From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:21:31 -0500"John Scott" <John_Scott@nospam.com> writes:
but in theory ... there would have been many more minis than superminis ... or at least until large PCs & workstations started to take over that market segment. now almost all the categories are made up of various combinations of PC components.
High-Performance Computer Systems Estimated 1988-1992 WW Installed Base Category 1988 1992 CGR Supercomputers 350 1000 22% Mainframes 6000 12000 6% minisupers 2200 11000 41% superminis 300,000 900,000 20% workstations 370,000 2,750,000 52%... snip ...
I've mentioned before that low-end & mid-range mainframe 4300s saw big explosion in sales ... both for small operation but huge numbers for large corporations ordering hundreds at a time and putting them out into departmental areas ... then that market imploded with the rise of large PCs & workstations taking over the market.
for some topic drift ... GPUs, in large part evolved for PC gaming.
Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student's Invention
http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/
Red Fox: An Execution Environment for Relational Query Processing on
GPUs
http://gpuocelot.gatech.edu/publications/redfox/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:44:38 -0500Peter.Farley@BROADRIDGE.COM (Farley, Peter x23353) writes:
there was also a presentation on CMS running on MVS.
A couple yrs earlier, Endicott had gotten the corporation to announce
that vm370/cms was the strategic online, interactive solution. The TSO
product administrator had contacted me if I would redo the
dispatcher/scheduler for MVS ... attempting to make MVS much more
interactive friendly. I declined since the MVS problems with good
interactive human factors went way beyond its
dispatching&scheduling. old email ref.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#email800310
This then further came out in the CMS under MVS work ... they could get it to run functionally ... but because of all the other problems, the question then was "why"
this talks about the internal SPM ... which was superset of VMCF, IUCV
SMSG combined ... originally done at Pisa Science Center for cp67 but
then moved to vm370.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#email851017
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#51 other cp/cms history
also
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#11 vm/sp1
I included it in my internal "csc/vm" system distribution (for internal
datacenters).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Original service virtual machine was RSCS ... and as referenced, the later RSCS that eventually shipped to customers ... included SPM support (even if SPM didn't ship to customers).
The author of REXX did a multi-user client/server spacewar game that used SMSG (users could be on the same machine with the server ... or because of the RSCS support ... could be anywhere on the internal network). The client had a 3270 GUI ... however the client/server protocol was very straight-forward and rather quickly several people did spacewar bots ... that started to trample all the human players (in part because they moved much faster). The spacewar server was eventually modified to increase the power use non-linearly as the interval between commands/moves dropped ... as a way of trying to provide a level playing field between humans and bots.
this is increasingly becoming common in the current virtual machine world ... it has morphed into virtual appliances ... highly customized operating system & applications running in service virtual machine ... very much like RSCS.
trivia ... some years ago, the author of RSCS was working for company doing some realtime stuff with a major industry realtime system. He eventually realized that the core part of the system appeared similar to parts of RSCS ... with major core RSCS 360 assmbler translated into C language ... but preserving all the same comments.
... and some psuedo device trivia
PROFS email (used extensively internal, among customers, and even involved in the white house iran contra affair) used a very early version of an internally developed email client called VMSG. When the VMSG author tried to offer them an updated version ... they tried to get him fired (because they had claimed credit for everything in PROFS). They whole thing quieted down when the VMSG author showed then every PROFS email in the world carried his initials in a non-displayed, control field. After than the VMSG author restricted source distribution to only two other people.
The VMSG author also did PARASITE/STORY ... CMS application and HLLAPI
like language (in the 70s, predating IBM/PC) for automated scripts for
simulating terminals on the same machine or other machines in the
internal network (using psuedo device interface). Past post with
PARASITE/STORY details:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35
... includes a "story" for automatically logging into RETAIN and
retrieving latest PUT bucket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#36
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:21:38 -0500PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
that is exactly how the rexx author started out with his multi-user client/server spacewar game.
however you typically had to talk to sysadmin if you wanted it automatically brought up at system started up ... rather than manually.
I had originally done the autolog command was part of automated
benchmarking ... build new system, setup autolog script, reboot to the
new kernel, autolog all simulated users, when done, again reboot the
system run the next set of simulated user benchmark ... all
automatically ... could get through several hundred if I had enough
dedicated machine time. misc. past posts discussing automated
benchmarking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
cp67 had done automatic reboot as part expanded service into 7x24 ... and running dark room in the 60s. however, as service virtual machines proliferated ... a lot of services required somebody manually to bring up the increasing numbers of different service virtual machines.
my autolog function was quickly adapted to automatically bringing up all
the service virtual machines at boot ... it was another thing that I
included in my csc/vm system distribution for internal datacenters.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
during the future system period ... lots of 370 stuff was being
suspended and/or shutdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
during the FS period I continued to work on 360/370 ... even periodically critidizing the FS activity (which was exactly a career enhancing activity). When FS failed, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines. That contributed to picking up some of the stuff I had been doing all along and shipping in standard product. The autolog command was one of the things picked up for VM370 release 3 shipping to customers, as part of helping manage service virtual machines.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: We need to talk about TED Date: 01 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookWe need to talk about TED
from recent post in "death of mainframe" thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80
... however, in the 90s, there was major effort by the remaining core of mainframe use ... the financial industry ... to move to large numbers of "killer micros". The issue was that online transactions had been added over the years ... but were really just queueing up transactions to be settled in the traditional batch system ... that ran overnight.
the problem was globalization was both increasing the amount of work to be done overnight as well as shortening the length of the overnight window. The rewrites were to move to straight through processing using large numbers of parallel processing. However, the parallelization libraries they were using introduced a factor of 100 times overhead (compared to the mainframe cobol batch) ... totally swamping the throughput increases anticipated with combination of straight through processing and large numbers of parallel processing.
They did toy demos and then failed to do the speeds&feeds numbers about scale-up ... and even with warnings about what was going to happen, several went to pilot deployments before the magnitude of the problem was realized/appreciated. There was significant backlash from the failed efforts regarding attempts to make further moves off the mainframe.
in the later part of the last decade we took some technology to financial industry standards groups ... that approached the parallelization and scale-up (for straight through processing) from a totally different direction. Rather than lots of ROI application code calling parallelization libraries ... this leveraged the significant work that had been done on parallizing by the major RDBMS. The implementation took high-level design specification and decomposed it into fine-grain SQL statements that could be efficiently parallelized. Initially the technology saw high acceptance ... but then hit a brick wall ... the comments that eventually came back was that there was still large number of executives that carried significant scars from the failures in the 90s ... and it would have to wait for a whole new generation before it could be tried again.
from discussion in "Blinded by Science" about spectre of loosing net
neutrality ... long winded item
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#90
for the fun of it (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20050418032606/http://www.be.daemonnews.org/199909/usenix-kirk.html
from above:
He said (paraphrased) that every DARPA meeting ended up the same, with
the Military coming in and giving CSRG (at UCB, the group that worked
on BSD) a stern warning that they were to work on the Operating
System, and that BBN will work on the networking. Every time, Bob
Fabry, then the adviser of CSRG, would "Yes: them to death" and they'd
go off and just continue the way they were going. Much to the
frustration of the DARPA advisery board.
... snip ...
lots of vendors picked up and used BSD TCP/IP stack from tahoe or reno 4.3 ... because it was freely available. This was back in the days when lots of implementations were proprietary.
note in the late 80s, FEDs mandated elimination of TCP/IP and internet
and move to OSI (GOSIP) ... at '88 interop ... there were lots of OSI
in various booths.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
However, one of the issues was that OSI was traditional telco copper
wire paradigm ... predating internetworking. One of the reasons that
the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just
about the beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86 ... is that
the internal network effectively had form of gateway in every node
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
... something that arpanet/internet didn't get until the great
cut-over to internetworking on 1jan183.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
I was involved in taking HSP (high-speed protocol) to x3s3.3 (ISO chartered US standards body for osi level 3/4 standardization) in the late 80s. At the time ISO had requirement that only protocols that conformed to the OSI model could be standardized. HSP was rejected because it violated OSI model:
1) supported internetworking protocol, non-existent layer between OSI 3 & 4 2) went directly from transport to LAN/MAC ... bypassing level 3/4 interface 3) it went directly to LAN/MAC ... doesn't exist in OSI, sits approx. in middle of layer 3
There was comparison of ISO & IETF (internet standards) ... IETF
requires at least interoperapable implementations to progress in
standards process; ISO doesn't even require a standard to be
implementable.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
... tcp/ip was the technology basis for the modern internet, nsfnet
backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet and CIX was
the business basis for the modern internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange
part of the spread of bsd tcp/ip protocol stack was it was part of the
proprietary software versus open source software ... and the days of
the UNIX wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
... one of the reasons for director NSF reference to what we had was
at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses was we had done rate-based
pacing ... writeup I did for HSP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/xtprate.html
trivia ... part of the xtp/hsp work was for naval surface warfare ... for safenet2 ... infrastructure for radar, sensors, fire-control, etc
in any case, rate-based pacing is percolating into various ietf standard ... 30yrs later
... from "viewing where the internet goes" in "blinded by science"
operational precursor to modern internet:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
we had been working with NSF and various players and were suppose to get $20M to tie together the NSF supercomputer centers ... then congress cut the funding and some other things happened ... eventually they released an RFP .... however internal politics prevented us from bidding ... director of NSF tried to help and wrote a letter to the company (copying the CEO) ... but that just made the internal politics worse (as did comment about what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses)
The initial NSFNET RFP called for T1 (1.5mbits/sec) links ... in part
because we were running several on an internal backbone (and then as
mentioned, internal politics prevented us bidding, even with the
director of NSF trying help), the winning bid was $11.2M ... however
they put in 440kbit/sec links (not the 1.5mbits/sec called for in the
RFP) ... and then somewhat to meet the letter of the RFP, put in T1
trunks and used telco multiplexor to run multiple 440kbit/sec links on
a trunk. I would make disparaging comments (including why didn't they
called it a T5 network, since at some point some of the links might
have been multiplexed over telco T5 trunk).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
At the time, there was huge amount of unused "dark fiber" capacity. The telco problem was that they had significant run-rate which was covered by use charges ... and had major chicken&egg situation. They couldn't get major new bandwidth hungry applications w/o significantly lowering the use charges, however if they significantly lowered the use charges (to encouraging development of bandwidth hungry applications), it could be several years because the bandwidth use rose to a point where they could be profitable.
Lots of telcos "donated" additional bandwidth to the regional networks and NSFNET backbone ... claims were on the order of $40M ... with the AUPs restricting the networks to non-commercial purposes *ONLY* (basically a technology incubator for new generation of bandwidth hungry applications).
Along the way I was periodically criticizing the technology used in the NSFNET backbone (including not being true T1). When the NSFNET T3 upgrade RFP came out, I was asked to be the red team and a couple dozen people from half dozen labs around the world were the blue team (presumably they were going to trounce me to shutup my criticism). At the final review, I presented first ... and then the blue team presented. Five minutes into the blue team presentation, the executive running the review pounded on the table and said that he would lay down in front of a garbage trunk before he allowed any but the blue team proposal to go forward.
Then came the transition to commercial with CIX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange
for the fun of it various old NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Jan 2014 06:59:55 -0800re:
another thing in the wake of FS failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and the mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines (during FS, there were being terminated and/or suspended, which is also credited with giving the clone processor makers a market foothold) ... was the head of POK convinced corporate to kill vm370 product and shutdown the VM370 burlington mall development group and move all the people to POK (or otherwise mvs/xa wouldn't ship on time, endicott finally did manage to resurrect the vm370 product mission ... but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch).
at the time, somebody in the CMS group had extensively extended the os/360 simulation ... which managed to all get lost in the burlington mall shutdown. the standard CMS OS/360 had fit in less than 64kbytes ... some joke that CMS OS/360 simulation was much better price/performance than the 8mbyte MVS OS/360 simulation.
the plan was to not inform the vm370/cms development people until the very last minute (to minimize the people that might escape) ... but it managed to leak early ... and lots of people left IBM and stayed in the Boston area ... in fact there was joke that the head of POK was one of the major contributors to VAX/VMS since so many people left for DEC (including the person that did the major extension in os/360 simulation).
later there was some internal IBM significant extensions to os/360 simulation. There were a number of major chip, hardware, and microcode development applications that only ran on MVS. However, some of the internal datacenters were starting to burst at the seams ... even with all the 168s upgraded to 3033s. This was major rise of 4300 machines ... the corporation was installing 4300s out in every departmental supply and/or conference rooms (4300s taking over conference rooms, turned conference rooms into scarce commodity) ... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami.
for large list of reasons, it wasn't practical to deploy MVS on all the machines (MVS required enormously larger people support, nearly all of them were with FBA disks which MVS doesn't support, MVS consumed much larger percentage of these smaller systems, leaving less to productive work, etc). Some number of internal installations ... extended the CMS OS/360 simulation in order to be able to move these major development applications out onto these distributed vm/4341s.
some old 4300 email from the period ... including discussion of
extending os/360 simulation (to be able to migrate lots of the MVS
workload out into distributed vm/4300s)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
the significant increase in vm/4300s also was major factor in the
internal network passing 1000 nodes in summer 1983 ... past post
with several '83 internal network references (including list of
all corporate locations that added one or more network nodes in 1983)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Jan 2014 08:50:01 -0800Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> writes:
the 23jun1969 unbundle announcement started charging for application
software (they managed to make the case that operating system/kernel
software would still be free), SE services, and other stuff ... some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
they had a issue about hands-on training for new SEs ... which
previously had occurred as part of teams at the customer accout
(couldn't figure out how not to charge for new SEs if they were on site)
... and came up with providing running operating systems in cp67 virtual
machines at branch offices ... i.e. HONE system (hands-on network
environment) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
the cambridge science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
had also ported apl\360 to cp67/cms for cms\apl ... mostly required
eliminating unnecessary stuff ... like its internal multi-tasking and
swapping (to avoid high overhead os/360 services) ... recent discussion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#54 Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?
but its storage management was oriented to 16kbyte workspaces that were swapped as single unit ... which had to be redone for large virtual memory, demand paged environment ... as well as adding API for CMS system services (combination allowing implementation of large real world applications).
The HONE group then started deploying apl-based sales&marketing support
applications also on HONE ... which came to dominate all HONE activity
and the virtual guest operation use withered away. The palo alto science
center then did the apl\cms for vm370/cms ... as well as the 370/145
apl microcode assist. As previously mentioned they had also done the
5100 apl work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#82 One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
in the mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in a bldg
across the back parking lot from the palo alto science center (later a
new bldg. went next door for facebook ... before they bought and moved
into the old sun campus). For the heavy computation APL workload,
machines were large mainframe SMP configured in loosely-coupled
operation ... with single-system-image load-balancing and availability
fallover (largest single-system-image operation in the world at the
time). The single-system-image was then expanded to cover a 2nd
datacenter in dallas and then a 3rd datacenter in boulder. Note that
this support didn't appear in the customer product until a couple
yrs ago:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
HONE was one of my long-time enhanced operating system customers from
original cp67 systems ... even in the early days, they asked me to
assist with various installations as HONE clones started popping up
around the world. Old email reference to csc/vm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Pretty much from mid-70s through the 80s, there was re-occurring case of a branch manager being promoted to head of business group that contained HONE and be horrified to find that it ran on vm370 (not MVS). He would then direct the HONE group to move HONE to MVS ... which would take nearly all the HONE resources for 12m-18m ... until it was proven to not be possible ... and then things would settle down for a couple months until they got the next new executive and the cycle would repeat.
In the mid-80s, it appeared that somebody decided it was my fault that HONE couldn't move to MVS ... that if HONE was first moved to an unenhanced vm370 system ... then service would deteriate to a level where it would be much easier to move to a MVS system (assumption that the dispartiy between MVS and VM370 would be much less if it wasn't one of my enhanced systems).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Jan 2014 11:40:17 -0800PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
you started out just running/testing it in your own virtual machine ... it wasn't until later when you wanted to do something more production and wanted a separate virtual machine.
as aside, my same adtech conference that had presentations on precursor
to pipelines and cms under mvs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#91 Learning Rexx
... also had talk on modifications for vm370 for BSD unix ... including being able to spawn independent (vm370) virtual address spaces that ran independently ... aka the same userid could have multiple independently running virtual address spaces ... much more like unix. This would have made it possible to spawn a service virtual address space ... without requiring a separate userid for every address space.
however, before this shipped the group was redirected to do BSD unix for the pc/rt ... which did ship as "AOS".
the later unix offerings were self-contained unix implementations that ran in single virtual machine virtual address space (not needing vm370 support for multiple independently running virtual address spaces).
aix/370 was a port of UCLA Locus ... for 370 (along with companion port for aix/386) ... Locus had very sophisticated distributed computing support ... with executing application being able to non-disruptbly migrate between different machines in the network ... with some caveats even between different machine architectures ... aka between aix/386 and aix/370.
one of the claims for aix/370 (and other unixes) running under vm370 ... rather on the bare machine ... was that field support required mainframe RAS & EREP to support the real machine ... and the effort to add such support to native unix was several times larger than the effort to do the straight forward port.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revoluti Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:14:37 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: We're About to Lose Net Neutrality -- And the Internet as We Know It Date: 03 Jan 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
other UCB trivia (besides yes'ing darpa to death) ... some of it in
this old NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
I got brought in early to look at what was being called "Berkeley 10m"
telescope ... 1m segmented mirror. Part of it included from film to
ccd (100times photon efficiency of film) and they wanted to do remote
viewing on mainland ... including transmitting electronic images back
to viewer from observatory in Hawaii. Part of the CCD testing went on
at Lick (at the time was just 200x200, aka 40k pixels)
http://ucolick.org/
They didn't want to accept NSF money because then NSF would be able to
dictate observatory schedule. Eventually they got Keck foundation to
fund the effort and it became known as Keck 10m & Keck observatory.
http://www.keckobservatory.org/
NSF gave UC a $120M grant for supercomputer center at Berkeley
... however the UC regents master plan had the next new bldg. going in
at San Diego campus ... so the regents redirected the grant to UCSD
(instead of UCB) for supercomputer center there (and General Atomics
was initially hired to operate it).
http://www.sdsc.edu/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 3 Jan 2014 11:29:50 -0800KPHIBM@LIVE.COM (Ken Hume IBM) writes:
"Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free" has the framers of the consitution sending Jefferson off as minister to France while they drafted the constitution in secrecy. when the states didn't approve the constitution, they brought Jefferson back to write the "bill of rights" ... finally getting approval for the new gov.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War" (Thucydides): Theramenes, son of Hagnon, was also one of the foremost of the subverters of the democracy--a man as able in council as in debate. Conducted by so many and by such sagacious heads, the enterprise, great as it was, not unnaturally went forward; although it was no light matter to deprive the Athenian people of its freedom, almost a hundred years after the deposition of the tyrants
In the 80s, I was doing HSDT (high-speed data transport, T1 and faster
links) and IBM required all links be encrypted ... it wasn't too bad
getting T1 link encryptors ... but they were really expensive ... and
it was really hard to find faster link encryptors. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
So I got involved in doing our own ... objective was cost under $100 to build and could handle a couple megabytes/sec. There was some slight of hand and the corporate crypto group said that standard DES had been significantly weakened. It took me 3months to figure out the language to explain to them what was happening ... that instead of weakening DES ... it was significantly stonger than standard DES. It turned out to be a hollow victory, realizing that (at the time) there was three kinds of crypto in the world: 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do and 3) the kind you can only do for them .... when they told me I could make as many as I wanted but there was only a single entity that could use them (and it wasn't me).
some old crypto email ... even discussion from 1981 about doing PGP-like
implementation (a decade before PGP):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
from three decades ago, standard 370 software did DES at approx. 150kbytes/sec on 3081K processor ... to handle DES encrypt/descript for full-duplex T1 link would require dedicating both 3081K processors.
recent posts mentioning realizing there was three kinds of crypto:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#50 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Death of the mainframe" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:52:53 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
the low & mid range 4300s ... in part because of their small environmental footprint, started to move out into dept supply and conferences rooms (inside ibm was significant contributor to conference rooms becoming scarce commodity) ... leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami
other recent post in ibm-main discussioin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#4 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 3 Jan 2014 14:06:31 -0800scott_j_ford@YAHOO.COM (Scott Ford) writes:
5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz
Allen Hamilton
http://www.minds.com/blog/view/264199355085361152/5-unnerving-documents-showing-ties-between-greenwald-omidyar-and-booz-allen-hamilton
some ibm connection ... Not only was BAH Snowden's employer ... it was private equity reverse-IPO by Carlyle (headed by Gerstner after he left IBM).
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
the spreading Success Of Failure culture wasn't that the (intelligence) failures were because of not gathering enough data ... but blaming not enough data helps justify greatly increasing the the size of efforts and ever increasing profits for the increasingly privatized institutions
Success of Failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
... and possibly even looking in all the wrong places
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
in the Peloponnesian War, the threats to Athens were used as justification for subverting the democracy ... however leading up to it, Athens had a disastrous campaign trying to conquer sicily ... which enormously weakened the city-state and made it extremely vulnerable to its enemies.
posts mentioning Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: 5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz Allen Hamilton Date: 04 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz
Allen Hamilton
http://www.minds.com/blog/view/264199355085361152/5-unnerving-documents-showing-ties-between-greenwald-omidyar-and-booz-allen-hamilton
Not only was BAH Snowden's employer ... it was private equity
reverse-IPO by Carlyle (headed by Gerstner after he left IBM).
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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 ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Success of Failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
BAH is in it for profit ... a variation on the military industrial
complex ... including BAH having been found to have used classified
information and intelligence assets for corporate benefit. This is
further aggravated by the reverse-IPO. NYT did in-depth that private
equity buyouts involve loan for the full amount of the purchase
.... which is then put on the bought company's books ... and even
stays on the company's books if it is later sold (private equity
companies would still show enormous profit even if they later sell for
less than they paid). This puts enormous pressure on the bought
company to increase earnings to service the debt load. NYT article had
over half the corporate debt defaults are by companies that are
currently or previously owned by private equity company. posts
mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Public security literature from the 90s would imply that it should have been impossible for all that information to walk out the door ... possible threat model is for-profit companies cut way back on security procedures to increase earnings. Recent reports at that everybody with TC/SCI has access to everything with no accountability (sysadmin references possibly obfuscation and misdirection) ... they haven't been able to figure out how much actually has walked out the door ... even some reference to it might have been everything. It also would play role in news about surveillance being used against romantic interests &/or rivals.
Most recent scenario is that they be able to influence/spin new revelations for corporate benefit.
I have seen no evidence that the actual leaks were directly for profit ... but possibly side-effect of reducing costs to increase revenue, side-effect of misappropriation of assets for other purposes, etc. However, trying to control/spin future revelations could likely be objective.
The path that the current leaks took is possibly influenced by the Success Of Failure case where there was report of problems to congress (and no public leaking of classified material) ... but the whistleblowers were charged with the same offenses as the current case ... and treated really, really badly (the worst that could be claimed was they represented threat to careers of senior people who fabricated the charges).
unrelated to the Success Of Failure case ... but that TS/SCI
compartmental wasn't being enforced
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/the-national-security-agencys-oversharing-problem/
more on Success Of Failure case
http://chicagodefender.com/2013/12/18/who-broke-the-law-snowden-or-the-nsa/
possibly somewhat related, suppose to protect whitleblowers ... Office
of Special Counsel Releases Report Confirming Misconduct by
Then-Agency Head Scott Bloch
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/12/office-of-special-counsel-releases-report.html
there was public IARPA BAA (iarpa.gov, we didn't know it at the time for various reasons including not having clearances, it was early in the period leading up to Success Of Failure) from somebody at the agency, saying that none of the stuff they had did the job. We didn't even know about the BAA ... but on the last day we got a call asking us to respond before it closed (in part because nobody else had). There was a couple meetings about how we would be able to do what was required ... and then nothing. Later we were told that the higher ups had told the BAA author that he actually hadn't proved (to their satisfaction) that what they have wouldn't do the job. As in Success Of Failure stories, there are lot of large for-profit companies and other vested interests interested in maintaining the status quo (conjecture that he was allowed to release the BAA in anticipation of no response, which would help shutdown his complaining).
note: was actually precursor to iarpa
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828171703/http://www.ic-arda.org/about_arda.htm
now
http://www.iarpa.gov/whatis.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq Date: 04 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookAl-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
Son-in-law was 2004-2005 Fellujah and 2007-2008 Baqubah ... accounts
have Baqubah much worse than Fallujah.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
This has woman presenting evidence that Iraq invasion justification
was fabricated and they treated her really badly
https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Woman-The-Sibel-Edmonds-Story-ebook/dp/B007XY8INW/
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
this has an account of sat. photo recon analyst raising alarm that
Iraq was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait and white house
discrediting the analyst and saying Saddam would do no such
thing. However, when he raised the alarm that Iraq was marshaling
forces for invasion of Saudi Arabia that started to see serious
response.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2
the iraq scenario then would serve at least two possible purposes ... 1) spinney's perpetual war ... an organized mechanized military that we could throw our mechanized military against and 2) obfuscation and misdirection away from saudis
Chuck's perpetual war
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
posts mentioning perpetual war:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
Rumsfeld's War and Its Consequences Now
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/19/rumsfelds-war-and-its-consequences-now/
note two different (but not necessarily inconsistent) explanations for
shuttling bush off to be director of cia 1) needed replacement
director that would stop opposing team b analysis and 2) internal
republican politics sidelining a rival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
includes picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam & US support for Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
then there is Iran--Contra affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
posts mentioning team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
a little computer trivia ... email evidence came from the PROFS backup
tapes ... PROFS email client was VMSG ... some old VMSG reference
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
Facebook is showing this article for both Yon & H-III together on my
timeline, so part of Yon's (old) account of Baqubah
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/index.php?option=com_content
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Criminal Action Is Expected for JPMorgan in Madoff Case Date: 04 Jan 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Why Aren't Big Bankers in Jail? Why ask why, say their enablers in financial press
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/why-arent-big-bankers-in-jail/
posts mentioning madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Federal Judge Hammers Justice Department for Not Prosecuting Wall Street Executives Date: 04 Jan 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityFederal Judge Hammers Justice Department for Not Prosecuting Wall Street Executives
Federal Judge Asks Why Wall Street Executives Haven't Been Prosecuted
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/03/federal-judge-asks-why-wall-street-executives-havent-been-prosecuted/
posts mentioning too big to fail (too big to presecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Command Culture Date: 05 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookCommand Culture
In the Q&A he repeats a frequent Boyd theme about the size of the officer corp when asked about what he would recommend for the US military..
Boyd would attribute the ballooning size of the officer corp as needed for rigid, top-down, command&control structure and to manage massive numbers that were assumed to not know what they were doing. This then wanders into the area of trust which he would highlight by citing Guderian's verbal orders only for the blitzgrieg. He would comment that US corporate culture was starting to be contaminated by former US military officers climbing the corporate ladder ... and disastrous effects of instituting similar rigid, top-down, command&control structure ... assuming only those at the very top know what they are doing (and everybody else were replaceable parts). Note, however this was also when there was starting to be articles blaming the problems on the rise of MBAs and myopic focus on quarterly numbers.
posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Literate JCL? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 5 Jan 2014 13:51:40 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
archeological: cms script was originally re-implementation of CTSS runoff for cp40/cms (science center had gotten 360/40 and made hardware modifications to support virtual memory) ... which became cp67/cms when science center got a 360/67. (gml) tag processing was added to cms script after gml was invented at science center in 1969 ("gml" are the 1st letters of the 3 inventors last name).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Death of the mainframe" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:32:54 -0500Stephen Wolstenholme <easynn@googlemail.com> writes:
an early problem providing off-shift 7x24 was that initially there was very little use ... and monthly costs/lease (based on cpu based running) was recovered based on use. the off-shift costs exceeded the off-shift use ... but to encourage 7x24 off-shift use the machine had to be left up all the time.
cp67 software enhancements were to automatically boot and come up with no human intervention ... along with other changes ... it allowed off-shift operation with no operator present (reducing the costs of leaving system up and available off-shift).
The cpu meter issue was that it ran whenever the cpu was active and/or there was any active channel program. One of the channel programming tricks was to have channel program that wouldn't run the cpu meter when nothing was going on ... but would wake up for terminal connections and in-coming characters on demand. A characteristic of the cpu meter would that it would continue to run for 400ms after all activity had stop ... before it stopped. At least well into the late 70s ... long after switch to sales ... and no longer leases charges being based on cpu meter reading ... the POK favorite son operating system (MVS) had task that would wake up every 400ms (guaranteeing that if the system was available ... even if doing nothing ... the cpu meter would never stop).
Another issue with off-shift manual requirements was the increasing use
of service virtual machines (common current terminology virtual
appliance) which required somebody to connect and startup. This is
recent post about the autolog command that I had originally developed
for automatic benchmarking ... but was quickly picked up for automatic
initiation of service virtual machines ... and included product
shipped to customers ... recent discussion of service virtual machine
and "autolog" command
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
past posts mentioning automated benchmarking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
one of the enhancements made for cp67/vm370 by (virtual machine) based
online service bureaus ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
was loosely-coupled support and non-disruptive migration (which failed to showup in the product). One of the 7x24 availability issues was requirement to take down systems for regularly scheduled preventive maintanance. The virtual-machine based online service bureaus could *drain* a machine with transparent, non-disruptive migration (in a loosely-coupled complex) before taking a system offline for regularly scheduled preventive maintenance.
other recent posts mentioning autolog command:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#17 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
past posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#64 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#65 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#68 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#69 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#72 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#75 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#10 "Death of the mainframe"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:17:48 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
cp67/cms started out source distribution as well as source maintenance
internal joint distributed effort between the science center and endicott to simulate 370 virtual machines as option in cp67 running on real 360/67 ... also resulted in the cms multi-level source update process
the litigation against ibm resulting in the 23jun1969 unbundling
announcement ... starting to charge for application software, se
services, etc (however, they did manage to make the case that kernel
software should still be free) ... and started some limitations on
source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
morph from cp67 to vm370 kept up source distribution ... the monthly (maintenance) PUT tapes distributed both precompiled binaries as well as the source updates.
during FS period, 370 efforts were being suspended and/or killed off
... which is credited with giving the clone processor makers a
market foothold ... then with the failure of FS, there was mad
rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
the rise of the clone processors appeared to be the motivation in
changing decision to start charging for kernel softare. the mad rush to
get stuff back into the product pipelines contributed to decision to
release a lot of stuff that I had continued to do do on 360/370 all
through the FS period (including enhanced operating systems for internal
datacenters, i would also periodically ridicule the FS activity, which
wasn't exactly career enhancing) ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
one of the pieces was my resource manager ... and the decision was made
to make it the guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel hardware
some past posts mentioning resource management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
in the early 80s, the transition had completed and all (kernel) software was now being charged for. some of the transition can be seen in the Hercules distribution with parts of vm370 release 6 (with source) is freely available ... but not other parts.
it was after the change over to charging for all kernel software in the
early 80s ... that the "OCO-wars" began ... announcement that software
distribution would be "object code only" ... some of this can be seen in
the only vmshare discussions ... vmshare was SHARE online computer
conferencing provided free to the SHARE organization by TYMSHARE
starting in Aug1976 ... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
one of the OCO disucussions
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCO&ft=PROB
one of my internal production process for cp67 and csc/vm were tapes
that contained backup of running system, all the source that went into
making that system, plus all the infrastructure necessary to build the
system. I managed to keep/archive some number of those tapes. This came
in handy in the mid-80s when Melinda was looking for the source of the
original multi-level source update/maintance procedures ... and I was
able to pull it off and send it to her. some old email about looking
for stuff as part of her preparing VM history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email850906
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email850908
current melinda site with several history papers (about halfway down
page)
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
the timing was fortunate ... since shortly later there was a problem in the IBM Almaden operations where random tapes were being mounted as scratch. I had lots of stuff from the 70s (and even from undergraduate days in the late 60s) ... triple-replicated on tapes in the IBM Almaden tape library ... and they were all overwritten.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:40:21 -0500re:
... and misc. past posts mentioning cms incremental/source update
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#57 line length (was Re: Babble from "JD" <dyson@jdyson.com>)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#58 Card Columns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#47 Slashdot: O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#44 Sequence Numbbers in Location 73-80
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#36 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#30 Status of Software Reuse?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#45 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#5 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#21 Over my head in a JES exit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#38 Over my head in a JES exit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#45 sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#14 SEQUENCE NUMBERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#19 Source maintenance was Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#27 oops
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#12 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#11 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#15 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#3 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#32 What I miss in my OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#69 EXCP access methos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#37 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#63 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#13 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#39 1971PerformanceStudies - Typical OS/MFT 40/50/65s analysed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#3 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#80 TSO Profile NUM and PACK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#12 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#27 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#34 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#22 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#98 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#19 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#68 What Makes code storage management so cool?
... and misc past posts mentioning operational problem in the almaden
tape library
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#14 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#51 Scholars needed to build a computer history bibliography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#8 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#66 Evolution of Floating Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#51 Source code for s/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#39 1971PerformanceStudies - Typical OS/MFT 40/50/65s analysed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#89 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#3 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#4 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#80 TSO Profile NUM and PACK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#29 Congratulations, where was my invite?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#16 Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#22 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#72 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#61 Google Patents Staple of '70s Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#68 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#9 IBM ad for Basic Operating System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:16:44 -0500hancock4 writes:
here is lot more of his history items:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
the above includes a place holder for "The Beginnings of ASCII" that he is in the progress of writing.
references at the bottom of article has his work on standard back to
1959.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
minor (history) 1961 reference
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ZACHERLY.HTM
from above:
The American Standards Association (now ANSI) held the organizational
meeting for Committee X3, Computers and Information Processing, at the
end of January of 1961 [1]. It adopted the scope and program of work
that I had drafted at the request of John McPherson and Jim Birkenstock,
IBM Vice Presidents
... snip ...
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/REGISTRY.HTM
from above:
Committee X3 was authorized at a meeting of 1960 January 13. Prior to
then some effort was already in progress toward a new and standard
character set for at least computers, if not for communications. At IBM
I had Frank Williams and Howard Smith, Jr. involved in this area. The
impetus was the 8-bit character structure of both the IBM Stretch
computer and the upcoming 360 series. Outside of IBM, however, the
possibility of an octet character was not taken seriously.
... snip ...
his history seems to show that he & IBM were major drivers behind ASCII in the standards meetings ... and would have been well aware of the technical details well before the first published edition of the standard.
the 1963 reference may be when standard was officially adopted ... which sometimes can be several years after the majority of the work has already been done (I had something of that experience with x9.59 standard).
first edition of standard published 1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
a couple other ASCII related articles at the website
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/INSIDE-A.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/666.HTM
past posts reference Bemer webpages:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#23 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#5 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#45 CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#55 "Geek" t-shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#100 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#52 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#56 Reduced Symbol Set Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#33 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#35 Teletypewriter Model 33
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:06:29 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Bemer's history is that it was ibm (& Bemer at ibm) that was a major
force behind ascii ... the comment implied that Learson made a temporary
expediate w/o realizing that it wasn't temporary and actually had long
term severe effects.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
from above:
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is
that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice
President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty
positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will
be done.
... snip ..
sort of many years of work by Bemer and IBM appeared to go down the drain ... at least as far as ibm mainframe was concerned
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'.... Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Jan 2014 08:00:02 -0800dcrayford@GMAIL.COM (David Crayford) writes:
disclaimer: I worked with Jim at IBM Research (before he left for
Tandem) during System/R days (precursor to DB2)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
commodity disk mtbf use to be 80,000 hrs ... then it increased to
800,000 hrs and now nearly doubled to 1.4m hrs (that is w/o RAID
technologies to mask failures). recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#7 Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking
At IBM, we had done high-availability cluster systems with commodity
parts and five-nines availability for HA/CMP ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
somewhat as a result, I was asked to write a section for the corporate
continuous availability strategy document ... however it got pulled when
both Rochester (as/400) and POK (mainframe) complained that they
couldn't meet the numbers. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
in one scenario for 1-800 system ... we were up against hardware fault-tolerant system for five-nines availability. It turns out that at system level ha/cmp met the objective ... but the hardware fault-tolerant system needed scheduled downtime once a year for software maintenance ... which blew a century of downtime allowance. They came back with a cluster solution of replicated systems ... to mask the outage for software maintenance ... but that then negated the need to have the expensive hardware fault tolerant implementation.
as mentioned in the commodity disk references, the large cloud megadatacenters have done extensive studies on price/availability ... part of the strategy (as well as HA/CMP) is akin to disk raid ... but applied to the rest of the infrastructure.
slight topic drift ... Why Programmers Work At Night
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1
and old post with "Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31
Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any Real Programmers are around
at 9 AM, it's because they were up all night.
... this was back in the days before computer screens and typewriter
computer terminals and working evenings was so you could concentrate
and not be interrupted ... trying to solve very complex issues would
require intense uninterrupted concentration. this is somewhat
contrasted with individuals that crave constant interaction and long,
unproductive meetings.
I mention my first student programming job was porting 1401 MPIO to 360/30. The univ. had 709/1401 combo ... with 1401 handling front-end tape<->printer/punch/card reader ... and 709 ibsys running tape->tape and manual moving tape between 709 and 1401 tape drives.
The univ. had been sold 360/67 (for tss/360) to replace 709/1401 and 360/30 replaced the 1401 during transition. The 360/30 had 1401 hardware emulation that ran MPIO just fine ... so my job redoing MPIO for 360/30 could be considered just getting familiarity with 360. However, I got to design and implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, scheduling, dispatching, console interface, storage management.
The datacenter shutdown at 8am sat and I got the whole room to myself from 8am sat to 8am that summer. This continued into the school year ... although it made Monday morning classes a little hard, having been up (w/o sleep) for 48hrs. It wasn't just night ... it was 48hrs of total uninterrupted concentration.
Eventually the 360/67 was installed, but tss/360 made it to production quality, so the machine ran mostly as 360/65 running os/360 ... and I was hired fulltime to be system support.
One of the issues was that student fortran jobs ran less than second elapsed time on 709 (ibsys tape->tape) ... but ran over a minute elapsed time on 360/65. This was reduced to under a minute with the addition of HASP. I started doing careful stage2 sysgens to optimize disk arm movement and pds member search ... taking the stage2 output of stage1 and reodering all the cards to careful place datasets and pds members on disk. This increased student fortran throughput by nearly another factor of three times (os/360 was enormously heavy disk access including dragging large numbers of multi-load transient SVCs 2kbytes at a time).
Student fortran job throughput never did beat 709 until WATFOR was
installed ... recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#54 Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'.... Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Jan 2014 08:57:03 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
some of the bad rep for sysprogs is the difference in culture between those count number of meetings as productivity and sysprogs that view meetings as mostly a waste of time (and need periods of uninterrupted concentration time to solve problems).
then there is this in a Boyd-related blog: Is hierarchy necessary?
(my post is currently the last one at the bottom from today)
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/01/01/is-hierarchy-necessary/
disclaimer: i had sponsored Boyd and his briefings at IBM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategist%29
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The History of the Grid: Comments invited Date: 08 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
The History of the Grid: Comments invited
http://www.ianfoster.org/wordpress/2014/01/01/history-of-the-grid/
Grid Computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
we had been working with NSF and various players and were suppose to
get $20M to tie together the NSF supercomputer centers ... then
congress cut the funding and some other things happened ... eventually
they released an RFP .... however internal politics prevented us from
bidding ... director of NSF tried to help and wrote a letter to the
company (copying the CEO) ... but that just made the internal politics
worse (as did comment about what we already had running was at least
5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). Some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm Date: 08 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information
age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/07/a_warnings_for_the_us_military_about_innovation_and_the_information_age_the_pentago
This is an old post with a decade of vax sales, sliced&diced by model,
year, US/non-US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
which shows towards the end of the 80s, workstations & large PCs were
starting to take over the mid-range market. Note that IBM 4300s sold
in similar numbers into the low/mid-range market for orders of single
or small numbers ... the difference being additional large corporation
multi-hundred 4300 orders that went out into departmental areas
... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami. The
4361/4381 (follow-on to the 4331/4341) was expecting to see similar
explosion in sales ... but by that time, that market was already
starting to move to workstations and large PCs. misc. old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
for a little USAF ... one of the old emails is about AFDS coming by to
talk about 20 4341s ... but then morphed into 210 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
for even more drift ... old Global Grid conference
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_past_11.htm
where I was invited to give a talk on (distributed) authentication
http://forge.ggf.org/sf/go/doc12899;jsessionid=E86ACAF7A29F2E1FC2575AD0CD04E39E?nav=1
here was washington ... boards initially for pc/xt ... and later also
available for pc/at. I got blamed for 6m slip in washington schedule
because I showed bad page thrashing ... and they had to increase
amount of available 370 storage (there were also several other issues)
Later there was a74. Old A74 item:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email880622
Also the PROFS group had used a copy of very early VMSG for the email
client. When the author of VMSG offered a better version, they tried
to get him fired (they had claimed responsibility for everything in
PROFS). It all quieted down after the VMSG author showed that every
PROFS email in the world had his initials in non-displayed
header. After that the VMSG author limited source distribution to me
and one other person. old email mentioning vmsg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Jan 2014 06:58:59 -0800re:
after transferring to San Jose Research ... I was allowed to wandering around other locations in the area. One of the places was the disk engineering and development labs. At the time, they had a fare number of IBM mainframes (they would get one of the earliest engineering mainframe processors ... usually #3 or #4 for starting disk testings ... aka needing to test engineering disks ... but also needing to test engineering mainframes with latest disks). At the time the machine rooms were running all the mainframes 7x24 around the clock, stand-alone testing schedules. At one time, they had tried to use MVS to have operating system environment and being able to do multiple concurrent testing ... however in that environment, MVS had 15min MTBF.
I offered to rewrite the I/O supervisor to make it bullet proof and
never fail ... enabling on-demand, anytime, concurrent testing
... significantly improving disk development productivity. After that I
would get sucked into diagnosing lots of development activity
... because frequently anytime there was any kind of problem ... they
would accuse the software ... and I would get a call ... and have to
figure out what the hardware problem was. old postsing about getting
to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
I did a write up of what was necessary to support the environment and happened to make reference to the MVS 15min MTBF ... which brought down the wrath of the MVS RAS group on my head ... they would have gotten me fired if they could figure out how (I had tried to work with them to improve MVS RAS ... but instead they turned it into an adversary situation).
A couple years later ... when 3380s starting to ship ... MVS system
was hanging/failing (requiring re-IPL) in the FE 3380 error regression
tests (typical errors expected to be found in customer installations)
... and in the majority of the cases, there was not even an indication
of what was responsible for the failure (of course I had to be handling
them all along ... since nearly all development was being done under
systems I provided). old email from the period discussing MVS failures
with FE 3380 error regression test:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
3380s had been announced 11June1980
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3380.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The History of the Grid Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:36:31 -0500The History of the Grid: Comments invited
Grid Computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
we had been working with NSF and various players and were suppose to
get $20M to tie together the NSF supercomputer centers ... then
congress cut the funding and some other things happened ... eventually
they released an RFP .... however internal politics prevented us from
bidding ... director of NSF tried to help and wrote a letter to the
company (copying the CEO) ... but that just made the internal politics
worse (as did comment about what we already had running was at least
5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). Some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and for little other topic drift
Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information
age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/07/a_warnings_for_the_us_military_about_innovation_and_the_information_age_the_pentago
This is an old post with a decade of vax sales, sliced&diced by model,
year, US/non-US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
which shows towards the end of the 80s, workstations & large PCs were
starting to take over the mid-range market. Note that IBM 4300s sold in
similar numbers into the low/mid-range market for orders of single or
small numbers ... the difference being additional large corporation
multi-hundred 4300 orders that went out into departmental areas ... sort
of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami. The 4361/4381
(follow-on to the 4331/4341) was expecting to see similar explosion in
sales ... but by that time, that market was already starting to move to
workstations and large PCs. misc. old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
for a little USAF ... one of the old emails is about AFDS coming by to
talk about 20 4341s ... but then morphed into 210 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
for even more drift ... old Global Grid conference
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_past_11.htm
where I was invited to give a talk on (distributed) authentication
https://forge.ogf.org/sf/go/doc12899%3bjsessionid=E86ACAF7A29F2E1FC2575AD0CD04E39E?nav=1
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Jan 2014 07:59:56 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
we did IP-address take-over (ARP cache times out and remaps ip-address
to a different MAC address) in HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
however at the time, most vendors used bsd reno/tahoe 4.3 software for their tcp/ip stack ... and there was a "bug" in the 4.3 code (and therefor in nearly every machine out there).
the bug was in the ip layer ... it saved the previous response from call to ARP cache ... and if the next IP operation was for the same ip-address, it used the saved value (and bypassed calling arp cache handler). ARP cache protocol requires that the saved ip-address/mac-address mapping in the ARP cache times-out and a new ARP operation has to be done to discover the corresponding MAC address (for that ip-address). However, the "saved" mac address had no such time-out.
In a strongly oriented client/server environment when the client primarily does majority of its tcp/ip to the same server (ip-address) ... it could go for long periods of time w/o changing ip-addresses. As a result a server doing ip-address takeover to a different LAN/MAC address wouldn't be noticed by such clients. We had to come up with all sorts of hacks to smear ip-address traffic across the environment ... trying to force clients to reset their ip-address to mac-address mapping.
There is separate gimmick which involves MAC-address spoofing ... i.e. in theory every MAC-addresses are unique created at manufacturing time ... however some number of adapters have been given the ability to soft reset their MAC-address (so if one adapter fails ... another adapter can spoof the failed adapter).
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Criminal Action Is Expected for JPMorgan in Madoff Case Date: 08 Jan 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Executives spared in JPMorgan's $2 billion Madoff deal: sources
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/jpmorgan-chase-set-reach-billion-dollar-settlement-over-madoff-case-2D11866371
Interview on business TV is that JPMorgan is effectively on probation and constantly monitored and they reserve the right to bring criminal charges in the future if JPMorgan falters. There was comment that frequently when criminal charges are brought, people stop doing business with the institution leading to institution failure (sounds like too big to prosecute, too big to jail, too big to fail)
JP Morgan Pulled $275 Million Of Its Own Money From Madoff Feeder Funds Months Before His Arrest
http://www.businessinsider.com/jpm-knew-madoff-was-a-fraud-said-nothing-2014-1
from above:
What is clear from Bharara's description of the bank's relationship
with Madoff, is that JP Morgan was aware of the Ponzi scheme before
Madoff's arrest.
... snip ...
JPMorgan Agrees To Pay $1.7 Billion To Bernie Madoff Victims
http://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-to-pay-17-billion-2014-1
posts mentioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Jan 2014 13:41:01 -0800Efinnell15@AOL.COM (Ed Finnell) writes:
303x's were mostly 370s. they took the integrated channel microcode from the 370/158 and created the 303x channel director (158 microcode engine with just the integrated channel microcode and w/o the 370 microcode).
a 3031 was a 370/158 engine with the 370 microcode (and w/o the integrated channel microcde) and a 2nd (channel director) 370/158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and w/o the 370 microcode).
a 3032 was a 370/168 reconfigured to work with channel director
a 3033 started out being 370/168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips ... some other optimization eventually got it up to about 50% faster than 168.
CE had machine diagnostic service process that required being able to
"scope". The 3081 had chips packaged inside TCM (thermal conduction
module) and couldn't be scoped. To support CE service process, the TCMs
had a bunch of probes connected to a service processor. CEs then had
(bootstrap) diiagnostic service process that could diagnose/scope a
failing service processor ... and then use a working service processor
to diagnose the rest of the machine. TCM
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2137.html
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Conduction_Module#Mainframes_and_supercomputers
other comments about 3033 & 3081 ... being part of the q&d effort
to get machines back into the product pipeline after the failure
of the Future System effort:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
the 3090 started out with 4331 running a highly modified version of
release 6 vm370/cms as the service processor (with all the menu screens
done in cms ios3270). This was upgraded to a pair of 4361s (with probes
into TCMs for diagnosing problems). reference to 3092 (service
controller) needing a pair of 3370 fixed-block architecture disks ....
i.e. the system disks for the vm/4361s (aka even for a "pure" MVS
installation ... where MVS never had any 3370/FBA support)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719145910/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3090.html
more ... although following says 3090 in 1984 ... but 3090 wasn't
announced until feb 1985 (see above):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Conduction_Module#Mainframes_and_supercomputers
old email mentioning 3092
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong Date: 08 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookNSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
old Success Of Failure article from 2007 on what went wrong:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
supposedly afterwards congress put the agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own projects
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm Date: 08 Jan 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information
age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/07/a_warnings_for_the_us_military_about_innovation_and_the_information_age_the_pentago
This is an old post with a decade of vax sales, sliced&diced by model,
year, US/non-US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
which shows towards the end of the 80s, workstations & large PCs were
starting to take over the mid-range market. Note that IBM 4300s sold
in similar numbers into the low/mid-range market for orders of single
or small numbers ... the difference being additional large corporation
multi-hundred 4300 orders that went out into departmental areas
... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami. The
4361/4381 follow-on to the 4331/4341 was expecting to see similar
explosion in sales ... but by that time, that market was already
starting to move to workstations and large PCs. misc. old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
for a little USAF ... one of the old emails is about AFDS coming by to
talk about 20 4341s ... but then morphed into 210 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
for even more drift ... old Global Grid conference
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_past_11.htm
where I was invited to give a talk on (distributed) authentication
https://forge.ogf.org/sf/go/doc12899%3bjsessionid=E86ACAF7A29F2E1FC2575AD0CD04E39E?nav=1
There was washington ... boards initially for pc/xt ... and later also
available for pc/at. I got blamed for 6m slip in washington schedule
because I showed bad page thrashing ... and they had to increase
amount of available 370 storage (there were also several other issues)
Later there was a74. Old A74 item:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email880622
Also the PROFS group had used a copy of very early VMSG for the email
client. When the author of VMSG offered a better version, they tried
to get him fired (they had claimed responsibility for everything in
PROFS). It all quieted down after the VMSG author showed that every
PROFS email in the world had his initials in non-displayed
header. After that the VMSG author limited source distribution to me
and one other person. some old email mentioning vmsg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
I originally did paged-mapped filesystem for cp67/cms and then ported
to vm370. PAM also included a bunch of enhancements to shared segments
(which have little effect in single user environment). A small subset
of the shared segment support was released in VM370 release 3 as
DCSS. Also in multi-user mainframe environment ... the PAM support had
a bunch of heuristics about either page faulting individual pages or
pre-fetching some number of pages asynchronously. As part of the
pre-fetch ... there were also changes to CMS (executable image) module
generation for contiguous allocation ... for efficiently loading in
single i/o operation. whole bunch of other efficiencies from
page-mapped filesystem compared to i/o simulation. misc. past posts
mentioning paged mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
some old email about moving from cp67 to vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
this was in the Future System period at the company when 370 efforts were being suspended or terminated (FS was going to completely replace 370, the dearth of 370 products during this period is credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold).
During FS, I continued to work on 360&370 stuff and periodically
ridicule FS (which wasn't exactly career enhancing activity) and my
csc/vm distribution was used by large number of internal
datacenters. When FS finally imploded, there was mad rush to get
products back into the 370 pipeline ... which contributed to decision
to pickup some of my work for release in product. misc. past posts
mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: The invincible JP Morgan Date: 09 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
The invincible JP Morgan
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/01/08/the-invincible-jp-morgan/
from above:
They chose not to notice the movement of $6.8 BILLION out of one of
Madoff's accounts over the course of one month. For context,
in reporting my marijuana banking story, I learned that pot-related
businessmen lucky enough to get "wink and a nod" bank accounts are
advised to keep their transactions below $3,000 to avoid triggering a
red flag.
... snip ...
Interview on business TV claimed that JPMorgan is effectively on probation and constantly monitored and they reserve the right to bring criminal charges in the future if JPMorgan falters. There was comment that frequently when criminal charges are brought, people stop doing business with the institution leading to institution failure. Sounds like too big to prosecute, too big to jail, too big to fail ... and that spin may just be obfuscation and misdirection. There have been past articles about too-big-to-fail institutions repeatedly put on probation and threatened with prosecution for the exact same offenses ... which they repeatedly violate and nothing happens.
JP Morgan Pulled $275 Million Of Its Own Money From Madoff Feeder
Funds Months Before His Arrest
http://www.businessinsider.com/jpm-knew-madoff-was-a-fraud-said-nothing-2014-1
from above:
What is clear from Bharara's description of the bank's relationship
with Madoff, is that JP Morgan was aware of the Ponzi scheme before
Madoff's arrest.
... snip ...
posts mentioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: 500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent Date: 09 Jan 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at
Crushing Dissent
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-09/500-years-history-shows-mass-spying-always-aimed-crushing-dissent
and to go along with it
The primary function of the FBI is national security: Agency drops
'law enforcement' as top priority from its mission statement
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534612/The-primary-function-FBI-national-security-Agency-finally-drops-law-enforcement-priority-mission-statement.html
posts mentioning Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:11:45 -0500hancock4 writes:
recent reference mentions they also spied on Church
500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at
Crushing Dissent
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-09/500-years-history-shows-mass-spying-always-aimed-crushing-dissent
and to go along with it
The primary function of the FBI is national security: Agency drops
'law enforcement' as top priority from its mission statement
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534612/The-primary-function-FBI-national-security-Agency-finally-drops-law-enforcement-priority-mission-statement.html
and
NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21089-nsa-insiders-reveal-what-went-wrong
NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/nsa-insiders-reveal-what-went-wrong
old Success Of Failure article from 2007 on what went wrong:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
in the Success Of Failure case, congress put the agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own projects. the whistleblowers reported problems to congress (and no public release of classified material) ... but the agency still used the traitor charges (as in recent case; aka but in no way justified ... worst possible would be threat to bureaucrats' careers) ... which were eventually dropped.
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
posts mentioning whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
other posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#18 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#19 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#22 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#23 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#24 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#61 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#62 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Subject Unicode Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Jan 2014 07:33:20 -0800historical reference 1960-1979
ibm major driver behind all this
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ZACHERLY.HTM
however, Learson had problem and made decision to temporarily go with
EBCDIDC w/o realizing what he had done ("The Biggest Computer Goof Ever")
... and the company got stuck with it
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
lots of other history
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
recent posts mentioning Bob Bemer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:30:51 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
ww2, 3/4ths of german military resources deployed against russia and 2/3rds of japanese resources deployed on mainland china ... significantly reduced what the rest of the allies had to contend with.
also
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#77 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
recently the boyd groups ... there has been some discussion of
german that inspired Boyd
http://feraljundi.com/5434/building-snowmobiles-general-hermann-balck-the-german-that-inspired-boyd/
references
The Greatest German General No One Ever Heard Of
http://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-german-general-no-one-ever-heard-of.htm
from above:
In December 1942 Hermann Balck wiped out a force ten times his size in
the most brilliantly fought divisional battle in modern military histoy
... snip ...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Balck
also
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed
Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences/dp/1574415336
PDF download
https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781574413649
author recently gave talk here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7unu0fLYvc
the author also has been active in some recent social media discussions.
Boyd posts & references
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: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:26:20 -0500"Simple Simon" <ss345@nospam.com> writes:
one of the books talks about France setting up something similar with some of its former possessions.
also last spring there was large data dump leaked from one of the
locations which has brought brighter spotlight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#27 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#28 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#46 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#6 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#11 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 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/2013j.html#3 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#19 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#68 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#92 HSBC exposed in massive data leak in Belgium
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#97 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:47:42 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
and other stuff ... i.e. the "banana republics" (including panama canal) ... china (along with several other countries like Great Britain) and the Philippines
post from year ago with following and several other references (in
boyd group)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#26 Cultural attitudes towards failure
"Triumphant Plutocracy" also references Perpetual war ... I have
couple quotes in this post over in Chet's blog:
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2013/01/08/apres-moi-le-deluge/
but back to Teddy (from Triumphant Plutocracy) loc5390-94:
Roosevelt thereupon sent out navy and our marines to Colon, which is
the port on the Gulf side of the Isthmus of Panama, and secretly
notified the government of the State of Panama that, if they would set
up a republic and revolt against the Republic of Colombia, he would
give them the ten millions of dollars for the canal strip, and would
also see that Colombia did not send any troops to suppress their
rebellion. The Governor of Panama agreed to this arrangement, and, at
the proper time, started a rebellion to set up an independent
government
... snip ...
there are also quite a few other choice comments about Teddy.
from the Economist article:
A CENTURY ago the ideas of an American naval officer, Alfred Thayer
Mahan -- pal of Teddy Roosevelt, inventor of the term "the Middle
East", advocate of American expansionism in Asia and father of the
modern American navy -- were much in vogue among military strategists
and great-power leaders
... snip ...
"Mahan, Bean-Counting and Ideas"
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/01/14/mahan-bean-counting-and-ideas/
Chasing ghosts; The notion that geography is power is making an
unwelcome comeback in Asia
http://www.economist.com/node/13825154
this is contemporary of Mahan and member of congress ... has some
things to say about both Teddy as well as US imperialism in the period
"Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to
1920"
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
has description from viewpoint of congress in much of period covered
by "War Is A Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
above also references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
also one of Spinney's themes The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
and then there is economic hit man
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-none-ebook/dp/B001AFF266/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
posts mentioning perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
posts & references to Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#63 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#71 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#80 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#57 Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#45 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#60 The IBM mainframe has been the backbone of most of the world's largest IT organizations for more than 48 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#2 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#15 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#46 The China Threat: The MICC Pivots Obama Back to the Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 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#25 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:51:30 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
my wife's father was command of 1154th engineer combat group ... towards the end out in front ... and frequently highest ranking officer and acquired some number of german officer "daggers" in surrenders. He was also involved in liberating some number of camps. After the surrender he was offered a district area command ... but he turned it down (I conjecture what he saw in the camps played a factor).
Allied-occupied Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany
from above:
In the west, the occupation continued until May 5, 1955, when the
General Treaty (German: Deutschlandvertrag) entered into force. However,
upon the creation of the Federal Republic in May 1949, the military
governors were replaced by civilian high commissioners, whose powers lay
somewhere between those of a governor and those of an ambassador. When
the Deutschlandvertrag became law, the occupation ended, the western
occupation zones ceased to exist, and the high commissioners were
replaced by normal ambassadors. West Germany was also allowed to build a
military, and the Bundeswehr, or Federal Defense Force, was established
on November 12, 1955.
... snip ...
i found his 1154 status reports in the national archives:
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and
G/S Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River
and the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the
height of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its
plumbing and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial
backer of the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of
roads and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of
M-2 Tdwy Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at
PLATTLING. Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the
month of April we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die
Gotterdamerung was falling, the last days of the once mighty
WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
post with picture of some of the daggers on display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#39 The first personal computer (PC)
a few years ago there was a breakin and nearly all the ww2 stuff was gone.
My wife's father then was sent to nanking to be adviser to generalissimo (and got to
take his family with him) ... post with image of his "magic" id-card:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#38 The first personal computer (PC)
other past posts mentioning 1154:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#16 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#35 What Makes sorting so cool?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:26:03 -0500hancock4 writes:
Rumsfeld's War and Its Consequences Now
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/19/rumsfelds-war-and-its-consequences-now/
note two different (but not necessarily inconsistent) explanations for
shuttling bush off to be director of cia 1) needed replacement director
that would stop opposing team b analysis and 2) internal
republican politics sidelining a rival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
includes picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam & US support for Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
US support for Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
including supplying WMDs, chemical/biological weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war#Chemical_and_biological_exports
posts mentioning team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
this has an account of sat. photo recon analyst raising alarm that
Iraq was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait and white house
discrediting the analyst and saying Saddam would do no such
thing. However, when he raised the alarm that Iraq was marshaling
forces for invasion of Saudi Arabia that started to see serious
response.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2
then this century ... some claims are that planning for Iraq invasion started as soon as Bush2 took office (well before 9/11). note that the reagan presidential papers were about due to be released (under the presidential records act) and one of the first things that Bush2 did on taking office was executive order that kept the papers classified (would have also covered period that his father was VP).
Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-qaeda-force-captures-fallujah-amid-rise-in-violence-in-iraq/2014/01/03/8abaeb2a-74aa-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html
from the law of unintended consequences ... this details that invading
forces were told to bypass weapon/ammo dumps to search for the
(non-existent) WMDs ... when they went back ... something like million
metric tons had disappeared ...
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
pg 145:
Heavily reinforced trucks were eventually introduced as countermeasure
to (smaller) IEDs, insurgents then started adding large artillery shells
(from the bunkers) to the IEDs.
... snip ...
including taking out Abrams M1 tanks
A son-in-law was 2004-2005 Fellujah and 2007-2008 Baqubah ... accounts
have Baqubah much worse than Fallujah.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
loc5243-54:
I was overwhelmed at the amount of destruction that surrounded me. The
sterile yard was about 150 meters wide by about 100 meters deep, and
it was packed full of destroyed vehicles (words can't describe what I
saw)
.... snip, and ...
I saw other Bradleys and M1 Abrams main battle tanks, the pride of the
1st Cavalry Division -- vehicles that, if back at Fort Hood, would be
parked meticulously on line, tarps tied tight, gun barrels lined up,
track line spotless, not so much as a drop of oil on the white
cement. What I saw that day was row after row of mangled tan steel as
if in a junkyard that belonged to Satan himself.
... snip ...
also (at the bottom hit the "previous" button to get the other parts)
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/index.php?option=com_content
This has woman presenting evidence that Iraq invasion justification
was fabricated and they treated her really, really badly
https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Woman-The-Sibel-Edmonds-Story-ebook/dp/B007XY8INW/
then
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
past posts mentioning Baqubah:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#8 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#49 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 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#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#60 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Elizabeth Warren Proposes New Bill to Expose Shady Back Room Settlements for Crooked Banks Date: 10 Jan 2014 Blog: Google+re:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes New Bill to Expose Shady Back Room
Settlements for Crooked Banks
http://aattp.org/elizabeth-warren-proposes-new-bill-to-expose-shady-back-room-settlements-for-crooked-banks/
My new bill to stop the back-room deals
http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/settlementsact
older article about citibank repeatedly violating the same laws,
repeatedly settling with SEC and prohibited (promises not to) same
illegal behavior ... but just keeps on
http://dealbreaker.com/2011/11/maybe-this-time-citi-actually-will-stop-violating-securities-laws-but-dont-hold-your-breath/
posts mentioning too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
note that the too big to fail have also been repeatedly caught money
laundering for terrorists and drug cartels and they are asked to
promise to stop doing it. posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:53:39 -0500re:
other dynasty
similar but different tale is from the 80s and the S&L crisis. The
person in charge of regulating S&Ls was asked by president to
effectively remove all S&L oversight and he refused. He was then asked
to resign so the president could appoint somebody that would go
along. The replacement relaxed, removed and/or didn't bother to enforce
regulations ... enabling the looting of S&Ls. Bush2's father was point
person in administration charged with dealing with oversight enabling
the looting of S&Ls. Afterwards, the replacement regulator was given a
job on wallstreet as reward that made him very wealthy. Bush2's brother
also played a major role in looting a S&L. This goes into lot more
detail
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Trillion-Dollar-Meltdown-Rollers-ebook/dp/B0097DE7DM/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
also involved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
more on family involvement
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
long-winded post from Jan1999 that gets into parts of the subject (and
portends the problems last decade)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
past post in 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
past posts mentioning "two trillion dollar meltdown" &/or "savings and
load crisis"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#49 Value of an old IBM PS/2 CL57 SX Laptop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#59 independent appraisers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#13 independent appraisers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#71 Bush - place in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#79 Bush - place in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#86 Banks failing to manage IT risk - study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#4 CDOs subverting Boyd's OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#51 IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#57 Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#59 Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#64 independent appraisers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#1 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#28 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#32 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#48 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#49 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#89 Credit Crisis Timeline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#4 A Merit based system of reward -Does anybody (or any executive) really want to be judged on merit?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#30 subprime write-down sweepstakes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#64 Is the credit crunch a short term aberation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#77 Do you think the change in bankrupcy laws has exacerbated the problems in the housing market leading more people into forclosure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#104 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#23 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#38 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#69 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#11 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#18 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#33 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#67 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#12 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#26 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#92 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#95 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#99 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#14 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#24 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#37 Success has many fathers, but failure has the US taxpayer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#49 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#56 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#74 Why can't we analyze the risks involved in mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#14 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#19 What's your view of current global financial / economical situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#39 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#52 Why is sub-prime crisis of America called the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#65 Can the financial meltdown be used to motivate sustainable development in order to achieve sustainable growth and desired sustainability?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#78 Who murdered the financial system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#80 Can we blame one person for the financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#9 Do you believe a global financial regulation is possible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#47 In Modeling Risk, the Human Factor Was Left Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#19 Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#20 How is Subprime crisis impacting other Industries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#26 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#57 Blinkenlights
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#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#63 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#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#79 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#6 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#18 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#32 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/2009f.html#65 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#46 What's your personal confidence level concerning financial market recovery?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#59 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#47 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#26 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#56 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#84 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#7 The Enablers for this "Real Estate Crisis"- Willful Blindness, Greed or more?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#79 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#84 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#6 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#29 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#8 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#9 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#33 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#38 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#21 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
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/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#28 A small amount of Evidence. (In which, the end of banking and the rise of markets is suggested.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#45 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#78 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#49 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#94 The Curly Factor -- Prologue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#27 The Zippo Lighter theory of the financial crisis (or, who do we want to blame?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#25 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#41 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#74 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#43 Massive Fraud, Common Crime, No Prosecutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#66 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#76 The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#40 Delinquent Homeowners to Get Mortgage Aid from Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#19 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#21 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#24 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#7 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#35 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#38 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#60 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#66 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#14 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#18 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#67 The debt fallout: How Social Security went "cash negative" earlier than expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#73 Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#82 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#37 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#41 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#84 A Conversation with Peter Thiel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#37 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#44 New Citigroup Looks Too Much Like the Old One
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#20 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#75 Fed Report: Mortgage Mess NOT an Inside Job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#80 The Failure of Central Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#71 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#65 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#43 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#89 Auditors Don't Know Squat!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#71 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#3 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
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/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#68 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#50 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#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#86 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#65 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#18 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#73 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#80 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#26 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#32 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#35 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#43 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#54 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 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/2013k.html#87 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#2 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#8 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#58 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#1 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#28 The Reformers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#87 Logics of Transformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#31 The Mortgage Wars: Inside Fannie Mae, Big-Money Politics, and the Collapse of the American Dream
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:54:47 -0500hancock4 writes:
some additional ibm specific items
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from this recent book about 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 references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#63 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#4 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#6 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#12 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#24 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#61 IBM now employs more workers in India than US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#85 How do you feel about IBM passing off it's retirees to ObamaCare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#96 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: What Gates Didn't Get Done Date: 12 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookWhat Gates Didn't Get Done
Chuck over on Google+
https://plus.google.com/110894995972236585852/posts/3J1bdQMBiFM
over here Finally ... Some Accurate Perspectives on Gates'
Self-Serving Memoir
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2014/01/finally-some-accurate-perspectives-on.html
similar but different tale is from the 80s and the S&L crisis. The
person in charge of regulating S&Ls was asked by president to
effectively remove all S&L oversight and he refused. He was then asked
to resign so the president could appoint somebody that would go
along. The replacement relaxed, removed and/or didn't bother to
enforce regulations ... enabling the looting of S&Ls. Bush2's father
was point person in administration charged with dealing with oversight
enabling the looting of S&Ls. Afterwards, the replacement regulator
was given a job on wallstreet as reward that made him very
wealthy. Bush2's brother also played a major role in looting a
S&L. This goes into lot more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Trillion-Dollar-Meltdown-Rollers-ebook/dp/B0097DE7DM/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
also involved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
more on family involvement
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
long-winded post from Jan1999 that gets into parts of the subject (and
portends the problems last decade)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
"National Insecurity" pg247, head of CIA Colby was resisting Team B
fabrications, Ford removed Colby and appointed Bush1 as head of CIA
who would embrace Team B fabrications. Later, pg248:
Casey and Gates combined to 'cook the books' on a variety of issues,
including the Soviet Union, Central America, and Southwest Asia,
tailoring intelligence estimates to support the military policies of
the Reagan administration. After he left the CIA in 1993, Gates
admitted that he had become accustomed to Casey 'fixing' intelligence
to support policy on many issues. He did not describe his own role in
support of Casey.
pg77:
Gates's confirmation hearings were the most contentious ever
conducted for a CIA director because of his role in politicizing
intelligence during his previous tours at CIA under Bill Casey. His
nomination drew more negative votes (31) than all previous nominations
for a CIA director combined. Bush was stunned at first to learn that
the nomination of Gates was controversial within the Agency, but the
White House recognized that its nominee was in trouble in the
confirmation process.
pg191:
Eventually, President Bush realized he had been ill served by his vice
president and his secretary of defense on important matters of
national security. He replaced Rumsfeld with a loyal servant to the
Bush family, Robert M. Gates, who quickly abandoned his support for
troop withdrawal as a member of the Iraq Study Group in order to
support the surge of forces in Iraq as a new member of the Bush
administration. Bush couldn't replace Cheney, which would have been
politically embarrassing, but he stopped taking his advice on matters
involving use of force against Iran, Syria, and North Korea. But the
damage had been done to U.S. foreign policy and to the national
security bureaucracy. In the hands of Condi Rice, the State Department
sank to a new low in prestige and influence. The Defense Department in
the hands of Bob Gates became more self-aggrandizing in its
accumulation of power and influence.
... snip ..
posts mentioning Team B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq Date: 12 Jan 2014 Blog: FacebookMcCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
The Myth of the Surge
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/13/the-myth-of-the-surge/
"National Insecurity" pg247, head of CIA Colby was resisting Team B
fabrications, Ford removed Colby and appointed Bush1 as head of CIA
who would embrace Team B fabrications. Later, pg248:
Casey and Gates combined to 'cook the books' on a variety of issues,
including the Soviet Union, Central America, and Southwest Asia,
tailoring intelligence estimates to support the military policies of
the Reagan administration. After he left the CIA in 1993, Gates
admitted that he had become accustomed to Casey 'fixing' intelligence
to support policy on many issues. He did not describe his own role in
support of Casey.
... snip ...
"Myth of the Surge" has hiring Steele who Petraeus had known 20yrs earlier in El Salvador (there are a couple different Steeles that were in El Salvador) to go to Iraq. My son-in-law was Fallujah 2004-2005 and then Baqubah 2007-2008 ... claim is Baqubah was much worse than Fallujah ... but it doesn't get the same reporting because it conflicts with what the administration was spinning at the time.
account mentions Baqubah worse than Fallujah ... units that were in
both
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)
BBC documentary reveals American colonel who trained Iraqi torturers
http://www.occasionalplanet.org/2013/03/12/bbc-documentary-reveals-american-colonel-who-trained-iraqi-torturers
From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington's man behind brutal police squads
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Steele_%28US_Colonel%29
not to be confused with this Steele ... also in El Salvador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele
Note KKR & Carlyle are both major private equity companies that have been heavily involved in privatizing of parts of the government ... Carlyle had done reverse-IPO take-over of BAH ... which was employer of the most recent person involved in intelligence leaks ... the BBC/Guardian investigation says it was kicked off by Manning's leaks.
posts mentioning private equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
more than you ever wanted to know. Gerstner beats out competitor to be
next CEO of AMEX, the looser leaves and takes his protege Jamie Dimon
with him. KKR and AMEX are in competition for reverse-IPO of RJR, KKR
wins but runs into trouble and hires Gerstner away to turn RJR
around. IBM has gone into the red and is about to be broken up into
the 13 "baby blues" when the board hires Gerstner away to turn it
around and reverse the breakup. About this time AMEX spins off a large
part of its dataprocessing as Firstdata (in the largest IPO up until
that time). Firstdata merges with First Financial, acquiring Western
Union (but has to divest MoneyGram). Gerstner leaves IBM to become
head of Carlyle. Middle of last decade, the explosion in illegal
workers sending paychecks home increase WU until it is half of
Firstdata revenue. Firstdata corporate hdqtrs is lopped off, WU is
spun off in IPO and KKR does a reverse-IPO of the remaining part of
Firstdata (in the largest reverse-IPO up until that time, 15yrs after
it was largest IPO). disclaimer: I'm chief scientist at firstdata
attached to corporate hdqtrs and am collateral damage. The looser in
the competition to be next CEO of AMEX has made several acquisitions
along with his protege ... eventually acquiring Citibank in violation
of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives him an exemption while he lobbies
congress for repeal of the law ... enabling too big to fail. The
protege leaves and is now head of JPMorgan. Carlyle does reverse-IPO
of BAH. 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 ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
NYTimes article about how private equity companies morphed last decade
with the advent of cheap, nearly free money ... they borrow the money
to buy the company, put the loan on the company's books and then flip
the company ... since they don't need to pay off the loan, they can
even sell the company for less than they paid and still make an
enormous profit. More than half the corporate debt defaults have been
companies currently or previously owned by private equity company
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
These companies are under enormous pressure to cut corners in order to service the debt load. I've conjectured cutting corners (like security measures) might have played an issue in recent intelligence leaks. They may also not be above using intelligence assets for their own benefit.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:32:39 -0500"sna" <sna6345@gmail.com> writes:
oops that was finger slip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
some indications that initial lobbying to change how pensions were treated ... was by private equity companies so they could loot the pension plans of the companies they would take over ... but it was also used by executives in large corporations to boost their compensations tied to various calculations. problem is once that wave passed thru the industry ... then they had to come up with other gimmicks to boost their compensations.
...
Gerstner beats out competitor to be next CEO of AMEX, the looser leaves and takes his protege Jamie Dimon with him. KKR and AMEX are in competition for reverse-IPO of RJR, KKR wins but runs into trouble and hires Gerstner away to turn RJR around. IBM has gone into the red and is about to be broken up into the 13 "baby blues" when the board hires Gerstner away to turn it around and reverse the breakup. About this time AMEX spins off a large part of its dataprocessing as Firstdata (in the largest IPO up until that time). Firstdata merges with First Financial, acquiring Western Union (but has to divest MoneyGram). Gerstner leaves IBM to become head of Carlyle. Middle of last decade, the explosion in illegal workers sending paychecks home increase WU until it is half of Firstdata revenue. Firstdata corporate hdqtrs is lopped off, WU is spun off in IPO and KKR does a reverse-IPO of the remaining part of Firstdata (in the largest reverse-IPO up until that time, 15yrs after it was largest IPO). The looser in the competition to be next CEO of AMEX has made several acquisitions along with his protege ... eventually acquiring Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives him an exemption while he lobbies congress for repeal of the law ... enabling too big to fail. The protoge leaves and is now head of JPMorgan.
...
posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
"Retirement Heist" references that Gerstner used it in the turn-around of RJR
and then again with IBM. some ibm specific items
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
and
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
NYTimes article about how private equity companies morphed last decade
with the advent of cheap, nearly free money ... they borrow the money
to buy the company, put the loan on the company's books and then flip
the company ... since they don't need to pay off the loan, they can
even sell the company for less than they paid and still make an
enormous profit. More than half the corporate debt defaults have been
companies currently or previously owned by private equity company
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
These companies are under enormous pressure to cut corners in order to service the debt load. I've conjectured cutting corners (like security measures) might have played an issue in recent intelligence leaks. They may also not be above using intelligence assets for their own benefit.
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" stock buybacks are mini-form of private equity LBO
pg457/loc9844-46:
The leader was ExxonMobil, which repurchased $160 billion of its own
shares during 2004-2011. It was followed by Microsoft at $100 billion,
IBM at $75 billion, and Hewlett-Packard, Proctor & Gamble, and Cisco
with $50 billion each. Even the floundering shipwreck of merger mania
known as Time Warner Inc. bought back $25 billion.
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 ...
and IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-ibm-board-repurchase-15b-stock.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:05:50 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
claims are that switch to 401-Ks was heavily lobbied for by wallstreet .... much bigger commissions on individual 401-Ks than what they were able to negotiate for with the large employee pension funds.
also note that the large employee pension funds had been prime target of the fabricated triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs the last decade (Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the economic mess ... that both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they were giving triple-A ratings to instruments that weren't worth triple-A).
securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but w/o triple-A rating there was very limited market. Note in the late 90s, we were asked to look at improving the integrity of the supporting documents (in securitized mortgages) as coutermeasure to being used to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. Being able to buy triple-A ratings trumped supporting documents (allowing no-documentation loans ... and w/o supporting documents there was no longer an issue of their integrity) ... besides enormously blowing-out the market that they could sell to i.e. large institution pension funds and sovereign wealth funds ... aka the large instition pension funds became attractive target for all sorts of interests ... analogous to the about why bank robbers rob banks ... because that is where the money is.
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
note with regard to why bank robbers rob banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and
Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank-Own-ebook/dp/B00H5B9Z80/
for some reason amazon is not showing kindle version currently available (I bought kindle version in the past).
from another recent post
tale from the 80s and the S&L crisis. The person in charge of regulating
S&Ls was asked by president to effectively remove all S&L oversight and
he refused. He was then asked to resign so the president could appoint
somebody that would go along. The replacement relaxed, removed and/or
didn't bother to enforce regulations ... enabling the looting of
S&Ls. Bush2's father was point person in administration charged with
dealing with oversight enabling the looting of S&Ls. Afterwards, the
replacement regulator was given a job on wallstreet as reward that made
him very wealthy. Bush2's brother also played a major role in looting a
S&L. This goes into lot more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Trillion-Dollar-Meltdown-Rollers-ebook/dp/B0097DE7DM/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
more on their family involvement
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
long-winded post from Jan1999 that gets into parts of the subject (and
portends the problems last decade, that happened under Bush2 watch)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
which came up in discussion of Gates recent book
"National Insecurity" pg247, head of CIA Colby was resisting Team B
fabrications, Ford removed Colby and appointed Bush1 as head of CIA
who would embrace Team B fabrications. Later, pg248:
Casey and Gates combined to 'cook the books' on a variety of issues,
including the Soviet Union, Central America, and Southwest Asia,
tailoring intelligence estimates to support the military policies of
the Reagan administration. After he left the CIA in 1993, Gates
admitted that he had become accustomed to Casey 'fixing' intelligence
to support policy on many issues. He did not describe his own role in
support of Casey.
pg77:
Gates's confirmation hearings were the most contentious ever
conducted for a CIA director because of his role in politicizing
intelligence during his previous tours at CIA under Bill Casey. His
nomination drew more negative votes (31) than all previous nominations
for a CIA director combined. Bush was stunned at first to learn that
the nomination of Gates was controversial within the Agency, but the
White House recognized that its nominee was in trouble in the
confirmation process.
pg191:
Eventually, President Bush realized he had been ill served by his vice
president and his secretary of defense on important matters of
national security. He replaced Rumsfeld with a loyal servant to the
Bush family, Robert M. Gates, who quickly abandoned his support for
troop withdrawal as a member of the Iraq Study Group in order to
support the surge of forces in Iraq as a new member of the Bush
administration. Bush couldn't replace Cheney, which would have been
politically embarrassing, but he stopped taking his advice on matters
involving use of force against Iran, Syria, and North Korea. But the
damage had been done to U.S. foreign policy and to the national
security bureaucracy. In the hands of Condi Rice, the State Department
sank to a new low in prestige and influence. The Defense Department in
the hands of Bob Gates became more self-aggrandizing in its
accumulation of power and influence.
... snip ..
posts mentioning Team B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
recent posts mentioning "National Insecurity" book:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#28 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#45 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 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#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#54 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#81 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#28 The Reformers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Death of the mainframe" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:24:01 -0500timcaffrey writes:
AMD K5 ... (March 1996) Out-of-order execution, register renaming,
speculative execution based on 29K RISC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K5
P6/Pentuium Pro ... (Nov. 1996) Speculative execution, Register
renaming, superscalar design with out-of-order execution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#64 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#65 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#68 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#69 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#72 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#75 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#10 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#18 "Death of the mainframe"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Hacker Who Cracked the Code in Iron Man and The Social Network Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:03:01 -0500The Hacker Who Cracked the Code in Iron Man and The Social Network
I was on business trip to the Madrid Science Center in the 80s ... visit and look at what they were doing including digitizing a lot of old records in preparation for columbus 1492 anniversary.
happened to go to movie theater and then had a short from the univ ... it was some sort of fiction that I didn't really follow ... but it had scenes with wall of TVs all scrolling text at 1200 baud. I managed to recognize it was vm370 kernel "loadmap" ... and standard loadmap includes comments which fixes were applied to which modules ... so was able to deduce the monthly service level of the kernel.
past posts mentioning madrid science center:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#14 Computer of the century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#36 stupid user stories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#39 CMS update
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#40 IBM 7094 Emulator - An historic moment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#24 Need Help filtering out sporge in comp.arch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#5 computers on tv
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#6 computers on tv
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Wild Ducks Date: 13 Jan 2014 Blog: LinkedInFerguson & 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
IBM's 100yr celebration putting out various items ... one was about wild ducks ... but it had been respun as wild duck customers (not employees).
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.
past posts mentioning wild ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#38 'Innovation' and other crimes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#25 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#18 IT full of 'ducks'? Declare open season
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#30 IBM Centennial Film: Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#33 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#79 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#1 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#45 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#93 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#105 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#121 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#72 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#7 Leadership Trends and Realities: What Does Leadership Look Like Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#26 Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#24 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#26 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#49 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#56 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#70 Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#15 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#16 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#12 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#49 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#52 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#72 In Command, but Out Of Control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#3 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#4 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#68 "Death of the mainframe"
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why the Target Breach Might Be Even Bigger: Big Data Means Big Breach Date: 13 Jan 2014 Blog: Information SecurityWhy the Target Breach Might Be Even Bigger: Big Data Means Big Breach
we were tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach legislation ... having been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act. A lot of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed, in-depth public surveys. The #1 issue was identity theft, primarily of the form of fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches and there was little or nothing being done about the breaches. An issue is normally an entity/institution takes security measures to protect themselves, In the case of the breaches, the institution wasn't at risk ... it was their customers. It was hoped that the publicity from the breach notifications would prompt breach countermeasures.
Note in the years since the cal. state breach notification act there have been numerous federal (state preemption) acts introduced ... about evenly divided between those similar to the cal. act and those that would effectively eliminate any requirement for notification
we've used a couple metaphors about the current situation
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning "dual-use" &/or security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#70 Four Sources of Trust, Crypto Not Scaling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#94 public key, encryption and trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#6 The 15 Worst Data Security Breaches of the 21st Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#11 The 15 Worst Data Security Breaches of the 21st Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#49 Do you know where all your sensitive data is located?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#63 Fans of Threat Modelling reach for their guns ... but can they afford the bullets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#17 Data theft: Hacktivists 'steal more than criminals'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#95 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#91 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#7 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#47 Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#32 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#90 Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#22 Check out Moto X: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to replace AL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#37 8080 BASIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#45 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#46 Feds indict indentity theft ring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#69 OSI: The Internet That Wasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#90 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#17 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#12 How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#52 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#59 Target breach likely involved inside knowledge, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#66 Target breach likely involved inside knowledge, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#79 Would Target cybersecurity breach occur with a digital ID system?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:22:55 -0500hancock4 writes:
so both corporate executives and wallstreet wanting to loot the pension plans ... wallstreet by coming up with the triple-A rating con (institutional pension plans and sovereign wealth funds restricted in the investment grades that they were allowed to play in) as well as moving employees from large corporate plans to individual 401Ks.
more recently there are periodic articles that one of the motivations
for FED holding the interest rates so low is to try and force
individuals out of 401K "safe" investments (that aren't paying anything)
into risky equities (the crash of last decade had severely decimated a
lot of 401Ks ... but they are now starting to be replenished)
... however equities currently so inflated, claims higher than
the last crash ... example
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-14/scotiabank-warns-yellen-has-ensured-equity-market-crash-inevitable
going along with that are articles that refute claims that the low
interest rates have had little or no effect on business investments that
create jobs. there was interview with Bernanke in 2009 where he claimed
that giving "free" money to the too big to fail so they would turn
around and invest in main street ... but they were buying treasuries
instead (and using the proceeds to pay off their TARP loans and provide
executive bonuses) ... Bernanke claimed he had no way of forcing the
too big to fail to invest in main street (possibly he could have
threatened to turn off the spigot of free money). past posts mentioning
bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
and too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
the other part is that over 70% of trades are now HFT ... using all sorts of tricks to game the system ... and is danger of driving investors out of the market (if investors leave, then the HFT skimming investors are just left banging their trades against other HFT).
a couple recent HFT references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#93 High Frequency Terrorism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#15 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#40 The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#76 A Little More on the Computer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:38:53 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
A New Fed Study Destroys One Of The Central Tenets Of Monetary Policy:
Lower Rates Don't Induce Investment
http://www.businessinsider.com/business-investment-sensitivity-to-interest-rates-2014-1
The insensitivity of investment to interest rates: Evidence from a
survey of CFOs
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2014/201402/201402abs.html
so it even further reinforces the case that low interest rates are 1) drive investors (and 401k) into equities (where they can be looted) and 2) free money for too big to fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Washington Post on Target store data thefts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:37:04 -0500hancock4 writes:
1) attackers compromised installing malware while it was installed ... but nobody looking. this is similar to recent attacks where physical access is gained to USB port on ATM cash machines and USB thumbdrive is inserted that allows crook to take over machine
2) attackers physically swapped a similar looking machine that had malware installed with machine at point-of-sale (when nobody was looking)
3) attackers gain access to point-of-sale network ... POS terminals are configured for accepting fixes&updates over the POS network ... so they can download malware. note compromise of point-of-sale network also allow them to skim information from network traffic
4) attackers compromise manufacturing plant and install malware at the time machine is manufactured ... at one point there was claim that up to 1/3rd of POS terminals that had been sold in Europe had been compromised in this way. In this case, the crooks would low-bid contracts since they figured that they would make their profit in other ways.
from a post earlier today in information security group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#53 Why the Target Breach Might Be Even Bigger: Big Data Means Big Breach
we were tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach legislation ... having been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act. A lot of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed, in-depth public surveys. The #1 issue was identity theft, primarily of the form of fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches and there was little or nothing being done about the breaches. An issue is normally an entity/institution takes security measures to protect themselves, In the case of the breaches, the institution wasn't at risk ... it was their customers. It was hoped that the publicity from the breach notifications would prompt breach countermeasures.
Note in the years since the cal. state breach notification act there have been numerous federal (state preemption) acts introduced ... about evenly divided between those similar to the cal. act and those that would effectively eliminate any requirement for notification
we've used a couple metaphors about the current situation
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Washington Post on Target store data thefts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:52:05 -0500re:
the biggest exploits have tended to be backend databases at some point. Note long term numbers are that 70% of these kind of breaches involve insiders ... and it is their interest to obfuscate and misdirect away from where the compromise actually happened.
on the subject of compromise happening at time of manufacture, there was case a little over 20yrs ago where at least 100 such ATM cash machines were sold and placed out in public places.
one of the factors was that the criminals want to protect as much as possible their source of harvested information ... and keep it in operation as long as possible (maximizing the criminal ROI)
immediately using transaction information (in fraudulent transactions) from a single source makes it easy to pinpoint the source of compromise, shutting down the machine and turning off (replacing) all the account numbers that could be involved.
int the 20+yr old case, they wouldn't use account numbers for several months after they had been collected and attempted to randomize as much as possible the account numbers used in fraudulent transactions ... to increase the difficulty in tracing back to the source of compromise.
The FEDs only admit to there being 100 such machines ... because that was all they were able to identify and physically collect ... however they suspect that they could have actually been more.
past posts mentioning account number harvest (for fraudulent
transactions)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:42:41 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
US Government Pays Contractors Twice as Much as Civil Servants for the
Same Work
http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/12/ripoff-us-government-pays-contractors-twice-as-much-as-civil-servants-for-the-same-work/
and "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 ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Gerstner became head of (private equity) Carlyle after leaving IBM ... and then Carlyle acquired BAH in leverage buyout.
NYTimes article about how private equity companies morphed last decade
with the advent of cheap, nearly free money ... they borrow the money
to buy the company, put the loan on the company's books and then flip
the company ... since they don't need to pay off the loan, they can
even sell the company for less than they paid and still make an
enormous profit. More than half the corporate debt defaults have been
companies currently or previously owned by private equity company
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
For-profit companies can be under enormous pressure to cut corners in order to meet revenue goals ... and possibly even using intelligence assets. This came up in review of contractor that handled clearance reviews (filling out paper work but not actually doing the work) involving the individual in the most recent intelligence leaks ... but also his employer was found to have used classified information for corporate benefit.
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning private equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:38:35 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
and for something a little different
And The Most Unexpected Correlation To The Fed's Balance Sheet Is...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-13/and-most-unexpected-correlation-feds-balance-sheet
from above:
Simply put, as Slok quantifies, it is becoming more and more difficult
for the Fed to explain (away) what it is doing ....
... in a few short years, at the current pace of expansion the FOMC
statement will be 25,000 words, or the equivalent of a 100 page book.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:52:28 -0500hancock4 writes:
recent news items
Why Aren't Big Bankers in Jail? Why ask why, say their enablers in
financial press
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/why-arent-big-bankers-in-jail/
Federal Judge Hammers Justice Department for Not Prosecuting Wall
Street Executives
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11200
Federal Judge Asks Why Wall Street Executives Haven't Been Prosecuted
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/03/federal-judge-asks-why-wall-street-executives-havent-been-prosecuted/
Elizabeth Warren Proposes New Bill to Expose Shady Back Room
Settlements for Crooked Banks
http://aattp.org/elizabeth-warren-proposes-new-bill-to-expose-shady-back-room-settlements-for-crooked-banks/
My new bill to stop the back-room deals
http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/settlementsact
posts mentioning too big to fail ( too big to prosecute, too big
to jail )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:01:31 -0500"Simple Simon" <ss345@nospam.com> writes:
discusses evolution of air power ... German selected a spanish town that was otherwise totally untouched by the war of about five thousand people ... and in three bombing waves demonstrated that it could destroy much of the town and killed between a quarter and half of the population.
pg48/loc817
To prove this theory correct, the Legion destroyed the city of Guernica
in April 1937. By all accounts, Guernica was a not a target with any
overt military value. It was an open city of five thousand people of
Basque origin. The city didn't even have any air defenses. As a target
of a military experimentation, however, it was perfect because it hadn't
been damaged by the war.
... snip ...
he then compares Guderian's blitzgrig behind French lines collapsing the French military infrastructure compared to the use of air strikes in desert storm to collapse the Iraqi military infrastructure. Then based on leasons learned in Desert Storm, Iraq wasn't planning direct resistance to the US invasion, but had organized between 40,000 and 100,000 for insurgancy (in addition to insurgency groups that formed later)
This highlights the law of unintended consequences
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U
The fabricated, non-existent WMDs used as justification for the invasion then resulted in telling the invaders to bypass weapon & ammo bunkers ... going directly for search of (non-existent) WMDs. Later when they got around to going back to the bunkers, an estimated million metric tons had disappeard.
This has Baqubah much worse than Fallujah ... by unit that was in both
(including my son-in-law)
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
Tanks & heavier armored vehicles were used as countermeasure to the improvised IEDs ... and then the insurgents starting including large artillery shells (out of the million metric tons from the ammo dumps) in IEDs ... which would take even Abrams main battle tank. The Abrams were so vulnerable that they would try and sweap the routes before letting Abrams out.
loc5243-54:
I was overwhelmed at the amount of destruction that surrounded me. The
sterile yard was about 150 meters wide by about 100 meters deep, and
it was packed full of destroyed vehicles (words can't describe what I
saw)
... snip, and ...
I saw other Bradleys and M1 Abrams main battle tanks, the pride of the
1st Cavalry Division--vehicles that, if back at Fort Hood, would be
parked meticulously on line, tarps tied tight, gun barrels lined up,
track line spotless, not so much as a drop of oil on the white
cement. What I saw that day was row after row of mangled tan steel as
if in a junkyard that belonged to Satan himself.
.., snip ..,
Robb's has the official Iraq reports in the surge eliminating nearly 10% of the insurgents every month ... so nearly all insurgents had been eliminated by the end of the surge ... but Robb's numbers has surge possibly only eliminating 1% of the insurgents each month. The official line about Iraq "surge" having fixed the insurgency problem possibly accounts why there was so little coverage of Baqubah (which was after the surge, even though it is described as worse than Fallujah).
As an aside, story is that Cheney brought Boyd back from retirement to do the battle plan for desert storm. However, a big part of the desert storm battle plan was the left hook cutting off the retreating Iraqis ... which never happened. One of the explanations was the general commanding the left hook was afraid of outrunning his supply chain and never made it into position.
This account has Abrams M1 main battle tanks being extremely resource
intensive and needing extrodinary maintenance for every hour of
opreation ... even thou Abrams top speed would have put the left hook in
position to cut off the Iraqi retreat (in desert storm) ... they would
have had to greatly outrun their supply lines ... which they are very
tightly tied to (it is possibly that Boyd didn't realize how strongly &
tightly tied Abrams are to their supply lines)
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-great-m-1-tank-myth.htm
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2013/09/dare-to-compare-m1a2-abrams-sep-versus_17.html
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2013/09/dare-to-compare-m1a2-abrams-sep-versus.html
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2013/09/dare-to-compare-m1a2-abrams-sep-versus_7.html
past posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195 Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:20:29 -0500"Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> writes:
in the early to mid 70s ... the Future System effort shutdown &/or
suspended 370 new product offerings ... FS was going to completely
replace 370. The lack of new product offerings during the FS period is
credited with giving clone processors market foothold. Then when FS
imploded there was mad rush to get 370 stuff back into the product
pipeline ... kicking off both 303x and 3081 q&d efforts. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Part of the issue of getting sucked into the hyperthreading 195 was I continued to work on 370 stuff during the FS period ... even periodically ridiculing FS activity (which wasn't exactly career enhancing).
For the 303x, they took the integrated channel microcode from 370/158
and created the 303x channel director. A 3031 was two 370/158 engines
... one engine with just the 370 microcode and a 2nd engine with just
the integrated channel microcode. A 3032 was 370/168 configured to use
channel director. A 3033 started out being 168 logic remapped to 20%
faster chips ... some other optimization eventually got it up to 50%
faster ... around 4.5mips ... almost same as 370/195 on most codes.
other description of 3033 and 3081 in wake of FS failure:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
this has account of shutting down high performance 360 in the late 60s
(top management was afraid that it would advance state-of-the-art too
fast and they would loose control of the market)
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
at the end it has list of ACS-360 features that eventually show up in ES-9000 over 20yrs later.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195 Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:25:46 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:02:49 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
for the fun of it ... an update from today
"My fellow Americans, we were ripped off" Dare to compare --- M1A2
Abrams SEP versus M60A3 Patton!
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-fellow-americans-we-were-ripped-off.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Washington Post on Target store data thefts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:18:27 -0500re:
Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used in Attack
http://www.securityweek.com/target-confirms-point-sale-malware-was-used-attack
from above:
After gaining access to a merchant's network, attackers can
install memory-parsing malware on register systems or backend processing
servers to extract magnetic-stripe data as it moves through the through
the payment process.
... snip ...
this is the dual-use scenario ... aka the information can be used for fraudulent transactions ... at the same time the information is needed for dozen of business process at millions of location around the worl.
past posts mentioning information harvesting for fraudulent
transactions.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
as I mentioned before ... we were brought in to consult with small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, it the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
somewhat as a result, in the middle 90s we were invited to participate
in the x9a10 financial standard working group that had been given
the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial
infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments. The resulting standard
slightly tweaked the current paradigm to eliminate the dual-use
characteristic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
x9.59 didn't do anything to prevent data breaches ... however, it eliminates the dual-use characteristic ... crooks harvesting information used in the transaction business process isn't useable for fraudulent transactions. as a result, it eliminates the risk of such data breaches as well as the motivation for the crooks to perform the data breaches. It is not longer necessary to hide transaction information as countermeasure to fraud ... which also eliminates the major use of SSL in the world today. It then also eliminates the security proportional to risk scenario for merchants & transaction processors .... since the information is no longer at risk.
posts mentioning data breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:54:28 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
past US wargames involving carrier groups have included a redteam diesel-electronic submarine (I believe borrowed from sweden) which has manage to take out the carrier every time. There is increasingly concern about risking carriers being destroyed ... and report yesterday that the newest $13B (and rising) carrier has lots of functional problems
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:48:02 -0500"Simple Simon" <ss345@nospam.com> writes:
Robb's point was that Guderian's blietzgrieg behind enemy's front lines disrupted and caused front lines to collapse ... even though Guderian's force was only a small fraction of the French forces on the front lines.
The US used something similar with strategic airstrikes in desert storm to take out Iraqi infrastructure leading to the collapse of its front lines. Robb's example was that while airstrikes had been used prior to Spanish civil war ... German proved it with the demonstration destroying Guernica.
Iraq learning from desert storm how infrastructure could be taken out then adopted a plan of insurgency to deal with the invasion of the last decade ... creating a core of insurgents estimated to be between 40,000 and 100,000 before the invasion (under Saddam's son Uday) ... total insurgents then grew to well over 300,000.
Note that while the potential of strategic airstrike had been proven in
Guernica ... it didn't work that well for the US in WW2. From "America's
Defense Meltdown". loc3214:
Half of America's total World War II budget went to U.S. air power and,
of that half, 65 percent went to multi-engine bombers. A major study to
quantify the effectiveness of this huge investment was initiated in
October 1944 at the direction of President Roosevelt. The United States
Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was to consist of a small group of
civilian experts.
loc3255:
In conclusion, the RAF and U.S. Army Air Force bomber commands fared
rather poorly in their strategic bombardment campaigns. Eight of nine of
the strategic bombardment campaigns were failures, contributing little
to Allied victory.
... snip ...
While multi-engine bombers provided very little towards success in WW2 (especially considering they accounted for around 1/3rd of cost of the war), (single engine) tactical support did contribute significantly.
other posts in threads
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#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#55 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#59 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#60 Pensions, was Re: 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
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195 Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:05:01 -0500nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
it was initially pitched for NSF supercomputer centers ... like at cornell (also scientific/numeric intensive at arizona, boston, ucberkeley, ucla, virginia polytech) when it appeared to turn out to not compete that well ... it morphed into being sold as add-on to existing traditional mainframe datacenters (presumably with corresponding price adjustment).
... trivia we had been working with NSF and various players at NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get $20M to tie-together the centers. Then congress cut the budget, and some other things happened before a RFP was finally released to tie-together NSF supercomputer centers ... morphing into NSFNET backbone. Corporate politics prevented us from bidding ... director of NSF tried to help ... even 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). This then morphs into modern internet.
In any case, NSF gave UC $120M for a supercomputer center at Berkeley ... however the regent's master plan had the next new bldg going into UCSD ... so it becamse UCSD supercomputer center instead.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:34:18 -0500hancock4 writes:
too big to fail money laundering for drug cartels and terriorists
and institutions not being shutdown and executives going to jail was
possibly first instances of the use of too big to presecute and too
big to jail ... posts referring to the money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
now comes this:
American Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel for More Than a
Decade
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-14/american-government-backed-murderous-mexican-drug-cartel-more-decade
from above:
The U.S. government has -- at least at some times in some parts of the
world -- long protected drug operations. (Big American banks also
launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this. Indeed,
drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the
2008 financial crisis.)
And opium production is at an all-time high under the American
occupation of Afghanistan.
... snip ...
references from above:
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
Special Report: Documents allege HSBC money-laundering lapses
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/us-hsbcusa-probes-idUSBRE8420FX20120503
International banks have aided Mexican drug gangs
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/27/world/la-fg-mexico-money-laundering-banks-20111128
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN adviser
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
slightly related on US going into Afghanistan ... Robb's has account of
how the Taliban had eliminated poppy growing in all the districts it
controlled ... but it made many of the tribal leaders unhappy with the
loss of financial ... other crops brought in much less money than drugs
... US was able to come in and play on that dissatisfaction. loc2082-84:
When the United States decided to support the Northern Alliance before
it attacked the Taliban in early 2002, U.S. officials took action to
ensure this disaffection. Direct payments from Central Intelligence
Agency operatives and the potential of unfettered opium production under
the Northern Alliance exerted a powerful influence on Afghanistan's
guerrilla entrepreneurs.
... snip ...
and as to what the FED has been up to
Bob Shiller Warns Fed 'Fire-Fighting' Is "Not A recipe For A Happy
Ending"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-14/bob-shiller-warns-fed-fire-fighting-not-recipe-happy-ending
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:57:29 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
however, russia didn't declare against japan until quite late; The Wars
for Asia, 1911-1949, loc219-23:
The conventional tale does not emphasize Russia's peculiar position
among the Allies of World War II. Russia allied with Britain and the
United States against Germany but maintained remarkably cordial
relations with Japan until the last two weeks of the war, when it
suddenly deployed 1.5 million men to Manchuria in its most ambitious
campaign of the war.1 Most histories of World War II omit the Eurasian
connection between the European and Pacific theaters to tell separate
tales. Russians, however, saw clear connections.
... loc216-19:
The U.S. attempt to focus exclusively on the global war left postwar
U.S. China policy in shambles. Russia's comparatively astute Asia policy
rested on an appreciation of all three layers of warfare: it brokered a
truce in the civil war to promote a Sino-Japanese war to save itself
from a two-front global war on the correct assumption that Japan would
fight either China or Russia, but not both.
... snip ...
my wife's father was sent to nanking as adviser to generalissimo
after end of hostilities in europe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:28:49 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
a former co-worker at ibm research had left and was doing consulting at silicon valley chip companies running vm370 and ibm mainframes ... and spent a lot of time getting at&t c compiler on cms with lots of bug fixes and performance enhancements and Berkeley chip tools moved over.
one day he was working on getting ethernet working between vm370/3081 and some front-end graphics workstations ... when the IBM marketing rep came through and asked him what he was doing. after he explained, the marketing rep told them that the company might find service on the 3081 suffer if he didn't do token-ring support instead. I almost immediately got a call and had to listen to an hour of four letter words. The next morning the corporate senior vp of engineering had a press conference announcing they were moving off 3081 to sun servers. A big ripple then ran through inside IBM ... the problem constantly spun as a technical issue with no mention of the real reason.
In 1980, I got sucked into doing channel extender for STL which was
bursting at the seams and was moving 300 people from IMS group to
offsite bldg (with service back to the STL datacenter). They had
investigated "remote 3270" but found the human factors totally
intolerable. Part of the channel extender work involved downloading
mainframe channel programs to the channel emulator at the remote end
... which drastically reduced the channel program protocol chatter
latency and improved the throughput. Somewhat as result I would get
calls to national labs that were looking at similar solutions to I/O
(for supercomputers). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
It also played a role in initially being asked to do the interconnect
for the NSF supercomputer centers. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
as well in 1988 being asked to help LLNL with getting some serial
technology they were working with, standardized. This then morphs into
fibre-channel standard and what we were using for cluster scale-up
(i.e. rios/rs6000 didn't support cache consistency so only scale-up was
i/o). old reference to working with Oracle for commercial scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
but also working with national labs on scientific and numerical
intensive ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
within hrs of the last email (end jan1992), cluster scale-up was transferred
(to supercomputer group in kingston) and we were told we couldn't work
on anything with more than four processors. It was very shortly
announced as supercomputer (SP1) for scientific and numerical intensive
*ONLY* ... from 17Feb1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
later in spring about cluster interest by national labs taking them by
surprise 11May1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
this was major factor in deciding to leave summer of 1992.
FCS is then later used for ibm's new FICON ... which is FCS with very
heavy duty protocol layered on top that drastically reduces the native
throughput (reversing nearly all the work we had done for high
throughput) ... some posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Another technology that I got asked to participate in standards work was some different serial fiber stuff came out of SLAC (stanford linear accelerator) ... which eventually comes out as SCI (scallable coherent interface). One of the things it is used for is a dictionary-based cache coherency protocol (since rios/rs6000 didn't support cache coherency it couldn't be used for this type of scale-up). It was used by SGI (with MIPs) Convex (with HP PA/RISC), Data General, and Sequent (intel i86, ... UNISYS also resells the sequent NUMA-Q under its own logo).
One of the issue with IBM Kingston and SP1 ... is that OCT1991, the senior VP supporting IBM Kingston supercomputer, retires and their projects are audited. Somewhat as a result, there becomes an effort to scour the company looking for technology that can be used for supercomputer (and they find us). Note that IBM Kingston effort has also been providing funds for Chen Supercomputer. After Chen Supercomputer desolves, Chen shows up as Sequent CTO ... and we do some consulting for him there (all before IBM buys Sequent)
For other national lab cluster interest ... old email from 1979 helping
with national lab benchmark for compute farm of 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
other old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
Fibre Channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
FICON ... z196 peak i/o benchmark gets 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (layered
on top of 104 FCS) about same time a single FCS is announced for e5-2600
claiming over 1M IOPS (two would have higher throughput than 104 FICON)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON
SCI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
SCIzzl
http://www.scizzl.com/
sequent reference (numa-q)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems
convex reference (exemplar)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_Computer
Steve Chen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chen_%28computer_engineer%29
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:37:52 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
History of the aircraft carrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_aircraft_carrier
...
also there was recently information released that one of the british peers collaberated with japan between the wars on carrier technology ... and for some (unknown reason?) was never prosecuted for treason.
The contrasting fates of Alan Turing and Lord Sempill
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2012/05/contrasting-fates-turing-sempill-war.html
The traitor of Pearl Harbor
http://nypost.com/2012/05/27/the-traitor-of-pearl-harbor/
The British Traitor Lord who enabled the fall of Singapore and Pearl
Harbor
http://moridura.blogspot.com/2012/05/british-traitor-lord-who-enabled-fall.html
the youtube series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4dreccM_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IM8K7f-qmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYFX2QN9S0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPodNJSCots
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forbes-Sempill,_19th_Lord_Sempill
Churchill protected Scottish peer suspected of spying for Japan; Second
World War: Government papers show prominent aristocrat was believed to
be leaking naval secrets to Tokyo
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/churchill-protected-scottish-peer-suspected-of-spying-for-japan-1173730.html
Traitor peer aided Pearl Harbor raid
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Arts/article1042403.ece
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:19 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
part of the effort for commercial cluster scale-up was for RDBMS vendors
that had relatively common source base for unix and vax/cluster ... was
a distributed lock manager with semantics similar to vax/cluster to make
the porting easier ... recently mentioned in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#44 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
rumor is after the scale-up is transferred for scientific and numerica
intensive *ONLY* (we are told we can't work on anything with more than
four processors) and we leave .... Oracle reverses engineers the DLM so
that it can move to other platforms. past posts mentioning ha/cmp
project (including cluster scale-up)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and then more recently, IBM is benchmarking RDBMS cluster
scale-up against Oracle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#47 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#59 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
in late 80s and early 90s had mainframe DB2 cluster support (mainframe
"loosely-coupled") ... which started out as port of system/r to MVS
... originally for decision support only ... posts mentioning system/r
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
an effort was started to do a RDBMS from scratch in C for OS2 ... which would eventually also be called DB2 ... but there was no corporate UNIX RDBMS product from the era with any kind of cluster support ... forcing us to work with other vendors.
some current HA/CMP reference
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.hacmp.concepts/ha_concepts.htm
their cluster scalup RDBMS stuff is now called purescale
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux-unix-windows/purescale/
besides the issue of scouring the company for supercomputer technology (in the wake of the kingston project audits) ... and finding us ... there was also the issue of the mainframe DB2 group complaining that if we were allowed to go ahead ... we would be at least five years ahead of them (which likely contributed to telling us that we weren't allowed to work with anything that had more than four processors).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:20:48 -0500hancock4 writes:
Battle of Okinawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm
Battle of Okinawa
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/default.aspx/
Battle Of Okinawa: Summary, Fact, Pictures and Casualties
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm
past discussions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#67 Downwind from Alamogordo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#60 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#62 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964; loc8916-18 (at the time
of the surrender):
U.S. officers were still tense; they knew that twenty-two enemy
divisions--300,000 well-trained soldiers--were within a few hours'
marching distance.
loc8936-38;
On Monday Halsey had begun moving into Sagami Bay, southwest of the
city, gliding over a glassy sea past the rugged, jagged, black-sanded
coastline of Kamakura, the great muzzles of his warships pointing toward
the Kanto Plain, where the General had expected to lose 100,000 GIs in
combat.
... snip ...
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
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:46:44 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
Why Is JPMorgan's Gold Vault, The Largest In The World, Located Next To
The New York Fed's?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-02/why-jpmorgans-gold-vault-largest-world-located-next-new-york-fed
JP Morgan Vault Gold Drops To New Record Low; Brinks Gold Plunges By 24%
In One Day
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-06/jp-morgan-vault-gold-drops-new-record-low-brinks-gold-plunges-24-one-day
JPM Eligible Gold Plummets By 66% In One Day To Just Over 1 Tonne, Total
Gold At Fresh All Time Low
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-19/jpm-eligible-gold-plummets-66-one-day-total-gold-fresh-all-time-low
"Hello HSBC, This Is JPMorgan - We Urgently Need Some Of Your Gold"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/hello-hsbc-jpmorgan-we-urgently-need-some-your-gold
JPM's Quiet Scramble To Refill Its Gold Vault
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-19/jpms-quiet-scramble-refill-its-gold-vault
and next door at the fed
All Aboard The Gold Repatriation Train: First Germany, Next: The
Netherlands?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-16/all-aboard-gold-repatriation-train-first-germany-next-netherlands
It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-16/it-will-take-fed-seven-years-deliver-300-tons-german-gold
A Year Later, The Bundesbank Has Repatriated Only 37 Tons Of Gold (Of
700 Total)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/year-later-bundesbank-has-repatriated-only-37-tons-gold-700-total
and more on big banks and money laundering
Big Banks Launder Hundreds of Billions of Illegal Drug Cartel Money
... But Refuse to Provide Services for Legal Marijuana
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-14/big-banks-launder-hundreds-billions-illegal-drug-cartel-money-%E2%80%A6-refuse-provid
recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#69 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:12:43 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
30yrs ago, i got sucked into berkeley 10m telescope ... recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#8 We're About to Lose Net Neutrality -- And the Internet as We Know It
... 1m segmented, ... part of it was moving from film to ccd ... however
at the time was playing 200x200 (40k pels) ccds at lick observatory
(outside sanjose)
http://ucolick.org/
they didn't want to accept NSF money because then NSF would be able to
dictate observatory schedule. Eventually they got Keck foundation to
fund the effort and it became known as Keck observatory
http://www.keckobservatory.org/
the justification to moving to CCD was CCDs are 100 times more sensitive to photons than film (only need 1/100th the exposure). However, CCDs weren't consistent in electrical signal from photon ... so they had to spend about half the time on taking calibration reading on null white background.
Moving to digital also simplified remote viewing they wanted to be able to handle about 800kbit transmission from Hawaii mountain top back to mainland.
It took awhile before worked up to large enough CCD arrays tho.
other past posts mentioning Keck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#7 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#8 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#9 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#9 Jack Kilby dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#28 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#12 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#50 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#80 A Super-Efficient Light Bulb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#82 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#85 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#60 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#24 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#9 Hawaii board OKs plan for giant telescope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#10 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#86 OT: Physics question and Star Trek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#55 360/20, was 1132 printer history
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: In a Cyber Breach, Who Pays, Banks or Retailers? Date: 15 Jan 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityIn a Cyber Breach, Who Pays, Banks or Retailers?
Note that there was large pilot in the US a decade ago of the European
smartcard solution ... unfortunately it was during the yes card
period ... and in the aftermath all evidence of the pilot appeared to
disappear without a trace. Somebody's comment at an "ATM Taskforce"
meeting where the vulnerabilities were explained in detail
... somebody commented that they had spent a billion dollars to prove
that smartcards are less secure than magstripe. At the time there were
claims that there were absolutely no problems with the smartcards
... so there has been some conjecture that US waiting for it to be
more thoroughly vetted before they try again. poast mentioning
Yes Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
we've done a couple different characterization of the current paradigm:
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can frequently afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
Note that I had warned the people setting up that pilot ... but they
said they would counter it by having all valid, issued cards to always
go online. They were so myopically focused on the stolen/lost card
vulnerability that they were unable to think through other
vulnerabilities (using the same technology for skimming magstripe for
counterfeit card to skim and make a counterfeit yes card).
Disclaimer: 90s I was co-author of financial transaction (for
all retail payments, POS, face-to-face, unattended, internet, etc) and
designed and got prototype chips that had *none* of the
vulnerabilities (I was told the chip had to cost a small fraction of
their chip and be significantly more secure). x9.59 reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
About the same time as the large YES CARD pilot in the US ... there were also several "safe" internet payment products marketed to merchants (accounting for something like 70% of transactions) which saw high acceptance. They had been indoctrinated for decades that large part of interchange fee was prorated based on associated fraud ... and internet started out using MOTO (highest) interchange rates. The merchants were expecting to see possibly order of magnitude reduction in the interchange fees. However the financial institutions then told them that instead of a large reduction in interchange fees for "safe" transaction products, there would effectively be a surcharge placed on top of the highest charge they were already paying ... resulting in significant merchant cognitive dissonance ... and the whole thing collapses. Part of the issue was that payment fees accounted for 40%-60% of US financial institution bottom line ... and order of magnitude reduction would result in a significant hit.
past posts mentioning merchant cognitive dissonance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#51 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#60 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62 Solving password problems one at a time, Re: The password-reset paradox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#64 What happened to X9.59?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#51 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#49 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#62 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#21 Should the USA Implement EMV?
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/2010j.html#10 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#79 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#48 Is the United States the weakest link when it comes to credit card security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#52 Payment Card Industry Pursues Profits Over Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#13 "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#11 Credit cards with a proximity wifi chip can be as safe as walking around with your credit card number on a poster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#23 Fight Fraud with Device ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#48 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#58 Pipeline and Network Security: Protecting a Series of Tubes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#56 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#38 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#39 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#15 Wicked Problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#3 Quitting Top IBM Salespeople Say They Are Leaving In Droves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#32 Use another browser - Kaspersky follows suit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#10 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#8 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#47 Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#52 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Fed may restrict bank ownership of commodities Date: 15 Jan 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityFed may restrict bank ownership of commodities
Federal Reserve May Continue To Promote Wall Street's Expansion Into
Commodities
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/14/federal-reserve-may-continue-to-promote-wall-streets-expansion-into-commodities/
Are Banks About to Win on Commodities Trading After Their Success in
Watering Down Basel III Capital Rules?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/banks-win-commodities-trading-success-watering-basel-iii-capital-rules.html
Griftopia has chapter that CFTC had rule that only allowed players with positions in the commodity to play because speculators result in wild, irrational price swings. Then 19 "secret" letters were sent that allowed 19 (mostly bank) speculators to play ... the result included the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Later a senator released transaction data showing that the speculators were behind the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Most of the main stream press instead of lauding the senator for releasing the transaction data, heavily criticized him.
posts mentioning Griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Army Modernization Is Melting Down Date: 15 Jan 2014 Blog: Boyd and BeyondArmy Modernization Is Melting Down
and another of ELP's posting on Abrams: "My fellow Americans, we were
ripped off" Dare to compare --- M1A2 Abrams SEP versus M60A3 Patton!
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-fellow-americans-we-were-ripped-off.html
Boyd has been credited with the Desert Storm battle plan and the left hook that traps all the retreating Iraqis. One of the excuses that it didn't happen was the commander was afraid of outrunning his supply line. Past ELP references to Abrams have them very tightly tied to its supply line ... resource hungry and needing lots of constant maintenance. Boyd may have assumed Abrams could have executed the left hook based on Abrams top speed but not appreciated how tightly they are tied to their supply lines.
... aka reference in article to having to go back to 80s for
significant modernization citing M1 and Bradleys. Effort to "fix"
bradleys in the 90s we heard about at Oct's B&B at Quantico. Note my
son-in-law was in Fallujah 2004-2005 and Baqubah 2007-2008. This
account has Baqubah worse than Fallujah
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
and constantly loosing Abrams and Bradleys ... so many Bradleys were lost that they were resorting to retired unimproved Bradleys (from desert storm) for replacements.
posts &/or WEB urls referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
past posts with elp refs to Abrams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#46 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#69 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#36 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#85 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#28 The Reformers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#64 Royal Pardon For Turing
past posts mentioning Baqubah:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#8 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#49 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 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#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#60 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
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#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Washington Post on Target store data thefts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:21:30 -0500re:
and recent in (linkedin) Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#77 In a Cyber Breach, Who Pays, Banks or Retailers
A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/a-first-look-at-the-target-intrusion-malware/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:30:23 -0500re:
the scenario is that the aggregate commissions on individual 401Ks are higher than on large institutional pension funds ... and the individuals are much less sophisticated and easier to dupe. The problem has been that the large institutional pension funds were attractive targets for both wallstreet and corporate executives.
Wallstreet on one front had ploy getting triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs (getting around institutional pension funds restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, from oct2008 congressional hearings triple-A ratings when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) ... and on another front working with corporate executives to liquidate institution pension funds and convert to individual 401K
The next big 401k wipeout: Bonds
http://money.msn.com/investing/the-next-big-401k-wipeout-bonds
from above:
Wall Street has a special talent for duping Main Street investors. It
pushed buy-and-hold ahead of the worst decadelong performance in stocks
since the Great Depression. It pushed the dot-com bubble. It pushed
buy-and-flip housing.
... snip ...
Even Harsh Frontline Program on Retirement Investments Understates How
Bad They Are
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/even-harsh-frontline-program-on-retirement-investments-understates-how-bad-they-are.html
PBS Drops Another Bombshell: Wall Street Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k)
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/04/pbs-drops-another-bombshell-wall-street-is-gobbling-up-two-thirds-of-your-401k/
The Retirement Gamble
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/
Is Congress helping Wall Street loot your 401(k)?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-congress-helping-wall-street-loot-your-pension-2013-11-01
Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's Campaign to Loot Public Pensions
http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/30/matt-taibbi-on-wall-streets-campaign-to-loot-public-pensions/
Looting the Pension Funds; All across America, Wall Street is grabbing
money meant for public workers
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926
Viewpoints: Pension proposal is good for Wall Street, bad for Main Street
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/25/6026453/viewpoints-pension-proposal-is.html
posts mentioning toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:05:38 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
recent posts mentioning HFT:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#10 What Makes Infrastructure investment not bizarre
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#12 What Makes Infrastructure investment not bizarre
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#50 IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#16 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#93 High Frequency Terrorism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#15 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#40 The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#76 A Little More on the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: 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: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:08:03 -0500hancock4 writes:
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#26 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#32 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#43 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#49 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: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:18:38 -0500hancock4 writes:
automobile companies have been doing it for couple decades, numbers showing they make ten times more profit off the loans for cars than they make off of building the car. airlines operating at a loss but the parent company showing a profit ... because the books show all the profit is in the subsidiary selling the tickets.
Shifting the profits this way can go a long way to keeping lid on the wages of people actually making things and/or providing services (since the financial stuff have relatively small staffs with most of the work being done by computers).
Age of Greed
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Greed-Triumph-Finance-Decline-ebook/dp/B004DEPF6I/
pg191:
By the time Welch left in 2000, GE Capital's earnings had grown by
some eighty times to well more than $5 billion, while the number of
its employees did not even double. It provided half of GE's
profits.
... snip and pg200:
He mostly stopped trying to create great new products, hence the
reduction in R&D. He took the heart out of his businesses, he did not
put it in, as he had always hoped to do. What made his strategy
possible, and fully shaped it, was the rising stock market--and the
new ideology that praised free markets even as they failed.
... snip ...
Past posts mentioning age of greed:
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/2012.html#31 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#37 Romney's Opponents Intensify Attacks as Voting Nears
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#40 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#47 Avoiding a lost decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#48 Fed's image tarnished by newly released documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#72 Chris Dodd's SOPA crusading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#77 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#79 Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#87 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#92 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#95 Can anyone offer some insight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#12 Sun Tzu, Boyd, strategy and extensions of same
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#29 The speeds of thought, complexities of problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#54 The New Age Bounty Hunger -- Showdown at the SEC Corral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#74 IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#90 IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#19 Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#13 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#14 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#48 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#71 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#91 The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#35 Inequality and Investment Bubbles: A Clearer Link Is Established
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#86 The Dangers of High-Frequency Trading; Wall Street's Speed Freaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#7 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#22 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#73 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#16 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#25 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#26 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
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#41 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/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 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#66 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/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#22 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#37 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#13 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#8 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#78 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#11 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
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/2013d.html#36 Bank Whistleblower Claims Retaliation And Wrongful Termination
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/2013m.html#89 Behold The Face Of Central Banker Hubris
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:29:26 -0500re:
between national lab 4341 compute farm and ha/cmp cluster scale-up ... I had
intermediate proposal for packing large numbers of processor chips in
racks ... being able to use mixture of 801/risc iliad chips and 370
roman chips. this was at same time working with NSF on tieing together
the NSF supercomputers (which morphs into NSFNET backbone precursor to
modern internet). Old email being torn between doing scheduled
presentation to the director of NSF and running a rack/cluster meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850312
above also mentions $120M in total going for San Diego Supercomputer center
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850313
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314
other NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#28 The History of the Grid
this was in time-frame that SLAC was doing bit-slice 168E
... i.e. enough of 370 computer to run problem state fortran for
initial data reduction of sensor collection along the accelerator
... i.e. executing at 168 speeds ... aka 3mips ... later upgraded to
3081E ... 5-7MIPS. Gustavson comes out of slac with SCI proposal (and
head of SCI committee).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
168E/3081E refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#43 IBM 5100 [Was: First DESKTOP Unix Box?]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#8 The IBM 5100 and John Titor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#72 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#27 World's worst programming environment?
SCI isn't just limited to scalable cache coherency with asynchronous, concurrent transfer in both directions on serial links ... but also does various kinds of transfers (somewhat overlapping fibre channel standard)
Mid-90s we get asked into research group of chip company (mentioned in
upthread about moving off vm370 3081 to ten sun servers in the 80s)
... they have one of the sun sparc engineers working on SLIC chip ...
transfer version of SCI ... that he wants to interconnect campus
environment of up to 10,000 distributed machines. What they ask us to
do is commercialize/productize SUN's object-oriented SPRING operating
system to run the distributed environment. I've got SPRING hardcopy
... online gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030404182953/http://java.sun.com/people/kgh/spring/
... part of description of SPRING's "A Client-Side Stub Interpreter"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#32 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
there has been past discussions about how much of SPRING's
interpreter influenced GREEN and JAVA (when SPRING was shutdown, they
moved the people over to JAVA).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#51 A Speculative question
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#email960203
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#44 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
other triva ... same time the resourch group was working on SLIC chip ... was also working on genetic algorithm chip testing. Number of chip circuits had grown so large that it was no longer practical to do complete test coverage of all possible cases. They had a couple professors at Stanford working on it and turning out bunch of patents. They had also hired the top ten mathematicians in Moscow for $100k/annum (not per, but aggregate).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Search for the Lost Cray Supercomputer OS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:00:10 -0500The Search for the Lost Cray Supercomputer OS
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:57:39 -0500re:
a little more gold/commodity
Precious Metals Manipulation Worse Than Libor Scandal, German Regulator
Says
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-16/precious-metals-manipulation-worse-libor-german-regulator-says
Metals, Currency Rigging Worse Than Libor, Bafin Chief Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-16/metals-currency-rigging-worse-than-libor-bafin-s-koenig-says.html
Fed may restrict bank ownership of commodities
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/14/214504/fed-may-restrict-bank-ownership.html
Federal Reserve May Continue To Promote Wall Street's Expansion Into
Commodities
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/14/federal-reserve-may-continue-to-promote-wall-streets-expansion-into-commodities/
Are Banks About to Win on Commodities Trading After Their Success in
Watering Down Basel III Capital Rules?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/banks-win-commodities-trading-success-watering-basel-iii-capital-rules.html
Griftopia has chapter that CFTC had rule that only allowed players with positions in the commodity to play because speculators result in wild, irrational price swings. Then 19 "secret" letters were sent that allowed 19 (mostly bank) speculators to play ... the result included the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Later a senator released transaction data showing that the speculators were behind the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Most of the main stream press instead of lauding the senator for releasing the transaction data, heavily criticized him.
posts mentioning libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
posts mentioning griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:28:23 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
DOT revealed Friday that Bertha has been obstructed since early December by an 8-inch-diameter well casing, left behind by one of the Highway 99 project's own research crews in 2002. DOT says the well was shown in reference drawings given to contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:29:02 -0500Ibmekon writes:
HFT will front run a few milliseconds ... competing with other HFTs ...
regardless of whether it is going up or down
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/hfts-unfair-trading-advantage-front-running/
and, in part using HFT to obfuscate what is going on.
old reference implying that manipulating the market was wide spread with
little or nothing to worry about from SEC ... even before HFT
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
Computerized Front Running and Financial Fraud
http://www.globalresearch.ca/computerized-front-running-and-financial-fraud/18809
Dear SEC, This Is HFT "Cheating" At Its Most Obvious. Regards, Everyone
Else
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-04/dear-sec-hft-cheating-its-most-obvious-regards-everyone-else
HFT Stock Manipulation In Action
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/hft-stock-manipulation-action
Busted! HFT Algo Goes Wild in Nasdaq Futures Moments Before Job Number
Hits
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-11/busted-hft-algo-goes-wild-nasdaq-futures-moments-job-number-hits
Watch The Banned HFT Spoofing Algo In Action
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-23/watch-banned-hft-spoofing-algo-action
Today's Mad 'Manipulated' World Of Markets; Or "How To Fit 2 Seconds Of
Trading Into 1 Millisecond!"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/todays-mad-manipulated-world-markets-or-how-fit-2-seconds-trading-1-millisecond
Here Is Today's 482 Millisecond NFP Leak, The Subsequent Gold Slam And
Trading Halts In Treasurys And ES
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-07/here-todays-482-millisecond-nfp-leak-and-subsequent-gold-slam-and-trading-halts-trea
HFT Quote Stuffing Market Manipulation Caught In The Act
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/hft-quote-stuffing-market-manipulation-caught-act
It's Official: HFT Breaks Speed-of-Light Barrier, Sets Trading Speed
World Record
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-hft-breaks-speed-light-barrier-sets-trading-speed-world-record
from above:
HFT has reached speeds faster than time itself. Up to 190 milliseconds
into the future, or 0.19 fantaseconds is the record so far. It all
happened in just over one second of trading, the evidence buried under
an avalanche of about 19,000 quotations and 3,000 individual trade
executions. The facts of the matter are indisputable. Based on official
exchange timestamps, there is unmistakable proof that YHOO trades were
executed on quotes that didn't exist until 190 milliseconds later!
... snip ...
a little creative phrasing
Reuters Admits To "Inadvertently" Leaking ISM Data 15 Milliseconds Early
To HFT Clients
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-05/reuters-admits-inadvertently-leaking-ism-data-15-milliseconds-early-hft-clients
15 Milliseconds Of HFT Fame: Watch Today's Early Leak Of The ISM Print
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-03/watch-todays-15-millisecond-leak-ism-print
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Washington Post on Target store data thefts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:56:36 -0500re:
The Malware That Duped Target Has Been Found
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/target-malware-identified/
Security firm IDs malware used in Target attack
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245491/Security_firm_IDs_malware_used_in_Target_attack
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:28:12 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a little more
Doubling the Fleet: An Analysis of the Causal Factors Behind the
U.S. Navy's Warship Building Program from 1933-1941
https://www.amazon.com/Doubling-Fleet-Analysis-Building-1933-1941-ebook/dp/B005IHW8BO/
loc419-20:
Its allowance for aircraft carrier capital ship construction helped to
infuse enthusiasm for naval aviation where previously there had been
little.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:41:50 -0500"Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:
some recent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
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#44 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 What Gates Didn't Get Done
in boyd group, there was just discussion why the left hook failed to capture all the retreating iraqis during desert storm ... boyd had done the battle plan for desert storm which called for capturing the retreating iraqi forces with the left hook ... the failure is attributed to risk adversion by the forces assigned to the left hook.
i pontificate in this blog that saddam had learned from desert storm
not to have direct confrontation and instead setup for insurgency
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/01/13/can-america-win-wars/
in the iraq invasion, things were significantly complicated because the justification for the invasion was fabricated (*and* Saddam wasn't going to play according to the US battle strategy).
posts and web urls mentioning Boyd
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, 16 Jan 2014 23:50:41 -0500Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
Battle of Midway (June1942)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 log7886-90:
Thus ended the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It had involved 282 warships,
compared with 250 at Jutland in 1916, until then the greatest naval
engagement in history. And unlike Jutland, which neither side had won,
this action had been decisive. The Americans had lost one light carrier,
two escort carriers, and three destroyers. They had sunk four carriers,
three battleships, six heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and eight
destroyers. Except for sacrificial kamikaze fliers, who made their debut
in this battle, Japanese air and naval strength would never again be
serious instruments in the war.
... snip ...
Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
some recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#69 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#77 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#64 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#70 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#74 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Santa has a Mainframe! Date: 16 Jan 2014 Blog: Enterprise Systemstpc.org at the moment isn't showing any tpmC clustered results (top clustered tpmC use to have 32 M... or 600M in less than 20mins). The top non-clustered tpmC currently showing is 8.5M tpmC or 600M in 71mins (and $.55/tpmC)
disclaimer: Jim Gray is credited with initial creation of TPC
https://www.tpc.org/information/who/gray5.asp
... I worked with Jim back
in the System/R days ... the original relational/sql implementation
... precursor to modern day DB2. posts mentioning System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
IBM Stuffs Flash Into Next-Generation Servers; IBM moves flash storage
inside the box -- 12.8 TB of it -- to work alongside RAM and cut data
movement latencies.
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/ibm-stuffs-flash-into-next-generation-servers/d/d-id/1113387?
from above:
The 840 can perform 1.1 million I/O operations per second. That would
support 40,000 credit card transactions per second.
... snip ...
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some stuff they had
... and a whole lot of high-performance, asynchronous concurrent and
latency compensation went into it ... which eventually morphs into
fibre channel standard. Later some POK channel engineers layer a very
heavy-weight protocol on top of fibre channel standard that
significantly cuts the native throughput ... this eventually comes out
as FICON. The IBM z196 "peak i/o" benchmark gets 2M IOPS using 104
FICONS (layered on top of 104 fibre channel standard). About the same
time a single fibre channel was announced for e5-2600 blade that
claims over one million IOPS (two such fibre channel have higher
throughput than 104 FICONs). posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
In 1980, I had been asked to do channel-extender support for STL (now silicon valley lab), they were bursting at the seams and were moving 300 people from the IMS group to an off-site bldg with service back to STL datacenter. They had tried remote 3270 but found the human factors totally unacceptable. My channel-extender work downloaded channel programs into remote channel emulation box allowing "local" channel-attached controllers to be located at the off-site bldg. Download I/O programs to the remote site enormously cut the channel protocol chatter and latency involved. Note none of this then shows up in shipped IBM product. However, it had a lot to do with 1) in 1988 being asked to help LLNL standardize with what becomes fibre channel standard and 2) optimization and throughput that went into fibre channel standard. Negating all this throughput optimization is major issue with FICON throughput ... and only recently has a little of this optimization been introduced at the FICON layer (over 30yrs later)
Note that the channel-extender work for STL and the IMS group had nothing to do with consulting to the IMS group on database technology ... which Jim Gray palmed off on me when he left IBM San Jose Research for Tandem ... or the DASD engineers over in bldg. 14&15 kept on nagging me to play disk engineer.
The opening discussion was how many transactions was Santa doing and basically an assertion implying it would be a mainframe. Part of the issue is that it has been a very long time since there have been transaction rates published for mainframe ... so it might not be a foregone conclusion that it is a mainframe.
part of the issue in the max. configured z196 peak i/o benchmark is that the system assist processors saturate at 2.2M SSCH/sec ... but recommendation is to keep system assist processor load to 1.5M SSCH/sec or less (to avoid various kinds of contention and delays).
Note that the majority of the mobile platforms connect to large cloud megadatacenters ... these megadatacenters are operated with a staff of between 60 & 120 people and most of them, each individually, contain more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today. The server chip manufactures claim that they now ship more chips directly to megadatacenters (that assemble their own servers) than to brand name server vendors (IBM, DELL, HP, etc). A max-configured z196 is rated at 50BIPS and goes for $28M or $560K/BIPS. A e5-2600 blade has rating between 400BIPS and 600BIPS and IBM has a base list price of $1815 ... or $3.50/BIPS. The megadatacenters claim they assemble their own servers for 1/3rd the cost of brand name vendors (or around $1/BIPS) and a megadatacenter will contain hundreds of thousands of such servers. With the radical reduction in system costs ... other costs of operating a megadatacenter start to dominate ... which is motivation for the megadatacenters being on the forefront of green (industry standard benchmarks use to be just top throughput and system cost/transaction ... but now also include things like energy cost per transaction).
It is also I/O ... that is upthread reference to native FCS I/O latency and throughput is significantly higher than FICON (which is an enormously heavyweight protocol layer ontop of FCS that radically reduces mainframe throughput).
The other issue is most of the mainframe systems are still locked into CKD DASD ... however there hasn't been any real CKD DASD manufactured for decades ... all being simulated (which adds another layer of inefficiency and overhead) on industry standard fixed-block disks.
disclaimer: long ago and far away I was told that even if I provided MVS with fully integrated and tested FBA support ... I would still need a $26M business case to cover documentation and training. I wasn't allowed to show efficiency and/or lifetime savings ... I could only use profit from incremental new disk sales (and claim was that at the time, customers were buying disks as fast as they could be built ... so FBA support would just change from CKD DASD sales to same amount FBA disks sales).
So a single E5-2600 blade is approx. processing power as 10 max. configured z196 at a trivial fraction of the cost. IBM has come out with new rack design that packs an enormous number of E5-2600 blades. The recent E5-2600 FCS claiming over one million IOPS ... then has two such FCS with more throughput than 104 FICONs in the max z196 I/O benchmark ... about 50:1 in I/O per FCS and 10:1 in processing power at trivial fraction of the cost. This I/O would also go directly to native industry fixed-block disks w/o the overhead of the CKD emulation.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:36:54 -0500Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
or work for one ... past studies are that 70% of data breaches involved
insiders. posts mentioning data breach notification act (in part because
institutions didn't want exposure of the breach)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
however, there is also the case of too big to fail outsourcing
financial transaction processing y2k remediation to the lowest bidder
... and only later finding out it was front for a criminal organization.
some past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#37 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#19 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#76 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#41 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#39 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#69 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#32 CMS Sort Descending?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#49 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#90 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#20 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
reference to criminal organizations setting up ATM cash machine
manufacturing (with embedded malware) and selling them to financial
institutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#56
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:30 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Afghanistan Is On The Verge Of Becoming A Narco State
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/01/afghanistan-is-on-verge-of-becoming.html
includes this and numerous other references
U.S. Official: Afghanistan Could Become 'Narco-Criminal State'
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/15/262752712/u-s-official-afghanistan-could-become-narco-criminal-state
other posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#55 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#59 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#60 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#81 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Santa has a Mainframe! Date: 17 Jan 2014 Blog: Enterprise Systemsre:
this is a decade of dec vax sliced&diced by model, year, US/non-us
... towards the mid-80s, workstations and large PCs were already
starting to take over that market.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
IBM's 4300s sold into the same market in similar numbers ... the big
difference was large corporations ordering hundreds of 4300s at a time
going out into departmental supply & conference rooms ... the leading
edge of the distributed computing tsunami (so many being installed
internally inside ibm that conference rooms became a scarce
resource). They were expecting to see similar sales explosion in the
4361/4381 follow-on to the 4331/4341 but by that time the low&mid-range
market was already starting to move to workstations and large
PCs. some old 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
Besides huge explosion in distributed vm/4300 (both inside ibm and at customers), clusters of vm/4341 in datacenters was competing with 3033 & 3081s. A cluster of vm/4341 was cheaper than 3033, more aggregate computer power, more aggregate i/o capacity, more aggregate real storage ... and significantly smaller environmental resources. The problem got to the point that the head of POK got the allocation of critial 4300 manufacturing component cut in half.
The original relational/sql RDBMS implementation was System/R on
vm370/145 at IBM San Jose Research ... when Jim left for Tandem
... not only palming dbms consulting with the IMS group ... he wanted
me to support the customers installing System/R ... this is old email
about Bank of America putting in 60 distributed vm/4341s:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#email800311
this is reference to helping with national lab benchmark wanting to put in
compute farm of 70 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
this is old email about Air Force Data Systems initially looking at 20
distributed 4341s but grows to 210
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
disclaimer: as undergraduate at the univ. in the 60s, the univ library got an ONR grant to do online catalog ... part of the money went to getting a 2321 datacell. The project was also selected to be betatest site for original CICS product and I got tasked with debugging CICS.
In the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the annual, worldwide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on 3174 controller performance, but opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had stranglehold on datacenters with corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls, but were fiercely fighting to preserve their dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and fighting off distributed computing. The disk division was seeing drop in disk sales as data was fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing platforms. The disk division was coming up with solutions to address the opportunity that were constantly being vetoed by the communication group. A few short years later the corporation goes into the red and is reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. However before that happens, the board brings in Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company.
What kicked this whole thing off was the Santa requirement for "transactions" ... RDBMS transactions work the same across all platforms. As I posted at start of discussion, Jim Gray was major force in creating the definition of "transaction" and TPC benchmarks. IBM (and other vendors) has done hundreds (thousands) of server transaction benchmarks ... at least for its non-mainframe platforms (not just Intel). As already established, I/O, FICON and DASD are actually industry standard components (common across all the platforms) with mainframe legacy emulation layered on top (that adds significant overhead and cut throughput). The Santa scenario just mentions the system needed to perform the indicated number of transactions.
For the BIPS processor benchmark comparison ... the benchmark measure is the number of iterations divided by the base number of iterations done by 370/158 assumed to be a 1MIP processor (aka effectively multiplier times that of 370/158 unrelated to actually number of instructions executed).
Disclaimer: I had done dynamic adaptive resource management as undergraduate in the 60s which was picked up and used by IBM in virtual machine CP67 scheduler and then also in the follow-on VM370. In the 80s, the MVS TSO product administrator asked if I would redo the MVS scheduler to provide similar capability to what was available in VM370 (I declined). I had graceful degradation and responsiveness at 100% utilization decades before MVS.
Big cloud megadatacenters now have very sophisticated dynamic adaptive resource scheduler ... even load balancing across megadatacenters (where each individual megadatacenter has more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world).
RISC server chips have had significant performance advantage over i86
... however increasingly i86 server chips have migrated to risc cores
with hardware layer that translates i86 instructions into RISC
microops ... that negates the RISC performance advantage.
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
The claim is that at least half of the per processor throughput
improvement going from z10 to z196 is something similar, incorporating
increasing amount of features (that have beein in risc for decades) in
the processor core. Something similar is claimed for the per processor
from z196 to EC12 ... increasing amount of RISC technology
(increasingly similar internal processor characteristics).
By comparison e5-2600v1 blade has two chips with 8processors/chip for 16 processors and processing rating of 527BIPS (33BIPS/proc) ... i86 server chips have been at the transition to RISC for longer period. The newest e5-2600v2 blades from IBM (and others) are the newer chip process with 12processors/chip for 24processors total (the external instruction set differences are becoming less & less of an issue).
Hopefully paying $560,000/BIPS will get you something more than paying
$1/BIPS. Note also IBM financials has IBM mainframe group (processor,
storage, software, & services) earning $6.25 total for every dollar of
processor sales .... aka a $28M max configured z196 would come to
$175M total IBM revenue or $3.5M/BIPS. some cloud
http://datacenterpost.com/2013/04/mega-datacenters-pioneering-future-of.html
and
http://research.gigaom.com/report/how-the-mega-data-center-is-changing-the-hardware-and-data-center-markets/
even IBM
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/01/17/ibm-commits-1-2-billion-cloud-adding-15-global-data-centers/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:05:02 -0500"2671" <2671@gmail.com> writes:
there then was over $27T done during the bubble (claims that it was
major factor in wallstreet tripling in size as percent of GDP during the
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
at end of 2008, the four largest too big to fail were still
carrying $5.2T in toxic assets "off-book". The $700B appropriate for
TARP was no where near enough to make any dent in the problem. Then
the fiction of lending the TARP funds to the too big to fail
... while FED buys trillions of toxic assets for 98cents on the dollar
(fall of 2008, several tens of billions in toxic assets were going for
22cents on the dollar) ... in addition to lending trillions to too
big to fail at near zero. Bernanke later complains that he figured
that the too big to fail would turn around and lend it to
mainstreet, however they were buying treasuries and using the spread
to payoff the TARP loans and pay huge executive bonuses (and Bernanke
claims he had no way to force them to lend to mainstreet). posts
mentioning Bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (senate hearings
that resulted in Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal x-links
and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (some
expectation that the new congress had an appetite to do something).
After working on it for awhile, I got a call that it wouldn't be
needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wallstreet money
blanketing capital hill). misc. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
While repeal of Glass-Steagall wasn't cause of the triple-A ratings
... the repeal of Glass-Steagall plays a significant factor in the rise
of too big to fail ... not being held accountable ... as well of
evolving into too big to prosecute and too big to jail ... not just
the triple-A but also for major money laundering for terriorists and
drug cartels ... as well as expanding list of other illegal activity.
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
The general atmosphere of deregulation and/or not enforcing regulation
was responsible for repeal of Glass-Steagall as well as allowing triple-A
ratings. For instance Sarbanes-Oxley ... not only promised that SEC
would prosecute executives and auditors for fraudulent financial filings
... but SOX also required SEC do something about the rating agencies
(responsible for giving the triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs when they
knew they weren't worth triple-A). past posts mentioning SOX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
which supposedly also was to prevent future ENRONs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Possibly because even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything it started
doing reports of fraudlent financial filings, even showing uptic after
SOX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
no. 2 on times list for those responsible
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
GLBA act that repeals Glass-Steagall ... but also a number of other things ... including provision in commodities futures modernizaion act preventing CDSs from being regulated.
Gramm and the 'Enron Loophole'
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
from above:
Enron was a major contributor to Mr. Gramm's political campaigns, and
Mr. Gramm's wife, Wendy, served on the Enron board, which she joined
after stepping down as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
... snip ...
Phil Gramm's Enron Favor
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
from above:
A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy
Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its
board of directors, where she served on the audit committee, which
oversees the inner financial workings of the corporation. For this,
the company paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million in stocks and
dividends, as much as $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in
attendance fees,
... snip ...
Greenspan Slept as Off-Books Debt Escaped Scrutiny
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=aYJZOB_gZi0I
from above:
That same year Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and SEC
Chairman Arthur Levitt opposed an attempt by Brooksley Born, head of
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating
over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress passed a law keeping
them unregulated.
... snip ...
Brooksley was fairly quickly replaced by Wendy Gramm as head of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (pending clause by her husband preventing regulating CDS) before Wendy then resigned to join Enron's board.
Alan Greenspan head of FED, #3 on times list of those responsible
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877331,00.html
Chris Cox head of SEC, #4 on times list of those responsible
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:13 -0500Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
1/4 designed for 270x emulation ... 256 channel address ... aka subchannel address/ucb per line ... 3705 "EP" emulation program
2/3 for NCP use only, one device address ... higher level protocol with NCP managing lines.
some amount of NCP complexity/intergration is attributed to conforming
to goals of Future System effort (even after FS implodes)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
The rise and fall of IBM
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
from above ("react" reference is 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 ...
as an aside, I extended the cp67 2741/1052 terminal support to include
ascii/tty ... but in doing so tried to make the 2702 do something it
couldn't quite do. Somewhat as a result the univ started a clone
controller project using interdata/3, reverse engineering 360 channel
interface and building channel board for the interdata/3 programmed to
emulate 2702 ... and do the things that 2702 wouldn't do. This gets
written up blaming four of us for some part of the clone controller
business. This later morphs into a interdata/4 for the channel interface
and clusters of interdata/3s dedicated to line-scanner. Interdata
markets the implementation to customers. Later Perkin-Elmer acquires
Interdata and it is marketed under the Perkin-Elmer logo. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
In the time-frame that SNA was evolving my wife was co-author of a networking architecture ... which they had to name "peer-to-peer networking" ... since the communication group had co-opted "networking" for SNA applied to communication. It is (internal) document AWP39. (for a reference the APPN internal architecture document is AWP164)
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