From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Repealing Glass-Steagall Date: 01 Jan 2016 Blog: LinkedInIn competition to be the next AMEX CEO, the looser leaves taking his protegee and then make some number acquisitions, eventually acquiring Citibank in violation of Glass-Stegall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby DC for repeal of Glass-Steagall. The rhetoric in congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA was if you already have a banking charter, you got to keep it, but if you didn't, you couldn't get one (keeping new competition out of banking). Then several other things were added. GLBA originally passes senate along party lines and President was set to veto it. They then go back and do other things to it and it passes with veto-proof 90-8
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s, I was asked to try
and help prevent the coming economic mess by looking at improving the
integrity of supporting documents as countermeasures. Then
lenders were securitizing loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A
ratings. Triple-A rating trumps supporting documentation and they can
start doing no-documentation liar loans. Being able to pay for
triple-A eliminated any reason for loan originators to care about loan
quality, they could sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made)
to customers restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, largely
enabling over $27T done 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
Oct2008 congressional hearings on the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the economic mess had testimony that both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A. The triple-A ratings on securitized loans/mortgages, allowed mortgages to be moved out of the depository institutions and into investment banking and "bond" markets.
At one point, investors start to realize that triple-A ratings are up for sale and they might not be able to trust any ratings ...and cut back on investing ... including totally freezing the muni-bond market. Warren Buffett then steps and started offering muni-bond insurance to unfreeze the market
Loans/mortgages had been done by regulated banks (using deposits). Securitization & paying for triple-A ratings allowed non-depository institutions to jump into the market being able to use wallstreet and bond market as source of funds (immediately selling off loans/mortgages). Wallstreet loves it since it is new source of fees & commissions. Claims wallstreet tripled in size (as percent of GDP) during the period
Initially paying for triple-A rating eliminated any reason to care
about loan/mortgage quality. Then they realize that they can
securitize mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell
to their victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would
fail (creating enormous demand for bad mortgages)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
AIG is the largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and is negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when the US Sec. of Treasury steps in and forces them to sign that they can't sue the betters and take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of the payoffs is company formally headed by Sec. of Treasury
VP (former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such
activities
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
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
and another presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:11:43 -0800hancock4 writes:
some past B&M refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#12 Home mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#41 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#28 Penn Central RR computer system failure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#62 Urban transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#83 What Makes travel Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: History question - In what year did IBM first release its DF/DSS backup & restore product? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Jan 2016 14:49:55 -0800ibmmain@COMPUTERSUPERVISORYSERVICES.COM (Stephen Mednick) writes:
Note: I had originally developed CMSBACK in the late 70s that was used
at a number of internal sites (including the online world-wide,
sales&marketing support HONE). It went through a number of internal
releases at San Jose Research ... which morphed into Almaden research
when research moved up the hill in the mid-80s. Ability to back up from
distributed systems was added and then released to customers as
workstation datasave facility. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cmsback
It was picked up by the storage division ... and renamed ADSM ... adstar storage manager ... storage division had been renamed adstar as part of reorganizing the company into the 13 baby blues in preparation for breaking up the company (then the board brought in a new CEO to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company).
The company acquired Tivoli (started by a couple former IBMers that had been at the rs/6000 workstation group in Austin) and ADSM was moved to Tivoli morphing into TSM.
We spent some amount of time consulting for the ADSTAR VP of software
on number of items ... not just ADSM, he also was behind the original
MVS/USS development ... and provided funding for some number of
non-IBM storage related startups. I've mentioned several times:
A senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at communication group
world-wide internal annual conference supposedly on 3174 performance
... however he opened the talk with the statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that the communication group had stranglehold
on datacenters with its strategic ownership of everything that
crossed the datacenter wall and was fighting off distributed computing
and client/server trying to preserve its (emulated) dumb terminal
paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing
to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk
sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions to
reverse the trend, but they were constantly vetoed by the
communication group.
...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
As attempted work-around (to the communication group), the VP of software would also fund non-IBM efforts to provide mainframe distributed computing and part of what he had us do was try and keep track of some number of these activities.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:00:18 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Welch pushes GE Capital into one of the major institutions responsible
for the financial mess ... and the growth in GE's bottom line.. "Age
of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to
the Present", pg200/loc3925-30:
The CNNMoney writers got it slightly wrong. GE was not exactly like
the American economy. It was even more dependent on financial
services. In the early 2000s, GE was again riding a financial wave,
the subprime mortgage lending boom; it had even bought a subprime
mortgage broker. GE borrowed still more against equity to exploit the
remarkable opportunities, its triple-A rating giving it a major
competitive advantage. By 2008, the central weakness of the Welch
business strategy, its dependence on financial overspeculation, became
ominously clear. GE's profits plunged during the credit crisis and its
stock price fell by 60 percent. GE Capital, the main source of its
success for twenty-five years, now reported enormous losses.
pg324/loc6382-85:
General Electric's persistent earnings increases were a leading
example of how earnings were manipulated to produce consistent
gains. Fortune analyzed how Jack Welch used both pension fund reserves
and reserves at GE Capital to supplement quarterly earnings in order
to make them rise consistently. As noted, they rose every quarter for
almost thirteen years. GE stock roughly tripled between 1990 and 1995
and then quintupled between 1995 and early 2000.
... snip ...
Lots of financial engineering ... like what goes on with current stock buyback craze
....
past posts mentioning "GE Capital", Welch, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#13 Why? (Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#48 Gartner: Stop Outsourcing Now
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#12 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#9 Bletchley Park fires up replica Turing Bombe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#9 The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#77 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#33 Management Secrets From Inside GE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#50 IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#51 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#84 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#147 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:07:30 -0800Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service
http://time.com/2938158/youth-fail-to-qualify-military-service/
so military is forced to get significantly less selective.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Fibre Chanel Vs FICON Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 3 Jan 2016 10:18:30 -0800Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> writes:
and controller emulation of CKD on industry standard fixed-block disks
(there haven't been any real CKD manufactured for decades).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
there have been various past discussions about IBM charging/justifying a significant $$/mbyte premium for that emulation
trivia
Build Your Own Fibre Channel SAN For Less Than $1000 - Part 1
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-howto/31485-build-your-own-fibre-channel-san-for-less-than-1000-part-1
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Repealing Glass-Steagall Date: 03 Jan 2016 Blog: LinkedInre:
The effect of repeal of Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
... allowed depository institutions to combine with other institutions
that were responsible for the housing bubble (and playing with rating
agencies for fabricated triple-A ratings) ... supposedly justifying
too big to fail ... as well as too big to prosecute and too big
to jail ... not just for housing bubble, but lots of other illegal
activity, manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, commodities market, money
laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, robo-signing fabricated
documents and lots of other stuff. too big to fail (too big to
prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
After acquiring citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall and Greenspan
giving them exemption while they lobby congress for repeal (got buried
in GLBA), they enlisted several in DC ... including Clinton's Sec. of
Treasury (who had previously headed the same institution that the
Sec. of Treasury last decade headed). After GLBA was in the final
process, he resigns and joins Citibank, which at the time was
described as co-CEO. Disclaimer: he would show up at PDA61 financial
industry meetings in the white house annex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Infrastructure_Protection
The legislation that came the closest to addressing the housing bubble
... was buried in Sarbanes-Oxley. The rhetoric was SOX would prevent
future ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) did
jailtime ... but it required SEC to do something.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything last
decade, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent
financial statements, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect
(and nobody doing jailtime).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
SOX also had provision for SEC to do something about the rating
agencies (which were selling triple-A ratings on securitized
mortgages, providing the >$27T fuel for the bubble) ... but SEC wasn't
doing anything about that either (lots of regulation existed, it just
wasn't being enforced last decade)
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
At the Madoff congressional hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
#1 on times list responsible for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
... head of mortgage company unaffected by Glass-Steagall ... specialized in paying for triple-A ratings on securitized mortgages.
#2 in times list responsible for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
... responsible for GLBA (included repeal of Glass-Steagall) ... but on the list (along with his wife) responsible for preventing regulation of CDS gambling bets ... originally billed as favor for ENRON. His wife was head of CFTC blocking CDS gambling bet regulation, while he was getting legislation passed preventing CDS gambling bets regulation. After the bill passes, the wife resigns and joins ENRON board and the audit committee. From law of unintended consequences ... then those packaging securitized mortgages and paying for triple-A ratings ... could package securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victims, and then make CDS gambling bets that they woudl fail.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:36:55 -0800hancock4 writes:
one of the major victims of the triple-A ratings on (toxic) securitized
mortgages/loans were pension funds that were limited to only investing
in "safe investments" (claims that it took 30% on funds and trillions in
fund shortfall) over $27T total was done 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Top executives are manipulating pension plans to juice the bottom line for and their bonuses ... as referenced in prevous post regarding Welch & GE Capital.
But there is much long litany chronicled ... some IBM specific:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K/
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
wallstreet and public employee pension funds
Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
private-equity are buying companies and looting the victim companies
(including pension plans) posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
but they also are then selling "high-yield" (junk) bonds to public employee pension funds (aka, industry got such bad rep ing S&L crisis, that they changed their name to private-equity and junk bonds became high-yield bonds).
long, ongoing litany involving calpers (but cal. isn't the only one,
just one of the largest)
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/01/6524138/former-calpers-ceo-buenrostro.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/former-calpers-ceo-pleads-guilty-bribery-fraud-including-taking-cash-paper-bags.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/orange-county-register-attacks-lack-public-pension-fund-transparency-cites-suit-calpers.html
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2506775-to-calpers-go-small-and-go-young-or-get-out
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-19/first-calpers-now-texas-teachers-cut-hedge-fund-exposure
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/gretchen-morgenson-damage-private-equity-secrecy-mention-calpers-suit.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/private-equity-consultants-flounder-question-abusive-evergreen-fees-calpers-board-meeting.html
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2688805-is-calpers-a-canary-in-the-coal-mine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/04/investors-like-calpers-and-new-york-city-in-the-dark-about-private-equity-fees.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/top-private-equity-reporter-calpers-is-either-lying-or-has-a-massive-breakdown-in-financial-controls.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/sacramento-bee-reports-on-calpers-fee-lapses.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/california-state-treasurer-takes-up-calpers-private-equity-carry-fee-reporting-lapse-after-nc-readers-press-him.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/leading-pension-consultant-pca-shills-for-private-equity-firms-in-calperscalstrs-carry-fee-row.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/senior-private-equity-officers-at-calpers-do-not-understand-how-the-general-partners-make-money.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/fortunes-dan-primack-takes-up-calpers-private-equity-scandal-calls-head-of-private-equity-factually-wrong.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/financial-times-joins-the-party-on-calpers-and-links-to-naked-capitalism.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/wsjs-carried-interest-comic-strip-mocks-calpers.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/how-calpers-consultant-pension-consulting-alliance-is-more-loyal-to-private-equity-than-its-clients.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/california-readers-catch-on-kpfa-this-friday-at-730-am-discussing-calpers-and-calstrs.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/mission-impossible-star-alec-baldwin-retweets-yves-post-on-calpers-capture-by-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/the-larger-implications-of-calpers-staff-and-board-incompetence-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/former-california-official-blasts-calpers-ceo-anne-stausboll-staff-and-board-for-misconduct.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/former-state-chief-investment-officer-tells-calpers-and-calstrs-to-fire-consultant-pca-over-proposed-fix-for-poor-private-equityperformance.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-calpers-officers-propose-lower-investment-targets-wsj-2015-10
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/after-nc-media-coverage-of-calpers-and-calstrs-private-equity-fee-lapses-treasurer-john-chiang-calls-for-legislation.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/oxford-professor-schools-calpers-contrary-to-board-presentation-private-equity-is-most-expensive-asset-class-by-far.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/11/the-bigger-significance-of-calpers-private-equity-carry-fee-release-another-nail-in-the-carried-interest-tax-loophole-coffin.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/11/harvard-professor-josh-lerner-gives-weak-and-internally-contradictory-plug-for-private-equity-at-calpers-workshop.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-lies-to-itself-and-others-to-justify-investing-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/we-discuss-private-equity-calpers-and-its-tainted-counsel-on-harry-shearers-le-show-this-sunday.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/more-on-how-calpers-lies-to-itself-and-others-to-justify-investing-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/former-california-official-blasts-calpers-ceo-anne-stausboll-for-betrayal-of-trust-in-hiring-scandal-ridden-fiduciary-counsel.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-violated-california-open-meeting-laws-to-stifle-private-equity-skeptics.html
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/corruption-again-calpers-keeping-lobbying-records-secret-from-its-board-members/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-fails-to-use-its-leverage-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/san-diego-union-tribune-editorial-attacks-calpers-over-half-hearted-plan-to-lower-return-targets.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/our-bloomberg-op-ed-on-calpers-plan-to-get-rid-of-private-equity-risk-by-ignoring-it.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/we-won-a-fight-against-calpers-over-its-plan-to-ignore-private-equity-risk.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/the-twelve-days-of-calpers.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Too Big To Fail Date: 04 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookVP (former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such activities
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
and another presides over the economic mess last decade, 70 times larger than S&L crisis ... and his secretary of treasury had previously been the CEO of one of wallstreet's largest investment banks
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s, I was asked to try and help
prevent the coming economic mess by looking at improving the integrity
of supporting documents as countermeasures. Then lenders were
securitizing loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A ratings. Triple-A
rating trumps supporting documentation and they can start doing
no-documentation liar loans. Being able to pay for triple-A eliminated
any reason for loan originators to care about loan quality, they could
sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made) to customers
restricted to dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension
funds), largely enabling over $27T done 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Initially paying for triple-A rating on securitized mortgages, eliminated any reason to care about loan/mortgage quality. Then they realize that they can securitize mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell to their victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad mortgages)
AIG is the largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and is negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when the US Sec. of Treasury steps in and forces them to sign that they can't sue those making the bets and take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of the payoffs is company formally headed by Sec. of Treasury
Congress had passed auto import quotas to reduce competition and
provide domestic industry enormous profits that they use to completely
remake themselves. Early 80s, Washington Post had article calling for
100% unearned profit tax on domestic industry because they were
pocketing the money and continued business as usual. In 1990, the
domestic auto industry had the C4 taskforce, looking at completely
remaking themselves ... and because they were planning on heavily
leveraging technology, they invited major tech companies to send
reps. In the meetings, the industry could accurately describe what
competition was doing right and how the domestic industry needed to
respond. As shown when same Sec. of Treasury also used TARP funds for
the domestic industry, all the entrenched vested interests continued
business as usual (for well over 30yrs).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
From the law of unintended consequences, the biggest fines the too
big to fail had to pay were for the robo-signing mills they set up to
fabricate the supporting documents for all those no-document liar
mortgages/loans ... too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too
big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
It didn't look like FEDs were going to do anything about the
robo-signing mills, then several states were going to file criminal
charges, including jail time; FEDs then takes over jurisdiction and
fine the too big to fail (no jail time). Current estimate that
too big to fail have been fined a total of $300B for criminal
activity last decade, not just the mortgage mess (>$27T)
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
and robo-signing mills, but also manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, and commodity
markets as well as money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists,
facilitating tax evasion and misc. other criminal activity. $300B
sounds like a lot ... but is actually less than one percent of the
total amounts involved (joke about it is now viewed as cost of their
doing criminal business).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
Additional, TARP originally was supposedly to be used to buy off-book
toxic assets ... but at only $700B appropriated it wouldn't have made
a dent in the problem when just the four largest too big to fail
were still carrying $5.2T toxic assets at the end of 2008 (TARP assets
may never have been really intended for purchase of toxic
assets). What really bailed the too big to fail was the tens of
trillions in ZIRP funds from the Federal Reserve which the too big to
fail were making something like $300B/year ... easily offsetting the
total $300B that they've been fined since the financial mess.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:01:37 -0800re:
recommendation today in military group
https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-1941-City-Its-People-ebook/dp/B002UZ5J2W/
from above:
In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from
German invasionâ--more causalities than that of the United States
and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in
fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms
to defend their city. Students dropped their books for guns; released
prisoners exchanged their freedom for battle; and women fought alongside
men on the bloody, mud-covered frozen road to Moscow. By the time the
United States entered the war the Germans were already retreating and a
decisive victory had been won for the Allies.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:25:43 -0800Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> writes:
securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots). In the 90s, I was asked to help prevent the coming economic mess by improving the integrity of supporting documents as countermeasure. They explained that the majority of the people involved in the S&L crisis and things like junk bonds had walked away clean and were then involved in internet IPO mills ... formula was invest a few millions, hype the IPO for a couple years and then get hundreds of millions (or billions) in the IPO. It helped that the new companies would then fail, because it left the field open for the next round of IPOs. They were then predicted to next get into mortgages.
We had some direct experience ... during a financial standards meeting held in DC, we were asked to step out, there was somebody there to talk to us. He explained that he was from a ethnic organization in NJ and some wallstreet investment bankers had asked him to talk to us. They were expecting to clear $2B from upcoming internet IPO ... that involved some technology that were actively critising ... they figured that our citicism would result in a 10% downside in the $2B they were expecting. He said it wasn't personal, it was purely business (seen various references that investment bankers are dominated by sociopaths).
Of course the mortgage lenders figure out that they could pay rating
agencies for triple-A rating (when all knew they weren't worth triple-A,
from testimony in Oct2008 congressional hearings into the role that the
rating agencies played). Triple-A rating trumps supporting documents and
they can start doing no-documentation, liar loans. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Originally triple-A rating just met they no longer had to care about borrowers qualification or loan quality ... but then they figure out they can do securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell to their victims and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad mortgages).
AIG was the largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when the US Sec. of Treasury steps in, forces them to sign document that they can't sue those making the bets and take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG, and the largest recipient of face value payoffs is the investment bank formally headed by the Sec. of Treasury.
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation, liar loans result in the too big to fail later setting up the robo-signing mills to fabricate the documents. Several states were working up to filling criminal charges against the too big to fail for the robo-signing mills (including jail time), when FEDs take over jurisdiction and settle with huge fines (but no jail time). The fines are turned over to organization that is suppose to use the money to help the victims of fraudulent foreclosures. However, little of the money actually reach the victims (turns out the organizations were setup by some of those previously involved in the economic mess).
Estimate is the too big to fail have been fined a total of $300B since
the economic mess (but no jailtime). However, this isn't just for the
bad loans and robo-signing mills, but also a load of other illegal
activity last decade, manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, the commodity markets,
money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, facilitating hundreds
of billions in tax evasion and other criminal activities (joke is that
the $300B is so small compared to the total amounts involved, that it is
just viewed as the cost of doing criminal business). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
this policy is called "deferred prosecution", but has given rise to too
big to fail also being referred to as too big to prosecute and too
big to jail. "Deferred prosecution" normally described something like
probation ... charges dropped if the company is clean for several
years. However, there are numerous instances of same company committing
same crimes, year after year in voilation of previous "deferred
prosecution" settlements ... and nothing happening (except more nominal
sized fines, much smaller than the money that they still walk away
with). some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:34:40 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
people running these organizations, charged with distributing fines to victims of fraudulent mortgages&foreclosures ... included executives that were federal regulators last decade (and did nothing then).
trivia ... bloomberg tv just had business news flash saying jp
morgan/chase settled (some) foreclosure/robo-signing case
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-jpmorgan-mortgages-idUSKBN0UJ1UX20160105
the original case had tens of billions in fines ... this appears to be with regard to additional fines for failing to conform with previous settlements.
old posts mentioning robo-signing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#8 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#13 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#68 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#55 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#63 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#73 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#80 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#58 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#111 Maine Supreme Court Hands Major Defeat to MERS Mortgage Registry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#0 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#16 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#21 Senate Democrats vs. the Middle Class; Senators elected in 2008 made Obama's agenda possible, and its results have harmed most Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#48 The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#90 NY Judge Slams Wells Fargo For Forging Documents... And Why Nothing Will Change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#92 Ocwen's Servicing Meltdown Proves Failure of Obama's Mortgage Settlements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
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#20 $2 Billion City Of Tampa Pension Story Major Media Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#22 Two New Papers Say Big Finance Sectors Hurt Growth and Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#49 Global Fragility and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#53 Servicers in DOJ s Crosshairs Following JPM Robo-Signing Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#75 Hillary Remains Clueless About Regulation on the 28th Anniversary of the Keating Five Meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#88 How Wall Street captured Washington's effort to rein in banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#5 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
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#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#95 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#4 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
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#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#56 The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#73 Economists' Tribal Thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#81 Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#53 rationality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:50:25 -0800hancock4 writes:
that is separate from cheap gas enabling all sort of life-style choices.
past ESAL road design posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#41 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#21 Spam Bomb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#57 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#20 Parallel programming again (Re: Intel announces "CT" aka
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#7 OT Global warming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#44 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#2 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#7 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#10 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#12 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#15 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#19 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#24 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#26 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#32 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#35 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#46 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#48 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#50 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#51 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#52 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#53 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#54 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#1 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#2 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#3 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#23 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#97 Loads Weighing Heavily on Roads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#21 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#55 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#56 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#48 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#68 Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#25 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#37 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#41 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#55 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#40 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#61 Idiotic cars driving themselves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#52 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#83 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#48 What Makes a bridge Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#28 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#29 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#168 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#47 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:53:04 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Related arguments are about real costs/measures of all kinds of legislation, there can be claims made justifying various kinds of legislation (including taxes) ... but rarely is there any effort to substantiate the claims (especially if there is actually totally different motivation).
trivial example is national disaster flood insurance ... claim is that
at least half of the national disaster flood insurance is paid to the
same people along the mississippi, year after year (effectively a
federal economic subsidy for those people). In the early 80s, congress
passed a law that those people get paid one more time to move off of the
designated flood plains, but it was illegal to keep paying the same
people to rebuild on the same flood plains, year after year. several
recent articles about how that law was never enforced ... people
continually getting to rebuild on the same flood plains. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#41 Where do the filesystem and RAID system belong?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#42 Where do the filesystem and RAID system belong?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#67 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#41 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
another example is fed. government started offering (nearly free)
irrigation water for rice growers in otherwise semi-arid regions. The
real cost of growing rice in semi-arid region is much higher than in
traditional rice growing environments ... but the fed. governement
water subsidy totally distorted those costs. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#15 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#41 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#19 The Return of Ada
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
one of the arguments for flat tax was that (distorted) taxes can result in less efficient, non-optimal business decisions/choices.
I've periodically referenced roundtable broadcast at national economist
meeting a few years ago. That current federal tax code costs 5-6% of
GDP. Going to (simplified) flat tax gains 2-3% GDP in (wasted) time
people spend dealing with the tax code and 2-3% GDP in people making
more optimal business decisions (there is intense lobbying tax preparers
& related organizations against any simplification of tax code). past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#39 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#74 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#20 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#20 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#80 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#81 Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#86 How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#30 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#57 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#14 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#3 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#1 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#133 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:01:05 -0800hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM Date: 06 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookDilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM
There was folklore that at least well into the 80s, there was group in Armonk that was responsible for turning foils into professional flipcharts for presentations to Armonk executives.
long ago and far away, we would make customer calls on pacbell
(including knowledge base joint study with pacbell) and the pacbell
people said that Scott worked there (86-95) ... Dilbert first
published 1989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
TSS/360 was the official system to use 360/67 virtual memory ... some
of Melinda's history goes into a lot more detail ... can be found
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
TSS/360 at peak had somewhat like 1100 people ... at a time when
cp67/cms had something like 11 people. Some amount of CP67/CMS was
outgrowth of CTSS. At the univ I got to play with CP67/CMS and had to
share weekend 360/67 time with the SE working on TSS/360. We both did
a fortran program edit, compile and execute. TSS/360 running 3
simulatied users had worse performance, response, etc than CP67/CMS
running 35 simulated users (doing same benchmark) ... this was before
I had started doing a lot of my performance benchmarks, system
rewrite, new algoritms, etc ... part of old SHARE presentation
from the 60s:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
More than decade later, we had some issues with transition from
3272/3277 to 3274/3278. Turns out that TSO users didn't notice because
they rarely had better than 1sec system response ... while lots of
internal vm370/cms systems had quarter second system response. The
issue was that 3272/3277 had added .086sec hardware response while
3274/3278 added a minimum of 1/3sec. hardware response. This was in
period when studies were showing significant improved human
productivity with quarter second or better response. At the time, I
was doing vm370/cms systems with .11 which with 3272/3277 made .2sec
human response (next best internal vm370/cms systems were around
.2secs for similar workload and hardware configuration)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#19 3270 protocol
We complained to the 3274/3278 product administrator about how bad it made interactive computing .... eventually got a response that 3274/3278 wasn't designed for interactive computing.
MVT/MVS response problems weren't all TSO's fault ... part was
pervasive use of multitrack search ... single I/O could take 1/3rd
second (locking up channel, controller, switch & drive for the whole
duration).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
SJR for a time had MVS/168 and VM/158 with all 3330 strings fully interconnected but with strict rules that MVS 3330 packs could not be mounted on VM-strings (because of disastrous effects of multitask searches). One day it accidentally happened and datacenter almost immediately started getting irate calls about CMS response from all over the building. Initially, operations said they wouldn't move it in till 2nd shift. We then brought up a single pack VS1 system running (under on vm158) on MVS-string ... bringing the MVS/168 to its knees ... and CMS response returned to normal (even running virtual VS1). The MVS group then surrendered and moved their pack if we take down the virtual VS1.
Note that there was several problems with 3274/3278 .... compared to 3272/3277 ... they moved a lot of electronics out of the 3278 back to the controller ... to cut the cost of 3278 manufacturing. The 3274 already had a slow processor ... but it was given a lot of additional duties that it had to do for all terminals (previously done by 3277 terminal) ... further slowing done terminal response. The load on (direct channel connected) 3274 controller also significantly drove/increased channel busy connections for each operations ... impacting overall system throughput (in a period where it was common to spread both disks & 3274 on 15 block-mux channels.).
Moving lots of function back to the 3274 controller (also) drove up the protocol chatter (and latency) over coax-cable. Later a emulated 3277 terminal PC card had three times the upload/download throughput of a emulated 3278 terminal PC card.
In 1980, I did a project for STL datacenter where they moved 300
people from the IMS group to offsite bldg. They had tried remote 3270s
and found them to have horrible human factors (after being use to
vm/370 local channel attached 3270s). I did support for non-IBM
channel extender putting all the 3274 controllers at remote
bldg. .... with no perceived loss of response. The non-IBM channel
extender was extraordinarily more channel efficient than 3274s and as
a result overall system throughput increased 10-15%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Trivia: somewhat as result (lot of details in between), in 1988 I was
asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff that they had
... which quickly morphs into fibre-channel standard. Later some POK
channel engineers get involved and define a heavy-weight protocol that
enormously cuts throughput (compared to native throughput) that is
eventually released as FICON (only official peak I/O thruput numbers
I've seen is for z196 that used 104 FICONs to get 2M IOPS ... at a
time when there was a single fibre-channel announced for e5-2600 blade
claiming over 1M IOPS ... two such fibre-channel have higher
throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre-channel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:52:19 -0800Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
first occurance of too big to prosecute and too big to jail being
applied to too big to fail ... was when they were found to be money
laundering for drug cartels and terrorists ... and just got their hands
slaped and asked to please stop doing it (but they didn't). The claim is
that the money laundering is directly responsible (providing them with
enormous amounts of cash) for them having loads of military-grade
weapons, violance and murders on both sides of the mexican/us boarder,
etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
of course the too big to fail criminal activity isn't limited to
"money laundering" ... but includes massive activities manipulating
LIBOR, FOREX, commodity markets, the triple-A ratings used for
securitized mortgages/loans, robo-signing mills, facilitating
enormous amonts of tax evasion, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
then you can wander into the military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
drumming up excuses for continuous armed military conflicts as a way of
keep funds flowing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
recent conflicts last decades where in part justified on the claim that it would only cost $50B ... current estimates that it will hit $5T-$6T ... when long-term veterans benefits and medical care is taken into account. One of the issues now is that MICC is lobbying to significantly cut veterans medical care because it may impact (new) funds that would flow into their pockets.
When director of CIA won't agree to "Team B" Soviet analysis justifying
huge increase in military spending, he is replaced by somebody that
would (who later becomes VP and then President)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75), after replacing CIA
director, he becomes SECDEF (75-77), and 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 ...
Team B was also involved in supplying Saddam with weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
series from fall 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
Reached recently, Mr. Duelfer agreed that the weapons were still a
menace, but said the report strove to make it clear that they were not
"a secret cache of weapons of mass destruction."
"What I was trying to convey is that these were not militarily
significant because they not used as W.M.D.," he said. "It wasn't that
they weren't dangerous."
... and ...
The publicly released information also skirted the fact that most of the
chemical artillery shells were traceable to the West, some tied to the
United States.
These shells, which the American military calls M110s, had been
developed decades ago in the United States. Roughly two feet long and
weighing more than 90 pounds, each is an aerodynamic steel vessel with a
burster tube in its center
... snip ...
part of the issue is by destroying the government ... any responsible
control over these decommissioned weapons was lost (as well as more
recent consequences)
The reporter "not military significant" quote was by: "The group, led by
Charles A. Duelfer, a former United Nations official working for the
Central Intelligence Agency,"
one of the documents referenced by Oct2014 article (dated 1996) "Iraq's
Disclosed of Chemical Weapons Findings to U.N."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/iraqs-disclosure-of-chemical-weapons-findings-to-un.html
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned. She wrote a book about then getting locked up in Texas
military hospital when she tried to take it public. EXTREME PREJUDICE--
The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and
Iraq
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
also last decade there was massive upswing in out-sourcing gov. functions to for-profit, private contractors (enabling them to loot massive amounts overseas)
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)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and when the secretary of treasury helps the CEO of CITI to get the ball rolling to repeal Glass-Steagall and then resigns to join CITI, he is replaced by one of his protegees ... who also shows up here ... is Harvard responsible for the rise of 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
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:55:25 -0800hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:58:39 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
part of it is included in the 2-3% loss in GDP because of overhead dealing with the current complexity
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Fibre Chanel Vs FICON Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Jan 2016 10:39:45 -0800R.Skorupka@BREMULTIBANK.COM.PL (R.S.) writes:
in 1988, I got asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had ... which quickly morphs into fibre-channel standard.
Later Hursley did something similar with serial copper (dual-simplex,
concurrent 10mbyte/sec in both directions) ... released as 9333
... including encapsulated SCSI commands. We had been big backer of 9333
and used them in our IBM HA/CMP product, but I wanted it to morph so
that it would interoperate with fibre-channel standard ... but instead
it morphs into (dual-simplex, initially concurrent 20mbyte/sec in both
directions) proprietary SSA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture
other trivial ... I had also got sucked into standardization for
(parallel copper) HiPPI (sort of standards version of Cray channel
started by LANL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPPI
which tried to compete with fibre-channel standard by also doing a serial fiber version of HIPPI.
and finally there was the serial fiber standards work for SCI ...
started by Stanford SLAC. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#email920624
SCI had definitions for use as processor memory in large multiprocessor
complex ... but also something more similar to encapsulated SCSI
(analogous to SSA and fibre-channel). The SCI definition for processor
memory was used by a number of vendors for building efficient 128-system
and 256-way multiprocesser systems in the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
part of the evolution into infiniband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand
As I've mentioned before, the most recent peak I/O benchmark published
by IBM was z196 that got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running over 104
fibre-channel) at about the same time that a fibre-channel was announced
for e5-2600 blade claiming over 1M ("native") IOPS (for single
fibre-channel).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
past posts mentioning in 9333:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 SSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#15 tcp/ip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#12 Small IBM shops
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#18 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#69 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#11 Climate, US, Japan & supers query
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#15 Unisys A11 worth keeping?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#54 An entirely new proprietary hardware strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#29 FW: Is FICON good enough, or is it the only choice we get?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#50 something like a CTC on a PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#35 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#46 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#55 54 Processors?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#46 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#47 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#20 cluster-in-a-rack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#46 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#62 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#43 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#52 Serial vs. Parallel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#49 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#32 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#31 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#44 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#63 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#61 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#62 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#31 "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#46 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#69 ESCON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#77 ESCON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#80 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#2 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#22 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#96 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#99 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Living With Fog and Friction: The Fallacy of Information Superiority Date: 07 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookLiving With Fog and Friction: The Fallacy of Information Superiority
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 stuff call "SSL" that they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had absolute authority on the interface between the server and the payment networks, but could only recommend on the interface between the server and the clients (some of which were almost immediately violated which account for some number exploits that continue to this day).
part of doing the interface with payment networks was a catalog of fault and security issues ... including 1) something breaks or stops working and how to fix or compensate, 2) results aren't as expected and how to fence the problem and proceed in different ways (regardless of the source of the problem). I frequently pontificated that it takes 4-10 effort to take a well-tested "application" and turn it into a "service" (in part because "application" process tends to be purely straight-line, and fails to account for multitude of other issues).
trivia ... I use to sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM (I believe we had
similar perspective on many issues)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
for something a little lighter, novel by actor that plays "House" on
TV ... with references to Boyd and OODA-loop
https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Seller-Hugh-Laurie/dp/B000SEGK0M/
although he does go into some detail about the lengths the Military-Industrial-Complex will go to to preserve the flow of funds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Corrupt Is the American Government Date: 07 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookHow Corrupt Is the American Government
Lots of the institutional financial related stuff for instance, NYFED had auditors on-site at Lehman for months (when Geithner was head of NYFED). Much earlier we were brought into NYFED to help figure out how to implement qualitative section that they had added to BASEL-2 draft (was gutted by US institutions during review process)
posts mentioning basel-2 qualitative:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#41 An Understanding Database Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#23 More on garbage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#26 Dangerous Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#22 AOS: The next big thing in data storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#0 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#71 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#78 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#15 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#39 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#9 Do you believe a global financial regulation is possible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#4 Basel Committee outlines plans to strengthen Basel II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#34 Board Visibility Into The Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#46 What's your personal confidence level concerning financial market recovery?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#70 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#53 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#68 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#70 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#65 Why (my, all) financial systems fail -- information complexity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#21 Zombie Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#86 A Little More on the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#66 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
posts mentioning Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#12 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#36 Lehman sees banks, others writing down $400 bln
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#57 Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#59 Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#1 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#41 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#0 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#12 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#14 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#27 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#31 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#34 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#35 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#37 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#39 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#42 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#51 Why are some banks failing, and others aren't?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#52 Why is sub-prime crisis of America called the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#62 Would anyone like to draw a diagram of effects or similar for the current "credit crisis"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#65 Can the financial meltdown be used to motivate sustainable development in order to achieve sustainable growth and desired sustainability?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#78 Who murdered the financial system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#80 Can we blame one person for the financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#47 In Modeling Risk, the Human Factor Was Left Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#77 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#19 Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#59 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#23 BarCampBank - informal finance rantathon in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#30 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#37 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#52 What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, it's Governments and Decision Makers, and how should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#79 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#46 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#75 Whistleblowing and reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#13 Should we fear and hate derivatives?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#70 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#34 Board Visibility Into The Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#52 Future of Financial Mathematics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#10 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#36 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#49 IBM to Build Europe, Asia 'Smart Infrastructure'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#57 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#14 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#52 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#53 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#4 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#39 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#46 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#40 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#66 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#25 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#31 Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#33 The case against Lehman Brothers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#14 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#55 U.S. Needs a National Safety Board for Financial Crashes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#0 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#60 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#28 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#29 Bank Holiday In Cyprus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#40 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#73 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#81 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#2 Too-Big-To-Fail, Too-Big-To-Prosecute, Too-Big-To-Jail, not just a problem in the USA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#22 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#29 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#36 Fed proposes annual assessments for large financial companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#36 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#38 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#40 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#43 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#48 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#58 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#1 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#14 weird apple trivia
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/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#28 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#56 The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#25 Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#7 I Feel Old
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 10:13:00 -0800Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
GAO: U.S. corporations pay average effective tax rate of 12.6%
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/economy/corporate-tax-rate/
that has also reduced the percentage of what corporations contribute to
total taxes collected
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/revenue.cfm
Revenue from the corporate income tax fell from between 5 and 6 percent
of GDP in the early 1950s to 1.3 percent of GDP in 2010.
...
the above graph actually skews things for corporations since payroll taxes are included. In theory payroll taxes are what is being paid into pension funds for worker retirment ... but by cooking the books, it has been turned into funds for current operations (pension reserves for retirement disappear). If you just compare individual/corporate split ... then individual/corporate split was about 65/35 in 1950 changed to 80/20 in 2010. Part of the current problem is that congress had been looting the SS Trust Fund for day-to-day operation during the period when the baby boom workers were paying in much more than needed to pay out for the much smaller previous generation. As baby boomers move to retirement their pension reserves are non-existent.
the paying for loopholes goes along with shift in wealth going to the
top 1% from the middle-class
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
this goes along with the past discussion about many worker intensive industry cook the books to shift the economics from worker contributions to things that have been heavily computerized. Airlines shifted the profit from passenger flying to selling tickets, in negotiations with unions, they show that actually flying passengers is barely breakeven, while the parent company walks away with boat loads of money from the subsidiary that sells the tickets (even helps if the subsidiary selling the tickets is off-shore).
heavy equipment builders shifted from directly selling to buyers, to
"wholesale" selling at cost to off-shore "distributor" (subsidiary)
corporation, the off-shore "distributor" then makes the (profitable)
retail sale to buyers ... and all the profit is booked in foreign
country (the direct delivery of equipment from manufacturing plant to
buyer didn't change).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Auto industry cook the books, so that actual building and selling of
autos appears to be a break even operation (major impact in union
negotiations), but the parent company books nearly all profit from auto
loans. skews the appearance of the business to excuses for making loans
... manufacturing appears to be secondary objective purely for the
purpose of getting customers to take out loans. Last decade, the auto
industry then jumped into the securitized mortgage market scheme ... and
were packaging auto loans, paying for triple-A rating and selling to
victims (even auto employee pension funds). With wallstreet help, they
even started looking for bad auto loans, because wallstreet wanted
securitized instruments designed to fail (with the triple-A rating they
could sell off as fast as they could be created), where they then could
take out CDS gambling bets, that they would fail. toxic CDO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
some past posts mentioning CDS gambling bets:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#63 One maths formula and the financial crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#12 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#45 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#46 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#25 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#72 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#9 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#22 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#24 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#2 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#34 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#55 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#62 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#80 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#95 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#3 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#106 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#13 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#14 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#29 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#31 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#32 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#33 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#73 The Watchdog that Didn't Bark ... Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#99 US Debt In Public Hands Doubles Under Barack Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#157 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#158 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#48 The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#2 do you blame Harvard for Putin
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#20 $2 Billion City Of Tampa Pension Story Major Media Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#22 Two New Papers Say Big Finance Sectors Hurt Growth and Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#49 Global Fragility and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#53 Servicers in DOJ s Crosshairs Following JPM Robo-Signing Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#88 How Wall Street captured Washington's effort to rein in banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#5 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
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#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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#0 The WSJ and Barron's Apologists for the Banksters Peddle Wallison's Fables
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
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/2015e.html#54 In Dramatic Decision Judge Finds Fed Bailout Of AIG Was "Illegal", Government "Violated Federal Reserve Act"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#4 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#16 Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
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#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#49 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#73 Economists' Tribal Thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#81 Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#86 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#25 Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#45 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#53 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#56 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#78 The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#0 Repealing Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#6 Repealing Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#8 "Too Big To Fail"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 10:34:15 -0800Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> writes:
a couple POK engineers demonstrated virtual channel ... eliminating the
need to build the (shadow) channel programs with real addresses that
were the ones that really got executed.
http://www.google.com/patents/US3839706
one of the issues was the POK virtual channel just did the address
translation assuming available page from the page table entry. There
still was the problem of when the virtual page wasn't currently
available ... it would require a whole lot of additional effort to
make channels handle page fault conditions (and restart the operation
when the page was brought in). With-out page fault (& restart)
capability in the channel, the channel program would still have to be
scanned to "fix" the associated virtual pages for the duration of the
I/O. some recent ccwtrans posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#22 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#48 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#63 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#85 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#47 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#73 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#58 DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#18 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#84 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#12 "hexadecimal"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#56 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#103 Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#20 Do we really need 64-bit addresses or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#40 OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#50 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#24 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#116 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
LPARs ... which is the standard way that nearly all IBM mainframes
operate with today ... tracing back to adding LPAR support to 3090 in
the late 80s ... in response to Amdahl's hypervisor support ... is a
subset of virtual machine support ... with translated addresses ... but
all the virtual addresses are mapped to real pages (LPARs aren't doing
any kind of demand paging, total number of LPAR virtual pages doesn't
exceed the number of real pages). some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#30 New IBM mainframe instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#29 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#47 nested LRU schemes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#70 Mainframe System 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#8 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#7 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#52 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#15 I do not understand S0C6 on CDSG
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#68 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#36 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#19 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#83 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#10 R.I.P. PDP-10?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#19 DG Nova 1200 as console
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#13 Question concerning running z/OS LPARs under z/VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#91 IBM 4341, introduced in 1979, was 26 times faster than the 360/30
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#112 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:29:54 -0800Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
one of the people explained that the maryland delegation got a "directed appropriation" legislation thru congress that was a gift to maryland contractors ... directed appropriations is where congress tell agencies how to spend budget ... frequently without any additional funding. In this case, it took took several yrs nearly all available agency funds for the bldg ... funds that were suppose to preserve paper documents that were currently molding away in damp basements. large number of documents were lost to create that massively expensive bldg and subsidize maryland contractors.
one example contributing to congress considered the most corrupt instition on
earth. congress also uses it to pump funds into
military-industrial(-congressionaL) complex ... w/o it actually
appearing in the DOD budget ... it is directed appropriation USAID where
the funds can only be used to buy US military weapons.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
(long winded) past post mentioning college park (as well as many other
things) & directed appropriations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
one of the other gimmicks played is side-stepping laws requiring
National Archives releasing presidential documents after fixed period
(especially things that have the highest classification ... totally
downright embarrassing, unrelated to national security). The Reagan
papers were suppose to be made freely available the first part of the
century ... but the then president had executive order preventing their
release ... since they also covered activities of his (VP, later
president) father (including US supplying Iraq with WMDs in the 80s) a
couple past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#62 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#30 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#9 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
misc. other posts mentioning "directed approprations"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#3 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#14 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#34 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#57 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#43 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#50 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#51 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'? thoughts please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#63 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#65 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#61 NYT: N.S.A. Chief Says Phone Logs Halted Terror Threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#54 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#178 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#5 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#17 Why do we keep losing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#29 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 ^A^K boy scouts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#1 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:49:48 -0800hancock4 writes:
In the 90s, there were billions spent on (failed) attempts to convert to straight through processing ... settlement happened in real-time as part of the online transaction ... converting from (cobol batch) mainframe to large number of parallel "killer micros". The issue was the upswing in workload and increasing globalization shortening the window ... but breaking the overnight batch window.
Unfortunately they were usually using some standard parallelizing libraries ... where a number of us explained/warned had 100 times the overhead of cobol batch ... they ignored the warnings ... and went ahead to deployments that went down in flames (overhead totally swamped the expected throughput improvements with large numbers of "killer micros").
slightly related ... posts references celebrating former SJR co-worker
... credited with formalizing transaction definition ... enabling uptake
in financial dataprocessing where aditors can better trust computer
records.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father Of Financial Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#78 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#4 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#21 Mainframe Hall of Fame (MHOF)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#85 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#80 Which building at Berkeley?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#32 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#28 Some interesting post about the importance of Security and what it means for the Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#24 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#45 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#24 Tandem Memos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#2 Flat (VSAM or other) files still in use?
past posts mentioning overnight batch window
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#31 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#37 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#44 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#61 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#19 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#27 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#64 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#69 Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#72 whats the world going to do when all the baby boomers retire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#81 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#74 Too much change opens up financial fault lines
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/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#87 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#89 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#55 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#56 Long running Batch programs keep IMS databases offline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#30 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#7 If you had a massively parallel computing architecture, what unsolved problem would you set out to solve?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#21 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#26 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#30 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#38 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#43 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#57 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#81 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#57 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#67 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#35 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#77 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#16 How long for IBM System/360 architecture and its descendants?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#37 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#47 COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#78 Software that breaks computer hardware( was:IBM 029 service manual )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#41 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#3 Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#14 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#37 A Bright Future for Big Iron?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#15 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#19 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#91 Mainframe Fresher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#93 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#8 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#25 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#52 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#15 Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#1 Banks Awash in Cash, Which Isn't Good News
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#10 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#23 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#9 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#8 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#49 No internet in 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#49 US payments system failing to meet the needs of the digital economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#24 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#19 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#31 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#18 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#24 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#42 Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#42 COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#30 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#90 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#38 Meet Cobol's hard core fans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#76 This Was the Very First Website In the US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
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 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#2 More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#112 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--protesters seize computer center Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:22:40 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
2001-2008, wallstreet did over $27T in (unsupervised) securitized loans
and mortgages ... creating the financial mess last decade ... with lots
of collateral damage (trillions disappearing into peoples' pockets).
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Major enabler was paying for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and
rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) ... which also enabled
no-documentation, liar loans. From the law of unintended consequences,
later the too big to fail have to set up the "robo-signing mills" to
fabricate the missing documents. The too big to fail are then fined
tens of billions in dollars ... funds that were supposed to be
administered to aid the victims of these scams ... however very little
of the funds make it through the operations setup to administer the
fines/aid to the victims.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Supposedly TARP is setup to help replenish the trillions in funds that
"disappear" ... but with only $700B appropriations, it would barely make
a dent. For the real bailout they use the Federal Reserve to provide
tens of trillions in ZIRP funds ... with the too big to fail clearing
$300B/year (as well as trillions to buy the off-book toxic assets).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
A rather modest drop in the corporate welfare bucket was that paying for
triple-A rating enabled the industry to no longer care about borrowers'
qualifications or loan quality. However, they then found that they could
do securitized loans designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to
(another class of) victims and take out CDS gambling bets that they
would fail (creating enormous demand for bad loans/mortgages). AIG was
the largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay
off at 50cents on the dollar ... when the sec. of treasury steps in and
forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets
and also pay off at face-value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was
AIG (which may have been the whole idea in the first place) and the
largest recipient of face-value payoffs is the company previously headed
by the sec. of trasury.
http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/
GAO in the 90s was asked by congress to look at indirect corporate
welfare ... specifically illegal aliens were being paid substandard
wages by corporations ... and what it cost the gov. in social welfare
programs to make up the difference (GAO then calculated
approx. $10K/year/person). The interesting thing as I've been unable
to find a more recent GAO report updating that data. They whole
illegal alien issue has had a lot of obfuscation with all the
corporate lobbying on the issue. old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#81 illegal aliens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#61 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#70 Zakaria: Only China can save Europe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:59:21 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
There was a lot of internal political wrangling with the major boeing dataprocessing centers ... I thot Renton center was possibly largest in the country ... upwards of $300M (69 $$$s) in IBM equipment. Boeing "official" history says that BCS wasn't formed until the early 70s ... but the group to form BCS was created in spring of '69. They initially con'ed me into giving the group a one week, 40hr computer class during '69 spring break.
One of the people involved with CMS\APL at the cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
left and joined BCS in Washington DC ... and one of the things he worked on contract for USPS modeling/justifying postage rate increase (must have been for 10cents that went into effect 2Mar1974).
misc.BCS computerworld refs from the 80s:
https://books.google.com/books?id=a8FBzsfoBZEC&pg=PA69&dq=boeing+computer+services+computerworld&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilm7W5kqPKAhUCyGMKHdwtBWIQ6AEILjAC#v=onepage&q=boeing%20computer%20services%20computerworld&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=40ZfT7SWT64C&pg=PA50&dq=boeing+computer+services+computerworld&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilm7W5kqPKAhUCyGMKHdwtBWIQ6AEIPjAG#v=onepage&q=boeing%20computer%20services%20computerworld&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=tBXQZbbSyeQC&pg=RA1-PA66&dq=boeing+computer+services+computerworld&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilm7W5kqPKAhUCyGMKHdwtBWIQ6AEIRjAI#v=onepage&q=boeing%20computer%20services%20computerworld&f=false
It morphs into Boeing Information Services and sold to SAIC
https://fcw.com/Articles/1999/06/27/SAIC-to-leverage-Boeing-fed-work.aspx
Boeing IS was formed in 1994, evolving from a computer services group
that had existed within Boeing since the 1970s. But the Seattle-based
aircraft builder, looking to focus on its core competencies, decided
late last year to shop Boeing IS around, Delaney said. SAIC heard that
Boeing wanted to sell its subsidiary in January and responded
immediately, Andrews said.
... snip ...
I would sponsor John Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and his biographies
have him running spook base about the time I was at Boeing ... claiming
it was a $2.5B (60s dollars) "windfall" for IBM (approx. ten times
Renton). Boyd would claim it had the largest air conditioned bldg in
that part of the world. Reference gone 404, but lives on at the wayback
machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd references and Boyd related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:30:44 -0800mausg writes:
previous refs have gone 404, need to go to the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20050123104257/http://www.dialog.com/about/history/pioneers1.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20050123104318/http://www.dialog.com/about/history/pioneers2.pdf
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#33 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#46 The Alpha/IA64 Hybrid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#0 Search for Joseph A. Fisher VLSI Publication (1981)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#61 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#30 Empires and Imperialism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#60 3350 failures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#88 Continous Systems Modelling Package
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#24 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#44 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#46 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#55 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#47 Graph of total world disk space over time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#39 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#90 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:41:28 -0800re:
somewhat along the same lines ... M/D acquired TYMSHARE in
84
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
... also in silicon valley (like dialog) ... and would go by and periodically visit ... they were also regulars at the monthly baybunch user group meetings held at SLAC.
past posts mentioning virtual machine based commercial online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
TYMSHARE also developed their own online computing system for ibm
mainframe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
I was brought in to audit/review GNOSIS as part of M/D purchase and GNOSIS spinoff to Key Logic.
past posts mentionin monthly baybunch meetings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#46 ... the need for a Museum of Computer Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#35 VR vs. Portable Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#12 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#64 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#12 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#66 Computer History Museum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#44 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#64 spool file tag data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#12 user group meetings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#4 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#58 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#10 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#38 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#68 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#76 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#68 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#48 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#73 Wylbur, Orvyl, Milton, CRBE/CRJE were all used (and sometimes liked) in the past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#75 Wylbur, Orvyl, Milton, CRBE/CRJE were all used (and sometimes liked) in the past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#2 First Website Launched 20 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#102 Question on PR/SM dispatcher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#114 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#69 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#62 An approach to Dump formatting of Control Blocks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#38 A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#46 A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#63 Typeface (font) and city identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#78 What are you experiences with Amdahl Computers and Plug-Compatibles?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#39 Just a quick link to a video by the National Research Council of Canada made in 1971 on computer technology for filmmaking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#40 GNOSIS & KeyKOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#72 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#22 What is a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#59 Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#68 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#13 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#46 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#91 rebuild 1403 printer chain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#44 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#88 Silicon Valley: an army of geeks and 'coders' shaping our future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#17 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#44 John Titor was right? IBM 5100
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#14 3033 & 3081 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#91 IBM 4341, introduced in 1979, was 26 times faster than the 360/30
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:44:23 -0800hancock4 writes:
one of the conspiracy stories is about a report concerning trillion dollars that had gone missing in DOD ... but in 9/11 ... the plane took out the accounting section and all that information went missing.
2002, congress let the financial responsibility act expire (spending
couldn't exceed revenue)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
by the middle of last decade, the savaging of any fiscal responsible
budget by congress, the US comptroller general was including in speeches
that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for
what they were doing to the budget, massive license to steal). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
the first major bill after letting fiscal responsibility act expire was
Medicare Part-D ... comptroller general would claim that it comes to be
a long term $40T item (and gift to the drug industry). CBS 60mins did
expose on what went on in congress ... and the 18 republican members of
congress & staff that shepherded it through. At last minute, just before
final vote, they insert a one liner that prevents competitive bidding
and prevent distribution of CBO report detailing effects of the
change. After bill passes, all 18 have resigned and on drug industry
payroll. CBS shows drugs under part-D are three times as expensive as
the identical drugs from VA (that allows competitive bidding). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
2010 there was CBO report that in the interval since letting act expire, tax revenue was reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T (for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsible budget).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:37:36 -0800hancock4 writes:
there is "Smedley Butler"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
with "War Is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
but also (Prescott Bush):
Business Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
1934: The Plot Against America
http://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Prescott Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
and
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html
But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to
its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political
and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of
his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to
World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi
sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired
Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third
Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler's war machine.
... snip ...
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria with
major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do business
with the Nazis, Intrepid, loc1901-4:
One prominent figure at the German victory celebration was Torkild
Rieber, of Texaco, whose tankers eluded the British blockade. The
company had already been warned, at Roosevelt's instigation, about
violations of the Neutrality Law. But Rieber had set up an elaborate
scheme for shipping oil and petroleum products through neutral ports in
South America. With the Germans now preparing to turn the English
Channel into what Churchill thought would become "river of blood," other
industrialists were eager to learn from Texaco how to do more business
with Hitler.
... snip ...
VP (& former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such
activities
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 another presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis.
also Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3
Million Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
more recent: Wall Street Fine Print: Retirees Want FBI Probe Of Pension
Investment Deals
http://www.ibtimes.com/wall-street-fine-print-retirees-want-fbi-probe-pension-investment-deals-2250476
John Foster Dulles plays major role in rebuilding German's economy and
military ... recent references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
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#71 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 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#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 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/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?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#0 How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
When 1943 Strategic Bombing Program was looking for plans and location
of German military and industrial targets, they got the information from
wallstreet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:46:30 -0800hancock4 writes:
part of the enormous upswing in privatizing government especially last decade ... has been the privatizing of prisons ... and associated enormous corruption.
How Corrupt Is The US: An Extraordinary Example
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-12/how-corrupt-us-extraordinary-example
related theme
How Corrupt Is the American Government
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/01/corrupt-american-government.html
past posts mentioning private prisons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#34 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#74 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#85 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
recent posts mentioning congress considered the most corrupt institution
on earth:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#80 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#81 Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#55 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#78 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#32 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#50 Broadband pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#81 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#1 weird apple trivia
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#48 Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#24 1976 vs. 2016?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM STRETCH repricing decision? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:17:33 -0800hancock4 writes:
it also has discussion of ACS-360 features that show up 20yrs later with es/9000.
this account by former IBM executive says that major motivation for
"Future System" was trying to lock out "clone controllers"
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
unfortunately during FS period, internal politics was shutting down 370 efforts ... and the lack of new 370 products during this period is credited with giving "clone processors" a market foothold.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
trivia ... as undergraduate I tried to do some stuff with 2702 terminal
controller ... which it couldn't quite do. This was part of the
motivation for the univ. to do a clone controller effort ... starting
with Interdata/3 ... later morphed into a combination of Interdata/4 for
the channel interface and cluster of Interdata/3s for line/port
scanners. Interdata (later acquired by P/E) markets this as commerical
product. Somewhere there is writeup that credits four of us for (some
part of the) clone controller market.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:02:45 -0800mausg writes:
cbs 60s mins wanted to do segment on the conferrence ... and there was 3month negotiations that they wouldn't portray it as the "bad guys" ... they were allowed to attend and do some filming and sunday night they open'ed with secret group in silicon valley plotting to take over the world. next year the conference tshirt that had spoof of cbs logo. loosing battle trying to stop popular press characterizing hackers as the bad guys. lots of us are grey beards now and there has been effort to invite younger generation.
for a time, I was the only IBMer (and now "former IBMer").
culture has changed too ... early days, people would bring unannounced products and people that were nominally competitors could play with each others products ... unheard of these days.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:13:11 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
One of the performance boosts of things like CICS and other monitors would they mostly their own system ... making minimal use of the underlying os/360. they would start, acquire system resources, batch open all needed files, etc ... and then manage all of those resources internally ... scheduling tasks, memory management, etc. CICS task start/stop for transaction was exceedingly "light-weight" since they made minimal use of os/360.
past posts mentioning cics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:20:07 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
when head of CFTC proposed regulating CDS, quickly replaced by the
senator's wife (who blocked regulating CDS), while the senator gets
legislation preventing CDS regulation ... after which the wife resigns
and joins ENRON board and the audit committee.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Congress then bills Sarbanes-Oxley as preventing future ENRONs and
guaranteeing executives (& auditors) would do jail time ... but
it required SEC to do something
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it
started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings,
even show they increased after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing
jailtime).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
then CDS grambling bets play a role in the economic mess ... initially
paying for triple-A rating eliminated any reason to care about
loan/mortgage quality. The triple-A rating also opens the market for
toxic CDOs to large funds restricted to "safe" investments (like large
retirement funds, claims that it resulting in 30% fall in the funds and
shortfall of trillions for pension payouts) contributing to being able
to do over $27T 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Then they realize that they can securitize mortgages designed to fail,
pay for triple-A rating, sell to their victims and then take out CDS
gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad
mortgages). Yesterday had latest announcement of billions in "deferred
prosecution" fines for activities during the economic mess (trivial
amounts compared to the tens of trillions that were involved).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_prosecution
These fines have being turned over to organizations created to help victims of the mortgage practices ... but huge amounts appear to be siphon off with little actually reaching the victims.
and on-going saga of calpers
Why is CalPERS Understating Its Cost of Investing in Private Equity by
Roughly $1.6 Billion, Meaning 80%?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/why-is-calpers-understating-its-cost-of-investing-in-private-by-roughly-1-6-billion-meaning-80.html
after they got such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis, the industry
changed its name to private equity (and junk bonds became "high-yield
bonds") ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
it is like the joke why do crooks rob banks ... because that is where the money is ... similarly the large pension funds have large amounts of money and have been attractive target for all sorts looking at skimming&looting money (armed bank robbing is typically measured in thousands, wallstreet looting is measured in hundreds of billions and tens of trillions).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:25:14 -0800Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
.... but the move to 401Ks was also pushed because individuals could be taken advantage of (401Ks sold as under your own control ... but extremely rare that individual beats professional manager) ... including not being able to negotiate better management fees .... move from large pension to individual 401Ks ... significantly increased fees per dollar managed .... possibly different factions on wallstreet looting retirement funds in different ways.
previous posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#1 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#3 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#7 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#30 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#32 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#36 I Feel Old
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:10:55 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
Dulles aligned with Hjalmar Schacht, minister economics, Prescott Bush with Thyssen, etc. Lots of wallstreet and industrialists were at the June1940 victory celebration that the german ambassador threw at the waldorf-astoria (many looking at how to do business with the Nazis ... in violation of US law).
unrelated reference to Thyssen .... my wife's father was command of
engineering combat group and I found his status reports at the national
archives:
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and
G/S Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River
and the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the
height of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its
plumbing and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial
backer of the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of
roads and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of
M-2 Tdwy Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at
PLATTLING. Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the
month of April we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die
Gotterdamerung was falling, the last days of the once mighty
WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
this reference lists documents at the National Archives linking
Prescott and Thyssen
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
In other national archives news, NA keeps presidential papers for a number of years after which time they have to be made public. One of the first executive orders of the most recent Bush did upon becoming president was to stop the release of the presidential papers from the 80s ... during a period when the US was supporting Iraq and supplying it with WMDs.
past posts mentioning Schacht and/or Thyssen:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#82 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#37 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#16 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#35 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#19 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
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 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#33 Crossing the Rhine - 70 Years Ago Today - In Pictures!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#0 How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 22:31:47 -0800Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
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
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
other little stuff like
CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
and Schwarzkopf senior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
"The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White,
and the Making of a New World Order"
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University-ebook/dp/B00B5ZQ72Y/
portrays White as heavily under the influence of the Soviets, who secretly provided him with a draft of demands for him to get US to issue to Japan (which he did) ... that would prompt Japan into attacking the US (which they did ... Soviets were battling Germany in the west and were worried that Japan would attack in the east ... needed to divert Japan into pacific conflict with the US).
Hull Note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note
According to Benn Steil, director of international economics at the
Council on Foreign Relations, while "no single individual can be said to
have triggered" the Pearl Harbor attack Harry Dexter White "was the
author of the key ultimatum demands". Steil also maintains "the Japanese
government made the decision to move forward with the Pearl Harbor
strike after receiving the ultimatum".
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Feel Old Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Haier scoops up GE's appliances business for $5.4B
http://seekingalpha.com/news/3033326-haier-scoops-up-ges-appliances-business-for-5_4b
China's Haier Nears Deal to Buy GE Appliance Business
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-haier-nears-deal-to-buy-ge-appliance-business-1452826607
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:04:31 -0800Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
during the future system period, they were killing off 370 efforts
... which is credited with giving clone processors market foothold ...
past future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I had joined the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and during the Future System period, continued to work on 360/370 stuff ... and would even periodically ridicule what they were doing in FS.
I had also been talked into getting a couple 3piece suites for visiting customers ... especially large financial institutions in the NY/Conn area. One financial institution had one of the largest "big blue" datacenters in Conn ... and I could drop by just about anytime and sit around and shoot the breeze with the datacenter manager (and branch office technical people).
At one point the branch office manager did something that enormously offended the customer. At the time, Amdahl was primarily selling to univ. ... but hadn't broken into any "true blue" commercial accounts. The customer decided to teach the branch office manager a lesson and order an Amdahl machine (in would be a single lonely Amdahl system in a vast sea of "blue" systems). I got asked to go on-site at the customer for extended period ... effectively to divert attention that ordering the Amdahl system was a technical issue. I refused since I felt it was a waste of time, since I knew the customer really well and knew they were going to order the Amdahl system regardless of what IBM did.
I was then told that would be the end of my career in IBM ... i would never get a promotion ... the first true blue commercial account (and one of IBM's largest customers) to order an Amdahl machine would ruin the branch office manager's reputation ... who happened to be a good sailing buddy of the IBM CEO (I would still visit the customer, but there was no point in living there for 6-12 months).
After that, I decided there was no longer any point in wearing 3piece suites or being clean shaven.
This happened to be 1976.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:29:15 -0800re:
other trivia ... after that incident, the following year I transfer to san jose research. in the early 80s, a co-worker had left IBM and was doing a lot of consulting for chip design tool & chip shops in silicon valley. One chip shop had large vm370 operation (senior VP of engineering had started with cp67 in the 60s) ... and former co-worker was doing lots of unix & c porting to vm370 ... C compiler ... lots of C compiler performance optimization, UCB chip design tools ported to vm370/cms, etc. At one point he was doing support for ethernet connected SGI workstations and the IBM salesman happened to drop by and asked him what he was doing. The salesman then told him that IBM mainframe service might not be so timely unless he was to support token-ring. I then got a several hr phone call liberally sprinkled with lots of 4letter words. The next morning the senior VP of engineering has a press conference and announce the company was moving all its IBM mainframe work toh sun servers.
This reverberates through IBM and there are lots of meetings to discuss how to reverse the move off mainframes to servers. The opening briefings of all the meetings never mention the true motivation about what precipitated the action.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:00:03 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#83 Wastewater well suspended after "frackquakes" rock Colorado
From the law of unintended consequences ... during last decade,
relatives & survivors of 9/11 were prohibited from suing Sandi Arabia
for responsibility. When the ban was lifted in 2013 (allowing Saudi
Arabia to be sued for 9/11 responsibility), the explanation for the
change was that US had achieved greater energy independence. recent
refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#11 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
however, speculation past couple weeks is that it may have all been a
ploy ... current fracking & shale needs oil to be over $80-100 for it to
pay. Now that oil has dropped way back down, many of the companies
face bankruptcy
http://www.wsj.com/articles/oil-plunge-sparks-bankruptcy-concerns-1452560335
Semi-related issue is complaints about trade treaties being orchistrated in secrecy by corporations with various kinds of onerous provisions ... like corporations can sue governments in international court ... if a government passes laws that the corporations feel impacts their profit. A case has been filed against US government by people behind Keystone pipeline ... that the US government has caused them to loose profit.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 07:30:26 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
Food Stamps and other programs are just small percentage needed. Also afc & news periodically references large corporations paying less than living wage and the difference needed to be made up by gov. social programs. Congress had GAO do a report on this in 1995 (something like gov. subsidiezes major corporations paying less than living wage to the tune of $10k/annum/person) ... the interesting thing is I haven't found an update since then (as if congress wants as little attention as possible on the subject of significant increases in various kinds of corporate welfare happening last decade).
One claimed explanation comes from this account of how the lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce changed in the late 90s ttp://www.amazon.com/Influence-Machine-Commerce-Corporate-American-ebook/dp/B00NDTUDHA/
the other part of the problem is in 2002, congress allowed the fiscal
responsibility act to expire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
2010 CBO report was then tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending
increased by $6T for a $12T budget gap (compared to the fiscal
responsibility act, nearly $2T/annum in unfunded spending with
combination of tax cuts and spending increases). Revenue and spending
still hasn't been restored to what it was under fiscal responsibility
act ... and the interest on that debt is becoming an increasingly major
budget item. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
In the middle of last decade (only a couple years after the fiscal
responsibility act was allowed to expire), congress had gotten so crazy
that the US Comptroller General started including in speeches that
nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how
badly they were savaging the budget). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
again, local DC news periodically refers to congress as "Kabuki Theater"
... what is seen publically has little to do with what is really going
on ... including obfuscating issues away from the real craziness that
happened last decade with tax revenue and spending.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:39:35 -0800hancock4 writes:
Later a senator releases the transaction details showing the speculators responsible for the huge spike in oil the summer of 2008. Articles in the popular press then are criticizing the senator for violating those companies corporate privacy
griftopia posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:59:50 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
complicating the subject was that the rise of too big to fail last decade were also coming to depend on their too big to prosecute and too big to jail status and branching out into lots of other criminal activity, manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, commodities, facilitating tax evasion, ribo-signing mills fabricating mortgage documents, and money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists. The money laundering for drug cartels is credited with playing significant factor in the increase in cartel violence (including paying for boat loads of military grade armament) ... lots of it happening along the southern border and involving illegal immigrant communities.
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
tax evasion posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
LIBOR posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:40:53 -0800JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
one explanation for the massive militarization of police ... is that giving away all that military hardware to police departments around the country ... would then require big MICC contracts to replace that equipment.
Militarization of police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
The dangerous militarization of our police
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/opinions/love-move-bombing-anniversary/
11 Shocking Facts About America's Militarized Police Forces
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
Police Militarization
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/police-militarization
Police Militarization
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/police-militarization/
The administration ... including the VP ... besides the WMD fabrication justifying Iraq war ... were also claiming it would "only" cost $50B
... however company (including subsidiaries) formally headed by VP, is the winner of almost that much in no-bid Iraq contracts
And The Winner For The Most Iraq War Contracts Is . . . KBR, With $39.5
Billion In A Decade
http://www.ibtimes.com/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905
Last week, the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for
International Studies at Brown University said the war in Iraq cost $1.7
trillion dollars, not including the $490 billion in immediate benefits
owed to veterans of the war and the lifetime benefits that will be owed
to them or their next of kin.
... snip ...
other estimates have combined Iraq & Afghanistan coming to long term $5T-$6T.
Halliburton, KBR, and Iraq war contracting: A history so far
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/09/arianna-huffington/halliburton-kbr-and-iraq-war-contracting-history-s/
Maybe what they met to say was that Halliburton & subsidiaries wouldn't charge the US gov. more than $50B for the Iraq war ... rather than the total cost of the Iraq war wouldn't be more than $50B.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:53:52 -0800"James Green" <667755@gmail.com> writes:
goes along with this "The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War"
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
for the Magazine of Exconomi Affairs and Pentagon Labyrinth
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/pentagon-labyrinth.html
This pamphlet aims to help newcomers and seasoned observers grapple with
the problems of national defense. Intended especially for readers who
are concerned about the superficial nature of the political debate on
national security, this handbook assembles the insights of ten
professionals, each with decades of experience in the armed services,
the Pentagon bureaucracy, Congress, the intelligence community, military
history, journalism and other disciplines.
... snip ...
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
Iraq war was just part of the way of keeping the funding flowing into
the military industrial complex ... and to add icing on the cake, this
includes account how corporate representatives approached former eastern
block countries and told them if they voted in the UN for the Iraq war,
they could get membership in NATO and directed appropriation USAID to
get modern (US) military gear (compatible & interoperable with NATO
gear).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd URL and postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Strategy Date: 19 Jan 2016 Blog: LinkedInStrategy
Rereading some of the Infinity Journal special editions on strategy
... there are some references to needed correct vocabulary.
https://www.infinityjournal.com/special-editions/
When I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM we would get into related discussion about English not having the necessary words, vocabulary, definitions, etc. Some of this shows up a little in past discussions about "fingerspitzengefuhl" (and coup d'oeil).
My own experience is more related to computer things. In the late 70s
and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer conferencing (sort of
precursor to social media) on the internal network (larger than
arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime
mid-80s). Somewhat as a result, a research was paid to sit in my
office for nine months and take notes on how I communicated
(face-to-face, telephone, etc, even going with me to meetings). They
also got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email and log of all
instant messages. The result was papers, talks, books, and a Stanford
PHD. The researcher had spent sometime as an ESL (english as second
language) teacher ... and at one point commented about my
communication was more characteristic of non-native English (ESL)
speaker. The issue is that I have no other "native" language ... but
I've frequently pontificated is a lot of my thought processes and
computer work has been outside of language ... much more akin to
"fingerspitzengefuhl" (I've frequently been blamed that it was my
fault that I couldn't explain how some of my software worked so others
could understand). some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
ibmjargon
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
look at "Tandem Memos" entry ... reference to the internal online
computer communication. Folklore is that when the corporate executive
committee was told about online computer communication (and the
internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
"Fingerspitzengefuhl" can be described as tactile understanding and coup d'oeil as visual understanding. A example from IBM days is former co-worker who had been studied from birth since they had been born with only one brain hemisphere. They said that a map (visual) was completely incomprehensible but they could easily follow step-by-step directions.
The issue of only "thinking" in a natural language can come into play for creativity & innovation if the words for the concepts haven't been invented yet.
I'm not really one of the Boyd acolytes. This is tribute written by
one of the "acolytes" for USNI Proceedings after Boyd passes ... for
non-members it is also here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
A periodic Boyd story is To Be or To Do ... this one from the
dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons School,
Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 Sept 1999
There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question. Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
... snip ...
Boyd URLs and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:07:04 -0800Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
NY Fed's $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100
By one account, the New York Fed shipped about $40 billion in cash
between 2003 and 2008. In just the first two years, the shipments
included more than 281 million individual bills weighing a total of 363
tons. But soon after the money arrived in the chaos of war-torn Baghdad,
the paper trail documenting who controlled it all began to go cold.
... snip ...
other stories have it reached $60B in pallets of shrink wrapped $100 bills ... much of it supposedly for "tributes" paid to various factions around Iraq (to stop hostile action) ... but also vast amounts disappearing into pockets of various US companies (this was in addition to tens of billions paid to US companies in no-bid contracts) .... this is for an action that included justification claims that it wouldn't cost more than $50B total (in danger of reaching 100 times that amount).
There is long tradition of paying tribute (gold coins) to cease hostilities.
past posts mentioning tributes(/bribes):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#5 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#7 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
past posts mentioning tens of billions in pallets of shrink-wrapped $100
bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#68 The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
past posts mentioning baqubah
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#8 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#49 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#60 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#79 Army Modernization Is Melting Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#68 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#69 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#48 LEO
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:00:19 -0800"James Green" <667755@gmail.com> writes:
The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy
exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html
in a number of recent war games ... newest generation of ("quiet")
diesel/electric submarines have consistently popped up in the middle of
carrier group ... taking out the carrier and number of other ships. but
there is also concern about the latest in hypersonic "carrier killer"
missiles
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150825/1026155123/missile-icbm-weapons-china-parade.html
A new Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile is bad news for US aircraft
carriers
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-growing-military-power-may-make-us-aircraft-carriers-obsolete-2015-10
latest carrier is $13B and counting ... but beginning to look more & more like sitting duck ... and cost so much that navy becomes extremely risk adverse about deploying them into dangerous situations.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Compile error Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Jan 2016 22:52:33 -0800Thomas.Savor@FISERV.COM (Savor, Thomas , Alpharetta) writes:
The official new DBMS project was EAGLE .... with the corporation focused on EAGLE it was possible to get System/R out the door as SQL/DS (under the radar).
When EAGLE imploded, there was a request about how fast would it take to port System/R to MVS ... eventually released as DB2 (originally for analytical & decision support *only*).
past posts mentioning System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
also referenced here
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/citations.html
The Birth of SQL
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-The.html
Some discussion of EAGLE and then DB2
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-DB2.html
I periodically reference this post about Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's
conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
one of the people in the meeting would tell how he was responsible for the majority of the tech transfer into the Santa Teresa Lab (now silicon valley lab) for DB2.
Jim Gray departs for Tandem palming off some number of things on me
... old email ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
Eventually IBM Toronto starts RDBMS for IBM/PC ... implemented in C .. which is made available on other platforms and is also called DB2 ... even though it is totally different code base from the mainframe implementation.
SQL/DS is also eventually renamed DB2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_SQL/DS
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Strategy Date: 21 Jan 2016 Blog: LinkedInre
Strategy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/strategy-lynn-wheeler
trivia: as I said, I had been blamed for online computer communication (precursor to social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) ... in the late 70s and early 80s ... which was part of motivation for paying the researcher to study my communication (sat in the back of my office for 9months taking notes on how I communicated), resulting in number of papers, books and Stanford PHD. the dissertation was
Conversation for action : the computer terminal as medium of communication in 1985
Joint between language and computer AI (winograd was adviser on
computer ai side) ... note from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Winograd
His approach shifted away from classical Artificial Intelligence after
encountering the critique of cognitivism by Hubert Dreyfus and meeting
with the Chilean philosopher Fernando Flores. They published a
critical appraisal from a perspective based in phenomenology as
Understanding Computers and Cognition: a new foundation for design in
1987. In the latter part of the 1980s, Winograd worked with Flores on
an early form of groupware. Their approach was based on
conversation-for-action analysis.
... snip ...
which the researcher had spent the first part of the 80s studying.
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Compile error Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Jan 2016 10:12:22 -0800JO.Skip.Robinson@ATT.NET (Skip Robinson) writes:
note that VS1 had JES1 (Job Entry Subsystem 1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/VS1
The official names were OS/VS1 and OS/VS2 ... so JES2 originally may have originally been to designate it was for OS/VS2.
Long ago and far away, my wife was in the GBURG JES group and was part of the catchers for ASP turning into JES3. She was then co-author of JESUS (JES UNIFIED SYSTEM) document ... which merged the features in JES2 and JES3 that respective customers couldn't live w/o ... for various reasons never saw the light of day.
A Fascinating History of JES2
http://www.share.org/p/bl/et/blogid=9&blogaid=238
For the truth we must go back to the mid 1960's. IBM's OS/360 was in
trouble. The spooling (wonder where that name came from) support was
slow and the overhead was high. Many programming groups independently
attacked the problem. ASP, loosely based upon the tightly coupled IBM
7090/7094 DCS, held the lead in the OS/360 spooling sweepstakes. ASP's
need for at least two CPU's fit well with IBM Marketing's plans for the
System/360. Meanwhile, a group of IBM SE's, located in Houston,
developed a different product of which they were justifiably proud.
They wanted to popularize it, as they correctly suspected it would be
the balm for OS/360 users, increasing the usability and popularity of
the operating system, and, not incidentally, furthering their careers.
All they needed was the right name! A name which was easy to remember,
a name which would draw attention to their product, and a name to
distract from the ASP publicity. That name was Half-ASP, or HASP.
Naturally, if HASP and ASP were products of two different companies, the
FTC would have stepped in to stop such a predatory product name.
Regulatory action was prevented, however, because IBM is "one big happy
family", believed by many to be larger than the Government.
... snip ...
of course officially, the "H" stands for "Houston"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Automatic_Spooling_Priority
then my wife was con'ed into going to POK to be responsible for
loosely-coupled architecture ... where she Peer-Coupled Shared Data
architecture ... which saw very little uptake (except for IMS
hot-standby) until SYSPLEX & Parallel SYSPLEX ... contributing to her
not remaining long in POK (along with the ongoing periodic battles with
the communication group trying to force her into using SNA/VTAM for
loosely-coupled operation). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
as undergraduate in the 60s, I got to make a lot of HASP modifications
(I had also been hired fulltime by the university to be responsible for
production mainframe systems) ... including implementing terminal
support and conversational editor in HASP for a form of CRJE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_job_entry
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
DB2 may have been because some had hopes that the official new DBMS "EAGLE" might still be able to rise from its ashes ... or it was to designate the OS/VS2 (aka MVS) version of System/R as opposed to the earlier SQL/DS version of System/R (that ran on VM370, VS1, DOS/VSE).
trivia: one of the problems with the System/R tech transfer to Endicott for SQL/DS ... was that several enhancements to vm370 had been made to make System/R much more efficient. For various reasons, the Endicott people didn't want to make SQL/DS release dependent on getting enhancements into VM370 ... and so that had to be dropped.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:56:41 -0800JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
repeat from earlier post original from "misson command" (auftragstaktik)
discussions:
Logistics and industrial capability wins in state on state wars. On D
Day (6 Jun) the US alone flew over 3,000 sorties the Germans could only
manage 150. The famous debrief of a German anti-tank commander when
captured at Normandy when asked how he came to be captured, his answer
was he ran out of anti-tank shells before the americans ran out of
tanks.
....
shermans were effectively "cannon fodder" ... but also the crews.
then Russia not only significantly more tanks, but better tanks, From
Guderian's book (Panzer Leader), loc2902-3:
Hitler then said: 'If I had known that the figures for Russian tank
strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true ones, I would
not—I believe—ever have started this war.'
loc2903-6:
He was referring to my book Achtung! Panzer!, published in
1937, in which I had estimated Russian tank strength at that time as
10,000; both the Chief of the Army General Staff, Beck, and the censor
had disagreed with this statement. It had cost me a lot of trouble to
get that figure printed; but I had been able to show that intelligence
reports at the time spoke of 17,000 Russian tanks and that my estimate
was therefore, if anything, a very conservative one.
loc2256-58:
The military commission was so insistent on this point that
eventually our manufacturers and Ordnance Office officials concluded:
'It seems that the Russians must already possess better and heavier
tanks than we do.' It was at the end of July, 1941, that the T34 tank
appeared at the front and the riddle of the new Russian model was
solved.
loc2262-64:
At this time our yearly tank production scarcely amounted
to more than 1,000 of all types. In view of our enemies' production
figures this was very small. As far back as 1933 I had visited a single
Russian tank factory which was producing 22 tanks per day of the
Christie-Russki type.
... snip ...
past posts mentioning Shermans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#85 V-Man's Patton Quote (LONG) (Pronafity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#10 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#11 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#16 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#27 Controversial paper - Good response article on ZDNet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#24 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#11 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#28 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#21 WWII supplies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#11 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#21 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#17 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#28 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#29 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#62 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#63 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#71 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#69 rationality
past posts mentioning Guderian:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#120 atomic History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#29 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#30 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#16 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#36 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#38 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#33 Star Trek: TNG reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#43 Star Trek: TNG reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#51 employee motivation & executive compensation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#27 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#24 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#86 Organizations with two or more Managers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#3 Computerworld Article: Dress for Success?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#9 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#37 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#25 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#26 Current Officers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#34 WWII supplies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#61 Up, Up, ... and Gone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#63 how can a hierarchical mindset really ficilitate inclusive and empowered organization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#34 Mission Control & Air Cooperation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#48 Do you know of, or have you participated in, any good examples of successful collaboration?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#68 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#7 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#3 Preparing for Boyd II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#26 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#2 Did they apply Boyd's concepts?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#63 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#50 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#51 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'? thoughts please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#17 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#81 How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team - Harvard Business Review
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#16 Command Culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#46 The Pentagon Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
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/2015c.html#61 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#19 Where to Flatten the Officer Corps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Compile error Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Jan 2016 10:40:21 -0800re:
other trivia from ibm jargon:
MVM - n. Multiple Virtual Memory. The original name for MVS (q.v.),
which fell foul of the fashion of changing memory to storage.
MVS - n. Multiple Virtual Storage, an alternate name for OS/VS2
(Release 2), and hence a direct descendent of OS. OS/VS2 (Release 1)
was in fact the last release of OS MVT, to which paging had been
added; it was known by some as SVS (Single Virtual Storage). MVS is
one of the big two operating systems for System/370 computers (the
other being VM (q.v.)). n. Man Versus System.
... snip ...
as part of the "Man Versus System" theme ... it had become significantly much easier to work out lots of computer concepts and design on vm370/cms ... and then later port the implementation to MVS ... than trying to start on an MVS base.
some time ago, I got a request about the history of adding virtual
memory to all 370s ... old post with exchange from IBMer involved (who
recently passed) with references of os/v2, future systems, hasp/asp,
etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
other parts of the thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#74
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:22:25 -0800mausg writes:
Pierre is from the Boyd group and one of the reasons I've gotten
dragged into discussions about using F35 as excuse for killing off A10
(as well as close-air-support versus strategic bombing arguments)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sprey
Together with John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie, he was a member of the
self-dubbed 'Fighter Mafia', advocating the use of
energy-maneuverability theory in fighter design.
... snip ...
boyd posts & URLs from around the web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Man Versus System Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Jan 2016 12:25:07 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
later in the 80s, my wife did temporary stint as chief architect for Amadeus (euro res system based on old eastern "system one") ... the communication group got her replaced because she backed x.25 (instead of sna/vtam) ... it didn't do them much good because amadeus went with x.25 anyway.
later in the mid-90s, we were asked to look at re-engineering some of the largest airline res system in the world ... starting with ROUTES (about 25% of total mainframe processing load) addressing the ten impossible things that they couldn't do. I went away and two months later came back with totally different ROUTES implementation that ran about hundred times faster and did all ten impossible things ... including ten RS/6000 990s being able to handle every ROUTES transaction for every airline in the world. The issue was much of ACP/TPF implementation was dictated by technology trade-offs made in the 60s ... it was possible to start from scratch 30yrs later and make totally different trade-offs (and a decade later, cellphone processors had processing capacity of those ten 990s).
It was fun because they provided me with tape of the full OAG ... including record for every scheduled airline flt in the world.
past posts mentioning AMADEUS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#50 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#76 Other oddball IBM System 360's ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#47 What makes a mainframe a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#7 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#27 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#29 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#4 How Many 360/195s and 370/195s were shipped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#9 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#14 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#29 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#19 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket fax service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#12 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#72 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#59 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#45 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#53 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#33 IBM touts encryption innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#55 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#59 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#29 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#17 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#41 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#14 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#74 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#8 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#9 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#5 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#41 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#69 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#72 100 boxes of computer books on the wall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:43:45 -0800mausg writes:
Ground war lasted 100hrs after A10s had been blasting away for 42days. GAO "air compaign effectiveness" study has Iraqis walking away from their tanks because they were sitting ducks. Later ground war accounts of tank battles (with no allied losses), fail to mention whether the Iraqis tanks had anybody home.
Boyd posts and URLs from around the web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
past posts mentioning Desert Storm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#120 atomic History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#34 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#65 Java as a first programming language for cs students
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#83 The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#58 employee motivation & executive compensation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#0 employee motivation & executive compensation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#27 Controversial paper - Good response article on ZDNet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#61 If you're going to bullshit, eschew moderation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#19 Message To America's Students: The War, The Draft, Your Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#34 I am an ageing techy, expert on everything. Let me explain the
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#15 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#4 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#35 Universal constants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#9 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#26 Current Officers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#39 Current Officers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#21 WWII supplies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#40 Time zones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#16 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#60 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#38 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#29 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#30 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#43 Daylight Savings Time again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#55 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#68 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#16 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#65 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#60 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#14 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#53 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#90 There is much we can learn from TE Lawrence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#18 Colonel John Boyd Wikipedia Mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#49 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#62 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#50 Arming for the Navy's Return to History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#10 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#60 The IBM mainframe has been the backbone of most of the world's largest IT organizations for more than 48 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#9 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#59 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#78 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#59 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#36 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#49 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#84 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#87 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#79 Army Modernization Is Melting Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#92 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#97 Where does the term Wild Duck come from?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#106 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#2 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#46 The Pentagon Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#68 A-10 Attack Jets Rack Up Air-to-Air Kills in Louisiana War Game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#68 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 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/2014h.html#93 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#98 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#62 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#68 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#40 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#59 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#66 fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#83 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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#61 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/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#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#46 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#9 Why do we keep losing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#73 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:36:59 -0800Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
https://www.amazon.com/American-Reckoning-Vietnam-National-Identity-ebook/dp/B00LFZ87LS/
loc1115-18:
In the final year of World War II, however, the United States
carried out the most devastating air attacks in history--the firebombing
of a handful of cities in Germany and sixty-seven in Japan, all of it
followed by the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Robert McNamara, an aide to General Curtis LeMay, helped plan
and analyze the firebombing.
loc1118-20:
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."
... snip ...
past refs were that 1943 US stratetic bombing program claimed that it could win the war ... but turned out to be incorrect for a number of reasons. First they wanted all money to go to large strategic bombers and none for long-range fighters ... failed to learn anything from the German blitz on england needing long-range fighers (eventually learned the hard way), even with NORDEN bomb-sites it was hard to hit targets from 5-6 miles up ... even with accurate coordinates (gotten from wallstreet which were instrumental in rebuilding the German industry and military) ... turns out that it is almost impossible to miss a large target like a city with fire bombs (just about had to hit something).
past posts mentioning NORDEN bomb-sites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#12 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
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/2015b.html#82 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
McNamara then leaves for Ford ... but comes back as SECDEF for vietnam
where Laos becomes the most bombed country in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#2 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#1 Dangerous Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#5 Dangerous Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#67 Downwind from Alamogordo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#43 A lesson from history about wasted valor, for which a price might be asked of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#75 Excellent and recommended
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#59 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#100 The SDS 92, its place in history?
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#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/2015c.html#38 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?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#59 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Compile error Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Jan 2016 18:42:33 -0800hal9001@PANIX.COM (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:44:29 -0800"kipg" <io@nospam.com> writes:
some past MacArthur refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#81 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#63 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#64 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#70 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#74 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#93 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 11:22:48 -0800gabe@GABEGOLD.COM (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
The customer statistics in above ... was just before the looming 3081 "crisis" (while ACP/TPF had loosely-coupled cluster support, it didn't have tightly-coupled, SMP support). Note above mentions two controlers (with string-switch) ... but it is same system having access to both controllers for redundancy.
As aside, US HONE datacenters were consolidated in Silicon Valley in the mid-70s (HONE was the world-wide, online sales&marketing support system). By the late 70s, the US HONE system had the largest "single-system image" loosely-coupled configuration in the world (with load-balancing and recovery across all systems in the complex) ... and required string-switch with pairs of controllers each with multiple channel connections in order for all the SMP (multiprocessor) systems in the complex to fully access the large DASD farm.
Rather than locking (device reserve/release) for the necessary
operations, it used a special CCW sequence (when needed) that emulated
the compare-and-swap instruction semantics. past posts mentioning
charlie invented compare-and-swap while doing fine-grain multiprocessing
locking on CP67 at the science center ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
trivia: when facebook moved to silicon valley it was to a new bldg.
next door to the old HONE datacenter. misc. past posts mentioning
HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Of course the (HONE cluster) "single system image" support wasn't made available to customers until 30yrs later (late last decade).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Where do you place VSE? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 11:44:28 -0800gabe@GABEGOLD.COM (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
Move to virtual memory, DOS/360 morphs into DOS/VS (singe virtual address space, MFT morphs into VS1 (single virtual address space) and MVT morphs into VS2 (initially with single virtual address space, aka SVS much like VS1 ... and eventually MVS with multiple virtual address spaces).
During the Future System period, 370 efforts are being killed off (FS was different than 360/370 and was going to completely replace it). With the demise of FS, there is mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipeline. POK kicks off 3033 (168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips) and 3081 & MVS/XA in parallel (and convinces corporate to kill off vm370 product and move all the people to POK to work for MVS/XA; Endicott eventually acquires the vm370 product mission, but has to recreate a development group from scratch).
While POK is doing "XA" architecture ... highly tailored to MVS ... Endicott kicks off the "E" architecture ... which in large part is moving the single virtual address space into microcode and new instructions that enable/disable virtual page for specific real page. Internally the 4331 is called E3 and 4341 is called E4. DOS/VS becomes DOS/VSE.
In part because large percentage of 4300 machines are run with vm/370 ... they are actually run in 370 mode ... supporting 370 multiple virtual address spaces.
os/vs1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/VS1
above slightly garbled since the migration aid was primarily motivated for helping move mvs/370 to mvs/xa
VSE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSE_%28operating_system%29
The migration aid originally was only going to be used for internal mvs/xa development and never released to customers and so paid little attention to general function and performance. There then is internal politics ... an internal datacenter added full XA support to VM370 with full function/performance. POK wants corporate to support a massive new staff for the migration aid to try and upgrade it to the feature and performance of standard vm370 (with XA added). POK wins.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 12:06:29 -0800JO.Skip.Robinson@ATT.NET (Skip Robinson) writes:
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 12:54:59 -0800sasdtp@SAS.COM (Don Poitras) writes:
VISA installation for ACP for its card association network transaction processing was possibly big part of changing name from ACP to TPF. The card associations were making so much money off their netework interchange transaction charges (for card association networks) that they changed to profit and spun off in IPOs.
Around the turn of the century ... because of bank consolidation and outsourcing, 90% of credit card transactions were handled by six datacenters that had direct connections and no longer needed the card association networks. There was then big legal battle between card associations and the six processors (who felt they no longer had to share interchange fees with the card associations ... since they were no longer using their networks).
ATM/Debit networks were primarily Tandem (even though the backends might be IBM mainframes). Tandem had also acquired major ATM machine crypto hardware vendors. Long ago I got brought in as consultant into a small client/server that wanted to do financial transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called SSL they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s I got asked to work in the X9A10 financial standard working group that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for all retail payments. We did detailed end-to-end threat analysis for nearly all kinds of retail payments (credit, debit, ACH, wire-transfer, face-to-face, point-of-sale, internet, etc). The result was a standard that eliminated most of the current kinds of fraud ... the downside was interchange fees have been heavily prorated based on fraud rates ... with an enormous profit component ... actually eliminating the fraud enormously impacts those calculations (and profit).
NACHA Internet Council did debit pilot with support in the Tandem
network processors ... results published 23July2001, gone 404 but
lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
Compaq/Tandem had previously sponsored large workshop for me Jan1999 on
the financial protocol standards ... old long-winded post by somebody at
the workshop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
The CEO of one of the companies that we had been working with and at the meeting, had been the head of POK mainframes in a prior life.
tandem ref (which includes reference to Jim Gray, which I worked with at
IBM and left for Tandem ... but by the mid-90s was at Microsoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28computer_scientist%29
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 17:24:07 -0800edgould1948@COMCAST.NET (Ed Gould) writes:
around the turn of decade ... the populace was moving from credit to debit ... and the card associations introduced "signature debit" at point-of-sale ... that ran through the credit networks (and had credit level fraud and the much higher credit/fraud interchange fees ... rather than pin-debit through the debits network that had much lower fees as well as card associations not getting anything). national retailer association then had anti-trust legal action against the card associations for forcing debit point-of-sale transactions as "signature debit" (with significantly higher fees) ... and won huge settlement.
card associations then came up with "cash back" as an alternative ... where the cash back interchange rate that merchants pay is significantly higher than the "cash back" that consumers actually see (this is eventually going to replace the enormous amounts they make off fraud surchange fees ... when the get around to deploying more secure technology)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2016 17:34:11 -0800other trivia ... IBM had bought complex that had been originally built in Purchase for new Nestle hdqtrs (before Nestle ever moved in). In the 90s, during the IBM troubles ... the new CEO was looking to raise cash and was selling off real estate (even at well below market and sometimes even below originally paid) ... and sold the Purchase bldg to MasterCard for its new hdqtrs. We had a meeting there (to discuss online banking) shortly after MasterCard moved in, they said that they paid more to have all the door hardware handles to be replaced ... than they paid IBM for the complex (something like 1% of the original Nestle building cost).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 18:50:34 -0800mausg writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:17:26 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
look at "view history" for the entry ... several updates in the past two
months. there are lots of entries that have update battles ... where
there are forces employed to try and keep adverse info for leaking
intro entries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
http://www.pcworld.com/article/236486/wild_wars_of_wikipedia.html
various factions have gotten so bad, that widipedia in the past has done
things like blocking all ip-address in anyway related to US Congress.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876
http://www.newsweek.com/wikipedia-blocks-us-house-disruptive-editing-261295
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/congress-wikipedia-edit-block-transphobic/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:02:56 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
Bush2 resides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis
Team B was also involved in supplying Saddam with weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs in the Iran/Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
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 ... and 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/
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75), after replacing CIA
director (with somebody that would go along with Team B), he resigns and
becomes SECDEF (75-77), and 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
one of Bush2 first actions was an executive order to prevent release of
Reagan presidential papers (required by law) ... which included period
covered when US was providing Iraq with WMDs. A "Team B" member:
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 ...
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned. She wrote a book about then getting locked up in Texas
military hospital when she tried to take it public. EXTREME PREJUDICE--
The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and
Iraq
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
the decommissioned WMDs were quickly found but the information was
classified, not made public until decade later:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
MIC wanted the war so badly that corporate reps were telling former
eastern block countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN,
they would get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID
(for purchase of modern US arms).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
MIC ... military-industrial-complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:16:50 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
After the revolution, US backed Iraq&Sadaam. The claim isn't so much
that Saddam invaded Kuwait ... but it was then making preparation to
invade Saudi. Then US has to choose between Iraq and Saudi (Saddam
possibly believing that he had so tight with US that he could have his
way in the mid-east). This account has Saddam believing that the US
ambassdar gave him approval for invasion of Kuwait.
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/?p=517
Which goes along with the sat photo analyst account that the administration wasn't concerned until he reported that Iraq was marshaling forces for invasion of Saudi.
Note last decade, the administration blocked families of 9/11 victims from suing Saudi as responsible (that legal system can't sue a country). The was lifted the end of 2013 and they went ahead suing Saudi as responsible for 9/11. The speculation is that the increasing US energy independence allowed the US to show more freedom in dealing with Saudi.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:21:07 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
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 ...
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Lineage of TPF Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jan 2016 12:51:48 -08000000000248cce9f3-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Ed Finnell) writes:
as mentioned 3081 technology wasn't competitive with clones:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
initial 3081D per processor throughput was suppose to be faster than 3033 ... but many benchmarks have it about 20% slower. 3081K doubled the cache and per processor was suppose to improve to 50% faster than 3033 ... but many benchmarks were same as 3033.
IBM 2-way multiprocessor technology from the period slowed the processor clock down by 10% to handle cross-cache activity. Going from 3081K to 3083K increased processor clock by nearly 15% (no multiprocessor clock slow-down) ... 3083 mostly done because all ACP/TPF customers might migrate to clone makers (since ACP/TPF didn't have multiprocessor support). Faster clock and tweaks for 3083jx got it up to 16% faster than 3081K (or supposedly almost 80% faster than 3033).
9083 had different I/O microcode load to bias for the typical higher channel i/o loads by ACP/TPF.
It is possible that they may have done something similar for 3090, but I don't recollect any details.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare Date: 24 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookAmerican Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
Russia's Sale Of It's S-400 Air Defense System To China Will
Dramatically Alter The Military Balance In Asia
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2016/01/russias-sale-of-its-s-400-air-defense.html
How China's New Russian Air Defense System Could Change Asia
http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/how-chinas-new-russian-air-defense-system-could-change-asia/
multi-band not just russian (or chinese)
Terra - Israel's Strategic Multi-Radar System-of-Systems for Air- and Missile-Defense from IAI
http://defense-update.com/20151108_terra.html
from above:
Combining the long-range capabilities of the UHF radar and the high
resolution offered by the S-band radars, Terra offers very long range
and large volume search, accurate tracking and target classification
for all object types - ballistic missiles, satellites and air
breathing targets, including low Radar-Cross-Section (RCS) class
(stealth) targets. In addition to target detection and tracking, Terra
also provides accurate prediction of impact and launch point
estimation.
... snip ...
more on s-400, f22, f35, stealth, etc
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
from above:
While the wideband AESA technology being developed for the Navy's Next
Generation Jammer effort might be exploited, unlike the large F-22A
which has airframe provisions for sidelooking AESA arrays, the Joint
Strike Fighter design would require structural changes to make space
available.
... snip ...
Latest generation high performance chips extract real-time (low RCS) target information from multi-band radar. Spring 2015, DOD restricted export of such chips. Last fall at supercomputer conference, Chinese showed that they had started producing their own. Large numbers are used in supercomputers (Chinese have the largest on the planet), in addition to various kinds of signal processing applications (like RADAR). Claims for latest generation such chips can reduce the F22 AESA 2000 transmit/recever pairs by a factor of nearly 100 times w/o loss of capability.
The underlying theme wasn't stealth or non-stealth ... but that the F-35 design was significantly compromised as cost reduction measure (?????) ... assuming F22 would be flying cover to handle high-threat adversaries. Latest I've seen is that they might now try adding signal jamming to F-35 ... but as noted elsewhere ... there is issue if there is space inside the airframe for such jamming hardware or will it have to be carried as external pod ... as well as does F35 have enough additional power to drive such jamming electronics.
Fast Forward 'Fast Transients': John Boyd, the F-22 and F-35 in 2016
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-131210-1.html
Straus Military Reform Project
http://www.pogo.org/straus/
Military Reform
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-reform/
Ten Things You Should Know About the Air Force's F-35 Propaganda Effort
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2015/ten-things-you-should-know-about-f-35.html
Boyd URL refs and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning f-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#83 F111 related discussion x-over from Facebook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#86 F111 related discussion x-over from Facebook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#77 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#43 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#79 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#42 Senator urges DoD: Do better job defending F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#49 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#52 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#34 Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#63 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#4 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#20 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#7 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#10 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#73 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#142 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#41 The Heritage Foundation, Then and Now
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#42 Drones now account for one third of U.S. warplanes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#0 Happy Challenger Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#13 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#15 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#38 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#75 The Winds of Reform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#50 They're Trying to Block Military Cuts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#56 Update on the F35 Debate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#57 Pentagon to Withold Lockheed F-35 Payments Over Tracking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#0 Pentagon to Withold Lockheed F-35 Payments Over Tracking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#60 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73 Execution Velocity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#25 We are on the brink of historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#72 Sunday Book Review: Mind of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#25 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#55 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#68 'Gutting' Our Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#85 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#30 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#19 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#24 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#45 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#50 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#78 Millennials have been plugged in pretty much since birth, which naturally means they'd be more adept at understanding the tech world than Gen X or even Baby Boomers, right?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#13 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#11 This Award Winning British Speed Boat May Be Iran's Fiercest Weapon Against The US Navy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#69 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#2 Quagmire on the Potomac
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#34 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#62 America Is Basically Helpless Against The Chinese Hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#68 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#45 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#54 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#64 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#87 Not the Navy's Favorite Artist Rendering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#36 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#16 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#46 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#69 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#19 It was 30 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#43 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#101 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#15 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#40 The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#55 Behind the Pentagon's doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#58 2 v 2 - How the Typhoon kills the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#2 Did you see the one about the F-35 and F/A-18?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#28 ELP weighs in on the software issue:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#40 ELP weighs in on the software issue:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#0 Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#1 If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#4 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#51 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#86 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#91 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#92 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#69 Littoral Warfare Ship
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#96 Lockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#98 The SEC Finally Takes an Interest in Collateralized Loan Obligations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#0 Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#1 Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#18 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#29 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#32 The dark side of digital banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#22 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#48 The Pentagon Is Playing Games With Its $570-Billion Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#51 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#25 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#38 Maneuver Warfare: German Experiences in WWII
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#49 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#52 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#65 New Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#102 A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#8 Super Cane's Computers run Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#14 Super Cane's Computers run Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#40 China's Fifth-Generation Fighter Could Be A Game Changer In An Increasingly Tense East Asia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#41 50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#43 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#51 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#3 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#6 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#84 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#8 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#62 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#68 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#13 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#15 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#48 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#100 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#9 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#11 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#16 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#18 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#49 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#61 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
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/2015b.html#59 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#3 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#9 The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#14 With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin's New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#49 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#34 The joy of simplicity?
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#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#45 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#46 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#51 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#58 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#78 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#8 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#16 Modern computer brochures; military security; then and now ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#79 New Smoking Gun: U.S. and UK KNEW Saddam Did NOT Possess WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#117 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#50 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#59 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Pentagon to take over control of background investigation information Date: 24 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookPentagon to take over control of background investigation information
References to background investigation had been outsourced last decade to (private-equity owned) for-profit 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/
and "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 ...
turns out that they were just filling out the paper-work w/o actually doing the background checks (as way of boosting their bottom line)
AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR
and KKR wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the
AMEX president to turn around RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being broken up
into the 13 "baby blues". The board then hires away the former
president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect IBM. Uses some
of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO of company that
will employ Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Recent director of CIA left in disgrace is hired by KKR.
posts mentioning private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:01 -0800Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
Mainframe shared resources at the time of IBM/PC was also slow to track better price/performance technology ... IBM/PCs were tracking new technologies much faster than large mainframes.
Lots of clouds are now doing frequent turn-over of enormous numbers of "pc" grade technology ... as a trade-off between the two. Cloud volume has even gotten to the point where the "PC" technology makers are doing custom versions/chips specifically for that market. They have even optimized system costs to the point that power&environmental has become increasing dominate cost factor. Less & less system price/performance, but increasingly watts/performance ... it led to threats that big clouds would move to ARM (power use having been optimized for battery) ... until the I86 makers started paying more attention to watts/performance (systems can be throw-away when next generation saves them more in power than cost of system).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe Virtual Memory Date: 25 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookLore is that tss/360 had 1100 people at time that science center had 11people doing cp67cms. They had originally done cp40cms on 360/40 that they did hardware changes for virtual memory. I had actually done lots of both os/360 and cp67/cms work in the 60s as undergraduate at university before joining science center. Science Center posts
Note original announce was 360/60, 360/62, 360/70. Before ship, memory
was upgraded from 1mic to 750ns and model numbers change to 360/65,
360/67, and 360/75. Original 62/67 announce was 4-way and the channel
director supported all four processors addressing all channels and all
memory. Mostly two processor machines were built but at least one
3-way was built which included dynamic hardware reconfiguration under
software control (to handle failing components). some multiprocessor
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
Other lore, FS effort in early 70s was completely different from
360/370 and was going to replace it. Internal politics was killing off
370 stuff, which is credited with giving clone processors market
foothold (I continued to work on 360/370 stuff during the period and
periodically ridicule FS, which wasn't exactly career enhancing). When
FS finally implodes, there is mad rush to get products back into 370
pipeline. Q&D 3033 and 3081/XA efforts are kicked off in parallel. The
head of POK also convinces corp. to kill vm370 and transfer all the
people to POK or otherwise he can't meet mvs/xa schedule, FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Endicott eventually manages to save vm370 product mission but has to
rebuild development group from scratch. Customer online VMSHARE
discussion groups have comments about vm370 code quality in this
period in the 70s and early 80s. TYMSHARE started providing their
CMS-based online computer conferencing for free to SHARE starting in
AUG1976 ... archive here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
Original OS/VS2 implementation was done by Ludlow on 360/67. The majority of the code involved adding ccw translation to EXCP. Ludlow borrowed the code from CP67 "CCWTRANS" for the implementation ... hooking it into EXCP
Melinda has loads of history here
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
370 virtual memory had loads more feature/function ... but there were loads of problems retrofitting hardware to 165. In order to not have big schedule slip in announce, they dropped lots of features. Software already written to use the dropped features had to be redesigned and rewritten to only use the 165 subset
Somewhat like Michigan and MTS, Stanford did its own virtual memory operating system for 360/67 ... which is where WYLBUR was originally implemented before porting to os/360
We are currently having discussion in ibmmain list about lots of this
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/AafkVOM2DOg
and
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/LUhlUJ9T0r4
and
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/WkPmrzZauE0
archived posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#52 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#54 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#56 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#61 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#63 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#64 Where do you place VSE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#65 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#66 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#67 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#68 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#74 Lineage of TPF
Virtual memory was originally justified for all 370s because MVT storage management was so bad ... regions typically needed to be four times larger than they actually used ... typical 1mbyte 370/165 only ran 4 regions. With DAT, could run 15 regions on same hardware and have almost no paging
os/360, os/vs2 are heavily pointer passing API's ... i.e. system calls and other calls needed called routine in same address space. That is why MVS had to map 8mbyte kernel image in every application (16mbyte) virtual address space. Then subsystem (in different address space) required 1mbyte common segment area in every virtual address space (for parameter passing). Common segment requirements are somewhat proportional to number of concurrent applications and number of subsystems and morphs into common system area ... frequently 3-5 mbytes leaving only 3-5mbytes for applications. Before 31bit XA some customers were facing requirements for 8mbyte CSA, leaving nothing for applications
picture comes from this about MTS & dataconcentrator done with DEC
processor (trivia, person later goes on and does "time" protocol for
the internet)
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html
other trivia: at the univ. I tried to make enhancements to cp67
terminal support that would have the 2702 terminal controller do
something it couldn't quite do. This was part of motivation started a
clone terminal controller project, initially based on Interdata/3
... later evolving into Interdata/4 for the channel interface and
cluster of Interdata/3s for line/port scanners. Four of us get written
up as responsible (for some part of) clone controller
business. Interdata markets it as commerical product to customers,
later PE buys Interdata and it is marketed under Perkin-Elmer name.
posts mentioning clone controllers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
Virtual memory was originally justified for all 370s because MVT storage management was so bad ... regions typically needed to be four times larger than they actually used ... typical 1mbyte 370/165 only ran 4 regions. With DAT, could run 15 regions on same hardware and have almost no paging
Several years ago I was asked by customer to track down more history
about 370 move to virtual memory ... this is posting of reply from
somebody involved (who recently passed):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
We did similar at SJR that tracked disk record and virtual memory use running under vm370. It was used for modeling paging and disk controller caches. A super fast real-time reduction was done of disk record accesses. There was some investigation of adding it to all operating systems to support optimized real-time reorganization of filesystems
Past couple days we've been having related discussion in ibm-main
mailing list. Several times I've mentioned highlighting relative
system I/O performance slowed down tremendously during the 70s, in the
early 80s I was saying that relative system disk i/o performance
degrading by order of magnitude between the 60s and early 80s
(processor & memory got 40-50 times faster, disk only got 3-5 times
faster). Some disk executive took exception and assigned the division
performance group to refute my statements. They work on it for a
couple weeks and come back and effectively say I slightly understated
the problem (respun it turns into SHARE presentation on how to
configure disks for better throughput). past referring to getting
to play disk engineer in bldgs14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
As undergraduate in the 60s at the univ. I did a lot of work on global
LRU page replacement (for cp67) ... this was at a time when local LRU
papers were dominating academic literature. Later in the early 70s,
Grenoble Science Center modified CP67 to conform to local LRU
literature and published in CACM. Grenoble had 1mbyte 360/67 with 165
4k pages after fixed storage and Cambridge had 768kbyte 360/67 with
104 4k pages (after fixed storage). Cambridge with 80users had better
throughput, performance and response (with global LRU) than Grenoble
had with 35users (with local LRU, even tho they had 50% more pageable
storage).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
After Jim Gray leaves SJR (and palms off some amount of DBMS) and goes to Tandem, at the next SIGOPS he asks if I can help a co-worker at Tandem who is trying to get Stanford PHD involving global LRU algorithms. It turns out that some academic Local LRU forces were aggressively trying to block awarding the PHD and Jim knew I had real live data showing local/global LRU comparison. Then IBM San Jose Research management steps in and blocks my providing the information for nearly a year. Now I had been blamed for online computer conferencing (sort of precursor to social networking) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. I was hoping that SJR management thought they were punishing me (for the network stuff) ... rather than taking sides in the Local/Global LRU academic dispute.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:31:04 -0800hancock4 writes:
it probably isn't a coincidence that "Team B"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
fabrication about soviet threat in the 70s&80s and then "team b"
involved in the WMD fabrication last decade.
it contributed to Eisenhower in his goodby speech warning about the
military-industrial complex (evidence is that he intended to say
military-industrial-congressional complex but he shortened it at the
last moment). MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning Eisenhower warning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#8 Ruminating on Strategic Thinking II. : Social Conditions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#63 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#68 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#75 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#51 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'? thoughts please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#2 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#28 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#32 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#54 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#13 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#55 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#72 In Command, but Out Of Control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#73 Wylie discernible patterns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#14 Microsoft, IBM lobbying seen killing key anti-patent troll proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#37 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#81 Eisenhower's military-industrial warning rings truer than ever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#32 The dark side of digital banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#82 The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#93 Oligarchy Controls U.S. War-Making
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#22 $40 billion missile defense system proves unreliable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#13 IBM & Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#104 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#132 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#178 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#68 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
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/2015d.html#42 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#47 Thanks Obama
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:36:11 -0800Google agrees to pay British authorities GBP130m in back taxes
Heavy equipment makers in US would sell directly in the US and ship in
the US. Then they (and others) came up with a gimmick to sell at cost to
subsidiary distributor in Luxembourg. The Luxembourg subsidiary then
sells to customers in the US (and all the profit is booked in
Luxembourg) ... however, they continue to ship directly from US plant to
US customers:
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
there is still estimate of $30T or so held offshore
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:58:33 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
reference to agencies being heavily virtual machine based ... going
back to cp67 in the 60s (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
this is email by Jim Gray talking about the 3830 disk controller
"locking" ACP RPQ ... but also mentions the number of ACP/TPF customers
& systems.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#email800325
Part of the ACP/TPF issue was that clone makers continued to make faster
single processor machines and there was concern that the whole ACP/TPF
market would move to clone processors. Eventually they got around to
offering 3083 which was 3081 with one of the processors
removed. However, there were other issues with 3081 technology comparing
poorly with clone processor makers ... discussed here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
and they did all sorts of tweaks for 3083 trying to improve
competitivenes ... eventually including a custom channel microcode load
tailored for ACP/TPF operation ... marketed as 9083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#18 Mail system scalability (Was: Re: Itanium troubles)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#65 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#66 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#30 As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#39 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#1 ZeuS attacks mobiles in bank SMS bypass scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#62 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#67 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#74 Lineage of TPF
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:41:39 -0800hancock4 writes:
however, 360/67 multiprocessor (tightly-coupled) did have "channel controller" that allowed processors to share both memory as well as all sharing channels (all processors addressing all channels), but had the capability to configure complex as independent single processor machines with dedicated memory and channels).
loosely-coupled were independent systems (no shared memory) that shared devices .... via having channels connected to controllers with capability for connecting to multiple channels.
my wife had been in the gburg JES group ... she was one of the catchers
for ASP turning it into JES3. She was also co-author for JESUS (JES
unified system) which included features from JES2 (i.e. HASP) and JES3
that the respective customers couldn't live w/o (for various reasons
never shipped). posts mentioning HASP, JES2, NJE/NJI, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
she was then con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled
architecture. While there she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
she didn't remain very long because of 1) little uptake except for IMS hotstandby (until SYSPLEX¶llel SYSPLEX nearly decades later) and 2) constant battles with communication group trying to force her into using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled operation.
in the mid-70s, they introduced "attached processor" tightly-coupled for 370/158 & 370/168 ... it was standard two processors shared memory where the 2nd processor didn't have any dedicated channels (purely processor capacity and not able to be partitioned into two independently operating single processor systems).
after the failure of the FS effort ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipeline. This
included POK kicking off the Q&D 303x and 3081/xa efforts in parallel
... some discussion here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
3033 started out being 168-3 logic mapped to 20% faster chips. Also the integrated channel microcode from 370/158 was moved into a separate dedicated channel box. A 3031 was two 370/158 engines, a 370/158 engine with just the 370 microcode and no integrated channel microcode and a 2nd 370/158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and no 370 microcode). A 3032 was a 370/168 tweaked to use the 370/158 integrated channel box as external channels. A 3033 then was 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster chips and one or more 370/158 integrated channel microcode boxes. 370/158 integrated channel microcode provided support for six channels. To have a system with 16 channels reguired three 370/158 integrated channel microcode boxes.
3081 (as memo125.htm describes) started out being a multiprocessor box only (until they were forced to do 3083 with one processor removed). 3081 was referred to as dyadic (two processors) to differentiate it from the earler "tightly-coupled" designation ... because it wasn't able to partition it into two independent operating (single-processor) systems.
posts mentioning SMP, multiprocessor, tightly-coupled, also compare&swap
instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:26:39 -0800hancock4 writes:
the issue is what software. standard IBM mainframe cache two-processor system slowed the processor cycle down by 10% to allow for cross-cache signalling (and any actual cross-cache signalling slowed things down further) ... so two processor hardware starts out only 1.8 times a single processor. Then if the operating system had lots of lock contention and other multiprocessor coordination ... it further reduced effective throughput. MVS on 370s in the 70s claimed muiltiprocessor throughput 1.3-1.5 times single processor.
I had done some slight of hand for vm370 multiprocessor throughput that had extremely low lock contention and multiprocessor coordination overhead. In cache machines, typical MIPS rate is based on some expected cache miss rate, high-cache miss rate results in much lower MIPS/throughput than the nominal announced MIP rate ... and very low cache miss rate will have higher than nominal announced MIP rate.
I had some attached-processor configurations that had run 100% CPU utilization and relatively high I/O rate before adding the 2nd processor. Asynchronous I/O interrupts involved displaying application cache contents with device driver cache contents (very high instantaneous cache miss rates) ... and then switching back to running appliction reversed the process, replacing device driver cache contents with application cache contents (again very high cache miss rates) ... all of which much lower measured MIPS rate and throughput. The applications code running on the 2nd processor now had much higher MIPS rate and throughput (because there was no longer the asynchronous I/O interrupts. The processor with channels & I/O interrupts frequently had higher throughput also .... since it periodically effectively batched several I/O interrupts in sequence, while device driver code still remained in cache, significantly improving its cache-hit rate, MIPS-rate and throughput.
The very low operating system multiprocessor overhead plus careful management of the cache effects could get more than twice the throughput of a single processor (from hardware that nominally was only 1.8 times that of a single processor) ... compared to the 1.3-1.5 times experienced by MVS users.
past posts mentioning SMP, shared-memory, multiprocessor, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
Note that CICS didn't get multiprocessor support until 2004. Original CICS implementation was single task/process and then did its own finegrain task multithreading within the CICS environment. To take advantage of more powerful computers and multiple processors ... customers started running multiple CICS instances (each as its own independent operating system task). Early in the century ... an outsorucer that ran the dataprocessing backend that managed cable tv settop boxes for most of the cable countries in the US ... was running over 120 CICS instances on a single (multiprocessor) machine.
past posts mentioning CICS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
trivia ... as undergraduate in the 60s, I got hired fulltime by the univ. to support their production IBM mainframe. The univ. library got an ONR grant to do online catalog and used part of the money to get 2321 datacell. The project was also selected to be one of the betatest sites for the original CICS program product ... and I got to do a lot of debugging of the betatest CICS code.
Some of the history from CICS site ... gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine:
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multi-region Operation (1980)
https://web.archive.org/web/20040705000349/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev198001.htm
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multiprocessor Exploitation (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20041023110006/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200402.htm
webpage
https://web.archive.org/web/20050509233156/http://www.yelavich.com/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:53:59 -0800JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:48:24 -0800Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:29:44 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
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then his son is selected for replacement CIA director because he
would go along with Team B analysis,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
then while VP, claims he knows nothing 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
then the grandson involved in fabricating WMDs justifying Iraq invasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
... but also presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis (there were 1,000 criminal convictions in the S&L crisis, proportionally there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions for the economic mess ... but there has been ZERO).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:05:48 -0800hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Pentagon's Pricey Culture of Mediocrity Date: 29 Jan 2016 Blog: FacebookThe Pentagon's Pricey Culture of Mediocrity
In Pentagon Wars, Burton details enormous graft and corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars#Historical_background
Corrupt from top to bottom
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
The Pentagon Wars URL reference was to "history", reform movement, A10 & F16 ... and in the book, Burton's proposal for A-10 follow-on with five barrel gun.
I hadn't intended it to be a Bradley reference ... however, I had a
son-in-law driving Bradley in Desert Storm ... and another son-in-law
that was foot-patrol Fallujah 2004-2005 and then Bradley in Baqubah
2007-2008 (described as much worse than Fallujah). One of the problems
in Baqubah was that they were loosing so many Bradleys (and Abram M1s)
that they were getting moth-balled Bradley-DS (from desert storm). My
son-in-law mentioned that he went to all sort of heroic efforts to
keep his (newer) Bradley operational (cannabalizing all sorts of parts
from the junk yard) ... rather than having to accept Bradley-DS (also
Abrams were so vulnerable, that they tried to sweep the route before
taking one out).
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
loc5243-54:
I saw other Bradleys and M1 Abrams main battle tanks, the pride of the
1st Cavalry Division -- vehicles that, if back at Fort Hood, would be
parked meticulously on line, tarps tied tight, gun barrels lined up,
track line spotless, not so much as a drop of oil on the white
cement. What I saw that day was row after row of mangled tan steel as
if in a junkyard that belonged to Satan himself.
... snip ...
more recent analysis of (pentagon & procurement) corrupt from top to
bottom (again from reform movement members):
http://dnipogo.org/labyrinth/
• identify the decay - moral, mental and physical - in America's
defenses,
• understand the various "tribes" that run bureaucratic life in the
Pentagon,
• appreciate what too many defense journalists are not doing, but
should,
• conduct first rate national security oversight instead of second
rate theater,
• separate careerists from ethical professionals in senior military
and civilian ranks,
• learn to critique strategies, distinguishing the useful from the
agenda-driven,
• recognize the pervasive influence of money in defense
decision-making,
• unravel the budget games the Pentagon and Congress love to play,
• understand how to sort good weapons from bad - and avoid high cost
failures, and
• reform the failed defense procurement system without changing a
single law.
... snip ...
disclaimer: some people mistake me for a Boyd acolyte because I use to sponsor Boyd's briefings and know some number of the (real) acolytes.
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:59:15 -0800mausg writes:
Fed Bails Out Rich Arabs in Citigroup Deal
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fed-bails-out-rich-arabs-in-citigroup-deal/
Some of the details are available on Alwaleed's website. "Perhaps no
single transaction has catapulted Prince Alwaleed to the world's
financial stage in as spectacular a fashion as did his acquisition in
1991 of Citibank (subsequently, Citigroup) stocks," notes his
website. "Few people could then imagine that a Saudi Arabian, and a
royal at that, would burst onto the international scene, seemingly out
of nowhere, to invest so heavily in one of the major banks of the world
and to help restore it to such health that it would become the leading
financial institution in the world."
... snip ...
part of long-winded post from 1999,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
note that ARM mortgage portfolio is similar to the Securitized ARM
mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
that play significant role in economic mess last decade:
A risk manager must also calculate the credit risk profile of each ARM
along a particular interest rate curve for a complete valuation process
to be accurate. Hence each dimension of risk management is calculated in
the risk measurement valuation process. When institutions began to
create financial models measuring the entire individual transaction
level detail of their portfolios they discovered the gapping error. No
one could predict a) the multitude of embedded options that were going
unmeasured across an organizations entire balance sheet, b) the
individual portfolio behavioral characteristics of these embedded
options, c) the unmeasured aggregate earnings impact of these options
across a multitude of interest rate scenarios. In one example, Citicorp
failed to recognize that a 2% rising rate phase would cause an 80% loss
of core holding company earnings. If the cycle was to occur for an
extended period Citicorp would fail. This discovery caused Citicorp to
get out of the mortgage business in 1989. At the time the company was
the largest player in the mortgage market. Coincidentally, Citicorp's
stock traded at an all time low of $ 6.00/share and needed a private
bailout to continue functioning as an entity.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:40:31 -0800Sanders out polls Trump
just looking at party polls, somebody calculated that polling of just democrates against polling of just republicans, that sander's percent of democrates comes to 50% more people than trump's percent of republicans.
also
Poll: Sanders outperforms Clinton in matchup against Trump
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-sanders-outperforms-clinton-matchup-against-trump
part of the issue is that primary republican party polls and primary democratic party polls ... will leave out lots of unaffiliated voters. Both absolute numbers of democrates for both Sanders and Clinton can beat absolute numbers of of republicans for trump. And polls of just democrates can show Sanders Clinton neck&neck ... while polls of all voters can show Sanders doing significantly better against Trump than Clinton would do.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:12:02 -0800Tories lobbying to protect Google's GBP30bn island tax haven
misc Bermuda refs
OECD's tax crackdown calls for global profit reporting
http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/09/oecds-tax-crackdown-calls-global-profit-reporting
Caterpillar Inc., U.S. Government Debt and Offshore Tax Havens
http://www.icij.org/blog/2012/08/caterpillar-inc-us-government-debt-and-offshore-tax-havens
Lawyers and Accountants Help Rich Manage Their Money
http://www.icij.org/offshore/trusted-service-provider-blends-invisible-offshore-world
Mega-Rich Use Tax Havens to Buy and Sell Masterpieces
http://www.icij.org/offshore/mega-rich-use-tax-havens-buy-and-sell-masterpieces
Canadian Senator's Husband Shifted Money Into Offshore Tax Havens
http://www.icij.org/offshore/canadian-senators-husband-shifted-money-offshore-tax-havens
Companies grilled by EU politicians over tax dodging
http://www.icij.org/blog/2015/11/companies-grilled-eu-politicians-over-tax-dodging
The Swiss Lawyers Who Help Europe's Richest Families Park Their Wealth
Offshore
http://www.icij.org/offshore/swiss-lawyers-who-help-europes-richest-families-park-their-wealth-offshore
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:03:20 -0800Tories lobbying to protect Google's GBP30bn island tax haven
from above:
The revelation follows widespread condemnation of the "sweetheart" deal
struck between HMRC and Google that saw the internet giant agree to pay
only GBP130m in back taxes on the estimated GBP7.2bn that it earned in
profits over the past decade.
... snip ...
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax
Havens, pg216/loc4511-14:
Plenty of good firms have gone bust as a result of this offshore
debt-loading, which the New York Times in 2009 described as "a Wall
Street version of 'Flip This House.'" 48 More than half of the companies
that defaulted on their debt that year were either previously or
currently owned by private equity firms.
... snip ...
Private-equity company flipping, take out a loan to buy a company, put
the loan on the company's books, loot the company and then sell it. They
can even sell the company for much less than they paid and walk away
with boat loads of money, since the original loans stays with the sold
company (none of these bad loans affect the rating of the private-equity
company).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
long detailed discussion about as British empire was breaking up after
W2 ... certain locals wanting to stay under british protection ... and
cooperated with the city of london setting up tax havens. major center
was the city of london but various things went on in these other
jurisdictions, pg71/loc1477-79:
The City's nine thousand-odd human residents have one vote each in
municipal elections here. But businesses in the City vote too, as if
they were human, with thirty-two thousand corporate votes. 25 In effect,
Goldman Sachs, the Bank of China, Moscow Narodny Bank, and KPMG can vote
in a hugely important British election.
... snip ...
post mentioning tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
posts mentioning "trasure islands":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#54 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#65 The Real Snowden Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#3 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#26 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#2 IBM Relevancy in the IT World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#60 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#66 NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#56 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#94 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:05:29 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
as noticed elsewhere some of the victims have been the large private & public pension funds ... where there may also be bonuses&commissions involved.
Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
there is also the ongoing saga of CALPERS:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/sue-calpers-denial-private-equity-public-records-act-request.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/calpers-private-equity-scandals-steptoe-johnson-report-whitewash.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/08/calpers-rescinds-700-million-investment-private-equity-fund-headed-doctor-private-equity-experience.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/gretchen-morgenson-damage-private-equity-secrecy-mention-calpers-suit.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/private-equity-consultants-flounder-question-abusive-evergreen-fees-calpers-board-meeting.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/04/investors-like-calpers-and-new-york-city-in-the-dark-about-private-equity-fees.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/top-private-equity-reporter-calpers-is-either-lying-or-has-a-massive-breakdown-in-financial-controls.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/california-state-treasurer-takes-up-calpers-private-equity-carry-fee-reporting-lapse-after-nc-readers-press-him.html
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
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/leading-pension-consultant-pca-shills-for-private-equity-firms-in-calperscalstrs-carry-fee-row.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/senior-private-equity-officers-at-calpers-do-not-understand-how-the-general-partners-make-money.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/former-state-chief-investment-officer-tells-calpers-and-calstrs-to-fire-consultant-pca-over-proposed-fix-for-poor-private-equityperformance.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/fortunes-dan-primack-takes-up-calpers-private-equity-scandal-calls-head-of-private-equity-factually-wrong.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/how-calpers-consultant-pension-consulting-alliance-is-more-loyal-to-private-equity-than-its-clients.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/mission-impossible-star-alec-baldwin-retweets-yves-post-on-calpers-capture-by-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/the-larger-implications-of-calpers-staff-and-board-incompetence-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/after-nc-media-coverage-of-calpers-and-calstrs-private-equity-fee-lapses-treasurer-john-chiang-calls-for-legislation.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/oxford-professor-schools-calpers-contrary-to-board-presentation-private-equity-is-most-expensive-asset-class-by-far.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/11/harvard-professor-josh-lerner-gives-weak-and-internally-contradictory-plug-for-private-equity-at-calpers-workshop.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/11/the-bigger-significance-of-calpers-private-equity-carry-fee-release-another-nail-in-the-carried-interest-tax-loophole-coffin.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-fails-to-use-its-leverage-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-lies-to-itself-and-others-to-justify-investing-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-calpers-violated-california-open-meeting-laws-to-stifle-private-equity-skeptics.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/more-on-how-calpers-lies-to-itself-and-others-to-justify-investing-in-private-equity.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/our-bloomberg-op-ed-on-calpers-plan-to-get-rid-of-private-equity-risk-by-ignoring-it.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/we-discuss-private-equity-calpers-and-its-tainted-counsel-on-harry-shearers-le-show-this-sunday.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/we-won-a-fight-against-calpers-over-its-plan-to-ignore-private-equity-risk.html
other CALPERS
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2506775-to-calpers-go-small-and-go-young-or-get-out
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2688805-is-calpers-a-canary-in-the-coal-mine
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/04/18/CalPers-Admits-52-Underfunding-on-986-billion-Shortfall
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-calpers-officers-propose-lower-investment-targets-wsj-2015-10
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/corruption-again-calpers-keeping-lobbying-records-secret-from-its-board-members/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/calpers-demonstrates-commitment-operating-bad-faith-public-records-act-requests-keen-hide-bad-records.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/former-calpers-ceo-pleads-guilty-bribery-fraud-including-taking-cash-paper-bags.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/orange-county-register-attacks-lack-public-pension-fund-transparency-cites-suit-calpers.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/sacramento-bee-reports-on-calpers-fee-lapses.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/california-readers-catch-on-kpfa-this-friday-at-730-am-discussing-calpers-and-calstrs.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/financial-times-joins-the-party-on-calpers-and-links-to-naked-capitalism.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/former-california-official-blasts-calpers-ceo-anne-stausboll-staff-and-board-for-misconduct.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/wsjs-carried-interest-comic-strip-mocks-calpers.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/former-california-official-blasts-calpers-ceo-anne-stausboll-for-betrayal-of-trust-in-hiring-scandal-ridden-fiduciary-counsel.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/san-diego-union-tribune-editorial-attacks-calpers-over-half-hearted-plan-to-lower-return-targets.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/the-twelve-days-of-calpers.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/why-is-calpers-understating-its-cost-of-investing-in-private-by-roughly-1-6-billion-meaning-80.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-19/first-calpers-now-texas-teachers-cut-hedge-fund-exposure
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:48:35 -0800other private-equity trivia
claim is that industry got such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis, that they changed the industry name to private-equity (and junk bonds become high-yield bonds).
I've periodically mentioned that AMEX was in competition with KKR to do
private-equity take-over of RJR and KKR wins. KKR then runs into trouble
and hires away president of AMEX to turn it around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being broken up into
the 13 "baby blues". The board then hires away the former president of
AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect IBM. Uses some of same
techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does private-equity take-over
(among others) of company that will employ 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 (private-equity victim companies are under heavy pressure to generate revenue).
'This was all planned': Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying
http://nypost.com/2016/01/31/this-was-all-planned-former-ig-says-hillary-state-dept-are-lying/
Even if they accept the referral, he says, the case quickly and quietly
will be plea-bargained down to misdemeanors punisable by fines in a deal
similar to the one Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, secured for
Gen. David Petraeus. In other words, a big slap on the wrist.
... snip ...
trivia ... Petreaus is hired by KKR when he resigns as director of CIA in disgrace.
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
president of AMEX posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
and Bush1 as VP in the 80s was full-time(?) administration point-person deregulating financial industry creating S&L crisis ... then Bush2 as president last decade presides over economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis (S&L crisis had 1,000 criminal convictions, proportionally, there should be 70,000 criminal convictions for economic mess, but there have been NONE).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:25:55 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
there has been some recent settlements fining the sellers for misrepresenting the quality of what was being sold last decade, ... but no mention of the rating agencies.
more testimony was that the rating agency business model had become misaligned when they switched from the buyers paying for the ratings to the sellers paying for the ratings (so their interest was providing a rating that gained the sellers the most money). Some reference that it is enormously harder to regulate business that is incented to do the wrong thing because business process is misaligned.
Later in Jan2009, when there was still facade that TARP funds were for purchasing the off-book toxic assets, there was brief mention of one of the original 60s virtual machine based online commercial service bureaus (that had moved upstream into all sorts of financial services) would be helping value these toxic assets. It turns out when the rating agencies were switching their business model to sellers paying for the rating ... the service bureau had bought the pricing services division from one of the major rating agencies.
Of course the TARP facade didn't last long ... in part because only $700B had been appropriated and just the four largest too big to fail were still carrying $5.2T "off-book" at the end of 2008 (TARP could have never even remotely fixed that problem) ... $700B could never have bought enough at face value ... and what had been sold was going at 22cents on the dollar ("mark to market"), if bought at that price all would have been declared insolvement and forced to liquidate.
TARP was then used for what it was possibly always intended ... originally the triple-A rating allowed them to unload toxic assets w/o carrying about quality ... but then they found that they could design toxic assets designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victims, and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail. The largest holder of these CDS gambling bets, AIG was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in and forces them to sign document that they can't sue those making the bets and take TARP funds to pay off at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG, and the largest recipient of face value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:03:50 -0800TV showed chart today that Iowa caucus doubled the number of democrats in 2008 (compared to 2004) and almost all new members went to Obama, number of caucus members doubled again in 2012 ... and projecting if Sanders can get out new members for another doubling, he would win (repeat of 2008 against Clinton).
It also showed something similar happening for Republicans, doubling caucus members 2008 from 2004 and double again 2012 from 2008 ... however, in each of those years, the total Republican caucus members were only half the Democratic caucus members.
That goes along with earlier news that Trumps percentage of national Republicans is much less than Sanders percentage of national Democrats (and Sanders beating Trump by more than Clinton beating Trump).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:11:31 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Such things are common; griftopia had chapter on CFTC use to have a rule
that players were required to have significant position because
speculators resulted in wild irrational price swings; then CFTC sends
out 19 secret letters allowing specific speculators to play ... results
include the enormous spike in oil the summer of 2008 (and resulting huge
gas prices). griftopia posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
Later Sanders releases the transaction details showing the specific
speculators responsible for the enormous spike in oil price ... and the
press lambasts him for violating corporate privacy ... what happened to
investigating reporting? Things seem to be outside US ... the CBS
60min segment last night on money laundering (in the US) was done
by organization in UK ... past posts mentioning money laundering
(especially the too big to fail repeatedly caught money laundering
for drug cartels and terrorists and not being criminally prosecuted)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
too big to fail (& too big to prosecute and too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:29:02 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
I've seen this repeatedly on the 101 hill coming out of south san jose just before coyote valley ... somebody is coming up behind slow truck in right hand lane and slips into small gap in the next lane ... triggering the accordian effect ... and as the accordian is closing, the breaking becomes ever more severe ... increasing probability of rear-end collision.
old post mentioning accordian effect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#18 Traffic Jam Mystery Solved By Mathematicians
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:15:19 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
car coming up fast ... could come up right behind the truck ... or behind a long line of cars in the right lane already behind the truck ... and then quickly swerves into small gap into the next lane over w/o signalling ... it is just one of the recognizable cases of such drivers quickly lane switching (w/o signalling) ... other cases have little or no disernible reason for the aggresive fast lane swerve w/o signalling (one of the really funny is when they complete the lane change swerve into small gap ... and then flick turn signal)
... relative common causes that appear to precipitate the accordian closing that includes triggering rear-end collisions.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3270 based ATMs Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Feb 2016 17:31:48 -0800trothr@GMAIL.COM (Rick Troth) writes:
the guy managing magstripe standards was also there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card#Further_developments_and_encoding_standards
when I was co-author of financial industry standard that was piloted by
nacha for ATM ... this reference gone 404 ... but lives on at wayback
machine ... pilot results entry 23July2001:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
all the ATM network stuff was Tandem ... with special crypto hardwware.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet Date: 01 Feb 2016 Blog: Facebookformer co-worker at the science center responsible for the internal network ... which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s. Part of the reason was that it had a form of gateway from the beginning, which didn't show up in arpanet/internet until great switchover on 1Jan1983 to internetworking protocol. It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius Who Invented the Design for the Internet (there is also ipad version)
Some of his technology was also used for the corporate sponsored
university bitnet (EARN in europe), which for a time in the 80s was
also larger than arpanet/internet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
posts mentioning bitnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
First part of 80s, we were working with director of NSF to tie
together the NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get
$20m. Then congress cuts the budget, some number of other things
happened and finally they release an RFP (largely based on what we
already had running). Internal politics then prevent us from bidding;
trying to help, the NSF director writes the company a letter
3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO)
... but that just made the internal
politics worse. Some old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
posts mentioning nsfnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
As regional networks connect into the centers, it morphs into the
NSFNET backbone (precursor to the modern internet)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
1Jan1983, there were approximately 100 (arpanet) IMP network nodes
with 250 connected hosts ... at a time when the internal network was
rapidly approaching 1000 nodes. Trivia, old post with list of internal
locations that had one or more network nodes added during 1983 (list
includes Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Manilla, Thailand, Seoul,
Fujisawa, Tokyo, Yasu)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
One of the problems was that all corporate links required encryption
... which created challenges for some links that crossed various
national boundaries. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
trivia: the NSF RFP called for T1 links, in part because we already had T1 & faster speed links running. The RFP "winner" only installed 440kbit links and then sort of to look like they were meeting the RFP specs ... they install T1 trunks with telco multiplexors that runs multiple 440kbit links over T1 trunks. We get to have our fun ridiculing their implementation.
other trivia: I really hated the price i had to pay for T1 link encryptors (for corporate links) and it was really hard to find faster encryptors ... so I got involved in project to design new link encryptors ... objective was to handle at least 20mbit/sec and cost less then $100 to build. Then came problem with the corporate crypto product group claiming it significantly weakened industry standard crypto ... it took me 3months to figure out how to explain to them what was really going on ... it actually was significantly stronger than industry standard crypto ... but it turns out that it was hollow victory. I was then told such crypto can only be used by one organization, i could build as many as i wanted, but they all had to be sent to address in maryland. It was when I realized that there was 3kinds of crypto in the world 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do, and 3) the kind you can only do for them.
past posts mentioning 3kinds crypto
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#87 New test attempt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#86 Own a piece of the crypto wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#32 Getting Out Hard Drive in Real Old Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#43 Internet Evolution - Part I: Encryption basics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#19 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#69 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#63 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#63 Reject gmail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#70 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#1 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#50 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#9 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#25 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
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/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#77 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#39 GM to offer teen driver tracking to parents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#3 PROFS & GML
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 22:34:13 -0800re:
Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and
Shared Prosperity (Joseph E. Stiglitz)
https://www.amazon.com/Rewriting-Rules-American-Economy-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B015774QVY/
pg115/loc1480-83
Already, thanks to a provision of Dodd-Frank that requires private
equity to register with the SEC, significant amounts of fraud or
substandard behavior have been disclosed. As the director of the SEC's
Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations put it after
investigating a sample of 150 newly registered private equity
advisers: "we have identified what we believe are violations of law or
material weaknesses in controls over 50 percent of the time."
... snip ...
SEC acquired the information to prove that private equity was committing fraud ... but not to actually do something about it.
new items from 2014 about private equity fraud:
SEC Official: Over Half Of All Private Equity Audits Revealed Crimes
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/05/09/sec-official-over-half-of-all-private-equity-audits-revealed-crimes/
SEC Official Describes Widespread Lawbreaking and Material Weakness in
Controls in Private Equity Industry
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/sec-official-describes-widespread-lawbreaking-material-weakness-controls-private-equity-industry.html
New York Times' New Editor Buries Important Story on Private Equity
Fee Shenanigans on Holiday Weekend
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/new-york-times-new-editor-buries-important-story-private-equity-fee-shenanigans-holiday-weekend.html
posts mentioning private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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