM had been reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for the breakup). About the same time that IBM goes into the red, AMEX spins off much of its dataprocessing in the largest IPO (until that time) as Firstdata.
Looser in competition for next CEO of AMEX (and protege Dimon) make a number of acquisitions eventually taking over Citibank in violation Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall ... enabling too big to fail. Dimon then goes on to be head of another too big to fail.
Gerstner leaves IBM and goes on to head up another private equity
company Carlyle. Since the start of the century, private equity
business has somewhat morphed, they borrow money to buy a company,
then put the loan on that company's books ... private equity take-over
companies are under intense pressure to do whatever is necessary to
service the debt (joke about analogy to house flipping, except company
can be sold for less than paid and still make enormous profit
... since they don't have to pay off the loan used to buy the
company). Over half corporate defaults are by companies currently or
formally owned by private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
One of Carlyle private-equity take-overs is BAH ... which is at the
center of the intelligence news. Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden; The firm that
formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the
NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-investigate-booz-allen
... and bought by Carlyle
In the 90s, Firstdata merges with First Financial, picking up Western Union (but has to spinoff Moneygram). In middle of last decade, the enormous increase in illegal workers sending paychecks home, WU grows to be half of Firstdata bottom line. Firstdata corporate hdqtrs is lopped off and WU is spun-off in IPO ... and KKR does private-equity takeover of the remainder in the largest reverse-IPO up until that time (15yrs after Firstdata was the largest IPO). Disclaimer: I'm doing stint as chief scientist at Firstdata attached to corporate hdqtrs and am collateral damage as part of eliminating Firstdata corporate hdqtrs.
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:29 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
then in 2002 congress let the fiscal responsibility act expired and went crazy eliminating tax revenue and increasing spending ... by 2010 tax revenue had been cut by $6T compared to baseline and spending increased by $6T compared to baseline ... for $12T budget gap ... congress motivating by financial incentives from specail interests ... for both the large reduction in tax revenue and the increase in spending ... with little change in revenue and spending trajectories.
the first major legislation after congress allowed the fiscal
responsibility act to expire in 2002 was medicare part-d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
... which the comptroller general calls coming to be a $40T unfunded
mandated that totally swamps all other budget items ... the tax
loopholes and spending after fiscal responsibility act expires seems to
be major motivation for comptroller general to start including in
speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
CBS 60mins does expose on legislative process getting medicare part-d passed. They have 18 republican congressmen & staffers shepherding the bill through the process. Just before the final vote, they insert a one line sentence in the bill the prohibits competitive bidding (that they describe as enormous gift to the pharmaceutical industry) and block CBO from destributing report on the effects of that one line change. Shortly after the bill passes 60mins finds all 18 have resigned on are on drug industry payrolls. They then show drugs under part-d that are three times the price of identical drugs under VA (which allows competitive bidding).
super wealthy and corporations are major special interests providing
financial incentives to congress for tax loopholes & other evasions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
recent reference to corporate tax rate nominal 35% ... but effective tax
(with enormous number of special interest tax loopholes) is only 12.6%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#32 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:06:47 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
last time I visited they had opened up what had been the overflow room
left ibm and moved to morgan hill in the early 90s ... would go
to the erics there (now 32 locations)
http://www.eriksdelicafe.com/locations.php
left the valley start of the century ... but get back at least once a
year ... if nothing else ... for annual hackers conference (over the yrs
i've only missed maybe 3 or 4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:33:45 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
c/87/85/ ... 85 runs cross vally from 101 to 880/17 and then angles north across 280 and back up to 101.
when 85 was originally put in ... it cut-off part of the back of bldg 28
parking lot (old ibm san jose research, before it moved up the hill to
new almaden bldg). also it split the IBM employee rec. area ... so they
had to dig a deep underpass between the plant site and the rec. area.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cottle+Rd,+highway+85,+San+Jose,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.243773,-121.79939&spn=0.015416,0.0128&sll=37.249871,-121.801772&sspn=0.015415,0.0128&t=h&hq=Cottle+Rd,&hnear=California+85,+San+Jose,+Santa+Clara+County,+California&fll=37.242663,-121.795013&fspn=0.015417,0.0128&z=17
the rec. area is now housing development ... and the underpass filled in.
87 runs from 101 almost due south past the airport through downtown san
jose, across 280 and deadends at 85 near almaden valley.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=highway+85+highway+87,+san+jose&hl=en&ll=37.277741,-121.966438&spn=0.246549,0.204792&sll=37.243773,-121.79939&sspn=0.015416,0.0128&t=h&hnear=California+85,+San+Jose,+Santa+Clara+County,+California&z=13
old IBM plant site address was 5600 Cottle rd; runs north/south for couple miles from monterey rd (old 101) and deadends at the hills.
big cloverleaf at cottle road/85 intersection ... taking up a whole lot of real-estate
There use to be T3 collins digital radio microwave from roof old santa teresa lab (now silicon valley lab) to microwave repeater tower on the hill to roof of bldg. 12 on the main plant site. When 85 first went in, people would complain about their radar detectors being triggered driving on that section of 85 (line-of-site between the repeater tower and bldg12).
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Where does the term Wild Duck come from? Date: 03 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksFerguson & Morris in their "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" has account of the effects of the failure of the future system effort in the 70s resulted in shift in the culture with top executives trying to save face (make no waves and sycophancy in place of open debate of the Watsons). posts mentioning future system
in the wake of Future System failure, there were also comments about wild ducks are tolerated as long as they fly in formation.
IBM's 100yr celebration putting out various items ... one was about wild ducks ... but it had been respun as wild duck customers (no longer any ibm employee references).
In the early 80s, I met John Boyd and sponsored his briefings at IBM
(some amount of "leadership" content). I originally tried to have it
sponsored through employee education department. Initially they
agreed, but as I supplied more information about Boyd, they changed
their mind, that it wouldn't be appropriate for general employees and
audience should be restricted to senior people in competitive analysis
departments. They said that they spend large amounts on management
education on how to handle general employees, and it would be counter
productive to expose them to Boyd. posts (& references around web)
mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
In the mid-80s, senior management was predicting that IBM revenue was going to double ($60B to $120B) mostly on mainframe business and there was massive internal building program to double mainframe product manufacturing capacity (at the time, it was not career enhancing to point out that the business was already starting to move in the opposite direction and few short years later, the company goes into the red). At my executive exit interview in 1992, I was told they could have forgiven me for being wrong ... but they were never going to forgive me for being right.
the "how to stuff a wild duck" poster
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/GO/wildDuck.html
note while commandant of the Marine Corps leveraged Boyd for make-over
of the Marine Corps in 1990 timeframe (and Marines still sponsor annual
Boyd conference at Quantico) ... and the SECDEF called him back from
retirement to do the battle plan for desert storm ... Boyd is also
starting to leak into business (over 30yrs after I sarted having him
do his briefings at IBM). UCSD school of management is having a Boyd
themed conference coming up "Boyd for Business & Innovation"
conference:
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
Tom Watson, Jr quoted
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/watsonjr/watsonjr_quoted2.html
Kierkegaard drew his point -- you can make wild ducks tame, but you
can never make tame ducks wild again. One might also add that the duck
who is tamed will never go anywhere any more. We are convinced that
any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM we try not to tame
them. (1963)
...
as i've commented several times ... this 100yr centennial was about
wild duck customer ... and had eliminated all references to Watson
wild duck employees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksQrJh7s7N0
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: How to groom a leader? Date: 03 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksWhen I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM in the early 80s, he would talk about US corporate culture being contaminated by former military officers climbing the corporate ladder ... coming from a background of rigid, top-down command structure. More of Boyd is starting to show up in business ... upcoming conference at UCSD School of Management
This is comparison between German and US Army military schools
... with US turning out nearly the antithesis of leader ... aka what
not to do (in contrast to German military Schools)
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
recent talk the author gave at first division museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7unu0fLYvc
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Armed Forces:
German junior officers were regularly asked for their opinions and
they would criticize the outcome of a large maneuver with several
divisions before the attending general had the floor. The American
army culture in contrast has historically had a great problem with
dissenters and mavericks and just speaking one's mind to a
superior officer, disagreeing with or criticizing him could easily
break a career.
... snip ...
from "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on
failure of Future System:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Armed Forces:
As a young officer, Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote an article favoring
mechanization of the cavalry.87 The article displeased the chief of
infantry greatly and Ike was commanded not only to cease such
heretical activities but also to publicly reverse his opinion. He was
threatened with a court-martial.88 His superiors expected a fellow
officer to become a sycophant.
... snip ...
One of Boyd's briefings at IBM was Organic Design for Command and Control ... which ends with what is really needed is "Appreciation and Leadership". Part of the briefings was observation that US corporate culture was becoming contaminated by former military officers climbing corporate ladder.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:40:21 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
then in congress in 2002 allowed fiscal responsibility act to expire
... major motivation was (relatively) enormous finds from special
interests lobbying for both tax loopholes (to the tune of $6T by 2010)
and mostly special interest spending (to the tune of $6T by 2010
creating a $12T budget gap by 2010).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
lobbying congress for special interest tax loopholes has been claimed to be the highest business ROI on the order of 1000:1 ... estimated $6B for that $6T in tax reduction.
the increase in spending last decade including heavy privatising of the gov. including shift from gov. employees (reducing actual number of gov. employees) to for-profit companies ... some claim that congress expects 5% kickback on gov. contracts ("lobbying" by gov. agencies prohibited ... but for-profit companies have no such limitation).
intelligence just one example: Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of
the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of
the available manpower.
... snip ...
total federal employees 5354k in 1962, peaks at 6575k in 1969, drops to
4972k in 1982, peaks again at 5301k in 1987 and sits at 4312k in 2012.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/
however there has been enormous bloat in gov. spending last decade in
conjunction with gov. privatizing. 2007 NYTimes article on explosion in
gov. contractors
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/world/americas/04iht-web.0204contract.4460796.html?pagewanted=all
just the top 20 service companies spent nearly $300m on lobbying (between 2000 & 2007), highlights Lockheed spent $53m on lobbying ... presumably a combination of tax loopholes in combination with gov. contracts.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:33:25 -0500re:
US corporations paid effective rate of 12.6%
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/economy/corporate-tax-rate/
there is also
detail look at corporate taxes 2008-2010
http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/CorporateTaxDodgersReport.pdf
from above:
Other low-tax industries, paying less than half the statutory 35 percent
tax rate over the entire 2008-10 period, included: Information
Technology Services (2.5%), Utilities (3.7%), Telecommunications (8.2%),
Chemicals (15.2%), Financial (15.5%), Oil, Gas & Pipelines (15.7%),
Transportation (16.4%), and Aerospace & Defense (17.0%).
... snip ...
note that in addition to the tax loopholes ... some industries like aerospace&defense are getting direct gov. contracts ... one of the 2010 reports about part of the $6T increase in spending was over $1T for DOD that couldn't be identified what it went for ...
... and other industries like financial (namely the too big to fail)
are getting gov. subsidies of all kinds.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
federal contractors will still commit tax fraud (separate from the legal
tax loopholes) and then lobby congress to avoid any serious
consequences. Thousands of Federal Contractors Abuse the Federal Tax
System
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-07-742T
tax loopholes and tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself Date: 04 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookDefense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
Lot of DOD is driven by its industries and mostly more alike than
different ... maximizing whatever the executive compensation plan
calls for ... normally quarterly numbers. Frequently the line is
"shareholder value" ... but that is just obfuscation for what is
really going on.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-shareholder-value-theory-of-corporate-governance-is-bogus.html
from above:
If you review any of the numerous guides prepared for directors of
corporations prepared by law firms and other experts, you won't find a
stipulation for them to maximize shareholder value on the list of
things they are supposed to do. It's not a legal requirement. And
there is a good reason for that.
Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty
of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific
obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those
responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in
particular.
... snip ...
also big uptick in privatization of gov last decade, intelligence just
one example: Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
from above:
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
total federal employees 5354k in 1962, peaks at 6575k in 1969, drops
to 4972k in 1982, peaks again at 5301k in 1987 and sits at 4312k in
2012.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/
but there has been enormous bloat in gov. spending last decade in
conjunction with gov. privatizing. 2007 NYTimes article on explosion
in gov. contractors
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/world/americas/04iht-web.0204contract.4460796.html?pagewanted=all
in 90s, congress has balanced budget, with all federal debt gone by 2010 and fiscal responsibility act which prevents spending more than revenue. 2002 congress allows fiscal responsibility act to expire and by 2010, tax revenues have dropped by $6T (members of congress getting paid enormous sums for the tax loopholes) and spending increases by $6T (again members of congress getting paid enormous sums for the appropriations) for $12T budget gap. 2010 analysis has over $2T of the $6T increase going to DOD, $1+T for the two wars and $1+T not accounted for. MICC also gets a lots of money in other ways ... like USAID directed appropriations that can only be spent on US made military hardware.
1993 IBM was reorganized into 13 "baby blues" in preparation for
breaking up the company ... then the board brought in Gerstner to
resurrect the company ... raiding the pension plan to make quarterly
numbers
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
from above:
IBM couldn't just pull the plug on the subsidy, because pension law
doesn't allow a company to take away a benefit a person has already
earned or take away a pension right or feature the company has
granted. "So we had to design something different," Sauvigne
said. Enter Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's new president. He'd headed
RJR Nabisco in 1993 when it faced a similar dilemma: how to reduce
pensions and remove the retirement subsidy without obviously violating
the law or provoking an employee backlash. Gerstner and IBM turned to
Watson Wyatt, the same consulting firm that had helped Nabisco solve
its pension problem.
... snip ...
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 4 Feb 2014 08:22:01 -0800jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
a NFS 8kbyte packet was compared to LU6.2 through VTAM at 160k instruction pathlength and 14 buffer copies. for mainframe processor at the time, the 14 buffer copies could result in more processor time than the 160k instructions, the copies would all be cache misses as well as pushing stuff out of the cache that would have to be brought back in later.
as an aside ... commonly used industry benchmark for processor throughput (used across wide variety of different processors with different instruction architectures) ... with references to MIPS and BIPS ... is actual number of iterations compared to base number of iterations on 370/158 taken to be 1MIP processor.
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#78 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#80 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#82 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#85 CPU time
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: CPU time Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 4 Feb 2014 09:22:08 -0800m42tom-ibmmain@YAHOO.COM (Tom Marchant) writes:
that is motivation for things like hyperthreading (multiple overlapped i-streams) ... simulating multiprocessor ... aka the hardware equivalent of multitasking to allow overlapping execution with things waiting. it is also behind out-of-order execution (skipping past instruction stalled waiting for memory on cache miss). Introduction of out-of-order execution for z196 is claimed to be major factor in the increase in processor throughput between z10 and z196 (something that dates back couple decades in some other platforms).
also, processor cycle time has been getting faster than memory latency ... which harkens back to my theme in the 70s and early 80s ... that processor was getting faster, much faster than disks were getting faster. At one point in the early 80s, I was saying that relative system disk speed had declined by a factor of ten times over a period of 15years (processor&memory got 40-50 times, disks got 3-5 times). Disk division executives assigned their performance group to refute my statements ... but after a couple weeks they came back and effectively said that I had slightly understated the problem ... the analysis is respun and turns into a SHARE presentation on optimizing disk configurations for system throughput.
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#78 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#80 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#82 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#85 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#102 CPU time
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself Date: 04 Feb 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
New management kept IBM going in part by raiding the employee pension plan ... which also props executive compensation plan ... and then using everything else to keep propping up executive compensation plan (with share dividends and stock buybacks). Lots of the rest of the stuff is obfuscation and misdirection ... which is also what is going on in DOD and MICC. Some of the internal cost reduction saved money but was much less of a factor. Cutting customer support and outsourcing bunches of stuff is claimed to save money in short term but put the company on downward slippery slope.
Note that the large corporate pension plans were also major target of
wallstreet last decade with paying rating agencies for triple-A
ratings on toxic CDOs (pension plans were restricted to
investing in "safe" investments; Oct2008 congressional hearings into
rating agencies found that the rating agencies "knew" they weren't
worth triple-A ... but were being paid to give the triple-A rating,
which allowed toxic CDOs to be sold as "safe" investments to
pension plans).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
DOD isn't expected to be able to pass mandated financial audit before
2017 (two decades late) ... so nobody really knows where most of the
money disappears to. DOD equivalent to IBM would be cut as much
internal expense, staff, retirement plans, etc as possible, so it can
go to MICC for-profit industry executives.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
As I've mentioned before, after leaving IBM Gerstner went on to head
up the private-equity Carlyle ... which did reverse-IPO private-equity
buyout of BAH and others ... "Investing in War" The Carlyle Group
profits from government and conflict
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2004/11/18/6624/investing-war
other details
http://www.rense.com/general36/fat.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/carlyle-to-cerberus-lead-private-equity-federal-contracting-push.html
gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center Date: 04 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksHappy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Note GML was also invented at the science center in 1969 ... which later morphs into SGML and then HTML (as was many other things).
The CP67 virtual machine product group split off from the science center and moved to the 3rd flr taking over the IBM Boston Programming Center ... on the way to morphing CP67 into VM370. When it outgrew the 3rd flr space (it only had part of the 3rd flr, the rest was listed as lawyers offices, but the telco closet listed them as a certain 3letter gov. agency). they move out to the old SBC bldg. in Burlington Mall (vacated in IBM legal settlement that transferred SBC to CDC).
During the Future System effort, internal politics was killing off
and/or suspending 370 products, the lack of 370 products in this
period is credited with giving clone processors a market foothold (FS
was going to completely replace 370). When FS imploded there was a
mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipeline. Part of this
were the Q&D efforts for 3033 and 3081. The head of POK also managed
to convince corporate to kill vm370 product, shutdown the Burlington
location and move all the people to POK to support MVS/XA development
(or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time nearly 8yrs later).
posts mentioning future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
The shutdown plan included not telling Burlington until the very last minute to minimize the number that might escape. However, the shutdown leaked early and numerous people managed to find other work in the Boston area. There was joke that the head of POK was one of the largest contributors to DEC VAX/VMS
Note that Endicott managed to save the vm370 product mission, but had
to reconstitute a development group from scratch ... some of this can
be seen in the VMSHARE archives (TYMSHARE, a virtual machine based
online service bureau provided their CMS-based online computer
conferencing for free to the IBM SHARE user group starting in AUG1976)
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
Disclaimer: during the FS period, I continued to work on 360/370 stuff and would periodically even ridicule the FS activity (which wasn't a particularly career enhancing activity).
Note that PROFS used the source of a very early version of internal VMSG for its email client. When the VMSG author offered them a much updated version, the group tried to get the VMSG author fired (having claimed everything in PROFS had been their doing). The whole thing quieted down when the VMSG author demonstrated that every PROFS note in the world had his initials in non-displayed field. After that, the VMSG author only distributed source to me and one other person.
The person responsible for the internal network was co-worker at the
science center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
... and similar technology was used for both the US univ. BITNET and
EARN in europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
The Edson wiki entry also references a book (& ipad app) written about
Edson.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8
posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
posts mentioning bitnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
As I've recently mentioned in other discussions, I was blamed for
online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s
and early 80s. The folklore is that when the corporate executive
committee (ceo, pres, etc) was told about online computer conferencing
(and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. posts mentioning
computer mediated communication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
Note that the BITNET article confuses an issue VNET and JES2/NJE were two different things. However VNET was carefully layered and could support NJE line drivers in addition to native VNET drivers (note internal network wasn't SNA ... at least not until late '87 or early '88 when a misinformation campaign was used to justify its conversion).
JES2/NJE had all sorts of problems ... initially defined nodes using left-over entries in the HASP 255-entry psuedo device table (typically 150-160 available entries) and would discard all traffic that didn't have both origin&destination in its table. The internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning and had quickly passed 255nodes in the 70s (and passed 1000 nodes summer of 1983). As a result JES2/NJE couldn't be reliable used for anything other than boundary node.
Another problem was that JES2/NJE had intermixed JES2 fields and
network fields ... and two JES2/NJE systems at different release
levels exchanging traffic could result in MVS crashing. As a result a
large library of VNET NJE drivers were developed that carefully did
NJE reformatting of headers to correspond to the NJE release on the
other end of the link (there was a famous case of GPD San Jose
JES2/NJE system crashing MVS systems in Hursley ... and it was blamed
on the Hursley VNET system not having the appropriate NJE linedriver
started that would prevent MVS from crashing). posts mentioning
hasp, jes2, nje
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
At some point they did stop shipping native VNET linedrivers to customers ... even though they had significantly better throughput ... but they continued to be used internally (at least until the change-over to SNA).
email archeology ... some old email mentions vmsg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
old email mentioning vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
old email mentioning hone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone
old email mentioning vnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
along the way, one of the things I managed to arrange for was to get regular distribution of all the (customer) VMSHARE files and put them up on internal machines, including HONE ... as well as providing places where people could access the files over the internal network. One of the first roadblocks was the IBM lawyers who were afraid that internal IBMers would be contaminated by reading customer comments.
From truth is stranger than fiction ... in the early to mid 70s, CERN (where HTML and the WEB was created) did a study comparing vm370/cms and MVS/TSO and produced a SHARE report detailing the comparison which was freely distributed at SHARE. However, copies inside IBM, corporate classified "IBM CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTED" (aka only available on need to know basis)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:42:18 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Saddam learned from desert storm but we didn't ... the invasion has been described as traditional 2nd generation warfare against somebody not playing by 2nd generation rules. It was aggravated by invaders being told to bypass ammo dumps and go directly to searching for (non-existent, fabricated) WMDs. When they got around to going back to check the ammo dumps, an estimated million metric tons had disappeared (into insurgents hands ... which was the war the other side was fighting).
Historically, the WMD references have been to those that the US supplied
Saddam in the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
Why Don't We Learn from History?
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-We-Learn-History-ebook/dp/B00792M6H2/
loc590-93:
On approaching Vilna, Napoleon found that the Russians had abandoned
the city. "It was truly heartbreaking for him to have to give up all
hope of a great battle before Vilna and he voiced his bitterness by
crying out upon the cowardice of his foes." After five weeks'
campaigning, despite his deep advance, he had inflicted little damage
on the enemy, while his own army had been reduced by at least a third
in numbers and still more in efficiency.
... snip ...
which bears more than a little resemblance to iraq invasion.
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