From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data? Date: 26 June 2015 Blog: Mainframe ExpertsIs it blind faith or common sense that keeps CIOs loyal to the mainframe?
IBM had base list price of $1815 for e5-2600v1 blade, approx. $3.5/BIPS. Big cloud megacenters have been claiming that they assemble their own blades for 1/3rd the cost of brand-name blades or around $1/BIPS (for e5-2600v1). Cloud computer system commoditization was major motivation for IBM to unload its server business. The enormous drop in computer system cost has resulted in the major cloud megacenter cost shifting to power and cooling as well as shift to power&cooling cost/BIPS (as opposed to system cost/BIPS). It has also enabled having enormous idle computer resources for on-demand computing (as long as power & cooling costs drop to near zero when idle).
A typical cloud megadatacenter will have hundreds of thousands of systems (blades) operated by 80-120 people.
e5-2699v3 (22nm) blade rated at 1.3TIPS and e5-2600v4 (14nm) high-end
blade should be around 1.7TIPS. A single high-density rack could
approach 200TIPS in processing power, a single cloud megadatacenter
will have more processor power than the aggregate of all mainframes in
the world today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
z196 $560,000/BIPS (50BIPS/80procs, 625MIPS/proc), ec12 was $440,000/BIPS (75BIPS/101procs, 743MIPS/proc), I'm still waiting to see numbers for Z13 (22nm; claims 30% more processing power than ec12 using 141 processors, maybe 700MIPS/proc). IBM financials has its total mainframe business earnings over six times its mainframe system earnings (mainframe software & services earnings a major motivation keeping its mainframe business going).
In 1988, I got asked to help LLNL gov. lab standardize some serial
stuff they had, which quickly becomes fibre channel standard
("FCS"). Later some POK channel engineers got involved and defined a
heavy duty protocol for FCS that drastically cut the native
throughput, eventually released as FICON. There was peak I/O benchmark
for Z196 that used 104 FICONs to achieve 2M IOPS. About the same time
there was a single FCS announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over
million IOPS (two such FCS having higher native throughput than 104
FICONs, which is protocol running over 104 FCS).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
recent e5-2600 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#36 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#39 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#29 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#93 HONE Shutdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#39 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#14 Clone Controllers and Channel Extenders
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser Date: 26 June 2015 Blog: FacebookJeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
... more complicated
The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You; Paul Wolfowitz not only
championed the Iraq War -- he obsessively promoted a bizarre
conspiracy theory.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/jeb-bush-adviser-paul-wolfowitz
when CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis (justifying
significant increases in DOD funding) ... they replaced him with
somebody that would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
they are then there for providing WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
in the iran/iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
former CIA director and then VP claims he didn't know anything about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
"team b"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
those advisers/analysts are there for Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Kuwait invasion;
administration says that Saddam told them he would do no such thing
... administration proceeds to discredit the analyst. Analyst then
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Saudi invasion ... now the
administration is forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 fabricate WMD justification.
cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing with the
Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... takes nearly a decade before the information is declassified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
note corporate representatives had approached former eastern bloc
countries and tell them if they vote in UN for invasion of iraq, they
will get approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that
can only be used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial
complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
from Merchants of Doubt,
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
pg47/loc1209-14:
Team B's Claims turned out to be more than a little exaggerated. Later
analyses would show that the Soviet Union had not achieved strategic
superiority, they had not implemented a missile defense system beyond
their single Moscow installation, and they certainly never achieved
the ability to dictate U.S. policy. One anecdote perhaps tells the
whole story: A few years after the Soviet Union collapsed, one of
Teller's proteges toured a site that the Team B panel had believed was
a Soviet beam-weapon test facility; it turned out to be a rocket
engine test facility. It had nothing at all to do with beam weapons.
... snip ...
and National Insecurity
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-Media-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/
pg248/3534-40:
The Team B experience was the first instance of institutionalized
militarization of intelligence imposed on the CIA from the White
House. The first instance of the CIA's internal militarization of
intelligence took place in the 1980s, when President Reagan appointed
a right-wing ideologue, Bill Casey, to be CIA director, and Casey
appointed a right-wing ideologue, Bob Gates, to be his deputy. 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.
pg261/loc3722-24:
Cheney and Rumsfeld resorted to the same technique they had used in
1976, when they had worked for President Ford. In the 1970s, they had
created Team B at the CIA in order to politicize intelligence on
Soviet military power. In 2002, they politicized intelligence in order
to take the country to war against Iraq.
... snip ...
Prophets of War
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
pg134/loc2273-74:
Another Team B member who was to make his mark later, under the
administration of George W. Bush, was Paul Wolfowitz.
... snip ...
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff 74-75 (and supposedly organized
replacement of CIA director), then when he becomes SECDEF, 75-77, he
is replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF
2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its
most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely
[his] handiwork."
... snip ...
Other accounts have Iraq invasion planning starting before 9/11
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:01:44 -0700re:
as an aside, abbreviated references to the "1%" has been short hand for
the accelerating shift of total wealth to the top "1%" and especially
the ".1%" and exacerbating inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
partially depicted by these graphs from NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
one way to manipulate the numbers has been replacing individual compensation/revenue with family revenue ... the increasing percentage of two worker families masking that individual compensation went flat ... increasingly requiring two worker families to make ends meet.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:10:35 -0700Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
In mid-90s, I worked on chip solution in the X9 financial standard
working group ... approx. the same time another effort was being worked
on in Europe (which had *NONE* of the vulnerabilities that the effort in
Europe has had). In the early part of the century, there was a major
pilot deployment of the EU chip&pin solution in the US. However, this
was during the "yes card" period ... which characterized their chip&pin
solution as having worse fraud than magstripe. There is reference at the
bottom on this Cartes2002 trip report (gone 404, but lives on at the
wayback machine).
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
In the wake of the "yes card" fiasco, all evidence of the large pilot disappeared, and there was speculation it would be a long time before it was tried in the US again. Part of the issue 1) even a pilot deployment in the US is more costly than full country production deployment in other places, 2) huge concern about the cost of possibly repeated multiple failed deployments, 3) let experiments with failing deployments be done in places where the failures would have much lower financial impact
As referenced in the cartes 2002 trip report, it was trivial to clone a
counterfeit "yes card" (as easy as cloning a magstripe). Part of the
reference to worse fraud than magstripe was the implementation allowed a
(possibly counterfeit) card to tell the terminal not to check for valid
account. With counterfeit magstripe, it is possible to deactivate an
account number and that shutdowns further fraudulent transactions. With
counterfeit "yes card" chipcard telling the point-of-sale terminal to
not check for valid account number ... there is no way to stop it making
fraudulent transactions. "yes card" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
Long ago and far away, we were brought in as consultants to small
client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their
server, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted
to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce" some
semi-related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we were
invited to participate in the X9A10 financial standard working group
which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (not just internet,
*ALL*). We did end-to-end threat and vulnerability studies before coming
up with solution (for *ALL* retail payments). In comparison, the card
associations have done a number of adhoc solutions that have frequently
had a number of shortcomings and repeated vulnerabilities. references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
The problem with the X9A10 solution is that it drastically reduced the
cost, fraud, infrastructure, barriers-to-entry, etc for doing payment
transaction ... there are significant stakeholders in the existing
infrastructure interested in preserving the status quo. An analogy is
this description about IBM executives shutting down the advanced
computing effort in the late 60s because it would advance the state of
the art too fast and they were afraid of loosing control of the business
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
From Amdahl interview:
IBM management decided not to do it, for it would advance the computing
capability too fast for the company to control the growth of the
computer marketplace, thus reducing their profit potential. I then
recommended that the ACS lab be closed, and it was.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser Date: 27 June 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
my nomination is head of the SEC ... also on Time's list of those
responsible
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
The administration is responsible for the selection of the head of the regulatory agencies as well as DOD, Treasury, and other agencies.
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office bldgs in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that turned out to be empty lots) ... however, they had limited market and not much uptake. In the late 90s, I was asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized loans as countermeasure.
Then they found that they could pay for triple-A ratings from the
rating agencies (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew
they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony). Triple-A ratings trump documentation and they found they
could start doing no-documentation liar loans (with no supporting
documents, there was no longer an issue of supporting document
integrity), pay for triple-A rating and sell off (including to large
pension funds that are restricted to dealing in "safe" investments,
claims it was major contribution to 30% drop in fund value and
trillions in pension shortfall) ... largely responsible for being able
to do over $27T between 2001-2008 (by comparison almost nothing during
the S&L crisis, major factor that economic mess last decade being
70times larger than the S&L crisis).
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
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to
create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A
rating and sell off to their customer/victims and then take out CDS
gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy
mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG
... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when
the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that
they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP
funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP
funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the
largest recipient of face-value payoffs).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Now the rhetoric in congress regarding Sarbanes-Oxley was that it
would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors
did jailtime ... however it required that the SEC do
something. Possibly because even GAO didn't think that SEC was doing
anything, GAO started doing reports of public company fraudulent
financial reporting, even showing increase after Sarbanes-Oxley goes
into effect (and nobody doing jailtime). Less well known is that
Sarbanes-Oxley also required that SEC do something about the rating
agencies ... and SEC's record with the rating agencies isn't any
better than with fraudulent financial reporting. Of course the head of
the SEC had a lot of help from the head of the federal reserve as well
as the secretary of the treasury.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Other trivia ... the Madoff congressional hearings had the person that
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC's hands were finally forced when Madoff turned himself
in).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
disclaimer: Jan2009 I was asked to HTMLize the Pecora hearings (had
been scanned the fall of 2008 at the Boston Public Library, 30s senate
hearings into the crash of '29) .... with lots of internal HREFs and
lots of URLs between what happened this time and what happened then
(comments that the new congress might have an appetite to do
something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't
be needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wallstreet money
totally burying washington DC).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it? Date: 27 June 2015 Blog: Mainframe ExpertsLong ago and far away we were brought into small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server; they had also invented this technology called "SSL"; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce"
Originally most of the e-commerce webservers were flat-file based ... but there were an increasing number that were RDBMS based. One of the increasing problems resulting in successful exploits was that RDBMS-based server maintenance was a lot more complex and tended to overrun the maintenance window ... then there would be a mad rush to get the webserver backup and operation. In the rush to make the webserver available, some of the attack countermeasures would be overlooked which attackers were then able to exploit
disclaimer: long ago and far away, my wife got con'ed into going to
POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture ... while there
she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture. However, she
didn't remain long ... partially because of ongoing skirmishes with
the communication group trying to force her into using sna/vtam for
loosely-coupled operation and partially because of little uptake,
except for IMS hot-standby (until sysplex).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
our last product at IBM wa HA/CMP ... we were doing both
high-availability as well as cluster scale-up. Out marketing, I coined
the terms disaster survivability and geographic survivability (to
differentiate from disaster/recovery) ref. to jan1992 scale-up meeting
in Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
the mainframe DB2 group was complaining that if I was allowed to go
ahead, it would be at least 5yrs ahead of them. Then within a couple
weeks of the Ellison meeting, the scale-up part was transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer for scientific and technical *ONLY* and
we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four
processors ... motivation for us to take the early-out and leave. some
old email from that period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Later two of the other people in that Ellison meeting, show up at small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server" and we are brought in as consultants because they want to do payments on the server. I have absolute authority on something called the "payment gateway" (sits on the internet and handles transactions between webservers and the payment networks, not known to have had any exploits) but could only make recommendations on the client/server, browser/webserver part. Almost immediately various of the recommendations are violated accounting for some number of exploits that continue to this day.
Much earlier, Jim Gray left IBM Research for Tandem ... and plams off
a number of things on me ... including consulting with the IMS group
as well as work with original relational/SQL implementation
System/R. Later at Tandem, Jim does a study of what fails and affects
availability ... found that hardware had increasingly gotten more
reliable and outages are increasingly caused by software, human
errors, and environmental issues (power outages, floods, earthquakes,
etc). Some summary from that study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
storage management trivia: In the late 70s, I had done the original
cmsback for internal datacenters. It goes through some internal
releases and then is picked up and PC and workstation clients added
and released as workstation datasave. Then the disk division picks it
up and renames it ADSM (adstar storage manager). With the demise of
the disk division, it is transferred and renamed TSM. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
Between leaving IBM and doing the consulting that turned into electronic commerce ... we were brought in to the largest airline reservation system to look at the ten impossible things that they couldn't do. They gave me a copy of the full OAG tape (all scheduled commercial flts in the world) to start with on ROUTES (find flt(s) from origin to destination). Two months later I came back with implementation that did all ten impossible things and could handle all traffic for all airlines in the world on ten rs/6000 990s. Then the hand wringing started and after six months they finally said they hadn't actually wanted me to do it, they just wanted to be able to tell the board of the parent company that I was working on it. It turned out that their ACP/TPF mainframe implementation was a 60s design based technology tradeoff and required something like 800 people providing support ... all that manual work accounted for some amount of the impossible things. Starting from scratch and doing a 90s technology trade-off eliminated all those manual operations. A little over a decade later, cellphones had the processing power of those ten rs/6000 990s
Linux saw upswing with hobbiest ... but also in the large GRID computing centers and then cloud megadatacenters ... where a lot of invention and software changes were necessary (requiring freely available source). It harks back to the early 360 days were lots of invention and software occurred at datacenters ... when source was available and it was from the datacenters that came lots of the mainframe products that continue to exist today ... HASP/JES2, ASP/JES3, IMS, CICS, etc.
GRID computer centers started the assembly of their own blades ... which continued with the large cloud megadatacenters ... that have been claiming for more than a decade that they assemble their own blades for 1/3rd the cost of band name blades (the related commodization of computing being a motivation for IBM to sell off its server business). IBM had a base list price of $1815 for e5-2600V1 blade or about $3.50/BIPS ... cloud megadatacenters were then doing it for almost $1/BIPS. A e5-2600v3 blade is rated at about 2.5 times the processing power of e5-2600v1 blade for about the same price and a e5-2600v4 blade will be closer to 3.5 times the processing power of e5-2600v1. By comparison z196 mainframe was $560,000/BIPS and ec12 was $440,000/BIPS (and source not freely available)
Some claims that server processor manufacturers now ship more server processor chips to large cloud megadatacenters than to brand name server makers. A high-density rack of e5-2600v4 blades will now have upwards of 200TIPs in processing power ... and a cloud megadatacenter will have hundreds of thousands of systems/blades (more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today).
This has been an enormous, emerging dataprocessing paradigm ... originally nearly all LINUX based. The drastic drop in system costs has resulted in major cloud megadatacenter cost shifting to power&cooling ... and they become more focused on power&cooling system cost than the cost of systems. The enormous drop in system costs also allows for enormous number of idle systems available for "on-demand" computing (as long as power/cooling cost drops to zero while systems are idle). A cloud megadatacenter with hundreds of thousands of systems is run by between 80-120 people. With the establishment of enormous clusters of processors as the major computing market (originally almost all LINUX based) ... some of the other software systems are adding features to move into the market.
recent posts mentioning (cloud) megadatacenters:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#69 Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 09:36:20 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
the large (failed) pilot in the early part of the century was just part
of the issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
I've periodically mentioned that in conjunction with major effort in the UK deployment was effectively reversing the burden of proof in dispute ... increase cost to the merchant for new terminals and infrastructure was offset by reduced cost of disputes (which also saw big reduction in costs to the financial institutions).
In the US that would have required undoing "Reg-E" ... which assumes that the institution has the burden of proof in dispute ... to prove the person did it ... as opposed that to the person having to prove that they didn't do it.
During chip&pin deployment in the UK, I was contracted by a legal representative of one such person in dispute with their financial institution. There was dispute about withdrawal at ATM machine ... the person claimed he didn't do it. With the reverse in dispute, the person had to prove they didn't do it ... say producing the ATM surveillance video showing it was done by somebody else (the bank wasn't required to produce the ATM surveilance video showing that they had done it).
past posts mentioning "burden of proof":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#nonreput Sender and receiver non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#terror7 [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#72 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#59 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#0 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#55 MD5 collision in X509 certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#33 Digital signatures have a big problem with meaning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#0 the limits of crypto and authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#35 [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#14 Shifting the Burden - legal tactics from the contracts world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#33 Chip-and-Pin terminals were replaced by "repairworkers"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#60 crypto component services - is there a market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#63 Public key encrypt-then-sign or sign-then-encrypt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#38 The Trouble with Threat Modelling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#57 RealNames hacked. Firewall issues.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#34 does CA need the proof of acceptance of key binding ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#59 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#62 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#69 Digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#17 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#41 xml-security vs. native security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#6 Creating certs for others (without their private keys)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#11 Question about authentication protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#26 How good is TEA, REALLY?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#42 Catch22. If you cannot legally be forced to sign a document etc - Tax Declaration etc etc etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#32 When *not* to sign an e-mail message?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#8 Beginner's Pubkey Crypto Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#28 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#23 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#67 open source voting
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/2009i.html#52 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#71 Sophisticated cybercrooks cracking bank security efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#72 Why don't people use certificate-based access authentication?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#1 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#3 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#21 Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#24 Cambridge researchers show Chip and PIN system vulnerable to fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#47 Industry groups leap to Chip and PIN's defence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#7 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#82 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#23 A mighty fortress is our PKI, Part II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#77 towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#60 A Two Way Non-repudiation Contract Exchange Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#62 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#35 The Conceptual ATM program
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/2013g.html#38 regulation,bridges,streams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#52 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
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/2013m.html#20 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#58 US a laggard in adopting more secure credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#69 Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#67 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#43 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#39 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#65 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:18:04 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
note that issue with european telecom availability and/or cost was from the late 80s and early 90s. By the start of the century that was starting to significantly change (but a lot of the designs still were based on the earlier constraints). Something seems funny in Google this morning, just doing web search on "european telecom constraints 1980s", the first page are all books.google.com.
the original chip&pin specification work in Europe was somewhat card
associations reacting to competition with the upswing in
"stored-value" chip systems ... being able to do operations purely
offline between two chips (transfer from one chip to another) with no
telecom requirements ... systems like DigiCash & Mondex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex
the first UK chip&pin deployment in the 90s was by IBM in conjunction
with Safeway almost 20yrs ago, past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#16 Fraudwatch - Chip&PIN one-sided story, banks and deception and liability shifts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#33 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#64 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#26 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#84 CARD AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY - Embedded keypad on Card - Is this the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#3 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#7 XML-based formats vs. ISO8583
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#65 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
then there was the "yes card" period around the first part of century
and then pull back in most markets.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
Then "burden of proof" (re)deployment in UK was around decade ago.
Another issue that appeared the first part of the century was with the "safe debit" internet payment products. A couple "safe debit" internet payment products were pitched to major internet merchants (accounting for possibly 70% of transactions) that saw high acceptance. Merchants had been indoctrinated for decades that the interchange fee they paid for electronic payment transactions was heavily prorated based on fraud rates ... with internet transactions having the highest surcharge. The internet merchants was expecting something like order of magnitude reduction in the fees paid with "safe debit". Then came the cognitive dissonance, instead of being told they would have an order of magnitude reduction ... they were told that they would have to pay a surcharge on top of the highest fee they were already paying ... and the whole thing falls apart. The issue was that the fraud surcharge was heavily inflated with profit component for financial institutions. These payment fees accounted for 40-60% of US bank bottom line (compared to less than 10% for European institution) and order of magnitude reduction would represent big hit to US bank bottom line. Since then the card associations have tried to shift the interchange fee profit component from being fraud surcharge related to being "cash back" programs (so major fraud reduction wouldn't see a corresponding reduction in bank bottom line). It also explains why it was much easier for EU banks to introduce fraud reduction technology.
Other archaeological tidbits. In the 90s, Mondex was looking at expanding worldwide ... including into the US market. I was asked to design, size, cost, etc ... backend dataprocessing system for handling Mondex card loading & unloading for all of US market. However, during that effort, I also looked at the business process numbers and came up with the major financial motivation for Mondex was that the top-level organization got all the float on the stored-value. A little later, EU central banks decreed that the stored-value chipcard systems could keep the float for deployment grace period ... but would then have to start paying interest on value in the chipcards. After that started to see the demise of these systems.
Other trivia: as DigiCash was imploding, I was brought in to value their patent portfolio as part of the liquidation. It turns out that a lot of their patents had to do with mimizing chip memory store operations. Digicash evolved in a period when EEPROM memory had lifetime 10k-30k stores ... and reducing EEPROM store operations as close as possible to one per transaction ... significantly increased chipcard lifetime.
Also, the same time that Europe was seeing the offline stored-value chipcard deployments in the 90s, a magstripe based online stored-value infrastructure was developed in the US ... originally by First Financial ... relying on the ubiquitous and inexpensive point-of-sale infrastructure ... they basically added a backend stored-value system connected into the standard payment network ... and all the stored-value card account number prefixes would route to their system. This was the start of all the merchant and gift magstripe stored-value cards seen today (lots of different branded magstripe merchant/gift cards seen at grocery store checkouts). Pure aside, their original backend no-single-point-of-failure, high availability (not ha/cmp) system. However, in the middle of their first pilot they had glitch and lost the account balance database and had to refresh all the accounts with essentially maximum balance. I was brought in for the after action review and to try and make sure it never happened again.
past references mentioning ("safe debit") interchange fee and bank
bottom line.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#81 not crypto, but fraud detection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#44 Proposal for a new PKI model (At least I hope it's new)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#23 Is the solution FBA was Re: FW: Looking for Disk Calc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#59 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#68 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#11 Different Implementations of VLIW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#74 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#7 Payments start-up Noca takes aim at interchange Achilles heel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#37 The 20th Century of Central Banking is over
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/2009i.html#52 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#39 Network Rivalry Sparks 10-Year Quadrupling of PIN-Debit Pricing
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/2010j.html#6 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#36 Cookies Are Dead in the Fight Against Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#52 Payment Card Industry Pursues Profits Over Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#68 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#37 CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#23 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#39 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#68 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#1 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#69 Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
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#73 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#80 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#20 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#65 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#76 Did these tech and telecom companies assess the risk and return with respect to Anti-Money Laundering challenges?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#48 Mainframe on NCIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#44 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#55 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#65 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:39:33 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Part of chip&pin problems was choice of very expensive. very slow, very power hungry chip along with very heavy duty cryptography. It resulted in deployments that used static information authentication and crypto exchanges that even with power fed with physical contacts still took seconds.
For the "yes card", it turned out that the same exact compromises that
were used to skim transaction information to make counterfeit
magstripe would also skim chip&pin information for making counterfeit
"yes card". In support of doing offline transactions, once a
point-of-sale terminal performed simple check that it was dealing with
valid card (which was trivial for counterfeit "yes card" replaying
previously skimmed information), it would ask a chip&pin 3 questions
1) was the correct pin entered, 2) should the transaction be performed
offline and 3) is the transaction within the account credit limit. A
counterfeit "yes card" would always answer "YES" to all three
questions (it was not even necessary to have skimmed the valid PIN,
since a "yes card" would always say "yes" to whatever was entered).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
The challenge that I had was to be couple orders magnitude less expensive than chip&pin chip, significantly more secure chip, significantly faster and more secure crypto, and require much less power and be immune to things like skimming attacks. The transit industry asked for additional constraint that it perform within ISO 14443 proximity/contactless power constraint and within the transit turnstyle timing constraint of less than 1/10th second elapsed time ... while still being more secure than chip&pin.
One of the jokes told at a transit meeting about response they got for transit operation ... was to have a long "tunnel" in front of transit turnstyles and card sleave to convert between contact and contactless. People would be required to walk very slowly through the tunnel while the transaction was being performed ... prior to getting to the transit turnstyle.
It was demo'ed at the world-wide, annual retail banking show Dec. 1999
held in South Beach. some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
post with press release at show.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
trivia: press release includes reference to cybersafe ... which was originally formed to commercialize MIT Project Athena Kerberos ... and at the time of the show, they also had contract with m'soft doing their kerberos implementation (active directory).
past posts mentioning iso 14443:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#21 Smartcard in CD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#15 A challenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#18 A challenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#6 x9.59
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#7 EMV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#40 FraudWatch - Chip&Pin, a new tenner (USD10)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#56 UK Detects Chip-And-PIN Security Flaw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#16 Dutch Transport Card Broken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#44 Realistic dynamics of contactless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#77 Reading wireless (vicinity) smart cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#76 time again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#77 time again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#39 Convenient and secure eCommerce using POWF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#66 Modular Exponentiations on Battery-run devices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#8 14443 protocol information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#64 Can you use ECC to produce digital signatures? It doesn't see
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#25 Are there any authentication algorithms with runtime changeable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#63 Dumbest optimization ever?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#8 Digital Signature Standards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#30 ECC Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#4 Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#10 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#19 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#11 Why not 2048 or 4096 bit RSA key issuance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#34 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#76 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#3 Govt demands password to personal computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#56 Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#61 Osama bin Laden gets a cosmetic makevover in his British Vanity Passport
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#67 A mighty fortress is our PKI, Part II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#57 Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently
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#24 The first personal computer (PC)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:50:11 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
i've periodically had this discussion about confusing identification
and authentication ... even recently accusing a former director of
certain gov. agency of their purposefully perpetuating the confusion
... he and his former assistant director were on panel discussion
... and his former assitant director quiped back what about
non-repudiation (side-track the discussion) ... aka from security
PAIN/CAIN mnemonic
Privacy/Confidential
Authentication
Identification
Non-repudiation
some past identification/authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#3dsecure 3D Secure Vulnerabilities? Photo ID's and Payment Infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#72 Account Numbers. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#73 Account Numbers. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#17 continuity of identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#35 [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#23 Identity resurges as a debate topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#47 The Tao Of Backup: End of postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#64 More on garbage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#19 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#46 Windows Monitor or CUSP?
PAIN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#53 Authentication white paper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#cfppki15 CFP: PKI research workshop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#cfppki17 CFP: PKI research workshop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#cfppki18 CFP: PKI research workshop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#paiin PAIIN security glossary & taxonomy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#11 Meaning of Non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#12 Meaning of Non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#39 An attack on paypal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#11 Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example: secure computing kernel needed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#13 The PAIN mnemonic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#14 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#17 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#18 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#23 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#3 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#5 Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#28 Definitions of "Security"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#47 the limits of crypto and authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#28 solving the wrong problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#18 'Virtual Card' Offers Online Security Blanket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#5 long-term GPG signing key
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#45 Court rules email addresses are not signatures, and signs death warrant for Digital Signatures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#33 Mozilla moves on security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#38 How the Classical Scholars dropped security from the canon of Computer Science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#8 What is the point of encrypting information that is publicly visible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#17 Changing the Mantra -- RFC 4732 on rethinking DOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#27 man in the middle, SSL ... addenda
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#63 Public key encrypt-then-sign or sign-then-encrypt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#15 307 digit number factored
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#37 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#47 The Tao Of Backup: End of postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#22 securID weakness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#29 Biometric cards will not stop identity fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#11 Order of Encryption and Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#51 Security via hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#64 More on garbage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#26 More on garbage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#55 Encryption Everywhere? (Was: Re: Ho boy! Another big one!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#29 Importing CA certificate to smartcard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#35 More Phishing scams, still no SSL being used
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#36 More Phishing scams, still no SSL being used
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#42 public key authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#53 Barcode Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#13 IPSEC with non-domain Server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#27 whats the difference between Encryption and Encoding ? or both are same ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005v.html#3 ABN Tape - Found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#35 X.509 and ssh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#26 Caller ID "spoofing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#44 Does the Data Protection Act of 2005 Make Sense
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#15 OpenSSL Hacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#40 Encryption and authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#49 Patent buster for a method that increases password security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#25 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#33 security engineering versus information security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#35 security engineering versus information security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#35 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#34 Mixed Case Password on z/OS 1.7 and ACF 2 Version 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#31 Is that secure : <form action="https" from a local HTML page ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#58 T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#65 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#74 public key password authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#53 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#8 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#63 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#55 Is data classification the right approach to pursue a risk based information security program?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#83 Certificate Purpose
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#6 SECURITY and BUSINESS CONTINUITY ..... Where they fit in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#29 is privacy a security attribute(component or ?). If yes, why? If no why not?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#92 Why do most websites use HTTPS only while logging you in...and not for the entire session?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#7 GSM eavesdropping
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#9 NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#13 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#49 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:34:06 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
the first major bill after congress allowed the fiscal responsibility
act to expire in 2002 was medicare part-d. cbs 60 mins did program on
the 18 republican members and staffers responsible for getting the bill
passed. the added one line sentence just before final vote that
prevented competitive bidding and prevented distribution of CBO report
analysing the effect of the change. they showed identical drugs from the
VA that allows competitive bidding that were 1/3rd the price under
medicare part-d. shortly after the bill passes, all 18 have resigned and
are on drug industry payrolls ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
US comptroller general would make the observation that medicare part-d
was enormous gift to the drug industry and will come to represent
long-term $40T mandate, totally swamping all other budget items.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
as aside, in 2010, CBO did manage to release report on the effect of
allowing fiscal responsibility act (required spending not exceed tax
revenue) to expire in 2002; tax revenue was decreased by $6T and
spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to fiscal
responsiblity baseline budget). 2005 or so, comptroller general started
including in speeches that there was nobody in congress capable of
middle school arithmetic (for how they were savaging the budget).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
recent references to economists claiming congress is most corrupt
institution on earth, in large part for selling (renting?) tax loopholes
... and independent of other issues with "flat tax" ... it would be
beneficial just for elimination of tax loopholes.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#48 These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:22:17 -0700simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) writes:
my point has been that the card associations have long history of trying to preserve their relavence and the status quo. big part of card associations rise was as value-added-networks (along with many others in the 70s & 80s) ... providing interconnect between merchant processors and issuer processors (at a time when there were tens of thousands of such entities).
with the rise of the internet, the value-added-networks became obsolete ... mostly disappearing ... the card associations is possibly the last remaining vestige ... and constantly trying to preserve the status quo and their vested interests. this has directly or indirectly contributed significantly to most of the glitches over the last 20-30 yrs.
in the US, consolidation and outsourcing had resulted in six directly connected datacenters handling 90% all transactions by the start of the century. There were some huge legal battles trying to claim that all such transactions were "on-us" and not subject to card association interchange fees ... since none of the card association processing was invovled. There was also large retail merchant legal action about card association forcing default point-of-sale operation to be signature-debit because of the much higher fraud and profit for the association ... rather than PIN-debit with much lower fraud and also significantly lower interchange fee/profit.
Along the way card associations introduced (magstripe) debit cards with association "bug" (on the card) that could be used at point-of-sale (as signature debit).
Originally all magstripe cards just had straight information encoded, however attackers could generate counterfeit magstripe card from knowing the account number. card associations invented "secure hash" added to the magstripe ... basically all BINs (account number routing prefix) got a secret key. A secure hash was generated from a combination of the secret key and account number and appended to the magstripe. Now attackers had to actually skim static information from a valid magstripe in order to generate a counterfeit card (which was also true of original generations of chip&pin).
However, debit cards never evolved such mechanisms for simple account number magstripe ... since they already had a PIN which prevented such a counterfeit card being used for fraudulent transactions. It wasn't until the card associations created "signature-debit" ... that it became a problem. Then the card associations had bunch of press releases about primitive magstripe technology used by debit industry (i.e. lacking secure hash as countermeasure to trivial counterfeit cards, it wasn't even necessary to "know" the account number ... with fairly dense use of account numbers that followed pattern, just create counterfeit cards with account numbers that followed the pattern). However, it was the card associations criticizing the debit industry as misdirection away from it having been a problem created by the card associations.
As an aside you sort of see the secure hash extended for the internet which is the 4-5 digit number on the front or back of the card ... and telephone orders and internet orders may now request.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:59:47 -0700re:
one of the only remaining claimed features left for the card associations value-added network is "stand-on" ... they will perform ("stand-in") the "auth" operation if it is unable to contact the issuing institution (however, for the six datacenters doing 90% of operations, they have better availability than the card associations).
however, the "stand-in" justification then has mandated all sorts of other problems. The "secure hash" for magstripe validation as part of "stand-in" ... had to require that the card associations have a copy of each BIN's secret key ... and it had to be BIN-level ... since there was no way for card associations to manage account level secrets (aka they have a table of secrets for every BIN ... but its impractical for the card association processing to have a table entry for every account in the world).
The chip&pin has required significant increase in point-of-sale integrity to handle account level validation information, and a paradigm that enabled the chip to present the necessary validation to the point-of-sale terminal ... since there was no mechanism for "stand-in" at the card associations of performing the operation (with "stand-in" being one of the last remaining justifications for the card association and interchange) ... any chip&pin implementation had to perserve the appearance that the card associations are still useful.
The "downfall" of x9.59 financial transaction standard ... was it was a very lightweight transaction that provided end-to-end security (from point-of-sale all the way through to the issuer). It didn't require any additional integrity of the point-of-sale terminal ... and it did do end-to-end account level verification ... which precluded any use of stand-in at the card associations (and one of their last remaining justifications to exist) ... as well as enabling end-to-end use of the internet.
It was designed for all payment methods (internet, face-to-face,
point-of-sale, attended, unattended, remote, etc) and all payment types
debit, credit, ACH, etc ... as per the requirements given the x9a10
financial standard working group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
misc. past posts mentioning "stand-in"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#mapchng Suggested changes to Annex B, 8583 mapping
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#x959risk2 Risk Management in AA / draft X9.59
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm4.htm#8 Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#72 Account Numbers. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#21 IBM alternative to PKI?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#33 two questions about spki
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#54 TTPs & AADS Was: First Data Unit Says It's Untangling Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#14 A challenge (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#48 basic question: semantics of "map", "tie", etc in PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#22 [anonsec] Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#42 Another entry in the internet security hall of shame
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#26 man in the middle, SSL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#17 Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#18 Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#46 Can I create my own SSL key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#45 InfiniBand Group Sharply, Evenly Divided
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#24 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#30 Caller ID "spoofing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#30 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#31 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#1 In SSL We Trust? Not Lately
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#27 taking down the machine - z9 series
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:39:34 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
also google+
https://plus.google.com/+LynnWheeler/posts/VnVEQK8mgqc
Former Senator Slams Washington As Corrupt "Sewer", Calls For Outraged
Young Americans To Revolt
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-30/former-senator-slams-washington-corrupt-sewer-calls-outraged-young-americans-revolt
How Gary Hart Tried to Change Military History
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-gary-hart-tried-to-change-military-history/384064/
An Agenda for More Military Reform
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/13/opinion/an-agenda-for-more-military-reform.html
helped provide Spinney and Boyd cover ... including after
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
beltway bandits & military industrial complex spreading Success Of Failure
culture, new ways to scam the gov. for money, especially aided
by congress and big upswing in gov. outsourcing to "for-profit"
companies ... especially when involved with private equity operations
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of another large
private-equity company which does LBO of company that employed Snowden:
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. They're not going away any time soon unless the
CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf laptops,
networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security clearances used to
be a government function too, but are now a profit center for various
private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
especially when they get paid for doing background checks but just fillout paperwork and skip the checks.
account of how private-equity turned LBO into similar to house flipping,
except the loan stays with the company when it sells; they can even sell
for much less than they paid and still walk away with boatloads of money
(major factor in spike in corporate defaults).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous pressure to
generate money every way possible (including the security clearance
companies just doing paperwork and skipping actually doing any
checking). there has been long standing revolving door between gov and
beltway bandits and/or wallstreet ... example is recent CIA director
resigned in disgrace including slap on the wrist for leaking classified
documents ... joins KKR.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/k-k-r-hires-petraeus/
more recent KKR: SEC Hits Private Equity Kingpin KKR for $29 Million,
Including $10 Million in Fines
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/sec-hits-private-equity-kingpin-kkr-for-29-million-including-10-million-in-fines.html
as periodically mentioned industries involved in all sorts of financial manipulation are getting use to such regulatory action as just "cost of doing business" ... since it is relatively trivial precentage of their total take.
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
other recent private equity
Top Private Equity Reporter: CalPERS is Either Lying or Has "a Massive
Breakdown in Financial Controls"
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/top-private-equity-reporter-calpers-is-either-lying-or-has-a-massive-breakdown-in-financial-controls.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:09:40 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
I did AADS ... basically straight technical replacement of pins&passwords with public key ... kept same infrastructure but enormously more secure ... had updates to RADIUS, KERBEROS, standard for ALL payment transactions (point-of-sale, internet) and other authentication infrastructure. AADS downfall was that there was no new money for anyone (just security and reduced fraud). PKIs were out doing $20B/annum business case on wallstreet and getting lots of investment.
ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
some past PK radius posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#radius
some past PK kerberos posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos
For instance, PKI forces put enormous pressure on KERBEROS PKINIT to be PKI public key ... which would require buying digital certificates.
We were brought in to help wordsmith the Cal. state electronic signature legislation ... and they had been under enormous PKI industry pressure to mandate PKI in the electronic signature legislation.
some electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
while doing the work with "SSL" for what becomes "electronic commerce"
... i start referring to the PKI "digital certificates" ... as "comfort
certificates" ... being hyped to provide the public with feeling of
security comfort (warm fuzzies)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss5 Common misconceptions, was Re: KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss7 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmail.htm#comfort AADS & X9.59 performance and algorithm key sizes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#pkiart2 Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#80 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#votec (my) long winded observations regarding X9.59 & XML, encryption and certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#openclose open CADS and closed AADS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert2 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert3 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert4 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert5 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert6 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert7 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert8 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert9 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert10 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert11 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert12 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert13 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert14 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert15 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert16 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert17 Merchant Comfort Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay6.htm#dspki use of digital signatures and PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#scale Scale (and the SRV record)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#mcomfort Human Nature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#mcomf3 Human Nature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#useire U.S. & Ireland use digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#useire2 U.S. & Ireland use digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#33 An attack on paypal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#36 signing all outbound email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#1 Extended Validation - setting the minimum liability, the CA trap, the market in browser governance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#25 EV - what was the reason, again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#62 Fingerprint Firefox Plugin?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#47 delegating SSL certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#32 Request for review of "secure" storage scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#62 SSL weaknesses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#26 Can I create my own SSL key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#41 InfiniBand Group Sharply, Evenly Divided
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#43 Proposal for a new PKI model (At least I hope it's new)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#39 SSL certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#43 why and how VeriSign, thawte became a trusted CA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#4 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#1 The Worth of Verisign's Brand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#34 RSA SecurID product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#9 PGP Lame question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#33 The new High Assurance SSL Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#29 X.509 and ssh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#17 SSL info
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#67 SLL Certificate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#20 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#31 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#18 How to tell a fake SSL certificate from a real one
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#46 More holes found in Web's SSL security protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#6 OSS's Simple Sabotage Field Manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#3 Sophisticated cybercrooks cracking bank security efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#22 Rogue PayPal SSL Certificate Available in the Wild - IE, Safari and Chrome users beware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#79 In SSL We Trust? Not Lately
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#84 In SSL We Trust? Not Lately
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/2010l.html#57 A mighty fortress is our PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#62 A mighty fortress is our PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#71 A slight modification of my comments on PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#79 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#77 towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#31 Survey Outlines Compliance Challenge Among Small Merchants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#36 Cookies Are Dead in the Fight Against Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#14 How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#25 Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#24 Fight Fraud with Device ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#63 Why do defenders keep losing to smaller cyberwarriors?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#64 Fraudulent Google credential found in the wild
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#65 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#48 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#23 Benefits of Online Banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#48 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#6 Founders of SSL Call Game Over?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#54 Speed: Re: Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#7 The Convergence of PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#26 Can SSL Certificate Checking System Be Saved?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#71 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#7 [Cryptography] Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#85 Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:35:05 -0700Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources
one of the original virtual machine based online service bureaus from
the 60s (along with NCSS, which was later bought by D&B). some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
private equity took it private for $3.4B in 2010. A frequent
private-equity scenario would have added $3.5+B loan (for loan & fees)
to IDC books .... flipping it for $5B would mean being able to walk away
with nearly the whole $5B (in addition to various fees that have already
charged off to the company) ... leaving IDC to service the original loan
for the purchase (companies put through the private-equity mill account
for over half of corporate defaults). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:43:06 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a little finger slip ... NSCC should be "NCSS"
I've mentioned before there was brief mention of IDC in jan2009 being
used to value the off-book (triple-A rated) toxic assets of the too big
to fail as part of TARP (had total $700B appropriated)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
IDC had bought the pricing services division from one of the rating agencies in the early 70s (I've made semi-humorous references that rating agencies may have decided that they no longer actually needed to value something in order to rate it).
However, it turns out that just the four largest too big to fail still
had $5.2T off-book toxic assets end of 2008 ... which the $700B couldn't
come close to cover. In fact early in 2008, several tens of billions of
off-boog toxic assets had gone for 22cents on the dollar. The $700B
wouldn't even cover the $1.44T for that $5.2T at 22cents on the dollar
(but that would have also resulted in the four TBTF declared insolvent
and forced to be liquidated).
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
It is possible that the sec. of treasury never really intended to use TARP for toxic asset purchase ... just wanted a large pot of money for other purposes.
The Fed Reserve fought long legal battle to prevent public release of what it was doing ... turns out it was buying off-book toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions of ZIRP funds to the TBTF. It has been pointed out that so far the TBTF have racked up total of $300B in fines and penalties ... however they've been making at least $300B/annum of the ZIRP funds (besides the enormous amounts they've been making off the illegal activity that they've been fined for).
TBTF besides paying rating agencies for triple-A ratings on securitized
loans ... largely enabling the $27+T done between 2001-2008,
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
TBTF found that they could design securitized loans to fail, sell to their victims/customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (enormously increasing demand for dodgy loans & mortgages). Sec. of treasury had long legal fight to prevent public release of what he was doing with TARP&AIG. AIG was the primary holder of these CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60 cents on the dollar. The secretary of treasury steps in and forces AIG to sign a document that AIG couldn't sue those making the gambling bets and take TARP funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP funds, and company formaly headed by sec. of treasury is the largest recipient of face value payoffs).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:41:26 -0700John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
however it does mention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_S.A.#Acquisition_of_Orange_and_privatization
In July 1991, Hutchinson Telecom, a UK subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based
conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa acquires a controlling stake in Microtel
Communications Ltd, who by then had won a license to develop a mobile
network in United Kingdom.[5][6][7] Hutchison renamed Microtel as Orange
Personal Communications Services Ltd, and on 28 April 1994 the Orange
brand was launched in the UK mobile phone market
... snip ...
as it happens in fall 1991 was in HK selling ha/cmp system to hutchinson
for paging text messaging.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
this description is written as if there were no EMV deployments prior
to middle of last decade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
and in particular "yes card" ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
however it does mention this 2010 exploit ... able to use a valid card
w/o knowing the PIN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#2010:_Hidden_hardware_disables_PIN_checking_on_stolen_card
also from above
Originally bank customers had to prove that they had not been negligent
with their PIN before getting redress, but UK regulations in force from
1 November 2009 placed the onus firmly on the banks to prove that a
customer has been negligent in any dispute, with the customer given 13
months to make a claim.[24] Murdoch said that "[the banks] should look
back at previous transactions where the customer said their PIN had not
been used and the bank record showed it has, and consider refunding
these customers because it could be they are victim of this type of
fraud."
... snip ...
reversed public "burden of proof" and then reversed it again.
also points to "Chip and PIN 'not fit for purpose', says Cambridge
researcher"
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN_'not_fit_for_purpose',_says_Cambridge_researcher
As previously mentioned the big difference between X9.59/AADS and chip&pin was chip&pin still attempts to preserve the existing card association operation with multiple layers of infrastructure. X9.59/AADS objective was stronger end-to-end security *AND* significantly decreasing the burden on the rest of the infrastructure ... even allowing everything (point-of-sale, browser, face-to-face, unattended, credit, debit, ach, etc) to run over the internet w/o encryption.
past posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#3 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#6 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#7 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#8 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#11 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#12 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#14 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:59:13 -0700Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
also as mentioned in the above, they managed to subvert CAPTCHA measures.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: US money Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:36:09 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
"fortune" used to put in a fortune cookie mesage
used to have lines from "zippy the pinhead" comics ... but possibly removed because of copyright(???)
past references to zippy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#5 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#77 Inserting autom. random signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#78 Inserting autom. random signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#7 disk write caching (was: ibm icecube -- return of
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#48 Random signatures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#48 Xah Lee's Unixism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#50 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#19 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#43 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#55 Tell me something about how you use signature files!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#45 Taglines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#55 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:55:11 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a little recent topic drift on aads (taken from a thread discussing
F35)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
The problem has been raised about valid chips are being bought offshore that might have backdoors introduced. However, there is also problem where counterfeit chips (which could also have backdoors) may be substituted for valid chips ... similar to problems where counterfeit physical parts have been substituted for milspec parts (like bolts that don't meet milspec standards and will fail under stress).
Probe finds 'flood' of fake military parts from China in
U.S. equipment
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/probe-finds-flood-of-fake-military-parts-from-china-in-u-s-equipment/
note part of panel at ballroom standing room only
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/conference-paper/1998/10/08/proceedings-of-the-21st-nissc-1998
I semi-facetiously say I was taking $500 milspec chip, aggressively cost reducing by 2-3 orders of magnitude while making it more secure.
then TD to deputy director for the information assurance directorate
asks me to be on assurance panel in the trusted computing track at IDF
... gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
The person running TPM program is in the front row, so I comment that it is nice to see that over the past year or so, the TPM is starting to look more like my chip, he quips back that I don't have a committee of 200 people helping me with the design. I also make claim that it is as secure as anything the agency is doing while being 2-3 orders of magnitude less expensive (even when fab'ed at commercial agency certified "secure" fab), the Information Assurance Directorate TD quips back possibly except for radiation hardening. However, the agency has had a problem keeping their in-house fabs tracking technology.
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
Internet threats are just a small part. Boyd used millions of dollars
of supercomputer time for E/M and F16 design, F16 was already part way
to being a drone with "fly-by-wire", F22 has 1.7M lines-of-code, F35
was originally suppose to be 5.7M lines-of-code but has exploded now
to 24M lines-of-code. Software plays major role in gov. dataprocessing
modernization failures and the spreading Success Of Failure culture:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess; Tests jettisoned to
protect schedule
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/22/us_military_finds_f35_software_is_a_buggy_mess/
also some more 2007 Success Of Failure .... Who broke the law,
Snowden or the NSA?
http://chicagodefender.com/2013/12/18/who-broke-the-law-snowden-or-the-nsa/
When NSA employees Bill Binney, Tom Drake, Diane Roark and I
submitted a formal complaint about mismanagement at the agency, the
government's response on July 26, 2007, was to send the FBI to raid
our homes, searching them for seven hours and seizing our computers,
phones and other digital media. We are just now getting our property
back after having successfully sued the government in December 2012.
... snip ...
possibly somewhat related ... 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
note that in the gov. Success Of Failure paradigm ... they are always claiming that the latest upteenth round for weapons, security, cyber, dataprocessing, etc ... will magically correct all past shortcomings.
disclaimer: I don't have clearance ... but have periodically gotten called in, possibly because they've used a lot of my stuff over the years going back to my undergraduate days in the 60s (they would periodically brag that they knew where I was every day of my life back to birth).
there was unclassified IC-ARDA (now IARPA) BAA early in the Success Of Failure period (which we didn't realize until all the publicity much later last decade), we get a call asking us to respond before the BAA closed end-of-day ... apparently nobody else had responded ... BAA basically said that nothing they had would do the job. We responded before the end-of-day and then there were a couple meetings where we showed that we could 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 other 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).
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 08:48:59 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
more in the cyberdumb theme, including OPM servers not only ones pillaged ... also classified military, from recent F-35 discussions
US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess; Tests jettisoned to
protect schedule
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/22/us_military_finds_f35_software_is_a_buggy_mess/
so maybe F-35 is really purposeful bad design to get adviseries to waste resources trying to copy
Confirmation that China stole F35, F22 and B2 stealth bomber secrets as
early as 2007
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/confirmation-that-china-stole-f35-f22.html
Chinese Hackers Score F-35, Black Hawk Chopper, and PATRIOT Missile Data
http://www.dailytech.com/Chinese+Hackers+Score+F35+Black+Hawk+Chopper+and+PATRIOT+Missile+Data/article31638.htm
Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter; Design
data on F-35 stolen in 2007
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/stolen-f-35-secrets-now-showing-up-in-chinas-stealth-fighter/
New fear: Worm that ransacked US military PCs was blueprint for spies'
super-malware; Secret stealer spawned spooks' snoop stooge, it seems
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/cyber_espionage_daddy/
Stolen F-35 Secrets Showing Up In China's Stealth Fighter
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/03/stolen-f-35-secrets-showing-up-in.html
Officials: Chinese Spying Helped Develop Stealth Jet
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-cyberspying-f-35-stealth-jet/2014/03/13/id/559402/
New Chinese stealth jet built with stolen F-35 component designs
http://rt.com/news/chinese-jet-cyber-espionage-stolen-718/
Chinese Stealth Fighter Operating With Stolen U.S. Technology
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/13/chinese-stealth-fighter-operating-with-stolen-u-s-technology/
more gov. Cyber Dumb
Government Software Project Failure
http://defense.about.com/od/prodinnovate/a/Government-Software-Project-Failures.htm
World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/139218/worlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure
The scariest software project horror stories of 2012
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234581/The_scariest_software_project_horror_stories_of_2012
Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/technology/air-force-stumbles-over-software-modernization-project.html?_r=0
Opinion: Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_02_24_2014_p16-664173.xml
NSA director calls for stronger strategy to deter cyberattacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-director-calls-for-stronger-deterrent-strategy-to-oppose-cyberattacks/2014/02/27/aabd3d92-9fd4-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html
Army Unit to Intel Center: DCGS Doesn't Work
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2014/03/23/army-unit-to-intel-center-dcgs-doesnt-work/
The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't
Work
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/03/pentagon-spent-27-billion-intelligence-system-doesnt-work/359319/
$2.7 Billion Later, the Army's Intelligence-Sharing Computer System
Still Doesn't Work
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/27-billion-later-army%E2%80%99s-intelligence-sharing-computer-system-still-doesn%E2%80%99t-work
Exclusive: Pentagon Withholds Internal Report About Flawed $2.7 Billion
Intel Program
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/18/exclusive_pentagon_withholds_report_2.7_billion_intel_program
International Engagement on CYBER 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
Commander: U.S. Military Not Ready for Cyber Warfare; Gen. Alexander
tells Senate threat of major cyber attacks is growing
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/commander-u-s-military-not-ready-for-cyber-warfare/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 19:57:53 -0700re:
a little more on private equity
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
... the private-equity firm that had become the nation's ninth-largest
defense contractor by 2001.
....
Among them was Halliburton, the Texas oil-services and logistics
firm. In 1995, after retiring as George H.W. Bush's defense secretary,
Dick Cheney became the CEO of Halliburton. Over the next five years, he
transformed the company into one of the world's largest military
contractors. Around the same time, the elder Bush was hired as a senior
adviser to the Carlyle Group. By the time Cheney became George W. Bush's
vice president in 2001, outsourcing was official policy, and the
migration of senior-level government officials into the defense and
intelligence industries was standard practice.
... snip ...
when Gerstner left CEO of IBM, he went to Carlyle. Carlyle LBOs include BAH (snowden's employer). Big upswing last decade in outsourcing gov. to for-profit companies, especially those that have been in private-equity mill.
private equity post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
misc. more private equity
CalPERS Scrambles to Get Private Equity Carry Fee Info After We Break
Story That They Had No Clue What They Were Paying
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/calpers-scrambles-to-get-private-equity-carry-fee-info-after-we-break-story-that-they-had-no-clue-what-they-were-paying.html
Sacramento Bee Reports on CalPERS' Fee Lapses
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/sacramento-bee-reports-on-calpers-fee-lapses.html
and "team b" posts (bush, rumsfeld, cheney, wolfowitz)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO) Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 08:36:03 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
they sucked me in a little to effort for hyperthreading the 195 (that
never shipped) ... two instruction streams would then have possibility
to keep execution units running at max. see red/blue multithreading here
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
the downside is that MVT from 360/65MP was pretty inefficient ... had a global kernel spinlock. even MVT rework for MVS 370 was fairly crude SMP. 370 cache MPs (158 & 168) ran machine cyle at .9 a uniprocessor ... to allow for overhead of cross-cache serialization/synchronization chatter ... so two processor hardware was only 1.8 that of single processor. However, MVS guidelines was two processor throughput would only be 1.3.-1.5 times that of single process (because of multiprocessor software inefficiencies).
compare&swap had been invented by charlie (name chosen because CAS are
his initials) while working on cp67 fine-grain multiprocessor locking at
the science center. then an attempt was made to get compare&swap
instruction added to 370. however, it was initially rebuffed because the
POK favorite son operating system people claimed that test&set was more
than adequate for multiprocessor support (especially if all you are
doing is kernel spin-lock). the 370 architecture owners said that to get
compare&swap added to 370 would require more justification than just
operating system serialization. Thus was born the examples for
application use for serialization (whether running single or
multi-processor) ... which are still included in mainframe principles of
operation. this is decade old
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320
I did vm370 some multiprocessor support in the late 70s that with some slight of hand got better than 1.8 times throughput ... a combination of minimal multiprocessor serialization overhead and some implicit cache affinity (that happened because of some kernel restructure w/o explicit instructions) ... which increased cache hit ratios that offset the reduced machine cycle (and the minimum multiprocessor serializationo overhead).
some past science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
some past smp &/or compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM is struggling. But former CEO Sam Palmisano says he isn't looking back. Date: 05 July 2015 Blog: FacebookIBM is struggling. But former CEO Sam Palmisano says he isn't looking back.
"The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
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 ...
Big Blue: Stock Buyback Machine On Steroids
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-17/big-blue-stock-buyback-machine-steroids
and starting before him, but continued
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
posts on stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Gerstner after IBM becomes Carlyle chairman Date: 05 July 2015 Blog: FacebookLife after IBM .. Gerstner after IBM becomes Carlyle chairman
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
... the private-equity firm that had become the nation's ninth-largest
defense contractor by 2001.
Among them was Halliburton, the Texas oil-services and logistics
firm. In 1995, after retiring as George H.W. Bush's defense secretary,
Dick Cheney became the CEO of Halliburton. Over the next five years,
he transformed the company into one of the world's largest military
contractors. Around the same time, the elder Bush was hired as a
senior adviser to the Carlyle Group. By the time Cheney became George
W. Bush's vice president in 2001, outsourcing was official policy, and
the migration of senior-level government officials into the defense
and intelligence industries was standard practice.
... snip ...
Carlyle does LBO of BAH ... Snowden's employer
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. They're not going away any time soon
unless the CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf
laptops, networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security
clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a profit
center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
.... snip ...
Gerstner had been president of AMEX and they were in competition with
KKR for private equity LBO of RJR. KKR won, but when they ran into
trouble, they hired Gerstner away to turn it around. IBM was being
reorganized to breakup into the 13 "baby blues" when the board hires
Gerstner to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup, using some
of the same techniques used at RJR:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Gerstner after IBM becomes Carlyle chairman Date: 05 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
account of how private-equity turned LBO into similar to house
flipping, except the loan stays with the company when it sells; they
can even sell for much less than they paid and still walk away with
boatloads of money ... operations caught in the private-equity mill
account for over half of corporate defaults
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
the enormous pressure on companies (in the private-equity mill) are under for revenue have them resorting to all sort of measures to turn a dime. in the wake of the snowden event ... they found that the (private-equity owned) privatized security clearance operations were just filling out all the paper work while not actually doing the checks. there was period when clearances were put on hold while gov. operations went back and redid all of those clearances.
as describe in the above articles ... it also plays a major factor in
the spreading Success Of Failure culture ... where for-profit
companies have realized that a series of failures result in more
revenue than an immediate success (possibly having adapted computer
war gaming technology to maximized revenue scenarios)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
the website may have a robo-click countermeasure, frequently first click on URL results in blank page ... and it has to be repeated.
also some more 2007 Success of Failure .... Who broke the law,
Snowden or the NSA?
http://chicagodefender.com/2013/12/18/who-broke-the-law-snowden-or-the-nsa/
When NSA employees Bill Binney, Tom Drake, Diane Roark and I submitted
a formal complaint about mismanagement at the agency, the government's
response on July 26, 2007, was to send the FBI to raid our homes,
searching them for seven hours and seizing our computers, phones and
other digital media. We are just now getting our property back after
having successfully sued the government in December 2012.
... snip ...
possibly somewhat related ... 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
note that in the gov. Success Of Failure paradigm ... they are always claiming that the latest upteenth round for weapons, security, cyber, dataprocessing, etc ... will magically correct all past shortcomings.
disclaimer: I don't have clearance ... but have periodically gotten called in, possibly because they've used a lot of my stuff over the years going back to my undergraduate days in the 60s (they would periodically brag that they knew where I was every day of my life back to birth).
there was unclassified IC-ARDA (now IARPA) BAA early in the Success Of Failure period (which we didn't realize until all the publicity much later last decade), we get a call asking us to respond before the BAA closed end-of-day ... apparently nobody else had responded ... BAA basically said that nothing they had would do the job. We responded before the end-of-day and then there were a couple meetings where we showed that we could 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 other 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).
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Success Of Failure posts
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
As an aside, besides the bad stuff that happened to the people reporting the mismanagement to congress ... congress did put the agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own projects ... but that may have just been ploy for further privatization of the operation.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Feceral Subsidies Date: 05 July 2015 Blog: Facebookalso federal flood insurance ... over half going to the same people year after year (along the Mississippi in the south) ... congress pass bill in 80s saying people that constantly rebuild on flood plain will no longer be eligible ... but that law has been ignored (claim that its federal economic subsidy to those states). big dig in boston ... inflated from $2B to $20B with 90% paid by federal gov. inflated considered mostly graft & corruption ... but claims were the federal gov. owed it to mass. economy (even tho only relative few actually pocketed the money)
2002 congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending couldn't exceed expenses). 2010 CBO report was that taxes were cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to fiscal responsible baseline budget and all federal debt disappears). Some articles were that wallstreet didn't want the debt gone ... because they make so much money off it. Current interest on debt is pushing half trillion ... and calculations are that TBTF are making $300B/annum taking tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying treasuries (of course if ZIRP funds were used directly to buy treasuries, federal debt would cost nothing ... but TBTF would be out the $300B/annum). There was long drawn out legal battle trying to prevent details of the ZIRP funds being made public ... afterwards they just shrugged and said we thot that the TBTF would turn around and lend to mainstreet ... but when they didn't we couldn't force them (but that didn't stop ZIRP funds). Note that something similar went on with the big banks after the crash of '29 ... so there should have been no expectations that they would behave differently this time.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens, tax loopholes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
Note also congress looted the $2.7T in the SS Trust Fund ... which is behind a lot of the hand wringing about SS. The baby boomer bubble is 4times larger than the previous generation and twice as large as the following generation. While they were working, they were paying into SS Trust Fund enough to cover their benefits when they retired. Congress looted $2.7T that had been built up ... turning SS into a Ponzi scheme ... aka the (smaller) following generation will need their taxes increased to cover the benefits to the baby boomers (i.e. covering the $2.7T congress stole from the SS Trust Fund).
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages (poster child were office bldgs in
Dallas/Ft. Worth area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late
90s we ere asked to look at improving the integrity of the supporting
documents as countermeasure. However, they found that they could pay
rating agencies for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony), triple-A rating trumps documentation and so they could
start doing no-documentation liar loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
victims (including large pension funds restricted to dealing in safe
investments, claims that as result they took 30% hit and now have a
couple trillion shortfall). It is major factor in being able to do
over $27T in 2001-2008 period
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
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A rating and sell off to their victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG ... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the largest recipient of face-value payoffs).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: US money Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:17:21 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead#Appearances_elsewhere
from above:
A collection of about 1,000 Zippy quotes was formerly packaged and
distributed with the Emacs text editor. Some installations of the
"fortune" command, available on most Unix-type systems, also contain
this collection. This gives Zippy a very wide audience, since most Emacs
users can have a random Zippy quote printed on their screen by typing
"M-x yow" and most Linux or BSD users can get a random quote by typing
"fortune zippy" in a shell. However, as a result of a decision by
Richard Stallman prompted by FSF lawyer Eben Moglen, motivated by
copyright concerns,[12] these quotes have been erased for GNU Emacs
22.[13] Zippy under emacs now will only say "Yow! Legally-imposed
CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!".[14] Zippy can be restored by
replacing the yow file with one from an older Emacs.
... snip ...
I use to "yow zippy" email & usenet posts ... from long ago and far away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#5 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S ?
I had extended it to randomly select from a number of files ... but had to fix a bug. yow would use random with halfword number (2**15-1) to select a byte in the file ... and then back up to the start of the line. zippy/yow file was 30k bytes ... so worked ... but my other files were larger than that ... so would only select lines from first 32k bytes (6670 sayings file is 236196 in yow format, ibmjarg is 404928 in yow format).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks Date: 06 July 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/06/eric-holder-returns-law-firm-lobbies-big-banks/
After failing to criminally prosecute any of the financial firms
responsible for the market collapse in 2008, former Attorney General
Eric Holder is returning to Covington & Burling, a corporate law firm
known for serving Wall Street clients.
... snip ...
more regulatory capture & revolving doors:
And the former director of SEC enforcement, now general counsel at
JPMorgan is moving to vice chairman and being replaced by Stacey
Friedman from Sullivan & Cromwell
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2614385-jpmorgans-top-lawyer-moving-aside
Bank Super Lawyer, Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell, Says
Regulatory Capture is a Myth
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/bank-super-lawyer-rodgin-cohen-sullivan-cromwell-says-regulatory-capture-myth.html
Sullivan & Cromwell was John Foster Dulles firm when he was rebuilding
German economy & military in the 20s&30s "The Brothers: John Foster
Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism.
... snip ...
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
recent posts mentioning "revolving doors"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#6 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#83 Winslow Wheeler's War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#58 Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#6 SEC's Andrew Bowden Regulatory Capture Scandal Hits the Major Leagues with Los Angeles Times Column
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#16 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#38 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#78 Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades Date: 06 July 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/07/03/analysis-root-of-tattered-us-russia-ties-date-back-decades.html
well there is John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's
Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
from above:
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
from above:
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
loc1124:
The actual content of the military doctrine of 1993 reflected
the Yeltsin administration's hopes for a strategic partnership with
the West and presented a relatively benign picture of the external
security environment confronting Russia
... snip ...
Some of the same people were then involved US economic mess ... so can you blame Putin on Harvard?
"How Harvard lost Russia" also has overtones of "economic hitman"
... which also has boston/cambridge setting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
recent posts mentioning "economic hit man":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The joy of simplicity? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:26:32 -0700simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) writes:
above includes fortune/yow that happend to be from ibmjargon
bare 386/33mhz $1259, +14in svga $489, 80mb/18ms access would add $475, 660mb/18ms access + esdi card add $1895
archeological tidbits continue for the next couple posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#80 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#81 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
1.2gb scsi 13ms access $2149, 1.7gb scsis 12ms access $2399
80ns 1mbit chip $5.99 1mx9 $59.95
486/8mb systems $4450
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:14:29 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
one of the twists in the transaction standard in the x9a10 financial standard working group was that individual could have two different accounts ... one was end-to-end strongly authenticated *ONLY* and the other was current processing. evesdropping/skimming/breaches of transaction information for end-to-end *only* account wasn't subject to crooks using information for new, fraudulent transaction. That allowed such transaction to flow thru current infrastructure ... but also could flow directly over internet w/o needing card association ... it became network infrastructure agnostic ... POS, internet, and other processing becames identical.
the x9a10 financial standard allowed for strong security, lightweight digital signature for end-to-end authentication ... where the user digital signature can include integrity level information. This allowd for parameterised risk management on a transaction basis. The x9a10 financial standard also allowed for a 2nd digital signature with known/registered integrity information for the environment of the originating transaction. All of this was carefully crafted so that it was lightweight enough (w/o sacrifying security and integrity) to flow end-to-end through the existing card association infrastructure ... but also be infrastructure agnostic and be able to flow threw end-to-end through any infrastructure.
being infrastructure agnostic (as well as credit, debit, ach, etc agnostic) obviously becomes potential threat to the status quo of the existing card association operation.
ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#3 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#6 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#7 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#8 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#11 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#12 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#14 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#17 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#18 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM is struggling. But former CEO Sam Palmisano says he isn't looking back. Date: 07 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
the industry had gotten such bad reputation during the S&L crisis that
they changed the industry name to private equity and "junk bonds"
became "high yield bonds". then things accelerated during the 90s
and last decade.with all sorts of slight of hand and other gimmicks
... "great deformation" and stock buybacks mentioned upthread
... but also private equity LBO ... the poster child was RJR
(mentioned in my posting about IBM CEO coming from a private equity
"poster child" and then going back to private equity)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
which also included other gimmicks
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
latest on CEOs get rich on buyback mania:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-07/surprise-ceos-are-getting-rich-buying-back-stock
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
posts on stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The joy of simplicity? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:32:22 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
and x-over from
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
early as 2007
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/confirmation-that-china-stole-f35-f22.html
Chinese Hackers Score F-35, Black Hawk Chopper, and PATRIOT Missile Data
http://www.dailytech.com/Chinese+Hackers+Score+F35+Black+Hawk+Chopper+and+PATRIOT+Missile+Data/article31638.htm
Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter; Design
data on F-35 stolen in 2007
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/stolen-f-35-secrets-now-showing-up-in-chinas-stealth-fighter/
New fear: Worm that ransacked US military PCs was blueprint for spies'
super-malware; Secret stealer spawned spooks' snoop stooge, it seems
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/cyber_espionage_daddy/
Stolen F-35 Secrets Showing Up In China's Stealth Fighter
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/03/stolen-f-35-secrets-showing-up-in.html
Officials: Chinese Spying Helped Develop Stealth Jet
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-cyberspying-f-35-stealth-jet/2014/03/13/id/559402/
New Chinese stealth jet built with stolen F-35 component designs
http://rt.com/news/chinese-jet-cyber-espionage-stolen-718/
Chinese Stealth Fighter Operating With Stolen U.S. Technology
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/13/chinese-stealth-fighter-operating-with-stolen-u-s-technology/
more gov. Cyber Dumb
Government Software Project Failure
http://defense.about.com/od/prodinnovate/a/Government-Software-Project-Failures.htm
World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/139218/worlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure
The scariest software project horror stories of 2012
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234581/The_scariest_software_project_horror_stories_of_2012
Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/technology/air-force-stumbles-over-software-modernization-project.html?_r=0
Opinion: Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_02_24_2014_p16-664173.xml
NSA director calls for stronger strategy to deter cyberattacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-director-calls-for-stronger-deterrent-strategy-to-oppose-cyberattacks/2014/02/27/aabd3d92-9fd4-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html
Army Unit to Intel Center: DCGS Doesn't Work
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2014/03/23/army-unit-to-intel-center-dcgs-doesnt-work/
The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't
Work
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/03/pentagon-spent-27-billion-intelligence-system-doesnt-work/359319/
$2.7 Billion Later, the Army's Intelligence-Sharing Computer System
Still Doesn't Work
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/27-billion-later-army%E2%80%99s-intelligence-sharing-computer-system-still-doesn%E2%80%99t-work
Exclusive: Pentagon Withholds Internal Report About Flawed $2.7 Billion
Intel Program
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/18/exclusive_pentagon_withholds_report_2.7_billion_intel_program
International Engagement on CYBER 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
Commander: U.S. Military Not Ready for Cyber Warfare; Gen. Alexander
tells Senate threat of major cyber attacks is growing
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/commander-u-s-military-not-ready-for-cyber-warfare/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Moving to the Cloud Date: 08 July 2015 Blog: Old GeekI was brought into Boeing the summer of 69 (while still undergraduate) to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (moving dataprocessing into an independent business unit to better monetize the investment). At the time, I thought Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world ... something like $300M (69 dollars) in IBM equipment, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly being staged in the hallways around the machine room. It was also being replicated up at the new 747 plant at Paine field ... there was disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier warms up and the resulting mudslide takes out the renton datacenter ... analysis that being w/o the renton datacenter for a week would cost the company more than the total cost of the renton datacenter. I would claim BCS to be early form of cloud computing.
Later I would sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM. His biographies has him
command of Spook Base about the same time I was at Boeing ... and
Spook Base was a $2.5B windfall for IBM. description ... gone 404 but
lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd would claim he had told McNamara that it wouldn't work ... so his
posting commanding spook base was possibly retaliation/punishment. He
would also claim spook base had the largest air conditioned bldg in
that part of the
world.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Last product we were doing at IBM was HA/CMP ... both high
availability and cluster scale-up.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
When I was out marketing HA/CMP, I coined the terms disaster
survivability and geographic survivability (to
differentiate from disaster recovery) ... having lots of redundant
processing at separate physical locations.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
Old post discussing meeting in Ellison's conference room early Jan1992
on HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
The scale-up part included cramming together as many processors in
racks and having as many racks as possible ... all tied together The
mainframe DB2 group was complaining that if we were allowed to go
ahead ... we would be at least five years ahead of them. We had been
working on both commercial & RDBMS as well with national labs on
numerica intensive. Some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, the scale-up part was transferred, announced as the IBM supercomputer (for technical and scientific *ONLY*) and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
The following years saw a big upswing with the paradigm (cramming lots of processors in racks and than having ever increasing number of racks) in the GRID market (and then evolving cloud). One of the issues was that it required lots of software innovation to handle the new computing paradigm (and all the platforms at the time had tied up source). Linux saw upswing with hobbiest ... but also in the large GRID computing centers and then cloud megadatacenters ... where a lot of invention and software changes were necessary (requiring freely available source). It harks back to the early 360 days were lots of invention and software occurred at datacenters ... when source was available and it was from the datacenters that came lots of the mainframe products that continue to exist today ... HASP/JES2, ASP/JES3, IMS, CICS, etc.
A large cloud megadatacenters will have hundreds of thousands of systems and millions of processors operated by 80-120 people. They have optimized traditional system costs to a level that major costs have shifted to power & cooling (given rise to lots of focus on green efforts). The enormous drop in system costs have also allowed for provisional a large number of idle systems for instant "on-demand" computing (as long as power/cooling drops to near zero while idle).
Other trivia ... sort of precursor ... in the late 70s, I got sucked
into doing some 4341 benchmarks for national lab that was looking
at getting 70 4341s for "large" compute farm ... 4341 technology broke
some computing barriers ... saw large numbers for clusters in
datacenters ... but also saw multi-hundred orders by large
corporations for placement out in departmental areas ... precursor to
the coming distributed computing tsunami. Some old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
After we leave IBM ... we are brought in as consultants into a small client/server startup. Two of the other people mentioned in the Ellison meeting had (also) left and were then at the startup responsible for something called a commerce server. They wanted to do payment transactions on the server; the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
"Electronic commerce" was at ground zero along with "cloud computing" ... and small group of people would seen at all the places. A friend that came over to work on some of "electronic commerce" was also over at Google and worked on how the internet facing routers distributing workload across the backend server farm. The initial hack was doing rotating A-record list in DNS ... however since ISPs would cache DNS records ... rotating list wouldn't be that effective. Then the internet face routers were modified to track load information on the backend servers and dynamically route new incoming requests, load balancing across the growing farm of backend servers.
more trivia: Grid Computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of
utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.
... snip ...
In the 80s, we had been working with director of NSF and NSF
supercomputer centers on interconnecting the centers. Originally we
were supposed to get $20M, but then Congress cuts the budget and some
number of other things happen. Finally an RFP is released ... largely
based on our earlier work. Unfortunately internal politics prevents us
from bidding. The NSF director tries to help, writing a letter to the company (with support from other agencies), but that just makes the
internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already had
running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). Then as
regional networks connect to the NSF supercomputer sites, it evolves
into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to the modern internet. Some old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
late 70s, cluster of 4341s had more processing power than 3033, cost significantly less, had more i/o capacity, more real storage, smaller footprint, less power&cooling, etc. ... precursor to the cloud megadatacenters .... besides the low-cost, floor space and environments ... allowing placement out in departmental areas ... precursor to the distributed computing tsunami.
Most modern mainframe processors now emulate those 4341 clusters using LPARs. However GRID computer centers started the assembly of their own blades ... which continued with the large cloud megadatacenters ... that have been claiming for more than a decade that they assemble their own blades for 1/3rd the cost of band name blades (the related commodization of computing being a motivation for IBM to sell off its server business). IBM had a base list price of $1815 for e5-2600V1 blade or about $3.50/BIPS ... cloud megadatacenters were then doing it for almost $1/BIPS. A e5-2600v3 blade is rated at about 2.5 times the processing power of e5-2600v1 blade for about the same price and a e5-2600v4 blade will be closer to 3.5 times the processing power of e5-2600v1. By comparison z196 mainframe was $560,000/BIPS and ec12 was $440,000/BIPS (and source not freely available)
Some claims that server processor manufacturers now ship more server processor chips to large cloud megadatacenters than to brand name server makers. A high-density rack of e5-2600v4 blades will now have upwards of 200TIPs in processing power ... and a cloud megadatacenter will have hundreds of thousands of systems/blades (more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today). They will also have large numbers of such high density racks sitting idle available for instant "on-demand" computing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold Date: 08 July 2015 Blog: FacebookEric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
more regulatory capture & revolving doors:
And the former director of SEC enforcement, now general counsel at
JPMorgan is moving to vice chairman and being replaced by Stacey
Friedman from Sullivan & Cromwell
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2614385-jpmorgans-top-lawyer-moving-aside
Bank Super Lawyer, Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell, Says
Regulatory Capture is a Myth
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/bank-super-lawyer-rodgin-cohen-sullivan-cromwell-says-regulatory-capture-myth.html
Sullivan & Cromwell was John Foster Dulles firm when he was rebuilding
German economy & military in the 20s&30s "The Brothers: John Foster
Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism.
... snip ..
It has been pointed out that so far the TBTF have racked up total of
$300B in fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
In 2002 congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending
couldn't exceed expenses, eliminating federal debt). 2010 CBO report
was that taxes were cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T
budget gap (compared to fiscal responsible baseline budget and all
federal debt disappears, some references that wallstreet didn't want
to eliminate federal debt).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Current interest on debt is pushing half trillion ... and calculations are that TBTF are making $300B/annum taking tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying treasuries (of course if ZIRP funds were used directly to buy treasuries, federal debt would cost nothing ... but TBTF would be out the $300B/annum).
There was long drawn out legal battle trying to prevent details of the
ZIRP funds being made public ... afterwards they just shrugged and
said we thot that the TBTF would turn around and lend to mainstreet
... but when they didn't we couldn't force them (but that didn't stop
ZIRP funds). That is addition to the trillions they've been making off
the illegal activity for toxic CDOs, CDS gambling bets, manipulation
of LIBOR, FOREX, and commodity markets, aiding wealthy americans with
evading hundreds of billions in taxes by illegally moving money
offshore, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, etc. Gives
rise to jokes that they are viewing the $300B as just part of cost of
doing (illegal) business.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Along the way the gov. would use the excuse that they were invoking "deferred prosecution" (sort of like probation, if you promise to never do it again, the charges would be cleared or otherwise they do jail time). However, they've been found repeatedly engaging in illegal activity and gov. just ignored previous "deferred prosecution".
Note, Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s senate
hearings into the crash of '29, resulted in Glass-Steagall and
criminal convictions) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between
what went on this time and what happened then (some comments that the
new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it awhile
and get a call that it won't be needed after all (refs to washington
totally buried under enormous piles of wallstreet money)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Also note that for much of the fraud, the statute of limitations is
expiring, ... however, they still could be jailed under Sarbanes-Oxley
provisions. In the wake of ENRON, rhetoric in congress was that
Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that
executives and auditors would go to jail. However, it required SEC to
do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing
anything, GAO started doing reports of fraudulent financial filings,
even showing increase after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and
nobody doing jailtime). Just about all their fraudulent activity
required cooking fraudulent financial reports in one way or another
... violating Sarbanes-Oxley (which supposedly was guaranteeing
executives doing jailtime).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Holder was responsible for the phrases: too big to prosecute and too big to jail ... some discussion of use of "deferred prosecution"
The Blotch on Eric Holder's Record: Wall Street Accountability; The
Attorney General has cemented a doctrine of too big to jail at the
Justice Department
http://www.thenation.com/article/blotch-eric-holders-record-wall-street-accountability/
Under Holder, the Justice Department has greatly expanded the use of
deferred prosecution agreements with large corporations, from
financial firms to agricultural giants. These are arrangements that
take the place of criminal prosecutions--instead, the offending
corporation admits wrongdoing, pays a fine (that is usually a small
fraction of yearly profits), and agrees to remedy internal problems
that lead to the crime. In return, the government agrees not to
prosecute.
......
This was brought into sharp relief when Justice allowed HSBC to enter
deferred prosecution for wide-ranging multibillion-dollar money
laundering at the bank on behalf of large illegal drug operations and
also terrorist groups.
"The facts are unbelievable. Epic-level money laundering on behalf of
narco-traffickers, un-denied by the corporation," Weissman said. "And
no criminal prosecution, and no responsibility for the executives."
... snip ...
and the latest from today on HSBC DPA ... (appears that HSBC US employees are fighting tooth&nail to prevent changing their illegal activity)
Sealed HSBC Report Shows U.S. Managers Battling Cleanup Squad
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-07/sealed-hsbc-report-shows-u-s-managers-battling-clean-up-squad
Glass-Steagall wasn't directly responsible for the early illegal activity last decade ... however Glass-Steagall plays a major role in enabling too big to fail ... which then results in too big to prosecute, too big to jail, "moral hazard" ... and repeated illegal activity with no accountability.
Trivia: President of AMEX is in competition to be next CEO and
wins. The looser then leaves with their protege and goes to Baltimore
acquiring what is described as loan sharking businesses. They make
some number of other acquisitions eventually acquiring Citi in
violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them exemption while they
lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to
fail). The protege then leaves and becomes CEO of another too big to
fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity LBO of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the president
of AMEX to turn it around. IBM has gone into the red and is being
reorganized into the "13 baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The
board then hires the former president of AMEX away from KKR/RJR to
resurrect IBM and reverse the breakup. Uses some of the same
techniques used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
more trivia: The rhetoric on the floor of congress for GLBA (bank modernization act, now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall) was that the primary purpose was if you have a bank charter, you get to keep it, if you don't have a bank charter, you don't get one. Wallstreet banks were worried about new more efficient entries moving into banking and significantly cutting into their profit margins (original primary purpose of GLBA was to eliminate such possibility). It was only later, that the repeal of Glass-Steagall got tacked on.
... and person responsible for GLBA is #2 on times list of those
responsible for economic mess ... for his follow-on prohibiting
regulation of CDS (originally characterized as gift to ENRON). Head of
CFTC proposes regulating CDS, they are quickly replaced with the wife
of person responsible for GLBA while legislation is passed prohitied
CDS regulation (which leads to AIG). The wife then resigns and joins
ENRON board and the board's audit committee.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office bldgs in the
Dallas/Ft. Worth area that turned out to be empty lots) ... however,
they had limited market and not much uptake. In the late 90s, I was
asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in
securitized loans as countermeasure.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Then they found that they could pay for triple-A ratings from the
rating agencies (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew
they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony). Triple-A ratings trump documentation and they found they
could start doing no-documentation liar loans (with no supporting
documents, there was no longer an issue of supporting document
integrity), pay for triple-A rating and sell off (including to large
pension funds that are restricted to dealing in "safe" investments,
claims it was major contribution to 30% drop in fund value and
trillions in pension shortfall) ... largely responsible for being able
to do over $27T between 2001-2008 (compared to almost nothing during
the S&L crisis, major factor that economic mess last decade being
70times larger than the S&L crisis).
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
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A rating and sell off to their customer/victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG ... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the largest recipient of face-value payoffs).
The Federal Reserve also gives the firm that was previously headed by the sec. of treasury, a new bank charter (theoretically in violation of GLBA), which makes it eligible for ZIRP funds.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget Date: 10 July 2015 Blog: Google+re:
LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would
Like You to Forget
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/07/libor-historys-largest-financial-crime-that-the-wsj-and-nyt-would-like-you-to-forget.html
libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
Matt Taibbi: Eric Holder Back to Wall Street-Tied Law Firm After Years
of Refusing to Jail Bankers
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/8/eric_holder_returns_to_wall_street
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
other recent posts mentioning holder
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
I believe I first saw too big to prosecute and too big to jail
come up with regard to repeated instances of too big to fail money
laundering for drug cartels and terrorists. Some of the references
also claim that the militarizing of the drug cartels south of the
border and the upswing in violence on both sides of the boarder is
direct result of the funds available from the too big to fail money
laundering.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
"Hard to win" was obfuscation and misdirection by both SEC and Holder
... they could have been charged under Sarbanes-Oxley which is very
straight-forward and jailed for many of the crimes related to the
economic mess.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
However, that is separate from the "money laundering" crimes which was proven and they could have been jailed for, also manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, commodities market, etc. All crimes easily proven and getting jailtime.
When Holder started using the terms too big to prosecute and too big to jail ... he wasn't even trying very hard to obfuscate their culpability
When the states were in the process of criminal prosecution for foreclosures with fabricated documents ... Holder put enormous pressure on those states to drop those prosecutions ... and join Holder in the "deferred prosecution" with fines ... where the fines were funds that the too big to fail were to use to benefit victims of the illegal foreclosures. A lot of that money somehow went into corporations setup by former federal regulators that were supposedly to handle the victim aid funds ... but most of that money somehow manage to disappear with very little reaching the intended victims.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget Date: 10 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Note that the S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions. The economic mess was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis ... and just based on size, would have expected 2,100,000 criminal referrals and 70,000 criminal convictions. However, the economic mess has had zero criminal referrals and zero criminal convictions ... which should be sufficient to establish that the regulatory agencies have been "captured" by wallstreet.
A major difference between S&L crisis and economic mess last decade is that wall street managed to perfect their stranglehold on the regulatory agencies ... which also allows them to branch out into large number of other kinds of illegal activity
Another example of the difference between the S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
and stranglehold that wallstreet managed to obtain on washington and
the regulatory agencies last decade ... is the author of the LIBOR
article, bill black,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
was the S&L examiner that got Keating (who at one point wrote a memo
to "kill black") and also documented activities of the "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
By comparison ... this is account of the senior large bank examinar
and head of large bank examination at FDIC ... caught the activities
of WaMu early last decade and reported it up through the chair of
FDIC. He was then demoted and then let go. He instituted a federal
whistleblower action that somehow keeps getting sidetracked
https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-ebook/dp/B00BKZ02UM/
WaMu was allowed to continue their activities until it blew up with all the others in the economic mess ... the people allowed to walk away and WaMu is taken over by Chase.
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: GM to offer teen driver tracking to parents Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:56:25 -0700hancock4 writes:
Compromised encryption is a threat to national security
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2941679/federal-regulations/compromised-encryption-is-a-threat-to-national-security.html
FBI chief warns that terrorists hide behind encrypted communications
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2944914/fbi-chief-warns-that-terrorists-hide-behind-encrypted-communications.html
Encryption backdoors: A bad idea then, a bad idea now
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2945033/encryption/encryption-backdoors-bad-idea-then-bad-idea-now-say-scientists.html
Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/07/07/1544247/crypto-experts-blast-govt-backdoors-for-encryption
Security experts report against federal proposals to ban hard
encryption
http://www.businessinsider.com/security-experts-report-against-federal-proposals-to-ban-hard-encryption-2015-7
FBI Director: Encryption Is Great As Long As It Lets Us In
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/07/fbi-director-encryption-great-long-it-lets-us/116998/
I've periodically mentioned realizing in the 80s about there being
3 kinds of crypto ... recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#85 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
And then in the 90s having to go to "key escrow" meetings and managed to establish that could escrow private keys used for authentication and identification ... because it violates fundamental security pricinples about associating activity with specific person (and no other person). they then whined about people cheating and using authentication keys for encryption. did have a business case for companies escrowing secret keys for encrypting corporate assets ... as "no-single-point-of-failure". however, once they couldn't have *ALL* keys ... interest seemed to wane.
recent post:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#25 FBI wants 'legislative fix' on device encryption
however, I've also critized identification and authenticaiton being
confused (and possibility gov. agencies even promoted some of the
confustion) ... recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
at
International Engagement on CYBER 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
director was taking questions, and i was going to bring it up, but he had to leave before I got to the head of the queue
Commander: U.S. Military Not Ready for Cyber Warfare; Gen. Alexander
tells Senate threat of major cyber attacks is growing
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/commander-u-s-military-not-ready-for-cyber-warfare/
but at panel discussion with former director and his former assistant
director ... and taking questions ... where I did manage to bring up
... but the assistant director side-tracked the discussion
with non-repudiation and other stuff (not the first time I've
had the discussion with the agency periodically in the past). from
pain/cain security acronym
privacy/confidentiality
authentication
identification
non-repudiation
...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Expand-down v. expand-up stack Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:49:18 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
call/save/return conventions from gcard ios3270 ... q&d html conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html#50
as mentioned, reentrant (&/or r/o image) required dynamic allocation (in lieu of embedded statis area) ... which tended to be an extremely high-overhead system call.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Gov. Security Date: 14 July 2015 Blog: FacebookGov. Security
It's cheaper (more profit) for the private-equity subsidiaries that are running the operations ... like in wake of the snowden affair they found that the private-equity subsidiaries doing security clearances were filling out the paperwork but not actually doing any checks. The OPM contractor is another private equity subsidiary. Snowmen's employer was private-equity subsidiary
Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
last decade saw enormous upswing in gov. outsourcing to for-profit
companies ... 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. They're not going away any time soon
unless the CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf
laptops, networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security
clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a profit
center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous pressure to turn a dime every way possible. In the wake of the snowden (employed by a private-equity subsidiary) affair, they found that the private-equity subsidiaries doing security clearances were filling out the paper work ... but not actually doing the work. OPM's contractor also company in the private-equity mill
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
A Look Inside The Pentagon's Cyber Boot Camp
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-look-inside-pentagons-cyber-boot-camp.html
WNU Editor: The problem for the Pentagon is that they can never
compete against private industry for the best cyber-specialists that
are out there unless they appeal to their patriotism and sense of
duty.
.... snip ...
During Internet bubble, army was paying sysadmins something like $30k, while silicon valley was paying $120k ... part of the reason saw lots of outsourcing last decade (Snowden was sysadmin working for private-equity subsidiary).
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 14 July 2015 Blog: FacebookNo, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
appendix 3 looks in detail at lots of the claims for F117
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
Lockheed, the primary contractor for the F-117, claimed after the war
that "During the first 24 hours [of the air campaign], 30 F-117s
struck 37 high value targets, inflicting damage that collapsed Saddam
Hussein's air defense system and all but eliminated Iraq's ability to
wage coordinated war. The concept of modern air warfare had been
changed forever."
..
In sum, the claim that the F-117s were responsible for collapsing the
IADS on the first night appears open to question because (1) the
F-117s did not hit 40 percent of their tasked targets on the first
night and (2) of the 11 IADS-related targets attacked by F-117s and
assessed by DIA, 8 were assessed as needing additional strikes. In
addition, the Missions database shows that 167 other platforms (such
as A-10s, F-4Gs, and F/A-18s) also struck 18 air defense-related
targets (IOCs, SOCs, and radars) on the first night
..
Moreover, Air Force intelligence assessments of the extent to which
the IADS was operating in the first few days of the war do not support
the assertion that the system was "collapsed" during the first few
hours of the first night. Daily intelligence summaries prepared during
the war, called DAISUMs, characterized the IADS on the third day of
the campaign as "crippled but information is still being passed" and
"evidence of degradation of the Iraqi C2 network is beginning to
show."
US legal action against Lockheed for fraud in F22 stealth coating from
1995 through at least 1999
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/ass/contractors/38/cases/1203/1686/lockheed-martin-olsen_complaint.pdf
Besides the embellishment regarding F117 during desert storm and f22
stealth coating fraud ... there is F22 corrosion blamed on design
problems because the required environmental tests were radically cut
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/121194/gao-sees-serious-corrosion-risks-on-f_35-program.html
-- The length of the F-22 full-scale climatic test was cut in half,
and the program office for the F-35 is currently considering
reducing its full-scale climatic test.
-- The corrosion study concluded that, if the F-22 program had
accomplished testing earlier in the program, many of the corrosion
problems could have been addressed at greatly reduced cost and the
associated readiness issues avoided. If the F-35 conducts tests
that are planned and conducted properly and in full, these tests
could reveal many corrosion-susceptible areas on the aircraft.
Given its experience with corrosion-relate issued on the F-22, it is
more than just surprising that Lockheed Martin should have adopted
such a lackadaisical approach to corrosion risks on the F-35 program.
... snip ...
as referenced upthread, the GAO report is much more accurate account
of what happened .... appendix 3 looks in detail at lots of the claims
for F117 (and refutes some of the more grandiose claims, including by
Lockheed)
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
well, not exactly, note that OPM head resigns over breaches ... what about the CEOs of these companies
FBI: Chinese hacker accessed gold mine of data on F-22, -35 and 32
U.S. military projects
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/fbi-chinese-hacker-accessed-gold-mine-data-f-22-f-/
Chinese Hackers Stole Boeing, Lockheed Military Plane Secrets: Feds
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/chinese-hackers-stole-boeing-lockheed-military-plane-secrets-feds-n153951
also related breach articles about F35 would be going up against an advisery's F35 look-alike, while it is possible it would be a F22 look-alike ... although from a starting point with decade+ newer technology
also note that increasingly advanced technology is increasingly touted with regard to being computing and software .... however these breaches would imply that we are already badly trailing in that area
China is ramping up fast for advanced planes (both military and
commercial) ... starting with presses ... ours date from the 50s
(50,000 ton)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
china built the largest in the world (80,000 ton) in 2007
http://www.chinatechgadget.com/china-building-worlds-largest-press-forge.html
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
Internet threats are just a small part. Boyd used millions of dollars
of supercomputer time for E/M and F16 design, F16 was already part way
to being a drone with "fly-by-wire", F22 has 1.7M lines-of-code, F35
was originally suppose to be 5.7M lines-of-code but has exploded now
to 24M lines-of-code. Software plays major role in gov. dataprocessing
modernization failures and the spreading Success Of Failure culture:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Pentagon Contractors Rank Below Retailers and Banks When it Comes to
Cybersecurity
http://www.fedcyber.com/2015/07/06/pentagon-contractors-rank-below-retailers-and-banks-when-it-comes-to-cybersecurity/
Pentagon Contractors Rank Below Retailers and Banks When it Comes to
Cybersecurity
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/07/pentagon-contractors-ranked-below-retailers-and-banks-when-it-comes-cybersecurity/116899/
it didn't say that gigabytes of data walked away over the internet ... difference between internet & SIPR is just obfuscation and misdirection.
FBI: Chinese hacker accessed gold mine of data on F-22, -35 and 32
U.S. military projects
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/fbi-chinese-hacker-accessed-gold-mine-data-f-22-f-/
Chinese Hackers Stole Boeing, Lockheed Military Plane Secrets: Feds
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/chinese-hackers-stole-boeing-lockheed-military-plane-secrets-feds-n153951
Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
last decade saw enormous upswing in gov. outsourcing to for-profit
companies ... 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. They're not going away any time soon
unless the CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf
laptops, networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security
clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a profit
center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous pressure to turn a dime every way possible. In the wake of the snowden (employed by a private-equity subsidiary) affair, they found that the private-equity subsidiaries doing security clearances were filling out the paper work ... but not actually doing the work. OPM's contractor also company in the private-equity mill
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
They didn't say that the gigabytes of data walked away over a network ... so any difference between internet & SIPR wouldn't be relevant (although that doesn't say that some data hasn't walked away over the internet, even classified data when it has been inadvertently place on machine with internet connection).
on the other hand given the large number of information leak cases that we know about ... there would be high probability that there are many cases we don't know about ... as well as we might not know all there is to know about the ones that are public.
there is also fake military parts coming from china ... some of these could be things like physical parts that don't meet mil-spec standards and could fail under stress ... but it could also include electronic parts with back doors that leak information.
Probe finds 'flood' of fake military parts from China in
U.S. equipment
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/probe-finds-flood-of-fake-military-parts-from-china-in-u-s-equipment/
Many of the comments have been that our adversaries have little technology worth knowing ... so there would be little value in leaks coming our way. On the other hand there has been some past discussions that the whole F35 program may be a defective program for misleading our adversaries
If the F35 was a defective program ... it would have to be strongly defended as not being a defective program. Note that there is nothing inconsistent with a defective program also being an enormous money maker for the military-industrial complex at the same time as well as being part of Success Of Failure. If they are running a Success Of Failure scam ... they could also spin it as being misdirection for adversaries. In fact, enormous amount of money could be part of the cover for a defective program. Also if it is a defective program ... there is bigger need to defend it publicly to maintain the facade for the adversaries
But the F16 wasn't a trillion dollars and coming up on two decades (or three depending on how you count).
Claims are that Iraq learned from DS1 and were minimizing air strike targets. US Troops were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they go back, over million metric tons had disappeared ... starting showings up in IEDs, even taking out M1s. Later they find decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US from 80s (iran/iraq war) ... information is classified ... eventually showing up last fall
Iraq learned from DS1 to fight a war that does its best to negate air power advantage
US responds (to vietcong grab by belt to thwart air power) by making Laos the most bombed country in the world ... remember the secdef had been staff at end of ww2 firebombing cities ... old joke about if all you have is a hammer ... you got to bomb something
Burton aggressively cuts the cost of A10 30mm shells to @$13 ... GAO report has 1m used in desert storm or $13M ... military-industrial complex would starve on $13M war. 2010 CBO report has DOD baseline budget increased by a little over $2T the previous decade, $1+T for the two wars and $1+T that they can't find anything to show for. How do you make $1+T disappear??? ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
recent refs to ww2 city firebombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#20 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#28 Kill Chain: The Rise of High Tech Assassins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 15 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Air Force B-1B pilots who dropped bombs on U.S. soldiers return to
cockpit; No criminal charges despite investigation that found
startling deficiencies
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/20/air-force-returns-afghanistan-friendly-fire-crew-t/?page=all
GAO desert storm air effectiveness report also raises issue of friendly fire casualties with the A10 maverick missiles.
Burton proposed mini-A10 that could be forward deployed and serviced. Makes loiter time less of issue because transit time is less of issue.
As an aside ... they were loosing so many Bradleys (and M1s) here
(described as worse than fallujah, but because administration said
things were better, got little press)
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
that they were getting mothballed Bradley as replacements which had
incompatible communication/electronics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley#M2A3
Burton eventually forced out for standing up to the
military-industrial complex regarding the Bradley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent posts mentioning pentagon wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#1 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#6 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#59 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#66 fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil
recent posts mentioning baqubah
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#37 C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
regarding upthread assertion that the enormous boatload of looted classified weapon systems info didn't make it out of the country
Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter Design
data on F-35 stolen in 2007
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/f-35-secrets-now-showing-chinas-stealth-fighter/?page=all
Top Official Admits F-35 Stealth Fighter Secrets Stolen
http://breakingdefense.com/2013/06/top-official-admits-f-35-stealth-fighter-secrets-stolen/
but it wasn't just F-35 details that they got.
International Engagement on CYBER 2014
http://lsgs.georgetown.edu/events/InternationalEngagementonCyber2014
director was taking questions, and i was going to bring up some things, but he had to leave before I got to the head of the queue
Commander: U.S. Military Not Ready for Cyber Warfare; Gen. Alexander
tells Senate threat of major cyber attacks is growing
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/commander-u-s-military-not-ready-for-cyber-warfare/
I did get to ask later panel (that had former director and a former
deputy director) ... but they managed to sidetrack the discussion to
different topic. I've had that problem before, somewhat along the
lines of the Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
I'm usually more closely aligned with the other side of the house
... TD for information assurance directorate asks me to be on
assurance panel in the trusted computing track at IDF ... gone 404 but
lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
facebook swizzles the trailing stp+s13 in the URL to stp%20s13 ... which has to be changed back to stp+s13 (use stp%2bs13). Also govexec seems to have robo-click countermeasure ... first time frequently serves up blank page have to frequently repeat to get actual page
I think focus on F35 secrets says more about US news spin
... misdirection away from anything that isn't F35.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_jet_fighter#China
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-20
Confirmation that China stole F35, F22 and B2 stealth bomber secrets
as early as 2007
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/confirmation-that-china-stole-f35-f22.html
Chinese Hackers Score F-35, Black Hawk Chopper, and PATRIOT Missile
Data
http://www.dailytech.com/Chinese+Hackers+Score+F35+Black+Hawk+Chopper+and+PATRIOT+Missile+Data/article31638.htm
FBI: Chinese hacker accessed gold mine of data on F-22, -35 and 32
U.S. military projects
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/fbi-chinese-hacker-accessed-gold-mine-data-f-22-f-/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 15 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Our capitalists are mostly out to loot everybody ... and can even be blamed for the rise of Putin.
Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia,
Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
loc1124:
The actual content of the military doctrine of 1993 reflected
the Yeltsin administration's hopes for a strategic partnership with
the West and presented a relatively benign picture of the external
security environment confronting Russia
... snip ...
Some of the same people were then involved US economic mess ... so can you blame Putin on Harvard?
not everybody involved were into looting russia, I talked to somebody that was looking at putting in 5000 banks all around the country @1M, $5B total, but involved complex financial deal where russia sold oil to japan, japan sold something to Brazil and Brazil sold something to US.
"How Harvard lost Russia" also has overtones of "economic hitman"
... which also has boston/cambridge setting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
We have why or why not china might be an advisery, I thot it useful to
not forget Russia. More detailed discussion of "real" stealth, f35
stealth, and russian radar
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
The second major departure from established stealth conventions is
that the Joint Strike Fighter is designed to perform in the X-band,
and upper portions of the S-band, with little effort expended in
optimizing for the lower L-band, UHF-band and VHF-band. This design
strategy is consistent with defeating mobile battlefield short range
point defence SAM and AAA systems such as the SA-8 Gecko, SA-9 Gaskin,
Chapparel, Crotale, Roland, SA-15 Gauntlet, SA-19 Grison and SA-22
"Greyhound", where limited radar antenna size forces all acquisition
and engagement functions into the X-band and upper S-band. Joint
Strike Fighter literature refers to this optimization in terms of
"breaking the kill chain", the intent being to deny the effective use
of X-band engagement radars and X/Ku-Band missile seekers, but not
acquisition radars in lower bands.
Such SAM systems are the category of "residual" threat which a
battlefield interdiction aircraft will encounter once the F-22A force
has "snanitized" an area by destroying the long range
search/acquisition radars and area defence SAM batteries. With limited
range and coverage footprint, but high mobility and autonomous
capability, battlefield short range point defence SAM and AAA systems
can "pop-up" from hidden locations and ambush interdiction aircraft at
medium to low altitudes. Significantly, in a "sanitized" environment
such air defence weapons are operating without external support from
other sensors or the top cover provided by long range area defence
SAMs such as the SA-12/23, SA-20 and SA-21.
... snip ...
standard obfuscation and mis-direction ... anyway, also reference the the aus airpower author:
Stealth technology and the counter-stealth response
http://www.airforce-technology.com/features/feature128011/
China's Jet Fighter Surprise
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/chinas-jet-fighter-surprise-e7dd4741d89f
Russia's Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says
http://www.wired.com/2012/11/russia-stealth/
The J-20 Gets More Stealthy And Lethal; The F-35 Is Already Obsolete
http://defence.pk/threads/the-j-20-gets-more-stealthy-and-lethal-the-f-35-is-already-obsolete.363127/
American Innovation: Threat Analysis of Foreign Stealth Fighters Part
I: Chengdu J-20
http://manglermuldoon.blogspot.com/2012/05/threat-analysis-of-foreign-stealth.html
The Power: What China's New J-20 Stealth Fighter Means for the F-35
JSF and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
http://ezli007.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-chinas-new-j-20-stealth-fighter.html
J-20 5th Generation Fighter
http://www.worlddefence.com/threads/j-20-5th-generation-fighter.20/page-10
The J-20 Gets More Stealthy And Lethal; The F-35 Is Already Obsolete
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/03/the-j-20-gets-more-stealthy-and-lethal-the-f-35-is-already-obsolete/
The F-105 Was the F-35 of the Vietnam Era
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-f-105-was-the-f-35-of-the-vietnam-era-51863811024a
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:27:15 -0700hancock4 writes:
most recent there is Harvard that was to turn Russia into capitalist country ... but actually went in to loot the country ... which can be credited with giving rise to Putin.
John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's
Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
recent posts referencing "How Harvard lost Russia"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#30 Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
"How Harvard lost Russia" also has overtones of "economic hitman"
... which also has boston/cambridge setting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
recent posts referencing "economic hitman" (capitalists out to loot
the world)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#30 Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
past refs to railroad barons
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#79 Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#48 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. workers
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#76 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#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/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#66 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
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/2014.html#84 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 17 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Chinese Radar May Pierce F-35 Stealth Armor: Report
http://defensetech.org/2014/07/31/chinese-radar-may-pierce-f-35-stealth-armor-report/
The stealth coating on the U.S.-made fifth-generation fighters shields
the aircraft from high-frequency radars operating in the Ku, X and C
bands and some of the S band, but not from low-frequency systems
utilizing L, UHF and VHF wavelengths, according to an article by Dave
Majumdar at USNI News.
China and Russia are now working to develop low-frequency radars with
more computing power designed to track stealth aircraft with more
precision -- enough to target them with a missile, according to the
report, citing an unnamed former senior U.S. Navy official.
... snip ...
Chinese and Russian Radars On Track To See Through U.S. Stealth
http://news.usni.org/2014/07/29/chinese-russian-radars-track-see-u-s-stealth
"Acquisition and fire control radars are starting to creep down the
frequency spectrum," a former senior U.S. Navy official told USNI News
on Monday. With improved computing power, low frequency radars are
getting better and better at discerning targets more precisely.
...
Chinese warships like the Type 52C Luyang II and Type 52D Luyang III
have both high and low frequency radars, the former official said.
...
Nor will the Navy's vaunted Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air
(NIFC-CA) do much to help the situation. Firstly, given the
proliferation of low frequency radars, there are serious questions
about the ability of the F-35C's survivability against the toughest of
air defenses, the former official said.
... snip ...
visual from ausairpower
http://www.ausairpower.net/XIMG/JSF-RCS-Qualitative-A-XLVHF.png
other aus
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2008-08.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-030309-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-05072010-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-070109-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-110409-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-150208-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-160407-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-190209-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-290309-1.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
oh and
China lays out its home-grown supercomputer chips after Intel x86 ban
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/china_supercomputer_chips/
DSPs are frequently used in embedded military applications, including
remote sensing, radar, and other activities -- and Lu did tell the
group this week that NUDT has had extensive experience with DSPs.
... snip ...
This is discussion that there isn't a stealth coating for VHF
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/8186/New-Radar-Techniques-Could-Foil-Advanced-Stealth-Designs.aspx
but using combination of lower frequency for acquisition ... know where to look ... and then use higher frequency for targeting (ausairpower have had articles that go into much more detail). However, the other activity is using significantly more computing power to obtain better location precision from lower frequency radar (china has most powerful supercomputer on the planet using large number of chips ... but they are now also starting to build their own much more powerful chips ... of the kind that are also usable in radar targeting systems).
The USNI (& other) on the low/high frequency radar refs are from Jan2014. Chinese new generation of computer DSPs provide the computer power to transition from not just using low frequency for location to hand off to high frequency for targeting (and new generation of Chinese destroyers with both low&high frequency radar) ... but starting to use low frequency for targeting. The "perpetual war" scenario is to keep congress (and the public) confused so as to not interrupt the flow of money ... which would explain the efforts to discredit the ausairpower low/high frequency articles from last decade.
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
All the articles about chinese high-tech ... walking all over US cybersecurity, having largest supercomputers on the planet, latest DSP processors, etc ... would imply that the F35 won't be the only planes on the planet sporting such capability (in fact, isn't all that different from being able to network and coordinate large numbers of different radar and missile systems across a large number of different platforms).
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can't Hide From Russian Radar; America's
gazillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter is supposed to go virtually
unseen when flying over enemy turf. But that's not how things are
working out.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/new-u-s-stealth-jet-can-t-hide-from-russian-radar.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:46:17 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
recent item
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid
Consequences
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/15/obama-administration-finds-new-way-let-criminal-banks-avoid-consequences/
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
libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:29:31 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
the lack of infrastructure funding dates back to administration in the
80s which also is credited with the looting of the SS Trust Fund
(turning it into ponzi scheme) wonder where all the money disappeared.
This was also during the period when the VP (and former head of CIA)
said that he didn't know anything about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
then there is also "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
one of the targets of "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
then last decade, one of his son presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis.
quote attributable to Volcker from Confidence Men: Wall Street,
Washington, and the Education of a President pg290
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we spent several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing a huge number of financial engineers. And the result is s**tty bridges and a s**tty financial system!'
... snip ...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#91 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#47 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#67 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#30 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
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#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#3 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#33 War or Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#80 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#76 LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:37:56 -0700re:
the money last time was also frequently diverted by states for other purposes.
cms had program that if states passed legislation reducing medicaid fraud, the federal gov. would increase matching funds, reducing state portion by 20%. Several states wouldn't pass the legislation (because the medicaid lobbying/bribing was too strong) and also diverted federal stimulas funds into covering state portion of medicaid.
federal medicaid percent increase would be more than offset by reduction in fraud ... but that would have hit medicaid industry (cms offer wasn't putting any money directly into the pockets of members of state legislatures ... but the medicaid industry was pouring money into their pockets).
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#31 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#66 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The joy of simplicity? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 11:45:37 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
the virtual machine based commercial online service bureaus did a lot of that starting in the early 60s. the two original spin-offs ... also quickly moved up the value stream into financial information and services .... even simultaneously hosting competing wallstreet organizations on the same machines (effectively providing software based air-gaping)
the early DDOS attack involved channel i/o programming. while processor had partitioned memory and instruction streams ... the supervisor would take virtual machine channel i/o program and make a shadow copy ... translating the virtual addresses into real addresses and then initiate the "shadow program" (effectively the same as the original except for the addresses). This would allow initiating never-ending looping channel programs that would hang the channel, controller, and device. Since channels, controllers, and even devices could be shared across multiple virtual machines ... which would lock other users.
The countermeasure was severely restrict kinds of i/o programs that were acceptable for normal users (needing special privileges and/or dedicated resources for running unrestricted i/o programs).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
these guys were supposedly using stuff I was doing as an undergraduate
... but I didn't learn about them until much later (gone 404, but lives
on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
cp67/cms from the cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
also where GML was invented in 1969 (decade later morphs into iso
standard sgml, and another decade into html)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
and the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just
about the beginning until possibly late 85 or early 86)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 18 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
From the law of unintended consequences, possibly 2nd order effects of the military-industrial complex shills discrediting integrated low/high frequency radar systems (trying to preserve the invisibility cloak myth) may result in our side not deploying such systems ... and then we can't see their planes when they see our planes.
Chinese and Russian Radars On Track To See Through U.S. Stealth
http://news.usni.org/2014/07/29/chinese-russian-radars-track-see-u-s-stealth
Chinese warships like the Type 52C Luyang II and Type 52D Luyang III
have both high and low frequency radars, the former official said.
...
If you don't have the signature appropriate to that [radar], you're
not going to be very survivable," he said. "The lower frequency radars
can cue the higher frequency radars and now you're going to get
wacked."
... snip ...
""military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:22:21 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
However, in 1944, Roosevelt had the strategic bombing survey (2/3rds of WW2 spending went to air program and half that went to strategic bombing) which found that strategic bombing contributed little or nothing to the war effort. After that, LeMay starts fire bombing german cities (possibly trying to demonstrate strategic bombing was useful for somehting) ... and then went on to fire bomb 66 Japanese cities. McNamara was on his staff doing city fire bombing planning and analysis.
In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, McNamara recalled the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9, 1945: "In that single night, we burned to death a hundred thousand Japanese civilians in Tokyo--men, women, and children." After the war, General LeMay said to McNamara: "If we'd lost the war we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals."
After the war, McNamara left to become one of the whiz kids at Ford.
However he came back as SECDEF for Vietnam War ... when Laos becomes the
most bombed country in the world. recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#28 Kill Chain: The Rise of High Tech Assassins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
past posts mentioning "the wars for asia"
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#70 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#93 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#51 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
past posts mentioning strategic bombing survey:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#10 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#91 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#92 Off topic screeds (was Re: Friden Flexowriter equipment series)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#40 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#13 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#77 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#76 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:25:37 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
before HFT really kicks in ... wallstreet has nothing to fear from SEC
for illegal activity
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
The end of capitalism has begun
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun
In this period the VP (and former head of CIA) said that he didn't know
anything about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
then last decade, one of his sons presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. An indication that wallstreet perfected its stranglehold on washington and the regulatory agencies was that in the S&L crisis there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions. In the economic mess (70 times larger), there has been *NO* criminal referrals (or convictions)
this 2008 article has appeared and then disappeared behind paywall and
then reappeared.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/coming-soon-securitization-with-a-new-improved-and-perhaps-safer-face/
Linneman figures that 1,000 CEOs are accountable for about 80% of the
current lending mess. If the government were to spend $10 billion to
restore liquidity to the market in nine months with only 1,000 people
losing their jobs, it would be the best investment it could make to
restore the economy. "I'm only half-kidding," he quips.
... snip ...
Federal Reserve fought long hard legal battle trying to prevent public release that it was providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds to the too big to fail. Afterwards, Fed chairman claims he thot TBTF would use ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet, but they didn't and he had no way to force them to, but that didn't stop the flow of funds. Not the chairman supposedly was at least partially selected because he was great depression scholar ... where the FED tried something similar and wallstreet acted the same way they did this time.
Current estimate that the too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) have been fined a total of $300B since the economic mess (not just for mortgage and securities fraud, but also money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, and commodities markets, tax evasion, etc), but are clearing $300B/yr off ZIRP funds (separate from the enormous profits they are making from their other illegal activity).
TBTF (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
fed chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
recent posts mentioning HFT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#26 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#17 Robots have been running the US stock market, and the government is finally taking control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#58 Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:31:45 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
but they already knew from Germany experience that they were unable to reliable hit even large military plants ... they needed a fairly large city to guarantee that they would be able to actually hit it ... which also dictated the switch from explosive bombs to fire bombs.
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
first problem they had in germany was location of the military plants ... fortunately there was detailed location and plans on wallstreet from those that were involved in rebuilding germany economy and military in the 20s & 30s (they didn't have equivalent source of information for japan).
the next problem they had was they claimed that they didn't need long range fighter escorts, that all resources could go into building large strategic bombers (having not learned anything from the german experience in the battle of britain).
finally, they found that they had nothing close to precision bombing from the heights that strategic bombing flew ... which possibly was motivation to move to fire bombing really large targets (like large cities, nearly impossible to miss hitting something).
recent references to using high flying strategic bombing for omaha beach
was total failure, german defenses were intact ... while they used lower
flying attack bombing for utah beach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
recent references to getting german military locations from wallstreet
for strategic bombing targets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#76 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:33:54 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:26:59 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
How China got rid of opium
http://www.sacu.org/opium.html
This all changed in the 1770s, when England conquered India and
Burma. Britain needed large sums of money to colonise these two vast
tracts of land, and opium was the answer. Taxes levied on the product
brought in the much needed revenue while Britain's merchant ships
carried it to the most convenient market: China.
... snip ...
more recently ... US gets into it
U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Afghan Opium Production
Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/us-drug-afgahnistan-opium.html
and from today on Zakaria GPS
GPS Web Extra: Will "El Chapo" ever be recaptured?
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/07/18/exp-gps-0719-keefe-web-extra.cnn
Keefe mentions that members of the drug cartels have said that they spend only half their effort figuring out how to get the drugs into the US, the other half of the effort is figuring out how to get the (tens, hundreds of) billions back into Mexico.
The first time I remember seeing references to too big to prosecute (and too big to jail) applied to TBTF was in reports that TBTF were (repeated) money laundering for drug cartels (and terrorists) and not being shutdown and doing jail time ... also attributing the TBTF money laundering responsible for the uptic in violence because the money enabling the acquisition of advanced military weapons.
TBTF (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
past posts mentioning afghan opium
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#69 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#96 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#43 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#46 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#81 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:37:20 -0700"kshy" <kshy@gmail.com> writes:
they get fined and "deferred prosecution" ... sometimes repeatedly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_prosecution
but the joke is that relative to the amounts involved the fines are starting to be viewed as price of doing business.
Whistleblower believes HSBC still money-laundering; Scandal could sink
Obama's pick for attorney general
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/whistleblower-believes-hsbc-still-money-laundering/
HSBC Is Deemed Slow to Carry Out Changes
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/business/dealbook/us-says-hsbc-needs-to-step-up-on-compliance.html
HSBC, the giant British bank accused of laundering money for drug
cartels and transferring funds for Iran and other blacklisted nations,
avoided criminal prosecution in 2012 by promising to clean up its act.
....
The filing, made in federal court in Brooklyn as part of a quarterly
update on the bank's progress after the 2012 deferred-prosecution
agreement, showed just how far HSBC needed to go. Progress has been "too
slow," the filing said, summarizing the work of Michael Cherkasky, the
independent monitor who has been scrutinizing HSBC's operations for more
than a year.
... snip ...
HSBC could lose deferred prosecution agreement
http://nypost.com/2015/06/01/hsbc-still-playing-with-fire-prosecutors/
Prosecutors have been going after HSBC, the largest UK bank by assets,
for failing to clean up its act after it admitted to laundering money
for Mexican drug lords and terrorists.
... snip ...
TBTF (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
recent posts mentioning deferred prosecution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either Date: 29 July 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
note that the extensive cyber breach of US military projects ... has somewhat focused on China using the information for building a single engine stealth (like F35), ... but fewer references to two engine stealth (like F22). There is also less discussion that they can use the design specifications to better adapt their radar. Prototype look-alikes are not only useful for looking at what to improve ... but also for testing anti-stealth radar. The newer, advanced DSP chips can also significantly improve radar detection.
F-35 compared to Russian, Chinese stealth fighters
http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/f-35-in-new-dogfight-over-chinese-russian-stealth-fighter-advances/story-fnpjxnlk-1227181998650
F-35 in new dogfight over Chinese, Russian stealth technology
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/special-features/f-35-in-new-dogfight-over-chinese-russian-stealth-technology/story-fnknbqfx-1227177399053?nk=3a41155782d81cd15f60be94c8c00cae-1437266153
Chinese Air Chief Tells Lockheed 'I Love' The F-35
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/chinese-air-chief-tells-lockheed-i-love-the-f-35/
Officials: Chinese Spying Helped Develop Stealth Jet
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/China-cyberspying-F-35-stealth-jet/2014/03/13/id/559402/
Snowden: Chinese hackers stole F-35 fighter jet blueprints
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snowden-chinese-hackers-stole-f-35-fighter-jet-blueprints-article-1.2084888
PLA's new destroyer could bring down F-35 stealth fighter｜WCT
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140509000110
China/Russia Radars On Track To Defeat U.S. Stealth Technology
Fortuna's Corner
http://fortunascorner.com/2014/07/31/chinarussia-radars-on-track-to-defeat-u-s-stealth-technology/
China's Cyber-Theft Jet Fighter
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-cyber-theft-jet-fighter-1415838777
Comparing Chengdu J-20 with F-22, F-35 and Su-PAK FA or T-50
http://www.defenceaviation.com/2011/01/comparing-chengdu-j-20-with-f-22-f-35-and-su-pak-fa-or-t-50.html
Northerntruthseeker: The Lougheed Martin F-35 Flying Lemon Boondoggle:
When Will People Understand That STEALTH Does NOT Work, Period!
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-lougheed-martin-f-35-flying-lemon.html
Chinese Anti-Stealth VHF Radar
https://www.ab9il.net/aviation/chinese-anti-stealth-vhf-radar.html
The Zuhai Air Show in 2014 shed some light on the new Chinese radar
system. On display was the JY-26 VHF / UHF phased array radar, said to
be capable of detecting F-22 and B-2 aircraft. One thing odd about the
system photographed is that the array seems small. I believe that
there is another phased array system, not on display, which can
effectively work at a 2.6 meter wavelength. That would match my
personal observations on the aeronautical mobile communications
band. Such an antenna would resemble a flat billboard 50 to 100
percent larger than the JY-26 radar antenna. It doesn't have to be
monstrous like the American PAVE PAWS
... snip ...
Target location method based on distributed coherent process for
meterwave MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radars
http://www.chnpat.com/CN05/201210066881.html
The present invention belongs to the field of signal processing, and
further relates to the technical field of radar coherent processing
based on distributed MIMO radar target location method. This method
can be used to improve the measurement accuracy of VHF radar to
achieve the target for early warning from the right role stealth
stealth targets to be positioned on the role of the upgrade, and is
applicable to non-Gaussian noise environment, and compared with
existing methods to reduce the amount of computation.
... snip ...
Air Defence Radars
http://www.armada.ch/air-defence-radars/
• The gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology used by earlier Aesa radars
is being replaced by gallium nitride (GaN).
• The use of GaN technology, which can run at higher operating
temperatures than GaAs, can allow a switch from liquid cooling to
air cooling.
... snip ...
JY-26 - China's new counter stealth radar
http://defense-update.com/20141111_jy-26-chinas-new-counter-stealth-radar.html
Chinese designers at the Airshow China claim the JY-26 radar has
already spotted the US Air Force most advanced stealth fighter - the
F-22 Raptor stealth fighter, as it flew in South Korea on recent
exercises.
... snip ...
British attempt to defeat Chinese counter-stealth radar
http://defence.pk/threads/british-attempt-to-defeat-chinese-counter-stealth-radar.303783/
How stealthy is the F-35 << Defense Issues
https://defenseissues.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/how-stealthy-is-the-f-35/
Looking Inside Scanned-Array Radar Signal Processing
https://www.altera.com/solutions/technology/system-design/articles/_2013/scanned-radar-signal-processing.html
Passive radar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar
Multistatic radar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistatic_radar
PAVE PAWS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAVE_PAWS
so going on 20yrs into the F35 program, since it will be the only plane, the solution is how to jerryrig it so that it is useful for something.
i've periodically conjectured that the military-industrial complex has
used computing wargaming technology for finding new ways to maximize
profits ... like the increasing Success Of Failure culture:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
not just Eisenhower, but also Napoleon; Swords Around A Throne,
pg557/loc12128-31
Contractors' habitual sins all derived from the
single fact that they were in the business to make money and not to
serve their country. When the army advanced, they seldom were prepared
to move with it; if it was compelled to retreat, they would demand
huge indemnities for large stocks of supplies that (they claimed) they
had been forced to abandon.
... snip ...
China Destroyer Consolidates Innovations, Other Ship Advances
http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=china-destroyer-consolidates-innovations-other-ship-advances
Although the 052D is claimed to be the equal of U.S. Navy Aegis
destroyers and cruisers, a couple of its new systems actually are
comparable to the next-generation DDG 1000 or Flight III DDG 51. They
are the hot/cold-launch universal VLS and the AESA radar, which is
more versatile than the Aegis SPY-1 array. The associated Aegis
software remains decades more advanced than the Chinese software,
especially the new antiballistic missile and cooperative engagement
capability missions capabilities.
... snip ...
some of this is wishful thinking ... they are making rapid advances in both hardware chips and software; in fact, they are increasingly the source for US components either directly or indirectly.
This also shows up in the articles about Chinese VHF radar.
early JAST/JSF justification basically has it as a cheap F22 knockoff ... then the time-worn military-industrial bait-and-switch tradition sets in with exploding schedule and bottom line.
Recently posted Stealth Countermeasures article
http://www.whale.to/b/stealth_countermeasures.html
claims that using smart computer technology could allow the F22 phased array with 2000 transmitter/receiver pairs to be reduced by nearly three orders of magnitude (with corresponding reduction in power). There is subthread indirectly referenced in numerous articles about sufficient platform size needed for the electrical generators required by all the equipment ... which is tied to capability and effectiveness. Latest generation of modern electronics can both significantly reduce the power requirements while improving precision and capability, allowing smaller platform size and/or more space for weapons. Smart computer technology is also claimed for increased precision and capability for Chinese VHF radar.
... and
Documents Published by WikiLeaks Reveal the NSA's Corporate Priorities
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31871-documents-published-by-wikileaks-reveal-the-nsa-s-corporate-priorities
For example, who could forget the statement made by former NSA
director Keith Alexander that Chinese cyber espionage represents the
greatest transfer of wealth in history?
... snip ...
implying that Chinese walked away with weapons information that had cost the US trillions to develop. (of course just because it cost the US that much doesn't necessarily mean that it is worth that much)
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"perpetual war"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:00:48 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
Economic mess was 70 times larger than S&L crisis which had 30,000
criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions ... so far for the
economic mess there have been no criminal referrals nor criminal
convictions (an indiciation that wallstreet has perfected their
stranglehold on washington and the regulatory agencies).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
rhetoric on floor of congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley was to prevent
future ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) would do jail
time, however it requires SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO
didn't think that SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of
fradulent financial filings ... even showing increase after SOX goes
into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
It turns out as part of the economic mess, the executives also fiddled TBTF financial filings; fraud that is simpler and straight-forward to prosecute (and would also put them behind bars).
In the middle of last decade, I semi-facetiously asked why aren't the TBTF being prosecuted under RICO ... which allows confiscation of assets three times amount involved ... which would easily run to hundreds of trillions ... and solve all the govs. budget problems.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:54:31 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
compared to trillions done by TBTF this is chump change ... but it would be a good test for SOX (and the guarantee that executives do jail time).
Toshiba inflated profits by $1.2 billion with top execs' knowledge:
investigation
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/20/us-toshiba-accounting-idUSKCN0PU0E920150720
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:48:13 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
various reports has HSBC wealth management group actively blocking AML enforcement (because they are making enormous amounts of money off illegal money laundering).
previously posted ref:
Whistleblower believes HSBC still money-laundering
Scandal could sink Obama's pick for attorney general
"About six months ago, I called some of my friends at the bank and found
out the same bank employees that were involved in the money laundering
before I was fired are still there," he said.
"We checked, and bank managers refused to close the accounts they were
using for money laundering."
... snip ...
it is more like they had extensive convoluted processes explicitly for circumventing AML ... which was respun as how hard it is to establish AML processes ... as opposed to the lengths they went to in establishing processes to circumvent AML. And then the lengths that certain regulatory agencies went in ignoring evidence in order to justify deferred prosecution.
HSBC's Money Laundering Lapses, By the Numbers
http://www.propublica.org/article/hsbcs-money-laundering-lapses-by-the-numbers
The report reaches back more than a decade, and in testimony in front of
the Senate this week, the bank apologized and vowed it has recently
overhauled its anti-money-laundering efforts. The bank's head of
compliance stepped down this week. But the Senate report notes that HBSC
made similar promises of reform back in 2003 when it was cited by
regulators for poor oversight of suspicious transactions. HSBC declined
to comment further on the report or on the DOJ's ongoing investigation.
... snip ...
the above article has significant more details
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for suspected criminals; Documents
detail customers who faced allegations including drug-running,
corruption, doping and money laundering
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/12/hsbc-files-swiss-bank-hid-money-for-suspected-criminals
Senate Reports NARCO Bank HSBC Helped Rothschild CIA Mossad
Terrorists, Soros Mexican Drug Cartels Launder Money!
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2014/06/06/senate-reports-narco-bank-hsbc-helped-rothschild-cia-mossad-terrorists-soros-mexican-drug-cartels-launder-money/
20 Billion British Money Laundering Scam Goes Through Eastern Europe,
Ends in HSBC, RBS, UBS and Citibank
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/10/21/20-billion-british-money-laundering-scam-goes-through-eastern-europe-ending-at-hsbc-rbs-ubs-and-citibank/
HSBC faces charges of fraud and money laundering from Belgian state
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/17/hsbc-swiss-arm-fraud-money-laundering-charges-belgium
HSBC charged in Belgium over money laundering, tax fraud
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/hsbc-belgium-courts-idUSL6N0T72J520141117
HSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal
http://www.globalresearch.ca/hsbc-caught-in-new-drug-money-laundering-scandal/5310397
Big Banks Are Knee-Deep in the Dirty Money-Laundering Business
http://www.alternet.org/investigations/big-banks-are-knee-deep-dirty-money-laundering-business
Massive fraud ignored ... until this happened
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/massive-fraud-ignored-until-this-happened/
HSBC will pay $1.9 billion for money laundering
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/12/11/hsbc-laundering-probe/1760351/
Loretta Lynch Refused To Prosecute Criminal Enterprise HSBC
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=11214
Swiss Defend Seven-Year Delay to HSBC Money-Launder Probe
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-23/swiss-defend-seven-year-delay-to-money-laundering-probe-at-hsbc
HSBC fined 27.8m in Swiss money-laundering probe
http://www.digitallook.com/news/news-and-announcements/hsbc-fined-278m-in-swiss-money-laundering-probe--750389.html
HSBC Struggles in Battle Against Money Laundering
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hsbc-struggles-in-battle-against-money-laundering-1421100133
Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/banking-giant-hsbc-sheltered-cash-linked-to-dictators-and-arms-dealers-1.2095966
Explosive: Stunning backstory inside HSBC scandal; Big-money bankers
tried to shut news site down to stop it
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/emerging-obama-scandal-1st-found-by-wnd-in-2012/
HSBC scandal: Britain's biggest bank let drug gangs launder millions
and faces a 640million fine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174785/HSBC-scandal-Britains-biggest-bank-let-drug-gangs-launder-millions--faces-640million-fine.html
Explosive: Stunning backstory inside HSBC scandal
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/emerging-obama-scandal-1st-found-by-wnd-in-2012/
HSBC Became Bank to Drug Cartels, Pays Big for Lapses
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100303180
Big bank retaliates against WND for expose
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/big-bank-retaliates-against-wnd-for-expose/
HSBC Said Banned From Taking on New Assets at Saudi Unit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-20/hsbc-said-banned-from-taking-on-new-assets-at-saudi-unit
At Last We Know How Hedge Funds Are Making All That Money
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/12/at-last-we-know-how-hedge-funds-are-making-all-that-money/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3705 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Jul 2015 10:45:47 -0700gah@UGCS.CALTECH.EDU (glen herrmannsfeldt) writes:
the univ. had a number of TTY/ASCII so I had to add TTY support to CP67 ... and tried to do it also using dynamic terminal type identification. I also tried to support single dial-in number for all terminal types ... aka "hunt group" ... common pool of lines. However, IBM had taken short cut and hard-wired the line-speed oscillator to each line ... so while it was possible to change the line-scanner ... it wasn't possible to change the line-speed (original 1052 & 2741 had same line speed, but TTY was different).
This was motivation for univ. to start a clone-controller project, building channel interface board for Interdata/3 programed to emulate 2702 ... but able to also do dynamic line-speed operation. This was later improved to Interdata/4 for the channel interface and cluster of Interdata/3s dedicated to line-scanner. Four of us get written up as responsible for (some part of) the clone-controller business. Later Perkin-Elmer buys Interdata and the clone-controller continues to be sold under the PE logo (in the late 90s, I ran into PE box in large datacenter handling much of the dial-up point-of-sale terminals on the east coast, 1200 baud ascii).
A number of places had been sold (virtual memory) 360/67s supposedly for
use with TSS/360 ... however TSS/360 had hard time reaching maturity ...
so a lot of places ran CP/67. Other places developed their own virtual
memory operating systems for 360/67 ... Stanford did Orvyl/Wylbur
(Wylbur later ported to MVS) and Michigan did MTS. MTS did
clone-controller using PDP8
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
some more MTS
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html
clone-controller posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:23:57 -0700re:
another "misconduct" story
New York Times DealBook Underplays Misconduct By Regulatory Fixer
Promontory , Under Investigation by New York Department of Financial
Services
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/new-york-times-dealbook-underplays-misconduct-by-regulatory-fixer-promontory-under-investigation-by-new-york-department-of-financial-services.html
In case you managed to miss it, $250 billion is over four orders of
magnitude larger than the $14 million that Promontory, whose claim to
fame is that it is chock full of ex regulators, said was not kosher. And
yes, Standard Chartered in its settlement with New York and other
regulators, agreed that it had engaged in $250 billion of illegal
transactions and that the Promontory estimate was wrong, and paid a
total of $667 million to the DFS and other regulators.
... snip ...
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
past posts mentioning Promontory:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#16 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#36 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#64 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#19 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#42 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#50 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:05:21 -0700re:
Promontory reports only being able to find $14M in suspicious money
laundering transactions out of the $250B the bank admits to.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
Other articles on Promontory:
Is BofA's Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge
http://www.propublica.org/article/is-bofas-foreclosure-review-really-independent-you-be-the-judge
Settling The Foreclosure Reviews: Winners And Losers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2013/01/08/settling-the-foreclosure-reviews-winners-and-losers/
The rise of Promontory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-rise-of-promontory/2013/08/02/c187a112-f32b-11e2-bdae-0d1f78989e8a_story.html
Promontory Financial Draws Washington Scrutiny
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/for-former-regulators-a-home-on-wall-street/?_r=0
Meet Mary Schapiro's New "Revolving Door" Employer
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/meet-mary-schapiros-new-revolving-door-employer
Schapiro's Promontory Move Latest Sign of Too Much Coziness
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/schapiros-promontory-move-latest-signal-of-too-much-coziness-1057980-1.html
Can Regulators that Spawned TBTF Banks End TBTF?
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/can-regulators-that-spawned-tbtf-banks-end-tbtf-1058080-1.html
Transcript: Attorney General Eric Holder on 'Too Big to Jail'
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/transcript-attorney-general-eric-holder-on-too-big-to-jail-1057295-1.html
Regulatory Looting, Promontory-Style: Botched Foreclosure Reviews
Alone Generate More than Double Goldman's Revenues per
Employee
http://batrdailybusinessreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/regulatory-looting-promontory-style.html
Abigail Field | Insider Says Promontory's OCC Foreclosure Reviews for
Wells are Frauds. Brought to You by HUD Sec. Donovan By Abigail Field,
a freelance writer and attorney who blogs at Reality Check Foreclosure
Fraud
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/02/27/abigail-field-insider-says-promontorys-occ-foreclosure-reviews-for-wells-are-frauds-brought-to-you-by-hud-sec-donovan-by-abigail-field-a-freelance-writer-and-attorney-who-blogs-at-reali/
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the Cover-Up Happened (Part
IIIA)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-new-part-iii.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the Cover-Up Happened (Part
IIIB)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-cover-up-happened-part-iiib.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: How the Cover-Up Happened (Part
IV)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-part-iv.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: How Promontory Became a Shadow
Regulator (Part VA)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-occ-overlooked-independent-reviewer-promontorys-keystone-cops-act-part-v.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the OCC Overlooked
"Independent" Reviewer Promontory's Keystone Cops Act (Part VB)
http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2013/02/11/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-occ-overlooked-independent-reviewer-promontorys-keystone-cops-act-part-vb/
New Whistleblower Describes How Bank of America Flagrantly Violates
Dual Tracking, Single Point of Contact Requirements in State/Federal
Mortgage Settlement
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/new-whistleblower-describes-how-bank-of-america-flagrantly-violates-dual-tracking-single-point-of-contact-requirements-in-statefederal-mortgage-settlement.html
Reform Suggestions for the Rogue Regulator, the OCC, and its Partner
in Crime, the Shadow Regulator Promontory Group
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/reform-suggestions-for-the-rogue-regulator-the-occ-and-its-partner-in-crime-the-shadow-regulator-promontory-group.html
SEC Ex-Chief Schapiro Lands at Consultant
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324883604578396973470835516
Promontory Decides to Reinvest Part of its $1 Billion of Ill Gotten
Gains from Botched Foreclosure Reviews By Buying Hiring Former SEC
Chief Shapiro
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/promontory-decides-to-reinvest-part-of-its-1-billion-of-ill-gotten-gains-from-botched-foreclosure-reviews-by-buying-hiring-former-sec-chief-shapiro.html
Former SEC Chief Finds Consulting Firm Through Revolving Door
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/04/former-sec-chief-finds-consulting-firm-through-revolving-door.html
How Promontory Financial Became Banking's Shadow Regulator
http://www.americanbanker.com/magazine/123_4/how-promontory-financial-became-banking-s-shadow-regulator-1057480-1.html
Wells Fargo's "Reprehensible" Foreclosure Abuses Prove Incompetence
and Collusion of OCC
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/wells-fargos-reprehensible-foreclosure-abuses-prove-incompetence-and-collusion-of-occ.html
Abigail Field: Insider Says Promontory's OCC Foreclosure Reviews for
Wells are Frauds. Brought to You by HUD Sec. Donovan
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/abigail-field.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:41:22 -0700re:
Bribes Work: How Peterson, The Enemy of Social Security Bought the
Roosevelt Name
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/06/bribes-work-peterson-institute-donations-turning-nominally-liberal-foundations-to-the-right.html
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:16:28 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
co-worker at science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
was responsible for the implementation of the internal network (larger
than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late
'85 or early '86)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
and also implementation used for (corporate sponsored) bitnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
a book about him & childhood bullying has been written
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630
other refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#15 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#17 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#29 It's Cool To Be Clever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#35 How old is the oldest email in your current email inbox?
institutions allow bullying as part of enforcing conformity (and stamping
out creativity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#65 Teachers Don't Like Creative Students
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#71 Is orientation always because what has been observed? What are your 'direct' experiences?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#50 The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#74 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#70 Teaching Smart People How to Learn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#3 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:39:26 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Then they found that the could pay rating agencies for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they were worth triple-a, from oct2008 congressional testimony).
With triple-A rating they could start doing no-documentation liar
loans (triple-a rating trumps documentation, and with no-documentation
there is no longer an issue of documentation integrity), pay for
triple-A rating and sell off (including to large pension funds that
are restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, claims it was major
contribution to 30% drop in fund value and trillions in pension
shortfall) ... largely responsible for being able to do over $27T
between 2001-2008 (by comparison almost nothing during the S&L
crisis, major factor that economic mess last decade being 70times
larger than the S&L crisis).
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
the economy mess bubble starts to burst when buyers start to realize that triple-A ratings on securitized loans aren't to be trusted. Also in this period, the tax-free muni-bond market freezes because buyers are worried that *NO* ratings can be trusted. Buffett finally steps in and starts offering tax-free muni-bond insurance that starts to unfreeze the market (and somebody has to pay for Buffett's insurance).
Contributing factor was that in the real-estate frenzy, there was big uptic in housing speculation building. For all the new housing, they had to build new services (water, sewer, etc), which they issued bunch new muni-bonds. Then with the bubble bursting, there was also worry that nobody was going to buy all the new housing ... and nobody would be paying the real estate taxes to fund the muni-bonds (increasing concern that the tax-free muni-bond ratings couldn't be trust).
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to
create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A
rating and sell off to their customer/victims and then take out CDS
gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy
mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG
... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when
the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that
they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP
funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP
funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the
largest recipient of face-value payoffs). toxic CDO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning Buffett offering tax-free muni-bond insurance buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#20 dollar coins buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#53 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis? buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.) buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#30 The first personal computer (PC) buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#2 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P? buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#66 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV buffett:https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:43:27 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
I've talked before about internal installations looking at deploying
loads of 4341s out into departmental areas ... primarily because large
datacenters were exploding at the seams and difficulty in adding more
computing capacity ... but in part because they could (4341
significantly improved computing price/performance ... and significantly
reduced the space and environmental footprint). One of the issues was
moving MVS-based applications to 4341 (MVS required significant human
resources for its care and feeding, couldn't have several dedicated
staff in every department) ... the simpler applications could be
directly moved to vm/cms ... the more complex ones required enhancements
to the MVS simulation in CMS. The other benefit was that the significant
MVS&VTAM processing overhead was eliminated (uncaptured CPU) ... further
improving the processing efficiency. old email mentioning 4341
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
past posts mentioning capture ratio
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#16 CPU time and system load
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#19 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#82 IBM to the PCM market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#23 SMF Under VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#42 Inaccurate CPU% reported by RMF and TMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#72 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#66 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#33 SHAREWARE at Its Finest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#76 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#39 CPU time variance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#70 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#71 Help with elementary CPU speed question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#8 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#78 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#80 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#82 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#85 CPU time
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:56:10 -0700re:
60s, science center did extensive work on cp40 and then cp67 to gather
accurate statistics and use them for resource management and scheduling
(and accounting)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
however, cp67 delivered to univ. jan1968 took enormous amount of processing to support the accurate statistics, resource management and scheduling. Even after the Lincoln Labs redo shipped later spring of 1968 ... 35users could still take 10% of processing (overhead increased non-linear with number of users).
Then as undergraduate in the 60s, I then redid the whole thing, making
the overhead linear proportional to user activity (independent of number
of users) and drastically reducing to less than 1% of user activity ...
while making the resource management and scheduling much more effective.
This was shipped to customers and came to be referred to as "wheeler
scheduler" or "fair share scheduler" (because default resource
management policy was fair share).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
In the early 70s, the science center used the extensive statistics gathering for modeling (both analytical and event driven) as configuration and workload profiling (which evolved into capacity planning).
A variation on one of the (science center, APL-based) analytical models
was made available on the world-wide sales & marketing online HONE
systems as the Performance Predictor; SEs could enter customer
configuration and workload profiles and ask "what-if" questions about
what happens when configuration and/or workload changes are made.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:32:57 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:01:59 -0700Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
trivia/topic drift ... meeting in ellison's conference room on
ha/cmp cluster scale-up (jan1992)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
other HA/CMP posts&references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
within weeks, the cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as supercomputer (for technical and scientific *ONLY*) and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors ... significantly increasing the motivation to leave.
Later two other people from the meeting ... are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called commerce server. We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server; the small startup had also invented some technology they call "SSL" they want to use ... the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
During this period, they were making products available to download over the internet. However, the systems on the platforms they were using had an increasing FINWAIT processing bottleneck problem ... and they were constantly having to add servers ... and informing users to do their own load balancing across all the download servers (this is before changes to boundary routers that would dynamically do the load balancing).
They then brought in a single Sequent server that easily handled all the load. They had run into (& fixed) the FINWAIT processing problem some years before.
recent posts mentioning FINWAIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
Sequent then is doing some amount of business selling sequent systems to run commercial mainframe emaulator. Chen has left his supercomputer business (after having left cray) and is CTO at sequent ... and he brings us in to do some consulting at Sequent (this is before IBM buys sequent and dissolves it).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:08:04 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
past posts mentioning frost heaves:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#22 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#28 trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#35 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#36 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#42 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#68 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#11 Idiot drivers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#45 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#24 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#26 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#12 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: A&P supermarket bankruptcy Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:17:13 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
lots was done to obfuscate to field people that it was virtual machine based implementation. regularly a top branch manager would be promoted to hdqtrs position that HONE reported to ... and would be horrified to eventually find out that HONE wasn't MVS based. He would then figure that he could make his career by having HONE convert to MVS ... launching a project consuming nearly all the available HONE resources dedicated to MVS conversion. This would last a year or so before it was deamed a failure, the executive promoted to another job, a new replacement comes in to repeat the process (that continued for well over a decade).
Periodically I would be blamed for the failure for the MVS conversions because I had contributed so many operating systems enhancements to HONE (that made it impossible for an MVS-based system to do the job).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 3 Aug 2015 16:43:24 -0700starsoul@MINDSPRING.COM (Lizette Koehler) writes:
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network
in the late 70s & early 80s. folklore is that when the executive was
told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network)
5of6 wanted to fire me. this is email from person in paris given job
of doing EARN (bitnet equivalent in europe) looking for online
applications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
this is history of listserv creation in paris in 1986 ... somewhat
similar to the earlier internal online VMTOOL computer conferencing
tool (developed in the wake of my activities) ... although VMTOOL had
both usenet-like mode in addition to mailing list like mode.
http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history-listserv.asp
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
In the late 80s, the communication group was spreading misinformation
as part of convincing corporate to ocnvert the internal network to
SNA/VTAM ... when it would have been much more efficient to have
converted to TCP/IP (like BITNET did).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
more mailing lists
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html
some of the mailing lists gateway to usenet ... some bidirectional, others only distribution (but not posting). usenet is also gatewayed (usually bi-directional) to google groups
note that TYMSHARE had developed CMS-based online computer
conferencing system and made it avaialble to IBM SHARE organization
starting in Aug1976 ... archive:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
... for mainframe specific try search engine for "ibm mainframe discussion group mailing list"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:09:49 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions Date: 07 Aug 2015 Blog: Facebookfacebook version of
Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions; A
celebration by the Marine Corps of its accounting prowess turns out to
have been premature, with a discrepancy in a key audit of $800 million
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/03/17735/pentagon-remains-stubbornly-unable-account-its-billions
The Pentagon Is Still Terrible at Accounting for Your Tax Dollars; A
celebration by the Marine Corps of its accounting prowess turns out to
have been premature, with a discrepancy in a key audit of $800
million.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/03/the-pentagon-is-still-terrible-at-accounting-for-taxpayer-dollars-marine-corps-800-million-gao/
Marine Corps Can't Account for $800 Million
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2015/08/04/marine-corps-cant-account-for-800-million/
It mentions that lower level objections were run over and higher ups
signed off as accurate despite objections. In theory if this was
subject to Sarbanes-Oxley and sign-off on financial audits despite
objections ... it would call for the people doing the sign-offs doing
jail time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act
2010 CBO report was that previous decade, DOD budget was increased by over $2T compared to baseline, $1+T for the two wars ... and $1+T that they couldn't find anything to show for.
The law for 20yrs has called for all federal agencies to pass financial audit (including DOD) and account for the money they spend. The story says that a financial audit was signed off on even when lower levels said that it was *NOT* accurate.
The press around all this was they made a big deal of the Marine corp being the *FIRST* DOD agency to actually pass an audit ... in preparation for speculation that all of DOD might be able pass an audit in 2017. It they hadn't made such a big deal of it having claimed that they passed an audit ... probably nobody would have noticed when it turned out not to be true.
Pentagon Wars
http://cimsec.org/cimsecs-pentagon-wars-screening-with-jamie-malanowski/18140
more Pentagon Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
review of burton's book: Corrupt From Top to Bottom
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
movie was based on burton's book:
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard/dp/B00HXY969W/
... (long-winded) before, during and after Burton's account
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
when CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis (justifying
significant increases in DOD appropriations) ... they replaced him
with somebody that would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
they are then there for providing WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
in the iran/iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
former CIA director and then VP claims he didn't know anything about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
those advisers/analysts are there for Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Kuwait invasion;
administration says that Saddam told them he would do no such thing
... administration proceeds to discredit the analyst. Analyst then
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Saudi invasion ... now the
administration is forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 to fabricate WMD justification
(Bush2 also presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L
crisis). cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... takes nearly a decade before the information is declassified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
note corporate representatives had approached former eastern bloc
countries and tell them if they vote in UN for invasion of iraq, they
will get approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that
can only be used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial
complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
from Merchants of Doubt,
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
pg47/loc1209-14:
Team B's Claims turned out to be more than a little exaggerated. Later
analyses would show that the Soviet Union had not achieved strategic
superiority, they had not implemented a missile defense system beyond
their single Moscow installation, and they certainly never achieved
the ability to dictate U.S. policy. One anecdote perhaps tells the
whole story: A few years after the Soviet Union collapsed, one of
Teller's proteges toured a site that the Team B panel had believed was
a Soviet beam-weapon test facility; it turned out to be a rocket
engine test facility. It had nothing at all to do with beam weapons.
and National Insecurity
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-Media-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/
pg248/3534-40:
The Team B experience was the first instance of institutionalized
militarization of intelligence imposed on the CIA from the White
House. The first instance of the CIA's internal militarization of
intelligence took place in the 1980s, when President Reagan appointed
a right-wing ideologue, Bill Casey, to be CIA director, and Casey
appointed a right-wing ideologue, Bob Gates, to be his deputy. 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.
pg261/loc3722-24:
Cheney and Rumsfeld resorted to the same technique they had used in
1976, when they had worked for President Ford. In the 1970s, they had
created Team B at the CIA in order to politicize intelligence on
Soviet military power. In 2002, they politicized intelligence in order
to take the country to war against Iraq.
Prophets of War
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
pg134/loc2273-74:
Another Team B member who was to make his mark later, under the
administration of George W. Bush, was Paul Wolfowitz.
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff 74-75, then when he becomes
SECDEF, 75-77, he is replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He
is again SECDEF 2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its
most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely
[his] handiwork."
Other accounts have Iraq invasion planning starting before
9/11. Justification for Iraq invasion included it would only cost $50B
(besides the WMDs). Later there is massive airlift of $60B in large
pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills for bribary/tribute to curtail
hostilities for short period of time.
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Founded in 1992 by the late investment banker Robert McKeon, Veritas
Capital grew quickly by buying up government contractors and forming
close ties with former senior government officials. Of the many
defense-related investments made by the company, the most famous has
been the 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, a scandal-plagued
company that played a pivotal role in the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them (also references oil rig company that was
transformed into one of the largest defense contractors after former
SECDEF and future VP becomes CEO, including no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
above includes references to some of the events around the spreading
Success Of Failure culture (make more money off series of failures)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
(note sometimes clicking govexec serves up a blank page and you have
to repeat the click)
The secret history of the US military's ire toward Northrop is a long
one... and an ugly one at that.
http://ericpalmerblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/reader-comments-northrop.html
As it happens, the first Secretary of the Air Force was Stuart
S. Symington, who had immediately beforehand retired from Convair ---
he was that company's Vice President. The YB-49's potential was
obvious, so Symington wanted the USAF to have it. He also wanted Jack
Northrop to hand it over for free to Convair, along with most of the
profits. When Northrop refused, Symington not only terminated the
YB-49 immediately, but even made an example of Northrop by sending the
USAF in to seize every single document, model, and prototype of every
Flying Wing aircraft Northrop had ever developed for the military
(which is to say, nearly every one of them)
note that the same year as this article (1993)
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
congress passes law requiring all federal agencies to pass financial
audits (trying to catch some of the worst financial corruption and
fraud). so far DOD has yet to pass an audit
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/03/17735/pentagon-remains-stubbornly-unable-account-its-billions
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:02:38 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
regarding 1943 strategic bombing program ... John Foster Dulles was instrumental in rebuilding German economy and military during the 20s and 30s ... when 1943 strategic bombing needed locations of military targets, they got a long list of coordinates from wallstreet.
After the war, McNamara leaves for Ford, but comes back as SECDEF for
vietnam ... where Laos becomes the most bombed country per capita in the
world ... aka Air Force needed a facade that they were somehow
contributing to the effort ... pictures of B52s unloading enormous
numbers of bombs on Laos made it look like something.
http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/
From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of
ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions -- equal to a planeload
of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years -- making Laos the
most heavily bombed country per capita in history
... snip ...
Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos; Picturing the
deadly legacy of America's secret war in the world's most bombed-out
country.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/laos-vietnam-war-us-bombing-uxo
recent posts mentioning bombing Laos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#28 Kill Chain: The Rise of High Tech Assassins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#38 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:23:15 -0700hancock4 writes:
however that didn't stop the air force from showing how many bombs they
could drop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Aug 2015 16:46:09 -0700Allan.Staller@KBMG.COM (Staller, Allan) writes:
before release of cms\apl, this all had to be reworked in order to reduce the massive page thrashing.
Besides doing virtual machines, cp67/cms, the technology for the
internal network (and corporate sponsored univ bitnet ... where ibm-main
originated), GML, and lots of other things ... the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
also did a number of performance & analysis tools. One did processing & storage use analysis ... which was used for analyzing cms\apl and bunch of other things. It was also used extensively inside ibm by most product groups in their transition to virtual memory operation (would identify hot-spot instruction use as well as hot-spot storage use) ... and eventually released to customers as VS/Repack (which attempt semi-automated program reoganization to improve operation in virtual memory environment).
references to internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
references to bitnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
references to gml (sgml, html, etc)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
a major factor in the motivation in transition from os/360 MVT to
virtual memory OS/VS2 was significant problems with the way MVT managed
real storage, GETMAIN, etc ... regions had to typically be four times
larger than really needed. The analysis showed that typical 370/165 MVT
1mbyte machine only supported four regions. A "virtual memory" MVT on
370/165 1mbyte machine could support 16 regions with little or no paging
(aka keep all the in-use data in the 370/165 1mbyte "processor" cache).
Old reference to study motivating to move all 370 to virtual memory:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:38:00 -0700"Blano" <blano6654@nospam.com> writes:
at one point I got sucked into design design for 370/125 multiprocessor
with up to five of the memory bus positions occupied by processors with
370 microcode (which was never announced or shipped) ... some past post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
most of the 360s&370s just had single processor .... and the lower end machines had "integrated" channels & controllers ... microcode function all sharing the same processor as doing 370 CPU emulation. Moving up the 360&370 processor line ... there would be less integrated function and more and more free standing separate boxes.
this can be seen in the transition from 370 158&168 to 303x. They took the integrated channel microcode from the 158 and used it for the 303x channel director. A 3031 was then a 158 engine with 370 microcode (and no integraged channel microcode) and a sencond 158 engine (as 303x channel director) with integrated channel microcode (and no 370 microcode). A 3032 was 168 reconfigured to use 303x channel director as external channels. A 3033 started out being 168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips.
The 4331/4341 sold into the same mid-range market as VAX and sold about the same numbers in small unit orders. The big difference were the large corporate orders for hundreds of 4300s at a time. The 4300s significantly reduced physical and environmental footprint at same time improving price/performance. Large corporations were placing hundreds of 4300s out into departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami.
However, in the datacenter, a cluster of 4341s had more aggregate computing power, smaller aggregate physical footprint, less aggregate power&cooling, lower aggregate price, more aggregate memory and more aggregate i/o capacity than 3033 (and 4341 channels were "integrated"). At one point the head of POK/3033 got corporate to cut the allocation of a critical 4341 manufacturing component in half (as way of reducing the competitive pressure).
old post with a decade of VAX shipments, sliced & diced by model, year,
US/non-US, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
I've periodically told story of cp/67 delievered to the univ. jan1968. It came with 1052 & 2741 terminal support ... but univ. had a number of TTY terminals. I added TTY support consistent with the existing terminal support including dynamic terminal type identification. This used the external controller 270x "SAD" command that allowed dynamic association of the different terminal specific line/port scanner with each port. I actually wanted a single phone number ("hunt group" pool) for all terminals ... which wouldn't quite work ... since the 270x took a short cut and hardwired the line-speed for each line.
This was (at least part of the) motivation to start a clone controller
project using a Interdata/3 programmed to simulate 270x controller ...
but supporting both the SAD command as well as dynamical line speed
determination. This included reverse engineering the 360/67 channel
interface and building a channel interface board for the Interdata/3.
This then involved into an Interdata/4 for the channel interface and
multiple (embedded) Interdata/3s handling port-scanning function. Four
of us got written up for (some part of) the clone controller business.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
trivia: late 90s, I'm visiting a large financial processing datacenter and there is a Perkin/Elmer box handling majority of the dialup point-of-sale terminals on the east coast (P/E bought interdata and continued to market the clone controller box under the P/E logo).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 11:03:45 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
From "war-is-boring" discussion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
I've recently referenced in this thread LeMay/McNamara really started fire bombing half-dozen German cities after Roosevelt strategic bombing survey found that strategic bombing contributed little or nothing to war effort (even after getting long list of coordinates from wallstreet, they still had trouble hitting the military targets, but almost impossible to miss large city) ... and then went on to fire bomb 67 japanese cities.
war-is-boring just moved their website
http://warisboring.com/articles/
however most of the really active discussions has been happening on war-is-boring facebook group ... most recently about F35 ... with lots of USAF as well as number of other military types from around the world ... has gotten so animated that references to the discussion are showing up on various military news sites.
"military-industrial(-congressional) complex"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning "battle of britain"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#14 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#63 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#101 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#109 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#0 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#36 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#38 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#52 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#72 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#54 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:30:28 -0700Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> writes:
some of that are customers ... they have business critical legacy application and it is cheaper and the risk is lower just to keep it running in compatibility
possibly the largest currrent customer of ibm mainframes is the
financial industry. large part of the financial industry in the later
half of the 90s invested billions in re-engineering critical legacy
applications and the new versions failed miserably ... from then on it
was cheaper to just let them continue (it might take decades and new
generation before it was tried again). a couple recent posts mentioning
the 90s financial re-engineering failures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#65 A New Performance Model ?
there have been newer operating systems like TYMSHARE's GNOSIS operating
system for 370. When MD bought TYMSHARE they spun off GNOSIS for KeyKOS
(disclaimer I was brought in to do GNOSIS review as part of the
spin-off).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
GNOSIS: A Prototype Operating System for the 1990s
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/Gnosis/Gnosis.html
above mentions LSRAD report ... which I've scanned & uploaded to
bitsavers
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/share/
also
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmshareTh_154513217
... GNOSIS foundation for KeyKOS, EROS, CapROS and Coytos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyKOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_%28microkernel%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyotos
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:22:21 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
they went thru 24bit to 31bit to 64bit ... and they are still expanding on the 64bit support. with a drastically reduced market size and lots of customers focused on compatibility and maintenance ... they don't have the large thousands of programmers any more. Its pretty much a static and even declining market ... so unlikely they would be attacting many new customers (there is still even periodic discussion about CSA storage that has to be located in the first 16mbytes of memory).
as previous posts about the latest mainframes versus servers
... mainframe systems are still running several hundred thousand $$$ per
BIPS while servers are pushing into the under $1/BIPS range. Also
existing market is looking at moving more & more things to the cloud
... which is all server technology (big megadatacenters with hundreds of
thousands of systems). I found 1qtr2014 mainframe financials ... which
was the equivalent of 14 max-configured EC12s, 56 max-configured EC12s
on annualized basis (several years of EC12s sales would be handled by a
single processor chip wafer run, which possibly contributed to the
decision to unload their chip manufacturing foundaries). recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
I've also conjectured the megadatacenters required using open-source software ... since there was a whole lot of evoluation had to occur for several hundred thousand system megadatacenter environment (compared to the dominant closed proprietary mainframe operating system).
recent posts mentioning megadatacenter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#69 Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 09:33:44 -0700Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> writes:
CMS was from mid-60s ... a descendant CTSS ...
.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
As CP67/CMS grew, the group split off from the science center and moved to the 3rd flr taking over the (IBM) Boston programming center. When it outgrew the 3rd flr, it moved out to the vacant SBC bldg out in Burlington mall.
I periodically mention that in the wake of the death of Future System project in the mid-70s, that the head of POK convinced corporate to kill off VM370/CMS, shutdown the Burlington Mall development group and move all the people to POK (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time in the 80s). They weren't going to tell the group until the very last minute but the information managed to leak (there was witch hunt looking for the source of the leak, fortunately for me, nobody gave the leaker up) and lots of people managed to escape and stay in the rt.128 area. There is a joke tha tthe head of POK was one of the largest contributors to VMS.
At least one of the people from Burlington Mall group went to Prime (as
did some number of Multics people).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer
The company was successful in the 1970s and 1980s, peaking in 1988 at number 334 of the Fortune 500. In 1985 the company was the 6th largest in the minicomputer sector, with estimated revenues of US $564 million [1] Much of this was based on the US Banking industry where the Pr1me Info database was widely accepted.
... snip ...
something similar can be seen in the VAX numbers ... referenced here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
... with workstations and large PCs starting to take over the midrange market (4300s experienced similar fate).
In the early 80s, I tried to get a project to do a brand new system
... and held a advanced technology conference on the subject
... mentioned here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a
I had envisioned something similar to the original cp67/cms group. The
original virtual memory system for the 360/67 was suppose to be TSS/360
... and before imploding it was reported to have had 1200 people
(greater than 100 times, two orders of magnitude, more than the cp67/cms
group). My proposal got absorbed into an official corporate sponsored
effort ... and imploded when it had 300-600 people just writing design
specifications.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#27 VM/SP sites that allow free access?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#25 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#53 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#46 Blinking lights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#14 Z/OS--anything new?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#57 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#63 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#17 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#72 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#51 Information on obscure text editors wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#20 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#35 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#57 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#8 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:14:43 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
other old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
since there was a little rivalry between 4th & 5th flrs ... and AFDS
had been long time Multics installation ... it was of some interest
https://www.multicians.org/site-afdsc.html
here
https://www.multicians.org/sites.html
I had also gotten roped into doing national lab benchmark that was looking at
getting 70 4341s for compute farm ... sort of precursor to modern
supercompuers ... 4341 ran benchmark in about same time as cdc6600
... old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0
3031 was a little slower than 4341 ... but 3031 was faster than 158 ... even tho 3031 & 158 used the same processor engine ... but the 3031 had the integrated channel microcode moved to a 2nd processor engine.
I've attributed that experience contributing to later working on cluster
scale-up with large numbers of rs6000,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
referenced here for commercial RDBMS with jan1992 meeting in ellison's
conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
but was also working with national labs (including LLNL & LANL) on large
filesystems and scientific/technical ... referenced in old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
over a couple of weeks following the Ellison meeting, cluster scale-up was transferred, announced as ibm supercomputer (for scientific and technical *ONLY*) and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Aug 2015 16:42:35 -0700shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
We had done a VM370 modification at SJR that did super efficient trace of all disk record accessed (both by vm370 & virtual machines) what was installed in several systems in the San Jose/Bay Area. the 10Oct1980 email refers to upgrading to support calypso/eckd CCW. The trace was used for various things like modeling disk i/o cache configurations. We had a proposal to have it incorporated into all systems for use in dynamic load-balancing for placement/location.
some of the ECKD intertwinces with my theme (rant) that it would have
been enormously simpler & less expensive to have added FBA support to
MVS. I had been told that even if I provided them with fully integrated
and tested MVS FBA support ... that i needed a $26M incremental business
case (to cover documentation and education) ... basically $200M-$300M in
additional disk sales ... but they claimed that customers were already
buying disks as fast as they could be made ... so it would just shift
the same amount of sales from CKD to FBA (and therefor it was impossible
for me to show incremental/additional disk sales from FBA support).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
this post references that 4341 with small tweak was being used
for testing 3mbyte/sec channel (w/o needing speed matching)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#36 What was old is new again (water chilled)
If POK machines (158, 168, 303x) had been as powerful as 4341 ... there wouldn't have needed Calypso (speed matching and enormous resources needed to get it working) ... but then if MVS had FBA support wouldn't have needed to do 3380 as CKD (even tho inherently it was FBA underneath) ... or do a 3375/CKD version of 3370/FBA.
other past posts mentioning calypso
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#7 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#40 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#0 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#40 TOPS-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#44 Z/VM support for FBA devices was Re: z/OS support of HMC's 3270 emulation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#11 Secret Service plans IT reboot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#36 What was old is new again (water chilled)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#30 45 years of Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#14 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#35 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#12 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#64 Random thoughts: Low power, High performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#154 BDW length vs. Physical Length
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:59:29 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
compared to ww2, 2.7 million tons allies dropped in europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#US_bombing_in_Europe
more recent several accounts of Nixon commuted treason and extended the
war by years (with lots of deaths) just so that he would win the
election.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#75 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
refs:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/nixons-treason-now-acknowledged.html
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13994-how-richard-nixon-sabotaged-1968-vietnam-peace-talks-to-get-elected-president
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/08/fleshing-out-nixons-vietnam-treason/
except for fire-bombing large cities, ww2 & vietnam bombing were about
equally poor at not being able to hit target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Strategic_Bombing_Survey
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Aug 2015 20:44:45 -07000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
an issue would be if you simulated 3330 .. and formated 50byte (or 110byte) dummy records and had a simulated rotational spin rate much faster than 3330 (it wasn't vm code paths, it was speed of chained CCW channel processing).
I periodically mention getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
(sometimes they demanded I play disk engineer) ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
vm370 formated 3330s for paging so records were aligned on each track ... three 4kbyte pages per track ... and if there were queued requests for records on same cylinder but different tracks would attempt to optimize single channel program to transfer all pages in the minimum number of revolutions. For CKD this would require seek head, search, tic, read/write ... and in order to allow the channel time to execute the CCWs while the disk was spinning, page area formating inserted dummy records between page data records. It turns out that channel specs (worst case 370) required 110byte dummy records given the 3330 rotational spin rate ... to allow channel time to process the CCWs (to do a head switch) ... but track size only had room for 50byte dummy records.
I did a test program that was run on 145, 148, 4341, 158, 168, 303x with
IBM disk controllers and various non-IBM disk controllers. IBM disk
controller could actually process the head switch CCWs with 50-byte
dummy record (w/o additional revolution), for most machines except 158 &
all 303x ... and some number of non-IBM disk controllers could do the
switch even with 158 & 303x (the issue is that for all models of 303x,
they used external channel director ... which was actually a 158 engine
with the slow integrated channel microcode and w/o the 370
microcode). 3081 channels also had problem doing CCW head-switch within
the 50byte dummy record window. past posts on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#7 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#3 YKYGOW...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#17 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#64 System/360 40 years old today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#65 System/360 40 years old today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#66 System/360 40 years old today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#38 storage key question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#22 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#83 old 370 info
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#65 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#26 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
There was a different issue with code paths on 3880 controller. After FS death, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines (during FS period, internal politics had been killing off 370 efforts) and 303x and 370-xa were kicked off in parallel. 370-xa became none as "811" for the Nov1978 date on most of the architecture documents. When I saw SSCH, I thot that it was mostly to compensate for the enormous interrupt pathlength in MVS. A big problem was that as devices became faster, and load increased, there was significant increasing device idle time while MVS went thru interrupt & redrive overhead.
Earlier, the disk engineering lab had been testing using prescheduled, stand-alone mainframe dedicated test time ... at one point they had tried to use MVS ... but found it had 15min MTBF (requiring manual re-ipl) in that environment. I volunteered to rewrite I/O supervisor so it was bullet-proof and never fail so that any number of on-demand, concurrent testing could go on (vastly increasing productivity). I also setout to demonstrate the optimal interrupt processing and queued request device redrive.
some bean counter had dictated that 3880 use a really slow control processor (compared to 3830) and used dedicated circuits to get 3mbyte/sec transfer rate. The slow control processor showed up in increased channel and controller busy as well as increase elapsed time for channel program processing. To pass product acceptance test (requiring 3880 appear to be within 5% of 3830 performance), they would signal channel program complete (CE+DE) early ... before having actually finished everything. The first time they put 3880 controller into use with 16 3330s (and heavy load on 3033) replacing 3830 ... throughput dropped almost in half. They had assumed that they could signal complete and actually finish while software was executing interrupt and redrive pathlength. However, my superfast redrive pathlength was hitting the 3880 while it was still busy ... and as a result it was forced to signal CC1, csw-stored with SM+BUSY to the SIOF. Then later it would signal CUE interrupt when it had actually finished. This was significantly driving up overhead and latency (compared to 3830 controller).
Fortunately this was still six months before first-customer ship and there was some time to do some compensation for the slow 3880 processor. However, they still had increased channel busy ... compared to what the 3090 engineers had been assuming with something that was effectively 3830 3mbyte performance. 3090 had to compensate for the increased 3880 channel busy by doubling the number of channels in configuration ... which required an extra TCM, which increased 3090 manufacturing costs (there was joke about 3090 billing the bean counter for each additional 3090 TCM). Marketing also had to spin the vastly increased number of channels as demonstrating the significant 3090 I/O power (when it was actually a problem with really slow 3880 disk controllers).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Aug 2015 09:58:56 -0700re:
For those that got post forwarded and can't see the recent URL refs
on garlic.com ... On 17Apr2015, garlic.com changed their webserver and
still haven't yet been able to update my personal web pages ... to
see the full thread check google group archive.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/K2Elt-40-VE
With regard to MVS MTBF 15min, I happened to mention in an internal (only) report giving technical details of building a bullet proof and never fail I/O subsystem ... which brought down wrath of the MVS organization on my head ... apparently they would have gotten me fired if they could figure out how ... but they found other ways of taking out their displeasure.
VM370 official calypso support, put8201, reference to retrofitting to
heavily modified internal system.
Date: 01/11/82 12:51:34
To: wheeler
ref calypso-vm/sp (ext. ckd ) ;
The official release of the code was this month. Put tape 8201
lvl. 110. It looks like it might be awhile before we get that far for
common and all, right ? Maybe I should go ahead and work on fitting
it to 106. What do you think?
... snip ... top of post, old email index
from vmshare archives ... discussion of 3880 speed matching buffer
but doesn't explicitly say anything about define extent and eckd
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=3380&ft=MEMO
old email about FE error injection regression tests for 3380 ... all of
the 57 errors were resulting in MVS hanging and requiring reipl and in
2/3rds of the cases, there was no indication of what caused the problem
(this is separate from the earlier issue where they attempted to use MVS
in the bldg. 14 engineering test lab and found it had 15min MTBF)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:20:22 -0700Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
it covers some of the same events as "Merchants of Doubt" ... but from
different perspective:
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:35:33 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
"Influence Machine" has quite a bit on Boehner
"They Pray to the Money"; House Republicans Decry Speaker John Boehner's
Lobbyist-Friendly Congress
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/07/pray-money-house-republicans-decry-speaker-john-boehner-lobbyist-run-congress/
consistent with
Donald Trump Says He Can Buy Politicians, None of His Rivals Disagree
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/07/donald-trump-buy/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:02:53 -0700hancock4 writes:
before "Influence Machine", I had just read:
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter
Partnership That Transformed America
https://www.amazon.com/Meet-You-Hell-Partnership-Transformed-ebook/dp/B000FCK4UO/
which goes into lots of their dealings ... although somewhat focused on their love/hate partnership ... falling out, getting back together. Business influence then wained ... first with Teddy and then later with FDR (after the crash of '29).
"Influence Machine" was that "chamber of commerce" was somewhat unfocused representing lots of local chapters. Then a new president came in the late 90s ... and became totally refocused on large influential industry groups that would channel enormous amounts of money through his hands to achieve very specific political goals (including big overlap with what is described in "Merchants of Doubt"). They set up special non-profits for channeling money w/o having divulge the doners. It does cover some of the activities leading up to the late 90s for comparison on how "chamber of commerce" revolutionized the activity. It even goes into some of the things with the current speaker of the house ... recent item:
"They Pray to the Money"; House Republicans Decry Speaker John
Boehner's Lobbyist-Friendly Congress
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/07/pray-money-house-republicans-decry-speaker-john-boehner-lobbyist-run-congress/
past posts mentioning robber barons:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#80 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#86 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#87 IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#13 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#66 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#51 The Truth About the "Robber Barons"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#60 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#21 What Makes weapons control Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:41:24 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
today's ibm mainframes are more similar to rack full of blades (but with much less throughput at an enormously higher price)
Mainframe CKD DASD hasn't been made for decades, it is all emulated on industry standard (fixed-block) disk.
Mainframe FICON channels are a heavy-weight protocol run on top of
industry fibre-channel standard (that significantly cuts the native I/O
throughput). The latest peak I/O mainframe benchmark I've seen published
is for Z196 that got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON. About the same time as the
Z196 peak I/O benchmark, a native fibre-channel was announced for
e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such fibre-channel have
higher throughput than 104 FICON ... which is protocol layer that runs
on 104 top fibre-channel). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
processor chips are made in the same foundaries that do other
microprocessor chips using the same technology. mainframe processors
were in fact lagging behind with respect to some cache-miss compensating
technology that has been around for decades (out-of-order execution,
speculative execution, branch prediction, etc). The claim was over half
the thruput improvement from Z10 to Z196 was starting to introduce such
features. Recent posts discussing it in more detail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#29 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
a max. configured EC12 is 101processor rated at 75BIPS or 743MIPS/processor and goes for $33M or $440k/BIPS
this says that latest Z13 has 40% more capacity (than
EC12) but also 40% more processors (141).
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZG15-0001
by comparison an e5-2600v3 blade are rated at
1300BIPS .. two chips, up to 7 cores/processor, 22nm tech
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/78583/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-v3-Family
e5-2600v4 will be released with 14nm tech ... some 14nm chips are
already starting to appear
http://wccftech.com/massive-intel-xeon-e5-xeon-e7-skylake-purley-biggest-advancement-nehalem/
http://vr-zone.com/articles/broadwell-ep-xeon-e5-v4-focus-cores-reliability-per-core-performance/66845.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20131220211018_Intel_Readies_18_Core_Xeon_Broadwell_EP_Microprocessors_for_Launch_in_2015_Report.html
A high-density rack of such blades may have more processing than all the
mainframes in the world today at a trivial fraction of the price
(especially the large public clouds that assemble their own with
several hundred thousand such blades in each megadatacenter).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
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